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Episode 9 - The Arkhaiopolis of Rhime Decision "This ancient city, site of the first battle between Galgastani and Wallister, has stood for centuries." Small update today - we're going to cover off some of the new entries in the Warren report, and make a decision.  But first, the local rags are reporting that we took the town of Krysaro (ok, so this one came in a few updates ago, but this stuff stays forever and a day)   Hierophant Balbatos of the Galgastani decides he doesn't like protestors and puts them to the sword.   While we were liberating the castle, a procession was attacked by another freedom fighter group. It's taken them about two weeks (give or take) to find out who was behind it, a group known as the "Liberation front"  "We now await further developments." Nybeth is officially declared MIA by Galgastan, presumed captured by us? Interesting that he didn't return to his masters, interesting that he's a high ranking member of the Galgastan leadership.  "There is grave fear for his safety." Anyway, that's enough of the equivalent of the Daily Mail for today - we continue on our way towards the Dark Knights, the next step is The Arkhaiopolis of Rhime.    : Defiant cur! Kill her. The nameless Warrior moves away from a Dragon who attacks her rear, and jumps over the water.    For once we're not the focal point of the map on entrance, it looks like there's a fight already happening. Or an assassination, depending on your point of view. We don't know who this woman is, or why this group is attempting to kill her, so we have two choices. This choice will have both immediate mission critical consequences, as well as long term recruitment consequences. Choose carefully, neither option is a "bad" choice.
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Choose 1. We're nice people, right?
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Don't think I don't see that unique portrait for the female rebel. If this goes like any other RPG, she'll end up as one spoke on a lovely love triangle that'll act as a malignant tumor on the overall plot if she lives, and I want to avoid that wherever possible. Option 2.
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I'm gonna take a stab in the dark here and guess she's from the Liberation Front. Thus the choice here will either align us partially with them or another as-of-yet unmet faction
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Save her. It wouldn't be Tactics Ogre without intensely difficult NPC rescue missions,
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Apr 17, 2017 03:36
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Help her out She might join us and the more recruits the better.
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Apr 17, 2017 03:50
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Sordas Volantyr posted:Don't think I don't see that unique portrait for the female rebel. If this goes like any other RPG, she'll end up as one spoke on a lovely love triangle that'll act as a malignant tumor on the overall plot if she lives, and I want to avoid that wherever possible. Option 2. To provide you some comfort, there is no romance in this game.
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We have more important battles to fight. We aren't heroes, we're the rebellion. We're undermanned, under geared and under pressure. No need to add to that.
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FairGame posted:Save her. It wouldn't be Tactics Ogre without intensely difficult NPC rescue missions,
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1 Unique sprite arguing with generic soldiers? Obviously she's important in some fashion. Also, she's giving the people who have a dragon the finger. We need that kind of fiery temperament from someone who isn't Vyce!
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tithin posted:To provide you some comfort, there is no romance in this game. Thank God. Still going for Option 2.
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6 For 3 Against I'll give it 24 hours and then do the follow up.
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Voting to help her!
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Actually, I'm changing my vote to screw it cuz I feel mean today.
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mauman posted:
Helping her is being mean to Tithin
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Hands up anyone who doesn't think these yahoos with the dragon are going to kill us on sight. Might as well get the jump on them and coincidentally option 1.
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The die is cast. Update this evening, I hope.
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Hell yes another run at this. I've always loved the super depressing Warren Reports and really everything about the writing in this. I actually am a huge fan of the new art and everything in this version too. Also the 'unique' generics having their own palettes are nice too. gently caress crafting forever though.
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tithin posted:In part Turns out these fuckers don't hold a charge very well, jesus
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tithin posted:Turns out these fuckers don't hold a charge very well, jesus I warned you against getting one. Also I'm totally getting one.
