Can You Beat Advance Wars Days of Ruin WITHOUT Losing Units? 

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It's actually a pretty good Headcannon to think days of ruin is an "what if" scenario where sturm actually won, it even makes (some) sense since he want's to destroy it all, so he bombed the planet with meteors and them left the ruins in search of other planets to destroy

Mangs on Chapter 10: "You lose a unit in a cinematic way, but i am having so much fun i decide to keep going" Mangs a mere minute later, still in chapter 10: "This was the least amount of fun i have ever had on this channel" lol

A tile can fit a battleship or aircraft carrier. It is no exaggeration to guess that a tile is perhaps a 300 meter square (the Nimitz class, a battleship, is nearly 350 meters long). A meteor strike hits a 3x3 tile space, impacting a 900x900 meter area. This would create a crater nearly 13.5km wide and 650m deep. And Sturm can summon these at will every few weeks. No fucking wonder the days are ruined.

"not one unit will die under my command" "sir we've been fighting here for 3 months" "NOT ONE"

*In Advance Wars 2 Deathless, you have fun tactically outmaneuvering your enemy.* *In Advance Wars Days of Ruin Deathless, you learn that War is Hell as you slug it out in despair.* I don't know about you, but you can't blame the games for sticking to their intended messaging!

I think Caulder was simply such a genius that he didn't account for someone doing something so stupid as charge headfirst into his death Base like an idiot, that it actually works.

I do love how it went from "Im having fun" to "There is no happiness only depression and headaches" from continuous trench warfare. Honestly do every advance wars game like that I'd love to see it

That intro is literally the best version of the plot, and completely canon as far as I'm concerned.

In story mode, Anti-tanks are pretty busted. The AI loves taking bad trades against them. On top of that, they directly counter the traditional tank spam of older advance wars. However, they are very weak against bikes, infantry, mechs and planes. So I don't think they are OP. Rather they are there to shake up the meta.

I noticed something about the new Mist terrain type. The most interesting thing it does is hide naval units in Fog of War, but in all 64 campaign and trial maps there are exactly zero maps that have Mist in Fog of War. So in single player mode, its most novel feature is never used, and it just functions as a 1-star naval terrain with no movement cost. They also added a new property type in Days of Ruin that most people probably don't remember: the Radar. Why don't people remember it? Because it only appears in 3 trial maps, all of which are short, small, and gimmicky. At least they put them in Fog of War maps this time. With regards to Greyfield's CO power, I think you're selling it a bit short. Notice that it not only restores fuel and ammo, but also materials. These are what Rigs and Carriers use to build things, so when Greyfield uses his power, that means every Rig gets to build a second temporary port or airport, and every Carrier gets to build 4 additional Seaplanes. Greyfield's power is the only way in the game to restore those materials, so it essentially removes the need to build a brand new Carrier and truck it over to the front lines.

The Beast's troops in chapter 10 having a very defense AI is probably is a representation of like how a wild animal will act when backed in to a corner, snarling and growling while occasionally striking once in a while, while trying to defend themselves.

I just can't help but imagine Caulder thinking of a thousand and one stratagems that a lone fighter plane flying day after day over the same area could imply and deluding himself into thinking that the attack to the nest is the decoy, and the fighter is the true threat like it's an Ace Combat player character

You know, it's pretty thematic that DoR doesn't let you win deathless. It suits its grimmer tone, you know? This is post-apocalyptic wartime, people are gonna die, suck it up buttercup. But that being said, it is quite impressive to get through the post-apocalypse warfare with only two units lost. Well played.

20:27 iirc that is intentional. The devs realized that S ranks in previous games were sometimes hard to get, because the conditions to get a S rank would punish you for being creative. For example, going for a cheeky day 4 HQ cap would let you get full marks for speed, and technique is just making sure you dont lose a unit, but your power score was most likely really low, locking you out of a s rank. Conversely, managing to route the enemy can be done and with proper planning, without taking a loss, so your power and technique would be 100, but there's always a possiblity of playing "where's the last unit" in FoW battles, or that one recon/fighter that is running away and hiding in a corner, which would just tack on an extra 2-5 days making the speed rank decrease. So they changed it for DoR so if you can bait the enemy away from their hq, take it, and don't lose a unit, you won't get punished for doing something the game encourages

While there were many funny bits written into the script, my personal favorite was the one where Mangs is channeling his inner GGG by explaining to us how making Waylon waste funds on repair by leaving Waylon's initial bomber alive at one HP is essential to being able to beat the mission only for the AI to just pointlessly suicide the 1 HP bomber on an anti-air instead only 13 seconds later.

