Spoilers! Cheesing final boss.

[Thunderdrake3]

is there a cheesy way to kill the tank? Penetration order, hit it with mortars maybe? What worked for you guys?

[Toxin]

Heading with the haven to the left spawnpoint and hugging the ice mountain thing placing an grenadier with ap weapon and eng for ammo then take the rest to kind of bumrush the other 2 spots with an eng to stop the diving (and reinforcments). Worked pretty good but some misssteps and bad luck on my side destroyed the A ranking in Hard mode. Bonus Points with 2 AP Gren btw as the move phase of the tank will get so much interception fire that he will lose almost all gun enplacements instantly

[Young Erusean Officer]

I have to test this in normal mode of the mission but you can use a sniper to shoot at the well hidden 'headlight' radiators at the front when the top radiators aren't exposed. With a hit you can force the radiators to open meaning you can knock two out before it goes for a swim.

[Thani]

You can 2-turn the final mission by stacking orders on Riley with an Elias. Blast Boost, Penetration, Attack Weakspot on Riley allows her to hit all four Radiators at the same time if you target the direct middle of the submarine tank. You never actually need to take her to the Centurion.

Use the first turn to get her in position near where it surfaces on turn 2, and then use all the CP to stack orders on turn 2 and then attack with Riley. It takes two direct hits if you don't use postgame anti-armor launchers, as the first hit in the center will leave all four Radiators with like 10% health left.

[Thunderdrake3]

Thanks Thani!

[springy]

the description in the weapons tab says its designed to survive a valkyrian blast yet it dies to a single mortar round

[ukie]

Originally posted by Thani:

You can 2-turn the final mission by stacking orders on Riley with an Elias. Blast Boost, Penetration, Attack Weakspot on Riley allows her to hit all four Radiators at the same time if you target the direct middle of the submarine tank. You never actually need to take her to the Centurion.

Use the first turn to get her in position near where it surfaces on turn 2, and then use all the CP to stack orders on turn 2 and then attack with Riley. It takes two direct hits if you don't use postgame anti-armor launchers, as the first hit in the center will leave all four Radiators with like 10% health left.

Yes, just APC carry Riley and unload her on the first turn (may need to kill a grenadier if you choose to position her southeast of where the boss would show up on turn 2; I don't remember whether the grenadier is present in both normal and hard mode of the fight or just hard mode). Save your CP on first turn to get carried over to turn 2 so you have enough to turn Riley into she-hulk with orders.

Occasionally (at least for me) I'd kill all the targets on the tank but the mission doesn't get cleared. You may want to save just before you shoot with Riley.

[Enorats]

Originally posted by Thani:

You can 2-turn the final mission by stacking orders on Riley with an Elias. Blast Boost, Penetration, Attack Weakspot on Riley allows her to hit all four Radiators at the same time if you target the direct middle of the submarine tank. You never actually need to take her to the Centurion.

Use the first turn to get her in position near where it surfaces on turn 2, and then use all the CP to stack orders on turn 2 and then attack with Riley. It takes two direct hits if you don't use postgame anti-armor launchers, as the first hit in the center will leave all four Radiators with like 10% health left.

This doesn't seem to work for me. She takes out all of the turrets on the entire back half of the tank, but the radiators don't seem to take any damage at all.

[ukie]

Originally posted by Enorats:

Originally posted by Thani:

You can 2-turn the final mission by stacking orders on Riley with an Elias. Blast Boost, Penetration, Attack Weakspot on Riley allows her to hit all four Radiators at the same time if you target the direct middle of the submarine tank. You never actually need to take her to the Centurion.

Use the first turn to get her in position near where it surfaces on turn 2, and then use all the CP to stack orders on turn 2 and then attack with Riley. It takes two direct hits if you don't use postgame anti-armor launchers, as the first hit in the center will leave all four Radiators with like 10% health left.

This doesn't seem to work for me. She takes out all of the turrets on the entire back half of the tank, but the radiators don't seem to take any damage at all. Heck, I can drop mortars directly on top of the radiators and they don't damage them. Maybe they fixed this?

You also need the increase blast radius order. Aim dead center or just behind (still midline of boss tank but slightly closer to its rear-facing cannon)

[Katajiro]

3 grenadiers must be stationed in each end of the map - one in the North, one in the East, one in the West. Make sure to hide them behind your tank tank/apc or level geometry when the turn ends. In the beginning of each turn buff the grenadier that is closest to the boss with demolition boost and penetration - this is enough to oneshot one of the radiators, the main cannon and one emerging enemy grenadier. The victory is achievable in 5 turns both on normal and hard mode using this tactic.

[Soulphia]

i just blocked off the top area and fought the tank in the bottom left area, also used a engineer to build ladders onto the sides of the tank and used lancers to hit the generators from up top, 1 - 2 hits will destroy a single generator causing it to shut them, doing this along with defense orders on the lancers make the turrets on the ship pretty useless and using a engi to revive your downed lancers when it runs away fixes that issue. also using a sniper and shock troopers to deal with the troop spawns makes that easy to deal with. Hide your engi behind the ice cube to avoid it getting hit by the turrets.

(ps. i completed the full game without a single death on normal, first playthrough)

[Thunderdrake3]

Originally posted by Takanoshiden:

(ps. i completed the full game without a single death on normal, first playthrough)

Chapter 16?

[Kn8cK]

Originally posted by Thani:

You can 2-turn the final mission by stacking orders on Riley with an Elias. Blast Boost, Penetration, Attack Weakspot on Riley allows her to hit all four Radiators at the same time if you target the direct middle of the submarine tank. You never actually need to take her to the Centurion.

Use the first turn to get her in position near where it surfaces on turn 2, and then use all the CP to stack orders on turn 2 and then attack with Riley. It takes two direct hits if you don't use postgame anti-armor launchers, as the first hit in the center will leave all four Radiators with like 10% health left.

I call ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. You can only destory one (1) generator on the tank per turn. (There are 4 in total) You need at LEAST 4 turns/phases to win the last mission.

[Thunderdrake3]

What were those three orders in the video?

[Thunderdrake3]

Thanks.

[Katajiro]

Originally posted by Tsundere Kanojo:

Originally posted by Cutie Honey:

I call ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. You can only destory one (1) generator on the tank per turn. (There are 4 in total) You need at LEAST 4 turns/phases to win the last mission.

It's entirely possible, there are even Youtube videos that show this off as well.

Like this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9RyIwyidGs

This is the cheesiest way imaginable. Thanks for sharing.