Advance Wars - 999 points on Land's End with Sonja

Yes, I realize the video quality is pretty bad. I'm uploading this to show off my War Room skills, not my video-making skills.

Consider this video a celebration of the War Room Completion Projects. In AW1, AW2, and AWDS, it's possible to get a perfect score with every CO on every map. AW1 was the last of the three to be done due to the tight time limits.

On to the actual video. If you don't use Sami, this is the toughest map to get a perfect score on in AW1, AW2, or AWDS. You have only 12 days to get full points in Speed, which makes an HQ capture by air impossible. The outlook doesn't look much better for an HQ capture by land, either. So instead, I rout Olaf.

This isn't easy. The key point to pulling this off is to take advantage of an infantry he drops off near the starting bases on Day 6. I *allow* the infantry to take the north and south bases, so that Olaf will build from there and I don't have to advance as far into his territory.

Things get pretty chaotic from about Day 8 on. The key points are:
-Weaken Olaf's Mid Tank to 1 HP on Day 8. It retreats to heal, which gets it out of the way. It's bad to destroy it, as that will usually make Olaf build another one.
-Olaf should build a bomber on Day 10. It can be destroyed in one attack, but eats up a lot of his funds. This means I can focus on destroying other things.
-Destroy the units Olaf builds from bases ASAP. This way, not as many units are needed in that area to finish it off.

From there, you basically hope you can pull off the win on Day 12. This is especially annoying with Sonja's bad luck, but it's possible.

Recorded with Visual Boy Advance's AVI feature.

There are some discontinuities at spots where I used save states for convenience. I tried to keep down the number of times I did this, but bad luck doesn't make it easy.

Full disclosure: A few sections have actually been "staged" after the fact to fill gaps where I screwed up recording something; however, the results of the actual run were identical in terms of visible HP.

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[PoetryRocksLogic]

When I play with Max, I let them take my two bases but they always buy infantry, thus giving the AI extra funds to buy tanks and vehicles on the other base. How do I persuade the AI to make vehicle units near my base?

[DragonFogel]

@PoetryRocksLogic Your mistake is probably that you're destroying the enemy infantry (or giving them the opportunity to join). If they have too few infantry/mechs at a time, they'll build more.

[PoetryRocksLogic]

@DragonFogel I let the infantry live and stay unharmed and AI build aa's and artillery (more frequently). But then they stopped and went back to creating mechs and infantry.

Sometimes the AI infantry would attack my infantry (only when they are on the plains/fields) thus losing HP. Could this be the reason why the AI made 5-6 infantry at my base?

[DragonFogel]

@PoetryRocksLogic I'm not sure about the influx of infantry, but they rarely attack in AW1 unless the enemy CO's power is active, even against infantry, transports, or indirects.

As for the rockets on the last turn, if the AI doesn't have rockets, has a Mid Tank, and has the funds after rebuilding higher priority units (infantry or APCs), then it will build rockets almost every time.

[Padoca85]

12 days!! now thats why i couldnt do it till now, my best was 16 days,i guess i will have to change my strategy

[DragonFogel]

Yes, because of that, it's incredibly difficult to get the 999 here unless you use Sami. With added APC and T-Copter movement, she can capture the HQ in exactly 12 days. It's still tricky, but it's a *lot* easier than this crazy method of mine.

[LuigiSkyskip]

Your strategy was merely better.

[PoetryRocksLogic]

I managed to get an S-rank a week or so ago. I got 970. Thanks for the advice.

[PoetryRocksLogic]

Another question, on the last day, does it require luck and chance for the AI to build the rockets, under the circumstances in the video?

[PoetryRocksLogic]

@DragonFogel Thanks, I'll use this advice.

[Patashu]

I was a complete pussy at this and other games like this back when I was younger. I should really try playing them again. I never picked up on the enemy preferentially targeting APCs, for instance - because I never used them! Seriously my god

[EsojestMort]

That was absoluteley beautiful.

I'm still a beginner to this game and I love it.

I found this when searching for an Advenced Campaign playthrough. I can't find one though, Do you know if there even is one online?

I didn't search your channel so far. I'm going to do that now, so if there is a AC playthrough you don't need to answer my question :P