Oh my god chapter 10. “I’m having too much fun playing this challenge” into “this is the least fun I’ve ever had playing Advance Wars”

I wanted to make a joke like, “great job beating DOR more or less deathless, but you did let your allies sacrifice themselves, Brenner would be displeased.” Then I realized most of the units you actually left to die were Waylon’s. You weren’t being callous toward allied life, you were strengthening your advantage for when he turned on you. A unit lost while allied is one you don’t have to deal with later. Clever.

How Mangs manages to code Andaron Saga, make insanely time-intensive videos like this, do AWBW replays, and also scour the net for Toothpaste Chan r34 without going insane from overwork? I'll never know.

Challenge run aside, your answer to Sunrise was glorious. Having never played DoR and mostly only seeing its campaign now…even though I wasn’t the one playing it, I noped so hard upon seeing the absolute face of death that was the Nest. Just imagining trying to fight that, no death challenge aside, seemed like an absolute nightmare…so seeing your one veteran bomber make a mockery of it was the stuff of legends.

Hey! Competitive DoR player here. :) The Anti-Tank and Duster are both very situational units. The former is really good against a lot of units, but it's slow and it takes a surprisingly bad trade against any foot soldier (especially mechs, assuming you can get them in range somehow... Say, Will's COP). Of course, turtling against the AI makes them look really good, heheh. Dusters themselves aren't really meme units, but loading a non-air specialist CO into one would maybe be a pretty strange move? Lol Seaplanes are great! The only issue is that 28k for the Carrier + another 15k on top of that for the seaplane is a huge investment. We like to occasionally build competitive maps with Carriers predeployed just so we get to see them sometimes (And to make Greyfield even slightly viable lol). DoR B-Ships OP. 35:35 This was probably just a gaffe, but you can only load your CO on an allied production tile or your HQ, not any property. Also I make DoR videos on my channel check it out if you want okay thanks bye

I guess the reason the beast troops go defensibly is becuase probably they can't understand his commands

Best advance wars is back! Congrats on the "deathless" run. When it comes to the new units, you actually got them backwards. The anti-tank is between meme tier and niche. It is slow, almost twice the cost of an artillery and is countered by footsoldiers which your enemy should always have. I've only seen them used effectively to defend a factory, usually on mixed base maps. Meanwhile the duster, while not quite a staple, is very common. Very high mobility (8 on air) so able to cripple / zone out bcopters, so very good to establish air superiority. In most situations cannot be OHKO'd, so they make amazing blockers. And in FoW their 4 vision combined to their mobility (since in DoR you get vision from every tile you pass through) gives them absurd scouting capabilities. They can pretty easily reveal 3 hiding spots + the entire non-hidden front line. Days of ruin is amazing, more please!

I was wondering how you'd handle this. In Moving On and Almost Home, I tried to cheat the scripted deaths on my first playthrough; iirc, I was able to save the Almost Home infantry by sacrificing the recon, but the same scene plays regardless of which unit gets destroyed, so long as it's the first destroyed. (I wouldn't be surprised if Moving On is coded the same way.) Edit: Sunrise is known to be far easier if you rush the objective, and I honestly think it's a feature, not a bug. Think about it: When your enemy has a massively powerful force, your instinctual reaction is to play cautiously in fear of his overwhelming might... and that's exactly what Caulder wants. He wants you to run and hide in fear of his superiority as he casually toys with you. Rushing ahead and taking down his units as they spawn is inconceivable to him. After all, how illogical would it be for someone to fly in the face of such a vastly superior force? When you play this aggressively, _Caulder_ is the one who's scared.

Mangs went to all that trouble just so he would feel like getting stepped on by Tabitha.

Hey guys. Thanks to your insane support for the previous video, I've decided to make another one of these. This is about a month of intense work, so I really appreciate likes, comments, shares etc. Thank you

I love Days of Ruin so much, I'm so happy you made this challange run, Mangs!

Mangs: Finally finished Advance Wars: Days of Ruin. Now Greyfield can't do anything to ruin it! *Greyfield deletes all your footage* Mangs: F***!!!

I always found it weird how the game says only Bombers are strong against Anti-Tanks, when ATs can get punched pretty hard by Infantry and Mechs. Though I do guess the reason they didn't list them as a weakness is because you actually have to get those units within range in the first place to damage the ATs, and good luck with that getting through the frontline if it isn't a fog of war map. Funnily enough, tanks that are out of main ammo also do a lot of damage to ATs with their machine guns.

It’s possible to save Brenner and win in 8 days on Icy Retreat, but it requires losing multiple other units to defend him so would still lose this challenge.