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gently caress y'all, Episode 01 I failed. The previous choice functionally changes the mission paramaters to 1/ Cistina must survive & Kill Boss ELSE game over. or 2/ Kill Boss. There is no survival condition for Cistina in the second choice, she can die with absolutely no cause for game over.   Protection missions do not gently caress around in this game, and you need to be a combination of A) Lucky and B) skilled. I was not lucky, and am not particularly skilled at the game, despite playing it a bunch of times.    Our mystery character is a level 3 Valkyrie, in a world of 4's and 5's. She makes the same move at the start every time and moves to the valkyrie closest to her for a spear strike which conveniently places her further out of our reach.     Let's briefly talk about Dragons will we? They're big, they're tough, and they're built like brick shithouses. They also tend to hit like them too once they've got TP built up. Dragons can't use magic, but they can use finishing moves and special abilities like few outside the really broken classes can. Low level dragons can invest in Tail Whip which for (50?) tp can hit a target two squares away for a fucktillion damage. They also get Breath attacks later in the game, and self buff / enemy debuff in a ring around them at higher levels. Oh, and they also can invest in the same Auras that knights can. They also take bugger all damage from arrows - that hit on Hadrian for 28 damage? 7 on the Dragon.   Here's Snipette's damage between the two targets - not a huge difference between her and Canopus. Sure, there's going to be a bit of minor difference between Snipette and Canopus overall (given the difference in their respective stats), but it's not worth that much of a damage difference when you're hitting a dragon. It matters more when you're hitting softer targets. From memory, Canopus was only doing 8 damage to a creature with 200+ health at level 4 Dragons, and all beasts for that matter do have a heavy counter that we'll encounter later, but any mission with beasts can drag because they're just that god drat tanky, and can with enough punishment taken, deal just as much. They do take "regular" damage from finishing moves and from melee attacks, but they're explicitly gently caress your archer units in my experience. Rank and file means very little to them, especially with mage support late in the game. Moving on.   Estrild attacks Cistina and we get fortunate with a block.   This is where things fall off the rails, with Cistina eating a nasty crit as her first big damage taking, losing a chunky 1/3 of her overall health, and we are in the opening 5..? moves of the fight.  Minor healing from Laurence the Beastmaster. Beastmasters are another class who are a pain in the dick. On their own, they're nothing special. Unremarkable warriors who are just tanky enough to take a few hits and deal a bit of damage. God loving help you if there's a beast in range and they've got 50TP, because they're going to empower that beast to multiply their damage by an absurd amount. Beastmasters are an extremely low priority target unless they have beasts close by - they are fortunately squishy enough that focus fire will kill them however.     More misfortune, Leonar gets crit knocked back from Cistina.   Laurence the Beastmaster knocks a Snipette arrow.   Half health  Nerraw's blocked in and can't do poo poo.  Lenneth moves up and hits Hadrian for a small amount - mainly aiming to get close enough to drop a heal.   1/4 health.     Vyce and Leonar help whittle down Hadrian some.   Further misfortune. Rather than healing herself, Cistina attacks Estrild. She at least moves closer to us.   Martine finishes Hadrian.  Voltare moves up to try to land a heal but is unfortunately, too far away by about 4 tiles.   Giselle the Archer takes a shot at Vyce in a stroke of luck that makes me hope I can salvage this.   Canopus tries to pick off Wynter the Wizard - does a good job too, but not enough.  Estrild, clearly smarter than Cistina.   Laurence takes a crack at Voltare then steals Hadrians gear. Because he's an rear end in a top hat.   Dragons are also ok resistant against magic damage, they take about half what others do. Not enough to completely neuter wizards, like they do to archers.   They at least have lower accuracy than humanoids do. At least, on paper, because this rear end in a top hat sure is bucking the system. Two attacks with mid 60% to hit, and two crits.  Anyway, Vyce gets a topup from Catiua.   Wynter drops a flame bolt on Cistina who is now down at 5 health.  And Kurtz the archer seals Cistinas fate.      What could I have done better? Very little. The enemy got lucky with a series of crits. The companion AI is god loving awful and chose to whittle down a target rather than heal itself up. The fight's winnable, but I just got unlucky. I'll take another crack at it in the immediate future. For reference, if I have a suitably entertaining failure run, I'll probably post that too!
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Naked Canopus with a lobber and healing itema. That is what you need for most of the suicidal AI missions. Of course if you are going for a no incap title run then you just lost a little more of your sanity.
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waah posted:Naked Canopus with a lobber and healing itema.  Do I look crazy? (I'm doing that on my own personal save file wot inspired me to do this) The Naked Canopus strategy has merit, but it wouldn't have worked in this instance, he only got two turns which would have been insufficient to lob an item on Cistina, even had I changed him to Levi's starting place.
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Naked Canopus should work, the enemies should prioritize him and if you don't take any actions his next turn should come around super fast. Fun fact: this is one of the easier escort missions.
