AWDS Hard Campaign Guide - Mission 27: For the Future!
Difficulty: Moderate - Hard.
Objective: Destroy the Black Obelisk.
Suggested COs for Orange Star: Kanbei/Javier.
Suggested COs for Blue Moon: Grit/Max.
Suggested COs for Green Earth: Eagle/Andy.
Suggested skills for Main Orange Star CO: Tower Power, Star Power, Slam Shield, Snipe Shield.
Suggested skills for Main Blue Moon CO : Seamanship, Backstab, Brawler, Sniper.
Suggested skills for Main Green Earth CO: APC Boost, Slam Shield, Fire Sale, Gold Rush.
Suggested skills for Support COs: All three tag bonuses, anything else.
General Strategy
A hard mission to get a perfect score but relatively easy to complete otherwise. Your main attacking force is not Orange Star, it is both Blue Moon and Green Earth. Green Earth has access to the highly manoeuvrable Aerial units and Blue Moon has the destructive Naval units. Both fronts can completely destroy the Black Obelisk in one hit with the correct CO and the correct skills, especially Green Earth's Bomber and Stealth Fighter. Of course, the hard part is getting there in one piece and past the Megatank sitting in front of it. This is where Blue Moon comes in to help out, albeit much slower than Green Earth's Aerial units but help is help nonetheless.
Orange Star's role in this mission is difficult. You've got to hold your ground against a lot of units. This is where being Kanbei is useful to begin with until you capture at least two Communication Towers then switch over to Javier for extra defence. In this way, you should give all the Tag bonuses to Kanbei and give him the Conqueror ability so when you finally switch over to Javier, you can benefit from bonuses from the Communication Towers and the extra Tag bonuses.
How you defend is simple, what you need to remember is to constantly refresh your units. Of course, this is much easier said than done but as Javier, you should be able to thwart most attacks from Von Bolt by standing your ground while sitting on top of the Communication Towers. Capturing the third and last one will be the most troublesome, especially without the Conqueror skill, otherwise, you will have to resort to surrounding the foot soldier to prevent any direct units from attacking it.
In-Depth Guide
The Piperunners pose the greatest threat on this map. Able to fire upon anything and everything other than submerged Submarines or cloaked Stealths. You can, (most of the time) destroy them with well positioned units from either Blue Moon or Green Earth. However, the best way is to deploy your own Piperunners to deal with this matter from Orange Star. Colin would be your best bet here but then he suffers from only having 130 defence at the most (Only...) compared to Javier's 175.
I would heavily rely on Green Earth to do all the damage while Blue Moon supports Orange Star. Do not bother with Pipe seams and watch out for the Piperunner out-ranging even Grit's Artillery unit. Attack the Minicannons to give Orange Star an easier time and if possible, bunch together the Carrier, Battle Helicopter and an extra Cruiser or two together to let Von Bolt hit that with his Super Power rather than Orange Star.
My Score: 11 days, 300 points, Javier/Kanbei, Max/Grit, Eagle/Andy.