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Game Boy Wars 3

Unit list and stats

Name	Unit Category	Cost (Gold)	Cost (Material)	Movement	Fuel	Initiative	Weapon 1	Weapon 2	Defense
Infantry	Infantry	100	10	3, Infantry	99	10, -3	Machine Gun B (9)		10, 10, 12, 10, --
Mech	Infantry	200	12	2, Infantry	70	13, -6	AT Missile A (1)	Machine Gun B (6)	12, 14, 16, 14, --
Commando	Infantry	600	14	4, Commando	85	16, -3	Grenade (2)	Machine Gun B (8)	16, 16, 18, 16, --
Constructor	Car	800	20	5, Slow Tire	50	12, -2	Materials (5)	Machine Gun B (7)	14, 14, 14, 14, --
Supply Truck	Car	600	22	6, Slow Tire	99	12, -2	Supplies (5)		14, 14, 12, 14, --
Supply Truck S	Car	800	24	5, Slow Tire	99	15, -3	Supplies (8)		16, 16, 12, 16, --
Transport Truck	Car	500	20	7, Fast Tire	50	14, -2	Machine Gun B (7)		14, 14, 12, 14, --
Transport Truck S	Car	700	22	7, Fast Tire	60	15, -2	Gatling Gun B (5)	Machine Gun B (9)	16, 16, 12, 16, --
Combat Buggy	Car	500	16	7, Buggy	50	22, -3	Grenade (2)	Machine Gun B (5)	12, 12, 13, 12, --
Combat Buggy S	Car	700	18	7, Buggy	45	25, -3	AT Missile B (3)	Machine Gun A (7)	15, 15, 16, 15, --
Battle Car	Car	700	17	7, Battle Car	50	21, -3	AT Missile B (2)	Machine Gun B (9)	14, 14, 14, 14, --
Battle Car S	Car	800	19	6, Battle Car	45	21, -3	AT Missile B (3)	Gatling Gun B (7)	17, 17, 16, 17, --
Armored Personnel Carrier	Tank	1000	24	6, Armor	60	13, -2	Machine Gun A (9)		22, 22, 10, 22, --
Armored Personnel Carrier S	Tank	1200	26	6, Armor	70	15, -2	AT Missile B (2)	Machine Gun A (7)	24, 24, 12, 24, --
Rocket Launcher	Tank	4200	32	5, Armor	50	12, -2	Rockets B (5)		17, 17, 10, 17, --
Rocket Launcher S	Tank	4800	40	4, Armor	50	12, -2	Rockets A (3)		20, 20, 12, 20, --
Anti-Air Tank	Tank	2200	30	5, Armor	60	17, -3	Vulcan B (2)	Gatling Gun B-4 (5)	20, 18, 20, 16, --
Mercenary Anti-Air Tank	Tank	3800	34	6, Armor	60	19, -2	Vulcan B (3)	Gatling Gun S (4)	26, 30, 20, 30, --
Anti-Air Missile Launcher	Tank	3600	32	5, Armor	50	12, -2	Vulcan A (5)		17, 17, 12, 17, --
Anti-Air Missile Launcher S	Tank	4400	36	4, Armor	50	12, -2	Vulcan S (4)		20, 20, 14, 20, --
Artillery	Tank	3800	44	4, Armor	50	10, -2	Artillery B (5)		18, 18, 12, 18, --
Artillery S	Tank	4500	50	3, Armor	50	11, -2	Artillery A (4)		21, 21, 14, 21, --
Infantry Fighting Vehicle	Tank	1800	38	6, Armor (River)	65	17, -2	Anti-Tank Missile B (3)	Machine Gun A (9)	30, 30, 14, 30, --
Infantry Fighting Vehicle S	Tank	2000	36	6, Armor (River)	70	19, -2	Anti-Tank Missile A (3)	Machine Gun A (9)	35, 35, 16, 35, --
Tank Destroyer	Tank	2000	32	6, Armor (River)	45	24, -4	Tank Cannon B (8)	Machine Gun A (9)	35, 35, 16, 40, --
Tank Destroyer S	Tank	2800	42	6, Armor (River)	50	25, -4	Anti-Tank Missile A (6)	Machine Gun A (9)	40, 40, 18, 45, --
Main Battle Tank	Tank	3500	46	5, Armor (River)	70	19, -2	Tank Cannon A (9)	Machine Gun A (9)	45, 45, 18, 50, --
Mercenary Tank	Tank	4000	48	6, Armor (River)	60	22, -2	Tank Cannon S (9)	Machine Gun A (9)	52, 52, 22, 56, --
Fighter A	Air	8500	86	12, Plane	80	32, -2	Air-To-Air Missile B (5)	Gatling Gun B (7)	48, 42, 38, 44, --
Fighter B	Air	6500	72	11, Plane	60	29, -2	Air-To-Air Missile B (4)	Gatling Gun B (8)	42, 36, 30, 38, --
Fighter S	Air	9000	94	13, Plane	70	36, -2	Air-To-Air Missile A (6)	Air-To-Air Missile B (3)	56, 50, 40, 52, --
Attacker A	Air	8500	84	11, Plane	60	30, -2	Air-To-Air Missile B (2)	Bomb (3)	44, 38, 28, 40, --
Attacker B	Air	6000	76	9, Plane	50	27, -2	Gatling Gun A (9)	Missile (4)	38, 32, 26, 34, --
Attacker S	Air	12000	96	10, Plane	65	30, -2	Bomb (5)		61, 55, 45, 57, --
Bomber	Air	15000	100	10, Plane	99	26, -2	Anti-Land Bomb (3)		32, 32, 30, 34, --
Mercenary Bomber	Air	18000	120	11, Plane	99	28, -2	Anti-Land Bomb (4)		37, 37, 35, 39, --
Transport Plane	Air	5500	100	8, Plane	99	21, -2			18, 18, 18, 18, --
Supply Plane	Air	6000	100	9, Plane	99	19, -2	Supplies (4)		18, 18, 18, 18, --
Battle Helicopter	Air	5000	52	6, Helicopter	60	24, -3	Missile (5)	Gatling Gun A (7)	27, 27, 20, 28, --
Battle Helicopter S	Air	5500	55	7, Helicopter	70	29, -3	Anti-Tank Missile A (2)	Gatling Gun A (9)	32, 32, 24, 35, --
Anti-Sea Helicopter	Air	3800	60	6, Helicopter	50	22, -3	Direct Torpedo (2)	Machine Gun A (7)	22, 22, 20, 22, --
Transport Helicopter	Air	1900	25	7, Helicopter	70	22, -3	Machine Gun A (7)		20, 20, 18, 20, --
Transport Helicopter S	Air	3500	48	6, Helicopter	65	22, -2	Missile (1)	Machine Gun A (9)	23, 23, 20, 23, --
Aegis Warship	Ship	22000	180	6, Vessel	99	20, -2	Anti-Ship Missile (6)	Vulcan B (9)	75, 75, 75, 65, 52
Mercenary Missile Frigate	Ship	26000	200	7, Vessel	99	24, -2	Anti-Land Missile (4)	Vulcan S (9)	80, 80, 80, 70, 60
Large Aircraft Carrier	Ship	35000	220	5, Vessel	99	22, -2	Vulcan S (9)	Gatling Gun S (9)	70, 70, 65, 60, 48
Small Aircraft Carrier	Ship	28000	150	6, Vessel	80	21, -2	Vulcan A (9)	Gatling Gun B-4 (9)	65, 65, 58, 55, 42
Tanker	Ship	11000	140	4, Vessel	90	17, -2	Supplies (9)		30, 30, 24, 25, 22
Lander	Ship	8000	130	4, Lander	70	17, -2	Gatling Gun A (9)		40, 40, 36, 35, 25
Submarine	Submarine	20000	180	4, Vessel	60	17, -2	Torpedo (3)		--, --, 70, --, 57
Submarine S	Submarine	28000	200	5, Vessel	99	23, -3	Anti-Land Missile (2)	Direct Torpedo (4)	--, --, 80, --, 66

