This stage was a bit more exciting because of the new original enemy units that appear. The stage is kinda divided into two parts. In the first half, you'll be fighting the Alpha numbers again. Just like in Stage 8, you'll want to use spirit commands that increase your hit rate against, Kamille, Duo, Heero, Quatre, Kira, and Mu. But make sure to save the spirit commands that give you 100% hit rate for the second half of the stage if you want to get the skill point for this stage.
Once you complete the objective, an event will occur and a new batch of enemies will appear. The challenge mission for this stage is quite difficult to achieve without abusing the in-game save and reset. Since I didn't need to get the skill points as I'm not going for the good ending, I ignored it in this stage. The challenge mission is to destroy the Varuch Ishar. However, if it's HP hits below 4000, the stage will end. So you will need to get the Varuch Ishar down to near 4000 HP and then use an attack that will destroy it in one go. What makes this hard is the unit has a barrier and high evade rate. This is why you want to save the 100% hit rate spirit commands. To do more than 4000 HP damage at once, you'll want to use the support attack from another platoon. Saving before attacking will be very helpful in case you miss or you find out you can't do enough damage.
Just be careful with the Varuch Bens. They actually have a better hit rate than normal enemies and can do some pretty good damage if you're not careful.
Two notes for translation:
- The defeat dialogue by the Alpha numbers don't seem to change. At least with the ones that appeared here, they are the exact same as the one seen in stage 8.
- At 1:06:03 of the video, when Ades gets damage from a Balshem, he refers to the attacker as Naturals. Don't ask me why. It is definitely not a translation error.
The video is 1 hour and 20 minutes long. I'm considering diving videos up into two parts when they get over an hour for future uploads. Remember that there are markers in the description, which you can use to skip to various event points. I've omitted the defeat dialogues for the Alpha numbers this time around as they are the same as the ones in stage 8.
Here's the video:
Update 2: Video has completed last night. Enjoy!
Uh... I thought Super Gundam's weapon is Long Rifle?
ReplyDeleteHah, you're right! This is what happens when you try to rush... I just hope that's the only mistake.
DeleteI thought this stage was tougher than the last one, mainly because there aren't any grunts to kill and get those early Will gains, and also because the whole Alpha Number squad acts as a group this time (except for Kira who flies off and does his own thing for the first couple turns)?
ReplyDeleteFair few original enemies introduced as well - Almana is cute ^^
Had a lot of fun playing this mission, thanks for the translation. Hopefully you finish MH3U soon, so it frees up more time for @3!