MJ's Front Mission 4 Guide: Tips, Setup, Walkthrough

MJ's Front Mission 4 Guide
Revision: Final
Contact: mjfaqs@live.com
You may not publish this guide without my permission.
Just to be clear, I was the first non-developer on gamefaqs,
and probably the entire internet/world to discover Simulator 13 and 14.
Even the official Front Mission 4 guide does not mention them.
I discovered them on my first playthrough just by playing how I normally do.
Table of Contents:
Section 01 - Introduction
Section 02 - Gameplay Tips
Section 03 - Wanzer/Pilot Setup
Section 04 - Getting Free Items/Unlocking Simulators
Section 05 - MJ's Unofficial Score Ranking
Section 06 - Walkthrough
Section 01 - Introduction
Welcome to my FM4 guide. Front Mission 4 is a game that requires a
good amount of skill to play well. This guide can remedy some of that skill
for you by instructing you on what wanzer parts and skills to purchase, along
with the general strategies of each mission. You still need to know how to
use the link system properly to achieve optimal results in battle. The guide
is based on my Unofficial Score Ranking, which is a way to rank how well
you've done in each mission based on pre-set criteria. The guide is based on
offensive playing and smart resource management, not turtling or simulator
abuse. No level in this guide will take more than 20 turns to complete, with
an average of 13 or so.
I've given each mission a difficulty rating from 1 to 6 stars.
1 Star (*) - A training mission. No risk of dying unless you're trying hard
to.
2 Stars (**) - A bit tougher than a training mission. You need to use basic
tactics here at least, like the link system, setting up your wanzers and
skills properly, etc.
3 Stars (***) - An average difficulty mission. You need to use some specific
tactics to succeed, and you might get in some trouble if you screw up.
Overall, though, you won't be in too much danger as long as you follow basic
battle tactics.
4 Stars (****) - Above average difficulty mission. These missions can be
difficult for numerous reasons, but they always involve a higher than normal
risk of failure, with some definite 'danger' spots. You need to achieve
objectives that are often involved and difficult, requiring use of pre-battle
configuration of wanzers, skills, and links, along with effective tactics and
use of enemy AI.
5 Stars (*****) - High difficulty mission. On these missions, you must
perform mission specific pre-battle configuration of links and equipment, and
play at a high level of skill while knowing exactly what to do in the
mission. The risk of failure or a destroyed wanzer is quite high and you
usually won't make it out of the mission without some heavily damaged wanzers
(although no broken parts, I hope).
6 Stars (******) ? Highest difficulty mission. You must to perform extensive
pre-battle configuration of links and equipment. These missions have map
conditions that are even more difficult than keeping all of your wanzers
healthy and fighting well, which you will also have a difficult time doing
without expert abilities. They may have extra bonus conditions that are even
more difficult to achieve. Lucky you therefs only one level in the game that
I consider to be this difficult.
Section 02 - Gameplay Tips
Here are some assorted tips that I'll develop as I write the guide.
Links with melee units are extremely effective throughout the game. Learn how
to attack in sequences that optimize your melee attacks and link chains. Link
chain bonuses can do some incredible damage! The most effective fighting
method is to attack with a Melee unit who is linked to your gunners, and pull
off a large link combo. Then, have all the gunners linked to the melee unit -
as long as they have enough AP to fire their weapons, the melee unit can
attack with them. Position your melee units between two enemies when
possible, because normal wanzers usually don't survive more than a few link
attacks.
Making the most of your melee unit is important in links. If you begin your
turn with an enemy next to your melee unit, make ranged attacks on that unit
for melee support, unless therefs a higher priority enemy. Once that unit is
dead, move your melee unit to a new target and trigger some more attacks.
Position your ranged units in ways that allow them to strike multiple enemies
at once for more support. Keep in mind which units are linked and not, as you
can always fire through a non-linked ally.
If a support weapon runs out of ammo or is broken, the pilot will not support
with their other weapon (if any), so keep an eye out.
Rifles and bazookas only use their wielding arm for an accuracy bonus, the
other arm doesnft need to be high accuracy. If the wielding arm is broken,
the weapon cannot be used. If the non-wielding arm is broken, the weapons
accuracy is cut in half.
Aiming ranged weapons with link attacks is important to get the hang of.
While you can't fire directly in front of a linked unit, you can almost always
move a bit to the side and get the same results. Plan out how your units are
going to make a successful link attack. Since melee units have low AP
requirements, it's smart to angle them to the side or behind an enemy so your
ranged units have a clear shot at the enemy, while your melee unit can pound
on them with links.
Fighting enemies in tight corridors is often a bad idea, since you'll block
each other off and become much less effective. Try to lure them out into the
open or find something else to attack instead.
Unlike Front Mission 3, shields are less important and dual wielding is more
of a possibility, due to the healing wanzer.
The enemy AI has two main traits. First, it is scripted to wait until a
certain turn to move out and attack your party, or it will simply wait to be
attacked. Second, it acquires the first target it can attack, and will often
stick with that target until it sees a better opportunity (for example, a
ranged unit may switch to attacking a melee unit).
Damage is worthless without accuracy. You will get ahead in the long run with
more accuracy rather than more damage, especially with single shot weapons
like RF, BZ, and ML. However, your own pilots evasion isn't something you
should worry about until the end of the game when you have more EP points to
spend.
Shotguns aren't too useful until you can hit more reliably with them and they
meet up with machine guns in damage.
The two most important stats for your pilots in the game are AP and links.
Luckily, they're both fairly inexpensive. More AP means more linked attacks,
and more linked attacks means more damage and very dead enemies. No enemy can
survive a fully linked gang beating with AP stocked pilots for long.
Section 03 - Wanzer/Pilot Setup
Taking the time to prepare your wanzers and pilots for battle is an ongoing
task in the game that will either lead to easier battles, or more difficult
ones. Thankfully for you this guide tells you the ideal setups for each
pilots wanzer, and what skills to buy in what order. With wanzers, you want
the highest accuracy, the most evasion, the most power, and the most
mobility. Since EMP backpacks are too unreliable and not useful in most
levels and Sensor packs are worthless in most levels, you can safely ditch
them and build some more powerful wanzers for your pilots.
Some of the best battle skills are the ones that are passive, non-situational,
don't rely on parts breaking to activate, or don't take up a whole turn or
rely on counterattacking. Some of your pilots (Hermes, Bosch, etc.) never get
any link/attack skills, so you must buy some for them at the computer shop.
Here's a list of the good skills, the decent ones, and the bad ones.
Bad Skills -
Defense, First, Rush, Hold - All of these are conditional and activate
randomly, thus you never know whether it'll actually be useful or a hindrance.
Alertness, Sensor Plus - These skills require an entire turn to use, and do no
damage on their own. The sensor BP is worthless in most missions anyway.
Revenge, Last Stand, Shield Bash, Last Dash - All of these skills rely on
damage to your wanzer or parts breaking, which you never want to allow to
happen.
Defend Body - You never know whether your body or arms/legs will be low on
HPs, and this skill activates randomly. Could easily lead to unnecessarily
broken parts.
Barrage - This skill is quite worthless as you almost never have more than 2
linked enemy wanzers in MG attack range, and you can never rely on it
activating.
Auto Machine - Status damage is easily curable, so this is just a waste of
slots and EPs, plus you don't know whether your EMPed guy is going to be
attacked anyway.
Decent Skills -
Anti-Skill - Good against bosses and some levels where all the enemies have
loads of skills. It doesnft stack with regular skills, though, so youfre
missing out on a Feint or attack skill.
Sniper Skills - Good when you need to take out a certain body part, but costly
in terms of AP use and lack of link support/counterattacks. Also, these
skills take the place of more damaging skill activations, and cannot be linked
by anybody.
Fix DMG - Conditional, so you never know when it'll work for you or not or
whether the enemy is using missiles/bazooka/rifle or whether their damage will
fall into the Fix DMG range. Still, not too bad when it works.
Minus Shot, Panic Shot - Good for making link chains, but otherwise skills
that do more damage or increase accuracy are better.
AP Cost -4, -8, 0 - Good on sniper or bazooka units, as they can continue to
perform link attacks. They can activate it even when their AP is too low to
fire normally. Does take the place of another more potent skill, though, and
is conditional.
Escape - While sounding good initially, remember that the enemy retains their
AP and you will have to face them eventually. Useful in a few levels though.
Anti-Break - A good skill, but it can activate when you could have used a
Feint or other defensive skill instead.
Boost - Useful early in the game, but once everyone's levels are at 3 it
doesn't really matter. I'm not sure if you can get more damage out of this
even if you have level 3 in a weapon.
Skill Down, AP Damage - Slightly useful, but not really. AP Damage only halts
the enemy until they engage someone who doesn't have the skill or isn't linked
to someone with the skill. Enemy skills are rare enough that 5% or 10% down
won't make a difference.
Good Skills -
Feint, Full Defense, Block DMG 50 - All good defensive skills.
Terror Shot, Zoom - Accuracy is always good. I'd say Zoom is better than
Terror shot since multiplying your accuracy is better than dividing the
enemy's evasion. It is fairly conditional but accuracy is very important in
this game so there's no avoiding it.
Double Punch, Double Assault, Double Shot, Rapid Fire, Charge, Blast
Strike/Shot, Perfect Shot/Strike/Missile - All great attack and link skills
that will cause major damage.
EP Plus - More EPs are always welcome. Only Zead and Ines get this skill by
default, so you have to spend 3,000 gold in the computer shop to get it for
anyone else. Recommended for Thammond at least.
Chain Up, AP Bonus, Skill Up, Hit Rate Up - All good skills for your linked
battles.
Move Plus, Repair Plus - Move plus is great on anybody, and Repair Plus is
good for your two healers.
Pilot status skills range in importance, depending on how useful they are and
how much more damage your pilot can do with them.
1. Weapon Proficincies - more damage per shot
2. Links - Lets you link up with other pilots, very important.
3. AP & AP Charge - More attacks/link attacks.
4. Evasion - Good for dodging more shots.
5. Speed - Allows you to attack faster.
6. Resistances - Not super useful, but good when you've run out of other
things to buy.
Section 04 - Getting Free Items/Unlocking Simulators
This is a section that covers how to get the good free items in the game and
unlock all of the simulators.
Free Stuff:
Durandal:
Grille 6 Horn set w/ Ziege Rifle - A nice set of high quality low weight
wanzer parts with a high accuracy, low range, medium ammo, double firing, high
damage rifle.
1. In pre-mission 05 at Durandal HQ, talk to Allison twice.
2. In pre-mission 16 at Zaftran Border, talk to Zead.
3. In pre-mission 18 at Megafloat Command Center, talk to the E.C. Officer
twice.
4. In pre-mission 23 at British Army Camp, talk to Telford twice.
Grom Bazooka - A high accuracy, low ammo, medium-high damage bazooka.
1. In pre-mission 11 at Ritters, talk to Nick.
2. In pre-mission 23 at Ritters, talk to Nick.
Magicbox Missile Launcher - A stock missile launcher with high accuracy.
1. In pre-mission 16 at Keal, talk to Boris.
2. Go back to Sergei's Office and talk to Bosch.
3. In post-mission 16 at Chang's Ship, talk to Chang three times.
UCS:
Vyvoz IV Rog set w/ Ogon F Rods - An excellent high quality low weight wanzer
with two excellent melee weapons.
1. In pre-mission 14 at Refugee Village, talk to Wanzersmith.
2. In pre-mission 18 at Venezualen Jungle, talk to Thammond three times.
3. In pre-mission 20 at Refugee Village, talk to Elmo twice after entering the
House/School.
Blackstone Shotgun - The best shotgun in the game - superior accuracy,
firepower, and loads of ammo.
1. In pre-mission 03 at Command Center, talk to Male Operator twice.
2. In post-mission 14 at Governor's Manor, enter the Manor Basement.
3. In pre-mission 20 at Refugee Village, talk to Punch twice after entering
the House/School.
4. In post-mission 21, talk to Renges and Chaeffer, then leave the area.
Unlocking Simulators:
Durandal:
D01 - Complete Mission 01 (Jutland, Denmark)
D02 - Complete Mission 02 (German Base)
D03 - Complete Mission 06 (German Border)
D04 - Complete Mission 07 (Blauer Nebel Base)
D05 - Complete Mission 12 (Zaftran Border)
D06 - Complete Mission 18 (Megafloat Base)
D07 - Complete Mission 23 (Zaftran Border Fortress)
D08 - Complete Mission 24 (Zaftran Terminal)
D09 - Complete Mission 06 (German Border) in 15 or less turns. Reward is a
Galbados Rocket, a decent rocket launcher and the only one Durandal ever gets.
D10 - Destroy the two Missileer wanzers in Mission 16 (Port Nikolaev) in 15 or
less turns. Reward is a Vampire Arms, a heavy weapon arm with high accuracy
machine gun and very high ammo missile launcher.
D11 - Complete Mission 22 (Defend the Carrier) with the Carrier having 1600 or
more HPs. Reward is a Zhelanie II set, a decent set of wanzer parts with
super low weight, medium accuracy arms and below average weight legs with high
mobility.
D12 - Complete Mission 24 (Zaftran Terminal) with 4 or more British units
alive. Reward is an Artduex Machinegun, a high accuracy, very high ammo,
medium-high damage machine gun.
D13 - Complete D12 in 15 or less turns. You must have unlocked D09-12 early
by completing the early unlock challenges. Reward is a choice of three
backpacks, all of which have turbo power and 4 item slots.
JP75-Adler II - Jetpack, basically a super turbo pack with jetpack.
Jetpack ability is the same as the JP50
W???/Turbo Power 240/Item Space 4
EMP-9F Licorne II - EMP Backpack, an EMP pack with power to spare.
EMP ability is the same as the standard EMP-9F
RD33 Glocke II - Radio Backpack, a superior air-strike radio with enough power
to let Beck put on some decent wanzer parts.
Radio ability is the same as the standard RD33 except air strikes are 1860
damage. (+170)
W220/Turbo Power 100/Item Space 4
D14 ? Complete Mission 27 and complete D13 in 15 or less turns. You must have
unlocked D09-12 early by completing the early unlock challenges. Reward is a
choice of three full wanzer sets.
Oborona II - Poor quality parts, but high hit points.
Vyzov IV - Nothing you can't find in the shop.
Vyzov IV Rog - One of the very best wanzer sets in the game. Youfd be a fool
not to get this set!