Unit Movement Types

Type	Plains	Forest	Wasteland	Desert	Mountain	River	Shoal	Sea	Ruined Property
Infantry	1	1	2	2	2	2	2		2
Commando	1	1	1.5	1.5	2	2	2	3	1.5
Slow Tire	1.5	3	3	3					3
Fast Tire	1.5	1.5	3	2	4				2
Buggy	1.5	1.5	3	2	4	3	3		2
Battle Car	1	2	2	2	4	3	2		4
Armor	1	2	3	3					3
Armor (River)	1	1.5	2	2		4	4		3
Helicopter	1	1	1	1	1.5	1	1	1	1
Vessel								1	*
Lander							1	1	*

Roads, Bridges, and all non-ruined buildings have a Movement Cost of 1 for any allied land or air unit. Harbors also be traversed by any sea unit at a Movement cost of 1.
If a Lander is on a Shoal, then any allied unit besides ships (except Landers), can cross the Shoal at a Movement Cost of 1 instead.
Sea units can't cross any ruined properties except for ruined Harbors at a Movement Cost of 1 each.

Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising

Welcome to the Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising wikibook. While this guide can also be used for Advance Wars and Advance Wars: Dual Strike, please note that there may be differences between the games.

Authors

Rob Kohr, LiteYear

Links

Official Site
Black Hole Headquarters - Strategies, statistics and general discussion about all the games in the Advance Wars series.
Advance Wars Net - The largest Advance Wars site on the web.
AdvanceWorld (French Website) - The largest French Advance Wars site on the web.
Advance Wars Bunker Forums - The largest Advance Wars community on the web.
Advance Wars Revolution
Advance Wars X - Clean, tidy Advance Wars site, easy to find info
Online AW2 damage calculator
http://www.awcentre.netfirms.com/AW2CalculatorV4.zip - Copy and paste URL in your web browser; this is a downloadable (15k) damage calculator by ddsdds/Cyber/CyberSach (Author's note: Has many inconsistencies, but will work for the most part)
GameFAQs AW2 Guides - Provided values for luck based CO's (Nell and Flak) thanks to Xenesis Xenon's CO stats FAQ, and has some good files on strategy.
Wars World News - Advance Wars community providing the most accurate Advance Wars info. Also has the largest and best Custom CO database on the web.
Check this site out - Some really nice in-depth FAQs, guides, and walkthroughs.