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theshim posted:Fun fact: this is one of the easier escort missions. One particular guy on one particular path comes to mind. I love this game and have played it beginning to end several times over. Such that it was the whole reason I bought a PSP in the first place. But the times I quit were mostly due to those kinds of missions and suicidal AI.
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Episode 9 - Wherein I don't get hosed by crits Reloading my save state at the choice, the opening moves are exactly the same. I will therefore be mostly speeding through the opening movements.   See my commentary re dragons - Canopus does One damage to them. This will change in the future.  The initial crit on Cistina is a regular hit this time around.  Lynkos the Dragons first crit that pushed Leonar away last time is blocked completely this time.  Kurtz continues to fill Cistina's quiver full of arrows.  Nerraw chunks Hadrian.   Wynter fireballs Cistina knocking her down to <50% health.    Vyce, Canopus and Leonar combo kill Hadrian.  With nothing else to do, Snipette whittles down Lynkos.  Cistina continues not healing herself.  The red marking is Rampart Aura. We can't move past it, unless we're standing in it. If someone's already in it, our path past is completely blocked.    Martine moves up and begins the arduous task of whittling down Lynkos. Laurence also takes the time to attack Leonar for a bit of damage.  Giselle the Archer continues filling Cistina full of arrows.  Given our archers are functionally useless this fight, Martine gets our Instill Air for added oomph on Lynkos.  Estrild continues to be smarter than Cistina, and also drops off the side of the cliff so Cistina can't hit her. This later proves to be a big mistake.    Lynkos lands a solid blow on Martine which is immediately undone by Catiua.  The game changing moment - rather than finishing off Cistina (i don't think he could have solo, but he and the archer being a 1-2 combo would definitely have done it) Wynter instead decides to drop a Misery on my entire melee group. Not a single one lands.    Cistina at 10 health total  she's still out of range for healing, so Leonar can't get to her and attacks Laurence instead, Nerraw also gets in with a Flamestorm (I think I covered this one already? It's a Tier 1 - indirect fire spell with a shorter range than the missile ones, but that ignore LOS) on Lynkos.  Cistina scoots over to the main island and continues ignoring her own self care in favour of utterly crushing Wynter. This puts him in range of being killed by Canopus.  Laurence is a juicier target for Snipette than Lynkos.   Blast! Levi's moved as far up as he can and she's one tile out of reach! He gets stuck into Laurence also as a consolation prize.   the heals are landing  Timely as ever, Voltare.   Estrild's kind of in trouble. She lacks the jump capacity to get back up to where she came from to rejoin the fracas. She instead heals herself and follows the river downstream. Near Leonar.   :woot:  Leonar punishes Estrild's mistake.  Getting into position puts Canopus in Melee range of Laurence. I also don't care about this for two reasons. 1/ Laurence is a Beastmaster, so can gently caress off. He doesn't do much damage. 2/ Canopus is blocking Laurence from getting around to my squishies. Canopus's position there is blocking a steep drop that anyone could jump without taking damage. It also conveniently bypasses the melee fracas and would make for a very healthy banquet for any melee class in among the casters.   Giselle, having the highground, has her pick of our caster targets - this is not an ideal position and it's something we'll want to take care of.   Martine keeps working on Lynkos and is doing a good job of it.  gently caress.  gently caress (see dragons: brick shithouses, hit like trucks).  HEALBOT drops a Blessing Stone on Nerraw to bring him back up.  Bolis enters the Fracas himself and begins patching up Laurence.   Kurtz resumes peppering Cistina which lets her...     loving demolish Estrild. Ruination is the first finishing move for spears. It hits extraordinarily hard.   With no immediate pressing concerns, I begin triaging people with my knights, triage, stabilise, kill is my current thought process.    Snipette undoes Bolis's own triage work by chunking Laurence with a Tremendous shot.   Giselle strikes down Nerraw again.  Lynkos takes a hit from Levi.    Lenneth takes a nasty hit from Laurence while Martine brings Nerraw back to life.   Lenneth takes another chunky hit from Lynkos, who had a 54% chance to land a hit.  Catiua and HEALBOT both drop heals on Nerraw bringing him close to full.     Canopus and Cistina finish off Laurence two turns before Bolis can top him off.   