those new HD animations and assets really makes good well bodied content meal for content creators lol.

In case no one told you Mangs, you need to finish the AW1 campaign, unlock all the alternate routes you didn't take, then beat every mission you didn't finish and then Rivals unlocks. You don't need to use Eagle in the final battle

As someone financially irresponsible; this is extremely useful

Thanks for the shoutout Mangs and welcome to all the new Advance Wars players! You have only scratched the tip of the Advance Wars content iceberg and I'm jealous of the journey you're about to have!

>Mistake #10 only playing against friends >Reboot Camp only lets you play against friends F

The other mistake you forgot to mention is the Join Capp A lot of people make the mistake of joining the infanry first, losing its turn What you should do is capp first, then you join the other infantry Its a very small thing, but doing to former definetly will make you lose some cities that you would like to have

I think it’s important to point out that these tips are with a human opponent in mind. In the campaign they are useful too, but not all of them in every mission. For example, I found Infantry spam on the Mission where Sonja has to take down Adders fortress to be mostly useless once the first initial wave of Adders troops was destroyed and instead I opted for Rockets spam to shoot down the Mini Cannons.

As someone trying to play competitive AWBW, overextending is a massive trap I fall into all the time. But in the end, PVP in Advance Wars is some of the most satisfying and enjoyable multiplayer experiences I've had. Hope you all enjoy these tips from the Egg Man!

I'm glad that Reboot camp has in voice acting an official pronounciation for "Kanbei" so that I can say that an AW expert's mistake is calling him "Come By"

I just want to mention that I find it cute that in many of the mistakes Mangs put clips of his streams making those mistakes, it already shows that even someone who has been playing for so many years can still make those mistakes, not only newbies, it's something that we must all visualize when aiming to improve :D

As someone who uses neotanks as meatshields for my infantry, this was extremely helpful

The last point is actually true for basically any competitive game (or sport etc.). It's easy to think you're good when limiting yourself to the bubble of your social entourage, but more often than not you're barely even scratching the surface, which really good players are only to eager to demonstrate.

The tip you bring up with infantry is so on point it’s even true in real life. Even in the age of drones and loitering munitions, it’s often the boots on the ground that get things done. Good luck rescuing those hostages with a fighter jet, best wishes taking a city with only tanks. Ground is never gained and taken until the boots hit the ground.

The exception to mech spam is if you're playing in a map with a lot of rough terrain. In areas where the other units won't have as much mobility, mechs don't care and will keep trudging along through mountains as if they were fields.

I learned that in predeployed mission, always capture cities You never know when healing your tanks and recons is gonna come in handy and the deeper the better for certain missions

As someone who cannot advance wars for the life of him this is appreciated. Thank you Mangs.

Just a note: A lot of those rules don't apply to certain missions of the campaign. Sometimes, you don't want to produce infantry at all and in fact, want to base skip so you can save up to build a missile to zone out a Fighter. By zoning out the fighter, you can keep your only battle copter safe for one extra turn so that you can successfully cap the only far out factory the enemy can get to and strip the enemy from producing units. Regarding indirects, if you're spamming infantry, you probably can spam indirects because your infantry can shield your indirects. Just make sure you have something to shield the indirects, and watch the indirect become the key to your wall.

#2 There's a term for that: Map presence. Without map presence you have less means to control the battlefield.

I'm glad that someone of your level of popularity finally mentioned that competitive AW is close in depth to chess. I even think that it has much more variability and depth thanks to all the CO's, larger maps, terrain features and so on. It REALLY does scratch "everything depends on you and you only" itch that most of modern strategy games are missing. Also, as someone who played AW1 back in 2002, i really appreciate you helping newer players get into the game, AW deserves every bit of popularity it gets!

New Player: When should I build Missiles? Mangs: Never. NP: But what if- Mangs: *Never*. NP: I’m playing Grit, facing Eagle and Hachi, in fog of war, with a good tree location I can defend and resupply it, including being able to block adjacent locations that helps me apply pressure against both opponents while defending my HQ. Mangs: Fine, but if it gets destroyed anyway Lash gets your Switch.

living for the advance wars content

Would you consider making a video for specifically PvE tips/mistakes? For those who have trouble in the campaign, abusing the AI is much different from other people, and is its own skill imo.

Always be aware of a units cost effectiveness. For one example: One Medium Tank vs 1 artillery 1 tank and 3 infantry units. If you are lacking units on the field it may be better to focus on deploying more units to keep up the pressure, on the other hand if you are in need of some extra Firepower within a turn or 2 having a unit like the Medium Tank on the field may help fix that.

