Late 2021 Mission Reorganisation

The **Late 2021 Mission Reorganisation** was an event that occurred in the closing months of 2021, when many missions of the Classic Campaign were shuffled around or scrapped. This was due to a large influx of new features that were being created at the time, such as Sandbags, explosive crates, and new tank types that were created late. In addition to the new features, the fundamentals of the game were changing, namely simplifying how aiming and shooting worked, thus changing the game on a very fundamental level. The level size was also increased in the y-axis by 2 blocks in December 2021, and the long-running and highly detrimental pathfinding bugs that plagued the game's early development were finally being ironed out. Also, some tanks were decided to be made "more late game", and so missions introducing certain tanks were moved to much later numbers.

Before this time, Cinnabar was uncertain as to whether or not missions after 20 should repeat, as in the original Wii Tanks game, or if there should be unique missions for every number. As such, a middle ground was chosen, wherein some levels were repeats and others were not. However, at the time of the Late 2021 Mission Reorganisation, the decision was made to have no repeats. As such, any levels that were repeats were scrapped.

This huge reorganisation of missions affected almost every mission number between 33 and 48. Other mission numbers were affected, however.

### Mission 23

Originally, Mission 23 was a reprise of Mission 2, but with harder tank types and more of them. Upon the decision to remove all repeats, as well as the late addition of Azure Tanks, this level was scrapped and the current Mission 23 was created to replaced it.

### Mission 33

Mission 33 was a reprise of Mission 6, but with harder tanks and more of them. Like other repeats, this legacy mission was removed. A new mission was created in its place in order to introduce TNT Crates, the first explosive crate.

### Mission 34

The only change to this mission was the retroactive introduction of TNT crates, which were not in this mission before.

### Mission 35

Mission 35 was originally where Orange Tanks were introduced. However, they were considered too powerful to appear at this early stage. As such, their introductory mission was moved, virtually unchanged, to what is now Mission 57. What is now Mission 35 was originally Mission 37.

### Mission 36

The only changes to this mission was the retroactive introduction of Sandbags, which were not in this mission before, and the removal of Orange Tanks.

### Mission 37

After the old Mission 37 became Mission 35, an entirely new mission was created, and is the current Mission 37 we have to this day.

### Mission 38

The original Mission 38 was essentially what is now Mission 47. The mission was pushed back due to its difficulty. Orange Tanks could spawn in this level originally. What is now Mission 38 was originally Mission 41.

### Mission 39

The original Mission 39 was essentially what is now Mission 49. Green Tanks hadn't yet been created at this time, and this mission featured three random tanks in the centre of the Pits. After this, a new Mission 39 was created to introduce the late-addition Maroon Tanks, which is still Mission 39 to this day.

### Mission 40

What was originally Mission 40 is now Mission 60, being pushed many levels back due to this mission's high difficulty. What is now Mission 40 was originally Mission 46, which was different to Legacy Mission 46, which was scrapped entirely.

### Mission 41

What was originally Mission 41 became what is now Mission 38, with the retroactive addition of TNT. A new Mission 41 was created to make use of the newly added TNT crates. A separate, legacy "mission 41" existed, which was a reprise of Mission 14. It was removed shortly after.

### Mission 42

Originally, this was the mission that introduced Olive Tanks. However, due to their late-game difficulty, this mission was pushed back, with minor changes, to what is now Mission 66. What is now this mission was originally Mission 47. Interestingly, this mission did not include Maroon Tanks when it was Mission 47, because they hadn't been added yet. In fact, all of the tanks in this stage were Lime Tanks.

### Mission 43

This mission has not moved, originally featured Olive Tanks instead of Maroon Tanks. Also, there were no TNT crates.

### Mission 44

This mission has not moved either, with the only change being the removal of Olive and Orange tanks from the random tank pool.

### Mission 45

This mission did not move or change significantly, other than the addition of the Sandbag in the middle.

### Mission 46

There was a Mission 46 which was completely scrapped. There was another Mission 46 which became what is now Mission 40. A new mission was created to be Mission 46 in order to introduce the newly-added Nitro Crate.

### Mission 47

What was originally Mission 47 became what is now Mission 42, with the Lime Tanks being changed to Maroon Tanks. What was originally Mission 38 became this mission.

### Mission 48

Originally, this mission was a reprise of Mission 17, but with tougher tanks, and without the secret area that is seen in Mission 17. It was scrapped when reprises were scrapped, and what was originally Mission 40 became this mission (and then was later changed to Mission 60).

At the time the reorganisation was carried out, this was the final mission in the game.

### Mission 49

The reorganisation had already concluded by the time mission 49 was created. However, what was originally Mission 39 became this level, being used to introduce the new Green Tank to the game.