Bolis retaliates by knocking Lenneth into critical.   Cistina continues taking arrows - she seems to consistantly sit at about 1/3 of her health.       Voltare and Lenneth get some heals onto Lenneth, Lynkos attempts to undo, but actually seems to get unlucky on his chance to hit for once. That could have gone worse.    More Lenneth and Cistina Triage.      While Nerraw begins softening up Bolis, Cistina starts working on the Archers who've made our lives misery for the entire map, t'aint much now, but it's a start.  Someone (???) picks up Laurence's gear which comes with two free entry to the Beastmaster party. No thank you.   BEEP BOOP GO gently caress YOURSELF   All the whittling we've been doing on Lynkos has made him a heal priority for Bolis who can heal almost as quickly as we can damage the Dragon. Quicker.  Aw gently caress.  I dislike Tail Lash. At least it wasn't a one shot.     Lenneth crits Kurtz and sends him sprawling. Giselle shoots her in retaliation.   Martine undoes Bolis's heal with the help of mighty impact.   Levi heals up Lenneth while Catiua does the same to Snipette, returning her to about 2/3 health.   Kurtz dies and our job gets a lot easier as a result.   Nerraw hits Bolis with a fireball. Was sort of hoping to get him to focus heals on himself, but it doesn't work out that way.   Cistina gets into Giselle's face and promptly begins making her regret ever being born.   Still trying to whittle down Lynkos, but it's slow thanks to Bolis.     Lynkos rear ends Lenneth while Bolis continues to heal him.     Lenneth's out of move points, so opts to do some damage to Giselle via Deadshot. Giselle takes umbrage to this and knocks Lenneth back to critical HP.   HEALBOT saves Lenneth - at this stage I only need to drop one heal on an affected character to keep them safe. The enemy lacks the economy of action to gangbang a character to death now.    Martine continues doing what she does best. Punching dragons in the face. Meanwhile Snipette continues to lower Bolis health to make himself a better healing target than Lynkos.   Nerraw finally gets a clear shot at Lynkos.   Canopus blows his finishing move on Lynkos for a massive 35 damage    Giselle continues to be punished while Leonar heals Lenneth to "not going to be killed anymore" territory.   Martine gets tail whipped and Lynkos loving hops across the River to safety limiting my damage options.  Bolis ignores his low health to heal Lynkos again.      Levi hits Bolis with a hammer, while Giselle seems to be of the opinion that if she's going to die, she's going to take someone with her. But it's not enough. HEALBOT undoes Giselle's damage. Snipette knocks Bolis to 13 health.  Martine damages Lynkos - we might be able to do it!    Ah gently caress, Giselle carded.   Ah Martine blocks a Lynkos attack, but Lynkos decides to turn into an utter bastard and positions himself in such a way that no one can reach him. Bolis also heals himself. Anyway, I'm done, the card can burn, and Lynkos can gently caress off.     Bolis gets focus fired and dies.     -----  No poo poo, because you're as thick as two planks of wood slapped together.   : I was scouting the Galgastani in preparation for a raid on their stores when they spotted me.   : She is a Bakram Traditionalist, a group loyal to the late King Dorgalua. : I've heard of them. Not all Bakram support the current regime, after all.: Oh their goals are lofty enough, but their deeds border on butchery. : They risk the lives of soldier and innocent alike with their subversion. Means unworthy of their end.: You have us wrong! These are lies spread by Brantyn! We seek only a return to better times, when a man's race and beliefs could not discredit him. : Better times? Don't make me laugh! Good enough for those with luck to be born Bakram, but we lied then as we do now - insects beneath the boots of our betters! This choice has little impact other than to give you a different title. Option 1 gives the "Freedom Fighter" title. Option 2 gives the "Peace Seeker" title. I opt for the second in this case.    : Us, fight alongside Bakram? Absurd. The peace we fight for is one in which the Walister can live as men.  : Enough vyce. Such talk leads us nowhere. You are free to go Cistina. But you must quit this place at once. : This is our land. Our fight. The Bakram are not welcome here.   Now there's a look loving loaded with promise. tithin fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Apr 21, 2017 |
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Vyse, why did you even come here? All you do is run screaming into the enemy lines and never die.
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Could you make the screenshots bigger? Or at least zoom in sometimes if you can't? It's really tough to actually tell what's going on sometimes.