UCS:
U01 - Automatically available.
U02 - Complete Mission 08 (Port Cumana)
U03 - Complete Mission 10 (Refugee Village)
U04 - Complete Mission 13 (Caracas Hideout)
U05 - Complete Mission 15 (Caracas Escape)
U06 - Complete Mission 20 (Secret Zaftran Base)
U07 - Complete Mission 26 (Central Caracas)
U08 - Complete Mission 04 (Guinerama Base) in 15 or less turns. Reward is a
Leosocial machine gun, a stock machine gun available in shops.
U09 - Complete Mission 13 (Caracas Hideout) with all Al Alianza units alive.
Reward is a Boa 36 Bazooka, a stock bazooka available in shops.
U10 - Complete Mission 14 (Governor's Manor) while allowing no enemy units to
escape. Reward is a Minotaur Arms, an incredible weapon arm with high damage
and ammo double-firing Bazooka and an extremely high damage, high ammo, and
high range rocket launcher. Get these arms ASAP and use them at all costs!
U11 - Complete Mission 21 (Base Elevator Shaft) while moving a unit onto the
bottom floor in 10 or less days. Reward is a Zenith RV wanzer set, an
excellent set with high power and low weight.
U12 - Complete Mission 26 (Central Caracas) while destroying Ivanovna's Zhuk
II before destroying the other two Zhuk Is. Reward is an Oborona II set, a
pretty lousy missileer set with high hit points and low everything else.
U13 - Complete U12 in 10 or less turns. You must have unlocked U08-12 early
by completing the early unlock challenges. Reward is a choice between two
backpacks and a shield.
Angel Shield II, a massively defensive shield with low weight and near
infinite uses.
W35/Damage Cut 95%/Block 40
JP75-Adler II Jetpack, basically a super turbo pack with jetpack. This is the
ONLY jetpack youfll ever be able to get for Darrilfs team.
Jetpack ability is the same as the JP50
RP2R-500VS Repair Backpack, a super repair backpack that can heal up to 2080
HPs or 520 per part with Repair Plus skills.
W240/Repair 1300/AP3/Restore 1300/AP4/Remove Status: All Types/AP4
Item Space 4
U14 - Complete U13 in 10 or less turns. You must have unlocked U08-12 early
by completing the early unlock challenges. Reward is a choice of three full
wanzer sets.
Zhelanie III - The arms are comparable to Zenith RV parts, but the rest sucks.
Vyzov IV - Nothing you can't find in the shop.. standard parts.
Zaigaut 304 - Yes, this is the wanzer set for the lovable recon units. Now you
can own your very own dodging machine! No, the sensor is sold separately, and
you never do get one in Darrilfs story. The legs are nice with low weight and
better evasion than the best stock legs available, and the arms are the
lightest in the game (15, beating out the Valiant Gfs 16). The body is no
slouch with more power than the stock +10% evasion body available to Darrilfs
team.
Section 05 - MJ's Unofficial Score Ranking
What is the Unofficial Score Ranking (USR)?
The FM4 Unofficial Score Ranking is a set of rules and rankings that players
can use to score how well they played through the missions of FM4. The
rankings are easy to calculate, based directly on in game data, and are a good
indicator of player ability. The ranking focuses on scores that a good player
will strive for - high enemy damage, low player damage, max EP points, and a
modest time limit. The scoring system is based on honesty, so play fair and
make sure you enjoy the challenge!
USR Rules:
1. You may only play the simulator missions one time each.
Analysis: Since you can't use the simulator for EPs, gold, experience, or
weapon levels, you need to get as much as possible in the missions themselves.
2. You must complete the simulator missions as soon as they are available.
All simulator missions are ranked.
3. You must unlock simulator missions whenever possible. You may, however,
delay playing a simulator mission as long as that team (Durandal or UCS) can
play it later without going into their next mission.
4. If you unlock two simulator missions in one mission, complete the lowest
number first (for example, do UCS04, then UCS09)
5. Abuse of quicksaves is NOT allowed. This means saving before an attack
then constantly reloading to get a desired result out of their attack, for
example an EMP attack, or a hit on an enemy wanzer body.
USR Rankings:
You are graded for your performance based on each level out of 100 points.
Too many penalties will result in a lower rank. However, the system is
flexible enough to reward the highest rank even with a few flaws. The ranks
are:
Platinum: 90 or above
Gold: 80 or above
Silver: 70 or above
Tactics Ranking - The tactics score represents the number of turn cycles taken
to end the mission successfully. There is a count of allowed turn cycles for
each mission. Subtract 3 points for every extra turn cycle past the turn
cycle count.
Analysis: These turn counts are not 'as fast as possible' scores, but scores
that are a balance between speed and optimal funds/survival/EP. You'll be
able to go through the missions at a pace that allows you to keep your wanzers
healthy and your enemies dead. This is done through intense pre-battle
planning and smart in-battle tactics.
Survival Ranking - The survival score represents the number and type of broken
parts at the end of the mission. Units other than your main 12 wanzers
(British, Al Alianza..) do not count. Subtract 4 points for each broken
arm/leg at the end of the mission. Subtract 8 points for each broken body at
the end of the mission.
Analysis: Broken parts will happen, but they can be restored. The turn cycle
count is comfortable enough that you can play through each mission with no
broken parts by the end of it.
Avg. EP Ranking - The EP gained score represents the average EPs gained at the
end of the mission. There is an average EP count for each mission. If a
pilot has EP Plus, subtract 20% of their EP score before taking an average.
Subtract 1 point for every EP point below average.
Analysis: Your pilot gains EP for a kill as long as they initiated combat with
the enemy unit. In addition, pilots who initiated combat with an enemy unit
will allow a pilot that they are linked to gain in experience from a kill,
regardless of whether or not they initiated combat with the enemy unit.
Getting EPs is important for growth in the game, so get as many as possible!
USR Ranking Mission Chart:
Days, EPs
M01 ? 08,25 (Abandoned Camp)
D01 ? 08,12 (Durandal Simulation 01)
M02 ? 09,20 (German Base)
M03 ? 16,30 (Eastern Venezuela)
U01 ? 18,20 (UCS Simulation 01)
M04 ? 14,33 (Giunerama Base)
M05 ? 07,26 (Polish Command Center)
M06 ? 12,35 (German Border)
M07 ? 19,34 (Blauer Nebel Base)
M08 ? 14,33 (Port Cumana)
M09 ? 08,26 (Cumana City)
M10 ? 11,21 (Refugee Village)
D04 - 13,18 (Durandal Simulation 04)
M11 - 15,45 (Wassau)
M12 ? 13,42 (Zaftran Border)
U03 - 16,20 (UCS Simulation 03)
M13 - 17,44 (Caracas Hideout)
M14 - 09,44 (Governor's Manor)
M15 - 10,47 (Caracas Escape)
M16 ? 15,42 (Port Nicolaev)
M17 ? 07,18 (Jungle Trap)
M18 ? 09,39 (Megafloat Base)
M19 ? 06,24 (Madeira Island Evacuation)
M20 ? 09,32 (Secret Zaftran Base)
M21 ? 12,35 (Base Elevator Shaft)
M22 ? 09,35 (Defend the Carrier)
M23 - 12,65 (Zaftran Border Fortress)
M24 - 10,55 (Zaftran Terminal)
U11 - 07,13 (UCS Simulator 11)
M25 - 08,47 (Caracas Highway)
M26 - 13,55 (Central Caracas)
M27 ? 10,50 (Paris Suburbs)
M28 ? 08,48 (Paris Assembly)
M29 ? 10,30 (Cumana Terminal)
New Game+ Scores: These scores are based entirely on how fast you can
complete each mission. How fast can you butcher the enemy with piles of gold
to spend on wanzers and pilot skills?
M01 - 06 (Jutland, Denmark)
D01 - 04 (Durandal Simulation 01)
M02 - 05 (German Base)
M03 - 16 (Eastern Venezuela)
U01 ? 11 (UCS Simulation 01)
M04 - 07 (Guinerama Base)
D02 ? 09 (Durandal Simulation 02)
M05 - 06 (Polish Command Center)
M06 - 08 (German Border)
M07 - 15 (Blauer Nebel Base)
M08 - 10 (Port Cumana)
U02 - 08 (UCS Simulation 02)
M09 - 06 (Cumana City)
M10 - 08 (Refugee Village)
M11 ? 11 (Wassau)
M12 ? 09 (Zaftran Border)
M13 - 13 (Caracas Hideout)
M14 - 08 (Governor's Manor)
M15 - 10 (Caracas Escape)
M16 ? 13 (Port Nicolaev)
M17 ? 05 (Jungle Trap)
M18 ? 08 (Megafloat Base)
M19 ? 05 (Madeira Island Evacuation)
M20 ? 07 (Secret Zaftran Base)
M21 ? 09 (Base Elevator Shaft)
M22 ? 07 (Defend The Carrier)
M23 - 11 (Zaftran Border Fortress)
D07 - 07 (Durandal Simulation 07)
M24 ? 09 (Zaftran Terminal)
U11 ? 06 (UCS Simulator 11)
M25 ? 08 (Caracas Highway)
M26 ? 11 (Central Caracas)
M27 ? 11 (Paris Suburbs)
M28 ? 07 (Paris Assembly)
M29 ? 09 (Cumana Terminal)
Section 06 - Walkthrough
Mission 01 - Jutland, Denmark
Difficulty: *
Tactics: Turn 08
Average Funds: 500
Average EP Gain: +25 avg.
Pre-Battle Planning:
Pilot Setup -
El: Buy Max AP+1, MG Level+1, Rapid Fire I, and Terror Shot.
Battle Position:
No detail necessary.
Battle:
This is a very basic mission. Just make sure Zead gets a target every turn.
Use the shotgun to attack and MG to counter. There's only so much you can do
on this level, so if luck turns against you, just start over.
Mission D01 - Durandal Simulation 01
Difficulty: *
Tactics: Turn 08
Average Funds: 400 funds
Pilot Setup -
El: Buy Panic Shot I
Ze: Buy MS Level+1, Max AP+1, AP Charge+1
Battle Position:
North Drop Zone -
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ElHeXX
Battle:
Use the same tactics as the first mission - shotgun to attack then counter
with MG, while keeping Zead with targets to hit.
Mission 02 - German Base
Difficulty: **
Tactics: Turn 09
Average Funds: 1000
Pilot Setup -
El: Buy Rank 2, SG Level+1
He: Buy Minus Shot I
Battle Position:
C2
C1
S1 ZeEl
S2 He M1
Battle:
The challenge here is getting all the EP gains for everyone, since you don't
have any links set up. Destroy M1 first, then S1. Have Zead fire on M1, C1,
and S1 (in that order) before they get too close to him. Focus on S2 with
Zead while finishing off S1, but don't kill it until Elsa and Hermes can get
in a shot. C1 will sometimes get in the way of your party depending on your
positions, so you may have to kill it to get to the remaining two enemies.
Mission 03 - Eastern Venezuela
Difficulty: ***
Tactics: Turn 16
None.
Battle Position:
Battle:
This is a slightly tough mission, since you can't set your pilots up
beforehand or use links. Head across the river to take on the machine gunner,
then take out the missile launcher, keeping close to his range. Stay out of
the tanks range and it won't approach your guys. Once you've finished off the
missileer, take on the tanks and remaining mech. Repair/restore any
critically broken parts.
Mission U01 - UCS Simulation 01
Difficulty: *
Tactics: Turn 18
Pilot Setup -
Da: Buy SG Level+1, Rank 2
Re: Buy RF Level+1, Aim
Ch: Buy Max AP+2
Wanzer Setup -
Change all wanzers armor type to impact.
Battle Position:
North Drop Zone -
XXXX
XXRe
ChDa
Battle:
Jam up the tanks at the bridge and tear them apart. Have Ch attack first to
take their counters. Once they're through, mow down the remaining two
wanzers.
Mission 04 - Guinerama Base
Difficulty: **
Tactics: Turn 14
Special Condition: Complete the mission in 15 or less turns. Unlocks
Simulation U08.
Da: Buy ML Level+1, Rapid Fire I
Re: Buy Rank 2, Focus Up
Battle Position:
Da
ReCh
Battle:
You need to finish this map in 15 or less turns to unlock UCS Sim 9, so you'll
need to make a few body shots on the melee wanzers from Renges. Quickly take
out the base cannons and start blasting away at the wanzers. Use one or two
body shots on the melee wanzers but not the gunners, since they die easily
enough anyway.
Difficulty: **
Tactics: Turn 10
Make sure you set up your links and wanzers before starting this one. You
might not have enough money to do all the wanzer setup here, but you will soon
enough. Do not waste your money on power packs for Zead or Latona.
Pilot Setup ?
The Pilot setups for the early game are all about digging into the ranks for
link points, weapon proficiencies, and good link skills. The goal is to link
everyone up to Latona ASAP so she can deal major linked melee damage, which
will make your team majorly powerful on the offense.
El: Buy Link Points+2, Double Shot I, remove Panic Shot I and equip Double
Shot I
Ze: Buy Rank 2, EP Plus
Wanzer Setup -
Here's the first round of wanzer equipment. The Gust 500 weapon arms have
both excellent accuracy and superior firepower, so there's no reason not to
equip these suckers on everyone who wields a MG. They're so good they'll last
through the second round of equipment, too!
I suggest you remove Latonafs EMP backpack and especially Boschfs Sensor
backpack. The EMP Backpack is nice when it works, but the numbers are often
far too poor to justify the loss of melee damage Latona can do, since melee
attacks gain a damage bonus if the wanzer has extra power available that is
not utilized by the weight of the arms/legs/body. As anyone who has played
Fire Emblem will tell you.. never rely on a 50% chance to do anything! The
Sensor backpack is completely useless once you get Zead a set of high mobility
legs, and his AP levels will rise higher than anyone else on the team, making
it easy for him to maneuver himself around just fine. Bosch himself will
benefit, as you can give him a great Elsa-style wanzer setup instead of a
crippled Hermes-style wanzer setup.
El:
Body: Latona's Stork IV
Both Arms: Gust 500
Right Arm: (optional) Quint w/ Shotgun instead of Gust 500
Legs: Stork IV
Backpack: TB-40 Power
Ze:
Body: Valiant F
Shoulders: MGR-IB Missiles
Legs: Quint
Remove Bone Buster
He:
Body: Valiant F
Left Arm: Gust 500
Legs: Quint
La:
Body: Quint
Left Arm: Quint
Legs: (optional) Gust 500
Remove EMP Backpack
Bo: (Bosch, once you get him)
Right Arm: Gust 500
Remove Sensor Backpack
Change all wanzers armor type to impact.