Web Based Game

Advance Wars By Web - Play Advance Wars online

Charts

Unit Chart

Name	MP	Ammo	Vision	Range	Move Type	Cost
Land
Anti-Air	6	9	2	1	Treads	8000
APC	6	0	1	1	Treads	5000
Tank	6	9	3	1	Treads	7000
Artillery	5	9	1	2-3	Treads	6000
Rocket	5	6	1	3-5	Wheels	15000
Missile	5	6	5	3-5	Wheels	12000
Neotank	6	9	1	1	Treads	22000
Recon	8	0	5	1	Wheels	4000
Infantry	3	0	2	1	Foot	1000
Md.Tank	5	8	1	1	Treads	16000
Mech	2	3	2	1	Mech	3000
Air
T-Copter	6	0	2	1	Air	5000
B-Copter	6	6	3	1	Air	9000
Bomber	7	9	2	1	Air	22000
Fighter	9	9	2	1	Air	20000
Sea
Lander	6	0	1	1	Lander	12000
Battleship	5	9	2	2-6	Ship	28000
Cruiser	6	9	3	1	Ship	18000
Sub	5	6	5	1	Ship	20000

Terrain Movement Chart

'*'Property in this listing stands for city, base, airport, and HQ.

Terrain	Foot	Mech	Treads	Wheels	Lander	Ship	Air
Clear Weather
Plain	1	1	1	2	-	-	1
Forest	1	1	2	3	-	-	1
Road/Bridge	1	1	1	1	-	-	1
Mountain	2	1	-	-	-	-	1
River	2	1	-	-	-	-	1
Shoal	1	1	1	1	1	-	1
Sea	-	-	-	-	1	1	1
Reef	-	-	-	-	2	2	1
Property*	1	1	1	1	-	-	1
Port	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Rain Weather
Plain	1	1	2	3	-	-	1
Forest	1	1	3	4	-	-	1
Road/Bridge	1	1	1	1	-	-	1
Mountain	2	1	-	-	-	-	1
River	2	1	-	-	-	-	1
Shoal	1	1	1	1	1	-	1
Sea	-	-	-	-	1	1	1
Reef	-	-	-	-	2	2	1
Property*	1	1	1	1	-	-	1
Port	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Snow Weather
Plain	2	1	2	3	-	-	2
Forest	2	1	3	4	-	-	2
Road/Bridge	1	1	1	1	-	-	2
Mountain	4	2	-	-	-	-	2
River	2	1	-	-	-	-	2
Shoal	1	1	1	1	1	-	2
Sea	-	-	-	-	2	2	2
Reef	-	-	-	-	2	2	2
Property*	1	1	1	1	-	-	2
Port	1	1	1	1	2	2	2

Unit Info

Land

Direct

These units have to be adjacent to the target to attack.

Infantry - foot soldiers. Can capture properties but are only really useful in battle when finishing off enemies with their machine guns or as fodder.
- Counter -- Any

Mech - foot soldiers with strong Movement Type but THE lowest Movement Point. Otherwise similar to Infantry, but also use a Bazooka that deal damage similar to that of a Small Tank's on vehicles. Defense is also slightly higher than that of an Infantry.
- Counter -- AA, air units, and Tanks

Recons - vehicles that have high Vision. Uses poor machine guns. Armor mostly protects vs. machine guns.
- Counter -- any tank, air units

Tank - war vehicles that can inflict damage to most ground vehicles, but isn't armored enough to withstand a lot of cannon fire.
- Counter -- heavier Tanks and Indirect fire, air units and mechs when attacking first

Anti-Air - war vehicle that primarily targets air units, although it is able to deal a little damage to Small Tanks and can quickly tear apart foot soldiers. No machine guns.
- Counter -- any tank and Indirect fire, Bombers

Medium Tank - war vehicles that have strong attack and defense.
- Counter -- Indirect fire, Neotanks, air units, particularly Bombers

Neotank - war vehicles that have very strong attack and defense.
- Counter -- Indirect fire and bombers

Indirect

These units cannot be counterattacked, but they can't counterattack themselves, and have to attack from the right ranges. (No machine guns, period.)

Artillery - Cannon launchers. Attacks land and sea units from medium range, has a 2-3 range for normal COs

AA Missiles - Missile launchers. Attacks air units from long range, has a 3-5 range for normal COs.

Rockets - Launches Rockets. Attacks land and sea units from long range, has a 3-5 range for normal COs.

Other

These units strictly perform tasks outside of battling and cannot use weapons.

APC - vehicles that can't attack at all, but can transport foot soldiers or supply other units. Move an APC next to units running short on ammo or fuel and select "supply" to fully resupply all units around the APC. Additionally, any unit standing next to an APC will be resupplied when the turn begins.The AI will usually prefer APC's to other units and will send these units to choke points (like bridges)to stop your units from flooding them and as in choke points, only 1 unit can attack the APC unless there are indirect units to come to the rescue, but the APC can get even more annoying, if it is on a city.

