ARMORED CORE VI - Attack the Dam Complex (S-Rank, No Repair Kits, Damageless until Dunham)

I'm a Redgun now!

At least, this is the mission where you unofficially become one.

Following a couple of odd jobs for Balam (plus the TESTER mission), Redgun commander G1 Michigan wants to see what we're all about for himself. Putting us together with a pair of scrappy Redguns who think little of us, we're sent to drive the Rubicon Liberation Front out by blowing up the Gallia Dam Complex's generators.

G4 Volta and G5 Iguazu are intended to bowl through the opposition while we mop up what remains. You, on the other hand, wait for no one. You have the skill to reverse the roles so that Volta and Iguazu are cleaning up after you. Volta will actually be impressed with you... while Iguazu thinks you're stealing his spotlight.

On the side after blowing the first two generators is an MT-J with a shotgun, a laser blade, and a heavy sniper cannon. This sucker carries a Combat Log, so you'll want to blow it up for 100% completion. I heavily advise staying as far above this punk as best you can; the MT-J's cannon is incredibly accurate, and very hard to dodge due to how fast the bullet travels.

Other than that, the usual opposition will be RLF MT-E's with a few MT-T's providing cover fire. Completely unthreatening.

The only real challenge to be found in this level is Index Dunham, one of the RLF's aces. He pilots BURN PICKAXE, a full Basho frame AC armed with an Etsujin burst machine gun, a Little Gem compact bazooka, and a VTC-04 vertical missile launcher. Probably the single most simplistic setup in the entire game aside from "Invincible" Rummy, and it'd probably be the worst preset if not for another RLF pilot who drives a Basho. Sadly, Dunham carries no melee weapons on his frame to pose much of a serious threat, and Volta and Iguazu will assist you in crushing his futile attempt to defend the Dam. Even Volta assures us that BURN PICKAXE is only a little more intimidating than an MT, implying that it's an aged machine.

For Dunham's credit, he does have some hardass lines (I love the "Armored Coffins" quip he makes at the start). Shame he's little more than a stepping stone in a long list of AC fights.

Hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving!

(Build at the end of the video.)

XBOX ID Code: WS08NS2PA7US

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