Link Setup -
El: Attack link 2 with La and He
La: Defense link 1 with Ze and He
Battle Position:
Center Drop Zone -
XX
Ze
XX
East Drop Zone -
La
He
El
Battle:
If you've set everything up correctly, you should be tearing through the
enemies like paper. Kick some butt with link attacks (attack with Zead, then
Latona, then Elsa/Hermes on a unit next to Latona). Once the east group is
eliminated, have Zead pelt the north group with missiles while the rest of the
team catches up. Nobody should take any significant damage. This is an easy
level to kick butt in and get some experience with the link system.
Mission 05 - Polish Command Center
Difficulty: **
Tactics: Turn 07
Pilot Setup -
El: Buy Skill Slots+2, equip Panic Shot I
Ze: Buy Max AP & Charge +1, Skill Slots+2, Piercing Missile
He: Buy Rank 2, MG Level+1
La: Buy Charge I
Wanzer Setup -
El: Place a repair 200 in her backpack.
Battle Position:
G2
S3 S4
G1 ElZe
S2 S1 LaHe
Battle:
It's worth it to heal the NPC ally, since the enemies will pound on him in
your place, and he'll dish out a fair amount of damage himself. If he kills a
unit, your pilots will still get the experience.
Move your units west - Latona first, Elsa second, Hermes third, then Zead
fourth. If the allied wanzer gets directly hit by G1's bazooka shot, I
suggest you just restart the mission, because he will usually dodge it. Have
Elsa repair the NPCs left or right arm, and Hermes repair the NPCs body.
Attack S1 with Zead and Latona.
Proceed with a general ass beating of G1 and S1-2 - use link attacks again
with Latona pounding away. Nobody should take any significant damage, unless
you're unlucky with the bazookas - then just do a link-repair with Hermes.
Aside from one more heal of the NPCs legs, he should last the rest of the
battle just fine.
Mission 06 - German Border
Difficulty: ***
Tactics: Turn 12
Simulation D09.
Pilot Setup -
El: Buy Rank 3, MG Level+1
Ze: Buy Rank 3, Max AP+1
He: Buy Rank 3, Link Points+2
La: Buy Rank 3, ML Level+1
Link Setup -
He: Attack link 2 with La
Battle Position:
ElHe
LaZe
Battle:
Liquefy the tanks and move out against the sniper and gunner. You should now
have both Hermes and Elsa triggering Latona to attack, so she now gets 3
attacks per turn on the unfortunate target of your choice. If you don't block
the bridge when killing the gunner, and don't provide the sniper with a shot
as he moves down the ramp, he will move into the main road on his own, where
you can easily gang up on him, instead of being cramped up.
On to the main entr?e, the four enemies to the west. It's best if you spread
out the enemies target acquiring, since all four enemies beating on a unit is
tough to handle. Wait until the shotgunner moves forward at least, so you can
distribute the AI targeting instead of having them gang up on one unit. Take
out whoever's in front of Dranz, then go after him with melee link attacks.
He won't last more than two turns. Take the sniper out next, then the
remaining units.
Difficulty: **
Tactics: Turn 11
Pilot Setup -
El: Buy Max AP+1, Link Points +2
Ze: Buy Max AP & Charge+1, MS Level+1
He: Buy Max AP+2 & Charge +2, Panic Shot
La: Buy Link Points+2
Wanzer Setup -
Bo:
Right Arm: Gust 500
Remove Sensor Backpack
Change all wanzers armor to impact.
Link Setup -
El: Attack link 1 with Ze, Defense link 1 with Bo
La: Attack link 1 with Bo and He, Attack link 2 with El
Battle Position:
Southwest Drop Zone -
HeElBo
ZeLaXX
Battle:
Move your units north to take care of the baddies, while firing a few missiles
at the east group. Take out the initial gunner in range, then the missileer.
The east group should be right behind your troops to finish off, then the
Bazooka troops will be right around the corner to the north.
Difficulty: ***
Tactics: Turn 15
Pilot Setup -
El: Buy Rank 4, Rapid Fire II - replace this with Panic Shot I
Ze: Buy Rank 4, Max AP & Charge +1, Skill Slots+2, Impact Missile
La: Buy Rank 4, Link Points +2, Blast Strike I - replace this with Fire Strike
Link Setup -
La: Attack link 2 with He, Defense link 1 with Ze
Wanzer Setup -
Change all wanzers armor to piercing.
Battle Position:
Bridge Drop Zone -
XXZeLaElHeBo
Battle:
As soon as you destroy a unit in the east group, the west group will come
after you. Get the enemy bunched up around you and use Latona to trigger mass
attacks from Elsa and Hermes. Hermes should have 4AP left for one more Latona
attack. It's possible to make 4-chains here which rock, so go for it. You
should be taking out one full unit a turn, with the enemies trying to gang up
on the evasive Bosch. Move Zead eastward out of the bridge entrance once the
west group shows up, and don't let them gang up Hermes either, as he'll take a
beating. On turn 9, both teams should be eliminated, so go after the river
group. Send Zead after the missileers, and try to take out the sniper asap.
Don't let them focus on one guy, especially not both missileers attacking one
guy.
Mission 07 - Blauer Nebel Base
Difficulty: ****
Tactics: Turn 19
Pilot Setup -
El: Buy SG Level+1, Skill Slots+2
He: Buy Rank 4, MG Level+1, Link Points+2
Bo: Buy Rank 3, Link Points+2
Wanzer Setup -
El:
Right Arm: Quint
Right Arm Weapon: Kirishima 51
La:
Right Arm Weapon: Bone Buster
Bring along some repair items.
Link Setup -
El: Attack support: Shotgun
La: Attack support: Bone Buster
La: Change Attack link 1 with Bo to Defense link 1
He: Attack link 2 with El
Bo: Attack link 2 with La
Battle Position:
LaEl
HeBoZe
Battle:
Just in time for the Blauer Nebel Base, everybody but Zead is linked
with Latona for maximum melee pounding. You can now get a total of 4 attacks
out of her per turn, plus counterattacks. Even Wagner won't stand much of a
chance once you link out on him.
Start out using piercing weapons on the gunners. They will do a bit
of damage but nothing you can't heal. Trash em all quickly and move on to the
machine gunners. Draw them out a bit instead of fighting them on the ramp,
then take them apart. Try to destroy the grenade launcher asap.
Do a bit of healing on the way up the ramp, then bring Wagner and
friends over. Take Wagner out first thing, then the sniper, and then the
gunner. Try to get them focused on Latona and Bosch, since they have very
high evasion rates. Make sure Latona is there for every hit on Wagner for
more melee support. Wagner should go down in two turns at most with constant
attacks. By the time you take them out and the base cannon, the two copters
should be right there to blow up. Use Elsa/Zead on the east copter, and
Hermes/Bosch (and Zead if necessary) on the south copter.
Mission U08 - UCS Simulator 08
Difficulty: **
Tactics: Turn 12
Pilot Setup -
Da: Buy Rank 3, Charge I
Re: Buy Rank 3, Link Points +2
Ch: Buy Rank 2 & 3, Link Points +2, MG Level+1
Wanzer Setup -
Da:
Left Hand Weapon: Kirishima 51
Link Setup -
Ch: Attack link 2 with Da
Re: Attack link 2 with Da
Da: Attack Support: Bone Buster
Battle Position:
South Drop Zone -
Re
Da
Ch
Battle:
Use Darril's links to dish out 3 melee attacks per turn + counterattacks.
Don't let any of the melee units start hounding Renges - cut them off.
Chaeffer makes a good meat shield, although most units will be attacking
Darril. No body sniping necessary in this level. Do not go provoking them,
let them come normally.
Mission 08 - Port Cumana
Difficulty: ***
Tactics: Turn 14
Pilot Setup -
Da: Buy SG Level+1, Link Points +2
Re: Buy RF Level+1, AP & Charge+2
Ch: Buy MG Level+1, AP & Charge+2
Wanzer Setup -
Change all wanzer armor to piercing.
Link Setup -
Da: Attack link 1 with Re and Ch
Battle Position:
Battle:
Have the three meet up by the boxes and start slugging it out with the gunner
and Vavliov. Use Darril's 3x melee attacks to take out the gunner, then
Vavliov. If he's about dead, you can hop on boxes and blast him away. His
destruction triggers the next two units, another gunner and Ivanovna. Try to
take the gunner out asap, then Ivanovna.
Difficulty: **
Tactics: Turn 12
Pilot Setup -
Da: Rank 4, ML+1
Re: Rank 4, Blast Shot I
Ch: AP+2
Wanzer Setup ?
The first UCS wanzer setup is very limited, and only some small changes are
necessary to beef your guys up a bit.
Da:
Legs: Husky IV (optional)
Re:
Right Arm: Giza
Legs: Husky IV
Ch:
Body: Recsys V
Right Arm: Husky IV
Right Arm Weapon: M.Gun
Legs: Gust 400
Link Setup -
Ch: Set attack/defense support to right arm.
Battle Position:
Northeast Drop Zone
Battle:
Immediately take out the right then left misileer while the rest of the
enemies stay put. The west group will approach first, then the east. Just
take them as they come and use link attacks with Darril.
Mission 09 - Cumana City
Difficulty: ***
Tactics: Turn 8
Pilot Setup -
Da: AP+2
Re: SS+2, Zoom II
Battle Position:
Battle:
A fairly straightforward battle against the Zhuk. Have Darril and Renges
pound on it while Chaeffer heals and provides link attacks. Hopefully your
guys will dodge most of the low-hit rate cannon shots. Don't bother with the
gunners until the Zhuk is eating dirt.
Mission 10 - Refugee Village
Difficulty: ***
Tactics: Turn 11
Pilot Setup -
Da: LP+2, Rapid Fire II
Re: AP+2, Charge+2
Wanzer Setup -
Set all wanzer armor to fire.
Link Setup -
Da: Attack 2 with Re and Ch
Battle Position:
Ch
ReDa
Battle:
Move Darrils team out east to take on the melee units and copter, while Ines
and Luis take out the gunners with grenades and the shotgun. Have them meet
around the center to take the second copter out and the remaining two
gunners. For some reason the last two gunners try to move west past your
guys, but it's not hard to slaughter them.
Difficulty: **
Tactics: Turn 13
Pilot Setup -
Ze: Rank 5, AP & Charge+1, MS Level+1
La: Rank 5, ML+1
Bo: Assault Skills I, Skill Slots II, SS+2, Double Shot I, Rapid Fire II
Wanzer Setup -
The Gust 500 arms are good enough for the second round of equipment, due to
their excellent ranged accuracy. You may choose hand MGs if you wish,
though. Therefs not too much that you need to upgrade here, mostly more
durable and evasive equipment.
El:
Body: Cicada II
Right Arm: Cicada II
Right Arm Weapon: Catsray X
Legs: Tatou
Ze:
Body: Ratmount
Legs: Mareraid
Shoulder Weapons: Piz 3
He:
Body: Giza 2
Legs: Tatou/Mareraid
Right Arm: Valiant F
La:
Body: Cicada II
Arms: Cicada II
Legs: Tatou
Weapons: Hard Rod
Bo:
Body: Cicada II
Arms: Gust 500
Change all wanzer armor to impact.
Link Setup -
El: Attack 2 with Bo, Weapon support to left hand (MG)
Battle Position:
Southeast Drop Zone -
ElBoXX
LaHeZe
Battle:
Move your units west to engage with the south group of enemies. Take out the
missileers first and repair the grenade launcher. Once the missileers are
dead you don't have to repair the turret any longer. Work westward then head
up the ramp to engage the jetpack team.
Mission 11 - Wassau
Difficulty: ****
Tactics: Turn 15
Pilot Setup -
El: Rank 5, MG+1
He: Rank 5, Ap Bonus II
La: Melee Skills I, SS+4, Double Strike I
Wanzer Setup -
Set Zead armor to Fire, and all others to piercing.
Bring along some repair items.
Link Setup ?
Change Elsafs attack support back to MG.
Change Latonafs attack support back to left hand.
Battle Position:
Northwest Drop Zone -
Bo
El
Northeast Drop Zone -
ZeHe
La
Battle:
With Bosch and Elsa, trail after Wagner. Once he's close to the shotgunner,
stay out of his attack range, or he'll turn around and start firing, and you
want him to keep moving. Once Wagner is past the gunner, trash it with Elsa
and Bosch, then meet up with Zead's team in the center to take on Wagner.
With Zead's team, move south and engage all three enemies. Don't fight the
gunner until he's out of the narrow corridor. With those enemies dead, head
through the narrow corridor to the center of the map, where Wagner should be
passing by.
Make sure Wagner has someone to attack when your teams meet, or he'll just
keep running north. Bosch, Elsa, or Latona are preferable. Quickly trash the
sniper standing in the way before taking Wagner on, so Latona and Hermes can
break out. Pull some link madness on Wagner and he won't last more than a
turn or two.
With Wagner out of the picture, proceed south while doing a bit of healing.
Take out the missileer then sniper. Do not let the sniper start hounding
Zead, as there's no way he can dodge the shots. Finally, work around west to
eliminate Dranz and the shotgunner, who have terrible accuracy rates.
Mission 12 - Zaftran Border
Difficulty: ****
Tactics: Turn 13
Pilot Setup -
El: AP Charge II, Double Shot II, Rank 6, Perfect Shot
Ze: Rank 6, Perfect Missile, AP-8, 2 SS+4, AP & Charge+1
He: 2 SS+4, Accuracy II, LP+2, AP Bonus I
La: Heavy Strike I, LP+2, 2 SS+2, Move Plus I, Piercing Strike, Skill Slots I
Bo: AP+2, Rapid Fire I, AP Charge II, Skill Trigger I, Rank 4, MG+1
Wanzer Setup -
Purchase Pegase Legs for all wanzers.
Set all wanzer armor to fire.
