AWDS Hard Campaign Guide - Mission 19: Into the Woods
Difficulty: Easy - Moderate.
Objective: Capture the Head Quarters or rout the enemy.
Suggested Main COs for Orange Star: Kanbei, Hawke.
Suggested Main COs for Blue Moon: Grit, Sasha.
Support COs for Orange Star: Sonja, Andy.
Support COs for Blue Moon: Max, Colin.
Suggested skills for Main COs: Scout, Eagle Eye, Pathfinder/Slam Guard, Slam Shield.
Suggested skills for Support COs: All three tag bonuses, Eagle Eye.
General Strategy
There are four Ooziums on this map. For this map, it's highly desireable to know where they are so they aren't clumped together. Orange Star will really see all four Ooziums but will see two directly to the forest to the East of the Head Quarters close to the Communications Tower. Positioning your Rockets, Artillery and Megatank, Md. Tank and Tanks to dispose of them. However, only attack when you know nothing else is around them. You really do have to surround them with three or four units in order to destroy it. Look out for the enemy Rockets and two Artillery units.
The enemy also has two Reconnaissance units and several Battle Helicopters at their disposal. Nine times out of ten, Candy/Kindle/Lash will send at least one Battle Helicopter to the Far south so keep an Anti-Aircraft unit handy to the South to take it out in one hit.
Blue Moon however, has an onslaught of Md. Tanks, Tanks, Battle Helicopters and an Anti-Aircraft unit to face off against. Careful positioning will be required to keep your Technique score intact. You do after all, have two Rockets, two Artilleries, a Md. Tank, Anti-Aircraft, Tanks and several foot soldiers to attack with. With careful positioning, you can easily take them all on. Especially with Grit's extended range.
In-Depth Guide
Your best bet is to move as far forward as possible on the first day to establish a stable foothold in the Western edge of the forest and wait for the Ooziums to approach you so you can destroy them. Keep an eye on the Mountain ridge Woods where the indirects can hide in. Try to destroy both Reconnaissance units and the Missiles units as soon as possible to destroy the computer's sight.
Once you've survived the inevitable Tag, send one of your healthy units to deter Black Hole from capturing the neutral airport or even launching a Missile from a Silo.
For Blue Moon, Don't bother with going East at all. Instead, squash all of your units as far West as possible so when Orange Star initiates Black Hole's Tag, they will be able to survive because Black hole will only JUST reach the units at the front. Md. Tank, Tanks and Anti-Aircrafts or even Armoured Personnel Carriers should be placed at the front and your indirects at the back. Once you've taken them all out, advance to the East and destroy the Megatank. The AI will not attack you at all unless you move RIGHT next to it or it is not at full health.
My Score: 12 Days, 300 points, Kanbei/Sonja (Orange Star), Max/Grit (Blue Moon).