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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
@@danielgibson3422 the meteor isn't caulder's fault. it simply happened, and caulder found joy and took advantage of the new world created by the meteors.
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.
@@ironmilutin according to some tabletop rpg rules like dungeons & dragons, a party of average humans can march up to 1 mile in a single day. that's around 5km! Technically they can do that every 8 hours but there is assumed sleeping times and other such things. it's a pretty accurate enough assumption as someone who's went hiking before so I'll use it. assuming infantry can do the same... a single infantry unit can move 4 tiles in a single turn (day) meaning a tile is probably a kilometer or 2 in size. (Since we're assuming those 4 moved times are roughly 5km in size. the smallest city i know exists irl is definitely bigger but uhh... yeah. always wanted to try theorizing the exact size of a tile in advance wars.
@@UncleMerlin "according to some tabletop rpg rules like dungeons & dragons, a party of average humans can march up to 1 mile in a single day. hat's around 5km! Technically they can do that every 8 hours but there is assumed sleeping times and other such things. it's a pretty accurate enough assumption as someone who's went hiking before so I'll use it." What 'average human' can only cover five kilometers in eight hours? I'm horribly out of shape and I regularly cover _fifteen kilometers_ in *_three hours._* I know infantry have to move around in full kit, but I'm still certain a properly trained and conditioned unit would be able to double that pace without much of an issue.
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.
Imagine if Sturm actually invaded Earth because he was solely there to wipe out Caulder and all his creations. Meta-wise, Caulder is FAR more broken than Sturm, so it makes sense...
Honestly, an army led by a general that has not suffered a single loss, no matter how long the conflict went on for, is probably gonna go with whatever plan their general had, regardless of length or not. A nigh-guarantee to survival is surprisingly hard to come by.
@@Local_Lad I like to imagine Grit sitting on his porch watching the meteor coming over the horizon, taking a swig of beer and just muttering "Well, tarnation." right before everything kerspodes
A Q&A with the devs of this game (from a LONG time ago) revealed that all the previous Wars World COs are indeed all dead from the rain of meteors. Honestly, the whole game being an alternate timeline of Black Hole being victorious isn't that farfetched.
*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!
@@pocketinfinity6733 he is playing a game about a post apocaliptic war where litteraly every life counts as precious as most of the elderly and youth died a pandemy is happening, the remnant of 2 countries duke it out in the midst of its final campain and banditery and fanatism is everywhere. Technically attempting deathless really is the one true way to survive in this sh** even if they gave a bs excuse of automatons? Or smt
Though with it's design I do think that was on purpose. Most of the new units like the Anti-Tank and the Duster are mainly for defense countering tanks rushes and copter rushes respectably. Infantry is 50% more expensive so capturing is slowed and you can't easily shield your units. The bike does speed it up a little but it doesn't fully compensate for the higher price of infantry, especially since it's much more restricted by terrain so difficult to reach areas are truly harder to get to. I feel that they thought that Dual Strike had become far too fast and overly aggressive so they focused on making Days of Ruin slower and more defensive. It also goes well with the more serious tone of the story as you focus a lot more on protecting your own units rather than just destroying the enemy. the CO in a unit mechanic also goes with that as you need to protect that.
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
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
And now I’M just imagining the heroes picking up Morbius One (sic) into the army and having him solo every mission in his one Fighter, destroying every single unit including those that Fighters can’t even attack. Truly the greatest crossover of all time.
A crossover about AW's Wars World and AC's Strangereal seems great. I wonder what would be Eagle's and Sensei's reactions looking at protagonists as Phoenix, Cipher, Scarface, Mobius 1, Blaze, Garuda, Trigger, Gryphus 1 and latetly, Nemo.
That would be an interesting requirement for mission success on this map. Destroy the Nest, and then his unit must be destroyed to guarantee a victory.
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.
Also, justice for Gage. He's my favorite CO in Days of Ruin and they only gave him one map to play with. Without his specialization even! The travisty!
Also, I think Anti-Tank on the HQ is extremely busted, hard to attack with mech without get hit first, infantry can't even hurt it, not even War Tank can deal with it, Rocket, Bomber and Battleship are the only option here
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.
@@Project_1143MGreyfield is good if you use carriers as an area denial tool and launch seaplanes to harass ships, indirects and bombers trying to advange in on it. Not to mention, his CO power can give his seaplanes a large boost in their effective range since they both get a fuel injection so they can hold out longer outside of the carrier, and the extra free temporary airport can become another strategic point they can patrol and secure. 40% defense on his ships and seaplanes and a CO zone of 3 means that once he loads his CO on a carrier he'll be advancing slow, but you'll need to muster some serious and focused offensive to push him back. Of course if the map doesn't have enough water along the main lanes of offense his specialization is all but useless.
I would have liked if they had 2 attack boats. The missile boat that they have and a gunboat that can attack ground targets. This would have been interesting if they had given boats the ability to go through rivers in addition to beaches. I think giving boats the ability to enter rivers and attack ground targets would have given naval combat a lot more meaning. Being able to drop off an infantry or mech when in rivers or the lander capable of dropping off vechicles would have made losing a naval battle devastating if there is a river cause that means they can use the high movement of transports to get stuff all over the place. Landers have a movement of 6 same as a transport copter and boats have a movement of 8 same as a bomber. So the ability to load in a war tank and a rocket into a lander and transport them up a river to a crucial point would be very potent.
