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I'm playing in quarter-speed and I'm on chapter eight after starting two days ago. If I can do that, you can do it at least four times as fast!

[This got a bit delayed due to an absurdly busy weekend. I finished chapter 14 last night, but rather late, so I decided to hold off on posting this until today. Sorry, guys! I’ll try to speed up a bit since I know Oujay and Mel have already completed their drafts. ^^” Anyway, on with what you guys actually care about.]

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→ I had to restart this chapter multiple times in order to get people to cooperate with me. Marisa died constantly at the beginning, then near the middle, then again near the end... Natasha was actually less of a liability than she was! Marisa did end up getting a few good level-ups in the end, though, as did Amelia. Vanessa still needs to promote. I forgot to get a cap of the turncount, but I'm confident it was 10 turns. It’ll all be properly confirmed once I reach the end of the game, anyway. :Y






→ This chapter actually took less time than Chapter 11. I had to re-do it a few times due to poor timing in grabbing Ewan, as I usually had Vanessa go ahead to grab him, Rescue him, and take him down with the rest of the party so his vulnerable shota butt didn’t get eaten alive by monsters. As a result, he barely touched combat during this chapter. Otherwise, Vanessa and Eirika mopped up more EXP and the chapter went relatively smoothly. Marisa will hopefully be high-enough level to promote soon!




And then I leveled up Ewan in the Tower, too.



And some people promoted!



And with that done, I moved on to Chapter 13.





→ I couldn't save as many turns as I wanted - I could've beaten the chapter in 3 turns, as Lute took out about 2/3s of the enemy forces on her own - but I needed to recruit Cormag for his Elysian Whip, as I missed the one that came earlier in the game. It did go well overall, though!




And then Vanessa was promoted, because I finally had that Elysian Whip for her. Even her mount gets an upgrade!



Upgrade, replacement, whatever. Tana's probably taking care of the old pegasus now for her. Can't let a perfectly good pegasus go to waste.

With that, we move on in the story.



→ This chapter actually took more run-throughs than I care to admit. At first I sent Marisa and Amelia down to the bottom-most room, L’Arachel and Colm and Lute to the right-most room, and everyone else funneled to the middle. This proved to be pretty inefficient, though, as the middle room needed some extra firepower on their side. I eventually shifted people around until Colm could unlock the right-hand room and be rescued by L’Arachel in one turn, so that Lute could power on ahead and cut a swathe of burning-hot Anima magic through the enemy forces. Then it was just a matter of sending L’Arachel trotting through the destruction and chaos to recruit Rennac. Poor Rennac. Everyone else went through the middle, and Ewan and Marisa (and Natasha) stayed behind to handle straggler archers for extra EXP (and some of the cavalier reinforcements later) while Vanessa powered through the narrow corridor to cut a way through for Amelia, who was ferrying poor Eirika with her to move quicker. (It also kept Eirika from sopping up unnecessary EXP.) Lute was definitely the MVP in this chapter; I’m pretty sure she took out 75% of the enemy forces on her own. I am so glad I drafted you, Lute. <3

Gonna make this quick, since it's two chapters and the final.



→ I had to redo the chapter a few times in order to get things to work out, mostly because people kept dying to the swordmasters down south, but otherwise it went well. Rennac looted a lot of chests. Eirika and Ephraim handled three of them on their own. Good thing Eirika carts around ALL OF THEIR ITEMS. Went well otherwise.






→ Barely took any screencaps. Had to retry once because Vanessa died, but otherwise they just footed it across the hills at the bottom and blasted their way through the enemies. Marisa got a LOT of critical hits.








okay ******** this.



→ I had to restart about 3 times because people died. I almost had to a fourth time, but then Ewan dodged an 87% chance of certain death at the hands of Lyon. It was the most awesome moment in the Draft. Second was Marisa hitting a crit with Audhulma on the Demon King, dodging a 76, and then landing another crit.

Also, does the Demon King act smarter on Hard? Seriously, if he used Nightmare and THEN summoned monsters, he'd be way more difficult...

I wish that Great Knight had 7 move instead of 6. It was frustrating to give Ewan Boots so they could keep up with each other... and then because of Great Knight, Ewan was suddenly 1 move faster than her. Other than that, it's not a bad class at all. Her end stats actually are astronomically better than her averages for this level, it's pretty insane.

Sorry, Garm, I couldn't get her to S-rank in Axes fast enough. 8c I think she only got as high as C.

The general idea was to focus on mobility, the ability to cross the map in as little time as possible. Amelia went Cavalier -> Great Knight for this reason. I love her as a Knight, but she'd just be too damn slow. She was an excellent Cavalier, though, I will say. This is also why Natasha went to Valkyrie and Lute to the (admittedly inferior) Mage Knight.

And Vanessa is amazing as a Wyvern Knight. I might always stick her as a Wyvern Knight now. <3

And Marisa went to Swordmaster because I'm just more fond of them than I am of Assassins.

Ewan had no mounted options, so I went for dark magic. Finally got to use Gleipnir!

Overall, I think it was a relatively solid strategy.

I also didn't realize Great Knights only had 6 move. I should have probably, uh, looked that up beforehand. OOPS.

If only there were TWO Boots... /wistful sigh

Thanks! ^^