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Jess

Vehicles have 10% more firepower. Everything else has 10% less firepower.

Turbo Charge: Vehicle firepower rises to be +30% and their movement increases by 1. All units have their fuel and ammo replenished.

Overdrive: Vehicle firepower rises to be +50% and their movement increases by 2. All units have their fuel and ammo replenished.

Meter: ***★★★

Extra Info: On a ground-based map, Jess is similar to Max with her stronger tanks. However, rather than relying on air units for assistance, she can use artillery and rocket units very effectively. That said, her CO Powers do resupply air, sea and soldier units as well as vehicles. Speaking of her instant resupplying ability, APCs may seem redundant because of it. However, since APCs count as vehicles, they also get the movement boosts. Put simply, Jess is very good.

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Lash

For every terrain star a unit gains, it gets 10% extra firepower.

Terrain Tactics: All units have their movement costs reduced to 1 on all terrains. Unit defence rises to +10%.

Prime Tactics: All of Lash’s units get twice the amount of terrain stars, plus all the effects from Terrain Tactics.

Meter: ****★★★

Extra Info: Lash is a decent CO who can do both attack and defence pretty strongly. She is only really that strong on a ground-based map, unfortunately. Her air and sea units are by no means useless but they rarely (or in the case of air units, never) get to use terrain stars. In that sense, she’s similar to Jess. Lash’s CO Power is decent in maps with a lot of forests, mountains and (if she has a lot of tire units) plains. Most of the time, you should save up for Prime Tactics – the true value of it really becomes apparent in property-heavy maps. 60% extra attack and 70% extra defense on properties is pretty powerful.

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Drake

Sea units have 1 extra movement point and 10% stronger defences. Air units have 30% less attack power. His movement isn’t affected by rain, which occurs more often in maps with random weather.

Tsunami: All enemy units lose 1HP and half their fuel. His units get 10% more defence.

Typhoon: All enemy units lose 2HP and half their fuel. His units get 10% more defence. Rain falls for a day.

Meter:****★★★

Extra Info: With so much water flying around, Drake can be quite an annoyance. He isn’t really a firepower specialist, and he doesn’t need to be with his CO Powers. The movement boost is obviously useful for Subs and Cruisers, with them being able to move quicker. It’s also very good for Landers – they are meant to get your ground troops over sea quickly after all. Battleships have a little fight vs. flee problem which is a bit annoying, but it’s also good for getting B-ships into range. Generally you should save up for Typhoon, but using Tsunami in a fog-of-war map is probably preferable to losing some vision (Drake isn’t totally immune to rain, just the movement slowing).

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Indirect-combat units have 20% more firepower and a wider attack range – one square wider to be precise. Direct-combat units (soldiers aside) have 20% less firepower.

Snipe Attack: Grit’s indirect combat units are made even stronger – their attack boost rises to 50% instead of 20%. Their range increases by a further one space. All units get 10% more defence.

Super Snipe: Grit’s indirect combat units are made even stronger – their attack boost rises to 50% instead of 20%. Their range increases by a further one space. All units get 10% more defence.

Meter: ***★★★

Extra Info: Grit’s ratio of strengths to weaknesses makes him seem underpowered. This couldn’t be more wrong. The thing about Grit is that his increased attack range is actually a massive advantage. With his immensely powerful artillery, you’re basically using a long-ranged Md. Tank. What’s more, there is nothing that can counter Grit’s range whatsoever. Kanbei’s strong defences can help but not that much – Grit could just outspend him. Adder, Max, Jess and (to a degree) Eagle and Lash’s faster movement can help a bit but give Grit a chokepoint and you’re buggered. Sad thing is, this was probably an oversight on the developer’s part.

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