Advance Wars: Dual Strike: Why tag powers are broken

[@butteredsalmonella]

Gotta love that sweet +2 movement

[@tadeogomez7303]

To quote a comment I saw on SuperPaltos23's extension of the Black Hole Tag CO Power theme: "Prepare for your units to be shot in the back, Abraham Lincoln style."

[@endeavorrattata7839]

Heh don't forget, Adder + Koal's Tag Power gives a Fighter Plane 22 move. And Mech units gets a whopping 8 move out of this Tag Power. Btw their Power bar is short so they could easily get a tag early. Isn't it very annoying? I actually use this combos with my friends to take them off guard with their indirects.

[@Polaris5664]

With this combo you can fight indirects with your own indirects with the extra move and indirects being able to move and shoot!

[@lordmarshmal_0643]

Tbh my personal favorite duo, even if it doesn't gain a firepower boost, is Hachi/Kanbei. It's extremely effective especially for maps with limited production tiles. Gotta keep those units alive so you can pull a fast one~And I actually used it first against Grimm and Sensei. Very effective (Kanbei to counter Grimm's boost and to exploit his defense drop, Hachi because he's Hachi), too.

[@Prodawg]

My favorite duo is eagle and sami so i can cap the hq from across the map

[@Majster4K]

@@Prodawg You're a speed

[@angeljafbenitez1843]

And there are more powerful, Like Eagle and Sami, Andy and Hawke, or Sasha and Colin

[@86niisan8686]

your just mentioning the ones that are rated high by the game... nothing comes close to colin and kanbei or hachi and kanbei.. Buy with the cheap one... even use colins 2 star 50% money increase and then buy, switch back to kanbei and fight... then when your near the enemies base save your money, keep hammering with kanbei, and when both meters are full and you have 25.000 or more on bank you have 2 super powered kanbeis and you can move twice!

[@RandalfElVikingo]

@@86niisan8686 The game does not rate the Powers, the stars mean +10% of luck in every attack, that's why Rachel and Nell is so broken.

[@lordbekon6133]

Or Eagle and Drake

[@Tenhys]

@@RandalfElVikingo It also doesn't rate skills. During campaign (especially on Hard), skills just destroy the game in and of itself : reduction of deployment cost, increase in defence, HP repaired, Fund per turn, negating hill or forest cost movement, increasing cap speed, drastically increasing offensive power during meteo hazard, increasing vision field during Fog of War, etc. But the ones that i find to be the most broken are, without a doubt, the CO's teamwork skills : increase offense by +5%, followed by another +8% and then a flat +10% defensive increase. By giving those to the second tagging CO, any main average CO becomes a slightly more powerful version of Von Bolt on a daily basis - while still having four skills of his/her choosing to pick. And THAT is absurd. Here's a couple example why : By adding the +8% and +12% defensive skills (for a total of +30% when everything is combined), you essentially make your CO reach Kanbei's level of defensive power during his days in "Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising" but without the +20% cost increase ; giving said bonuses to Kanbei himself renders him nigh untouchable by anything the A.I. can and will send at you in campaign (which when paired with Sonja and their three stars tag compatibility, raises his chances of dealing additionna damages by an additionnal +15%. Absurd doesn't even cover it.) In contrast, giving the +5% and +8% offensive skills (for a total of +26 % when combined) makes you direct combat units reach above Max level in a daily basis, without the -1 range penalty to indirect. Giving said bonuses to Eagle makes him arguably one - if not THE - most powerful CO in the game. The reason being that, since his air units are 20% more powerful on average (so already at Max's level), they get to a considerable 146% firepower and 110% defense with said skills when combined. But the most important thing to consider is *that his basic CO power of merely three small stars* makes all his units (apart infantry) move twice in a single turn but at the steep cost of reducing their firepower to 70% for Air units, 60% for vehicles and 55% for naval units. Thus, the direct combat skills, when combined, reduces those penalties by 26%. So it becomes a reduction of firepower to 96% for air, 86% for vehicles and 81% for naval units (which significantly reduces the gap.) Add on top of that the compatibility stars (which is three for Eagle when paired with Sami - thus 15% damage luck increase) to which you can add the luck increase skill as well and you got the recipe for the flying bulldozer of doom. And i barely scratched the surface, here. The number of downright broken combo you can pull out with that shit is so insane, that the concept of "Hard" in the Hard campaign simply disappear altogether.

[@MisterVercetti]

Or Kanbei and Javier.

[@MDKGunner]

I'm not familiar with the game so i'm unsure but what does the tag power you used do? also i didn't know you streamed

[@Demonicdan3]

It's a turn based strategy game, each unit under your control can only move or attack once a turn. Tag power breaks the game by making it so that your units can move or attack twice during a single turn, allowing for some very ridiculous game winning strikes in a single turn. Also gotta love that evil music.

[@MDKGunner]

I figured out that it's a turn based game i just meant the rest of it lol

[@MBey13]

You forgot that their Super CO Powers are included too, meaning if certain powers combine, then you could win the game already. :)

[@galacticsurf979]

+Primson Yao Bro, why are you on every Advance Wars DS video I look up lol

[@Sammy102093]

+MDKGunner Using Dual Strike with Sami/Eagle is overpowered

[@Neonlight3934]

I think Sami/Eagle is a better example.

[@yunh9055]

what emulator are you using? i want to run games smooth like that

[@Demonicdan3]

I believe this is desmume, but there have been better and more recent DS emulators released since then.

[@butteredsalmonella]

For android there's drastic, it also has a built-in cheat user.

[@dudemevill1699]

In drastic you can cheat by changing the color of the four players, even if you make them all the same and you can also use the black hole color.