Sea

Sea units cannot travel on land, except for Landers traveling on Shoals. They also use up 1 Fuel per turn and sink (die automatically) if they run out. It has the same rule with air units: if the fuel runs out after you move it, it will live until the beginning of your next turn. Sea units can be resupplied by standing for one turn on an allied port, or with an APC.

Lander - ships that can transport two land units each, but aren't armed with any weapons.

Cruiser - ships that are good for killing subs and attacking air units, but cannot attack anything else. Can carry up to two copters at a time.

Submarine - submarines that can fire torpedoes to damage other sea units. Can submerge to hide and also avoid targeting by anything but Cruisers and Subs, at a cost of 5 fuel units per turn. Large vision range of 5

Battleship - ships that can blast away land and sea units from very long range.

Air

Air units are unaffected by terrain defenses. However, copters use up 1 fuel per turn and planes use 5, and they crash (die automatically) should they run out. Note that an air unit with no fuel (i.e. just moved, so it has no fuel left) will not die until the beginning of your next turn). An air unit can be resupplied by standing on an allied airport for one turn, or with an APC.

Transport Copter - copter with the ability to transport foot soldiers, but has no weapons or supply ability.

Battle Copter - copters that are good against land units besides anti-air units and heavy tanks, and are moderately powerful versus naval units. Battle Copters can also attack other copters.

Fighter - planes that can fire missiles to severely damage other air units. Cannot attack anything else.

Bombers - planes that drop bombs to devastate land and sea units. Cannot attack air units.

Commanding Officers

Basics

A commanding officer (or CO) is a character that directly affects the units you use. Some CO's do not give any bonuses, some CO's have a slight bonus to all their units, and some CO's gain a bonus to a type of unit, while having a disadvantage on another type of unit. Still other CO's give their units non-combat bonuses. Each CO also has two powers, a CO power, and a Super CO (or SCO) power. A CO power usually gives a bonus to the type of unit that CO specializes, or it will damage enemy units. An SCO power costs more, but gives a greater effect. All bonuses are additive (i.e. if you had 20% attack bonus innately and you gained 30% from your CO power, you'd have a 50% attack bonus for that turn), and all CO power bonuses last until your turn comes up again.

Note: A 50% damage bonus means that the damage you inflict will be increase by half, and not 50 points. I.E. an Infantry attacking another Infantry does 55% damage. If the attacker had a 50% attack bonus, then the damage perentage would be 82% (and NOT 105%).

Each CO power has a star cost. Each star represents 9,000G of damage. Whatever damage your units' take is directly added to your power meter, so if you lose a full health tank, your power meter will gain 7,000 points. Any damage you inflict is given at half cost towards your meter. So, the person who destroyed your tank in the previous example will gain 3,500 points in their meter. Modified costs do count twards the meter, though, so if a Kanbei tank is destroyed when it had full HP, the attacker gains 4,200 points towards his meter, and the player who lost the tank gains 8,400 points towards his meter.

A couple of other notes about CO powers. Unless that unit gets a defense bonus mentioned the CO/SCO power, it will gain a 10% defensive bonus. Also, when you use a power, the cost to use another power increases. Every power you use (whether CO or SCO) will increase the star cost by 1,800 (i.e. 20%), but if you had any power left over (i.e. you used your CO power when your SCO was nearly full), then those points will carry over. Example: if you had 40,000 points in your meter, and used a CO Power which cost 3 stars (27,000 points), then you'll have 13,000 left in your meter, but the next CO power will cost 32,400 total points to use (so you'll need 19,600 more points).

The COs of Advance Wars are designed so that each have their strength and weaknesses - as such, there is usually no "strongest" CO to choose from. However, there are three CO's that have only strengths and not weaknesses (Hachi, Sturm, and Nell) that require special conditions to unlock. These CO's are generally considered stronger than the 16 other CO's.

Orange Star

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Andy

Andy is the first CO introduced to you in the campaign, and is regarded as an easy CO to use. His forces are very balanced, as none of his units gain a combat bonus or penalty. His main advantage is through his CO powers, which allow him to heal up his units.

CO Power: Hyper Repair (Cost: 3 stars)
- When used, Hyper Repair heals all of his units by 2 HP.
SCO Power: Hyper Upgrade (Cost: 6 stars)
- When used, Hyper Upgrade heals all of his units for 5 HP. This power also increases all of his units' movement by 1, and also gives them a 20% attack bonus.

Max

Max is for the player who likes direct combat. All of his direct combat units (except Infantry/Mechs) gain a 20% attack bonus. However, his indirect combat units are weaker than average. They have a 10% attack penalty, and the also have 1 less maximum range (i.e. a Rocket hits 3-5 spaces normally. Under Max, that range is 3-4 spaces)

CO Power: Max Force (Cost: 3 stars)
- When used, all of Max's direct units (minus infantry/mechs) gain a 20% attack bonus, and also gain +1 movement.
SCO power: Max Blast (Cost: 6 stars)
- When used, all of Max's direct units (minus infantry/mechs) gain a 40% attack bonus, and also gain +2 movement.

