VC3 Hard Mission: Moonless Night

Moonless Night
Grade	★★★★★
Terrain	City
Time of day	Night
Number of units	8 + 1 Vehicle
CP	Start 8 (+3), 8 (+3) per turn
SP	1
Turns for S rank	7
Objectives	Defend 7 Turns
Failure conditions	Defensive line breached Morale 0 All units defeated All bases occupied
Special conditions	Enemy Moves First.
Enemy ace(s)	Kazana "Lion"

Strategy

You have to defend Area 2 which has no base. Meanwhile you can spawn in both Area 4 and 3. You should equip your vehicle with a lamp. Since it is night, you should deploy a scout in each area so you have vision on the enemy. In each area you should also deploy a trooper or gunner to defend as the enemy moves first.

In Area 2, I deployed a scout, gunner, and sniper. In Area 4 I deployed 2 troopers and a scout. In Area 3 you want to be careful as an Armored Hunter will appear. You may need to restart if your unit dies. Alternatively deploy Armored Tech to just hold the position.

Phase 1

1. In Area 3, deploy a sniper and kill the armored Hunter, withdraw
2. In Area 3, select your Scout Elite and head to flag 3 from the side path.
3. Same action as above, capture the flag. Use a grenade to knock the enemy off the flag if required. Withdraw.
4. In Area 2, deploy a lancer in Flag 3 and kill the turret
5. Same as above, withdraw
6. In Area 2, deploy your APC and move forward, facing north, killing any enemies nearby (setting up for interception fire)
7. In Area 2, select your sniper and kill the enemy near the objective.
8. In Area 2, select your scout and kill the other enemy near the objective, walk forward and carry onto the APC.
9. In Area 3, deploy a lancer an kill the enemy APC
10. Same action as above, withdraw
11. In Area 3, deploy a trooper from flag 2, and kill the enemy lancer, go back to the sandbag and crouch

Phase 2

There should only be 6 enemies left (Full Recon will tell you this). Enemies will spawn in Area 2

1. In Area 2, select your APC, kill any enemies, stay where you are (enemies will spawn in Area 2 in front of you).
2. In Area 2, deploy your scout, kill any enemies, and capture flag 4.
3. Withdraw your trooper from Flag 2 in Area 3, deploy in Flag 2 of Area 4, kill the enemy scout.
4. In Area 3, select your remaining trooper and kill the remaining unit nearby (or deploy a sniper).
5. In area 4, deploy a sniper to kill enemy units
6. Same as above
7. Same as above
8. Free CP
9. Free CP
10. Free CP
11. Free CP

End turn until Phase 7. Mission doesn't end early if you kill all enemies. This is a good map to unlock character missions for your other units since you only need to deploy lancers/snipers to kill the reinforcements in Area 2.

Rewards

Base Reward		Enemy Ace Reward
EXP	18,000	Ace Drop 1	VB ESch
DCT	130,600	Ace Drop 2

Rank Rewards
S Rank EXP	36,000	S Rank DCT	261,200
A Rank EXP	25,200	A Rank DCT	182,840
B Rank EXP	18,000	B Rank DCT	130,600
C Rank EXP	-	C Rank DCT	-

Additional Rewards
EXP for Leaders	1,440×N	DCT for Leaders	10,448×N
EXP for Aces	9,000	DCT for Aces	65,300
EXP for Tanks	1,800×N	DCT for Tanks	13,060×N
EXP for Key Targets	10,800×N	DCT for Key Targets	78,360×N