Solid tips! One note: you say that spamming indirects is bad, but you don't clearly explain why that is. It's mainly bad because they take heavy damage and can't fire after moving, and I think that would be helpful to explain. Maybe an in-depth video on indirect strategies would be nice!

I've been watching you for years, I played through all the games (still playing through Reboot Camp), so I wouldn't call myself a novice, but I still find this video helpful. Thank you for the video, Mangs.

Another base tip is which base you use, if you have one close to the enemy highly prioritize combat vehicles on it, leave the further back for fast moving or infantry. Even to the debateable disadvantage of base skipping Another good tip is explaining that artillery is always less useful when on the offense, you can counter attack by luring powerful vehicles to attack infantry or APC's and getting a powerful first shot with a prepositioned artillery unit, artillery shines on the defensive or choke points and you can fight Med tanks with infantry and Arty if you're good enough like me 😂

I'd like to add, in FoW predeployed versus/campaigns, protect your APCs. They are far more of a loss than on maps you can build. Doubly so if you've got Air/Sea units, their ammo and fuel becomes finite and you lose them when out of fuel. Also in FoW maps, moving units around and then cancelling the move without waiting causes them to use fuel. This is to prevent "scouting" entire forests and reefs etc to spot enemies with a single or few units. You can run air units and especially Submarines out of fuel very fast by doing this.

You probably should have also mentioned that naval units are usually a terrible value and it's generally best to avoid building them apart from landers on certain maps.

im always a bit nervous when it comes to doing online pvp in strategy games, but im giving myself more time to learn the units the CO's and niche stuff before i go about it.

Yes! Thank you Mangs. I beat Dual Strike a while back, but I am in no means good at the game.

Luckily mangs often makes these mistakes on camera so his viewers can learn!

Most of these only apply to PVP. The War Room is a whole other beast where a lot of these recommendations break down, especially the infantry spam, base skipping and "stay in your defensive position". Overall more of a list of things to prepare for AWBW than improving at the games. Also mistake #2 at 1:21 is missing from the chapter list.

I am watching this right now while playing Advance Wars. I hope more videos like this with advice and AW content will come in the future. I have been watching you for several years now and even though I dont make the mistakes you listed its a big help because it reminds me that my logic is correct. I also enjoy hearing you talk about it. You are inspiring to me. I have never played AW by Web but I beat all the 4 original Games (And a little bit of Super Famicom Wars). The points in your videos are very good picked. Thank you for your help and entertainment Mangs, I hope you have a great day! Your videos also help 2 sad friends. And Reboot Camp gives me hope that we will get a good successor of Dual Strike. As someone who plays almost always as Kanbei (or other broken cos) I want to tell you that its definitely important to try out each Co to get a feeling for them. If you want to get good against other humans try each of them, there are a lot of fun playstyles. But also dont forget to have fun, that is the most important point that you enjoy playing a game.

I love Advance Wars. One of my favorite series! I've only ever played the single player campaigns and a little war room stuff, though, and I had no idea there even was a competitive scene until your videos started popping up! If there's one thing I've learned from them..... it's that I have no interest in competitive Advance Wars. Like, at all. Not even a little bit. I do just fine at the campaign's, but like- while I don't totally forgo infantry, I don't make nearly as many of them as I apparently should, because like.... at a certain point it starts becoming a HASSLE. Making and moving that many units? It starts piling up real quick, and as matches progress I tend to focus more on making Big units, with a barebones amount of infantry for capping. "Make and move infantry on every single one of your bases every single turn" immediately seems like it'd suck all the fun out of the game for me. That said, even if I'm not interested in doing it myself- still been lovin' watching your stuff! It's cool getting so much insight into this stuff, even if I'm not interested in doing it myself.

2:24 idk about that, I actually underlooked indirect units for years when I started

I will say watching your competitive videos helped me alot, I noticed how much easier a time i've had since playing the gba aw2 a few months back (played ds and dor before that) and using proper build order and especially apc movement, I was doing way better

That playing only one co tip applies to a lot of games, not just advance wars, you never learn how some characters play or their mechanics and you never learn their weaknesses

Tip#11: it's KanbEi not KanbAi. If you get it wrong, people will keep correcting you until you become bald from the stress of it.

