Decided to start my own run (because any mention of the Shining Force series compels me to replay at least one of the games), made it past the Clown battle. Casualties so far are Hans (desert map, ate a double sniper attack that took him from almost full hp to death. Sucks losing that steel arrow for the abbey fight, but he didn't exactly factor into my long term plans. If someone had to die to bad luck, I'm glad it was him), and Arthur (sacrificed to a freeze 3 to make sure none of my important characters died. Not sure this was necessary, but I didn't see myself ever trying to develop Arthur anyway).
Going to try beating this without using Egress, or storebought angel wings (I might use wings I find outside of shops, though. Stealing this idea from Obob's awesome ShF2 hack. I forget how many you find naturally, though. If it's less than three, I might buy one or two.)
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SuperNiceDog won the Guru contest. Good job.