Advance Wars 2 is great fun but damn as soon as I got to that green german like country in campaign I got totally pwned.

i tried to once, didn't get past the loading screen.

cr0bar wrote:

killaj wrote:

cr0bar wrote:

Meh. Since I played Advance Wars first it seems to be just a knockoff with prettier graphics.

Advance Wars did it better, anyway.  you play Days of Ruin (Dark Conflict) online, cr0bar?

I beat AW, AW2 and AW:DS to death but I'm yet to play the recent game. I hear it's a bit shitty as the old COs aren't there and the CO powers have been nerfed.

SPOILER: The AW series didn't begin with the GBA. (SPOILER ends)

it's a better game.  the CO powers are more of a boost now than "OMFG, HIS CO POWER IS UP, AM I READY FOR IT JESUS CHRIST!".  being that your CO travels around now, where he's at on the field makes a world of difference.  it's good that they took the neotanks and megatanks out (because seriously, once you had the money Md Tanks were useless), and put a "war tank" in, which is basically a slightly stronger Neotank, but with a shorter movement range.  Aircraft carriers being able to produce their own planes now kicks ass, too.  "seaplanes" are 15000.  it can attack ANY unit.  it's almost as good as fighters against other air units (if i attack enemy fighters with full strength sea planes, i end up with 7 sea planes and 5 enemy fighters left), and almost as good as bombers against ground units, and they're a hell of a lot cheaper than both.  the ONLY drawback is they've only got 40 units of gas, so you have to keep them close to temporary airports, rigs (the new versions of APCs), or your carriers to keep them fueled.

killaj wrote:

cr0bar wrote:

killaj wrote:

Advance Wars did it better, anyway.  you play Days of Ruin (Dark Conflict) online, cr0bar?

I beat AW, AW2 and AW:DS to death but I'm yet to play the recent game. I hear it's a bit shitty as the old COs aren't there and the CO powers have been nerfed.

SPOILER: The AW series didn't begin with the GBA. (SPOILER ends)

it's a better game.  the CO powers are more of a boost now than "OMFG, HIS CO POWER IS UP, AM I READY FOR IT JESUS CHRIST!".  being that your CO travels around now, where he's at on the field makes a world of difference.  it's good that they took the neotanks and megatanks out (because seriously, once you had the money Md Tanks were useless), and put a "war tank" in, which is basically a slightly stronger Neotank, but with a shorter movement range.  Aircraft carriers being able to produce their own planes now kicks ass, too.  "seaplanes" are 15000.  it can attack ANY unit.  it's almost as good as fighters against other air units (if i attack enemy fighters with full strength sea planes, i end up with 7 sea planes and 5 enemy fighters left), and almost as good as bombers against ground units, and they're a hell of a lot cheaper than both.  the ONLY drawback is they've only got 40 units of gas, so you have to keep them close to temporary airports, rigs (the new versions of APCs), or your carriers to keep them fueled.

Sounds good, I may check it out sometime soon. It was a mild irritation when the dual CO powers were activated and you just thought "balls". I never really used the Megatanks as they only had ammo for 3 shots, and taking out enemy ones was easy, just throw Recons at them until they ran out of ammo and make sure that no APCs were nearby to rearm them. The carriers producing airplanes sounds also good.