Chapter 14 Mission: Sorry, Claude, but I've seen this map in a paralogue before so I know there are boats coming you can't trick me! Rookie move having them show up at the end of Turn 1 though, that's the kind of maneuver you should use on like Turn 3 or 4 after the player has committed their forces to entering the city normally! But yeah, Claude's big play here was allying with Almrya and having their navy drop in to fight us too. Split the party with the bigger group taking the town and a smaller group fighting their way onto the boats. Things went pretty smoothly. Hilda was an opponent here and Byleth sent her to detention. When we beat Claude something new happened and he basically pleaded for mercy and we got the option to spare or kill him. I chose to spare him because he's always seemed like a cool guy, really think he and Edelgard could have talked this one out! They were fairly amiable talking to each other after I spared him! Jerk move game giving me the option to ask Claude to join us, he seemed like he was okay with it too! but alas he decides to leave Fodlan because his being around would give the anti-Empire Alliance faction someone to rally around. Not sure I buy this if he joined us but whatever. I guess the implication this whole time is that he was actually like... a sleeper Almyran asset or something? Maybe even a noble/royalty? He seemed to imply as much when making his case to be spared but like how does he get in charge of the Alliance then are they that bad at background checks? Anyway, next up is the Kingdom.
I started Chapter 15 but am still in it, a bunch of Paralogues opened up so I've been working my way through them. lol at the mission on the battle screen basically spoiling it.
Paralogue (Edelgard): man talk about sore losers. That Almyran general we just beat in Claude's map came back for Round 2, this time trying to take an army to invade Fodlan. Lots of enemies here, including some with some very nice items to steal. Glad I had Byleth master Thief way back when because giving him Steal so I had 2 people capable (Petra is the other) and that helped with that. A few tricky moments where I had to lure the item guys out but wanted to make sure I didn't kill them on counter, but not too bad.
Paralogue (Hubert): these guys again, huh. This map was actually a bit tricky given my personal goals were to save all green units and break all monster armor for max items. Actually used all my Divine Pulses here because that was easier said than done an also because the green units have no regard for their own survival and will happily attack when they're get annihilated on the counterattack. Got it done though. The wording of the reward makes it sound like you only needed to save 3/5 though I'd never be satisfied with that (nor could I have known beforehand.)
2 Paralogues down, 3 to go. (Leonie/Linhardt, Petra/Bernadetta, and Marianne) should get those done on the next/last free day of the month.
Also, not quite related but Chapter 14 introduced a new contender for my favorite song so far. Late Act 1/Act 2 map themes have been great so far. I'd say my Top 3 songs in the game thus far are: Indomitable Will (Chapter 14: The boss override theme that plays when you engage Claude), Roar of Dominion (Chapter 12 Theme, at least for Crimson Flower), and Chasing Daybreak (Act 2 Map Theme Default, again, at least on Crimson Flower.) ---
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