Challenge MKDH #19: Christmas on the River Styx

[sd1333]

I just beat the first Advanced Wars, this one seems interesting but are there new units and characters?

oh yeah and what's that music playing at the end?

[MasterKnightDH]

@sd1333

1 new unit, a few new characters.

As for the music, it's from Zelda: Twilight Princess, when you beat a boss. Look up "boss calm" or something like that.

[sd1333]

@MasterKnightDH

cool thanks man =D

[littleryry2005]

I completed it as Isabella in 23 days, could have been 22 if that infantry on his factory hadn't survived my COP. Will took slightly longer, 28 days. One of the things that makes things more difficult early on and easier later is the existence of the bike. Because Penny can build a bike on day 1 and begin capture of the factory on day 3, you have to be able to build an AA .. Basically the entire map is about how quickly you can set up a defense and your ability to hold out.

[MasterKnightDH]

@littleryry2005 Isabella is overpowered. Then again, Tabitha took almost as short. Repeated OHKing with the CO Medium Tank, oh my God. And I got off her disgusting COP *twice*.

[littleryry2005]

@MasterKnightDH Well yeah, but I was going for people who could make up for the movement loss. I boarded a Bike I think when I won for both characters. I also tried the other way around, where I played as Penny on Blue and fought Isabella. It was slightly difficult at first because I didn't have anything ready to take on her boarded MD Tank except for an artillery and a mech. The two checkpoints made things cake however once I got all of my funds at once.

[MasterKnightDH]

@littleryry2005 I didn't build a Bike right away. What I built was a CO Medium Tank to make everything in the east Factory area go splat quickly. With Tabitha, anything less armored than a Light Tank would get OHKed as soon as it got built, making it easy to clog the Factory early. And I also kept an eye on her meter so that I could know when I'd get the extra zone to work with.

[littleryry2005]

Say I wanted to do this map on DoR, what settings would I have to use?

Would the weather be Snow and who would I have to use against Penny (the most logical opponent)?

[MasterKnightDH]

@littleryry2005 It's a custom map. But yeah, the opposing CO would have to be Penny and the weather would have to be Snow since Rain and Sandstorm are ultimately way worse.

[littleryry2005]

@MasterKnightDH I know it's custom, but I want to know what CO I am using, to give myself a challenge. I'm almost tempted to go vanilla though and not use one.

[MasterKnightDH]

@littleryry2005 Which CO you use? I recommend the human player goes vanilla because only Caulder has a weakness and it doesn't keep him from being broken.

[MasterKnightDH]

@littleryry2005 Actually, change the human player's infantry to an Infantry. The snow just plain kills Mechs except for Penny's.

[littleryry2005]

@MasterKnightDH Found that out 16 turns ago as Will, snow's effect didn't really click in my brain since I'm so used to playing as Penny.

[AbsentIntelligence]

Drake looks weird in AW2...

[Ephraim225]

Excellent AA Tank usage and CO power timing. Maybe I should have erased the lower-right bridge as well.

[MasterKnightDH]

The AI needs the lower right bridge as it is to contest the factory at all. Otherwise, I can just send out an early Light Tank to make things worse.

Of course, I did it with the upper right bridge destroyed, but it was a 60 Day slog. Chokepoints aren't exactly nice to deal with in the regular AWs. Heck, even in Game Boy Wars 3, rough terrain can still be hard to deal with.