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Sure, not sure what resolution would work for folks though? I'm dealing with some family issues at the minute so updates are slower than I wanted Should be something out maybe Tuesday Wednesday
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Episode 010 - Story  Finally we're at Phidoch castle.    : I shall announce your arrival. : See her soaring white walls? No wonder they name her "The Swan." : But beneath her outward beauty is a nearly impregnable fortress. : Be glad we are not tasked to take her.   : I do, my lord.For today, the role of Balxephon will be played by WIZARD  : No doubt you've had a hard journey. Come. Rest within our halls.   : Have you an answer?: Perhaps you had best ask my lord directly for that.: Sir Lanselot is here, in this castle!?  : Greetings, brave Knights of Walister. I am Lanselot Tartaros.: Leonar Reci Rimon of Almorica, if it please you. You have considered our proposal?: Ha! You waste no time, do you? I like that. I do have an answer for your duke. Tell his grace that his struggle with the Galgastani is of no concern to his eminence Abuna Brantyn. Nor is it any concern of ours. : The Knights Loslorien remain and shall remain neutral on the matter.: My thanks, sir, for your swift response. Our lord will be much pleased.: Indeed. Yet I must ask: Do you really believe you can defeat Galgastan without our aid? : All we want - all we have ever wanted - is to fashion a peace with them. The Galgastani are a proud people. Were it to come to light that we sought the aid of a foreign power...I am afraid it would endanger the position of those in the Galgastani ranks who seek an accord as we do.  : No matter. We of Lodis place much upon a man's honor. : I can understand why your duke would disdain the Bakram way - enjoying a life of leisure while others do their dirty work. : Forgive me, but your henchmen are so youthful I feared you wanted for seasoned men.: Though they may be young in years, my Knights' skill in battle is no lesser for it.: Indeed.: They freed his excellency and routed the Galgastani at Almorica. Moreover, it was they who came to my aid in Krysaro.: Ah, so these are the heroes of Golyat, then? Forgive an old knight his errant tongue.   : That is...what? Speak plainly. : That night in Golyat, it snowed for the first time in years. I remember the sweep of flakes over the harbor, the bitter cold.    From what I can tell, another flavour choice, this time without the distinction of giving a title.    : False word, yes. I remember it well. As do you, clearly. We were in error, though I hardly expect forgiveness on that count.: Still, I can but apologize, for all it will do. : E-enough of this. The Duke awaits our return.: Oh? I had hoped to speak at greater length.: Forgive them - forgive us, good Sir. We'll be taking our leave.Leonar seems to be in a hurry to leave all of a sudden. Difficult to manipulate naive youngsters when their sworn enemies are bowing to them in apology.     : You recall Hobyrim?: Hrnn? My brother? Aye, he was a staunch ally in a fight. Why?: Nothing. Only, the brother and sister just now put me in mind of him and you.The Gang Return to Almorica Castle   : Would that time afforded you more rest - but I must ask you to leave for Balmamusa at once.: Balmamusa? That lies in the territory the Galgastani allotted for Walister rule, no?: Walister rule.... Hmph. Camps where our people are forced to live in squalor. It was a mining town, once. Coal. Now our kinsmen are herded there like cattle. Some five thousand labor in Balmamusa, slaves in all but name. The conditions are horrific beyond words. Scores die by the day.   : In truth, we cannot stay our course and hope for victory. We are far outmatched. However slight, we must tip the scales in our favor before Galgastan strikes. If all goes well, our bid will widen the rift between Balbatos and his enemies at home. He can scarce dispatch troops here before silencing the cries of dissent within his own ranks. We cannot let such chance escape us!  : They grow weary of fighting, else they would rally more readily. I can think of none better to wake their slumbering heroism than young heroes such as yourselves.: I shall follow at the head of a separate file bearing arms for them.  : Much rests on your young shoulders. I pray for your swift return.  : No need to worry. Our plans proceed apace. Meanwhile, Ravness looks very confused We lose Leonar as a party member and gain Ravness.   She's very very defensively built, with points in counter, fortify, dodge and rampart aura.  Oh for the love of gently caress
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Bifauxnen posted:I can't believe they let Vyce into that meeting. Though what's even more unbelievable is he kept his mouth shut. Pfft, there's nothing suspicious about anything here.
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I'm sure they're all going to get exactly what the Duke needs them to get. I didn't think Dark Lanse was as neutral as all that, though.
