Kanbei's sheer stats make his units incredibly difficult to combat for most COs, and indeed on small maps with little funding he is arguably the strongest CO in the game. Reconsider before picking Kanbei on such maps. Kanbei may have issues on maps where he has to build transports building them will take a large cut from the funds he needs early on. Although both powers on their own are relatively weak for their costs, Samurai Spirit's additional defense stacks again with the defense from his day-to-day and terrain and will make his units invincible on 4-star terrain and near-invincible on all others, essentially granting a turn of complete damage immunity to all but direct-damage CO powers and missiles. Kanbei's Samurai Spirit (SCOP) should be used over Morale Boost (COP) in most situations. Tank with footsoldiers as shields will be sufficient counters, as it is still very difficult for these units to push through his Infantry walls. Conservative use of Tanks, Anti-Air, Artillery and the occasional Md. Tanks and sometimes even Bombers and Neotanks in an attempt to overpower your vehicles. As a result, they may tech-up sooner to Md. Units of most COs will actually take more damage than they deal in same-unit matchups, even when they get the first strike.

However, the strength of his units will more than compensate for the lower vehicle count. Kanbei may have to build more Infantry and fewer Tanks overall, given the limits of funding. Contested properties will be easy to recover later on. His early game is subject to a vehicle count disadvantage due to increased costs, making early fighting for distant contested properties more difficult and encouraging focusing on nearby properties for stable funding first. There’s so much you need to be aware of before playing this.Īdvance Wars is a great title on the GBA and a must play if you’re a tactics fan.Predominantly, Kanbei's strength arises from his additional defense, which ground units can stack with the defensive bonuses from terrain to become almost impossible to trade evenly against. Fire Emblem does require strategy to play, but not like Advance Wars. Isometric tactics games like Tactics Ogre and Final Fantasy have little tactics at play but make up for its fun gameplay. Mainly due to the fact that it depends heavily on tactics. But what really makes this game great is its challenging gameplay.Īdvance Wars is unlike any tactics game I’ve played. The soundtrack isn’t annoying or repetitive and is actually nice to hear. The graphics of Advance Wars is amazing, especially when the battle screens show up, with animated sprites and all that. The story of Advance Wars is surprisingly great, with a lot of backstory tossed in and branching paths.

The character focus instead is on the COs, who control all the units. But this time, your units are more expendable and they don’t have levels or carry forward to the next map. If you’ve played Fire Emblem, you know the deal. This game is a turn based strategy tactics game. The game was such a hit that it is often stated in the Best Of lists for GBA or even all time. Advance Wars also helped localise Fire Emblem, where FE7 was its first international release. First off, the game itself is the first localisation of the Wars series. Advance Wars played a huge role in a lot of localisation processes.

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