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This is a list of fictional commanding officers from the Advance Wars series of video games. Unless stated otherwise, all of these characters first appeared (in English) in Advance Wars. The portraits of the COs below are they as seen in the most recent game, Advance Wars: Dual Strike, with the exception of Sturm, who does not make an appearance in the game.

COs in the Advance Wars series often give their forces advantages and disadvantages. For example, Eagle, who specializes in aerial combat, has more-powerful fighters, bombers, and helicopters, but weaker naval vessels. In addition, COs have "CO Powers", which can be activated after their CO power meter is filled. (Damage dealt and damage taken fill this power meter.) Advance Wars 2 also introduces "Super CO Powers," which are more-powerful CO powers that take longer to charge.

Any references to stronger or weaker units or classes of units are in comparison to the baseline set by troops under Andy's command.

Orange Star

Andy

Andy (Ryo in the Japanese release) is the "new kid" among the Orange Star COs in the first game, and is the protagonist of both Advance Wars and Advance Wars 2. He does not appear in the campaign mode for Advance Wars: Dual Strike, but is still a playable character). He is a mechanical genius, but a very green troop commander; he has to be reminded of even basic things, like how to issue orders to his soldiers. On the battlefield, his units have no strengths or weaknesses, and his CO powers both repair and temporarily enhance his troops.

Andy is cloned twice by Black Hole. The first time, Sturm uses a clone of Andy, at the head of a Black Hole army disguised as Orange Star troops, to trick the other nations into attacking Orange Star. This clone is destroyed when Sturm is defeated. In Advance Wars: Dual Strike, Von Bolt creates a second clone of Andy, a more sentimental and short-lived one.

Jake

Jake (John in the Japanese release), along with Rachel, is the protagonist of Advance Wars: Dual Strike, his first game appearance. He is young and hot-headed, and has a tendency to use a bit too much hip-hop slang (although his demeanor is much more serious in the Japanese version of Dual Strike). Jake's specialty is combat on open plains, and his CO powers give varied bonuses to all of his units.

Rachel

Rachel, along with Jake, is the protagonist of Advance Wars: Dual Strike, her first game appearance. The younger sister of Commander Nell, Rachel is a cheery and hardworking officer in command of the Allied Nations (including COs from all the nations, including the defecting Hawke and Lash). Rachel has a knack for getting the most out of her allies; her troops recover from damage more quickly, and her CO powers can either borrow her sister's good luck in battle or call in ballistic missile strikes.

Sami

Sami (Domino in the Japanese release) is Orange Star's special-forces commander, and has a romantic relationship of some sort with Eagle. Sami developed a rivalry with Sonja when they were in the Military Academy and became furious when she faced her during the Cosmo Land War, but has since seem to have gotten over it. She specializes in using infantry in battle; as such, her infantry are stronger both offensively and defensively, and can capture preoperties more quickly.

Max

Max is a muscle-bound, direct combatant, and serves as a mentor for Andy in Advance Wars. He went to military school with Grit and Nell. In Advance Wars: Dual Strike, he is notably the first reinforcement CO to arrive from Macro Land. In combat, he favors direct combat over subtler tactics, so his direct-combat units have an attack bonus, while his indirect combat units have a shorter range than normal.

Nell

Nell (Catharine in the Japanese release) is the de facto leader of the Orange Star COs, and is responsible for training new COs and making high-level strategic and diplomatic decisions. (She occasionally refers to her superiors, but they do not appear in the games.) She normally holds a supervisory position, but can be unlocked as a secret CO. On the battlefield, she benefits from unusually good luck, and her units often make unexpectedly powerful strikes.

Hachi

Hachi is the curmudgeonly mentor to the Orange Star COs, and has retired from field duty to operate the in-game store (where the player can spend points earned by finishing missions on unlocking new maps and COs.) While he is not normally one of the COs the player can use (he is retired, after all), in Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising and Advance Wars: Dual Strike he can be unlocked as a secret CO. In battle, he has a handful of money-themed abilities: his units are less expensive, and his CO powers can make units even cheaper or allow him to deploy from cities (instead of only from factories).

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