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You can indeed stealth the prison rescue in FE9, and you get a big sack of BEXP if you do. But "stealth mission" and "Fire Emblem" do not go together. I'm impressed that the game designers made the idea workable, and I am also glad that they let you skip it and turn the chapter into a fight with no real consequence (combat EXP compensates for the lost BEXP).

Now if only Revelation's stealth chapter did the same...

Time sensitive chapter, think I crushed it. I finished the same turn the Black Knight showed up.

If I recall correctly, the BK is progress based and not turn based. He shows up the turn after you aggro the boss (by moving into his range) or some such.

Does this game use even level growth between weapon ranks or does it take more with each level?

The latter. I want to say FE9 uses the same rank breakpoints as the GBA games.