Armored Core: Master of Arena - Napoleon (no human plus upgrades)

Pretty much every video I found used human plus, so I wanted to show how I do it. 90% of fights in this game can be cheesed in the parking lot arena. The only ones you can't cheese are the more advanced sword-mechs with somewhat good AI (JP tournament league and master league). This strat should work for pretty much all of those fights. Napoleon isn't the hardest fight in the game but he is the nr.1 ranked mech in the master arena. Everything that works on him also works on other strong mechs.
You want to fly up at a bit of an angle and fire your missiles from a medium distance (fly back if needed). This does involve some rng since your missiles can miss. Damage is usually anywhere between 1500 and 5000. After you run out of fuel to fly, drive backwards or forwards and circle around your opponent. You should do this at a bit of an angle (press down and right while strafing for example) to avoid the sword waves. Depending on the mech, you actually want to get close and bait sword attacks. Napoleon is one of those mechs: If you're too far away, he'll keep spamming his grenades. If you get close instead, he will try to melee you and miss like an idiot.
And yes, I named my mech Nova like the edgelord I am. I spent like half an hour making my emblem the Startropics supernova icon lol.

[@Asirpa_]

Well played