"Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising" Quiz

Answer: 3 Infantry, 1 APC

Andy has three infantry units and one APC against Flak's two infantry. Disturbingly easy, but it is a tutorial level. Essentially, Nell tells you what to do the entire time.

Answer: 1 Lander, 1 Artillery, 1 Rocket

There's a lander in the reef, a rocket hidden in the woods near the lab, and 1 artillery hidden in the woods at the top. Sami tells you about the indirects, but not about the lander. To beat the level by routing all enemy forces, you need to destroy the lander. I didn't notice it the first time...

Answer: Colin

Colin's units are cheaper and slightly weaker than everyone else's. On the other hand, he can use his CO Power, Gold Rush, to gain 1.5 times more cash. Following up with this, he's also got his Super CO Power, Power of Money, which increases attack by however much cash he has on hand. Pretty devastating, if you've got the funds.

Answer: Show Stopper

In Show Stopper, you play as Sonja in Fog of War, absolutely perfect for her. Adder is the Black Hole CO and he really just sends everything after you in one wave. If you can destroy the first wave, then capture all the bases and ports, Adder essentially has no more units to attack you with. Every time I play, though, he just slips a Rocket into the woods and holds two B-Copters and an Artillery back for later in the fight (which Md Tanks and Anti-Air usually crush).

There's a lap map in this mission, but you'll have to find it yourself.

Answer: You can use Sensei in all of these.

Foul Play has no water at all, on the entire map, in no location. Thus, no navy. The Factory levels (The Hunt's End) never have Fog of War. Only Foul Play has missile silos. Sensei's got to be my favorite CO, because his best units are cheaper than most other units. B-copters cost only 9000g, while Md Tanks cost 16000g, Bombers are 22000g, etc.

They're also only slightly more expensive than Tanks (7000g) and Anti-Air (8000g). Plus his CO Power and Super CO Power drop dozens of infantry/mechs on the field and power his copters up to 175% attack power. WOW! As a side note, Sensei's COP and SCOP (normal and super, respectively) both work in Pre-Deployed mode.

Answer: Sinking Feeling

Okay, if you chose Silo Scramble, I laugh at you (or with you, whatever you prefer). Silo Scramble is Kanbei v. Flak, none of whom are involved in the question. A Mirror Darkly is Lash v. Sonja and Rain of Fire is Jess v. Hawke, both of which at least involve one CO that the question applies to. Anyways, Jess has to blow up Lash's Battleships (which fortunately cannot fire).

There's also a lab map, but it's much harder to get because a) you've got a time limit and b) Lash's got air power.

Answer: Great Sea Battle

Here, you get one Green Earth CO, one Yellow Comet CO, and one Orange Star CO. Unfortunately, no Grit, no Olaf, no Colin. I suppose Grit could be really cheap and use Super Snipe, to, well, snipe open the pipe seam. Olaf's Blizzard and Winter Fury are just painful, and not to mention rather cheap (Olaf+Drake=4hp damage on Super CO Powers, unless Hawke uses Black Storm). Colin, obviously, is a terrible CO, unless you've got funds, and you need a lot of funds to access Power of Money (effectively-honestly, you could access it whenever you want, but that wouldn't really have much effect). Personally, my favorites for this mission are Eagle (Lightning Strike, duh!), Kanbei (super powerful), and Andy (only CO able to counteract Hawke's COP and SCOP, plus equal units, unlike Sami and Max)

Answer: Strong Land

Duo Falls is against Max. Missile Plains is against Sturm (and a huge pre-deployed army of NeoTanks). The Trident is against Nell. I find Sami and her Super CO Power very useful in winning...

Answer: Sami

Remember, Eagle's Lightning Strike only affects non-infantry, non-mech units. He must wait two turns. Grit has no special thing with his infantry (actually, I think Grit's infantry are slightly weaker, because of his direct-sucks, indirect-rules thing). Sensei just drops troops and actually needs three turns if you use the troops from this ability (9hp troops only). Sami's Super CO Power, Victory March, takes forever to charge up, but, boy, is it worth it. All her infantry gain 2 movement and can capture any property in one turn, regardless on health. So, theoretically, a 1hp Mech could move four spaces to the enemy HQ and capture it in one turn. Cool!

Answer: Hachi

Hachi is honestly the cheapest CO in the game, past, present, and future. He pays only 90 percent of the cost normally, his CO Power, Barter, cuts unit cost in half, and his Super CO Power, Merchant Union, cuts unit cost in half AND allows units to be deployed from ANY allied property. NeoTank Rush! Plus, his CO Powers take a really short time to charge, actually less than Colin. But seriously, if you want to be liked, don't use him.

He's so cheap, and I quote from AdvanceWars.net, "In fact, if you use Hachi at all against a human, you may as well just poke them in the eye and snap their GBA in half, that's how mean you are."

Oh yeah, forgot to tell you, the SCOP also works in Pre-Deployed mode as well, so you can break the rules.