zlk wrote:
What exactly do I need to do to get full bombs from the tanks on stage 2? It seems that I have to destroy certain parts of them and then use a bomb to finish them off? What precisely needs to be done?
How do I get full bombs from the stage 5 large tanks?
Yeah as mentioned, the rule with all the large tanks is just to blow off all 4 wheels and then they drop the full bomber. The other way is to knock off the 2 large gun barrels but don't destroy the main center turret, then bomb right over top the center turret. This is the easiest way but is worth 40k less points obviously. :I
Finally, is there any easy way to defeat the stage 5 boss? In the videos there is a purple barrage of bullets that is easily dodged. Then these blue circular bullets come out and you can circle around them. My problem is, that unlike in the video, frequently the blue attack starts while the purple attack is going on.
Yeah I still haven't figured out what causes this. Someone said 'rank' but I've had high rank and low rank and it's come out at different times for whatever reason. I've found it seems like it never comes out early though if I just sit right on top of where the blue bullets would be coming out. But that may be something to do with how many of the small front bits you've knocked off or something.
Anyway, the real easy way to beat Boss 5 is to do as much damage to its second form as possible, then nail it with a side-hit Hadou-gun. If you do it right, you can kill both forms flat out with one shot. If you need a visual example, think of how you instant-kill the midboss of stage 6. Same idea.
In terms of trying to actually dodge that blue shit in the final form... nope, it's just a huge pain in the ass. Just avoid it from showing up or use a Hadou for the boss.
jpj wrote:
regarding the tanks on stage 5, i just can't seem to get this right. is it possible to just get a full bomb from each, instead of full bomb + medals, by bombing them and sitting on top of them?? i usually reach that point with only one hadou, and i can't seem to replicate the inh technique, so i'd rather not be wasting a hadou, whilst trying and failing. and it would greatly with the second half of the level if i had a few more hadous to work with
Yes you can just bomb the center of the tanks as you would do in Stage 2. I think though that you might need to weaken them up a little more due to rank.
The problem is, doing it that way you lose a LOT of points. The medal shower you get from these tanks is when the next tank runs it over, same as how you get the 1-ups in Pink Sweets. You get like uh... 10 medals or so for each runover, so in addition to not hitting the wheels you probably lose like 250k if you don't do that part properly.
Double Hadou is really easy to do. You'll just want to start saving on bombs earlier in Stage 4 to have enough to do it. Single Hadou-ing is way better though, you get more bombs to spam on Stage 4 (which gets you a lot of points). The trick to the Single Hadou is just to put the first one at the same place you'd do the double, but then use your rockets and pierce shot to act like the second one. The real trick here is to move up fast enough to grab the medal shower, then get back in time to shoot the next tank. If you miss some medals, just don't grab all of the ones that spawn from the tank wheels and you should be good.
The trick to getting through the first part of Stage 5 without dropping a medal is to make sure you have a Rocket on your right option. Then when the two large ships appear, lock the right option shooting slightly to the right. Then just start way on the left and move slowly to the right. You do this so all medals that drop are dropping in the direction you are moving in.
What I'm still stumped on is how exactly to get the Stage 6 large tanks to drop medals. I know it involves shooting off the wheels but it seems really random when they actually come off. I think you can get the rest of the same bonuses on these large tanks you can get on the other ones but it seems really hard to do reliably... I've seen them drop full bombers and have medal showers before.