Link Setup -
He: Attack 2 with Bo
La: Attack 2 with El
Battle Position:
Ze
He
La
Bo
El
Battle:
This battle is annoying because you can't dodge at all with the Pegase
legs, and the enemies will do some nasty damage with their machine guns and
missiles. Proceed east to take out the two ground units, then spread out to
take on the grenadier. Converge on it and kill it, then move north to take on
the two gunners and missile launcher. By the time they're out for the count,
the south ones should be in your range, so go after them. The enemies will go
down fairly quickly, but mobility and health can be a serious problem. The
missile launchers will run around all over the place trying to hit their
target if you don't keep them put. Try to spread the damage evenly among your
units, don't let any gang ups occur, and use Hermes almost exclusively for
healing.
Difficulty: ***
Tactics: Turn 16
Pilot Setup ?
With Ines in your group, you can have a second linked melee unit along with
Darril, which makes for some excellent pounding opportunities. Ines should
stay a melee/grenadier until the Minotaur arms show up.
Da: LP+2
Re: SP+2, Focus Left, Focus Right
Lu: LP+2
In: Skill Slots I, EP Plus, 2 SS+1, Heavy Strike I
Wanzer Setup -
In this second round of Darril team equipment, you have plenty of power and
even some accuracy, but fairly low evade. This is the way itfll be for all of
the shop equipment for Darril, so get used to it.
Da:
Body: Cicada II
Arms: Giaour
Left Weapon: Catsray X Shotgun
Right Weapon: Hard Rod
Legs: Cicada II
Backpack: TB-60
Re:
Body: Cicada II
Right Arm: Calm 200
Left Arm: Giaour
Left Weapon: Anaconda Rifle
Legs: Cicada II
Ch:
Body: Giza 2
Left Arm: Cicada II
Right Arm: Calm 200
Left Weapon: Luis' Cemetary MG
Legs: Cicada II
Backpack: RP-5 Healing Pack
Lu:
Remove Backpack
Right Weapon: Grave S
Optional - Power pack with Giaour arms.
In:
Body: Giza
Left Arm: Cicada II
Left Weapon: Hard Rod
Legs: Cicada II
Make sure she has some Grenade reloads.
Set all wanzer armor to piercing.
Link Setup -
Da: Attack 2 with In
Lu: Attack 2 with Da and In
Battle Position:
Southeast Drop Zone (near the group of 5 snipers)
Battle:
Ines will be acting as a melee and grenadier unit until the minotaur arms show
up. So for now, she can be a second melee link attacker along with Darril.
Her grenades are important in this battle - they can really put a hole through
the snipers and they're useful for taking out near-dead units. Don't waste
grenades, though - only use them when you can hit 2 or more enemies at once.
This is a good mission to practice tossing them around.
The large group of snipers will bunch up on the road, making perfect grenade
targets. As tempting as it might be, don't split your group up to attack the
snipers attacking from the side, just take the enemies out one at a time as a
team. They will be coming at a fairly steady pace, so you'll almost always
have a new one to gang up on. Try to get them to make stupid shots that have
extremely poor accuracy. Use the double melee links with Darril and Ines to
do some serious pounding. There are some good melee spots north of your team
where your units can hop behind bushes, while the snipers have a terrible hit
rate.
Sometimes a sniper or two may start moving towards your party very late - just
chase after them if you've got nothing left to kill.
Mission 13 - Caracas Hideout
Difficulty: ***
Tactics: Turn 17
Special Condition: Complete the mission with all Al Alianza units alive.
Unlocks Simulation U09.
Pilot Setup -
Ch: Assault Skills I, Rapid Fire I & II, 3 SS+2
Lu: MG+1
In: AP+2 & Charge+1, 2 SS+1
Wanzer Setup -
Change armor to impact.
Make sure Ines has grenade ammo.
Battle Position:
InChRe
DaLu
Battle:
Head west and surround/kill the Moth wanzer and melee wanzer. If it gives you
hell dodging your shots constantly and activating DMG 30 every attack, just
try the level again. Normally it'll go down in two turns at most with Darril
and Ines slamming it.
Move southwest to save the hideout. Send Darril and Chaeffer to the west
copter, and the other three south - snipe the tank and south copter with
Renges, have Ines pound on the tank with grenades, and have Luis fire on the
south copter. They'll go down fairly quickly.
Once Calvo's team shows up, send then west against the mech, tanks, and south
copter. They can take them on without much trouble, just haul some grenades
from Rodriguez.
With Darril's team, move them west along the road against the three wanzers
(lob some grenades), then backtrack a bit to stop the north copter dead in its
tracks. Renges can hit it fairly accurately from the bridge as it passes over
the river.
Difficulty: ***
Tactics: Turn 12
Pilot Setup -
Da: Rank 5, LP+2, SG+1, Double Assault, 2 SS+2
Re: Rank 5, RF+1, LP+2, SS+4, Focus Down, Terror Shot II
Ch: Rank 4,5 & 6, MG+1, Link+2, AP Bonus II, AP Charge+2
Lu: AP+2, LP+2, SG+1
In: GR+1, ML+1, AP+2 & Charge+1, SS+1
Wanzer Setup ?
Set armor to fire.
Make sure Ines has grenade ammo.
Link Setup -
Da: Defense link 2 Lu
Re: Attack link 2 In
Lu: Attack link 2 Ch
Battle Position:
Northeast Drop Zone - Ines
South Drop Zone -
Re
ChLuDa
Battle:
Start out by dropping grenades on all 5 units with Ines. Head east with
Darril & Co. to take them out up close. Focus on the missileer/grenadier
units, as Ines's grenades will quickly paste the gunners and melees.
Prioritize grenade drops on the sensor wanzer, as it is a pain to hit, like
all sensor wanzers.
Take out the copters as they approach while heading west. Engage the west
group with grenades and link attacks. Have Renges/another gunner blow off the
grenade arm of whatever grenadier/missileer is launching grenades at your
party. After that danger is taken care of, beat the crap out of the gunners
and melees with grenades and just like the first group.
Difficulty: ****
Tactics: Turn 14
Pilot Setup -
Da: AP Charge I, 3 AP Charge+1
Ch: Repair Plus II, SS+2
Lu: AP Charge II, AP Charge+2
In: Rank 4, AP Charge+1
Wanzer Setup -
Da:
Left Weapon: Heavy Pile
In:
Body: Cicada II (you got a whole set of this from Calvo)
Backpack: TB-60
Left Weapon: Heavy Pile
Make sure you have grenade ammo for her.
All armor types to impact.
Battle Position:
Northwest Drop Zone
ReLuIn
XXChDa
Battle:
This mission is one of the tougher simulations. Immediately run south and
obliterate the missileers and base cannon. The enemy melee units will come at
you one at a time, slow enough to deal with them if you put all your power
into wiping them out one at a time. Don't fight near the top of the ramp:
back down slowly while pounding with grenades and linked melee attacks, so
that the enemy grenadier can't get a shot at you until most of the melees are
dead. Once the grenadier is in attack range, take him out with the full force
of your party (plus or minus Ines), then finish off the remaining melees and
the northeast turret. You need top condition skills, wanzers, and links to be
able to handle the melees without them backing up. If you take too long, the
melee units will back up and the grenadier will tear your party apart.
Mission 14 - Governor's Manor
Difficulty: ****
Tactics: Turn 09
Special Condition: Complete the mission while allowing no enemy units to
escape. Unlocks Simulation U10.
Pilot Setup -
Da: SS+2
In: Heavy Strike II, 2 SS+1, Move Plus II
Wanzer Setup -
Change armor to piercing.
Battle Position:
DaReLu
InCh
Ca
SaGo
RoPu
Battle:
In this battle, you must destroy all units. The problem is, they start
running away after you kill the fourth one. You have to take out legs and
generally weaken the whole group to the point where you can kill them all off
in a turn or two without them running away. Grenades are a big help, as is
Renges' Focus Down skill.
The copters are the easiest to keep alive and kill reliably, as long as
they're very low on health and you don't let them run for it. The ranged
attackers like the gunners and snipers are most likely to run for the hills
while hitting you at range, while the melee units are usually stupid enough to
hang around and attack you instead of fleeing.
Move Darril's group west and knock the legs off two of the wanzers, and get
the copter down to very low HPs. Then proceed south with them to the south
group. Have Ines lob grenades on the southwest group to soften them up.
Calvo's group should move west and critically wound the copters, as well as
try to kill the mech outright. Move Rodriguez westward and start bombing the
southwest group along with Ines.
Injure the southwest copter, and make sure the sniper isn't going to be
running anywhere. Once the southwest gunners are weak enough to be killed
with one more grenade shot, start killing them all. Drop a grenade on the
crippled north units that are remaining, and shoot all the copters down.
Anything that has legs should be prioritized for killing. Take one last day
to finish off whatever else you didn't kill. You should definitely get this
done, because you need to unlock UCS Simulator 10 in order to win the Minotaur
Arms, which is nearly essential in the next mission.
Difficulty: ****
Tactics: Turn 17
Pilot Setup -
Da: Rank 6, ML+1, SS+2, Blast Strike I
Re: Rank 6, Blast Shot I, Snipe, Zoom 3, AP+2, AP Charge II, AP Charge+2
Ch: SS+4, AP Damage II, AP Charge II, SS+2, Repair III
Lu: Rank 3, MG+1
In: AP Charge I, 3 AP Charge+1, AP II, AP+2, 2 BZ+1, 2 RK+1
Wanzer Setup -
Change armor to fire.
Make sure Ines has Grenade ammo.
Battle Position:
Southwest Drop Zone:
XX
InDa
XXChLu
Southeast Drop Zone:
Re
Battle:
Fight your way eastward with Darril's team, droping grenades on the recon unit
and meeting the group of enemies at the bottom of the middle road. They will
bunch up, so greet them with some heavy grenade fire and linked attacks. With
Renges, body snipe the missileer, meet up with Darril, then go around the
corner to body snipe the missileer on the other side of the buildings.
After crushing the meager opposition, all that remains are two missileers, two
recons, and a Zhuk I. Proceed north to the Zhuk. Gang up on the recon before
going for the Zhuk. Send Renges to snipe the missileer east of the Zhuk. Use
Darril and Ines' melee links to give the Zhuk a good pounding.
Once the Zhuk is dead, carpet bomb and gang up on the remaining recon, and
body snipe/attack the remaining missileer.
Mission 15 - Caracas Escape
Difficulty: *****
Tactics: Turn 10
Pilot Setup -
Da: Skill Slots I, AP+2, AP Charge+1
Re: Skill Slots I, SS+1, Zoom III
Ch: Skill Slots I
Lu: LP+2
Wanzer Setup -
In:
Body: Giza
Legs: Giaour
Backpack: TB-60 Power
Left Arm: Minotaur
Make sure Ines has rocket ammo, and others with her.
Link Setup -
Lu: Defense 2 with Chaeffer
Battle Position:
Lu InRe
Ch
Da
Go
Pu Ca
Sa Ro
Battle:
This is a nasty battle involving no less than three rocket launcher wanzers,
which are to be your mortal enemies. They can bomb you far faster than you
can repair yourself, and facing three of them means a whole lot of trouble.
You'll need the minotaur arms on Ines to blast away the regular enemies and
allow you to focus on the rocket launchers.
One good thing about the rocket launchers is that they only have a launcher on
their left arm. That means you only have to take out that arm to render them
harmless. Renges's sniping will be very handy for blowing those arms away.
Start out moving your units south along the road. Move Darril and Luis before
Chaeffer, and move Calvo straight south. For some reason, Calvo seems to be
the favorite target of most enemies in this level. Have Ines fire the first
rocket at the enemy group below you.
You'll get smashed by your first rocket on enemy turn 1. On turn 2, blast the
baddies with a grenade and rocket blast. Have someone with high evasion
attack the rocket launcher - all of the enemies are linked, so whoever attacks
first is going to get blasted at. With that out of the way, snipe the rocket
launchers left arm, then perform a relentless assault until you break the
arm. There's not really any luck involved - just keep attacking and you'll do
enough damage to break it.
On turn 3, kill one of the snipers blocking the way with Luis, then break out
and move southeast towards the second rocket launcher with everyone but Ines
and Chaeffer, who should move south. If your units aren't too close to him,
he won't do anything, which is what you want. If he decides to lob rockets at
you, consider trying to approach him at a bit more of a distance. I'm not
sure what the exact conditions are - anyway, it's possible to complete the
mission while taking the hit.
Send the Al Alianza units east to the bridge to face off with the two linked
bazooka units. Don't let them both lock onto the same target, or that target
will probably end up in very bad shape and cost you maintenance money. It's
best to surround one of them and just fire away, as there's not much of a
better strategy. Let one of the non-targeted units attack first to take any
counter damage, then fire away with the rest of the group.
Meanwhile, move Ines and Chaeffer south to start rocket bombing the south
group. They'll give chase to her, so just keep moving back north and bombing
them at range, while Chaeffer picks the two gunners off and repairs Ines.
Once you finish with the second rocket launcher with Darril, Renges, and Luis,
send them south (you can move over the low-level buildings) to take out the
third one and the rest of the south force, which should be significantly
damaged from Ines's carpet bombing. Good thing too, because everyone will be
really beat up at this point by the constant rocket flinging. Vavilov will be
weak enough that you can blast him without needing to get into melee range.
Send Ines and Renges back up northeast to help finish off the bazooka units
while you repair any broken parts with Chaeffer. Lob rockets with Ines then
fire her bazooka, and use some body snipes with Renges to seal the level for
good.
Difficulty: ****
Tactics: Turn 12
Pilot Setup -
El: AP Ch+2, SS+4, LP+2
Ze: 2 SS+4
He: SS+2, Repair II, Skill Slots I, 2 SS+1
Bosch: SS+2, Skill Slots I, Move I, 2 SS+1
La: AP+2
Wanzer Setup -
Set armor to fire or piercing.
Link Setup -
El: Defense 1 with Ze and He
Battle Position:
North and south mid-road drop points -
BoEl
La (north)
He Ze (south)
Battle:
In this urban firefight, every enemy on the map will immediately converge on
your position. Move to the center of the middle road and nail the two recons
as they emerge from the building cover. A jetpack sniper will hop on a roof
to the west in the meantime - blast him with Zead but don't get anyone else
close to the missileer behind him. The paperweight gunners will arrive soon
afterwards - crush them quickly, then proceed west and south to take out the
snipers and missileers. Have Zead and Hermes well protected while crippling
the snipers, then go after the missileers. Prioritize Zead's targets on
snipers that have taken a roof position. In the open space with snipers and
missileers shooting at your party, you're guaranteed to have a few scratches,
but it's possible to handle it with some skill. Don't split your group up
between the west and south roads unless it's really necessary.
