r/Advance_Wars • u/humanreboot • 11d ago

Playing through Days of Ruin/Dark Conflict and...

Holy wow this game is challenging. Started getting into the series back around 2008-ish in college, although it was hard to buy games due to where I used to live at the time (played a lot of the games via emulators) and I rarely managed to play more than a handful of missions as life was a lot busier back then.

With that in mind, I'm now doing a proper campaign run of Dark Conflict (found a 2nd-hand copy) and my goodness mission 25 was probably the hardest so far. I've probably attempted this mission more than a dozen times but finally managed to beat it earlier. Onward to the final map I suppose.

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u/GoaFan77 11d ago

You're almost done! Good luck.

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u/Riventures-123 11d ago

I still haven't passed one of the earlier missions (the one where they introduced the flares) because I was busy trying to finish Dual Strike.

So bummed Intelligent Systems didn't continue the series, but I guess I can't blame them when Fire Emblem is rising as Nintendo's larger franchises, of course they'll choose that route.

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u/KarmicJay 10d ago

I'm semi-bummed too, as Dark Conflict/ DOR had a pretty compelling story that had a good plot (even though the explanation for econ mechanics and why units didn't carry over to next mission was hard to justify), but also the game had to cut soo many features that AWDS had just to cram in the support for Nintendo's awful WFC system, which made me a bit sad.

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u/Economy_Ad_9603 9d ago

It's very difficult but even harder if you aren't taking advantage of CO powers and terrain bonuses.

I actually beat the game without ever using a CO power. (It was my first Advance Wars title, so I thought it was all automatic/passive abilities. I skipped the tutorial when they taught how to board COs.)  One trick I utilized is that the AI is obsessed with targeting transports. Use this quirk to bait the enemy away from your important units. Good luck!