AWDS Hard Campaign Guide - Mission 21: Healing Touch
Difficulty: Moderate.
Objective: Destroy all six Black Crystals.
Suggested Main CO for Orange Star: Kanbei.
Support CO for Orange Star: Sonja.
Suggested Main CO for Blue Moon: Javier, Max.
Support CO for Blue Moon: Jess, Andy.
Suggested skills for Main COs: Sand Scorpion, Slam Guard/Tower Power, Slam Shield, Snipe Shield.
Suggested skills for Support COs: All three Tag bonuses, Sand Scorpion.
General Strategy
This mission requires you to prioritise enemy units to destroy as well as destroying the Black Crystals as quickly as possible. For this reason alone, you should pick COs that have good defencive capabilities rather than having lots of attack power. However, the reason why you shouldn't choose Von Bolt for this mission is because you need a CO power to further improve your defence. For Kanbei, this would be 150 defence against direct attacks and 142 defence against indirect boosted to 160 direct and 152 indirect upon CO Power. Even though you can only wrestle one Tower per army, one tower is enough for Javier upon CO Power. 140 attack power, 140 direct defence and 180 indirect.
Even though all of the units are initially at 2HP, the computer has six Communication Towers at their command so even at 2HP, that's very powerful and as the fight drags on, the enemy becomes stronger and stronger. You cannot afford to drag this battle out any further than five days before the enemy becomes very strong. Try to eliminate as much as four Crystals upon day three.
In-Depth Guide
In your first day, you should destroy three crystals for the easiest time. Destroy the biggest hitters with your weaker units and get a foot soldier to the silos to the South of the map. With them, you can reduce the effect of one of the Crystals for one day.
I highly recommend you to destroy the units that threaten your air units and the Megatank. Reconnaissance annoyingly are something the AI can throw themselves against your Megatank to deplete it of its ammunition. Your Neotank, Bomber and Stealth Fighter should be protected as much as possible because they are the highest maneuvering units that can destroy Crystals in one hit.
My Score: 3 days, 300 points. Kanbei/Sonja (Orange Star), Max/Andy (Blue Moon).