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Episode 011 - Not a filler episode We're on our way to Balmamusa, via Lake Bordu. But first, INTERMISSION!      : Sir Gildas told me I'd find you here. : So you have. Please, come closer.: You look troubled. This business in Balmamusa disturbs you?: Sir Leonar says it will be a dangerous undertaking.: Are you frightened? That's not like you.: I am not frightened.: There's no shame in admitting fear. We are all afraid at one time or another.   : But fear alone cannot kill you - it has no teeth.: It's strange. I tell myself I would gladly die for our cause. But when faced with death, the fear is all too real.: Risking your life is one thing. Losing it is another. The best way to aid your people is to stay alive. See the battle through to the end.: And there's your sister to think of.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDhUicWXfvk : What's that? : ...Your wife?: It's been four...five years now. Before the war with the Empire.: They had already begun their advance, and we fled - vagrants in our own land.: My wife fell ill, and before I knew it...she was gone.: I considered following her into death.: My thoughts often strayed down that path before battle. : But her music box still sang of live, and I knew it was not my time.: My burden had not yet reached its end.: I'm sorry. 
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Episode 0011-01 - Lake Bordu Several rivers feed into this marsh-bound lake in the west of Coritanae.   We have a larger roster this battle, consisting of 9 regulars and 3 guests.      Enemy Roster: Lv. 4 Archer [HP: 115] Lv. 4 Archer [HP: 116] Lv. 4 Archer [HP: 112] Lv. 4 Archer [HP: 110] Lv. 5 Berserker [HP: 146] Lv. 5 Berserker [HP: 130] Lv. 5 Enchantress [HP: 120] Lv. 5 Knight** [HP: 193] Boss Lv. 5 Warrior [HP: 138] Lv. 5 Warrior [HP: 129] Lv. 5 Wizard [HP: 113]  This fight is set in a Marsh, which gives us a good number of tactical blocking options, between small rivers, trees and bushes. Anything in Blue, can be stood in but at the downside of being easier to hit, and harder to land hits from. As a result, enemies won't stand in it unless they have no other choices, and this can be exploited (I will be doing so later in the battle).  The opening moves for both sides are unremarkable, with Ravness being the lucky first to land a Spiritsurge on an enemy.  Spiritsurges are Tier 1 Divine missile spells, much like Vulcan Lance et all. Clerics and Knights don't get access to those spells, and as a result you won't be seeing me using it much voluntarily.     Emanuel the Warrior takes a kicking from most of our ranged attackers.   Vyce decides, why give up doing what you're good at? and becomes a pincushion again.   Frances the Enchantress undoes our good work on Emanuel      Lenneth buffs Canopus, who hits Frances in retaliation for undoing our good work.       HEALBOT appears to have been giving Vyce lessons off camera, and I decide I could probably stand to have Vyce around to take some hits for me for a while longer, so Levi tops him off a bit.     Martine takes a chunky hit on a 45% chance to be hit, while Snipette dodges like a champion.   Ravness can't quite get into melee range of their range contingent so decides to soften up Robert the Archer with another spiritsurge.   Catiua tops off Martine      Vyce does a good job of tanking and dodging enemy blows.   Martine takes another small hit from an enemy archer.     Canopus meanwhile takes a solid blow from CAIN THE WIZARD (the allcaps is canonical)     Frances reaches across the map and slaps Vyce hard. Vyce, unfortunately, can't reach her because he can't jump over the river, and he won't stand in it, so instead of going for their squishies, he wades back into the melee.    Lenneth spears Leofwen, unfortunately Leowen lands her counterattack AND the 25% knockback passive, giving Leowen access to our back lines.   Snipette has a few options for hitting here, but eventually settles on Gyles the Barbarian. Probably suboptimal given we have Leofwen down there and she's all by herself      Sara takes a nasty crit from an enemy archer, meanwhile Frances the Enchantress gets mend leaf +2'd from the enemyboss   Martine Mighty blows Leofwen back for a good chunk of her health.  Sara cops a heal from someone.   CAIN THE WIZARD gets shot in the face by Canopus for about half his health, after Instill.    Levi, meanwhile is focussed on prolonging Vyces suffering for as long as is possible. Vyce declines to be hit though, and stays in the fight for another turn.     Lenneth and Sara both take nasty hits. Not enough to send them to danger territory as they're being done in isolation and the enemy can't bring their units to focus on any one particular unit, or else I'd be in trouble.   