Advance Wars 1 Max and Sami are both broken

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Master Knight DH

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Published on June 19, 2021 7:26:27 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOGncNseMSw

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Advance Wars (2001)

Duration: 18:24

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Battalion Wars music to showcase how the Advance Wars communities can't make the "lack of content" excuse they've used in the past.

I created a map based on my Game Boy Wars 3 custom map, and called this one "Mixup" as well. The principles are the same but when I was trying to figure out where I would expect battle lines to happen, I ended up seeing the Expo Factory too close to them, so I came up with the solution you see before you. I'd like to see Recon FTA even from Sturm now. HA!

Too bad the Advance Wars communities will enable a blatant, unrepentant racist just to keep their "golden cow" even when the milk has been soured by already rampant nastiness complete with their continuing to victim blame a lust-induced murder victim even after apologizing for as much. There's no excuse for their behaviors at this point. At all. WayForward needs to call them out on this; we do NOT need the communities for Advance Wars: Re-Boot Camp being overrun by these nasty characters.

So that aside, even though I do make mistakes here and there due to fatigue, this displays how broken Max truly is in Advance Wars 1, and he defies how I found Sami to be even more busted. Not that Sami still doesn't try, mind you; she manages as much enough to warrant this video to point out this low key factor. Sami is BARELY able to get anywhere and it's all because of her passive infantry defense boost preventing Max's Light Tank from reliably 1HKOing Mechs on Roads, and making sure Max's Battle Helicopters barely achieve the 1HKO on Roads too. However, Max gets around this with early Anti-Air Tanks after the Light Tank and this causes a lot of problems for Sami? Why? Because Sami NEVER wants to build Light Tanks or MD Tanks carelessly, let alone against Max and his INSANE tanks, but the Anti-Air Tanks can all too easily make sure that Sami would have no choice. If Max can also mix in Battle Helicopters capitalizing upon this, he will force a response from Sami, and Sami can either go Battle Helicopter and hope Max doesn't get first strike while being backed on an economic advantage, or Anti-Air Tank that creates an extra target for Max's Light Tanks to smash once he does move in. Oh, and yes, that's the big weakness of foot soldier floods: their mobility sucks. The general balance issue is when that is rendered moot by the foot soldiers' low costs, but when Max is getting his actual bang for his buck too, yeah, not a problem. We end up back with Max being able to go for burst damage attacks, at which point we're seeing Max achieving his absurd results leading to his victory on Day 18.

However, this doesn't let Sami off the hook. You might notice that Max Anti-Air Tank VS Sami Infantry/Mech on a City is 98%. You might also realize that Max's boosts to direct fire units outweighs (if slightly) the City boost by its lonesome. If you do the math, congratulations: you realize that a standard CO's Anti-Air Tank can only 1HKO a Sami foot soldier if they're on a Road, and then it's a 30% chance. Do you notice how Max is getting by strictly because Max's Anti-Air Tanks actually do their freaking job to success? Considering the foot soldier floods' track records of being asinine with their level of effectiveness, I don't think indirects would provide a uniquely useful advantage even with Grit. Sami would just have less incentive to Mech Flood when her own Artillery would already be safe and her Light Tanks wouldn't be bullied into submission if she were to deploy those.

Yes, if you're wondering why I don't have Sami Infantry Flood instead of Mech Flood, Sami is already desperate for armor smashing. Having only Artillery for the Light Tanks would REALLY suck against Max who would still 1HKO Infantry on Roads. Extra funds for Battle Helicopters wouldn't help either because of the Anti-Air Tanks.

Either way, you people would understand the summary that Sami is Max's least advantageous matchup purely because of the +10% foot soldier DEF, and here, it only prevents reliability with Light Tank VS Mech 1HKO on Road, which is what allows Max to rampage against EVERY other CO without their own DEF boosts, when the other COs who have DEF boosts have their own blatant. Otherwise, no other CO gets as much of a daily attack boost to their general directs as AW1 Max does, not even AW2 Kanbei, when Max doesn't even have to pay more and then end up with his Anti-Air Tank have a 30% chance of 1HKOing a City foot soldier with no CO DEF boosts. Yes, AW1 Sami is simply that absurd to other COs, all because of a seemingly minor factor that exploits a key matchup being so volatile in its effectiveness.

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