Mission 16 - Port Nicolaev
Difficulty: ***
Tactics: Turn 15
Special Condition: Destroy the two Missileer wanzers in 15 or less turns.
Wanzer Setup -
Bring along Repair All items.
There are some unique parts in the Wanzer Shop that you can't access anywhere
else, but nothing really worth buying.
Battle Position:
ZeHe
ElLaBo
Battle:
This is a fairly easy mission, as long as your links are well setup and you've
managed your skills properly. Head south and clobber the EMP units, then go
straight for the missileer while Zead fires missiles on the sniper/gunner on
the corner to provoke them. Make sure Zead doesn't get jumped by them,
though. After the killing, proceed north then west and tear apart all
opposition with link attacks. You should be getting some pretty good 4-link
attack combos now. Kill the gunners, run past the sniper while hitting it
with missiles, kill the missileer, then finish the sniper off. For some
reason the gunners try to charge down the empty street instead of fight, so
make sure they're nice and dead.
Difficulty: ***
Tactics: Turn 13
Pilot Setup -
Da: SS+1
Re: 7 SS+1, LP I
Ch: SS I
Lu: SS+2, Rapid Fire I
In: Rank 5, AP Ch+1, Move III
Wanzer Setup -
Link Setup -
Th: Attack 2 with Da and Ch
Battle Position:
Mid island drop zone.
Ch
Lu
Th
Re
In
Da
Battle:
Go southeast across the bridge and slaughter the rocket launcher and three
enemies. The gunner shields are annoying, so try to wear their AP down. Two
groups will be converging from the north and west - drop rockets on them and
take them out. Proceed west back across the bridge to take on the remaining
group and rocket launcher. The rocket launchers only have weapons on the left
arm, so try to snipe them off.
Mission 17 - Jungle Trap
Difficulty: ***
Tactics: Turn 07
Pilot Setup -
Th: (optional, but highly recommended if you want him to weild the second
Minotaur Arm) Support Skills I, EP Plus
Wanzer Setup -
Th:
L. Arm: Calm 200
R. Arm: Minotaur
Optinal Thammond wanzer names (instead of gAbominatorh):
Fatman
Goober
Bigone
Battle Position:
ChLuRe
Da
In
LoLe
JoAn
Ch
Battle:
Immediately run up and lob some rockets at a large section of the enemy group
with Ines. Darril's team should work their way south, killing everything and
dropping rockets. The Alianza team should focus on killing the gunner - the
grenadier can't run very far, so don't worry about him for now. The rockets
make a great way to stop fleeing enemies that have already taken a lot of
damage.
Mission D10 - Durandal Simulator 10
Difficulty: ***
Tactics: Turn 13
Pilot Setup -
El: SS I, 7 SS+1, Terror Shot II, Panic Shot II, Max AP+2, Evasion +3%
Ze: AP-4, Resist Attack Down, Fix DMG 100
He: Rank 6, SS+4, Chain Plus II
La: 4 Evasion +3%, 2 SS+1, Feint I
Bo: Rank 5, LP+2
Wanzer Setup -
You have more options here for the third set of wanzer equipment. You can
choose between damage and accuracy with the FV-24 or Grayeye machine gun, and
you can choose between medium evasion, high movement and high HP or high
evasion, medium movement and medium HP with the Novaraid or Vaje/Stork legs.
This is also the point where the wanzer parts and skills are good enough for
Zead to wield a bazooka and shoulder missile. The Zead modification is the
only one that I think is necessary at this point, but you're free to make your
own modifications - just remember that you need to spend a considerable amount
of money to get anyone proficient in a new weapon type.
I personally prefer the Grayeye MG, as it has great accuracy even at range.
The FV-24 has a bit more power, but consider the overall damage output of the
weapon. The Grayeye works well with links and AP use since you can be
accurate from far away, plus it's highly accurate overall - enemies will
rarely ever dodge. The FV-24 does more damage, but as soon as an enemy dodges
your shots, the overall damage output goes way below the Grayeye - and they
will do a lot of dodging, especially if you attack at range. The other choice
is to try to get Grille 6 arms for your gunners, but that isn't possible
without sacrificing something else on the wanzer.
El:
Body: Novaraid
L.Arm: Zeria II/Grayeye
R.Arm: Grille 6/Circular
Legs: Stork V
BP: TB-90
Ze:
Body: Grille 6
L.Arm: Grille 6/Banish Bazooka/Magicbox Missile
R.Arm: Stork V
Legs: Stork V
BP: TB-90
He:
Body: Grille 6
L.Arm: Zeria II/Grayeye
R.Arm: Valiant G
Legs: Novaraid
BP: RP2E
La:
Body: Novaraid
Arms: Zeria II/Press Needle
Legs: Vaje
BP: TB-90
Bo:
Body: Stork V
Arms: Zeria II/Grayeye
Legs: Vaje
BP: TB-90
Be:
Body: Zeder T
Legs: Novaraid
Change armor to pierce.
Link Setup -
Here's the new link setup for the third round. You have to buy the LP points
in the near future to set this up. Everyone should have at least 8 AP, except
Beck, who can link up later.
El: Attack 2 with La, He, Ze, Defense 2 with Bo
Ze: Attack 2 with Bo, He, La, Defense 1 with Be, El
He: Attack 2 with La, El, Bo
La: Attack 2 with He, El, Ze, Defense 1 with He, Ze
Bo: Attack 2 with La, Ze, He, Defense 1 with Ze, El
Battle Position:
South pier drop zone.
LaHeBeBoZeEl
Battle:
Send your units out to the center of the buildings for a royal rumble on the
docks. Call an air strike on the southeast building. Here's a diagram. X is
the building and o is the bomb layout. This should nail 4 guys at once, as
long as Elsa is out in front (with 7 movement).
ooo
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Since it's nighttime with reduced accuracy, your wanzers should be dodging
most shots, while nailing the enemy repeatedly. The gunners are very easy to
kill, and the bazooka units are a bit sturdier, but will have a hard time
hitting your units with high evasion. By the time the initial group is gone,
reinforcements will be arriving. Meet them in the middle with the boxes and
crates and take them out in the same manner. There's no real good point for
the second airstrike, just drop it wherever you can get 2 Bazooka units that
aren't in immediate attack range. If you bomb a gunners arms off, it'll just
sit there and you'll have to hunt it down.
Mission 18 - Megafloat Base
Difficulty: ****
Tactics: Turn 09
Wanzer Setup -
Bring remove all items.
Battle Position:
HeBoLa
BeZeEl
Battle:
Get ready for a quick and violent battle on the Megafloat mission with enemy
wanzers all over the place. You aren't going to turtle up on the ramps, are
you? That's not what this guide is about! Get in there and let the killing
begin!
Immediately start an air strike against the two rockets and grenadier unit.
Once again, the rocket launchers only have a rocket on the left arm, which you
should aim to destroy instead of the body. Move everyone down the right ramp
towards the first rocket unit - move Latona in a straight line down the ramp
so that the enemy gunner doesn't get in her way. Latona, Bosch, and Zead are
three units that are guaranteed to be able to fire on it. Send Latona up
first, then fire with Zead and then Bosch. They should do enough damage to
take its arms off, if not kill it outright. Set up a second bombing with Beck
against the grenadier and remaining rocket unit. Send Latona and Bosch back a
bit to help fight off the bazooka, gunner, and melee units. Hermes should
repair them, as they will have taken rocket and grenade blasts. Once the
Grenadier is close enough, have everyone jump it and kill it. It takes a bit
of a beating but will go down with one concentrated group attack.
The rest of the level is just tearing up the rest of the enemy units. The EMP
units take first priority, then everyone else. Just about everyone has such
high dodge rates that the bazookas will rarely hit. Latona can literally
dance around an entire bombardment. Link attacks and piercing weapons are the
rule of the day here. Stay on the east side until you've killed everyone
there, then move up and around against Dranz and the remaining two units that
just sort of sat there the whole level.
Mission D06 - Durandal Simulator 06
Difficulty: ***
Tactics: Turn 12
Pilot Setup -
El: 2 AP Ch+1, 4 Eva 3%
Ze: AP I & Ch I, 3 AP & Ch +1
He: AP & Ch +2, Minus Shot III, 4 SS+1, AP Damage II
La: Rank 6, 4 SS+1, Anti-Skill, Eva +3%, Resist Systems Down
Bo: LP I, AP Ch I, 2 AP Ch+1, 4 LP+1
Be: AP & CH +1, Impact Missile
Wanzer Setup -
Battle Position:
Battle:
Run around the ring while kicking butt with Latona. These guys have almost no
evasion so it's easy to tear into them. Use air strikes/missiles to provoke
far off enemies into coming towards you, as most of them just stay put until
provoked. Not a difficult level at all.
Mission 19 - Madeira Island Evacuation
Difficulty: ****
Tactics: Turn 06
Pilot Setup -
El: AP I & AP Ch III
He: Eva 3%
La: AP Ch II
Be: Rank 5
Wanzer Setup -
Bring a few Repair 600 items for the brits.
Battle Position:
Battle:
This is a short, frantic, and violent level with enemies desperately trying to
blow the British units to hell. As long as you finish the mission with them
alive, you will get the 3,000 credit bonus, so just keep their bodies
repaired. At least two of the british units will need a body repair. Go on
the offensive, splitting up into an upper-middle team of four and a lower team
of two. Take out the gunners before the grenadiers, as the brits have fire
armor and not piercing. Your units won't be taking much flack since the
enemies will be pursuing the british units. On the first turn, set up an air
strike on the bottom road that should catch a grenadier and two gunners - this
will make it easier for your two units to destroy them. The battle doesn't
last long if you work on demolishing as much as possible while the enemies
chase after the brits. Just drop the second air strike wherever you like.
Maybe on the same poor gunners/grenadier a second time. Itfs fairly wild and
even a bit uncontrollable for a turn or two, but quickly settles down if you
perform some major destruction.
Mission 20 - Secret Zaftran Base
Difficulty: ****
Tactics: Turn 09
Pilot Setup -
Da: AP II & CH II, AP+2 & Ch+2, 7 SS+1, Feint III, Block DMG 50
Re: LP I, 4 LP+1
Ch: LP I, 4 LP+1
In: Skill Slots II, LP II, 4 LP+2
Th: LP I, 4 LP+1, AP Ch II
Wanzer Setup -
Separate from the Durandal parts, the UCS parts are more powerful with more
hit points, but have far less evasion. You have a choice with your arms of
either medium HP, weight, and accuracy (Quint G), or low hit points and high
weight and accuracy (Type 150). It's possible to weild the higher weight and
higher power arms and MGs like the FV-24 with the same level of accuracy as a
medium arm and the grayeye, due to the more robust bodies and power packs
available. You should have gotten the Vyzov IV Rog wanzer set w/ Ogon F parts
now, which will make setting up super units much more easy.
Da:
Body: Husky S
L.Arm: Vyzov IV Rog/Circular
R.Arm: Type 150/Ogon F
Legs: Vyzov IV Rog
BP: TB-99
Re:
Body: Tempest 100
L.Arm: Type 150
R.Arm: Tempest 100
Legs: Quint G
Ch:
Body: Tempest 100
L.Arm: Quint G/Grayeye
R.Arm: Tempest 100
Legs: Quint G
BP: RP2E
Lu:
Body: Tempest 100
L.Arm: Type 150/FV-24
R.Arm: Vyvoz IV Rog/Circular
Legs: Quint G
BP: TB-99
In:
Body: Tempest 100
L.Arm: Minotaur
R.Arm: Calm 200
Legs: Quint G
BP: TB-60
Th:
Body: Vyvoz IV Rog
L.Arm: Type 150/FV-24
R.Arm: Minotaur
Legs: Quint G
BP: TB-60
Link Setup -
Da: Attack 2 with Re, Ch, In, Defense 1 with Ch, Re
Re: Attack 2 with Da, Ch, Lu, Defense 1 with In, Lu
Ch: Attack 2 with Da, Th, Lu, Defense 1 with Th, Lu
Lu: Attack 2 with Da, Ch, Th, Defense 1 with Ch, Th
In: Attack 2 with Da, Re, Ch, Defense 1 with Ch, Da
Th: Attack 2 with CH, Da, In, Defense 1 with Lu, Re
Battle Position:
Battle:
The Al Alianza team should always have both grenadiers, both snipers, and a
gunner, unless indicated otherwise. From now on their positions will be
represented as their weapon type.
Start bombing with the minotaur arms while pounding through with Darril's
team. The enemy forces are mostly pushovers, and breaking through into the
base should not be much of a problem with strong links. Darril's Ogon F rod
will be putting extreme hurt on his foes, and the minotaur rockets can easily
soften up just about everything on the map. Killing the sensor wanzers is
fairly important, but most of the missileers are inactive for the first few
turns, so you have a bit of leeway, plus the enemies won't be doing much but
scratching your tanked out wanzers anyway. Once the ground forces are gone,
plow through the EMP units, then go into the base and south to catch the
missileers and sniper/gunner wanzers that decide to go harass the Al Alianza
units.
With Al Alianza, drop grenades on the wanzers while the other units fire at
the turret. The gunners won't even be able to touch the sensor wanzer, but
grenades will have it eating dirt quickly. Send your snipers and gunner after
the second turret, while moving your grenadiers further east to blast any
wanzers that proceed down the ramp.
Difficulty: ***
Tactics: Turn 06
Pilot Setup -
Da: AP I, AP Ch III
Re: SS II, Speed+1
Ch: 2 Speed+1, Evade 3%
Lu: Rank 5, SG+1, Rapid Fire II, 2 SS+2
In: Rank 6, RK+1, Skill Slots II, AP 0, 2 SS+2
Th: Weapon II, III, V, VI, 2 BZ+1, 2 RK+1
Wanzer Setup -
Battle Position:
West drop zone.
ChTh
ReLu
InDa
Battle:
Immediately rush for the rocket launcher to take his left arm out - use
Darril, Ines, and Renges. Afterwards, start lobbing rockets at the largest
clusters of troops. The north group will go running after the turrets and you
can't stop them, so just baste them with Rockets while the rest of the team
focuses on the south group. By the time they come back at you, they should be
nearly dead.
Mission 21 - Base Elevator Shaft
Difficulty: ****
Tactics: Turn 12
Special Condition: Complete the mission while moving a unit onto the bottom
floor in 10 or less days. Unlocks Simulation U11.
