METAL SLUG DEFENSE

METAL SLUG DEFENSE

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How to Free POWs
By Foppos™
It can be hard to free these fellas to unlock units and upgrades for both units AND your Base.But it will be easy if you know what do.
   
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What to start with?
First i'll explain what POWs are.Pows are war veterans that were captured by the enemy,and if freed,other units and Base upgrades will be avaiable for you.But you must free ALL of them,whose numbers depends of the level itself and the number requirements for freeing a character.The remaining number of POWs to free will be shown on the POW screen on the Map Menu.Normaly,you'll need to free 3 POWs on each stage of the areas,and this number will increace as you continue.
To the rescue!

Not all of them are free,so it is your mission to get these good soldiers back to safety.The first unit you'll ever get and the one that will be the most useful in the subject of rescuing POWs will be the plain Soldiers.Yes,the puny grenadiers you have as you start.These guys tosses theyr grenades hing enougth to find POWs hidden on stages.The tactic of the Rescue Team,as i call it,is of upgrading your AP first,then use it to make a group of soldiers (Three soldiers to five of them).When your first soldier prepares his Super Power (Shown as a blue "flame" on the unit),be quick enougth to make him use it right after he leaves your base,to make sure you wont miss a POW hidden bellow your nose.Once the number of soldiers reaches 3 or 5 or when theyr Super Power is activated (Not depending of the number,thought),keep clicking so they use theyr grenades not just to kill/damage enemy units,but to earn collectibles,AND mostly important,hidden POWs.Another thing to be right to say is that it is theorized that as units advances,POWs hidden in the area that they already went wont be able to be freed.It is why you MUST place your soldiers first to prevent quickier units to advance and make you loose your precious POW.But this has some chance to happen.One time or another,you might be able to rescue a fellow prisoner behind your army.
Plan B!
So the enemy came up with tanks and bazookas?Soldiers aren't strong enougth to keep attacking after two blows from the Bazooka Soldier,much less after one from a normal tank.If your soldiers vanished into dust and oblivion,then invest your AP on stronger units that can also attack indirectly,such as throwing projectiles into the air hing enougth as the Soldier.For instance,Fio's Rocket Launcher is good enought as the blast radius is bigger than Soldier's grenades,giving more chances to find POWs.But this will only happen if the rocket does not blow first because of a blocking enemy unit.Other units,such as Ostrich Slug or SV-Camel (both with Eri and Fio,in sequence,wich does not matter.The only difference is that the Ostrich is faster but can throw only one grenade per Super Power,while the Camel can throw three in a row but is relatively slower than the Ostrich).Theyr Super Power,to build up,is slower compared with the Soldier's,but they are stronger and more powerful against tanks and stronger soldiers/enemies,and to find POWs too.
Let the Radar guide you

Radars can be bought and awarded depending of what you should do.Getting online each day might reward you one or a few if it is on the reward boxes,or MAYBE if you complete all the stages of a world,and some stagesrewards the player with one or two if he/she completes it.The Radars make sure that you'll find ONE POW upon WINNING the stage.They can be used by clicking on it's image when selecting the stage.Make sure you get this one!
12 Comments
josh6or7 29 Jan, 2022 @ 5:51pm 
i dont recommend this, but full size jupiter king i think would do it all perfectly.
=WL= Soulfull.bw(Here and not) 30 Aug, 2020 @ 9:43am 
Oh Samurai planes with it close spray and pray attack pattern. The little "cute" mars people have homing projectiles too.
Silly ol' Tox 25 Nov, 2016 @ 5:14pm 
if your that much of a pro and haven't found all POW's can you just use big sheii to find them cause it shoots with huge range and height
Foppos™  [author] 10 Jun, 2016 @ 8:59am 
The best method so far is to use classes wich have quick adrenaline regeneration so the special attack can be used more often, and the search can be more successful. I recommend the normal soldiers. But since they have low health and can be killed with a single hit by almost every other class, you should be really using a "scouting" team with tougher classes, then produce soldiers right away.
UwU.cole 9 Jun, 2016 @ 9:58pm 
what i do is use camels and ostriches and send them out first then use the regular soldiers in the back so i can use all their abilities to get pows
Benoit Balls 26 Jan, 2016 @ 6:42pm 
I prefer the regular soldier route. they're the first to go out and have more HP than the camel.
Rhob Uranum 13 Dec, 2015 @ 5:59pm 
Normally I use the camel-sv, tarma and fio
They are better since you can spawn a lot of camel-sv and they throw grenades very high, have low cost, high production rate and can spam a lot of specials while tarma uses shotgun (a good area attack) and fio uses rocket launcher (area attack that goes very high)
Also recommended is to get the entire woirld finished that when you go back it would be easier to get the P.O.W.s
Replay the mission as many times as possible, some you'll get 2~3 P.O.W.s the first time while others you'll play 5 rounds without a single one
Hope it help you guys :3
Foppos™  [author] 21 Oct, 2015 @ 6:52am 
Remember to upgrade your Mission points capacity so you can try more times in a single level.This also gives you more chances to free one or two POWs depending of your luck.
elches666 20 Oct, 2015 @ 12:21pm 
I will try
volf360 18 Jun, 2015 @ 4:54pm 
quietly, I'm too furry :D