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FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

Cheating at a raffle? I sentence you to 1 year in jail! No! Two years! Three! Four! Five years! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
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In all honesty if it's as much of a grind as it sounds to be from what I've heard, just cheat the spoiler in. It's not like it would hurt your enjoyment of the lp/game.

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FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

Cheating at a raffle? I sentence you to 1 year in jail! No! Two years! Three! Four! Five years! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
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You actually had it backwards. The militia were just used as meat fodder, it's just that welkin kept not just surviving suicide missions but also winning them profoundly. The regular army got wiped out in a nuclear explosion equivalent and then the big super tank at the end kills off drat near the entire remainder of the militia, so the empire canning the invasion is hilarious because welkin's squad was the only thing left in the gallian forces after maximillian bit it.

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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The Flying Twybil posted:

I forget, did any of the battles we see in VC1 take place in southern Gallia anywhere near the Lanseal region? I think most of it was up north due to the desert and the ragnite mines until it migrated towards the capital when the Empire started making the final push on Randgriz.

If memory serves it's home to the kloden wildwood where you take on jager for the first time and capture the imperial supply base.

I would very much recommend vc4. It takes a few things from the PSP games, but by far plays like more vc1. Never played the PSP games because I'm too lazy for :files: but I've heard 3 is really good from a variety of sources.

FoolyCharged fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Oct 28, 2019

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

Cheating at a raffle? I sentence you to 1 year in jail! No! Two years! Three! Four! Five years! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
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Helmut x2, franca, noel x2, Sofia
Team Bad

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

Cheating at a raffle? I sentence you to 1 year in jail! No! Two years! Three! Four! Five years! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
Somebody call for an ant?

Since hes the boring protagonist we'll ignore as much as possible I suggest giving him shocktrooper into gunner so that he can defend the base camp while he sits in it providing cp.

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

Cheating at a raffle? I sentence you to 1 year in jail! No! Two years! Three! Four! Five years! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
Somebody call for an ant?

Go ahead and keep the ones we've got. The early missions dont really give people time to shine anyways.

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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Huh, I just noticed something when I decided to play along.

They actually bothered to do different sprites here if you swap avan's class. He got the shocktrooper logo on his back in my play.

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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Let's be hones with ourselves. We all know what that tank really is.

Taxi!

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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chiasaur11 posted:

Just correcting a little. Avan's pretty Shonen 101 in general, and it's a really odd fit for the genre. Like Andy in Advance Wars, you have someone acting as the greatest military leader alive show the IQ of tapwater in every situation where the player isn't making choices.

I mean, I read enough Jump to appreciate the occasional idiot hero, but guys like Denji from Chainsaw Man tend to have traits of their own, something to say they're not just Naruto clones. Avan doesn't. He's dumb, but not in a funny way, he cares for his friends, but not in a way that creates interesting conflicts, and in general, he's just... blah.


This game is not a good place for reason.

Avan's secret to success is that his laugh grates on the soul so powerfully that everyone goes to great lengths in order to win as fast as possible and escape it.

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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I kinda like the apc a lot. The ability to shift multiple units between maps with 1 cp is handy and it's other weapon option is amazing. It even eventually gets upgrades that let it not fall over to a stiff breeze!

Alicia gave up the whole valkyria thing when welkin proposed to her with a flower, convincing her that maximillian was better killed by bullets than a nuclear suicide bomb. This do not stop her from going "I am a weapon, no, a shield!" at every chance she had.

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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Agree we should drop vc2, but in vc1 part of her not so ditching the valkyria thing is Welkin being all "Escalation is bad! We will win this by HUMAN might alone!" like the colossal racist he is. :rolleyes:

And yeah, if you never discovered it, units inside the apc get transferred with it when it redeploys to another area. So if you make use of the common deployment wedge that let's you load people for free, you can drive the apc across a map with one cp, have one of the guys inside bounce out, cap the point and hop back in, and then redeploy all the apc to leg it across the second map with a third cp. You then have a unit with a relatively full ap gauge ready to leap out and complete a second map.

