aw2 routing notes

rocket strat on ToT is inconsistant
tank strat is safer, simiar speed
tank strat fails to coward inf, recon strat fails to aair attacking recon? don't actually remember the fail case
cannon level: neo maybe faster than rockets (very close,check with tas)
rng manip helpful in first 2 yc missions (cannot hold through the second, see if anything useful in bm)
first 2 bm missions could use manip, toybox has 1 attack, hopefully can extend the manip through that, then also get 2wt
nvm, can manip a t8 win instead
2wt 7 turn strat is doable with manip

how to manip:
must play on jp other wise have to hit a 1 frame window
save between missions
soft reset (a+b+start+select)
press start shortly after screen turns black
hold a after 7-15 frames
big window (9 frames in bizhawk)
load campaign save, start the mission with the same rng every time
be VERY CAREFUL with moving units, don't accidentally flash CO menu etc.

a press doesn't register if earlier
3B2CB9A6 is 1 frame early
37388A57 is hit the window
1F6259F8 is 1 frame late
22E542D9 is 2 frames late
2534BE02 is 3 frames late

if playing on console, can check design map to verify hitting the window

co flashes definitely behave differently from regular rng advances.
last 7 bits don't change, 8th last bit flip flops
2nd 2 bytes seem to increment by a constant value
not sure if this is at all useful, just an observation
whatever operation it's doing appears to be commutative with the regular rng advance
also advances like this twice at the start of missions (once per CO?)
seems to have an intermediate step, 2D9882D7 > 0C434B99 > 04F07B57
figured it out: advances 128 times
no idea what the intermediate step is though

ultimate mega manip:
optimal mission select movement is SR, R, TB, 2WT, SS. Below is the only order routed so far. 8 possible orders.
may just come down to which order has the fastest 2wt, since that is the luckiest mission.
Actually, double misfire toybox is 1/200, must be done second, saves a couple of seconds
toybox: t1 build inf
		t2 move inf w3, build apc
		t3 move inf n2w1, move apc w2, build mech
		t4 load mech, move apc w3n2, move inf w3 (this exact apc movement for rng manip)
		t5 move inf w1n2, move apc w3n1, drop w
		t6 load mech, w4s2, drop s
		t7/8 cap
		end rng (07225DF6)
this strat is slightly faster, but does require some rng my way

reclamation: 	t1 build apc n base
				t2 move apc s1w2, build recon n, build inf s
				t3 load inf, move apc w2s4, move recon s1w5s2 (exact recon movement)
				t4 move recon s4w4, move apc s2w4
				t5 move apc w5s1 drop w, move recon w2
				t6/7 cap
				end rng (1E677AA3)
this is just the standard strat, messing up recon movement means apc stays on hq

two week test: 	t1 build apc
				t2 move apc s2, build mech e, build inf w
				t3 load mech, move apc e1s3e2, move inf e3, build apc e, build inf w (exact apc)
				t4 load w inf, move apc s3e3, drop e, move apc s4e2, build inf e, move inf s3 (exact apc)
				t5 load inf, move apc e5s1, move apc e6 drop e, move inf e3, hover inf e2s1, then do 3 diagonal inputs and cap (3CD72ACC)
				t6/7 cap with mech
				end rng (32964106)
possibly a quicker way to get the rng for the aair, but this is good enough for now. Saves a minute.

sensei's return:	literally just the normal strat, no diagonals so be careful
					end rng (291E4F25)

silo scramble:  see above, lose manip when we attack the inf
				getting a diagonal moving the apc on t4 is fine

mega manip 2: 	Sensei returns requires no diagonals (3F46E2B2)
				Reclamation doable with 0-1+ diagonals (28F1A632)(one diagonal)
				Toybox doable with 0-1+ diagonals (203EBB4F) (05537E51)(1d)
				2 advances on turn 2, 4 advances on turn 3, 2-5 advances on turn 5, APC still, start t6 at 1AA30DA3
				two week test aair+apc is very difficult to manip.

mega manip 3: double misfire
				Reclamtion first, standard movement.
				Toybox next, skip decoy inf, need 4 advances on day 4 (LLLUUURDLA)
				2 week test, no advances, move inf e2s1 on day 5
				sensei returns, LLLDRA to load first infantry
				silo scramble as normal
				this works, doubt a significantly faster manip exists

could consider manipping nature walk, but probably slower than the killing strat
6 day nature walk seems consistent manipless, but its very slow

AMD seems to either end in 7 days or disaster

foul play 5 day is 3:53, 6 day is 3:46 with worse execution, that's a shame

the hunt's end no need to load Sami's lander, only 50% to be a decoy
also don't seem to need to move the inf a second time when bship goes south

factory blues alaktorn strat too inconsistent
pandora strat seems more consistant though
actually the strat i was using lol, but just one tank
could manip good recon pattern, maybe try for t8
manipping the whole fight seems hard, can't protect the art without attacks
false, recon manip can get the recons to charge bm HQ
the bigger issue is the aair that gets built on day 4.
also need a blue moon unit to guard the second silo, since mech and apc are not suitable.
destroying an inf sometimes moves it east, but loses manip unless we realign

