**** it I'm way too hyped now to put this off. Also, I don't think I've linked to the Lopt Sect's theme yet, so let me do that now:
Final Holy War
Player phase music:
This is the track that competes with Dance in the Skies and Crossing the Desert for being my favourite player phase music in the game. Excellent end to the amazing soundtrack this game has.
We've got a lot of work still ahead of us. We'll be reclaiming the homelands of various characters, taking down the descendants of old foes like Langbart, Reptor and Andre, finishing off Hilda, resolving issues with Arion, finally getting our hands on the man who manipulated everyone to bring us to this point, and of course, getting Julia back just in time for our final showdown with Julius himself. And naturally, the only way to start such a grand battle...is with the final arena of FE4! It's a special one too, kind of an all-star arena. Every foe here is taken from an arena earlier in the game, except for the seventh guy, who is unique.
So to start off, I have Fee and Altenna deal with some of the southern dark mages, with Tinny Silencing the one who survived. Other ranged units get a start on dealing with the ones on the western cliff, and I set up a wall of dudes to take on the approaching armada of mounted enemies. They get slaughtered quickly, then I have Leaf show off some more of his hax. He Rescues Leen, she dances him along with Celice and Nanna, Leaf advances and Rescues Celice close enough to kill the boss and seize on turn 3. Could have been done on turn 2 I think but frankly I am not going to be disappointed at all with this speedy a completion. All those poor enemies just vanished without getting to fight me :(
Now here comes Burian, grandson of Langbart. Boy we've had a lot of interactions with this family. Anyway, he's one hell of a tank, but I'm sure I can get around him easily enough. I'm not even going to bother with the group he sends towards Edda, I'll have seize Dozel to eliminate them long before they would have arrived. We pick off some of the Great Knights to clear a path, then Leaf and Leen team up for the rescue/dance/Celice rescue chain and we seize Dozel on turn 5, eliminating Burian and the last of his troops without a fight. Hooray for that! Now I have to race to take out Hilda and conquer Freege before Scorpio and his bow knight brigade can catch up and cause problems for me (they'll stop moving once you seize).
Now we run into the one problem of Sety with Holsety, an issue I've heard about but not yet witnessed. When the enemy can't manage a hit rate above 0 on him, often they won't attack. Instead of wiping out Hilda's Baron army, they just clog up my path, and now Scorpio has arrived to bother me. Still not too likely that he'll get to do anything though. And he doesn't, because once Sety steps off his mountain, the Barons start suiciding into him (or into Aless). He and Leaf use their Recover staffs on each other, Celice seizes, Leen dances, everyone with high enough MDef starts dealing with the Sleep staff mages, Lana gets warped for Restore duty, several people gather south of Barhara to see if we can't lure in the Falcoknight trio and some of the dark warlords early and make the main group have an easier time pushing through Ishtar and her gang.
Next part coming soon!
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We clasped our hands, our hands in praise of a conquerors right to tyranny