Gyles takes a swing at Ravness, but fails.  Enemies are in Yellow, allies in Blue, just to give you an idea of our current health levels.   HEALBOT tops up Lenneth.     Ravness lands a glancing blow on Mathild the warrior, just enough to whittle her down a bit. As does Martine, however I'm not worried in that respect.   Nerraw takes his first offensive action of the fight and drops a Vulcan Lance into Leofwen.         Well, poo poo.    Snipette almost finishes off CAIN THE WIZARD but not quite, he lives with 5hp.    Lenneth dances around Leofwen to land another glancing blow, and Leofwen, again, lands another counter knockbock combo.   CAIN THE WIZARD falls. RIP.    Snipette hits Leofwen with a Tremendous shot putting her into <10% hp.   Levi takes a small hit.     Voltare tops up Sara, meanwhile Levi gets dramatic and buffs Martine, who in turn topples Leofwen at last.   Martine then moves up to block access to the other enemy Melee, and takes a solid blow for her troubles, knocking her down to half health.     Levi takes a glancing blow and blocks one in turn.  HEALBOT brings Martine back up.   Ravness selects our next target and whittles Emanuel down a bit more with Spiritsurge, to 54/137.  Catiua heals Levi back to full.   Furio fires at HEALBOT, who shows off why she's the queen of the block.   Frances is now in easy range of Canopus who's flanked around the bottom of the map to get in range of all of the archers and you may be worried by this, however, this is Canopus - not Vyce.   Shireen the Archer hits Lenneth who is in the water thanks to Leofwen's earlier counter / knockback combo.  Frances does the smart thing and heals herself with a Mend Leaf +1 bringing her back to 109/110.   We start whittling down Furio.  Lenneth moves up to buff Canopus who's in prime murder position.  Enemy Boss Grion heals up Emanuel a bit.  Our Melee are now so well positioned that the enemy melee cannot flank us to get to our squishies. See Martine, she blocks the lower path. See Lenneth, she blocks the river preventing them from jumping across. Levi and Voltare with their auras prevent the other melee from dancing around them.  Levi hits Mathild down a little.  Check out the chance to hit. Robert has a 25% chance to hit me for 27 damage. Canopus has a 75% chance to counterattack for 11 damage. This is why you want Canopus up close in range of enemy archers - he's got a naturally high chance to dodge, and to counter.      Snipette brings Mathild down further - almost at a point we can kill her now.     Martine blocks Emanuels offense. Emanuel then moves one tile to the South East. Mathild lands a glancing blow on Levi. I wasn't lying when I said Knights were hard as nails.     Martine hulks out and kills Furio.     Ravness skewers Gyles and Emanuel on her shish-kebab. Gyles is trapped thanks to our good placement with only Levi as a valid target - he actually lands his 25% chance to hit which is surprising.     Nerraw lances Gyles for 31 damage, while Ravness gets bow'd for 28 damage.     HEALBOT actually takes a hit, which surprises me. So Sara, crits Shireen the archer in retaliation.     Canopus finishes off Shireen with a well placed crit and gets a mad payday for his troubles.   Grion gets offensive and hits Ravness, but we're officially on mopup duty as the enemy lacks the capacity to kill any of our units so I'm going to power through the next turns.      Levi and Snipette bring Mathild down to 2hp. HEALBOT brings up Ravness. Catiua brings up HEALBOT.    Ravness uses her finisher to bring Emanuel to 3hp.   Gyles moves back to hit Martine - fails.         Frances lands a lightning bow on Martine. Martine mighty blows Gyles back to the tree. Nerraw kills Emanuel with a lance. Sara hits Gyles into <10% hp. Lenneth finishes off Gyles.   Canopus focuses on Frances now.   Mathild used a Mend Leaf +0 off screen. Voltare hits for exactly 25hp to bring her back to 2hp. Levi gets the kill.   HEALBOT takes a crit, but there's no enemies nearby to follow through.    Ravness and Snipette FINALLY take down Frances.   Robert next - he drops a Magician card so we move up Nerraw to grab it for the int / damage boost. At this point, we've won.    Levi dodges the finishing move.     Hitting fast forward now as there's a lot of movement to get Nerraw his stat boost, as we trap the boss so he can't move, and he's got 25% chance to hit anyone, there's a lot of skipped turns.    Peregrines Mark is a good drop  I can cross class Canopus to archer now to use great bows / Tremendous shot.    Next update, we'll probably cover some new entries in the local rags.
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"I should have brought more guys." is maybe the worst thing to say as you die.
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