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[Aussie2B]

I cleared a second sky island stage in Ogre Battle on PlayStation, which was also fun, and now it's back to the slog of the overly large stages. I'm currently very slowly chipping away at the City of Malano map. I'm losing Goth with every day that passes, as the expenses for my troops are greater than what I'm bringing in with tributes, but every time I try to press forward to liberate more towns, more enemies pop up out of the middle of nowhere. Then I scrap my plans to take more cities, as that would spread my troops thinner and leave me with more locations to defend. That's another thing about this game that drives me nuts, that enemies can seemingly appear anywhere with no rhyme or reason. You have no idea what the group will comprise of either. For the first time since I started playing, I very nearly lost my base (which I always leave the Opinion Leader on), as high-flying groups would suddenly appear in the mountains below the base and zip over in an instant with little I can do because my units can only match that speed at best (as high-flying groups are the fastest.) It's kinda hard to properly strategize if you can't even see what's coming. There's just way too much that comes down to chance, and it seems like the way to victory is to learn all the nitty-gritty details of these various opaque mechanics (probably from outside resources because the game itself sure as heck doesn't explain it clearly) and then see what you can exploit yourself. Anyway, it looks like my reputation meter is 50% full again, or very close to it, so hooray for getting back to where I started the game at, haha.

[Aussie2B]

I finished off the Malano map in Ogre Battle on PlayStation, recruiting Prince Tristan in the process. It's been quite a while since I last was able to recruit a special character. I've read that he's the protagonist in the Neo Geo Pocket Ogre Battle, which is a side story to this one and I believe takes place concurrently? He's a powerful character, but his party was pretty lame. Who needs two clerics in a unit and a wizard in the front row? I rebuild all my units after each stage, but his especially needed it. Malano ended up being a bit of a wash with reputation. My reputation meter looked over 50% full when I beat the stage's boss, but then my return trip to the stage chipped away at my gains. Between it being a huge map and having loads of buried treasure, I ended up spending so much time that my reputation started dropping from too many days passing, and I also lost some from how I answered an NPC's question. There are seriously so many pitfalls for reputation. So I started up the Antalia stage with what looked like less than 50% of the meter filled, but either way, the point is I'm hovering around half, give or take. Whether that's enough to recruit Yushis in this stage, I don't know. But I'm liking this map. Not too excessively large, and the towns aren't laid out like someone dumped a bag of Skittles. Instead, they're clustered near my base and along the western edge of the map, with a big empty expanse surrounding the enemy's base. I was able to quickly liberate several cities without that posing a problem for me, and even after only the first day passed, I was already getting more in tributes than what I was spending on my troops. Though, lately, my approach has been to clear a map fully of enemies besides the boss, returning most of my units to my base, and then letting high noon come again with that limited military presence to get a good haul from tributes, while praying it's not gonna hurt my reputation, haha. I'm sure it lessens my bonus Goth after clearing the stage, but that's an insignificant difference compared to what I can pull in with tributes after every town is liberated.