22 Night on Bald Mountain Normal/EX
Objectives: Elimination and capture 15 nodes
Recommended Echelon(s): AR/SMG (x2), Dummy (x3)
Echelon Limit: 5
I'm going to be honest, there's not really much to say about this map. This is THE slugfest of the event. It's elimination and capturing nodes. It's very much a "do the shootbang thing and good luck!" type of map for me. So I'll give a few tips instead of a proper walkthrough.
The first thing you want to do is fight Tareus; she will spawn in enemies repeatedly, and you want to minimize how many fights you take, since this is already such a fight-heavy map.
The map will spawn in new enemies and you'll lose nodes pretty much every turn until turn three. Do your best to suppress them as fast as possible so you lose as few nodes as you can.
Be aware of what enemies you're fighting. You should be able to do every fight with AR/SMG echelons if you're strong enough. If you're not, it's time to think about what enemies you're fighting. Doppelsoldners? Gladiators? Maybe we should be using RF echelons. If you need to take some time and record some of the enemies into the battle sim to practice against them, that could be a really good idea to figure out echelon compositions that will succeed in the fights.
Make use of surround captures to sustain your node capture quota.
Don't be afraid to retreat and redeploy if things are getting iffy. There's no real failure conditions aside from a full wipe of all your echelons, so you can turtle if you need to.
Good luck.
Video of me clearing this map
Author: Kazuki
Tags: Longitudinal Strain