Sami

Sami is an infantry specialist in this game. She excels in capturing properties easily, and her infantry are among the best in the game. All of her infantry/mechs get a 30% attack bonus, and they also capture properties at 1.5x normal (i.e. Sami's 10 HP infantry will take 15 capture points off a property. Half values are rounded down). APCs, Landers, and T. Copters get a +1 movement bonus as well. However, all of her other direct units take a 10% attack penalty.

CO Power: Double Time (Cost: 3 stars)
- When used, all of Sami's infantry/mechs gain a 20% attack bonus, and also +1 movement.
SCO Power: Victory March (Cost: 8 stars)
- When used, all of Sami's infantry/mechs gain a 50% attack bonus, and also +2 movement. Finally, any Infantry/Mech can capture any type of property (including a HQ) instantly, regardless of the unit's HP.

Nell

Nell is generally considered a Super CO. She has a chance of dealing up to 10% more damage (on top of the standard luck of +10%) than normal. However, her powers are awesome, and can allow even poor match-ups (like her B. Copter attacking an AA) to end in her favor.

CO Power: Lucky Star (Cost: 3 stars)
- When used, her units can do up to 6 more damage on an attack.
SCO Power: Lady Luck (Cost: 6 stars)
- When used, her units can do up to 10 more damage on an attack.

Hachi

Hachi is generally considered to be a Super CO. All of his units cost 10% less than normal, while retaining normal stats (i.e. a standard Tank costs 7000, so Hachi's will cost 6300).

CO Power: Barter (Cost: 3 stars)
- When used, all of Hachi's units cost 50% of the normal price (i.e. Hachi can buy a Tank under Barter for 3500).
SCO Power: Merchant Union (Cost: 5 stars)
- When used, all of Hachi's units cost 50% of the normal price. Also, Hachi can deploy troops from any city that he owns.

Blue Moon

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Olaf

Olaf is a fairly average CO. None of his units gain any combat bonuses or penalties. He does take weather differently than other CO's, though. In Snow, Olaf's units are unaffected, so he can move like it was Clear, giving him a movement advantage. However, in Rain, Olaf's units are affected like it was snowing, so the enemy will have the movement advantage.

CO Power: Blizzard (Cost: 3 stars)
- When used, it changes the weather to Snow. This Snow lasts until it's your turn again.
SCO Power: Winter Fury (Cost: 7 stars)
- When used, all enemy units take 2 damage, and the weather is changed to Snow. Again, the Snow lasts until it's your turn again.

Grit

Grit is an indirect combat specialist. All of his indirect units gain 20% attack and +1 maximum range (i.e. a Rocket shoots 3-5 squares normally, so Grit's Rockets hit 3-6 squares). However, all of his direct units (except infantry/mechs) take a 20% attack penalty.

CO Power: Snipe Attack (Cost: 3 stars)
- When used, all of Grit's indirect units gain a 30% attack bonus, and also +1 maximum range.
SCO Power: Super Snipe (Cost: 6 stars)
- When used, all of Grit's indirect units gain a 30% attack bonus, and also +2 maximum range.

Colin

Colin's specialty is being able to afford a large army quickly. All of his units are 20% below actual cost (i.e. a standard Tank costs 7000, so his costs 5600). However, all of his units have a 10% attack penalty.

CO Power: Gold Rush (Cost: 2 stars)
- When used, Colin's current funds are multiplied by 1.5.
SCO Power: Power of Money (Cost: 6 stars)
- When used, units gain an attack bonus dependant on the funds you have. You gain 3.33% attack for every 1000 funds you have (so if you had 15000 funds when you used this power, you'll gain a 50% attack bonus).

Green Earth

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Eagle

Eagle is for a player who prefers Air units. All of his Air units get a 15% attack bonus and a 10% defense bonus. Also, his Air units consume 2 less fuel per day. However, his Sea units get a massive 30% attack penalty.

CO Power: Lightning Drive (Cost: 3 stars)
- When used, all of Eagle's Air units gain an additional 15% attack boost and 20% defense bonus.
SCO Power: Lightning Strike (Cost: 9 stars)
- When used, all of Eagle units that have acted this turn can act again (excluding Infantry/Mechs). Additionally, Eagle's Air units gain a 15% attack and 20% defense bonus, but Eagle's units for the next turn have a penalty.

Drake

Drake's forte are Sea units. All of his Sea units gain a 10% defense bonus, and have +1 movement. When present, Drake also increases the chance of Rain, and his units also take no movement penalties in Rain. However, his Air units take a massive 30% attack penalty.

CO Power: Tsunami (Cost: 4 stars)
- When used, all enemy units take 1 damage, and they also lose half their fuel.
SCO Power: Typhoon (Cost: 7 stars)
- When used, all enemy units take 2 damage, and they also lose half their fuel. The weather also changes to Rain until Drake's next turn.

Jess

Jess has strong land vehicles. All of her land units (except Infantry/Mechs) have a 10% attack bonus. However, all of her Air, Sea, and Infantry/Mechs have a 10% attack penalty.

