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Grimm (Japanese: コウゾウ, Kouzou), nicknamed "Lightning Grimm", is a Yellow Comet CO with a dynamic personality. He couldn't care less about the details, especially insignificant little things like defence. Consequently, his daredevil nature raises his attack power, but his carelessness about the details or planning attitude lowers his defense.

CO abilities[]

Grimm's Units have 130% firepower, but only 80% defense.

CO power[]

Knuckleduster - Increases Grimm's Units' firepower to 160% and defence to 90%.

Super CO power[]

Haymaker - This power grants his Units 190% offence and 90% defense.

Tag Breaks[]

Grimm has Tag Breaks with the following COs:

Quotes[]

Dual Strike[]

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"I'll deal with these losers!!"Power

"Things are looking Grimm for you! Haaaaar!"

"What a pencil neck!"

"Gwar har har! Go cry like a little girl!"

"Oooh, yeah!!"

"Outta the way! I've got crushin' to do!"

"You're about to enter a world of pain!"

Campaign, Pre-Battle

Final Battle

"That gigantic blob thing is no joke... Well, I bet I can still smash it!"

(with Sensei)

Sensei: "Ah, Grimm, my old disciple. You've grown quite a bit during these battles... If you agree to train the rest of these rookies, I can finally die happy... If the battle ends poorly, you must escape! I can't outlive my finest student!"

Grimm: "Escape? Gwar har har har har! Sensei, we still need you back home! If you die on us, we're in big trouble! You're going home if I have to pick you up and carry you!"

Victory

"Wanna throw down again? Oooh yeah!"

"Gwar har har! Hit the road, slick!"

"Fear the lightning!"

Tactics[]

Grimm's weak defense makes him a difficult CO to play as. He works best when used in situations where the enemy is unable to fight back (such as with indirect-attack units), thus negating the disadvantage of his weak defense. When attacking with direct-attack units, the player should try to use powerful units that are able to severely damage or wipe the enemy out in one hit. This will minimize the damage the enemy is able to inflict when they counterattack.

In campaign missions, Grimm is very effective in “Muck Amok” and “Means to an End”, since the player will encounter lots of enemy Oozium units, but not many regular units. When attacking Oozium, Grimm’s high offense will help the player destroy them quickly. Since Oozium’s attack will destroy any unit regardless of how strong its defense is, Grimm’s weak defense is much less of an issue on these levels.

In competitive play, Grimm changes the game a lot, making the game more offense oriented than defense for both players, although to the opponent's favor. Even so, Grimm is not one of the best CO's. Less defense for you means more offense for the opponent. Combine the 30% offense with the 20% defense, and it's only a 10% net offense. Low defense makes it harder for your Infantry to capture properties. Even his COP and SCOP putting his defense at 90% defense is still disappointing.

Grimm has to be at full health or high enough health to do sufficient damage. Grimm's meatshelding tactics are difficult to use as Grimm will lose units very quickly, especially Infantry for capturing.

In order to fully utilize Grimm competitively, keep in mind the following:

  • Fog On makes Grimm a lot less predictable. If Fog Off, Grimm has to carefully place his units much more carefully.
  • Larger maps make it easier to spread Grimm's units for better attacking. Smaller maps make it difficult to capture cities.
  • Terrain is the saving grace for Grimm to avoid getting Maps with LOTS of Terrain Defense bonuses. Otherwise, Grimm's units risk getting OHK'd.
  • Airports and Seaports are Grimm's friend. Airports used to build already fragile B-Copters ensure that B-Copters are powerful enough to OHK opponent's units such as tanks. Stealth created by Airports are also dangerous, but also requires you have enough funds, so careful playing is required. Seaports are used to build submerged Submarines.
  • COs with stat increase like Max (i.e. Directs doing 120 attack to an 80 defense) could cause opposition to wipe out Grimm quickly due to even increased damage.
  • Grimm MUST have units at full health at almost all times. Non-combat damage such as Black Bombs, Silos, or Global Damage Against COs (i.e Olaf or Drake) that do not generate additional income or reduced costs greatly reduces Grimm's offensive capabilities as either they will do less damage or higher chance of OHKs and in many cases end games.

Trivia[]

  • His ability is similar with the Campaign Mode Sturm in first Advance Wars except he does not have a movement cost of 1 for all units.
  • Hachi in the Battle Maps shop, praises Grimm for being offensive without having pricy units like Kanbei, but also notes that his portly figure is because of donuts.

Videos[]

COs of Wars World
Orange Star: AndyMaxSamiNellHachiJakeRachel
Blue Moon: OlafGritColinSasha
Green Earth: EagleDrakeJessJavier
Yellow Comet: KanbeiSonjaSenseiGrimm
Black Hole: Clone AndyFlakLashAdderHawkeSturm
JuggerKoalKindleVon Bolt
Yellow Comet
COs: Grimm | Kanbei | Sensei | Sonja
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