If boats can enter rivers maybe they also can't enter rough seas or they have to pay 3 movement for it while ships only need to pay 2. Kind of like how in forest wheeled vehicles need to expend 3 movement and tracked vehicles only 2.
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.
which is funny as of the 2 versions DAYS OF RUIN is the lighter hearted version as the EU version from what i understood NA said LOL nope to the european version which took a more literal approach. and added goofy scenes here and there
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
This reminds of the funny case of the Sand Ocean Mystic Melody in SA2. The side area with that upgrade is right at the start of the level, and using the melody to leave-which is the only way out once you’re over there-opens a portal that warps you to near the end of the stage. So you might get a good time bonus because you skipped most of the stage, but you’ll have a pitiful general score because, well, you skipped most of the stage. I don’t think I’ve gotten any higher than a D rank going that way.
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.
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 think the duster should not be buffed but instead be made a little cheaper. It is a niche unit made for doing chip damage to infantry trying to go around your army and for hunting battlecopters. I don't think it's bad to have more niche units that you only use sometimes as long as they are good in those instances where you do build them. The AT kind of is meant as a brake unit. To slow down the game. That you need to put slow infantry on the front and can't just rush with tanks. One way to improve the carrier I think is maybe to raise it's cost to 35,5k but have it come with the first sea plane for free already inside. Every additional one would still cost 15k but it would make getting value out of it much easier since you get the first one half price and without having to spend a turn making it.
I do think the AT is a good unit for the game to have because it punishes reckless aggression. The AT is a unit you can't easily push through with brute force. In Dual Strike there were so many high firepower CO's and especially the dual strike mechanic that allowed you to just brute force your way through any defense. The AT feels like a unit made specifically to stop DS style tank pushes. It also is a good unit because it requires infantry to deal with meaning you need to have infantry fighting on the front lines. I also think this mentality is why there is no unit like the neo-tank in days of ruin either because it was also made to smash through front lines with speed and power. They wanted days of ruin to be a slower and more defensive game compared to the faster and more aggressive dual strike.
@@MrMarinus18 Dusters actually do surprisingly well against fighters if they get the first strike, and can hurt bombers a fair bit too. They're more like diet fighters that can attack ground units with infantry-level power
@@kemosonicfan123lbp Yeah, their damage output is where it needs to be I think, they just need to be a little cheaper. I think cutting off just 1k could be enough. I still look at them though as mainly a counter to battle copters. Which is not a bad niche cause battlecopters are very strong units.
@@kemosonicfan123lbp I do hope they will do something like what I said with carriers. The DoR carriers are very fun but they just are a bit too slow to start earning themselves in. I think making them like 34k and have the first fighter come already inside and reducing the cost of each additional one to 14k would make a big difference.
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.
He's not really cornered though, he's trying to attack you before you can get into your fallout shelter. He IS injured though, and his medicine is what makes him more beast-like, so maybe that's it
@@juliandacosta6841 still a somewhat similar behavior for a injured wild animal, in fact this makes more sense with The Beast growling as a wild animal will like do a similar style, snarling away enemies to signal to not get close while trying to be protective of one self, and lashing out on anyone within range of their attack. In fact taken in the causalities at the start, that it fits even more. They were too close to The Beast's army and base and died. Even though what's actual happening in this story for the mission.
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.
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.
@@korhol2065 Judging from my experience with both versions of Final Front, this does seem to have the same idea, though: just rush the death machine target, nothing else matters. So long as you defend just enough in just the right spots to get that one Bomber in there, you win. Any more defense will actually backfire and get you blown off the map.
Yeah I tried playing the mission as a capture race/economic game, the mortars just make it (nearly?) impossible. I don't know the first thing about manipulating the AI in DoR and can still beat it, so evidently it's not *too* hard once you realise bomber rush is a viable strategy. But it's just not a fun mission.
There is a flawless D2D guide available for Sunrise that guarantees an S-rank with no casualties. You can also win Sunrise via routing Caulder, but achieving that is total madness.
When I played it for the first time I came to the exact same conclusion he did during Sunrise. Granted I wasn't doing deathless, but I realized speed is king and did a similar tactic with him using a bomber. This was after like 5 attempts where I just slowly got outproduced by the Nest. Although I used a different trick to get the AI to mortar only the units I wanted him to by keeping a contingent of 3 medium tanks on some properties. That at least kept my units safe as I moved them up.
DoR was always my favorite game in the franchise; really toned down the COs (no one was an auto-take or auto-lose) and required much more tactical planning than just spamming artillery with Grit. That and the atmosphere/story was so much better imo. It always rubbed me the wrong way that in most Advance Wars games the COs don't seem to care much that they're in a war and are fairly blase in the aftermath of major battles that likely had hundreds if not thousands of casualties. In DoR you really feel like you're in a war, with all the gravity and seriousness the topic deserves.
