My strategy for passing WW 2320 on the first try:

-Don't bother defending heavily against him, he'll only eat your armies, BUT...

-Deploy a single army to every territory he touches. Every turn. THEN...

-When he deploys a bigger stack, deploy enough armies to try and take it out on your first order. It should be easy enough to contain these offshoots. Consolidate these extra armies. FINALLY...

-When the other guys are broken, your income should shoot up pretty quickly. Use those consolidated armies from before to weaken him as you can, all the while making a big stack for the final kill.

That's it. Quite honestly didn't know it was a hard level until I read the forums.

I guess I got lucky on WW 2320 :P

The big boss started to move towards Mexico and Europe from the beginning, giving me the option to freely expand in america and east asia. Later I made a huge wasteland and he started to take it down with his stack, meaning I only needed one full deploy next turn to eliminate his commander.

Interesting.

I agree that some of the levels leading up to World War 2320 seem pretty boring - the problem isn't so much difficult vs. easy as it is BORING (you're moving through fairly linear maps with a huge production advantage, so there are very few actual decisions to make).

We'd have to ask a newbie, though, to see if that's true.

World War 2320, on the other hand, I didn't find that difficult. I found it very INTERESTING, because I had to think hard about strategy, but I finished it very easily on the first try.

Those who are having trouble, here's my one-liner tip:

* The "boss" isn't your enemy. He's your friend. ;)

(Of course, you will have to turn on him at the very end, but that's just the nature of the game...)

Playing it with that mindset should help!

@Min34 That's what's currently happening on my current attempt :)

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I agree with M. Poireau, the main problem is not the difficulty, but that they are boring. You can certainly have 4~5 medium difficulty levels, but you should try to make them varied to keep the player interested. Right now, level 3 to level 6 are all 3 to 4 players FFA on tubular maps, with just little changes in setting on each level. It feels repetitive and boring to complete them, and I don't think a newbie will have the patience to complete them, which is a pity since level 7 is when things start to get more interesting.

If I were to amend those levels, I would do the following:
Keep level 1,2,3 as they were. Then go to the castle level and introduce the blockade card. Make it a 5 to 6-player FFA, and instead of putting the player at the corner, put him somewhere in the middle, so that the player would have to use the blockade card to avoid fighting a two-sided war. And since it is the first time the player learns blockade, make the game light fogged so the player has a better idea of where and when to place the blockade. Then go to the 1v1 ladder level, and introduce territory picking there. Then go to the boss level and introduce emergency blockade there.

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currently i'm at level 30 out of the 34 there are but i just hated to do 28 since it uses both LD and MA in a pretty big map where it was a 6 FFA and right now i have a 5FFA on a huge map that introduces army cap so pretty boring to go over all of the map just eliminating the AI's 1 by 1

Someone needs to post specifics on beating WW2320. I've tried it seven times. I have prevented the boss from holding any bonus each of those times, but then I get to turn 21, where he spawns 40. Then I'm fighting a powerful AI in Asia or Europe, but can't fight his 40-stack and another at the same time.

I've read all the other posts on this, and in seven tries have never seen the boss leave North America...

Further, the record holder did the level in 15 turns. Even expanding unopposed this is not possible...

World War 2320 took me a few attempts, then I realised there was a back way into Asia through Svalbard and Novaya Zemlya. A small-ish blockade on Novaya Zemlya means you can safely attack Asia from two fronts, the AI there will be fighting a little against the AI in Europe, and once you've taken Asia Europe will be easy. All the while you try to stay alive, keep some bonuses and restrict the Boss AI as much as possible in North America, but that's relatively low priority once you have some Asian income.

While writing this I decided to play it again, and the boss moved over to Asia meaning I had an easy job to take North America. You can't assume you'll be so lucky!


What I'm stuck on is the last one, World War Pixel. I've been trying to knock out the two teammate AIs as top priority instead of trying and failing to destroy the boss's spawn locations, but so far I've just had a lot of losses.

