Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising Complete Campaign Walkthrough

By: Lars Barlindhaug

5. Campaign

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5.1.7 Test of Time
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Secret Neotank lab map, se 1.6.14 Flak Attack for further details.
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Rank: S
CO: Andy vs: Flak Fog of War
Level: ***
Speed: 100/100 7 days max or the mission is failed
Power: 100/100 Technique: 100/100

 _________________ ___________________
|                 |                   |
| Destroyed: 1/9  |  Survived:   8/9  |
|_________________|___________________|
| 1 Mech          | 1 Infantry        |
|                 | 1 Recon           |
|                 | 1 Tank            |
|                 | 1 Md. Tank        |
|                 | 1 APC             |
|                 | 1 Artillery       |
|                 | 1 Rockets         |
|                 | 1 Anti-Air        |
|_________________|___________________|

 ________ ___________ __________ _______
|        |           |          |       |
| Cities | Factories | Airports | Ports |
|________|___________|__________|_______|
|        |           |          |       |
|   10   |     0     |     0    |   0   |
|________|___________|__________|_______|

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Sami tells you that there's an indirect unit in on of the north forests, and on in the east forests, near the enemy HQ. Have a recon park between two of the forest to check to at a time. You can save before you do this and restart if you don't find it.

The rest of Flak's units are located just to the north of your HQ, except a lander in the only reef in the middle of the map, and an infantry to the east of the bridge (and of course the two indirect units mentioned above).

Concentrate most of your fire on the units to the north, have the tank cross the bridge along with the APC, loaded with an infantry. Use these units to locate and destroy the eastern indirect unit. When you've taken the control over the north units continue around the lake, have your recon scout for the indirect unit in the middle-north forests.

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5.1.8 Liberation
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Rank: S
CO: Max (recommended), Sami or Andy vs: Flak
Level: ****
Speed: 100/100 13 days
Power: 100/100 Technique: 92/100

 ________ ___________ __________ _______
|        |           |          |       |
| Cities | Factories | Airports | Ports |
|________|___________|__________|_______|
|        |           |          |       |
|   15   |     6     |     1    |   0   |
|________|___________|__________|_______|

This map clearly stands out of the rest Orange Star maps in difficulty, it really should be a bit tougher than the others since it's the last in this country. I'll quote Hachi here: "Don't get discouraged" (and don't think about the fact the difficulty meter goes up to ten, and this a four :) ).

A new thing is discovered here, it's a factory and pipe, in the pipe you can see something called a pipe seam, it's the pipe's weak spot. It has 100 HP and can be destroyed with a regular md. tank or bomber. In this level I recommend a bomber.

The first three days should be used for building APCs with infantries. Build the APC in the north-west base and the infantry in the south-west. Have the first APC go west for the west base, the second should go north-west for the airport and the third for the base south of the airport. When you're finished with the APCs build a recon, then a tank at the bases close to your HQ, then build the rest on your newly built bases. "The rest" of what you build should be mainly tanks and a few recons, and an anti-air to get rid of the infantries and mechs.

You'll see that Flak has a little group of infantries, mechs and a recon in the north-west, don't go to the bridge and block them, they will only destroy your APC, wait for them to come foreward, then attack.
Try to block the factory as good as possible. When you get control of the east side, place a tank or a recon in the east most port, and try to block the rest. This way there will be no anti-airs or missiles to bother your bomber.

As mentioned above build a bomber and fly it directly to the pipe seam and win the level. You can save right before you do this and increase your power and technique scores by building more and killing more of Flak's units.

--- I recommend going to Blue Mon first, because the levels there are easier than the yellow comet ones. This will give you a smother difficulty curve.