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Darn it! I completed missions 5-8 on hard, but was not connected at the time. now I will have to do them again to get the badge.
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Hard mode tip: Use raptor to block ground forces.
For level 10, use your subs and boats to attack flaks and the long range boat. You can bomb the rest (subs and tank-like boats) later when the air is clear. Use your raptors to clear the bombers, and use raptors to block ground troops at choke points.
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the hard badge should be impossible. There is no way you can beat an enemy that does twice as much damage as you, but takes 3/4 of the damage they used to take.
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in hard mode, it isnt a challenge, its just a massacre. the enemy kills in one hit, and takes less damage than its counter attack.
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Easiest way to get hard badge....is to play defensively
except for the 8th games which u really nid skills(and luck) to win the rest can be easily won by playing defensive
when i say defensive, meaning tat u build 4-5 raptor and go around kill tanks tat come near your main forces and making sure tat none of the flak tank can reach your raptor when u att the tank. using long range attacker to help with the flak tank and dmg some other tank if there is no flak
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Nice game 5/5.
@Snipingkid: It does mean exactly that. It'd even say the AI is dumber in hard mode. The units are just stronger which makes it a bit harder.
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jumpkick99:
1. The Spider tank is the only tank that can walk over mountains. It may not have a lot of HP but it is great against anything with light armor.
3. Sitting around and just spamming units is not a good strategy. The AI likes to spend all of it's money on the big units early on which will leave it vulnerable later in the game.
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4. You have to keep an eye on which units the AI has the most of and which ones it is creating and build only the ones that have an advantage over them. For example, if the opponent has lots of Hunter Supports or Flak Tanks then don't build Raptors. But the Raptors are very good against Rocket trucks and Air Bombers. They are not that strong against Annihilators or Battlecruisers but at least they can't counter attack the Raptors.
5. Sometimes being cautious is a good stragety especially if they outnumber you. If the enemy can't reach you from where it is then it doesn't hurt to stay where you are. If you can't reach it from where you are then don't approach it. Let it get closer to you that way you can get the first hit. If you can't reach it but it can reach you then retreat to just out of its range then let it come closer.
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6. Sometimes using a stealth to attack isn't a good idea unless you are willing to sacrifice it. They are also useful for blocking the enemy. For example if there is a narrow pathway and the enemy is charging through it then block them with a stealth tank. After the first one comes in contact with it it will just stop (unless it's a Commando or Hunter Support then it will attack). Then what I would do is just back off the stealth unit by one space. It will cloak again and only allow the enemy to approach by one space. This strategy will give you time to position your units behind the stealth unit. Putting long range attackers behind the stealth will even allow you to start pounding on them before they get through your stealth.
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I agree with civver, but just waiting out the enemy by going defensive whilst it stupidly wastes resources on those baloons which are easily controllable by aircraft and also blocking tank routes by aircover makes all those levels easy but tedious. I need a better strategy for the non-airbourne war
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why does the AI like condor bombers that much? It seems that they produce at least 4 or 5 every level in the later levels for me.
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I like Battalion games, but the memory usage and leaking is ridiculous. Becomes unplayable after 2 battles... yes, it's part my fault for having a crap computer, but my crap computer doesn't have a problem with any other game on the site. Only this, and Arena...
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vAEv, if you get reduced to spamming infantry, your strategy sucks. I can still produce the top-tier units while the enemy is reduced to nothing but infantry.
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My review
1. The new units (Warmachine, Spider tank, jammer truck) make the game better. However, I'm having a hard time finding a good use for the Spider tank. Maybe more health???
2. GOTTA GET RID OF THOSE BUGS!!!
3. It seems this game is more offensive than the last. In this game, if you just sit around and spam units, the enemy will destroy you. You really have to hit them hard and keep attacking, because they usually have more war machines.
4. Some units are just too powerful, while others are too weak. Ex. A turret, a flak tank, and a hunters support can all take out a raptor in one hit, while raptors only do 25 damage. That makes them near useless.
5. Perhaps the two sides shouldn't be so close to each other at the start. It gives the player (going first) a huge advantage.
6. Stealth units should go back into stealth if they attack and KILL an enemy, and there is no one else next to them. Otherwise, it is very hard to keep these units alive longer than one turn.
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Problems with saving aside, I'm getting really annoyed by this stride commercial that keeps replaying in the background of the game
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Right now im fed up... I started again got to level 7. Tried to carry on the next day nd it deleted my save file AGAIN!
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Hard is annoying. Seriously wtf. It turns a fun game into a war of attrition where you and the AI eventually just spam infantry.
It's nothing new from the old one except new units that I don't even use because they're that useless.
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snipingkid:it is very hard to write a very clever AI(and this is just a small flash game!!!). this AI is OK and I don't see why it is a problem if the enemy get more unit than the player to compensate this. I think the AI should get even more units at hard, because it is too easy. and there should be more big maps.
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For once in a game I actually enjoyed the dialogue. It was funny, and made the characters out to be arrogant idiots rather than black and white war heroes. 5/5
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Unfortunately I feel I have to rate this game 1*...Starting with the buggyness of the game saves...the idiotic AI, who seems to be stuck in a perpetual thought about where to move his tank, and the huge overpoweredness of the enemy units...and finally, the fact that it's the same thing..just...worse...in a way...
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@ snipingkid...yes...it does tip it in the AI's favor...you havnt noticed enemy units destroying yours in one hit while you take more with the same units? their raptors take yours down in 1 attack..while it takes 2 for you.
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Alike the first Batallion series this game has issues with saving games. Played five levels, wanted to continue afterwards, savegame was gone.
And yes, Flash set to 'unlimited' since forever...
Quite a shame that the developer seems uncapable of solving this problem. Even more shame that Kong awards badges to a non functioning game...
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Help!! spent a few hours beating the entire game on hard, not too difficult, but took some time. The badges weren't working then, and now I'm not getting credit for the hard badge. Don't want to spend the time beating it all on hard again, but I couldn't find any place in the game saying I beat all the levels on hard to take a screenshot of. Anything to do about that?
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good game, fun and takes some thought. Pretty slow on my computer though, froze firefox on 9th mission and had to start over. Still gets 4/5 from me though. could use a "low quality" option or something.