Super Famicom Wars
Experience System FAQ
Version 1.0
By Juigi

Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Version Notes
3. Basics
4. EXP values
5. Notes
6. Credits


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1. Introduction
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Super Famicom Wars is the only Super Famicom installment of the Wars series. 
There have been 9 installments for the Wars series: Famicom Wars (the very 
first one, for the NES/Famicom), Super Famicom Wars (for the SNES/SFC), Game 
Boy Wars 1 through 3, Game Boy Wars Turbo (which is the actual 2nd or 3rd 
GB(C) installment), Advance Wars 1 & 2, and DS Wars (which actually isn't out 
yet as this FAQ has been written). Of course, most of the Wars series has 
gone even more unnoticed to most Americans than Fire Emblem, especially the 
GBW installments, which had various differences from the more normal half of 
the Wars series.

The Experience System FAQ is being written for SFW's Experience system, one 
of the more popular things that was cut out of the two AW games. It's the 
first known source of stats about SFW's Experience System on the entire 
internet. (Yes, I even searched with google.co.jp (using JWPCe for typing), 
to no avail.)

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2. Version Notes
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*Version 1.0 (1/3/2005) - FAQ's creation. (Technically, the FAQ was created on 
January 2 instead, but it should be up the day after.) FAQ is also completed.


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3. Basics
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So you're probably wondering what an Experience System is doing in a prequel 
to Advance Wars if you're reading this section. Actually, it's an internal 
Experience System. This means that experience doesn't carry over the battles. 
Then again, units that survive don't even carry over battles (except in 
GBW3's Campaign mode).

Regardless, the Experience System can be turned off if you don't want to play 
using it. But only on a new file. (This applies for Fog of War and Property 
Capture, BTW.) After choosing between 2P, New 2P, and 4P, there should be a 
window that won't have a CO's face. (If you are on 4P, this window appears 
after choosing the alliances.) The middle option on the left side (your left) 
is "REBERU APPU" (that's the Katakana turned into Romanji; rough translation 
is "Level Up") so choose that. If it is an O instead of an X, the Experience 
System will be on.

Now the rest of the FAQ will assume you turned on the Experience System. (The 
whole point of the FAQ is about the Experience System.) After deploying a 
unit, a whole row of 20 Stars will appear between the row with HP, Movement, 
Fuel, and Vision; and the one with the attack color keys. Each Star is worth 
4% of the total experience needed for getting a level up from your unit's 
current level. Since Level+4 is the highest possible, the row disappears when 
the unit reaches that.

If the unit has leveled up, then there will be an insignia between the unit's 
portrait and the unit's weapons' names. See those dots? That's how many level 
ups the unit has gained. At Level+4, though, there will be a big Star instead 
of 4 dots.

So how do you get your units to gain level ups? You have to deal damage, 
that's how. Don't bother to have them take damage unless necessary; that 
doesn't give experience. Neither does supplying or transporting.

What's the benefit of leveling up? Each level up increases Attack by 20% of 
the base attack, and the 3rd and 4th level ups each increase Defense by 20% 
as well.


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4. Lists
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*Experience Requirements:

|=============================|
|Level #|Experience|Star Value|
|=============================|
|Level+0|         0|    25 EXP|
|-----------------------------|
|Level+1|       500|    25 EXP|
|-----------------------------|
|Level+2|      1000|    50 EXP|
|-----------------------------|
|Level+3|      2000|   100 EXP|
|-----------------------------|
|Level+4|      4000|----------|
|-----------------------------|

*Experience values (each full HP):

|==================|
|Unit Name     |EXP|
|==================|
|Infantry      | 10|
|------------------|
|Mech          | 10|
|------------------|
|New Model Tank| 50|
|------------------|
|Large Tank    | 40|
|------------------|
|Medium Tank   | 30|
|------------------|
|Small Tank    | 20|
|------------------|
|Artillery     | 20|
|------------------|
|Rockets       | 40|
|------------------|
|Recon         | 10|
|------------------|
|Supply Truck  | 10|
|------------------|
|Pickup Truck  | 10|
|------------------|
|AA Tank       | 20|
|------------------|
|AA Artillery  | 20|
|------------------|
|AA Missiles   | 30|
|------------------|
|Train Gun     | 50|
|------------------|
|Trnsprt Copter| 10|
|------------------|
|Battle Copter | 20|
|------------------|
|Fighter       | 40|
|------------------|
|Attacker      | 40|
|------------------|
|Bomber        | 40|
|------------------|
|Lander        | 30|
|------------------|
|Cruiser       | 40|
|------------------|
|Submarine     | 40|
|------------------|
|Battleship    | 50|
|------------------|


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5. Other notes
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This section is for other noteworthy things about the Experience System. They 
aren't basic stuff that belong in the lists section. Now let's get to it.

*ALL amount of EXP past what was required for the current level is rounded to 
the next 4% in the lit Stars amount. This means that 0 EXP will STILL have no 
lit Stars, but 1-24 EXP is 1 lit Star, 25-49 EXP is 2 lit Stars, 50-74 EXP is 
3 lit Stars, etc. This made the Experience System hard to crack.

*Yamamoto's units each have 1001 EXP. DO NOT be fooled into thinking they 
have 1050 EXP instead because of the lit Star his units.

*The Experience Values list provides how much experience divided by 10 the 
unit provides when one-hit killed. So an Anti-Air Tank can quickly get to 
Level+1 by shredding 5 Infantry/Mechs. And even partial damage that doesn't 
take off any full HPs will still provide EXP equal to the attack rating of 
the unit for the attack times the HP reduce value divided by 10.

*Leveled up units DO NOT provide additional experience when attacked. For 
this reason, you should avoid letting a potential threat (like enemy New 
Model Tanks) gain any strength unless necessary, as there will be no benefit 
if you do so.

*Attacking transports will not give the experience for damaging any units 
inside them. So don't expect a full level up for your Level+0 Battleship if 
you have it attack a Lander that has 2 full health New Model Tanks on it.

*These were the codes used to dig out all this information:

7E65DD__ - 1st blue unit EXP
7E65DE__ - 1st blue unit EXP (increments of 256)

Courtesy of Kotetsu213 himself. (And make sure you use Hexadecimal when using 
the codes.)


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6. Credits
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Give a REALLY big hand to Kotetsu213 for finding the various things involving 
the Experience System. Without him, this FAQ wouldn't really even be close to 
possible.

This is copyright 2004 Juigi and any of the sources. If I find out you've 
been copying or selling this without permission or doing any other illegal 
stuff involving this, you're gone!