Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising Complete Campaign Walkthrough

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5.3.7 Sea of Hope
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Rank: S
CO: Kanbei (recommended), Sensei or Sonja vs: Adder
Level: *****
Speed: /100
Power: /100
Technique: /100

 ________ ___________ __________ _______ _______
|        |           |          |       |       |
| Cities | Factories | Airports | Ports | Silos |
|________|___________|__________|_______|_______|
|        |           |          |       |       |
|   17   |     3     |     5    |   2   |   0   |
|________|___________|__________|_______|_______|

Don't get overwhelmed by all of Adder's units. He doesn't have any factories to build ground units. Use t-copters to capture the airport and port on the island five or so spaces to the north. Buy tanks and anti-airs. Use your tanks to advance along the road, watch out for the rockets and later the battleships. Remember to build artillery and rockets too. These will come in very handy at the last bridge before the island where Adder has his HQ.

Take out the rockets you can reach with Sami's battleships. When you've taken out the ones that haven't fled out of your range, take out any other units you can reach. Then place your surviving ships south of the last bridge to Adder's HQ island.

I recommend not getting involved in the sea battle and let the subs live and go for capture instead. Load a t-copter with an infantry around day 13 or 14. From then on build bombers and bombe battleships, cruisers and the units surrounding Adder's HQ.

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|        |           |          |       |       |
| Cities | Factories | Airports | Ports | Silos |
|________|___________|__________|_______|_______|
|        |           |          |       |       |
|   22   |    11     |     2    |   4   |   0   |
|________|___________|__________|_______|_______|    

------- Kanbei: -------
Load an APC with an infantry and capture the east most base. Build an infantry to capture the cities. Send another APC the next day and capture the middle base.

Build anti-airs, tanks, md. tanks, artillery, rockets and neotanks if you've got them. Try to attack Adder the best you can from both sides of the mountains, use a lot of indirect units. Keep pushing Adder back. If you feel you have control and enough money you can build a battleship, but it isn't necessary. Block the factory with landers.

---- Max: ----
Build two infantries and capture the cities and the port and build a lander and another two infantries. Send the first lander to the north, and build a second that you send to the east island. Capture all cities and continue sending units north with your landers. Send and build artillery and tanks, and later you might need a md. tank. Build bombers and battle copters to take out the cannons and later the pipe seams when you get Adder's missiles and anti-airs under control.