Wanzer Setup ?
Bring some repair items.
Link Setup ?
Link Th and Lu
Battle Position:
MgRfGr
RfGr
DaReLu
InChTh
Battle:
This battle requires some splitting up to finish it in a reasonable
time frame. Send the Al Alianza group down the east ramp with Luis and
Thammond, and send the rest of Darrilfs team down the west ramp. Darrilfs
team should have no problem pounding the enemies to paste down to the bottom
level. The Al Alianza team should focus on grenading the enemies while
attacking with everything theyfve got, with Luis and Ines providing link
attacks. Focus on the recon units, but try not to get the missileers firing
on the Al Alianza team, since therefs no repair unit. The missileers will
usually attack Ines if given the chance.
Once the Al Alianza team is on the second level, send the gunner and
sniper west to attack the missileer, while using the rest to keep plowing
south against the gunner, melee, and grenadier. With Darrilfs team, get down
to the third level. Send Darril and Ines south to the bottom (on or before
day 10), then east to handle the remaining gunner. Send Chaeffer north to
help destroy the missileer on the second level, and send and Renges east to
meet up with the Al Alianza units and destroy the remaining missileer.
Mission 22 - Defend the Carrier
Difficulty: ***
Tactics: Turn 09
Special Condition: Complete the mission while the carriership has 1600 or more
HPs remaining. Unlocks Simulation D11.
Pilot Setup ?
El: Weapons VII, SG+1
Ze: Weapons VIII, 3 RF+1, BZ+1
He: Weapons VII, MG+1, Chain I
Bo: Weapons VII, MG+1, Speed+1
Be: Weapons IX, MS+1
Wanzer Setup ?
The Durandal team is very quickly stuck with a whole new round of wanzer
upgrades (the next to last one) plus a full selection of computer skill sets.
Considering that you get the Grille 6 Horn wanzer set plus a Zhelanie II set
and the Grom bazooka in the next level and simulator, I suggest that you wait
on the upgrades for this mission, especially if youfve already got good setups
from the last round of upgrades. The set of wanzer parts prior to this set
will see you through the level fine as long as your pilot skills and links are
up to snuff. See the next mission for all the ideal setups.
Battle Position:
HeElLa
BeZeBo
Battle:
Immediately call an air strike on the grenadiers. Youfve got to kill these
buggers ASAP so that they donft damage the carrier beyond 1600 HP. Trash the
EMP unit along the way. Your units should be very close to them afterwards,
and one of the rocket units will probably decide to bomb your wanzers instead
of the carrier. Position Latona between the two units and kill both of them
with link attacks. Kill the last grenadier and EMP unit then move around the
mountain range westward to meet with the missileer, bazookaman, and gunner.
Call a second air strike on the bazookaman/gunner and missileer if you can
include him. Trash all three of them, then proceed east along the mountains
to face the remaining gunner/bazooka pair.
Difficulty: ****
Tactics: Turn 12
Pilot Setup ?
He: Repair Plus III
Bo: Eva+3&6
Be: Rank 6, Perfect Missile
Wanzer Setup ?
This is the second to last set of upgrades.
El:
Body: Type 90X
L.Arm: Grille 6/Grave S-II
R.Arm: Grille 6/Girino
Legs: Vaje M10
BP: BP-110X
Ze:
Body: Prisomare
L.Arm: Grille 6 Horn/Grom or Ziege
R.Arm: Valiant G3/Donkey DX Missile
Legs: Grille 6 Horn
BP: BP-110X
He:
Body: Grille 6 Horn
L.Arm: Grille 6/Grave S-II
R.Arm: Valiant G3
Legs: Vaje M10
BP: RP2G Repair
La:
Body: Prisomare
Arms: Type 90X/F-5 Rods
Legs: Vaje M10
BP: BP-110X (optional)
Bo:
Should be the same as Elsas but with another Grave S-II or a greyeye. I
didnft bother upgrading him this round.
Be:
Body: Valiant G3
L.Arm: Vampire
BP: R07A Radio
Battle Position:
South drop zone.
BoElZe
HeLaBe
Battle:
This is an urban based level with an initial firefight then a hunt northward
in tight confines. Start out by taking the rocket launchers left arm out and
dropping impact armor on your team. It wonft fire on the first turn, but take
it out on turn 2 to be safe. Itfs tough to get an angle on it, so just focus
your attacks and itfll go down. Next, youfll have to deal with 5 jetpack
rifle/bazooka wanzers and two copters. Use Latona with attack links to take
them out one at a time, hopefully destroying 1 per turn at least. If they
jump up on the rooftops or wonft leave them, move the target wanzer far away
enough, and the enemy will jump down into the streets to follow. The copters
are very easy to take down.
While youfre finishing the 5 attackers off, make air strikes on the north
groups. Donft hit any wanzer twice, or theyfll run back to the repair wanzer
and sit around instead of moving south. Proceed north and take out the
copters and remaining enemies. The confies are difficult to work with, so
just try to move one wanzer in front of the other making subsequent attacks,
with Latona going last with a melee attack. Theyfll be much easier to kill if
youfve already softened them up with air strikes. If any wanzers jetpack onto
the buildings, fire missiles at them. The copters approaching from the east
can be annoying if they start backing away to the south, so make sure to keep
whatever target theyfve acquired moving northward so the rest of your team can
easily finish them off. In the back corner is another rocket launcher. It
should be easy enough to finish off with link attacks.
Mission 23 - Zaftran Border Fortress
Difficulty: ****
Tactics: Turn 12
Pilot Setup -
Wanzer Setup ?
This is one of the few missions where a sensor backpack will come in handy.
Since the slow moving british units wonft be able to catch up to your team,
you can use the sensor pack to have them firing missiles well after your units
have left them behind. If you donft care about finishing the level in 13 as
opposed to 12 turns, though, just forget it. Latona is the best candidate to
carry the sensor pack. Donft bother with EMP or antilock ? as long as your
team is aggressive, destructive, and smart, your main wanzers wonft be taking
many missile hits.
Battle Position:
ElBoZe
BeHeLa
Battle:
Start out moving your team north to take out the missile turret and sniper.
Use the brits to finish the sniper off and attack the EMP unit. The recon and
EMP units will come down in the brits face to attack, which puts them in good
range for your next strike. Note that the brits will get hit by missiles ?
theyfre all big tanks with fire armor, so you can afford to let them get a bit
roughed up in place of your own units. Move back down the ramp and east to
destroy the pair, while calling down pierce armor on Elsafs team and any brits
you can fit in there. The next objective is a pair of EMP/sensor wanzers and
a sniper coming down the left ramp. Most likely the sensor will be blocked by
the EMP and sniper, so just focus on destroying the EMP then sniper. Once the
EMP is out, have the brits move eastward while getting shots on the sensor or
missile turret. You will get a few missiles launched at your party, but
nothing you canft repair. While the brits proceed east, move your units north
to destroy the turret then east along the platform to face another pair of
EMP/sensor units. Block the east ramp with the brits to prevent the pair from
running away from Elsafs team, then destroy em ? you can use an airstrike here
if you want. At this point, another pair will be coming down the ramp towards
your party ? once again destroy those buggers before any missiles are launched
your way. At this point, the brits wonft be able to catch up to your party
hightailing it east, so if you have a sensor pack, it will come in handy at
this point. This is the easiest part of the level - just work your way east
then north, taking out the remaining turrets and enemies. If you have any
airstrikes left, use them on the two wanzers in the northeast corner.
Difficulty: *****
Tactics: Turn 07
Pilot Setup ?
In this third half of the game, buying Melee Skills III for Latona and Sniper
Skills III for Zead will greatly increase their combo damage. Bosch may also
benefit from Assault Skills II or Sniper Skills III, as will Hermes, who will
finally have enough wanzer power to get a dual MG setup.
El: AP I, AP Ch IV, Resistances, 3 AP+1, AP Ch+2
Ze: Sniper Skills III, SS I, Perfect Shot, Blast Shot II, Zoom 3, 8 SS+1
He: AP I, AP Ch I, SS II, Resistances, 3 SS+2, 3 AP & Ch+1
La: Melee Skills III, SS II, Heavy Strike III, Charge III, Double Strike II,
Perfect Strike, Blast Strike II, 3 SS+2
Bo: Rank 6, Evade +6, Speed+1, Feint III
Be: SS+4, MS+1, AP 0
Wanzer Setup ?
Set armor to pierce.
Battle Position:
Northwest drop zone.
HeBo
BeZe
ElLa
Battle:
This is a short but violent mission thatfs difficult to get a handle on. The
enemies are linked in pairs with fairly high AP and skills that can cause
major damage on any wanzer they focus on. Itfs also easy to get overrun by
enemies or hammered by rockets. Luckily the rocket launchers have extremely
low HPs and their arms can be taken out with one solid MG/SG attack, but the
problem is reaching the northmost one without triggering every other enemy to
gang up on your wanzer out in the open.
Send Elsa against the south rocket launcher while also in attack range of the
nearby enemy trio ? her attack should destroy its left arm and make it
worthless. Have Hermes attack the rocket launcher north of your party, who
should get link support from Bosch and cripple it if not kill it. Then send
Latona and all others against the southeast group, hopefully taking out at
least one of the enemies. Make a drop of impact armor on your party.
Ifm not sure what it is that triggers the nearby set of units to start moving
and attacking. I think it has to do with how close you are to them, but Ifm
not sure. Provoke them and take them in the two space corridor, firing
missiles on the third rocket launcher until itfs rendered harmless. Keep
healing and replace damaged units with healthy ones for the enemies to
target. This is easier when youfre fighting in the corridor instead of out
in the open. Make an air strike on the southeast group, then provoke the
northeast group. They should both gather together for one big airstrike
thatfll hit 4-5 of them at once and put a quick end to the battle. If it
helps, you can set up salvage links with Beck, although I didnft need to.
Mission 24 - Zaftran Terminal
Difficulty: *****
Tactics: Turn 10
Special Condition: Complete the mission with 4 or more British units alive.
Pilot Setup ?
El: Feint II
Ze: Chain Plus II
He: SSII, Feint I
Bo: Bo: Rank 6, Move Plus II, Feint III, AP I, AP Ch IV
Be: Boost II
Wanzer Setup ?
This is one of the few missions where the sensor backpack comes in handy,
since the british missileers will take far too long to move east and battle
Glaeser. From my experience, though, it isnft really worth it, since the brit
missileers will have a fairly intense battle with the three units theyfre
given to fight.
Battle Position:
BeZeEl
LaHeBo
Battle:
Here it is, the big battle against Glaeser and his troops. This is probably
the most dangerous story mission for all of Durandal, as Glaeser has enough
firepower to instantly kill just about any of your wanzers if he gets lucky
enough. Anybody caught in the unfortunate range of a sensor wanzer will be
focused on and obliterated by missiles, and the anti-lock backpack only helps
against a full on missile assault twice or so.
There are several strategies for dealing with the initial recon unit. You can
move your units just out of its full range (which is 8 tiles+3 sensor range),
you can stick an EMP anti-lock backpack on a unit and use them as missile
cover, or you can move in and let one of your guys get absolutely creamed by
missiles, probably die, and then get salvaged (with no maintenance penalty
involved). If speed doesnft matter to you, just get right outside of its
range or use the EMP backpack. If not, get Latona right up in his face and
have her get completely blasted away and revived. Drop impact or fire armor
on your party, also.
The British units are in for a rough time. Itfs fairly random whether or not
youfll lose one or two, due to the enemy sniper unit getting lucky body shots
and the sensor unit calling in missiles while dodging all of the brits shots.
You canft lose more than two brits, though, or you wonft unlock Simulator 12.
First, focus on the sensor unit ? blast that sucker with missiles, surround
him, and fire away. You will almost certainly lose a gunner to the sensor
induced missile bombardment, unless you were lucky and killed the sensor
immediately, usually because the missiles took his legs out. After that,
focus on killing the repair unit, as itfll keep repairing the sniper if you
try to kill snipey first. Finally, get your gun on with the sniper and send
him to wanzer hell. If you lost more than two units, youfre either unlucky or
didnft play very well with the brits.
On with the rest of the mission. Use link attacks to rip into the sensor
wanzer. If you have the best accuracy arms, high damage weapons, and super
pilot skills, you can almost definitely take him out. Afterwards, take out
the sniper and two MGers using standard link-gang up attacks. Make a left
turn for the remaining three enemies ? take out the sensor again, this time
without letting him call in missiles against you. Around turn 6 or 7, the
northmost missileers will start moving south. Use that opportunity to bomb
all four (missileers and gunners) wanzers near Glaeser, which will make them
much easier to kill. Once you finish up with the three west units, proceed
east towards Glaeser himself. Try to get into his cannon range and not
missile (unless youfre toting an EMP pack), as his missiles can do up to 800
damage each with perfect missile. On the other hand, his cannon has poor
accuracy, only does 400 damage, and your agile wanzers can often dodge them.
Let the southmost missileers acquire a soft target like Beck who is certain to
be in full health and available to take a few pot shots. Perform the second
air strike on a combination of the gunners, missileers, and Glaeser himself.
Prioritize the air strike on the gunners, though, who will take the most
damage. Gang up on Glaeser like youfve never ganged up on a gigantic four
square occupying monster wanzer before. With Latona performing a 2.0X Melee
Skills III skill (such as Charge III), she can often do just shy of 2,000
damage, which will easily dig Glaeser an early grave if you let her pound on
him with 4 separate link attacks.
With the big guy dead, take out the gunners if theyfre still alive, then the
remaining missileers. Donft let the north missileers start backing up north
away from your units ? keep the poor target in place so your other wanzers can
kick the crap out of them (unless itfs Latona, who has plenty of movement
range to beat on them.)
Difficulty: ***
Tactics: Turn 07
Pilot Setup ?
Da: SS+2, Speed+1, 2 Eva+3%, Melee Skills III (if you want him to do melee
attacks with his supports, otherwise get Assault Skills II or Sniper Skills
III)
Re: Speed+1, resistances
Ch: resistances
Lu: Speed+2, 2 Speed+1
Th: Rank 5, AP&Ch+2, AP I, AP CH I, Weapon IX & VIII, BZ+1, RK+1, LP+1
Wanzer Setup ?
Here in the final round of Darril team upgrades, youfre given bountiful
amounts of power, accuracy, mobility, and even a +10 evasion body. You should
have the Vyvoz IV Rog and Zenith RV wanzer parts, capable of making super
wanzers out of any one you choose (even allowing Chaeffer to dual weild MGs).
