A comprehensive guide to Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising, covering its plot, new units like the Neotank, new features such as Silos and Pipelines, and new COs.
Walkthrough
- 1The Black Hole Army, led by Sturm and featuring new COs Lash, Flak, Adder, and Hawke, invades Macro Land while the Allied Nations are still recovering from the war in Cosmo Land.
- 2The Allied Nations must work together to repel the invasion, with each Black Hole CO targeting a different country (Flak for Orange Star, Lash for Blue Moon, Adder for Yellow Comet, Hawke for Green Earth).
- 3After driving the Black Hole COs from Wars World, the Allied forces confront Sturm in Black Hole's base.
- 4The final battle involves destroying the Death Ray, a weapon guarding a missile set to destroy half of Wars World in 30 days.
- 5Sturm attempts to self-destruct the missile, but Hawke betrays and kills him with his Super CO Power, Black Storm.
- 6Hawke then takes over leadership of Black Hole and retreats with the remaining troops.
Tips
- The Neotank is the strongest tank in the game, developed by Black Hole.
- Silos, fired by Infantry or Mech units, deal 3 damage to all units in a two-square radius and can only be used once per battle.
- Pipelines are impassable terrain, but Pipe seams can be destroyed to create gaps.
- Black Hole utilizes unique weapons like the Black Cannon, which are not available to the player.
- All COs now have a normal CO Power and a Super CO Power, except Sturm who only has a Super CO Power.
- New COs introduced include Hachi, Colin, Sensei, Jess, Hawke, Lash, Adder, and Flak.
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