While I haven't gotten in to AWBW myself, Advanced Wars has always been something I love and i've fallen into these a few times (kid me loved Colin's Power of Money and never understood how good Gold Rush actually was). A lot of these tips seem simple but they're pretty easy to fall into. One tip to trying out new COs and a personal challenge im currently in the process of myself right now on the reboot: Try to beat every war room map with every CO at least once (it's harder than it sounds). While the CPU isn't the greatest practice against human opponents, it's hard to ignore just the amount of practice you get using different COs in different conditions. Obviously you wouldn't use Drake for example on a map where you'd deploy a lot of air units but he doesn't have to be played solely on a sea based map either, as he suffers no penalties for land units. There's also the aspect that some maps will absolutely punish you for a wrong move and can quickly go south if you play poorly and have an unfavorable CO.

As a newer player whose already gravitating towards indirect units I've started looking at them as a important spacing tool on the backline as a rule. It can often make trying to sneak into your main base impossible if a indirect is cleverly placed in a city or forest (Depending on the map state) so long as it's supported by an APC and isn't out on the front lines. If your using Grit you can even play chicken with your Super CO power and keep your opponent guessing. I think I'm going to put a lot of focus into mastering them in the future since Area Denial is probably my favorite way to play Advance Wars.

Learning to use infantry changed me from being able to barely make it halfway through yellow comet in AW2 to getting S’s in Green Earth.

outstanding video eggboy! it can be tough to flourish at AW without tips like this so I hope people get the message of this video

Hi mangs! Great to see your enthousiasm to introduce new players to the AW basics now that it has been remastered 👍 One question: any plan on casting/playing 2v2 or 1v1v1(v1)? Haven't found any such content on your channel, any reason why?

Got it on launch day, been loving it! I remember having a friend who only used Kanbei and Colin. So I started mostly using Sami and Grit because infantry, mechs, and indirect units did a surprisingly good job of shutting him down. No matter how hard Kanbei's medium and neotanks hit, a couple of rockets will waste it and it can only hit 1 unit.

Super helpful video. I didn't have a GBA, and wasn't able to get into Advance Wars when it came out, really excited to finally give it a try.

On Tip #7, I think it's more accurate to say, "You can have your favorites, but get to know all of the COs in the game."

Thanks for making this Mangs!

I'm excited to see how many of these I do even though I've been playing for years

Hi Mangs (and friends)! This is a phenomenal video. Just what I needed at just the right time. I played AW a bit on the GBA, and now that the Switch version FINALLY shipped, I’m hooked. My challenge is, as much as I love the game, I suck at strategy games. But I keep coming back for more abuse. 😂 I really like what you shared and will definitely put your suggestions to work. I’m also glad you mentioned options for finding people to play with online. I was wondering what the best way was. I don’t have any friends that play Switch. Kind of a downside to being 48 and still playing Nintendo. But I don’t care. I’m having fun and that’s all that matters! You have a new subscriber and I just wanted to say thanks for the great content!

The beginners can have a little indirect attacking. As a treat.

game seems far easier than when i played original for gba still have it on my bookshelf. Absolutely loved it, going on school trios passes the gba between 4 of us playing vs. wish more people had this game back in the day i still remember playing it moving my infantry units walking through walmart. i wasnt waiting to play haha

6:24 Instructions unclear, i ended up becoming GrimmGuy

Omg the advice against overextending is really helpful! I never thought about the fact that your army will grow faster than your opponent's if you have higher income, and that you can use that to win a war of attrition.

Watching this video gave me a huge urge to look in my drawers for my DS and play Advance Wars ASAP to check what things I can do better now ...

I’ll be sure to keep these in mind. I actually have access to these games now I can finally play them rather than just watch them

I was not planning on buying this game, least of all for 60 bucks. But your content on the game this past week has sold me on it. Nintendo owes you something for helping to drive sales.

Thank you. I am guilting of doing some of these things. Like spamming mechs (especially playing as Sami) and spamming only indirects (when playing as grit). I’ve been playing since this game came out when I was in high school and I still suck at this game.

This is a perfect guide for anyone not just beginning players. If you're new to Advance Wars, definitely watch this! I will add something that's a good idea in relation to over-extending that Deejus said as an easy guideline to follow. You don't want to be within striking distance of an enemy tank on a base. So if you're more than 7 squares away from an enemy base, you should be good.

I feel like the one major failing of the AW1 campaign is that it doesn't effectively incentivize infantry for much of its run time. Too often the objectives are so unique that trickling out more men has little impact. On the one hand, this is good because you're going to run into varied and interesting encounters more often, on the other, it just does not properly train you for the later levels, the war room, or vs.

Totally thought beginner mistake 1 was picking Andy lol.

Great tips . One infantry per term, base skipping not advised. A great draft for those that are beginners thank you for sharing

hey mangs, thank you for all the AW content over the years! really scratched my itch. did you like the remake? is it worth it?

