Hardest Advance Wars Game

[FormicHiveQueen]

Advance Wars 1 is clearly the hardest one. Although you have the overpowered Max on your side, the missions are hardcore as hell in hard campaign ... Compared to this, AWDS hard campaign is childs play.

You meant "hard as hell" right? Hardcore just means you're really dedicated to something (a "hardcore gamer", for example).

I personally find AW1 to be the hardest, especially in the Advance Campaign.

[Midnight Hobo]

You could probably trade the word 'extreme' for 'hardcore' wherever you found it.

I haven't played AW1 at all, but I'm guessing from this that it's hard. Of the two that I've played I'd said AW2 is the hardest, it took me forever to get through with my limited skills. Hopefully DoR won't be too easy.

[Albert]

Does that word-switch also work with their adverb forms? 'Cause I'd love to say that something was hardcorely hard.

I played AW1 again a few months ago, and it was considerably easier than I remembered it. I'd say that the vast majority of us who played AW1, played it before playing any other AW games and so our memories of it might be skewed a bit.

Utterly guessing now, but I think that DoR will be roughly in the same difficulty area as AW2.

[Lord Asriel]

From what I can remember, Advance Wars 1 had the hardest Hard Campaign.
Albert's theory regarding our memories is a pretty good one, so I may make an attempt at playing AW1 through from scratch again sometime. If I can find the time, that is.

[Hisui]

Sorry for using the word "hardcore" wrong - In German common speech, you can use it instead of something like "extreme" ^^'
@Topic: Additionally, I would say that AW1 has the hardest final mission. The one in AW2 was a bit too easy (Eagle and a bomber = total win.) and the one in AWDS was really not more than a joke ...
Days of Ruin should be around AW2 in its pretension.

[Treksmasher]

AW:DoR has a harder campaign than AS:DS, maybe because it has abstract kind of ideas, like a race to the finish type that I'm stuck on. (Stupid Plasma!) It has around AW2 difficulty.

[FormicHiveQueen]

I'd say that the vast majority of us who played AW1, played it before playing any other AW games and so our memories of it might be skewed a bit.

You'd probably be correct, but I play all 3 in equal proportions (back when I played them ). AW1 is harder, definitely.

[crazytactician]

I have a comment about the AI of the advance wars games.

I've only played AWDS and DoR, but I've noticed that the AI hasn't changed noticeably as the series has progressed. I noticed when fighting specific COs or fighting on specific maps, the battles were either ludicrisly easier or harder.

For example...

I was playing Rough Terrain on AWDS with INCOME: 1000 NO FOG I was playing for orange star with HACHI against 3 cpus, all versus all. SASHA for BLUE MOON. JESS for GREEN EARTH. GRIMM for YELLOW COMET. AI: normal

This was my first time attempting this map, so I made some crucial errors in the beginning such as failing to take green earth HQ in the beginning. Yet, I won in the end, on DAY: 115
and it was quite interesting how I did it.

Blue moon maintained control throughout the battle (obviously). Green earth had died early on (day 10-20ish), Yellow comet was challenging me for the spoils at green earth HQ area
and blue moon was slowly advancing its massive army toward my northern pass. Blue moon had 50 army units comprised of mostly Neotanks,tanks, artillery, and some mech/inf.
NO JOKE

I conquered Yellow comet's army without much difficulty and simultaneously I began building a small army of rockets, mechs, and APC's at my base to defend Blue Moon's forces. I seriously doubted I would win this battle, but hitting the YIELD button felt wrong, so i trudged on....

In the end, it was just like 300. The pass allowed for a choke point, so Blue Moon could'nt advance very well. and by this time I had a small, but oddly intimidating army of rockets occupying as many safe squares as possible with 2-3 APC's to resupply. If I had been fighting a human, this would have been over very fast, but the computer was being very defensive and wouldn't move any unit (other than mabye a mech or two) within my range. So, I'd created a stalemate.

As i moved my small army across the dead Yellow comet territory, I realized that Blue moon's HQ was in sight and despite the fact that they had plenty of deployment centers around it, I knew they wouldn't be able to build anything because all 50 of their units were displaced at the "pointless" stalemate at my far away base.

But sadly as I dropped off my army on Blue moon's home territory, they finally caught on (those dumm Ais!!!!!!!!!) and began sending units back over there. I sadly had to kill a few and this allowed them to build units again!!!!

This is where the battle lasted forever, but in the end i captured the HQ and won.

Sorry for rambling there, but this is one of the biggest mistakes the AI has ever made. If they had been a human, they would have deleted several units to redeploy them back at HQ and thwart my attempts at capture much more efficiently.

The inability to delete and the overly conservative nature of the AI killed it in that fight even though (i think) the stage was designed for blue moon to win tenaciously.

Please share your insights on this

[Bloodhound]

AW2 and AW1 were difficult.
DS's HC was easier than it's NC and DOR didn't even have a HC.

[DeWaf]

Well I thought that AW or AW2 were the harsest, but probably AW because of its impossible advance campaign (I couldn't beat the 1st lv on AC!)
But AWDS would be the easiest for me.

[StealthKiller]

AW:DS have hard maps and AI's are aggressive, AW2 is the easiest since AI make the most stupid mistake on Earth( not attacking my Neotank with Battleship when his rocket is within my range, lol) AW1, kinda easy exept the campaign are the hardest, and Days of Ruin, the AI are balanced.

[FormicHiveQueen]

AWDS does not have hard maps. Hell, the hard campaign is actually easier than the normal campaign. AW1 and 2 are the hardest by far.

[HihiouZabimaru182]

having never really played AW1, but owning AW2 and AWDOR, is it safe to say that DOR comes in second place in difficulty? (AWDS was just too easy due to tags and stuff)

[Kanbei's Alt Account]

I've never played AW1, and I won't be able to (at least for now) because I have a DSi (which can't play gameboy advance games), and I decided to give my gameboy advance away. If I ever have a lot of extra money laying around, I'll probably buy a DS lite so I can play AW1.

[MelancholyMastermind]

I don't have a DS, so I haven't played AWDS or DoR, but I have to say as far as the Campaign goes, AW2:BHR is harder. The campaign is longer and the AI was somewhat better. However, AW's Final Battle and Advance Campaign are insane! I haven't made it to AW2:BHR's Hard Campaign (trying to get Sturm), but I've heard it's nothing special. So, in the end, I have to say AW2:BHR has it's moments, but I think I have to give it to AW.

[Robosturm]

You have to take to points in consideration the AI and the starting conditions of a the maps in the campaign!
For the AI it's easy the best is in AWDS followed by AWDC then came AW 2 and AW!
Starting Conditions hardest are AW, then AW2 , AW DS the easiest are that of AWDC as far as i come for now! I needed 2 hours for the first 16 maps+ some of the extra maps!
So all in all AW looks hardest and is also AW2 i had no map i said wow very hard! AW DS only the first Black Crystall mission is actually a little bit hard and AW DC i get bored so far! It's no fun to fight that maps!
Nintendo thought there AI's are so strong that they have to make easier maps but the AI run to often away from your units in AW DC to be a challenge!

[Havetts]

AW1 definatly had the hardest AW campaign and I still havent beaten it cause it frustrates the fff out of me. I dont think AW2's hard campaign is that hard, seeing I've beaten it 4 times now or something, but always A rank due to low power on the factory missions (???><). A on OS, B on BM, A YC, B GE and 2 B ranks at the 2 BH missions.