Dude, you have single-handedly brought me back into Advance Wars. I loved these games in my youth but I haven't played them in over a decade. Suddenly you come along and then I'm doing everything I can to start playing them again. Now you're doing a Days of Ruin video? You're gonna make me go back and play them all, aren't you!?

The line in chapter 10 is way more funny if you take it in this context "Yes!, I finally killed the first enemy unit in this entire war!"

The Anti-tank is a weird unit, but an interesting one. its ment as a frontline Artillery unit that can stop any Tank aggression by obliterating tanks and even counterattacking, its excellent in chokepoints and just zoning away tanks and other heavy vehicles similar to how Missiles create deadzones for air units. While I have no competitive experience, the Anti-tank does have several other counters aside from the Bomber. Infantry and Bikes are very cost effective against them, being able to chip off 3-4 hp, and Bazookas (Mechs from previous games) absolutely destroy them but can be difficult to get into position. Rockets are also a soft-counter if you ask me, costing only 4k more and outranging it by 2 they can quickly zone Anti-tanks away from the frontlines where they would be most effective.

Personally I always thought the introduction of the anti-tank unit was perfect because of how important anti tank guns were in the world wars (primarily 2) anti tank guns killed more tanks than tanks did and they were rather effective at blunting tank charges in real life just as they are in the game, if they ever do finally bring back advance wars it would be nice if they added some of the good changes DoR brought to the series, AT being one of them.

Really impressive, can't believe you did it again in such a short amount of time.

What a cool idea! Days of ruin definitely has a very clashing feel with no dead units

Greyfield's power actually has two very important factors 1, As others has pointed out, this is the only way to restock Materials on units, this means the more Rigs you have built, the more Temporary Docks/Airports for each use of his COP, converting beaches into Temporary Docks grants ship 1+ Terrain bonus and allows ships that normally cannot go on beaches to pass through them, and lastly, temporary buildings actually grant vision in fog of war as if they were real buildings. 2, Sustained Assaults. The use of Greyfield's COP can allow you to prolong an assault far away from the ability to refuel & rearm your forces. In particular, it allows you to extend a Seaplane assault to a terrifying degree

Short answer: yes, if you ignore the two scenaristic deaths.

"I continued the challenge because I was having too much fun" *a few moments later* "This mission was absolute hell and it was no fun to play against this AI at all"

I knew Brenner would make this impossible, but it is quite impressive that you managed this with only the two mandatory deaths.

"I maid a wall of infantry to block his bombers and fighters" Only in advance wars.

The biggest loss during this challenge was calling Tabitha Penny during chapter 23!

You can get 150 on speed, teqnique and power. Allowing you to get an s rank with a 0 in one of the stats. This is seen on one of the trial maps where you can move an infantry to their HQ and cap it in a few turns. Giving you 0 power since you dont destroy any units but 150 speed and teqnique. So you still get an s rank.

Another great run! Those two losses do seem unavoidable, so I don't mind treating them like a cinematic. Saving that early infantry and the various other surrounded troops is quite impressive in that context! I hope you had fun with this run, and didn't do it solely for the views.

In all the advance wars games, I think Lin's Gambit is my all time favorite. Going ham on his navy while Lin completely decimates Grayfield both verbally and in the battlefield is just beyond satisfying

Man, it's so nostalgic to see this game again after so many years. Days of Ruin was my first advance wars, so it holds a very special place in my heart. It's especially nice to see someone approach it with such tact and strategy - something my child self was never able to do back then. Great video, and congrats on the technically deathless run!

Even Will is upset over the realization of Mission 10 with that scream.

"We're going up again Tasha and her absolutely ENORMOUS...airplanes..."

Once again, Mangs, you've seriously impressed me. My relationship with strategy games is a double-edge sword; I am absolutely awful at strategy games but I love Advance Wars, Wargroove, Risk II for Windows XP's alternate mode, and the original Fire Emblem Warriors, the last of which I consider a real time strategy game. You make my day whenever you release a video like this, so thank you!

Wow, I just found this channel TODAY after watching your AW2 video and now you're covering my first advance wars game ever and a major catalyst for me becoming a strategy gamer. YOU LOVE TO SEE IT

“The goal of this mission is super unique, there are four (insert mission objective) scattered around the map that need to be destroyed. Each is guarded by a progressively stronger group of enemies” If you know, you know

You absolute mad man. I love Days of Ruin more than I probably should due to the art, music, story and units. It's a shame that we'll probably never see this sort of "war is hell" aesthetic again.

1:09:09 "Brenner will always commit Sudoku in chapter 14." This is my favorite Mangs quote. The image of Brenner sitting in a tank solving a number puzzle when he's supposed to be committing seppuku is hilarious.

