Advance Wars - Definition

Screenshot of Advance Wars

Advance Wars is a war strategy game for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance system, and is a continuation from previous "Wars" games on earlier Nintendo systems, such as Super Famicom Wars and GameBoy Wars. The player and an opponent take turns moving troops and attacking. Each can have a total of 50 troops at a time and can move all of them in a turn. To create more troops, the player needs money which is obtained by capturing cities, factories, airports, and seaports. A player can build ground units at factories, sea units at seaports, and air units at airports. These structures can also heal damaged units 2 points at a time by having them wait a turn in the appropriate base, for a variable fee depending on which unit waits there. Ground units can also be healed at headquarters and cities.

Screenshot of a battle in Advance Wars

Advance Wars has 10 Commanding Officers, or COs. These are:

• Sturm (Black Hole) - strong attacks, lower movement costs, weaker defense, weak in snow
• Grit (Blue Moon) - strong artillery, weak direct combat units
• Olaf (Blue Moon) - good in snow, bad in rain
• Drake (Green Earth) - strong ships, weak air units
• Eagle (Green Earth) - strong air units, weak ships
• Andy (Orange Star) - no weaknesses or advantages, can repair units
• Max (Orange Star) - strong direct combat units, weak artillery
• Nell (Orange Star) - very good luck (higher damage inflicted), no weaknesses
• Sami (Orange Star) - strong infantry, weaker direct combat vehicles
• Kanbei (Yellow Comet) - strong units, but expensive
• Sonja (Yellow Comet) - long range of vision, but has bad luck (lower damage inflicted)

There are five countries in the game, these are Orange Star, Blue Moon, Green Earth, Yellow Comet and Black Hole.

Black Hole is the real enemy in the game but this is not apparent until the end. Advance Wars begins with Orange Star warring with Blue Moon. The war efforts shift around the world until they finally reach Sturm at Black Hole.

See also

• Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising

External links

• Advance Wars By Web (http://www.amarriner.com/awbw/) A web based form of advanced wars. Players can play eachother online.
• Official Website (http://www.nintendo.com/gamemini?gameid=m-Game-0000-633)
• Walkthrough Site (http://www.2l84me.tk)
• GameFAQs Advance Wars information page (http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/gbadvance/data/471043.html)