Part 20: Renewal - Battle
Chapter 10 Battle
The team that the people voted for, with Kellam surprisingly winning out over Sully and Vaike. I forgot to note that last update's music carries over to the Preparation menu, replacing the usual prep OST.

This Thief way over on the bottom left would've given the biggest trouble since it probably be the first to escape. Usually, it would take a tanky flying unit to make it there to survive the horde of units waiting.
There's an easy solution for that, though. Let's start the escape from Plegia.










The map ends if we just defeat a...pacifist Berserker? What? And why does he have a Beaststone? Maybe he killed Panne's race or something?
Music: Don't Say Her Name!
This track plays through the entire map. Player phase, enemy phase, both battle phases, and dialogue in between.

Chrom hitches a ride with Frederick to help him on hunting some Thieves. The B-support will be key, as an extra attack or even two from Chrom will help Fred's lack of killing power.


Libra got the Rescue Staff from Chapter 8 and teleports in team Fred so they can reach the Master Seal Thief. Without a Rescue Staff, the only way to reach the Thief on the first turn is via Peg/Wyvern with a +1 Move boost and a 2 range weapon.


I think this is much easier.


Gregor pairs with Nowi since they already have a C Support and Lon'qu will pair with Donny.


Nowi chips the Soldier with Gregor's help, then Donny finishes him off for a level.


Got all the good stats since speed would be overkill at this point.


Robin joins with Lissa to give a boost in power, while Kellam joins Tharja to boost her defense.


Tharja chips out the Wyrmslayer Thief, which opens up a death by Ladle from Lissa.


Fore!


Cordelia hangs out with Gaius as they move ahead and heavily damage the Barbarian.




Gaius counterkills for a terrible level. That is anything but "Sweet," Gaius.


A second Barbarian comes in and unfortunately hits Gaius despite low odds. At least he didn't critical?

Lissa gets attacked by a Soldier.




It didn't end well for him.

Hmm, maybe the secret is to have her only level-up from the Support....






Nowi and Lon'qu try to take down the Wyvern Rider, but unfortunately he didn't produce the crit for once. I do like how each fight is basically in a giant puddle, splashes and all.
At least Lon'qu got B rank in swords to up his killing power.

Cordelia finishes off the Barbarian.


Libra sits on a fort to solidify himself against the hoard. while Fred kills the Seraph Robe Thief.


Oh yeah, he got a crit too because why not. What's 2%? 100% when it works.

Tharja and Robin barricade the middle canyon.

















To be fair, Libra has a Killer Axe.



Okay, two times the charm.


Chrom gives a helping hand to one-round the attacking Barbarian. Fred also gains C rank Axes.


And two attacks from Chrom defeats the Soldier.

Fred is just about back to where he was stat-wise as a Great Knight, except with much better speed.


Robin counterkills a Barbarian without much trouble.


The Soldier at least hit her, for a piddling 4 damage.


Cordelia takes a big blow, but recovers enough to stab back for victory.


Oh come on, how did you not trigger a single Dual Attack, Chrom?


Ouch. I'm sure.


Robin takes out another Wyvern Rider.


Maybe Emm's spirits finally fixed Robin instead.


Tharja blocks the way so Robin can kill off the Bullion (M) Thief with little risk of dying on the enemy turn.

Produce a crit, damnit.




Well at least he got a legendary level-up. Also learns Vantage (attacks first on enemy turn when HP is less than 50%).


Good job, Cordy.


The Event Tile boosts their relationship, which will probably be B by the end of this mission.


Fred kills the Wyvern Rider with the prince's help.


The one nearby enemy couldn't even scratch Robin.


Tharja gets attacked by the Soldier. Kellam steps in and teaches him not to harm ladies anymore.


Imagine Kellam being A-rank with a long-range unit. That is him walking every single time.


Well, good! We're running out of soldiers to kill for EXP.

Libra heals Freddy and gains some EXP from the Event Tile.


Chrom wants some blood, too. For his revenge, you see.
I'm starting to believe in my Emm Spirit fix theory.

Kellam acts as bait for those Soldiers, while the rest of the team moves closer to the boss.


That's one.


Holy crap, an enemy crit on 1% chance?!

Oh right. Kellam.


Hooray for team Fred (Which is mostly Chrom doing all the work in the back). Chrom masters the Sword rank after the battle.

Lissa spams the Physic Staff enough to gain a level. Emm fixed Lissa, too.


Defense is nice and she really needed Skill and Lck. A rare good level for those kind of stat-ups.



Sure. 5%. Everyone gets a critical. You get a crit, and you get a crit....


And a level. At this rate, Nowi might have more speed than strength.

Reinforcements. For once I'm glad cause some units need to eat. I mean kill.



One of those units was NOT Libra!


Ehhhh sure, I'll take it. Libra takes a Hand Axe from the other Wyvern Rider.


Fred and Chrom takes out the same Rider. Could really use some more strength, buddy.


Enemy reinforcements #2 here. Everyone except Nowi chills outside the range.

Nope, never mind. Three more enemies pop out from the bottom right and both middle forts.


Libra didn't crit for once.

Nowi baits out the two Wyvern Riders and it goes back to us.


Both Mercenaries combine to take out the higher health rider.


Gaius and Fred clean up the immediate area.


Gaius counterkills the Barbarian with Cordelia's lance.

Yes, that's sweet. Just keep gaining strength, that's all you need.


Well that sucked. The rider still lives after two attacks from both Donny and Lon'qu. You guys need to bulk up.


Lissa heals enough scrapes to get a fantastic level. She also mastered Staves.


Donny kills and gets a Donny level. The next few turns were spent forming around Fred to boost his crit dodge and heal a few wounds.





He's still alive despite a crit AND a Dual Attack from Chrom. Mustafa's been eating his wheaties.

Team Nowi gets the victory.


Whoops.


Uh...hey, levels! Look at those stats go up!

And we get a Beaststone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkL8magxZoc
*An ally appears*







Next time: Mad King Gangrel