The mad man actually looked at someone saying this was impossible and did it anyway. The mad lad

Just gonna inject this DoR content directly into my veins, thank you.

i find it funny that whenever mangs talks about tasha in this deathless video he says something that the viewer doesn't expect him to say the two are "tasha and her absolutely enormous.... airplanes" 10:56 "tasha is back for vengeance and she has brought her absolutely enormous.... ships with her" 20:53

Really appreciate these vids as I hated running RTS and strategy games like this where you throw away units. Doesn't feel like being a good commander. Seeing this done for AW is crazy. Well done.

Another CRAZY project! Thank you for bringing more of this 😍

Haven't watched this yet but I will soon, all I want to say is congrats on reaching 1.2k on AWBW! As someone who is currently tilted due to a bad streak, I can really appreciate the level of competition getting stronger as rating goes up, I keep going back and forth from 950-1030ish so I can only imagine how insane going past that must be.

I haven't played this game in years and years, but even now, my brain went "oh no." when I read "Waylon Flies Again" and "Lab Rats". I also unlocked a repressed memory: "J Islands"

HAHA YES. I didn't think you would do more days of ruin content but this is gonna be fun

I definitely got to play this game again. I actually like it more than advance wars 2 just because it has a lot less extremely long tedious missions.

You have my HUGE thanks for final mission guide. I completed every mission in campain, finished every trial map, but Caulder+Nest was most to devastating combo for my playstyle, so I have to learn new ways

I was JUST rewatching your AW2 without losing a single unit... what good timing!

Mangs thanks for posting made my Sunday!

I remember checking on my old save file and I had a 2013 completion file... the idea of finishing without a loss is insane.... Good stuff Mango!

Anti-Tanks are actually weak against bullet-type attacks. Bikes are actually the most cost-effective way to kill them (they die in 3 attacks while not doing too much in retaliation) but recons and the like also trade cost-efficiently and are faster than bikes.

Throwing the concern of ranking to the wind and making sure as many of your boys get home as possible, Brenner and Will would be proud. Awesome work, egg.

18:50 Volke moment.

As soon as you uploaded your AW2 Deathless run, I immediately thought "He better not do this for DoR because of Almost Home. That scene is probably unavoidable." So then you do what any Mangs would do and immediately went DIRECTLY to DoR. ...and I'm having an absolute blast watching this.

Gotta love you put charachters music and kept some days of ruins memes and culture here. Really cool challenge !

MINOR correction: On mission 23, you don't face Penny. It's Tabitha with her 0 CO zone and +5 Def and Off XD Greyfield's power can get relatively scary if the AI knows about the Rigs and the constructs x.x They did a good job on the AI for the most part... except involving things like Rigs. A rig can make a temporary airport... or port for your ships. More importantly, it acts like a building also, so you can get defense and hide your units there. In DoR, buildings are ALSO hidden from the enemy if it's either a neutral, allies, OR yours. The only time where that isn't the case is an enemy city (which leads me to believe that the properties, they probably have someone behind giving intel). Fog of War, take advantage on that and use your own buildings as a cover up (make sure, though it ISN'T flying! Ground can safely go there and ships can park in their ports without worry. Capturing neutral bases/cities is also hidden from the enemy) Also, with Greyfield's power if you construct it in the plains, the movement of the said units that are affected by it drops to 1, so they can move faster. A good placement can affect the play. The only thing, though, in deathless is that once the Rig uses their resource, that's it. Carriers, you could also load your other air units to have the same effect. Just the seaplanes are amazing if they're the ones using it

DUDE After watching your videos on AW2 and DoR, I went back and played DoR again for myself, and had a blast, wondering the entire time "I wonder if Mangs can do Days of Ruin without losing units? Ehhhh it'll be super super hard, especially when it gets to Waylon Flies Again. Oh no. Ehh he might not do it then." AND THEN YOU DID. Holy cow I'm going to watch this now.

Every time the plot "surprised" you, all I could think of was HCBailly. Good show Mangs, good show.

No matter what, you still lose Brenner. Mucho sad.

A Challenge vid on the first AW I ever played?? Lets goooooo!

How about playing all Extra DoR missions without a single loss?