CO Power: Turbo Charge (Cost: 3 stars)
- When used, all of Jess's land vehicles gain a 20% attack bonus and +1 movement. Also, all of her units' fuel and ammo are refilled.
SCO Power: Overdrive (Cost: 6 stars)
- When used, all of Jess's land vehicles gain a 40% attack boost and +2 movement. Also, all of her units' fuel and ammo are refilled.

Yellow Comet

Kanbei

Kanbei is for the player who likes a few superior units. All of Kanbei's units gain a 30% attack bonus and a 30% defense bonus. However, all of his units cost 20% more (i.e. a standard Tank costs 7000, so Kanbei's Tank costs 8400).

CO Power: Morale Boost (Cost: 4 stars)
- When used, all of Kanbei's units gain a 20% attack boost, and a 10% defense boost.
SCO Power: Samurai Spirit (Cost: 7 stars)
- When used, all of Kanbei's units gain a 20% attack boost, and a 30% defense boost. Also, your units gain an extra 50% attack boost on counterattacks (for a total of 200%).

Sonja

Sonja's specialty is gaining and keeping intel. All of her units have +1 vision, and gain a 50% attack bonus when counterattacking. Also, all enemies see a question mark where her HP number is, so they can't tell how much HP that unit has. Please note that AI players are not affected by this. However, she may do up to 10% lesser damage than normal.

CO Power: Enhanced Vision (Cost: 3 stars)
- When used, all of Sonja's units gain +1 vision, and can see into Forests and Reefs without needing a unit adjacent to them.
SCO Power: Counter Break (Cost: 5 stars)
- When used, all of Sonja's units gain +1 vision, and can see into Forests and Reefs without needing a unit adjacent to them. Also, if she is attacked while this power is on, her units will attack first.

Sensei

Sensei specializes in only 3 units, but they are supremely powerful. All of his Infantry and Mechs gain a 40% attack bonus, and his B. Copters have a 50% attack bonus. APC's, Landers, and T. Copters get +1 movement as well. However, all of his other Land and Sea units suffer a 10% attack penalty.

CO Power: Copter Command (Cost: 2 stars)
- When used, all of the cities Sensei owns will gain a 9 HP Infantry that can move right away. If a city has a unit on it (either yours, allied or enemy), it will not gain an Infantry. Also, B. Copters gain a 25% attack bonus.
SCO Power: Airborne Assault (Cost: 6 stars)
- When used, all of the cities Sensei owns will gain a 9 HP Mech that can move right away. If a city has a unit on it (either yours, allied or enemy), it will not gain a Mech. Also, B. Copters gain a 25% attack bonus.

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Flak

Flak is unreliable, but if he gets lucky, he can do brutal amounts of damage. None of his units gain an attack or defence boost, but all of his units have a chance to either do up to +25% damage or -10% damage.

CO Power: Brute Force (Cost: 3 stars)
- When used, all of Flak's units have a chance to increase their damage by up to 4 HP, or they could decrease their damage by up to 2 HP.
SCO Power: Barbaric Blow (Cost: 6 stars)
- When used, all of Flak's units have a chance to increase their damage by up to 7 HP, or they could decrease their damage by up to 3 HP.

Lash

Lash's units gain attack bonuses from terrain in addition to the normal defensive bonus. They gain an attack bonus equal to the defensive bonus of the terrain.

CO Power: Terrain Tactics (Cost: 4 stars)
- When used, all of Lash's units have a 1 movement cost over any terrain they can normally pass over.

SCO Power: Prime Tactics (Cost: 7 stars)
- When used, all of Lash's units have a 1 movement cost over any terrain they can normally pass over. Also, all of the bonuses Lash normally gains from terrain are doubled. (Additionally, Lash's units also get the normal +10% defense when a power is used)

Adder

Adder is probably the most average CO in the game. His units gain no attack or defense bonuses. His CO bar is short, so he can use his powers at a rapid pace.

CO Power: Sideslip (Cost: 2 stars)
- When used, all of Adder's units gain a +1 movement bonus.
SCO Power: Sidewinder (Cost: 5 stars)
- When used, all of Adder's units gain a +2 movement bonus.

Hawke

Hawke has slightly stronger units across the board. All of his units have a 10% attack bonus. However, his CO powers are weak for their cost. (Although the game says that "his CO Power builds up more slowly than those of other CO's", this is only reffering to the length of his CO bar. He gains power points at the same rate as other CO's, it's just that his power cost is high.)

CO Power: Black Wave (Cost: 5 stars)
- When used, all enemy units take 1 damage, and all of Hawke's units heal 1 HP.
SCO Power: Black Storm (Cost: 9 stars)
- When used, all enemy units take 2 damage, and all of Hawke's units heal 2 HP.

Sturm

Sturm is classified as a Super CO. All of his units gain a 20% attack bonus and a 20% defense bonus, at NO extra cost. Also, all of his units have a 1 movement cost over any terrain they can normally pass over. However, if the weather is Snow, Sturm loses that movement advantage (i.e. he is affected by Snow like other CO's are). Also, Sturm only has one CO power.