You should also have a large amount of cash on hand to spend, which should go
towards wanzer upgrades, then some good pilot skills and AP upgrades. The
remaining Darril missions are mostly pushovers, so therefre not many worries
past this point. Itfs butt kicking all the way home for Darril. Canft say
the same for the Durandal, though!
Da:
Body: Zora B2
R.Arm: Zenith RV
L.Arm: Blackstone Shotgun
Re:
Body: Zora B2
L.Arm: U-Recson/Glowtusk Rifle
R.Arm: Frost C
Legs: Zora B2
BP: (optional) 12 item pack loaded with goodies
Ch:
Body: Zenith RV
L.Arm: Type 150/Grave S-II
R.Arm: Husky S/24s Grayeye
Legs: Zora B2
BP: RP2G Repair
Lu:
Body: Zora B2
L.Arm: U-Recson/Grave S-II
R.Arm Weapon: Girino 2
Legs: Zora B2
In:
Body: Zora B2
Legs: Zenith RV
(optional): R.Arm: Blizzaia L2/Ogon F Rod or TB-111W w/ U-Recson/Ogon F Rod
BP: (optional) TB-111W w/ ammo and stuff
Th:
L.Arm: U-Recson
Legs: Zora B2
BP: 111W (put some ammo in here)
Change armor to impact.
Link Setup ?
You may choose to change Darrilfs attack support to the Blackstone, as it does
simply amazing damage, works great in links, has an actual range, and he
should have tons of AP to support it.
Battle Position:
LuDaIn ThReCh
Battle:
The Zhuks are running amok in the Megafloat Base, and only Darrilfs motley
band can stop them! Herefs a level where you get to show off your mega link
attacks by pounding Zhuks into putty. If Darril is still swinging his club
around in attack links, he can easily surpass the 2,000 damage mark with a
2.0x Melee Skills III swing. Charge forward and crush the two Zhuks up front
while tossing grenades at the three enemy units+two Zhuks in the back. By the
time you clean up the two Zhuks, the enemy wanzers will be near dead and easy
to bowl through. Crack open the two north Zhuks and the east Zhuk, then head
west up the ramp to face the remaining Zhuk. Zhukinf nuts!
Mission 25 - Caracas Highway
Difficulty: ***
Tactics: Turn 08
Pilot Setup ?
Re: AP I, AP Ch I
Lu: AP III, AP Ch III
In: Sniper Skills III, SS III, Weapon VII, Perfect Shot, Blast Shot II, Chain
Plus II, Accuracy II, BZ+2, 3 SS+4
Wanzer Setup ?
Bring some remove all items.
Battle Position:
Da Th
ReCh Lu In
GR GR
RFSGRF
Battle:
This mission is all about lobbing big ass rockets into huge packs of enemies
and watching em fall. Get some vengeance for the Caracas Escape mission!
Immediately move Ines and Thammond west near the grenadier and drop some major
rockets on the enemy group. You may also choose to restrict yourself and put
on a weaker rocket launcher or grenade weapon, if you find it more fun that
way. Attack the grenadier with Luis, and move the guerilla units forward.
Keep firing rockets and donft stop until most of the units are dead. Use the
Al Alianza units and the rest of Darrilfs team to mop up the near dead units
and burst through the gates. Vavilov wonft stand a chance with Renges sniping
at him and Darril firing his shotgun.
Now, the annoying part of the mission is hunting down the two missileers, who
will still be on or near the top ramps, and are literally impossible to hit
with any weapons besides RK/GR/MS weapons from the ground level. Far from
coming down to meet you, theyfll either stay put or run away to hit their
target if they have to. Keep your missile target in place or move them
backwards a bit to draw the enemy closer to your wanzers. Once you nail them,
the map is over.
Mission 26 - Central Caracas
Difficulty: ****
Tactics: Turn 13
Special Condition: Complete the mission while destroying Ivanovna's Zhuk II
before destroying the other two Zhuk Is.
Pilot Setup ?
All pilots ? finish up resistances, skills, etc. except Thammond.
Th: AP III, AP Ch III, Sniper III, Perfect Shot, Blast Shot II, etc.
Wanzer Setup ?
For the Al Alianza group, bring along 2 SGs, 2 GRs, and 1 ML.
Battle Position:
In Da Lu
Re Ch Th
GRGR
SGSGML
Battle:
This mission is a piece of cake for Darrilfs team, but will be tough for the
Al Alianza group if they become unlucky/lose a unit/run out of grenade ammo.
If they start having trouble killing the repair unit, I suggest sending one of
your units away from Darrilfs group to help, as you have plenty of power to
spare without needing every unit in your group to take on Ivanovna and her
Zhuk-buddies.
The enemies are really no threat to Darrilfs mega-beefed up team. Past the
initial batch of enemies, the road is all clear. Send the team east behind
the bushes then straight north for Ivanovnafs Zhuk II, going for the kill.
The other lucky Zhuks will have theirs coming in just a turn or two! Take
them out (even easier than USN 11), then finish off the repair unit. No
problem!
For Al Alianza, the going is rougher as they face three units that overpower
them in evasion, accuracy, and firepower. Drop grenades on the sensor and
quickly surround and kill it. Go after the gunner next, then the repair
unit. If you lose a unit or run out of grenade ammo, the repair unit will be
nearly impossible to kill without some help from one of Darrilfs team mates,
barring some high luck.
Difficulty: ****
Tactics: Turn 07
Pilot Setup ?
Any resistances or loose ends you havenft purchased yet, do so.
Wanzer Setup ?
Here we are at the final round of Durandal wanzer upgrades. Youfre once
against presented with some fairly powerful wanzers that you can just barely
squeak in some high evasion and accuracy into. Itfs been a long road here and
the going is about to get even tougher with Durandal Simulator 13 and 14 just
around the corner. You should have about 10,000 gold to do most of this
setup, then play through D08 and D12 for the rest of the cash needed. Save at
least 7,500 for D13 though.
El:
Body: Blizzaia L
Weapons: FV-24B/Girino 2
Legs: Tatou 2
Ze:
Body: Blizzaia L
R.Shoulder: Blackpanther
Legs: Tatou 2
BP: TB-160
He:
Weapons: FV-24B
Backpack: RP2H Healing Backpack
Legs: Grille 6 Horn
La:
Body: Blizzaia L
Weapons: Crusader (or Last Stake)
Legs: Tatou 2
BP: TB-160
Bo:
Body: Blizzaia L
Arms: Grille 6/FV-24B
BP: TB-110X
Be:
Body: Frost M
Legs: Zhelanie II
Set armor to impact.
Battle Position:
Be
ElHe
LaBoZe
Battle:
Rush south to kill the grenadier, then take out the melee units. Drop
piercing armor on the first turn. Send air strikes on the three EMP units
running westward. Have someone with high evasion face the gunners/snipers,
and use Latona and link attacks to tear them up. I suggest leaving snipers
with a broken arm alone for more promising targets, as theyfll almost
certainly never hit your units. With those guys cleaned up, send Latona/Elsa
and maybe another unit north, while sending the rest southwest against the EMP
units that you bombed. They should all go down in a few attacks.
Difficulty: ****
Tactics: Turn 08
Simulator D13.
Battle Position:
BeHeZe
BoLaEl
Battle:
Immediately move Latona south between the two Rock Jacks and open fire. Start
attacking both of them and hopefully take em out. Immediately drop fire armor
on your units, as well. The rock jacks will come fast and furious, but they
go down easy with no evasion, and they should have trouble hitting your fast
units. Set up air strikes that cause maximum carnage, hitting the Zhuks and
the Rock Jacks and anything else you can fit in between. Repair as necessary
and use your combined firepower to waste the non-dodging Rock Jacks. After
most of the Rock Jacks and both Zhuks are dead, trash the missileer thatfs
been picking on your units, then rush east to take out the remaining turrets,
missileer, and Rock Jack.
Difficulty: ******
Tactics: Turn 15
Average EP Gain: 12+ avg.
Simulator D14. You must also have unlocked D9-12 through the early unlock
challenges.
Believe it or not, the entire Durandal campaign has been a build up for this
difficult level. This level requires more preparation, planning, and perfect
execution than any other level in the game. This is especially true if you
have only played the simulator missions once each and want to finish the map
in 15 or less days! If you want to hit the simulators more than once to get
more gold and EP, you can do so, but be aware that itfs fully possible even
when only playing the simulators once each.
Basically, you have to eliminate all enemies in 15 or less turns, and no enemy
can reach beyond the bottom ramp. The enemies have the latest weapons,
wanzers, and several elite skills. You have to split your party into two
separate autonomous teams that must battle 11 enemies each, so youfre already
outnumbered almost 4 to 1. There are several recon units with 5 square sensor
range that can easily ruin your level attempt with missile showers. In
addition, many of the enemies are carrying jetpacks that allow them to fly
over your units in a mad dash for the bottom floor ? and they will do so
ruthlessly. Beckfs radio backpack wonft work, either, due to the compound
being indoors. All of your pilots must be prepared with strong links, skills,
equipment, and AP levels. You need to play extremely well and even get a bit
lucky if you want to complete the level in time. If you screw up, youfll fall
hard.
Pilot Setup ?
Be: Link I, 4 LP+1
I recommend having Anti-Skill on Latona.
Wanzer Setup ?
The keys to completing the map successfully are link attacks and EMP
backpacks. The EMP antilock is essential in warding off enemy missiles, and
the EMP itself is essential for cutting off enemy movement towards the bottom
ramp. The EMP pack has a 70% chance to disable melee wanzer movement, and a
100% chance to disable all other wanzer types movement. You also have a 100%
chance of systems down on most of the weaker non-Jetpack wanzers, and 70% on
most others. Latona gets the east team EMP, since she has a huge amount of
power to spare, and Beck gets the west team EMP, since his radio backpack
doesnft work in this level anyway.
By this point in the game, you may have changed your party significantly from
mine in terms of weapon usage. The only major change is Zead toting a
bazooka/rifle, and Beck equipped with a MG for the purpose of triggering
support links.
La:
BP: EMP-9F Backpack
R.Arm Weapon: Last Stake
Be:
BP: EMP-9F Backpack
R.Arm: Zenith RV/Maestro MG
He:
L.Arm Weapon: Artduex MG
Bring MG and BZ ammo, and some healing items.
Change La/Be armor to fire, El/He armor to impact, and Ze/Bo armor to pierce.
Link Setup ?
Elsafs team is faced with tougher enemy opposition ? several powerful units
are lined up to be fought, including a trio of jetpack enabled Rock Jack
bazooka wanzers that can easily overwhelm them if they arenft destroying enemy
units fast enough. The trio should be primed for total slaughter, with all
three units delivering 2.0x level link attacks constantly.
Zeadfs team is weaker in terms of attack power, with Beck being a fairly weak
party member whofs only useful for triggering Zead and Bosch and holding the
EMP pack. They wonft face a heavy concentration of enemies, but they do have
to deal with the same number of enemies as Elsafs team. Theyfre responsible
for reaching the top level and destroying the two missile launchers, who start
moving west later in the level. These guys donft have a repair backpack, so
you have to make sure to keep them healthy!
El/He/La ? Link them all together with offense and defense links.
Bo/Ze/Be ? Link them all together with offense and defense links.
Set Latonafs defensive link to Backpack.
Battle Position:
East drop zone:
ElLa
He
West drop zone:
ZeBe
Bo
Battle:
Start moving your teams up their respective sides of the ramp. The first two
enemies youfll encounter are a melee and sensor unit. Kill the sensor unit
first, then the melee. It helps for Zeadfs team to EMP the melee unitfs
movement, so you can blast it away safely. From here, the two teams face
different challenges and enemies.
Elsafs team should focus on strong offense. Try to kill 1.5 wanzers per turn
at least and use your links effectively. The middle area with two ramps will
be the main battleground. Taking enemies out as they come down the ramp is
important. You can get decent firing angles supporting Latona at the ramp
entrances, which is good. The second enemy recon will consistently try to run
around to an open side of the ramp if you block one side, so by switching
sides you can keep him up there until youfre ready to face him. Donft use EMP
attacks unless an enemy breaks through and tries to make a run for it, as you
want to focus on offense. Hermes should be offensive and not healing every
turn ? he needs to trigger more attacks by Elsa and Latona, and he can do some
nice damage himself. Once Elsa runs out of MG ammo, reload her! She canft do
support attacks otherwise. If youfre playing well, youfll have all units
destroyed by the time the Rock Jack bros. and a shotgunner show up. Itfs best
to fight them at the bottom of the two ramps, as theyfll be more spread out
and unable to hit you reliably. You will definitely need to EMP at least one
or two of their movements, as they can easily jetpack past your team and cause
trouble. If youfre feeling lucky or just beat up, you can try to EMP them
with 70% chance of systems down. They will often jetpack from the upper level
right into the group and fire a bazooka shot, which makes it easier to kill
them since you can counterattack and theyfre next to Latona. Use those links
and kick some butt ? youfll need to do as much ass kicking as you can!
Zeadfs team faces technically lighter opposition, but must reach the very top
to destroy the two missileers. Itfs going to be a long haul! Since theyfre
not powerhouses like Elsafs team and they have no healer, Zeadfs team must use
their smarts to avoid damage and use their AP wisely for support attacks. The
big enemies are the recon units, which can be tough to hit and kill. Keep
Zead and Bosch always within missile cover when a sensor wanzer shows up.
Bosch and Zead should have decent evasion, but Beck has none, so make sure not
to let him get picked on, as hefll probably get smacked by a few missiles.
Beck doesnft really need to use the EMP pack to disable enemies. Use him
instead to trigger more linked attacks by Zead and Bosch, who are the only
ones who can do any decent damage. This side can get really unlucky, if the
sensor wanzer decides to dodge all their shots, or if the sniper starts
breaking parts. Once you finally reach the missileers, show them no mercy and
mow em down. They wonft last long!
If youfve completed the mission in 15 or less days, some congratulations are
in order, especially if youfve only played the sim missions once and arenft on
a New Game+. You have a choice of three great items, and I usually choose the
Radio backpack. Youfve passed the most difficult mission in the game, but the
Durandal still has one more wild urban mission ahead of them!
Mission 27 - Paris Suburbs
Difficulty: ****
Tactics: Turn 10
Remember to change all of your previous links back, equip Beck with a radio
again, and remove Latonafs EMP/switch her weapons if you wish.
