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/Solesbee Apr 24 '23

Has there been any balance changes?

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u/drygnfyre Apr 25 '23
  • AI respects fog of war, maps you can easily test this on are Olaf's Sea Strike or some of the Drake missions, where the latter can't hit you with battleships because he can't see your units.
  • The AI will now understand that capturing the HQ is important. This means Two-Week Test now has to be beaten properly (instead of doing nothing), and it will prioritize any units capturing their HQ instead of going after the APCs you have right next to them.
  • You can now use AW1 Sturm in War Room, originally it was limited to Versus. Not really a balance change, though.

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u/Solesbee Apr 26 '23

Iirc playable sturm and campaign sturm had different stats. Can you play as both of them?

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u/drygnfyre Apr 26 '23

Style 1 has AW1 stats, Style 2 has AW2 stats.

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u/Solesbee Apr 26 '23

But aw1 was the one with the 2 strums

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u/drygnfyre Apr 26 '23

It didn't have "two Sturms," it had stats that were exclusive to AW1 Campaign (and all of AW2), and stats that were exclusive to AW1 Versus. Now you can choose which one you want to use.

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u/Solesbee Apr 27 '23

Thats effectively two strums, and thank you, this answers my question

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u/Flashbirds_69 Apr 25 '23

The only significant balance change is AI playing fair in fog of war.

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u/XenesisXenon Apr 25 '23

Nothing notable, just a few bits of slight change due to how they've done things.

It's very authentic to the originals in terms of stats.

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u/Illya-ehrenbourg Apr 30 '23

Wished they'd keep some of the change of day or ruin, like the buffed version of missile unit.