Alright, moving on. For some reason I don't like this next chapter very much.
Chapter 10
Most eventful first turn ever. No one can even get in range to fight an enemy.
That changes on turn 2 of course. Two cavaliers go down to Hardin and Caeda with effective weapons immediately, then Marth and Roger team up to take out a third and the fourth eats yet another of those surprisingly frequent random crits from Abel. Merric and Ogma kill the thief and prepare to start clearing out the interior of the building so Marth can go recruit Sacrifice...er, Maria. A few units stick around to deal with the approaching flying units and make some progress towards the boss.
Caeda crits a Dracoknight AND Barst crits a Knight on the next enemy phase. This is starting to get a bit silly now. It does make my life a lot easier though since Barst makes the little gauntlet of archery much easier by killing part of it and hurting another member. The outside team goes after the boss and also the stores while the indoor squad continues to advance steadily and try to recruit the M sisters (that's Maria and Minerva for those who aren't capable of understanding things unless they're actually said intelligently). Then the big bunch of reinforcements show up and I decide Caeda can handle the boss and his buddies easily so the rest of Team Outside goes back to prevent those jerks from screwing things up for Team Inside.
Caeda kills yet another boss, to no one's surprise. Gains a point of strength from it too, as well as capping her speed. I'm okay with that. Meanwhile the reinforcements run into some heavy resistance. As in, they die. The knights live a while because of their low movement, but the cavaliers and Horsemen find out that Ridersbane plus general badassery (it's a word) and Sedgar scoring random crit #429 all adds up to me winning. In the north, Maria gets recruited then immediately meatshields against the powerful enemy Hero, who destroys her. Despite watching her sister die before her eyes, Minerva has no problem flying up to Marth and recruiting herself. Yay! Oh, and then Ogma and Merric combine to drop the Hero and get me my first Master Seal.
From then on, it's just waiting for Marth to walk to the long since vacated castle gate.
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We clasped our hands, our hands in praise of a conquerors right to tyranny