Tank Ops! is the first mission in Advance Wars 1: Re-Boot Camp, and it centers around driving Olaf away from Coral Fortress. While it is not extremely difficult to complete this preliminary mission, players that want to beat it with an S-rank will need to take some fairly specific actions. This guide is here to provide further details on those actions, and fans can find a day-by-day walkthrough of Advance Wars 1: Re-Boot Camp's Mission 1 in what follows.
To note, this walkthrough is certainly not the only path toward earning an S-rank in Advance Wars 1: Re-Boot Camp's Tank Ops! mission, and the final turns in particular can be approached in a variety of ways. Indeed, the key to those final turns is blocking the Medium Tank's movement while a unit captures the blue HQ, and there are many acceptable configurations. As such, fans of strategy games should not feel beholden to executing exactly what is depicted below.
Advance Wars 1 Re-Boot Camp Walkthrough: Mission 01 Tank Ops!
Day 1
- Move Artillery to position across bridge.
- Load top Mech into APC, move APC across bridge and to right of top-most building, and drop Mech into building.
- Move bottom twoInfantry directly down toward free cities.
- Move Tank to the free city in middle and attack Tank.
- Move remaining Infantry and Mech toward river, matching above image.
Day 2
- Move two bottom-leftInfantry into free cities and start capture.
- Advance Wars fans should move middleMech down and attack Infantry.
- Move Artillery onto city from which Mech just moved.
- Fire Tank at blue Artillery.
- Move remaining Infantry and Mech to match above image.
Day 3
- Use Nelle'sPower.
- Complete capture on bottom-left cities.
- Fire Artillery at Tank with 9 health.
- Move APC back to top-left red city.
- Fire Tank at Artillery.
- Fire bottom Mech at remaining Tank.
- Move remaining Infantry and Mech to match image.
Day 4
- Fire Artillery at Infantry with 8 health.
- Fire top Mech at remaining Infantry.
- Fire back Infantry at top Mech.
- Move top Infantry down to match image.
- Fire Tank at top Mech.
- Move Mech down to match image.
- Move APC forward to match image.
- Move remaining Infantry forward to match image.
Day 5
- Move front Infantry down to match image.
- Fire Tank at Mech in this Switch exclusive.
- Move Artillery forward and up to match image.
- Move Infantry to city across bridge and start capture.
- Move bottomMech to city to left of bridge and start capture.
- Move bottom-leftInfantry forward to match image.
Day 6
- Fire top Mech at Mech.
- Move APC down and load Mech.
- Move remaining units to match image.
Day 7
- Advance units to match images.
Day 8
- Advance units to match images.
Day 9
- Move right Infantry onto HQ and start capture
- Move APC onto bridge below Medium Tank and unload.
- Move remaining units to match images.
Day 10
- Complete capture on HQ to earn S-Rank and progress Advance Wars 1 campaign.
Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp is available now on Nintendo Switch.
