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Earth Defence Force Tactics
Turn-based tactics game with elements of the Wars, Nectaris, and 大戰略 (AKA: Daisenryaku) series.
By thinkArts, who seem to have done a few of the Daisenryaku games around the same time (2005/6), but not the PS2 ones.
Guide
There's not much info around on how to play so here're some notes:
- When you're picking your units before the stage there doesn't seem to be a disadvantage to spending all the points you can. It's 4000 (or whatever) each time, no carry-over.
- Took me a minute to figure out why you kinda get two turns in a row. The second one's only for queuing up more units in your barracks. Hence the big text saying 'reinforcements'.
- The more bases you capture the more XP you get. When there's an ally army on the map I find it handy to send pale wings to go camp on places so they can't capture them :)
- Though units don't seem to actually gain XP unless I kill stuff with them? In the not-story mode they call the points you spend to buy units 'experience', so maybe it's that kind of experience…
- I thought dying and the 'Remove' command just sent a unit back to base, which seemed like a handy way to move them around, but it resets their experience level to 1. Whoops!
- Highest character level is 5.
- Online snooping suggests there are 100 stages. You play the first 50 as the EDF, and the second 50 as the aliens/invaders. The alien ones might be just the EDF ones repeated. Alien mode might be more difficult as the aliens are weaker.
- L1/2 move to next unit that hasn't acted yet, including those in bases. Makes it easy to check if you've don all your actions.
- Related: In the reinforcement stage it will just move you to the base. Saves you some scrolling :)
- Seems quicker to scroll the map with the analogue stick? Quicker acceleration?
Units
- Storm Unit: Basic unit, good for taking bases
- Ranger Unit: Too slow to be much use, usually. Can only fire it didn't move. Can shoot at range, and some weapons hit multiple hexes. Got an anti-air weapons recently.
- Armored Unit: I never even use them TBH. Can use various weapon types like flame-throwers and web guns. If they get anti-air might be a good pairing with tanks.
- Maintenance Unit: Can't fight for shit, but keeps your troops' guns loaded.
- Pale Wing Close Range Model:
- Pale Wing Ranged Model:
- Pale Wing Bomb Model: All weapons seems to come with Destroy Stronghold?
- Pale Wing Reconnaissance Model: Can see really far.
- Gigantes: Slow, but strong if you can get them into combat. Good for defending positions. Could pair well with a Ranger Unit behind?
- Bazerato: Helicoptor.
- Airbike: Their speed makes them really handy for capturing bases. Can hit hovering enemies too.
Lv | Level |
---|---|
FOW | Fog of War. How far they can see |
DR | Dodge Rate |
MP | Movement Power |
Fuel | Consumed when moving. Have only ran into trouble with it with pale wings, but it 'caused them to die and return to base. |
