[Advance Wars] Mission 21: The Final Battle! (999 S-Rank)

Days Taken: 11
Days For Perfect Speed: 14

Bit weird you don't use naval units for this level or Rivals, but judging from AW:DS's later levels, maybe that's for the best.

Note: You are graded on Orange Star's army performance, nothing else! Andy is the one that needs to get 5+ kills for power, and lose less than 20% of his units! As such, you can suicide/bait BM and GE/YC troops as much as you want, like in the Advance Campaign.

A doozy of a final level. Try to bait Sturms COP (only 50k funds in this game, unlike AW2s 90k funds needed!) using whatever isn't necessary at the time. Early on, BMs indirects are great for clearing out Sturms air units, but once that's done, they lose their effectiveness due to how long it takes them to move to the top. Grit is a special case due to his indirects having 1 more range base, and 3 extra during his COP, which can help clear out anti-air units or other priority targets in Sturm's base before sending your air units in, or making him waste funds by building fighters and bombers in range of Grit's missile units.

If any priority units are threatened, you can always use APCs and T-copters to dissuade Sturm from attacking them. Since BM and YC/GE units don't count for technique, you can freely use their units as bait and still get a 999.


To get specific COs for this level, do the following:

Blue Moon:
Olaf: Choose Andy on mission 4, and complete Olaf's Sea Strike (routing Olaf's navy on mission 6 to get to it), and you'll get Olaf as your BM CO.
Max: Choose Andy on mission 4 and DON'T rout Olaf on mission 6 to avoid Olaf's Sea Strike.
Grit: Choose Max on mission 4.

Green Earth/Yellow Comet:
Sami: Don't use Andy/Sami for all 4 Green Earth missions (15-18)
Drake: Use Andy for all 4 Green Earth Missions(15-18, you might not need to pick Andy for Wings of Victory(17), but I didn't bother to test if that was true or not!)
Kanbei: Complete all of the Kanbei levels within 8/10/12 turns respectively, to get to Sonja's missions. Replaces Sami/Drake!
Eagle: Use Sami for all 4 Green Earth Missions(15-18, unlocks mission 22, Rivals!). Highest priority for replacing Sami/Drake/Kanbei!


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