A beginner mistake I always do: Forgetting to finish capturing your COM Tower before attacking haha.

I have a bit of a dilemma with the first tip, in the campaign the maps are really chokepointy, causing a Russian-style traffic jam of infantry, or I don’t produce enough infantry in these situations or I make too many of them

Thx For The Tips Mangs!

Mangs, I wish to battle you on AWBW so you could show off my mistakes for beginners, I consider myself between a beginner and intermediate. It would make my day since you are my favorite Advance Wars KZfaqr.

Probably goes without saying, but for near all of these don't take them as hard rules, more a rule of thumb. For instance, yes, you could be building something on every base every turn, but if that leaves your economy in shambles and some of those bases are so far back that the unit won't see combat till the end of the game perhaps leave that one alone for a moment and see if you can build something that will make an impact on the situation closer to the front line. If the enemy has you holed up in a choke point then at a certain point throwing more tanks at it won't do anything more than sustain, consider saving for some indirect that can open up the choke point, or for some b-copters or bombers to go around the choke point if the enemy doesn't have much anti-air, play to whatever the enemy is neglecting, force them to adapt to meet you cause if you are controlling the beat of the game you are far more likely to win. Again, everything in the video is good rule of thumb, but you need to think about your situation and figure out what is going to give you actual impact. Sometimes having high numbers will win you the game, and sometimes you can hold off a legion with a skeleton crew at a choke point so you can force a situation elsewhere.

Beginner mistake #1: Paying Nintendo $60+ for 2 GBA games with minorly improved graphics and a mediocre multiplayer/mapmaking system

Thanks for listing my play style. Been playing since GBA.

I’ve been in AW games since 2004, but I’m watching this video anyway.

I think you may want to add a warning to that final tip: and if you want to *continue* playing against your friends, maybe stay away from awbw

so excited for this game. its sold out everywhere and completely impossible to find and i also have no storage on my switch

Saying it is as complex as chess is an understatement. It is much much more complex than chess 🙂

Great video! Thank you so much! You're the best!

Good reminders even for more experienced players. And a great thumbnail btw, nice work.

What a wonderful tips video, very well made and useful!!!

Yeah, I’ve been following you for a while, but I still feel very rough: a number of these mistakes I don’t think I make, but have follow ups that I probably do. Hope you don’t mind if I do a point for point reflection on my own play. 1. Neglecting Infantry. I don’t do this, in that I try to keep building infantry; how to use them is a different story. Making sure to build them doesn’t mean much when the infantry walls that tend to overwhelm me are just alien to my own playstyle. 2. Base Skipping. No notes, I don’t do this one unless I screw up cost calculations. 3. Spamming Indirects. I actually started doing the opposite on AWBW. I absolutely respect them, but I often find tanks more called for than artillery. Then again, I think my playstyle is a bit…scattered (see point 1). Probably not good, especially not good for keeping indirects alive long enough to do anything. I should also note that Rockets have fallen out of my favor of late: again, still greatly respect their range, but their movement and defense are terrible. 4. Spreading Forces Too Thin. Oh yeah, that’s the big one. Also hard wired in my brain at this point, gonna be hard and painful to fix this as it’s basically changing the entire core of my playstyle. Still, this is probably why I keep losing. 5. Spamming Mechs. If anything, I’ve gone the opposite way, almost never building Mechs instead of infantry. 6. Not Scouting. To be honest, I just don’t play FOW these days. It always felt like even if I did scout I’d just get jumped all the time. Not just in AWBW, In actual Advance Wars. Couldn’t really judge my own skill in FOW, over the fact that I simply don’t enjoy it. 7. Only Playing One CO. Yeah, I don’t really do this either. In War Room I’d try to pick out the best CO for the map (most of the time that was Grit, granted), and I’m a fan of a good number of AWBW low tiers. There are some COs I appreciate but just don’t play though, like Olaf. 8. Blindly Using CO Power. I think we’re all guilty of this from time to time, but I do try to put some thought into when it would actually be useful. That’s led to some funny matches on AWBW, like the mirror Hawke match where we each got a Black Storm off and then both just…never popped the second one. Basically a game of chicken that made it not worth it for either of us to pop. And then there was a recent game where I sat on Jake’s superpower because my opponent’s Grimm Knuckleduster just before ruined my chance to capitalize on it…and permanently shifted the match momentum so that I NEVER had that good time to pop my SP… 9. Overextending. I’m not sure how often I actually do this, mainly because mistake 4 often punished me before I get the chance. I guess I do have a habit of specifically overextending my infantry to cap; I’ve even done this knowing they’d likely die, in hopes of distracting the enemy from more expensive units like tanks. Yeah, it’s becoming more and more obvious as I write this that I have no idea what I’m doing… 10. Only Playing Against Friends. Straight up can’t. I play normal Advance Wars via emulator, so no link play or anything, all matches against humans have been through AWBW. Though yeah, between not being able to do AI exploits on an actual player and the fundamentally different design philosophy behind its maps, normal AW and AWBW are two very different experiences.

