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Funny story - I was attempting stage 9 on hard and found it nearly impossible, and on my third try I just decided to let it play out when I was losing pretty bad. I lost all my units except for both planes, and had to sacrifice one to destroy the commando that was about to take my only factory (and had already taken my ground control). However, I managed to slip by the huge flak tank clump and get into the center of the map. At this point the AI apparently forgot how to make units, so the one rocket truck he had chased me around unsuccessfully. I saved up until I had over $5000 and made an army of ships (mostly battlecruisers), which I slowly pulled out of my only factory. I then proceeded to wipe out the AI army, because the AI still wasn't producing units.
TL;DR Stage 9 hard mode is absurdly difficult but it balances out by the AI breaking after destroying almost all your units. Survived with one plane, then made a ship army and won.
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I was playing the bonus map and the enemy had all these planes, ships and oil rigs I thought I was done for. But then it suddenly stopped making units, even though it was sitting at loads of cash. It also put their units on blimps but never actually deployed them afterwards, which made them an easy target. What a terrible AI.
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lol steal opponents ability to create vehicles and sea vehicles whith all land units destroyed including turrets...... its safe to safe they IMMEDIATELY gave up
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Pretty fun game. Reminds me of my Advance Wars game for the DS that I broke by accidentally putting in the washer >.<
Also, as many pointed out, the AI takes WAY too long to take their turn.
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Fun game. As everyone before me has already mentioned though the AI takes way too long to make it's move. Only negative I found. 4/5
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Keep your 2 long range boats back as well as aircraft in wait for the enemies to come across the bridges and keep hitting them, don't expose anything to their turrets, hit their long range rockets with your boats when they come into range, land your infantry onto refineries straight away but keep one back to switch with damaged inf when enemy come, they throw alot at you but sit tight, damage units instead of destroying where possible, eventually they stop building & you win
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This is just honestly making me want to play Advance Wars again x.x Although, I am pretty impressed to see such a well coded and devloped game. 5/5 from me. Keep up the good work!
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It's funny how we can do the campaign on "easy" and still earn that hard badge. Probably one of the hard badges that can even be done on the easiest difficulty.
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missoin 1: ''Yeah, but we have Tucker's shiny red tankson our side. You just cannot overestimate the power of shiny things'' LOL :D
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Just a random thought, since when are the good guys red? I swear every time I start a mission I look around and say, "Damn, I gotta a lot of troops". Only to realize that IM the RED team, then I say, "crap"...
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The problem with the AI is that it doesn't spend money to make more troops. My tanks were completely destroyed by the stealth tanks, but my ships won the battle in the sea. After that, the enemy troops did nothing, they didin't use their money to make ships or capture my buildings. Fortunately, it happened just in one level of the game, but I love it anyway. (Sorry if something is wrong, English is not my primary language).
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To anyone struggling with Mission 9 (any difficulty) check out this post. I took tips from most of these strategies and compiled that new knowledge together to come up with a strategy similar to this video's first turn (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoVioSLfLGA), just keeping the plane alive and one of the commandos in the boat for exxtra fodder later. I only captured the refineries by the sea statue, the land statue, and the on closest to the southern-most warfactory and stalled with battlecruisers, picking enemies off from a distance. Once rond 15 hits, the enemy's production grinds down to almost non-existant. Keep picking off enemies and use subs to block off the two sea entrances. Good luck! This was on Medium btw, Idk if the same strat works on hard.