The *CO Unit* in *Icy Retreat* can actually be kept alive until the end of the chapter! Here's my step-for-step for that: *Day 1:* - Move Anti-Air A 4W, 1N. - Move Mech 1W. - Move Tank 4W, 1S and attack enemy Rockets. - Move Anti-Air B 4W and destroy enemy B-Copter. - Move Artillery 3W. - Leave remaining units untouched. *Day 2:* - Move Anti-Air A 3W and attack enemy Mech. - Move Artillery 3W, 1S. - Move Mech 1W and load it in Rig. - Move Rig 2N, 2E and drop Mech west. - Move Infantry 2E. - Tank destroys enemy Rockets. - Leave Anti-Air B untouched. *Day 3:* - Move Rig 2W, 1S. - Move Mech 1E and attack enemy Tank. Mech should survive at 1 HP. - Move Anti-Air A 2W, 1S. - Move Anti-Air B 2E and destroy enemy B-Copter. - Move Infantry 1E. - Attack Meteor with Artillery. - Move Tank 1N, 3W and attack Meteor. *Day 4:* - Destroy Meteor with Artillery. - Move Tank 1N, 2W and attack enemy Artillery. - Move Anti-Air A 1W, 2S and destroy enemy Artillery. - Move Anti-Air B 3W. - Move Infantry 2E. - Leave Rig untouched. *Day 5:* - Move Artillery 1N, 3E. - Move Anti-Air A 4W. - Move Tank 2N, 2W. - Move Rig 1N, 1E. - Leave Anti-Air B untouched. *Day 6:* - Move Artillery 4E. - Move Anti-Air A 1N, 1W. - Move Tank 2N, 1W. - Leave Anti-Air B untouched. *Day 7:* - Destroy enemy Recon with Tank from east. - Destroy enemy Bike with Artillery. - Leave the rest untouched. *Day 8:* - Destroy 8 HP Tank that first attacked CO Unit with Artillery. - Do nothing with the rest. *This method does require luck damage and correct AI behavior regarding the yellow Anti-Tanks, and you will lose at least four units.* Also, if the northern yellow Recon is in range of your Tank and your Anti-Air A to attack it in Day 6 (which can indeed happen), go right ahead and destroy it. Just a little plus for you Brenner fans.

Please make more Days of Ruin content. I'd love another modern day walkthrough/stream series. This game needs more recognition.

Well this is insane. My first and favourite advance wars and I even wasn't able to beet the final chapter. You manage to do it deadless. That is friking amazing GG

Damn he just rushed the Nest and won, I was wondering how that map would go lol. Awesome video!

You needed a large army to take down Waylon. You needed a massive army to take down Tabitha. All for the hopes and dreams of the remaining and in tact survivors to rebuild the new world.

the wall of artillery at 9:40 is a work of art.

Since this was my first Advance Wars game as a kid, it holds a special place in my heart. That being said, mission 10 almost broke me as a kid and it can go to hell.... but it's also the mission that basically teaches you how to actually play the game.

"WELL TECHNICALLY hurr durr ..a Unit is comprised of 5 Units.. getting hit by 2 is already losing someone (as seen by "fusing" units together and restoring those "holes")" Cool stuff

Also in the Branner's sacrifice mission, you can keep him alive, you need to park a rig near him and protect the blue units, I did it deathless by accident when I played

My perfect version of AW is the content alike to the first 3 with the gritty neat art style of this one, sad that will never happen.

Boy, let's be glad there it no hard mode here... I don't want to even IMAGINE what the final mission would have looked like in hard mode

Another challenge of a game I never heard about. Still watched it, still loved it.

i love Lin. She's my favourite CO in the franchise. That "fuck taking the high road" scene still stands out as one of my favourite moments in video games.

Great work! Brenner would be proud! This is an awesome video.

How can you do this to yourself? I mean awesome vid, but the torture you put yourself through on a few of these missions, it's entertaining, absolutely happy and excited to see you succeed, but my god, you deserve major props for spending hours on a few of these maps to complete the challenge, awesome job Mangs!

Great Video, due to advance wars reboot camp sparking interest i found your channel as advance wars brings back my youngen days.

I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU JUST DID THAT ON THE FINAL LEVEL. OMG

this was so fun to watch, looking forward to checking out more of your videos!

From my testing, I've never seen the DoR AI ever build a rig. I've seen the AI loss multiple air and naval unit to running out of fuel. This might be a legacy issue with the AI from the first 3 games or it could be that the devs could not figure out how the AI can effectively use tep ports, but I need to test more.

I have the utmost respect for this run, mangs. Makes up for you not checking enemy weapons or skills in your fire emblem runs. But in all seriousness, you got me back into the grid-based strategy games. Thank you for the great entertainment and im learning a lot. One of my fav youtube channels

Came in instantly for the premise, liked for the video, and stayed for the entertainment.

Intro had me thinking someone gifted a sub to Sturm

wow, not only days of ruin, but also going all in!