SCO Power: Meteor Strike (Cost: 10 stars)
- When used, a meteor drops on enemy troops. Any unit hit by the meteor loses 8 HP, even allied or your own (but will be reduced to 1 HP if it had 8 or less). You cannot control where the meteor lands; instead, it will hit the area that you can see that will do the most damage (in funds) to enemy troops. The meteor has the same range as a standard Silo. If you can't see any enemy troops, or if the meteor would do more damage to you/allies than the enemy, the meteor will not fall. Sturm's units will also gain an extra 20% attack and 30% defense bonus.

Strategy

Ok. Though Advance Wars has many characters with different skills there is one thing that will always stay the same. Follow your characters strengths. CO powers can turn the tide in any battle, but if they are used ineffectively they are only a waste. You can look at the basic strategies for each character in the game.

Andy

His CO powers allow him to keep his units in the field for a much longer period of time, and are great counters to the damage dealing CO powers of Hawke, Drake, and Olaf. Because of his balanced forces and his healing CO powers, Andy prefers a large, balanced map with numerous bases, airports, and naval ports.

Olaf

His powers should be used very strategically, at a crucial point to either halt the opponents' retreat or advance, allowing Olaf to take the initiative. Olaf's strategies greatly resemble those of the Soviet Army in World War 2, relying on 'General Winter' (a very cold winter with many blizzards) to halt the Nazi Army's advance on Stalingrad and Moscow.

Grit

In close-quarters, Grit's CO powers can allow your indirect units to massacre a very large portion of the map (or possibly the entire map if you're playing in a small, enclosed map like Little Island). After using his power, artillery units fire as far (or farther than) other COs' rocket units! Rockets for the price of artillery! You'll find the sound of artillery fire will shortly become your halleluiah chorus.

You'll want a good proportion of your army to consist of indirect attacking units such as artillery, rockets and battleships. However, don't let that 20% direct attack penalty scare you; you're still gonna need a couple of tanks to clean up what your rockets don't quite finish, or a couple anti-air to cover your rear whenever airports are involved in the match.

Colin

Colin is best used on maps with lots of properties and with the fund rating set to about 6000-9500 as his SCO power uses his cash to increase his units atk power all the way to horrific amounts with up to a massive 999% atk which would absolutely devastate your foes.

Colin's CO power is useful for earning up cash to deploy his cheap units to flood the enemy, and when the time is right, activate his SCO power to crush your horrified enemies.

Advance Wars: Dual Strike

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A turned based strategy game, made for the Nintendo DS

History

Advance Wars: Dual Strike was made by Intelligent Systems. Dual Strike is the third title in the Advance Wars series, which started in 1995. This series started off of an older series called Gameboy Wars. Not surpisingly, Advance Wars came out on the Gameboy Advance. (Gameboy Wars, the earlier title experienced quite a bit of success in Japan.) Gameboy Wars was never released in English.

Gameplay

The game is a little like a game of rock-paper-scissors, albiet much more complex. Simply put, some units are stronger than other units, but are disadvantaged to yet other units. You must decide how best to position the "scissors" to have the greatest effect.

Commanding Officers'

Advance Wars: Dual Strike/Units

Advance Wars Dual Strike Units

Types of Weapons

Keep in mind that stronger unit's weapon will be stronger even if they are the same type. Example is Md tanks and tanks have the same weapon but Md is stronger.

Machine Gun

Effective against: Infantry

Ineffective against: Vechiles and Copters

Found on: Infantry, Mech, Recon, tank, Md tank, Neotank, Megatank

Ammo: Unlimited

Bazooka

Effective against: Vehicles

Ammo: 3

Cannon (direct)

Effective against: Vechiles

Ineffective against: Ships and Subs

Found on: Tank, Md Tank

Ammo: 9(tank) 8(Md tank)

NeoCannon

Effective against: Vechiles

Ineffective against: Ships and Subs

Ammo: 9

MegaCannon

Effective against: Vechiles

Ineffective against: Ships and Subs

Ammo: 3

Cannon (indirect)

Effective against: Infantry and Vechiles

Ineffective against: Ships and Subs

Range: 2~3

Ammo: 9

Rockets

Effective against: Infantry and Vechiles

Range: 3~5

Ammo: 6

Anti-air

Effective against: Infantry, Planes, and Copters

Ineffective against: Vechiles

Ammo: 9

Missles

Effective against: Copters, and Planes

Ammo: 3

Pipe Cannon

Effective: Infantry, Vechiles, Ships, Subs, Planes, and Copters

Ammo: 9

Units

Human Units

Humans are the only one that can capture buildings so in any non pre-deployed you have to build human units. Human capture building at the same rate as their Hp (unless your sami or using a force). Each building has 20 points when it reachs 0 the building is captured. The counter is restart when a unit walks off the building or is destoryed. Human units get +3 vision on mountains but that only effects Fog of War.

