Game:

Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising (2003)

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Let's Play

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Andy's Adventure, an Advance Wars 2 Hack by Ephraim225/Mark999

Get it here: https://www.warsworldnews.com/wp/hacks/andys-adventure-aw2-by-mark999/
Creator's channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Ephraim225

Well nobody has done a let's play of the hard campaign, so let's do it.

A brief review of the hack:
The good: It's fun, it's challenging, the writing's fantastic, and Flak is broken.
The bad: It's very glitchy, HC is only unlockable through cheats, a war room map is broken, AI is glitchy on some maps, some COs cannot be used in war room (also jess unusable anywhere including versus).

Onto the game: Andy's got all the credit for winning the war in Cosmo Land and Macro Land. Nell's having none of it and orders Max and Sami to "destroy" Andy.

Oh boy that's a lot of difficulty stars, though there's a serious AI exploit that really helps on clearing this mission (and some future missions!).

So Max and his... Um... """Three""" tanks are going to march aggressively towards your small band of troops, one will go through the northern chokepoint, the other seven will try to squeeze through the eastern one. Send a tank to deal with the lone northern tank and block the eastern with your remaining tanks backed by artilleries.

Here's the exploit, an AI unit will not move when blocking/attacking a chokepoint when the unit has 3-5 HP remaining (3 seems to be the sweet spot, any lower or higher than that it'll have a chance of retreating/joining). Weaken tanks with your artillery and kill a bunch of em in one fell swoop for power score.

I find this mission easier than the NC version tbqh.

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