Thanks for the helpful list, I will definitely keep this in mind playing Advance Wars for the first time! Thankfully my experience with other strategy games has prevented me from making most of these mistakes, but I have so far definitely been guilty of mech spamming.

Another mistake I can think of is in Fog of War where you don’t take advantage of transporting infantry in mountains to extend the vision range, and speaking of FOW, in Reboot Camp Missile Chan has 5 Vision in FOW and I found that a bit crazy because I always knew they had like 1 or 2 vision range, I’m not kidding, I discovered this when I kept failing the Wings of Victory Mission with Sami Vs Eagle, I was on Classic Difficulty too, I wanna see how Mangs tackles that mission.

Round 2 Enemy: I can finally afford a recon Colin: *3 T A N K S*

Excellent video, very informative.

Watching your vids has helped me understand how to get better at Advance Wars, ever since I learned about your channel. One thing I appreciate is how some of those mistakes can happen in other competitive genres besides Tactics like Advance Wars, especially the last two. #9 can be a common mistake especially for RTS and MOBAs. #10 is a mistake I personally make a lot, because I LOVE playing fighting games with my friends and family, but like you said, getting better competitively requires opening up to challenging other strangers, not only because they might be better than me, but also they might have different playstyles from what I'm used to.

I won't buy reboot but I'm so happy of this relise because Mangs will drop out such mor content and believe me I love his content😊😊😊

The biggest mistake is easily: NOT PICKING DRAKE BABY! DRAKE BROS RISE UP!

i am a beginner and think i have one more good tipp for Beginner you need to look where to position your troops if you want to attack someone like Mangs at 6:19 with his recon

11th Not checking opposing hero power meters via the Intel tab 12th Moving an infantry to a bad spot and waiting with it instead of capping with it. Then resetting the turn and doing it again. Even vets do this. Amirite, Mangs? :D

I'm so happy to see new advance wars players now, finally the series is being recognized for it's greatness.

Hey Mangs, I know you probaply don't want to make any videos about awbw right now, but could you perhaps do a replay commentary on that match vs Nightmare you just showed some footage of? It looks like a real banger, and a good lesson on indirect usage.

A NEW ERA OF ADVANCE WARS CONTENT HAS STARTED!

#1 Mistake better be taking advice from Mangs, especially if it has anything to do with infantry.

Turning Flak/Kong into the Dong was genius, I lol'd hard. :D Personal advice: Don't panic and retreat when the enemy starts rolling out medium tanks before you do! Sure, it's scary when medium tanks, or gasp, Neotanks barrel down the road, farting any opposition straight into oblivion, while your tanks can only scratch them. But fear not, as that's the moment for indirects to shine, especially cheap artillery. Try to lure the enemy big boi into range (bait needed), and watch how the mighty medium tank receives one serious pounding. From a 6.000 funds-unit. Immediately cost-effective. Build two artillery which is still 4.000 cheaper, and see how the enemy melts - if he won't just retreat himself. Only exception is Kanbei: if he does come with a Neotank at you, then you have probably screwed up pretty badly and deserve to lose. This was even mentioned in the AW1-tutorial, which was unfortunately removed in the reboot.

My problem with AW's PvP is that it takes so much time to end a match if both sides are good players...

Bro, I just got back into AW since I was a kid and played on GBA. Thank you for making this channel, your other videos prove u are a real fan of the genre/franchise and it's exactly what I was looking for as someone getting back into RTS.

Mistake #7 - One-Tricking a CO GrimmGuy: "And I took that personally."

Now I want to see: Absolute beginner Sturm vs. Grandmaster Flack

I still struggle to keep my composure after an initial setback. At the moment, after the first combat skrimish at the center of the map, I usually end up losing that and then I'm constantly on the backfoot until I eventually resign since I see no way for a comeback. It always feels like my oppnents make no mistakes at all and all mine are immediately punished.

6:01 if people somehow don't know this, recon is the best scouts in advance wars and it makes sense since recon is short for reconnaissance

welcome all newcomers and veterans :) this is such a good time to play Advance Wars, I hope they patch it sometime for it to have online match making system

Alright, but what is a airport?

Mistake 1.5 - Dont do Mangs infantry.