Infantry

Cost: 1000

Movement: 3

Movement type: Foot

Vision: 2 (5 on mountains)

Primary Weapon: None

2nd Weapon: Machine Gun

Thoughts: Infantry will are useful as meatshield and for capturing building due to them being faster than mechs. Infantry are normally killed in 2 hits by almost every unit except a few CO that get an attack bonus, Grimm would be an example. building a few Infantry to protect Indirect units is great defense even better when using Grit as a CO.

Mech

Cost: 3000

Movement: 2

Movement type: Mech

Vision: 2 (5 on mountains)

Primary Weapon: Bazooka

2nd Weapon: Machine Gun

Thoughts: VERY cost effective. Mech can do some serious damage to Tank($7000) and Racon($4000). they are good as meatshield too. A way to win is to do a mech flood with COs like Sami and Sensei, but don't except to get a good score.

Direct Vehicles

These are what will be used the most. Neo tanks, Tanks and Anti-air are probably the most cost effective. Jess is the master of land based vechiles units but Max, kanbei, Grimm and Hawke are good too.

Tank

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Battalion Wars

Unit list

Infantry

Western Frontier

Rifle
- Weapon: M17 Rifle (Balanced and Accurate at Long-Ranges)
Assaulter
- Weapon: M70 Machine Gun (Stronger and effective against Light Armor but less accurate beyond Medium-Range. Rate of Fire increased but will jam if overcharged)
Mortar
- Weapon: Grenade Launcher (Damage and Explosion Radius increased but may explode if charged for too long)
Flamer
- Weapon: High-Pressure Flamethrower (Range increased but will overheat)
Bazooka
- Weapon: Anti-Tank Bazooka (Power and Velocity increased when fully charged)
Missile
- Weapon: Silverfish Surface-to-Air Missile Launcher (Fires 4 Missiles when fully charged)

Tundran Territories

Rifle
- Weapon: Assault Rifle (AK-47)
Assaulter
- Weapon: Machine Gun (Modified AK Rifle)
Flamer
- Weapon: High-Pressure Flamethrower
Bazooka
- Weapon: RPG
Missile
- Weapon: 3-Cell Man-Portable Surface-to-Air Missile Launcher (Fully charged, it fires 3 Missiles)

Solar Empire

Rifle
- Weapon: Laser Rifle
Assaulter
- Weapon: Auto-Blaster (The Shots always travel in a straight line rather than spreading out)
Plasma
- Weapon: Plasma Projector

Xylvania

Rifle
- Weapon: Machine Gun (MP40 SMG)
Minigun
- Weapon: Minigun (though it looks more like the MG08, the German-Produced Version of the Maxim machine gun)
Grenade
- Weapon: Grenade Launcher
Acid Gasser
- Weapon: Chemical Spray Gun
Rocket
- Weapon: Rocket Launcher (Panzerfaust)
Ack-Ack
- Weapon: Missile Launcher

Vehicles

Light Recon (Western Frontier Army: MX-500 Dervish)
- Weapon: Heavy Machine Gun (Can be specially modified to mount an additional Light Machine Gun)
Heavy Recon (Western Frontier Army: Humbug)
- Weapons: Heavy Machine Gun x2
Light Tank (Western Frontier Army: Herman Mk5)
- Weapons: 100mm Cannon, Heavy Machine Gun
Heavy Tank (Western Frontier Army: M1A5 Battle Tank "Herminator")
- Weapons: 100mm Cannon x2, Heavy Machine Gun x2
AA Vehicle (Western Frontier Army: Prometheus AIM-9RR)
- Weapons: IS-III Silverfish Anti-Aircraft Missiles, Heavy Machine Gun
Artillery (Western Frontier Army: Preacher PK-772)
- Weapons: 88mm Low-Recoil Cannon, Heavy Machine gun
Battlestation (Western Frontier Army: AJAX T-500)
- Weapons: Twin-Barrel Battle Cannons, Anti-Vehicle Turret x2, Heavy Machine Gun x3

Aircraft

Gunship (Western Frontier Army: Duey AH-86)
- Weapons: AMG-115 Heckfire Anti-Tank Missiles, Heavy Machine Gun x2
Fighter (Western Frontier Army: F-19 Poltergeist)
- Weapons: Silverfish Air-to-Air Missiles, Anti-Air Turret
Bomber (Western Frontier Army: Valentine B-58)
- Weapons: Bombs, Anti-Air Turret x2
Strato Destroyer (Western Frontier Army: B-5000)
- Weapons: Silverfish Air-to-Air Missiles, Bombs, Anti-Air Turret x4
Transport Copter (Western Frontier Army: C-Type Samson)
- Weapons: Heavy Machine Gun x2

Defense structures

Machine Gun Nest

A simple defense structure composed of sandbags. With no limit in traverse, It can fire in any direction.

Machine Gun Bunker

More solid than the MG Nest, the MG Bunker is hard to destroy without explosive weaponry. It's only disadvantage is the limited firing field of 160 Degrees.

Gun Tower

Another defense structure that uses Height Advantage against Infantry. Has a blind spot in its roots.very weak against artillery and close bazooka vets.

Xylvanian Pillbox

Equipped with an Anti-Tank Gun and 2 Heavy Machine Guns to protect its side flanks.

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