Chapter 25
Yay Hector Mode exclusive chapters. This is a nice easy one, but quite fun, especially since the whole "capture every castle" gimmick is a nice throwback to FE4, my favourite game in the series. Also I get to recruit Farina here, who has an interesting tendency to get ridiculously blessed by the RNG in my runs and end up several points above average in every stat, so I have a bit of a fondness for her, even though she's technically an awful character due to the simple fact that recruiting her costs several turns (she doesn't show up until 3 turns after you can finish the map).
Raven and Lucius head to the castle with the Warrior, Florina starts flying across the water and uses an Axereaver/Iron Sword combo to take out Pirates, Kent, Sain and Hawkeye all go north to deal with Pascal, and Serra, Priscilla and Canas tag along for lack of anything better to do. Hector stands around so he can recruit Farina and Ninian dances him for lulz because she can't advance much until the ballista are taken care of. Kent is finally turning it on a bit for me, his speed is still woefully short of what it should be but his strength has caught back up and his defense is growing nicely, so he's managing to carry his weight by virtue of absorbing a lot of hits now.
Raven absolutely mows down the axe users by the southern castle. Aside from the Warrior, who Lucius finished off, he completely destroyed them all. Not surprising, but still impressive. Florina destroys everything on the east for a while, then Farina goes over to help out. And by help out, I mean "gain EXP for herself". I stall quite a while feeding Kent and Farina kills because they need it the most. All in all, an easy chapter, but it was fun.
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Mistake you're making - overlooking the fact that we might not want to be saved.