@@Senneih_cram Pickiness is the name of the game. For some reason the AW community wants their games to look like toy soldiers fighting, so they spit on DoR... BUT where this falls apart in my opinion, is the reboot camp! It's a toy soldier aesthetic but 3D instead of sprite based. Hypocrisy in my opinion.
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.
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.
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.
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!?
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
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
Hey, can i ask what emulator you are using? I have tried ton and plenty of em slow the game down or make the music sound weird. ALso great video. I loved it all the way to the end!
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.
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.
Though I have yet to play DoR, very much agreed. Not sure about the CO zone system, certainly interesting but up in the air whether it should be carried over to a theoretical new game. All the new units and changes to old units sound like really good additions/changes, though. Aside from the massive investment to get seaplanes on the field in the first place, but at least the seaplanes themselves are good.
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.
Artillery are also soft counters, they cost nearly half yet have as much range and better movement to get them into position easier while dealing 55% to Anti-Tanks. So two Artillery will beat an Anti-Tank easily while being cost-effective, and even just one can do the job.
The other thing about Days of Ruin that isn't often talked about is that most units have less of their primary attack ammo. Anti-tanks only have six shots to shoot off, which can go pretty fast when it's shooting at a distance and also when attacked. As a result, Anti-tanks are one of the more supply dependant units of the game when they're in competitive spots of the map (arguably where they're the most useful), making them both ideal for captured cities or semi-attached to a Rig. When they don't have the shots and are far from supplies, their crummy movement once again comes to a head and they become a roadblock at best.
@@juliandacosta6841 No it doesn't. Dusters do extremely poorly against them in fact at 5% compared to the 30 of Infantry. cdn.wikimg.net/en/warswiki/images/5/51/AWDoR_damage_chart.jpg
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.
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.
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!
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!
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
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.
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 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
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.
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.
"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"
from what i understand on chapter 13, the most cost-deployed unit is told to halt, so since you had so many sea-planes, effectively 60,000G worth per carrier they were constantly getting told to sit down and shut up. building a lot of whatever you arent actively using, say MD tanks and side-lining them is the best way to avoid greyfield stuns, in general for chapter 13 you want to deploy a fairly diverse army to better deal with his calls in general.
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.
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.
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.
I should add that DoR is actually a pretty balanced game overall - while competitive AW2 matches only use about 7-8 units in regular rotation, competitive DoR matches use ~15.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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
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
As I listen to this again, I'm reminded of a definite thing about the AI in DoR/DC, thanks to just how much I played games against the AI. In all the years I've played, I don't think I've ever seen them build an APC even a single time.
I got mad respect for this. I just recently finished "Waylon flies again" on an emulator on holiday. It took me hours to complete this mission and it was an endless struggle of trench warfare with barely any progress. And i didn't do any form of challenge, this was just the regular game lol
I remember on Sunrise, feeling so discouraged and upset as I kept losing over and over again, that I eventually had to step away for a while. I was so freaking proud when I finally beat that level, you have no idea. Stupid Caulder. GGs mate, ignoring the cinematic deaths that was really cool. Definitely gonna go find the other videos to watch too.!
The absolute best part of this was the final mission for me I remember when I played through the campaign the final battle against Caulder and the Nest took well over 60 turns and by the end I had nearly every property on the left side of the map and had to bog Caulder down with human wave tactics of combined mech and anti-tank walls to zone out his ground forces while keeping fighters behind the wall to zone out his airforce. It took an insane amount of time to break through the right spawn location on the nest because Caulder ended up posting up a fighter with himself next to it just outside of the range of the lasor itself. Seeing you rush the mission down using the comm towers and a juiced bomber was amazing.
Enjoyed watching this challenge a lot, especially since AW:DOR is a beloved title on my perspective. Thank you for providing your perspective along with your gameplay!
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.
Haha I found your other vid recently and lets say a version of the game flew on my pc and I was doing this challenge for myself because I loved Dark Conflict back in the day. I stopped at the shit mission with the civillians just yesterday and thought I was just not good enough to beat it loss-less and then you come along and are stuck on the same one and seeing you stuck there gave me the confirmation I can progress with this single loss and even warned me about the Brenner (or O'Brien in my case because UK version) one too. Thanks for that and get some rest as it took me about a week to get only this far and you took the whole challenge in probably less time... serious get some rest :)
Btw, the chapter Lab rats is NOT a slug fest. i know it can be quite random, but what u wanna do is attack immediately because the point reinforcement arrives is the point you get the most advantage for being the attacker. It might be a bit RNG'ish, but sometimes the AI does something stupid like attack a choke with a plane, and assume every square behind it is safe, then suddenly u get first-strike advantage over every single of his units.
Days of Ruin was the first Advance wars game that I played, despite it being the black sheep of Advance wars, it has a very special place in my heart! When you mentioned how defensive Beast was in Almost home I instantly remembered how I used to play this game with a friend when I was a kid, he was pretty much the only person that I knew that played Advance wars so we played during class breaks and we had this dumb homemade game mode where we just constantly kept trying to one upping each other by doing that mission deathless and as fast as we could and it was fun albeit kind of dumb too haha
