Valor Emblem

This gamepage needs an updated blog!
Yeesh, the last one is from 2015. Granted, it's the very last day of 2015, but it's still over a year and a half old. Poor Stu must be feeling the stage anxiety hard.

So here's an entire map that takes place sort of mid-late game.



Anybody whose ever played any Fire Emblem is familiar with the Seize Castle objective. That's the idea here, with the castle being in the top left, guarded by a Dragon Knight boss.

You'll notice that there are two routes. The one on the left with a narrow bridge, and the one on the right with a big stack of axe knights (inside the red square). They're not just regular axe knights, though. These guys are called the Black Rhino Knights. Terrifying.
Every so often, you'll come across a bunch of enemies that go beyond the regular "Empire _____" mooks. They'll have names, a little narrative behind them, some kind of gimmick (theirs is extremely high Power with class mobility), and you'll only fight them once because, after that, they'll be dead

If you choose not to slug it out with the Bhack Rhino Knights, there's the western alternative of crossing the bridge. But as you near it, that asshole Armor Knight (circled in red) will step onto the fortress, holding it while his bow knight pals pelt you at range. If you bring in fliers to help buttress your frontal assault, the archmage will throw Excaliburs at them (anti-air magic).
I like devising evil stuff like that.

On the bright side, see those wyvern knights above the Black Rhino Knights? Because of story reasons, they'll leave the map after a few turns, long before you'll ever be in range of them. Hurray! Doesn't mean you won't fight them later though...

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If you want a protip on how to easily squash the BRK, open the spoiler <_<;


And on one last note, this battle is actually on a split-path route. 50% of players won't see it