Live Blogs Fight It Out! Let's Play Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen

Ghilz2011-06-01 19:03:56

I did find three hidden item last time, forgot to list them.

• Power Shield: Physical +18, Fire -8, Ice -5
• Flame Charm: Fire +5
• White Garb, Phys +4, White +5

Non are that great, so I sell them away for 8560 goths total. Bizen nets me 65500 goths. With that done we can move to the city of Xanadu.

This is a pretty big map. Lots of towns, lots of treasures.

Xanadu is the heartland of the Highland. This means that freeing towns here damages our reputation. Ouch! Well, not all towns, but many of them. So when Debonair frees the temple right outside the base (for V: Hierophant and a Fire Staff - Fire elemental, +3 int), he gets a less than warm welcome from the people there.

Since a lot of the enemies this stage are vulnerable the fire, the weak staff can be handy for a melee unit. I equip it on Debonair. Quaalash is freed for XX: Judgement.

Ouch. One has to remember. Someones' Freedom fighters is always someone else's terrorist. Canopus digs up a hidden Dragon Ring (Fire +14, Str +6). Aisha frees Sanbisen for VIII: Strength.

Norn frees the hidden city of Pessana for VII: Chariot. There we find someone who does not think we are the scum of the earth!

Kallongola is freed by Canopus for XX: Judgement. Man, I have never played this game and seen SO MANY Judgement cards. Wow. There we meet someone else who can think of other things to do than insult us.

Norn finds two buried Mystic Rods, white elemental, str +2, intelligence +7. And then a Black Armour Phys +8, Black +4, White -3.

Destin frees Pillashcapia for 'II: Priestess.

A Muse is getting close to Destin, so I use the 7 Leagues Boots to warp a low Ali unit in the town to do the fighting and save Destin's alignment. Cook the Evil One, turned Vampire, meets the Muse with two griffons. Cook has two Tiamats. More than a match, her griffon cannot even do more than 1 damage to the Vampire, and that's not counting his blood kiss. Damaging the Tiamats is even harder. The defeating muse drops an agility potion. Sweet. Debonair meets three Paladins and two mages. No match for a general, his pet dragon, a cherub and a monk. Rauny is attacked by a beast master and two wyvern. Remember that Rauny is a princess, leading a unit containing Fogel. Yeah.... That does not end well for the enemy. Debonair meets a puzzling units. An angel. Two clerics. And an ice dragon. What the hell? Angels? Clerics? And one cleric is tanking? Fenril meets three eaglemen and two mages. Her cockatrice petrifies the mage. Lans frees Patos Demina for 0: Fool.

Cook the vampire meets two Gold Dragons and a Dragoner. Canopus finds a pristine sword, white elementals. Strength + 8, Intelligence + 10. norn frees Piles Dot.

Debonair frees Anna Pol for XVI: Tower.

Debonair fights two clerics, a giant and a seraph, defeating them advances his Gold Dragon to a Platinum Dragon. He also finds another Agility potion. Balgenia is freed for VIII: Strength by Norn.

Rather than risk my reputation bleed some more, I send Rauny to meet her dad. On her way, she fights three paladins and two samurai masters, for a HP potion.

Overlord Hikash's class is Highlander. Thankfully her is neither immortal nor immune to everything but decapitation. He is essentially like the two Dandies we've fought, except for the Physical elements. He randomly picks his attack between melee attacks, physical elemental spells like gale or acid. He has 4 such attacks. His escort is all muses, because, well, the man is a pimp. With his random attacks and the back row muses' thunder, Hikash can lay quite the smack down. But he's facing Princess Rauny, and with Fogel helping her, as well as some Tarot Cards, she holds her own and nets an easy win.

With that teary farewell, Overlord Hikash Vinzalf passes on, making Rauny Vinzalf the head of her house.

If you are paying attention, you may realize that once we kill Gares and Endora, this makes Rauny the highest ranking Highland nobility. This will have repercussion in the ending.

For Rashidi, seems Saradin won this one out!

Next time! We march on the Black Queen!

Comments

gentlemanorcus Since: Dec, 1969

Jun 1st 2011 at 12:37:44 PM

Keep on trucking. You've inspired me to give this game another chance.

Ghilz Since: Dec, 1969

Jun 1st 2011 at 5:45:21 PM

Cool. Feel free to ask if you have questions. Odds are I missed some detail somewhere. And the game isn't forthcoming for info.

However, if you want to hear the next part of the story, I recommend Ogre Battle 64. It's the same gameplay. But improved. Everything has been tuned, generally for the better, and while some additions like the class change business or the Chaos Frame can be at time confusing, it's a really good game. It has a better story, is even longer than the first. And it's on Wii (as is the original OB).

SPOILER ALERT

^{And Ogre Battle 64 features Destin again!}

gentlemanorcus Since: Dec, 1969

Jun 2nd 2011 at 12:48:38 PM

I've actually played Po LC. I didn't ever complete this one mostly due to the fact that when you kill enemy leader, the unit retreats to heal instead of just wandering aimlessly like in Po LC. So if there was a large battle I'd lose track of leaderless units and eventually I would just keep fighting the same units over and over, which made my reputation steadily decrease. But I'm determined not to let it happen this time.

Ghilz Since: Dec, 1969

Jun 2nd 2011 at 3:27:01 PM

Techncally, combat has no effect on reputation - its who you use to free towns that does that. The trick to TPK an enemy squad is to set your tactic to "strong". That way your squad rotates who they attack, always aiming for the healthiest, bringing the whole squad down at once in the end. That'll remind me, I'll add an in-depth view of the tactics for my next updates.

Be careful with certain events. For example, gaining the quicksilver requires high reputation. If you think you don't meet the requirement, you simply put it off till later.

Lastly, the site where I got my maps for the LP, http://www.houseofwacks.org/ogre/, is full with cool tips that can help you finish the game.