Factory blues 8 day strat:
requirements:
favourable recon pattern?
tank must be built east on day 3, try to hold manip to here
not actually true, destroy with tanks, then attack pipe with aair for a turn
must destroy an infantry/mech on days 4 and 5, and block the factory from spawning a mech on day 5
definitely doable without manip, but how consistant.

day to day:
assume manip for now
blue moon does nothing
day 1: advance all except inf (first tank and recon go east)
day 2: same again, drop mech on silo

no extra advances gets a mirrored L of recons

day 3: mech and apc 2 north, aair w of apc, tank e of apc, recon s of tank, other tank and art advance through woods in west

2 recons run south, one goes east, tank east

day 4: destroy mech with aair from west
load mech, move apc south of middle factory, drop north
attack infantry from south with tank
put recon on east silo
advance tank and art

lash should build aair in east, is mech a problem?
no, just stay out of range for a turn

day 5: destroy inf with mech, block factory with apc
advance other 4 units

day 6: destroy base inf with aair and tank, attack seam with tank, advance art
day 7: same again
day 8: destroy seam with tank and art. (16 hp of leeway, art can take an inf attack)

is yc recon faster than bm tank? its needed to protect the apc

2:40 +save and reset, seems potentially worth it
theory tas gets ~2:33, pandora gold seems ~2:45, my gold ~2:55 but I've had like 3 runs there
all the forests make it difficult to not advance RNG but can fix with practice
check if other recon patterns cause problems, not manipping could save time
there are quite a few bad patterns, probably just manip for now
check if destroying a recon on day 3 saves time even if lash builds tank west

dd manip:
day 6 strat: need to have the rockets both ignore the lander(1/8 per other battleship in range, 1/12 per sub/cruiser in range) and the left one ignore the battleship (1/2 per battleship/sub in range) (assuming i understand ai targetting) (~1/150 with only 2 decoy bships)
day 6 strat:	all bships, one diagonal, 2 decoys left, 1 decoy right (cannot combine these for some reason), no cruiser
				too close to tell with this setup, but a faster setup probably exists 3:30
				no kanbei tank with this strat
				t1 move bship s4w1, move bship s4, move bship s3w1, move lander s2, move bship w2s1, move n sub e1, move e sub e1s3
				t2 move sub s1w1, move cruiser s2, move sub 1sw(diag input), move lander s7, move bships e1s5, s5, s6, s6 (114E20D4)
				t3 move lander s7, move bship s6, move bship s3e1, move bship w1, move cruiser n1, move w sub w1, move e sub e1
				t4 move bship s3w3, move bship w1s4, move lander s6w1, build rockets
				t5 load rockets, move lander n3w3 drop, move w bship w2, fire e bship
				t6 attack with all 3
day 6 2.0:		all bships, 2 diagonal, cruiser, 2 decoy right, this seems about as slow
day 6 3.0: 		t1 move bship s4w1, move bship s4, move bship s3w1, move e sub n1, move n sub s1, move lander s2
				t2 move lander s7(1 advance at edge), move bship e1s5, move sub w1, move cruiser w1s5, move battleships s5
				t3 hide cruiser, see version 1.0 for battleship/lander movement
				got a 3:24 with this, could go a little lower, definitely faster
				got a 3:25 with yc tank, too close to tell
day 7 strat: 	t1 move bship s4w1, move bship s4, move n sub e1, move e sub n1
				t2 move lander s6, move cruiser w1s5, move s bship e1s4, move bship e1s4 (build tank)
				t3+ hide cruiser in reef, continue to follow old strat
				this is faster even with the reset, should be 60-70% to work no manip
				faster on average to manip though, but only slightly
				kanbei tank still seems faster, but very close 3:30 (3:31 no tank)

yolo nva strat: very very unlikely to work, requires an art misfire, it not retreating to the hq, and Hawke killing a cruiser with copters, but should save a decent amount of time. Not worth it unless absolutely necessary.
See Dingus video, but only need to kill the eastmost copter, don't move cruiser onto port
~1:58, compared to ~3:40 for to the rescue (in the theory tas)
So save a good chunk of time, but probably won't work.
Don't think manip is possible, pretty sure copter will always attack lander if it can, hopefully I'm wrong
Can bait copters by dropping an inf, but then they attack the lander/inf next turn
Need 2 attacks to my knowledge, killing rightmost b copter and the t copter
2 1 frame inputs probably still more consistent even then
could find ~3 frame window for first attack that give different copter movement, that way know rng and can adjust inputs for the second attack, could also just get the rng to reallign, happens sometimes
could use diagonals to check rng immediately, but much slower.

