im on chapter 4. i wish there was an easier way to restart missions once i realize how badly i screwed them up. :)

I did chapter 4 today after trying for the 5th time :)

Made me love it even more in the flood of todays games which you can finish while drinking bear and having one hand behind your back :D

With so many great reviews over the net and the last push from this forum, I went to grab this game yesterday.

I'm at Chapter 4 right now, but all I can say is Wow. It's been a while since I felt I want to keep playing a video game. As a fan of Japanese Animation, I have always questioned why wouldn't game publishers make a game with as good story line as Anime. But here it is. VC is the game with anime quality story line (not just graphics). 

To confirm my point, Japan has recently announced that they will be making Anime off the VC. Oh and they already have a comic as well. 

Definitely AAA title for me.

To Boilith, the story and cutscenes just get better and better and better. I'm in chapter 14 now and their are some incredibly awesome large scale war scenes, and fights, and the story and characters just get better and better and better.

DAMN. I just got to chapter 14 and that fight is frikking insane. The enemy gets you in a pincer attack, and get's two completely new armies every frikking turn, with incredibly powerful Fire Tanks. Killing enemies does nothing because EVERY ENEMY respawns on the enemy turn with an entirely full AP gauge and like 6 snipers while you're stuck out in the open. This is absurd. Any tips?

the two armies don't come out until you capture the first camp, so before you do that you can set up whatever you want. I put the Shamrock right next to where the Southern tank was going to come up and then took it out by hitting the radiator. For the Northern tank you can run a lancer out there and get above the tank on the cliff above it. You can do both of these before you actually take over the camp or just do one.

excellent. I was thinking about that, that maybe I could get something set up before I took the camp, but I wasn't sure if that would really work. Thanks Torillian, I'm going to go give that a shot.

I'm not there yet. Nothing is as hard as Chapter 7 so far.

Now I'm getting more and more familiar with this game.
Now I can finish most missions very quickly, plus I spot most of the Aces, getting tons of XP. I use slightly modified tactics for the skirmishes, and they give tons of XP and Ducats.
I think we'll need a FAQ for the Aces locations, as perhaps I've missed some.
Also, the chapter 7 battle was epic, but not as hard as people made it to be. The only hard thing is that sometimes the Gabriel's canons can destroy your tank in one hit. Selvaria only made one casualty, and not even perma-dead, and that's because I didn't know she would go back up the trenches. Anyway, I used my tank to make her turn away, and she never saw my units escaping in her back.
You just have to move in her back, not in her sight, and not move while she's facing your troops.
That and tactic (character placements) will decide if this battle is hard or not.

For now, I killed Aces in these battles' chapters :
- 02
- 05
- 06
- 07
- 08a (Ty the immortal)
- 08b (Sytreet the lynx)

I may have missed some in earlier chapters...

Wait what are Aces? Apologies for my ignorance.

Any named character like Lynus the Immortal, that you see out there. They will be red colored like an officer, but they aren't leaders. They usually have better stats in general and I believe killing them gets you a weapon from the enemy though I'm not certain if the two are related.