It took me 37 attempts to do it. Killing the south american AI in 5 turns was enough. Turn 4 is possible on rare occasions too. You will do it with luck and many, many tries

Definitely needing some luck!

I've done 21 failed attempts so far, and I don't think I've ever killed South America in fewer than 6 turns. I've seen him in North Cono Sur or Bolivia a couple of times, but for some reason I have NEVER hit him on my first attempt (and obviously the Commander hits are always my first move).

EDIT: Just looked at the rest of the stats. You're still the only person to have completed it, and I've done more than half of the attempts on it that weren't you. Guess there won't be much advice out there yet!

Edited 5/26/2016 17:38:46

Thanks, why_amihere. I'll try that. This reminds me of a nearly impossible level in the old Risk II game.

Love the "created maps" page. Solves the problem of looking up what maps people made.

Agreed. Looking up maps by mapmakers is a wonderful feature.

For World War 2320, we had a somewhat interesting thread here (with some screenshots):

https://www.warlight.net/Forum/154835-having-trouble-world-war-2320-boss

Ffs answer my damn questions you spammers.

What about the single player levels thread by Mercer?

Why are most of the levels made by 2-3 people?

What a brutal hellish slog through 35 turns on my eighth attempt at WW2320. Glad that's over.

This might be the closest I'll ever get to winning the final level, my 28th attempt: https://ctrlv.cz/iDbz

Supporting AIs were killed on turns 5 and 7, but I just couldn't deal with those damn spawned armies (the stack of 19 in South America was a 1 the turn before, so I attacked with a 5 and I would have had the Americas to myself if he hadn't spawned there!

Even though only 6 people are able to attempt it at the time of writing, I need help and these aren't exactly big spoilers. The boss spawned 7 armies on turn 4 (on top of my stack of 3, they don't fight, they just die), 23 on turn 7 (on top of his 1, killing it? I think it's usually 23 on turn 7 wherever it lands), 21 on turn 10 (on my 0), 60 on turn 13 (killing his 16?) and 35 on turn 16 (on my 0). All of the spawns are in addition to his normal income, seem to be set numbers (the same turn and quantity every time you play - although I haven't checked past the first 2 spawns), and they can't move on the turn they spawn (although if they land on top of his troops and I'm right about the killing his own troops thing, the number that was there before can move). They can be spawned on a territory the opposing team can't see, but I don't think they can spawn on a neutral.

I guess my questions are these:

1. Am I right to send the commander to South America to help kill that AI? I usually end up with him being hounded away to Africa by spawned armies and then he gets squished (although this time he made it all the way to Saudi Arabia for a change!). My alternative option is probably to have him help me expand in North America, Europe usually has too many troops to risk it.

2. Am I expanding fast enough in North America? I normally take NE USA on turn 5 (could take it on turn 4 by using 6 extra troops) and the rest of the USA a couple of turns later. When I tried taking it faster I usually got wiped out elsewhere or had a spawn in USA/Mexico which stopped me killing an AI, and I don't know if that's bad luck or the AI focussing on the biggest threat.

am I the only one that found WW2320 to be pretty easy..?
It took me 2 tries, and once the boss didn't zerg rush me and ran along the western NA border, it was simple.. although it did take me 24 turns

I also didn't think WW2320 was hard. I actually beat it on my first try. I was able to dominate over the boss AI in America pretty easily, while using blockade to stop the other two AIs to enter America. Then I somehow managed to lure the boss out of America, and the rest is easy.

Though, I think WW2320 is somewhat more difficult than the old Europe challenge. For the Europe challenge, you can always win once you get the strategy. But WW2320 is a much more dynamic game which requires you to assess the situation all the time. You need to expand faster than boss AI, disrupt his bonus to prevent his growth, eat up the boss's trail to keep him in control, and block the choke points to defend against the other two AI. To win the game, you need to be experienced enough to strike a good balance between these. This is not easy for a newbie and I think this level is definite a difficulty spike for them.

Edited 5/27/2016 05:39:26