Advance Wars

Merged all previous Advance Wars stuff from 2023 into this page

See also this page about converting Dune 2000 to an advance wars like game

Old games nostalgia hits me again and this time I find myself doing a quick sketch of Sami, Andy and Max from Nintendo's Advance Wars series. AW is incredibly addictive stuff and is probably one of the best turn based war games ever made.

4 fictional but realistic countries; yellow comet (japan), green earth (germany), blue moon (russia) and orange star (the states) are pitted against each other until they join forces and defeat a fourth, hi tech nation, the black hole (which reminds me of nazi germany due to dress codes and the evil intentions)

You pick a commanding officer from a list of lovely designed weirdos who posses unique special powers, build tanks, infantry, planes, ships and the usual war machine lot, capture cities, bases and all.

Panzer General (pc), Field Commander (psp) and Shattered Union (pc) are namely a few of similar games but surprisingly non are as good as good old Advance Wars.

Commanding Officers of the Orange Star Army. Sneaky Sami, Brute Max and Mr Fixit, Handy Andy

advance wars - yellow comet co's sensei, kanbei, sonja

Commanding Officers of the Yellow Comet Army from Advance Wars. Old fart Sensei, Pop star lookalike emperor Kanbei and his daughter the nerd chick Sonja.

Commanding Officers of the Blue Moon Army from Advance Wars. Grit, Olaf, Colin.

Commanding Officers of the Blue Moon Army from Advance Wars. The laid back cowboy Grit, santa's aggressive twin Olaf and the timid rich kid Colin.

Any multiplayer veteran should know Grit was one of the most broken CO's in the game as his day to day bonus to artillery range and strength allowed cheap victories by placing hordes of infantry front of ranged units to be used as meat-shields.

Advance Wars Green Earth CO's Drake, Jess and Eagle.

Commanding Officers of the Green Earth Army from Advance Wars. Captain Drake, Supply & Logistic expert Jess and superior air force commander Eagle. Jess always felt too tomboy so I tried to make her look more feminine.

Jess is one of my favourite CO's in the game, Her special power allows all her units to replenish their fuel and ammo allowing them to push forward without stopping to re-supply. It also gives movement and attack bonus to all ground units (apart from infantry) which is always a great bonus to have in turn based games. She receives penalties to her air and naval units but most maps focus on ground units anyway.

Such a shame her infantry units were weaker than the average infantry, making her a slightly poor choice in Advance Wars 2 as AW games heavily rely on meat shielding long ranged units with infantry. This was balanced in AW Dual Strike as they made her troops as strong as the rest.