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Ok im gonna break the thread cause screw romeo. If you want to beat 43197 several things need to happen.
1. Spend as little requisition points as possible, if you pick airborne, mech and rangers you can use them without any reqs effectively, you will just lack some AT power specially with rangers.
2. Concentrate on medals, some missions are not limited by time for medals so hunker down until you have armor to minimize losses. If you don't need the company strength don't go chasing Intel or side missions, they often just cost you more strength than they are worth.
3. The mission with the fuel depo constantly spawning supply trucks that you need to prevent from escaping, don't cap the fuel point and farm it with your lowest vet company, it will spawn infantry a luchs and a sup truck. Set a defense and go to eat come back to a vet 3 company, you can even cheese it further by withdrawing and coming in with a different company since you can keep the vet.
4. Repeat the above cheese on any mission not limited by time and get max vet on your companies, also make sure on scripted missions you kill every enemy you can.
5. Plan your movements to minimize company loss due to movement and use withdraw wisely if you get in a tight spot, you have no penalty for withdrawing from an engagement besides the already lost units.
6. Use the send-back skill to get rid of any units that are not useful, many times you get them at the start and if you don't want/need them, send them back. If you crew an enemy support weapon, don't use this skill on it, it will count as a dead squad.
7. Before every mission, walk around in your blue territory to trigger events. There are some OP bonuses you can get from encounters, there is a free captain(yes you get him for free every mish), there is an upgrade for your supply depots that heal nearby units and the priest that just wrecks everything from range. There might be more I haven't encountered and these don't cost you reqs.
8. Last mission does not care about company strength and losses, so you can just spam your units into battle as long as you prepare for the KT with the company you will pick to play the second phase.
9. Don't reinforce with reqs unless you need it, it's hard to lose 50 str in a single encounter and you can arrive to the last mission with 1 str and it will be enough
I expect to see your 50k scores tomorrow!