That said, the escort apc is trash you can't even load a person into(VIP needs their tea buddy, ok?) and especially coming from 4, the thing seems to be made of paper mache, especially from behind.

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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OOrochi posted:

Hmmmm. A child with blue hair who’s kept secret in a semi-military facility and doesn’t know how to interact with normal things. I wonder, oh wonder, what she could be.

Hmmm...
I bet she's a Baker! Squad 7 had one of those and she was unstoppable.

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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Psycho Knight posted:

I mean, that too. I additionally hate her because I don't like kids and I don't like loli-bait characters.

Now, now. While we're not going to escape this without blatant fan service of children, surely the pre pubescent one won't be included, right? Right, guys?
...
Ah poo poo, she's totally gonna be included in the beach scene or whatever this game does similar.

Fake edit:
And goddamn the escort apc just gets worse and worse as the game goes on. Why on earth doesn't it scale with enemies? This thing is made of tissue paper and it's only going to get worse.

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

Cheating at a raffle? I sentence you to 1 year in jail! No! Two years! Three! Four! Five years! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
Somebody call for an ant?

Yeah, that's a pretty common idiom. Having hit summer, I can safely say the game smacks you upside the head with its skeevy and you will absolutely know it when you see it.

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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Somebody call for an ant?

You can absolutely earn peoples stories from repeated missions, as well as keeping unlocked potentials. So fortunately you can grind out the stories of dudes you dont use without ruining your A ranks.

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

Cheating at a raffle? I sentence you to 1 year in jail! No! Two years! Three! Four! Five years! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
Somebody call for an ant?

Theres more unlocking potentials than cp. It's a chance to unlock the potential on what would normally trigger it that increases with cp. So for instance the scout potential for getting shot at while crouched is most easily obtained by crouch walking back and forth repeatedly in the first free mission. Or cheating, I suggest cheating because all this grindy poo poo they added is real bad.

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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I am greatly enjoying your lp and it encouraged me to try this bad game that I never had before. I really appreciate that, because once I said "gently caress it" and cheated away promotion items and crafting items the game turned into a good game with a bad plot. It's a VC game that focuses on the battles and not hours of cutscenes, which is rad.

So keep up the good work! And dont hesitate to cheat if you're burning out!

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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Somebody call for an ant?

Hes a hostage. The man is a proud soldier of the empire(tm),related to the throne(I think?) and considers this part of his duty as a soldier. The only way he wasn't involved in gallian war crimes is if he was doing them to his own country or not NATO instead.

On the other hand he has a cool hat and we should always deploy him when possible.

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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helmut, noel, mischlitt, randy, Sophia, Anisette

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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Slaan posted:

We should make the tank Rudolf and the squad Team Santa because of the holiday season. Our boys and girls deliver presents grenades to the chimneys sandbags of everyone

I like it

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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Fun things the game leaves out: said federation ambassador also attempted a failed coup in the last game in order to make Gallia a federation vassal. This coup featured among other things kidnapping the ruler of the country and for whatever reason was so swept under the rug he was allowed to keep his job by the locals.

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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I have no idea how hard juliana is intended to be because if memory serves on turn 1 she walked directly in front of my apc and ended turn. On a map where killing the boss was the objective.

It was not a hard mission for me.

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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It always kind of amuses me that everyone jumps on the obvious ww2 stuff but then ignores all the cold war stuff in the setting. The borders are NATO and the Warsaw Pact clear as day. And then the fighting over neutral countries rather than directly was a thing until VC4 and cold war as hell. Plus all the MAD talk the series loves to have about escalation of force.

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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I'm pretty sure later defense maps will literally spawn dudes hiding in the grass so you have to recheck all of them every turn.

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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Well if we're opening the door to bad fanfic...

: "Let me introduce the newest member of class G "

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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2 votes Helmut
2 votes Nahum
1 vote Vicky
1 vote Alexis

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FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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Yeah, it was amazing how much more fun the game got when I cheated away the endless grinding to let your dudes keep up. Or for you to have any reasonable say in their progression.

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