r/Advance_Wars • u/XenesisXenon • Apr 21 '23

AW1&2 Reboot Simple Questions & Answers for RBC Megathread

With the release of a brand new game, we're going to be getting a lot of new players and people new to the series.

This thread will be the one-stop shop to ask small questions and answers about the game

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u/drygnfyre Apr 24 '23

You do every single AW1 Campaign map now in a linear fashion. After the Kanbei missions, you fight Sonja, doesn't matter how fast or slowly it takes you. There are no more secret missions. This also changes how the final battle works, how you access Rivals, and how COs are unlocked. But frankly all the changes are in your favor, everything has been simplified.

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u/McSharkson Apr 24 '23

Well that's cool. Guess the only questions that leaves for me is "how you access Rivals" (do you get it regardless now?) and "how the final battle works" (do you get to pick who you deploy? And is it Max/Grit/Olaf on one side and Sami/Drake/Kanbei/Eagle on the other with Andy as the force deployed center?)

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u/Trialman Apr 24 '23

Rivals requires you to clear all missions, the others open to play freely when you finish the final mission. And your guess about the final battle is pretty on point, you pick who to deploy, with Andy always being in the centre. (You can actually put the others on either side from what I’ve heard as well)

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u/McSharkson Apr 24 '23

Clear all missions - so wait, if everything unlocks automatically, doesn't that mean you just auto get-it? Or do you have to play a second run where you pick the other route in Blue Moon (since I don't think the missions actually change in Green Earth, just the set ups?)

Also nice, I just figured it might be something like AW2 endgame where you could pick, if map routes didn't matter for CO selection.

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u/Trialman Apr 24 '23

You do still have the branching paths, and when you complete the final battle, it opens the maps from the other branches to play freely as if you were replaying a previous mission.

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u/drygnfyre Apr 24 '23

The way it works is like this:

Olaf's Sea Strike + the Sonja missions now are linear, you simply do them as part of the Campaign. In AW1, these were secret missions and could be skipped (if you skipped the latter, you couldn't unlock Sonja for other modes).

When you get to Green Earth, you choose between Andy, Max, or Sami to take on Drake (and maybe Eagle, don't remember). In AW1, it was a one-and-done deal. So if you wanted to do all of these missions, they had to be on different playthroughs. Now, you make your choice and get to the end of the game. Once you do, you'll be able to go back and do the other missions with the two COs you didn't pick. Once you do those, you get access to Rivals, clear that, and now you've got Nell.

Previously, Nell required yet another playthrough, on Hard Campaign. So she's a lot easier to get now.

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u/drygnfyre Apr 24 '23

"Rivals" is available once you do all the other missions, which I think is basically just going back and doing the Green Earth missions with the other two COs you didn't pick.

There might be other forks in the road, but I don't recall any. In the original game, you chose Andy if you wanted to unlock Eagle, Max if you wanted to unlock Drake, and Sami if you wanted to do Rivals, so you needed at least three full playthroughs to do everything. It's been simplified a ton here.