enough timesave here that doing something slow and consistent should be better than doing To the Rescue
below, could adapt the strat to realign after the first attack, but hitting a 4 frame window should be reasonable
9 frame window nva strat:
first 3 turns same as dingus, but on first turn only move 3rd cruiser 6 tiles, and no extra rolls (never move cursor over reef)
start of turn 4, rng should be (00477F2D)
attack eastmost bcopter with s cruiser, aim for frames 3-11
move mid cruiser n1
move lander e7
move n cruiser e7
figure out which frame was hit based on enemy copter movement
destroy tcopter with n cruiser
use diagonal movement to identify and adjust rng
drop inf near art
power
end
if everything works out, the art should misfire
may need to manip a second misfire if hit the middle of the window
now have 7 potential rng seeds to extend into RoF and GSB
but only 2 of them are common, other 5 are rare
I have a google doc with more details but pastebin doesn't like it
Got a 2:04 +s&r, with fast alignment

notes on the above:
if you want to aim purely for the 4 frame window, can move cruisers over reef twice on earlier turns, this moves the window to frames 2-5 which I find easier to hit
somehow only one reef movement results in less rng advancement
3 reef movements seems to be the same as 2

extending nva is very difficult, massive amount of potential ending RNG, unless we realign after the first attack as well

rof manip: 	t1 build inf south, apc north
			t2 load inf, build recon, move apc s1e5
			t3 move apc e6, build recon, move recon n1e7, co flash (223CD875)
			t4 move apc e6, move recon e8, move recon n1e6
			t5 move apc e4n1, move recon e6n2, move recon e8, co flash (331895E3)
			t6 move apc n5, move recon n3, move recon e7n1 DON'T FIRE
			t7 move apc n4e1 drop s, move recon n4, move recon n7
			t8 move inf n3 cap, move apc n3, move recon n2e1, move recon n4
			leave battle with (130322FB)
gsb manip 2.0: launch both os silos, bomber on turn 4, fighter on turn 6, build inf on 10
much faster, very simple saves 3 minutes

rof manip 2.0: same as above, but advance 5 times instead of co flash
				barely faster, if at all, and requires a new gsb, but was doing that anyway
				also less jess for pandora
				will come down to which has better gsb manip

gsb manip 3.0: assumes 2 co flash rof (3A1753FB)
want to minimise enemy movements, try to skip the neotank and the inf, maybe even the first silo?
AI 01: goes for my HQ, which means lots of movement, try to avoid
AI 02: goes for enemy footsoldiers, should mean less movement
AI 03: goes for properties, similar to above
AI 04: goes for my units, stays still if no targets, we can abuse this
AI 05: defensive, this seems fine
AI 07: target own hq, this looks like the actual problem, only md and neo

specific units:
fighter needs 03
aair needs 01?, 02? or 03
all md and neo tanks need to avoid 07
missiles must be built from e base on day 10, not day 11
enemy inf reaches first silo on day 12 currently, can we delay this? with silo probably
building a tank over neo doesn't work with 01 or 04 md tank
does with 05 as long as no aggressive copters
aair isn't targetted by copters
also accidentally blocked the day 12 silo with 04 art

got silo, neo and inf skip, not sure if faster though

same rof
build os aair on day 2
co flash on day 3
co flash on day 6, +1 advance (os inf or diagonal)
on day 7, +4 advances (up to cannons, hit the diagonal, then se
bomber to airport on day 8
fighter w airport, bomber n7 on day 9
bomber to mountain, fighter n9 on day 10

6:38, roughly even with pandora, execution could be improved
actually lost 4 to her earlier pb
saved 14 over my pb, but i messed up there
saved 2 seconds over my previous pb
no idea if actually faster, difficult to optimise this manip since small changes can have big effect later
6:30 with improved but still not perfect execution, seems likely to be faster
6:31 with shit execution on the old strat, wtf
old strat gets really fast enemy movement, only bad thing is bcopter attack on neo, can i fix that?

9 day strat for hot pursuit: 5:11
10 day strat: 5:24 in theory tas, so yay
grit/kanbei/andy
t1: pass/ build inf e/ pass
t2: build rockets w/ move inf/ build md
t3: move rockets n4, build rockets e/ build md, cap base/ move md s1w4
t4: move rockets n, build rockets w, move rockets w1/ cap base, move md e5/ build neo, move md w5
t5: attack minicannons, move rockets n4/ move md w rocket, move inf s1, build md/ move md e rockets, move neo s1w5
t6: move rockets towards pipe (same positions as old strat), build bomber/ move inf n1, destroy cannon, move md e4n1, build md/ move neo n6, destroy cannon
t7: move bomber n6, move rockets into position/ move md n2, join damaged mds s1~n2/ pass
t8/9: fire all/pass/pass


Could also manip good pattern on final mission, but probably not necessary (4.5s to reset, plus however long saving takes)
ff manip: need 1 co flash on turn 4, move yc bomber up 4 on t7, toward missiles on t8
about as fast as theory tas, so lose time to good pattern, save time over the awful patterns.