[AW2(2003) Hard Campaign Redo #31] Rain Of Fire (300 S-Rank)

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Your mileage may vary with the AI movements, but I've found a decent starter that should net you an easy win within 15 turns regardless of RNG:
Dropping the infantry onto the north road instead of the forest makes Hawke move his south recon up the north path, and block his MD tank, which causes it to take 5 lava damage
This will also let you move your infantry within range of the neutral city in your base without Hawke moving his south recon into range(and thus give you 26000 funds by turn 4 instead of 25000, letting you build a recon to use as bait to make the lava hit Hawke's north tank)
Hawke's starting units will go whichever way is the shortest distance to one of your own units it would fire upon, which is why we need to move a tank to the east, causing him to move his tank + MD tank south
If you don't target Hawke's southwest mech with your tank, it'll fire on your infantry and prevent you from building a Neo-tank(you can also opt for an APC + infantry early and build a MD tank instead)

Other than that, play a standard game and go for the HQ capture. This map will help you avoid lava hits: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/gba/589.... An 11 turn win might be possible with perfect RNG if Hawke moves all his units south besides the mechs, but you'll need to build up enough star power for your SCOP and hope Hawke doesn't use his COP after dropping your infantry.



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