Pilot Setup ?
Try to get all resistances, buy some more AP and maybe some evasion, etc. or
some better attack skills for Hermes/Bosch.
Wanzer Setup ?
Set armor to fire.
Bring MG/BZ/RF ammo.
Link Setup ?
Be: Attack 2 with Ze and La
Battle Position:
ElZe
BoHe
LaBe
Battle:
Head towards the shotgunners and wipe them out, then take on the east then
west missileer. Send Elsa and Latona east to take on the east AA missileer
and send the other four west to take on the west AA missileer. Once Elsa and
Latona are finished, move them west to rejoin with the rest of the group.
Take out the EMP units, then the recons, and the rest of the gunners. Make an
air strike on the approaching two EMPs and recon, which will make them much
easier to kill. Drop pierce or impact armor if you need it. Do a second air
strike on the north set of enemies to provoke them, then meet them around the
north part of the map to finish them off.
Difficulty: *****
Tactics: Turn 11
Pilot Setup ?
Once again you have tons of money from the previous mission to spend on more
AP, speed, evasion, better skills, etc.
Wanzer Setup ?
Set armor to pierce.
Bring MG/BZ/RF ammo reloads.
Battle Position:
Northwest drop zone:
ElBoLa
Ze
Northeast drop zone:
He
Be
Battle:
This is a difficult and intense urban level with a huge number of enemies
packing serious heat and skills. Every enemy north of the bridge will start
coming after you by turn 3, so youfll have a lot to handle in a very short
amount of time. This level features special Type XX wanzers with 3,000 HP
bodies (same values as Wagnerfs final rig), with 7 elite skills, toting high
level MG, SG, MS, and GR weapons. These suckers take an enormous pounding and
will often only go down with 4 strong link attacks that reach 2.0x each time.
Other enemies in the level are no pushovers either, with powerful wanzers,
weapons and elite skills.
The enemies south of the bridge will not attack unless provoked, so
immediately call an air strike on them to get them off their lazy asses.
Their movement ranges will separate their ranks and they should arrive in a
timely manner just after youfve defeated most of the enemies north of the
bridge.
The general movement plan of your party isnft too complicated, and you wonft
be running around the map hunting any enemies if you choose to provoke the
enemies south of the bridge. Move south to engage the group of four wanzers,
then head east. Run Hermes and Beck west along the same road to meet up.
Proceed with the entire party east to engage with the four northeast units and
the three east units, then work south, and finally westward to engage with the
enemies from the south bridge that have lined the road.
Starting out, take the Type XX wanzer out with a serious pounding. If you
kill it, the other three units will stand still. If you donft kill it, the
other three units will attack you. Either way, take out the sensor wanzer
then the two gunners and head east. During this time, run Hermes and Beck
westward to meet up with Elsafs team. Beckfs first move should be an air
strike on the southwest group of enemy wanzers.
Head east with Elsafs team to meet up with Beck and Hermes. Beck and Hermes
will get attacked by the two wanzers and copter ? just keep running em. Once
Elsafs team arrives, donft run them back really far, just about mid way, so
that the enemy copters are in easy attack range of Elsa, Bosch, and Zead. The
four enemy units should be positioned around the road opening. Anyway, strike
at them hard and fast, taking out the copters first then the wanzers. The
copters will go down very easily and itfs much easier to take them out now
than it is to let them fly around all over firing shots and making you chase
them. Drop some fire armor on your entire party at about this time.
After taking care of those four units, head south around the corner and start
attacking the enemies there. In my playthroughs, Beck often becomes the
target of missiles, so keeping him behind the corner will usually protect him
from missiles, or you could use Latonafs EMP abilities if she has a backpack.
Doesnft make a whole lot of difference though. After fighting the three east
enemies, more enemies will be approaching from the west and south. From the
west, three enemies positioned at the west portion of the map along with most
of the enemies south of the bridge. From the south, two more copters and a
type XX wanzer. Therefs a sensor wanzer among the group coming from the west,
so donft lose sight of your mission to kill it mercilessly. Your second air
strike should be around now, with enemies packed in the street and ready to be
blasted to hell. Try to get at least 3-4 units to bomb. The copters will
merge into the battle and are mostly a distraction, so just ignore them for
now unless you feel like copter huntinf. Focus your attacks on the already
air-bombed enemies and then take out the healthy ones afterwards, such as the
additional Type XX wanzers joining the fray. The battle gets really wild and
therefs plenty of mayhem to go around. Enjoy it while it lasts!
After wiping out most of the enemy forces, all that remains should be a
missileer or so. Take them out and bask in victory! Youfll be able to pick
up a Vyvoz IV Rog wanzer set, one of the best sets in the game. Itfs almost
identical to the Grille 6 Horn set, with the arms/body being 6 weight lighter
and the legs having a bit different stats. Ifve never unlocked a simulator 15
past this, but if you find it (perhaps completing it in 10 days or less?), let
me know!
Mission 28 - Paris Assembly
Difficulty: ****
Tactics: Turn 08
Pilot Setup ?
La: Melee II, Move Plus II, Skill Slots III
Wanzer Setup ?
Set armor to fire.
Battle Position:
LaBo
ZeHeElBe
Battle:
This battle can get intense at points, but itfs relatively short if your units
are killing machines that rocked D13 and D14. Immediately run up and kill the
sensor wanzer, or itfll bring up a bunch of nasty missiles from the Snivets.
The tree lining here makes accuracy difficult for both you and your enemies.
If youfre being targeted by snipers, hide behind the tree line, and they wonft
change their position to hit you despite having 30% accuracy or so. You can
hit an enemy aiming directly from the other side of the trees, but any other
angles will be a hindrance. Still, itfs worth it if you can keep triggering
Latonafs attacks and have no other options. Make the first air strike count,
hitting a good section of the enemies along the road. Drop some pierce armor
as well. Wagner is no tougher than the Type XX wanzers you faced earlier, so
he should go down very quickly. For some reason he was more intent on using
his weak ass claw than his gun, but anyway, he should be toast almost
instantly. Prioritize your attacks on the second sensor that comes down the
road.
With the brits, send every last one of them eastward to gang up on the gunner
and sniper in the northeast corner. After that, take on the other gunner and
sniper approaching from the west. If you split them up, theyfll get rocked,
but as a swarm they can be pretty effective on one enemy unit at a time.
The first Snivets will lumber down the street to face off with your party.
Itfs just as piddly as Glaeserfs Snivets machine, so gang up on it and take it
out. At this point the mission is mostly over. Head east against the
remaining snivets and melee unit. Call an air strike on the remaining enemy
sniper facing the brits to help esoftenf it up.
Difficulty: ***
Tactics: Turn 07
Pilot Setup ?
Since your wanzers are all setup, all thatfs left is to spend money on your
pilots. I suggest some evasion, AP, skill slots, and better attack skills.
Re, In, Lu, Ch ? Evade I
Wanzer Setup ?
Ch, In, Th ? Fire Armor
Da, Re, Lu ? Pierce Armor
Link Setup -
Battle Position:
ChInDa
ThReLu
Battle:
Use Ines and Thammond to drop tons of grenades on the enemies, while using
Chaeffer to block off the street access and heal whoever is getting hit by
missiles. Send the other three units east to handle the snipers and bazooka
units. Once all but the missileers are left, use Chaeffer and Thammond to
take them out while sending Ines northeast to help Darrils team if needed.
The bazookas will run north, but will about face and start heading back down
the same road south, so just stay on the main road going east towards their
position. Catch up with them and blast em to hell. Since theyfre hover
wanzers they will eat your bullets like candy.
Difficulty: *****
Tactics: Turn 10
Special Condition: Complete the mission in 10 or less turns. You must have
unlocked U08-12 early by completing the early unlock challenges. Unlocks
Simulator U13.
Pilot Setup ?
Wanzer Setup -
Change all wanzer armor to fire.
Link Setup -
Battle Position:
InReLu
ThChDa
Battle:
The challenge in this mission is racing through the terrain like lightning
while flinging maximum rockets. If you donft have both Minotaur arms ready
with level 3 rocket proficiency, youfll find it far more difficult to
eliminate every enemy in the 10 or less turns time limit. There are sensor
wanzers everywhere and therefs no way to avoid running into them and getting
blasted by missiles. You canft take your time, just have to move at near top
speed and repair with Chaeffer as you go.
Start out blasting the initial enemies with rockets then moving in with the
other four units to finish off the front lines. Proceed onto the third level
and do the same. At the ramp downward onto the second level, a whole host of
enemies are waiting ? blast them all with heavy rocket fire while charging
your other units in fearlessly. Move your units westward along the platform,
then send In/Th/Da down the ramp to take out the sniper, and the rest westward
to take out the remaining missile turret. If you made it in 10 days, you done
good, soldier.
Difficulty: ****
Tactics: Turn 10
Special Condition: Complete the mission in 10 or less turns. You must have
unlocked U08-12 early by completing the early unlock challenges. Unlocks
Simulator U14.
Battle Position:
Battle:
This is another ecarpet bomb em to hellf level that you must finish in 10
days, except you must have at least one allied missile turret alive.
Thankfully it isnft ehave all missile turretsf alive, or the level would be
much more difficult! As it is, the only one you have to keep alive (and the
easiest to keep alive) is the one in the center that your group starts by.
Begin by bombing the two southwest groups, all 7 enemies. Send all but In and
Th south down the ramp to kill, then east and north back up the ramp. With In
and Th, send rockets against the south enemies that move to attack the
southwest turret. Donft worry about blowing the SW turret up with them, as
you just need the center turret to survive, and they donft even fire until
turn 7 or so.
With those enemies out of the way, start up the ramp, taking out the two units
in front of you and proceeding all the way to the top. Itfs possible to fire
grenades that hit all four enemies at the very top from the northeast corner
above the ramp to the third level. Once again, donft worry about destroying
the allied turrets as long as the center one is still alive. The faster
theyfre blown up, the sooner the enemies will come after you and not hang
around trying to hit the turrets, anyway. Just bowl through em with more
rockets and link attacks.
You have a choice of good items, and I usually choose the jetpack, as Darrilfs
team never gets a jetpack, and this one is just cool. The repair backpack is
great as well, though.
Difficulty: *****
Tactics: Turn 07
Wanzer Setup ?
Set In/Th/Lu/Ch armor to fire, all others pierce.
Bring RK ammo.
Battle Position:
West drop zone ?
InLu
Ch
East drop zone ?
DaTh
Re
Battle:
Whatfs the Zhukus? Herefs an insane level where you have to destroy the three
Zhuk Is near the Paris Assembly. The Zhuks themselves should be easy to tear
up, but the problem lies in the huge number of enemy wanzers spread out across
the level. No less than 15 wanzers are defending the three Zhuks I, in
addition to numerous groups spread out across the map. Since most of the
wanzers are made of mid to low level parts, itfs fairly easy to toss out
rockets to tear them up, but there are so many of them that staying alive,
healthy, and even reaching the Zhuks is a major concern. In addition, 1-4
reinforcements per turn will randomly appear in different corners of the map
to charge after your party!
The easy way to finish the level is to take it steady, meet in the center
road, and march north. The hard way is to make a mad dash for the Zhuks as
two separate teams and converge on the center Zhuk. Since the hard way is
faster, thatfs what Ifll be going with.
Send Darrilfs team westward then north across the stacked building path
leading to the east Zhuk. Send Inesfs team slightly northeast over the
stacked building path and onto the road leading to the west Zhuk.
On the first turn, drop rockets on the four center enemies as you proceed
north (two recons and two EMPs). The enemy EMP units are a huge pain in the
ass on this level, so keep an eye out for them. The recons are relatively
harmless, though. On the second turn, drop rockets on the west Zhuk, and keep
moving the east team north. Enemies will be coming in from behind against
Inesfs team which will give them a hassle. Have Luis block the rear while
Chaeffer heals and Ines carpet bombs the enemies to break out and face the
Zhuk. A bunch of enemies from the east Zhuk will also come running towards
Inesfs team.
With Darrilfs team, bust through any wanzers in your path and start attacking
the Zhuk with Darril and Renges. With Thammond, move out and start bombing
the west enemies to assist Ines. Darril and Renges should be able to take out
the east Zhuk by themselves. Once the first Zhuk is down, the center Zhuk and
his buddies will start advancing towards your party.
After a healthy grenade shower, bust out with Luis, Chaeffer, and Ines. Send
Ines northeast to help bomb the center Zhuk and friends. Luis and Chaeffer
should stay behind to finish the west Zhuk off. Send Darril, Renges, and
Thammond towards the center Zhuk, dropping bombs and causing carnage. It
helps to hide Thammond behind one of the bushes while dropping rockets, as the
enemies will have poor accuracy trying to fire at him. Once Darril, Renges,
Ines, and Thammond converge on the center Zhuk, itfs all over! Aw zhuks!
Mission 29 - Cumana Terminal
Difficulty: ****
Tactics: Turn 09
Pilot Setup -
Wanzer Setup -
Link Setup -
Battle Position:
Battle:
The very last battle in the game. A bit of a pushover if your wanzers and
pilots are beefed up, but fun to play anyway due to Ivanovnafs big mobile
weapon. Shefs not Zhuking around this time! Ah, hah hah, ok, enough of the
Zhuk jokes.. Ifm all Zhukered out. Anyway, the general path to take in this
level is north/east across the bridge, north through the port to take on the
gunners/missileers, west across the bridge to take on Ivanovna, and then north
to finish off the two snipers. Sort of a long snake movement across the
bridges of the level.
Proceed north/east and drop rockets on the three gunners in range. Once the
Recon shows up, do your damndest to blow it to hell. Take out the gunners and
then proceed north. Wipe out the closest missileer and send three units or so
to handle the second one. Once Ivanovna is in range, give her a good
whacking. I suggest you wait until shefs out in the open and not hiding
behind the boxes/tower, as itfs difficult to get good link attack angles on
her that way.
Therefs not much of a trick to beating down Ivanovna. If you have everyone
bombarding her, she wonft last more than one turn. Once the beast is down,
run north while dropping rockets on the two snipers, then crash their party.
End of the Road
Hope you enjoyed this guide. If you found it helpful or unhelpful, feel free
to post on the www.gamefaqs.com board about it. Also, if you have information
about new hidden levels or new secrets, please post to gamefaqs or email me
about it.

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