FE3H - Maddening Blue Lions Chapter 19
Chapter 19 - The Golden Deer's Plea (Cont.)
Battle: Saving Derdriu
Deploy: Rikka, Dimitri (Alois), Dorothea, Lysithea, Annette (Dedue), Sylvain, Ingrid, Hilda, Ashe (Petra), Catherine, Flayn
Claude has set up on a final gambit, putting the Imperial army in a vulnerable position for a back attack by the Blue Lions. The Imperial forces are pretty densly packed into the town square of Derdriu, but a bunch of them are occupied with trying to get at Claude. The objective is to defeat Arundel, who is fairly accessible to fly up to and take out once I move within the town's perimeter. But, Claude seems to want to talk, so I set a goal of getting Rikka over to him to talk, just in case he decides to give me something.
I start this map off with a Stride and take down the enemies at the town's border walls, then tread slowly through as I fight my way into town. Things aren't too bad to start, and I am able to rescue Judith and cover one of the near by enemy spawn points, I send Sylvain and Lysithea back down south to take care of the Paladins from the back and to collect a couple items. Things get a bit more shaky once I reach the town square. There are a lot of Heroes in this map, and the only way I can reliably KO them in one attack round is through Ashe's Hunter's Volley. Heroes have inherit Vantage as well restricting my options to finish them off safely. Since I decided to leave Dimitri as an Archer to finish mastery for Hit +20, I could not rely on him to Battalion Vantage/Wrath his way through the enemy Heroes. There are a number of Heroes and Armors around the square in the center of town, which was made worse by the fact that Arundel starts to move towards Claude's position, putting a bit of added urgency for me to get past the enemy line.
What ended up happening was that I had Hilda fly over some houses to an area at the very top of the map where she was safe from any attacking enemies other than Arundel, allowing her to distract him and buy some time without him threatening my main units or Claude's position. He had about 65% hit and 14% crit, so there was definitely a bit of danger leaving Hilda around there to be taking hits, but I had her over there for a couple turns as she plugged a second reinforcement spawn point, then flew herself out of harm's way. By that point, I was able to clear out most of the enemies.
Claude's units holding down the fort at the harbour are pretty durable, and for the most part never end up in real danger of being busted down by the time I reach there. On the final turn playing the map, I an able to get Rikka to talk to him, but he's mostly just there to ask me why I'm so late to the rescue, and wondering how things would have been if we had chosen to teach the Golden Deer instead of the Blue Lions five years ago. How rude. Afterwards, I drop Arundel with a handful of attacks at Range 4, out of his reach with Thoron.
Two Divine Pulse uses on this map. One near the end of the map, where I was trying to use Judith as a shield to draw in some enemies, and she managed to get hit by every single attack and die. Another at the end of the map because Ashe missed an 80% attack which forced me to leave an enemy Hero alive, and they managed to nail a double 30% to kill Ingrid.
Resets: 0 (1)
Divine Pulses: 2 (47)
Roster:
Rikka - L38
Dorothea - L41
Dimitri - L41
Ashe - L40
Annette - L40
Lysithea - L39
Flayn - L39
Hilda - L38
Ingrid - L38
Petra - L38
Sylvain - L37
Catherine - L36
Dedue - L34
Dimitri tries to interrogate Arundel about his involvement with the Tragedy of Duscur, but he says nothing of worth before saying how Edelgard and Dimitri should just be good siblings and go kill each other already. At the moment, I'm skeptical whether Thales is actually dead here, but we'll likely see in a few chapters from now.
Claude thanks us for our help, hands us his bow, the Failnaught, tips us off about Rhea's whereabouts, says how we're even, then peaces out. Entrusting the Alliance back to the hands of the Kingdom.
Dimitri reveals to the Blue Lion House what his relation is with Edelgard, and the tells them of how his stepmother was Edelgard's birth mother. Unlike what it feels like in other routes, Dimitri having overcome his demons for revenge wishes that if there is some way for Edelgard's vision for the world be aligned with our own, that we speak to her and see if we can get her to surrender. It's unlikely to happen, but he at least will try to talk it out. Meanwhile, it seems that Edelgard is planning to do something. Something that may possibly not be undone once she does it, and is something Hubert does not agree with. Wonder what that will end up being.
