Mech Platoon GBA FAQ/Walkthrough

By Shaun William McGurn

1. Walkthrough

1B. Lichen Missions

You will play planet Lichen if you are the Minos or the Leons. The Tramplers are the opponets. Not as hard as scorch but not as easy as Ravine.

Mission 1
Winning Conditions: Eliminate the enemy units!
Losing Conditions: An enemy unit reaches the target.

Get some long range units to start with. Take those and go blast up the enemy units. Make sure to bring along a labor unit to salvage their parts.

Mission 2
Winning Conditions: Lead five units to the target point!
Losing Conditions: Less than 4 units survive.

Start by going up the far left side. Take out the enemy there and go all the way up to the top. Now move along the top, take out the next three mechs you come across one at a time. Continue along the top until you hget to the end. Go down to the target area.

Mission 3
Winning Conditions: Destroy the new enemy unit and collect parts!
Losing Conditions: Enemy units arrive at target or allied based destroyed.

The enemy doesn't seem too eager to start heading to the target point so you don't have to rush too much. Get your labor units mining resources and build a factory. Send out your starter units with a labor unit and start taking care of the enemy units. Get the ones along the bottm first. Then work your way up. Make more battle units and labor units as neccesary. You have to salvage every last enemy unit to win this so don't let even one decay.

Mission 4
Winning Conditions: Guide 10 allied labor units to the target.
Losing Conditions: Allied base destroyed.

At the start you want to build up your base area. Get the labor units built and start making a fort, get your tech level up to make laser towers. Build the strongest units you got to escort the labor units to the target area. Destroying all the enemy units will just cause reinforcements to come. When you are ready go along the bottom of the screen. Don't send all your mechs in one big group. The mechs are stupid and they will all just end up running into each other and going nowhere.Send the battle units out first to destroy the first group of enemies, then send in the labor units. Send out the battle units again to take out the next group of enemy units and the factory. Now send the labor units to the left end of the screen and have them go straight up to the target. You may need to distract the two enemy units that are inbetween the bridge and the target so they don't spot you labor units and take them out before they get to the target. Just send over your battle mechs and the labor units should get to the targets with out a problem.

Mission 5
Winning Conditions: Collect 500 Materialrock!*Not total. Must say 500 on screen.
Losing Conditions: Allied base destroyed or all allied labor units lost.

First build a factory and get your military Level up. Once the factory is built get the labor units mining the near by energysand. Get the factory to build as many of whatever military unit you want. Once the energysand is gone move all your units down to the energy crystal and build a warehouse to start mining it. As soon as you do this the enemy will send a bunch of units over so get prepared for a fight. After they have been destroyed you will probably need more battle mechs so while the labor units plunder that are build up on battle mechs. don't bother with the energy crystal by the monsters. No point in bothering them unless you really need it. Once you have everythign there move over to the place with the material rock. Send over the battle units first to guard the area then send over the labor units to build a warehouse and start mining. The enemy mechs there shouldn't bother you but if they do just take them out as fast as you can and try to mine all you need before the reinforcements get to be too much. Don't destroy the enemy unless you have to. Get the materialrock and be done with it as soon as possible.

Mission 6
Winning Conditions: Eliminate the enemy units.
Losing Conditions: Allied base destroyed.

Leave the monsters alone for now. They will make a good obstacle for the enemy. Just build up your base area and battle mechs. Laser Towers are nice to have as well. Once you feel you have a large enough Mech Death Squad its time to take the offensive. First go to the island at the bottom of the screen and wipe out that group of enemy mechs. Then work your way east and wipe out the remaining enemies. Don't worry about the buildings. Just take down the units and the mission will be complete.