Wrecking Ball: Generator Management 101

Chapter four puts alot of pressure on getting Anderson up to scratch both levelwise and equipment wise, even more so if you're after the battle mastery. If you've been doing everything you can up to the end of chapter three you should have two frames to pick from. The Aer and the Molior.

Going into the level with the Aer will mean SP management and ammunition management, all easily balanced out by ammunition crates and a high quality ration in the cockpit.

The Molior however will require on picking the right kind of engine for the Zero to carry into battle and loading up on Attack Boosters. But just what is the best item to slam into that engine slot?

Proton Exchange Cell
The Proton Exchange Cell is completly outperformed by an Integral Fast Generator so I won't even bother with this.

Protonic Reactor
The Protonic Reactor provides 50 energy and a passive 7% regeneration rate. Equipped on the Molior this tops out the Zero at 110 energy in total.

That's 11 shots of Wrecking Ball with a regeneration rate of 7.7 with the engine rounding it down to 7 per turn. With a thirteen turn limit factoring out our staring turn we can potentially regenerate 84 energy in total so that's another 8 swings of Wrecking Ball.

With a Protonic Reactor we can swing Wrecking Ball a grand total of 19 times.

Integral Fast Generator
The Integral Fast Generator provides 80 energy and a passive 5% regeneration rate. Equipped on the Molior this tops out the Zero at 140 energy total.

That's 14 shots of Wrecking Ball with a regeneration rate of 7 exactly. With a thirteen turn limit factoring out our starting turn we can potentially regenerate 84 energy in total so that's another 8 swings of Wrecking Ball.

With an Intergral Fast Generator we can swing Wrecking Ball a grand total of 22 times.

AM2 Battery
The AM2 Battery is a real wild card. It provides 30 energy but it can be replaced three times at the cost of using up Anderon's entire action phase. Equipped on the Molior this tops out the Zero at 90 energy total.

That's 9 shots of Wrecking Ball but we can expend all three charges of the battery for 30 energy per charge giving us another 90 potential energy. That's 9 more swings of Wrecking Ball.

With an AM2 Battery we can swing Wrecking Ball a grand total of 18 times.

What Have We Learned?
For chapter 4 if you plan on going in with the Molior then you squeeze the most out of Wrecking Ball with an Intergral Fast Generator. The AM2 Battery might be really useful on the ZakuI considering it's low starting energy. The more involved and fixed recharging outpacing that of even the Protonic's passive percentile.