2. General Knowledge
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Index:
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2.1 the game
2.2 the FAQ
2.2.1 How to make best use of the guide
2.2.2 Where is north?
2.2.3 Difficulty Meter Explanation
2.2.4 Requirements Explanation
2.2.5 Wordlist
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2.1 The game
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Full name: Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising.
System: Game Boy Advance (also Game Boy Advance SP and Game Boy Player).
Genre: Turn based strategy.
Release dates:
North America:
Japan:
Europe:
Australia:
Sequal to Advance Wars, released in september, 2001 in north america.
There are older games in the "Wars" series too.
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2.2 The FAQ
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2.2.1 How to make best use of the guide
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Read through the entire strategy before you start to play.
Don't give up and get frustrated, there are most probably some mistakes here,
if you find any please report them to me.
(See 11.1 Contact Information/Contribute?)
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2.2.2 Where is north?
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In this guide I will only use north/vest/east/south as directions to try to
avoid confusion by not mixing in up/left/right/down.
Here is an explanation of
where is where.
N = North = Up N
V = Vest = Left
E = East = Right V E
S = South = Down
S
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2.2.3 Difficulty Meter Explanation
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In Advance Wars 2 there is already a difficulty meter (level) in the Campaign mode,
going from one to ten stars, six is the highest in the regular campaign mode.
I will use the same system in the War Room part.
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Normal Campaign (Yellow Stars)
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| Stars | # | Explanation |
| * | 1 | - Very basic tutorial mission to get familiar with the basics of the game.
| ** | 2 | - Easy tutorial mission.
| *** | 3 | -
| **** | 4 | -
| ***** | 5 | -
| ***** | 6 | -
This difficulty is only used in the last campaign mission, very hard. Only the best gets a decent rank.
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2.2.4 Requirements Explanation
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This has also been changed in the sequel. Now it goes from 1-300 points and this is what you shop with in the battle maps store, not coins like in Advance Wars 1.
I'm not that sure about the points system yet. Please let me know if something is wrong.
Points Rank
280-300 - S
279-250 - A
249-200 - B
199-150 - C
149-100 - D
099-001 - E
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2.2.5 Wordlist
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These are some words that are shortened down to make it easier to write and
read this FAQ.
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Units:
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Md. Tank, Med. Tank or Medium Tank
AA, A-A, or Anti-Air
Artlry or Artillery
B-Ship or Battleship
Sub or Submarine
T-copter or Transport copter
B-copter or Battle copter
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Armies:
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Orange Star, OS
Blue Moon, BM
Yellow Comet, YC
Green Earth, GE
Black Hole, BH |