Thracia 776 Playthrough - Chapter 9
Chapter 9 - The Banner of Njorun
Resets: 5 (20)
Turns: 10 (165)
Deploy:
Leif, Karin, Osian, Halvan, Safiya, Fergus, Finn, Tanya
We continue on our way towards Hannibal's villa to meet up with remnants of Leonster. It appears that someone tipped off the Thracian army that Hannibal's villa was supposedly housing some bandits, so a small Thracian military force overseen by Travant and Altena have shown up to extinguish the disturbance. Our goal is to meet up with them before they are overrun by the Thracian army.
This map is a bit of a nothing map... or at least that's what I initially thought. All the enemies start way at the bottom, and it's mostly just a treck through the forest to reach the escape point. But, what complicates the map is the presence of a number of Wyvern Riders, as they cover a lot of ground and the difference in movement between your characters walking through the forests and their high movement flying can make it difficult to properly protect units from being attacked and a boss unit that joins after you start the map, who has pretty high stats. The boss has 14 Spd, and tons of Atk HP and Def. He also has about 50 evade and has 9 movement making him a bit annoying to fight. I could bring Asbel and wipe him out easily, but I want to have Asbel rest to remove fatigue so I don't bring him here.
The enemies that are marching upwards will reach the top left before Leif's forces do so it is necessary to fight them, but first I would need to deal with the boss and the accompanying Wyverns. All the Wyvern Riders have Killer Lances, making them dangerous to have attack in to me, so I use unarmed bait units to have them eat up their turns while I KO them back afterwards.
I was originally trying to use some other units here, but I was struggling to deal with the boss who was way too durable and 2x hit most of my units, so while I originally was trying to bring characters like Ronan and Callion, I swapped them for Karin and Osian. Osian has 11 Spd so he avoided a doubling, and could deal a hefty chunk of damage with a counter critical. This made getting past the boss way easier. The other enemy forces weren't too much of an issue as I could choke point them near the villa, and use terrain as cover for Leif's units as Halvan and Osian lead the charge. We regrouped with Selphina and her units, then escaped the map. I had a bit of time so I had Karin go to the nearby Armory and pick up a couple Slim Lances.
Leif meets with Duke Dorius, an old retainer of Leonster who helped fight and buy time for Finn and Leif to initially escape from the assault of the Empire. He warns that the Empire is ready to strike Tahra at any moment and that they too plan to join the fight to reclaim Tahra. The Thracian forces also stopped their assault suddenly, as Altena returned to the area with word from Hannibal that we were actually not bandits, and we were instead a group of militia placed here by Hannibal to fend from bandits. So the fact that they were here to quell a group of bandits was entirely coincidental.
5 Resets because the Boss refused to miss at all. And landed a double 34% to kill Ronan 4 times. A 5th reset because I survived for once, but couldn't finish off the boss on player phase, which eventually led to me being fed up with trying what I was using and brought in Osian with the Vogue to get through this map.
Roster:
Leif - L12
Dagdar - xx/9
Asbel - L12
Osian - L12
Karin - L11
Halvan - L10
Nanna - L10
Finn - L10
Dalsin - L9
Fergus - L9
Tanya - L9
Brighton - L8
Selphina - L8
Macha - L7
Lithis - L7
Safiya - L6
Lara - L5
Shiva - L4
Callion - L2
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Ronan - L4
Kane - L2
Alba - L2
Robert - L2
We are joined by Selphina, Kane, Alba, and Robert. I'm benching Kane, Alba, and Robert, as there are fairly low level, start with low weapon levels, and are kind of unremarkable. I will still try to use Callion, but trying to bring multiple of these characters just feels like it will drag me down.