Unit | Lv | FOW | DR | MP | Fuel | Skills | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Storm | 1 | 1 | 28 | 4 | 50 | Overpower | |
〃 | 2 | 〃 | 30 | 〃 | 52 | 〃 | |
〃 | 3 | 〃 | 32 | 〃 | 54 | 〃 | |
〃 | 4 | 〃 | 35 | 〃 | 56 | 〃 | |
〃 | 5 | 2 | 37 | 5 | 60 | 〃 | |
Ranger | 1 | 1 | 24 | 3 | 29 | Overpower | |
〃 | 2 | 〃 | 25 | 〃 | 30 | 〃 | |
〃 | 3 | ||||||
〃 | 4 | ||||||
〃 | 5 | ||||||
Armored | 1 | 1 | 30 | 3 | 40 | Overpower | |
〃 | 2 | 〃 | 32 | 〃 | 41 | 〃 | |
〃 | 3 | 〃 | 34 | 〃 | 42 | 〃 | |
〃 | 4 | ||||||
〃 | 5 | ||||||
Maintenance | 1 | 1 | 15 | 4 | 50 | Maintenance | |
〃 | 2 | 〃 | 16 | 〃 | 52 | 〃 | |
〃 | 3 | 〃 | 17 | 〃 | 54 | 〃 | |
〃 | 4 | ||||||
〃 | 5 | ||||||
Pale Wing Close Range | 1 | 1 | 20 | 4 | 33 | Land | |
〃 | 2 | 〃 | 22 | 〃 | 34 | 〃 | |
〃 | 3 | 2 | 24 | 〃 | 35 | 〃 | |
〃 | 4 | 〃 | 27 | 〃 | 36 | 〃 | |
〃 | 5 | ||||||
Pale Wing Ranged | 1 | 2 | 36 | 5 | 40 | Land | |
〃 | 2 | 〃 | 38 | 〃 | 42 | 〃 | |
〃 | 3 | 〃 | 〃 | 〃 | |||
〃 | 4 | 〃 | 42 | 〃 | 46 | 〃 | |
〃 | 5 | 〃 | 45 | 6 | 48 | 〃 | |
Pale Wing Bomb | 1 | 1 | 26 | 5 | 60 | Land | |
〃 | 2 | 〃 | 28 | 〃 | 62 | Land | |
〃 | 3 | 2 | 30 | 〃 | 64 | 〃 | |
〃 | 4 | 1 | 32 | 6 | 66 | 〃 | |
〃 | 5 | ||||||
Pale Wing Reconnaissance | 1 | 3 | 28 | 6 | 50 | - - | |
〃 | 2 | 〃 | 29 | 〃 | 52 | - - | |
〃 | 3 | 〃 | 30 | 〃 | 54 | - - | |
〃 | 4 | ||||||
〃 | 5 | ||||||
Gigantes | 1 | 1 | 28 | 3 | 55 | Destroy | |
〃 | 2 | 〃 | 30 | 〃 | 57 | 〃 | |
〃 | 3 | 〃 | 31 | 〃 | 59 | 〃 | |
〃 | 4 | 2 | 33 | 〃 | 61 | 〃 | |
〃 | 5 | ||||||
Bazerato | 1 | 1 | 18 | 5 | 36 | Land | |
〃 | 2 | ||||||
〃 | 3 | ||||||
〃 | 4 | ||||||
〃 | 5 | ||||||
Airbike | 1 | 1 | |||||
〃 | 2 | 〃 | 22 | 5 | 46 | Overpower | |
〃 | 3 | 〃 | 25 | 〃 | 47 | 〃 | |
〃 | 4 | 〃 | 28 | 6 | 48 | 〃 | |
〃 | 5 | 〃 | 30 | 〃 | 50 | 〃 | |
Weapons
Weapons Collected | 69/393 |
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Storm Unit
Ranger Unit
Armored Unit
Maintenance Unit
Pale Wing Close Range Model
Pale Wing Ranged Model
Pale Wing Bomb Model
Pale Wing Reconnaissance Model
Gigantes
Bazerato
Airbike
Regional Differences
- The font is way better in the Japanese version, especially the numbers.
- The Japanese version also includes some extra info when you're first picking the units you'll take.
Similar Games
- Wars series.
- Nectaris series.
- 大戰略 / Daisenryaku series.
- Battle Isle series.
Trivia
- If you play the game on an emulator in a higher resolutions you'll notice that the 'Direct Hit Rate' icons have more detail that you can normally see.
- If you play the PAL version in 60hz mode the grid is misaligned.
See Also
- Global Defence Force Tactics - The Earth Defense Force Wiki
- SIMPLE2000シリーズ Vol.103 THE 地球防衛軍タクティクス on the ゲームカタログ1) wiki.
- THE地球防衛軍タクティクスのレビュー!いつもとは別物! - Japanese review, on menokenkou.work
- Vol.103 THE 地球防衛軍タクティクス on D3's website.
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edf_tactics.txt · Last modified: 2022/05/26 12:40 by rjt