Hey everyone!
So I've been trying to reroute the game glitchless since last week, and I got some pretty good result, saving a good chunk of time over the current Alistair's route.
Among other things, I came really close to getting Kanbei's Error (last mission against Kanbei) in 5 turns with Sami. Her T-copter has the range for it but everytime I try it gets destroyed on the way or the infantry gets killed before being able to reach the HQ.
So I was wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to clear it in 5 turns. I have a working 6 turns with Max but this map really would use to save a turn, as there's a bunch of ennemy units moving around.
PS: is there any discord to discuss about these games? Would probably be more efficient than SR.com forums.
https://cyberscore.me.uk/chart/48122
Yeah 5 days is possible. Was done almost 8 years ago, I don’t really remember anything about it off the top of my head. I’d have to play it again to try to figure it out…
The best place to discuss Advance Wars is Wars World News: https://forums.warsworldnews.com/
I only have videos of Missions 1, 2 and 4, not sure if those help any for a speedrun: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6613586A3C7C85E6 Edit: Actually I made a speedrun M1 strat but I think Alistair already uses it:
Edit: I remembered of this place that has some good strategies for AW (not all the best though): https://awrevival.netfirms.com/aw1index_baek.htm
Thanks for the info!
Is Wars World news still active nowadays?Itvery well could but after all these years and looking at the posts dates it doesn't seems like it.
I'll look into your vids and what you linked me, it really should help!
Mission 4 Max route even if takes less turn means you get an extra mission, and with the strats I'm using it costs 2 minute compared to Andy's route. Plus that mission, even if in 3 days, loses 40 seconds compared to 4 days Andy mission. So can't really go Max route anyway sadly.
I'm currently up to green earth mission and from what I'm seeing/have gathered so far, even if I didn't time them, the fastest missions would be A. max B. Andy (RTA at least) and C. Sami.
I made vids using VBA v24 rr of all my strats up until now if you are interested in looking at them. Also made route notes with step by step instructions as well.
WWN is still active yes. They have a Discord too (though I’m not in it). Advance Wars just hasn’t seen a game in over 10 years, so you can’t expect many posts going on about it.
Where are your AW videos? Do you have a playlist or something? I’ll take a look at them.
Edit: I already linked you on Twitch but I’ll post here too, this is the best known Campaign records I think (list incomplete because a mod fucked up and deleted some which went lost): https://forums.warsworldnews.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=10362&start=40#p408847
I don't have them on YT really, it's just .vbm that requires to be ran through VBA. I could highlight what I routed on stream or capture the movies and put them on YT if you would prefer.
Yeah I’d prefer that, I don’t even know where I put my VBA and idk if I even have the AW ROM. It’s also just a lot easier to analyze videos than input files on an emulator.
Here's a playlist of my strats that I will keep on updating for reference: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iVdh2ochMT33ZYP2qwh-9Eb499C7KCy
FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT!
Only saves 3 seconds over Max's 6 turns, but hey I got it!
Also I'm keeping the playlist updated everytime I find something new/Better. I still have to put your 6 day Mission 1 in the playlist for example ^^ Most maps can still be beaten in one less day apparently but I haven't cracked that, probably cuz some just require to route instead of HQ capture which prob isn't faster (e.g 5 day vs 6 day Mission 1)
I actually finished "routing" everything. I have a 10-14 Days consistent Enigma and 9-15 days Final Battle (I still can't believe I got a 9 days with Max and Sami, that was pretty nuts) but since the missions are quite RNG by the end of the maps it's going to take me a while to make a vid for it.
