Valkyria Chronicles

[bcruise]

Re: Valkyria Chronicles

Just wanted to share a couple of the entertaining moments I've had with this game, one spoiler'd (just general stage info, no plot details), and one not:

Most heroic moment: Chapter 10 (first mission)

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The map features railcars that can transport one foot soldier to a different location. From near the start, I decided to use this to send my lone sniper Marina to an overlooking cliff on the right side of the map. It worked fine, and she took out 2 or three enemies from the cliff. But I never saw the mines laying on the cliff, tripped one and down she went. Being that the railcar was on her side of the cliff, I couldn't use it to reach her - which means she was completely stranded and dead in three turns (again, my ONLY sniper) unless I did something desperate.

So, even from way across the map, I can see what looked like a tiny path leading up the other side of the cliff deep in enemy territory, all the way on the other side of the map. So I decide to send Alicia on a last ditch suicide effort to try to rescue her. Over the next three turns, she's dodging interception fire (mostly other scouts, thankfully) from all sides, moving around buildings, avoiding mines, and eventually making it to the other side, which was indeed a path up the cliff. On the last turn she killed two snipers on that cliff (they can't counter attack, and often die before they'd have a chance), and reached Marina for the evac with the last bit of AP on the last command point I had. Absolutely amazing - and I went on to finish the mission after that.

"I'd rather kill you myself and save the Imps the trouble" moment:

I had brought about 3 units out into the open to try and kill off a sniper and stay out of range of other enemy fire at the same time. The sniper was down to single digit health, where one more hit would kill. With my last command point I go with a scout for the accurate shot - which just happened to be Susie. With the aiming circle over the entire enemy, I fire. Or try to, at least. Imagine the shock when I hear Susie's voice:

"No, I can't do it!"

Potential - Humanitarian. Description: "Unable to forgive themselves for harming another person, they cannot take any further action after attacking." Except it triggered before she shot, which means the turn ended without a shot being fired.

I then watch aghast as the sniper proceeds to take down 2 of the 3 I left in the open (thinking he'd surely be dead). Fortunately the third is able to evac the other two, and I eventually complete the mission.

Immediately following this mission I sent Susie on her way, and her parting message was something to the effect of "I'm glad my time in combat is over". Take up the medic job or something - that regular one is bound to get shot eventually with running into killzones the way she does!

[BatsareBugs]

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Hey, Fina can do whatever she can, it's bad battle etiquette to shoot a medic anyways.

I know which one you're talking about.

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I usually do a good job at spotting land mines unless they're behind an object, but I used Marina the same way. She's one of the best snipers once you unlock all her potentials. With that said, I only used her to clear one side of the map of snipers, but I let Alicia deal with the other side while all the others convoyed through the enemy at the lower levels.

I just got through Ch. 15 and 16, and I almost lost Hannes in one of the battles because someone decided to move somewhere where I didn't expect he/she to move. Fortunately he/she decided it was more important to get to that place instead of putting away Hannes for good.

[bcruise]

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Just beat it last night. Total game time of around 46 hours, but it would appear that there's still plenty to do after beating it.

I'll hold off on the spoiler talk until more have beaten it, though.

(Love the mid-battle save feature, btw - saved me from a lot of headaches on the longer battles late in the game)

[Candyman5]

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Wow, I just did one battle in 3 turns and completed it. Got a A on it. It was easy though??? Who knows.

[bcruise]

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Wow, I just did one battle in 3 turns and completed it. Got a A on it. It was easy though??? Who knows.

The grades are only based on how quickly you get through the missions, and nothing else. So if you get through them quickly, yes, you'll probably get an A. But, you do get extra experience and money for destroying tanks, killing enemy leaders (command point guys), and enemy aces (they all have special names), so it's not always best to run straight for the enemy's camp. Not to mention that attempting to do so is more or less suicide on the later missions.

It's possible to get through the first skirmish on normal in a single turn (quite easy actually, once your characters are leveled up).

[Candyman5]

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The grades are only based on how quickly you get through the missions, and nothing else. So if you get through them quickly, yes, you'll probably get an A. But, you do get extra experience and money for destroying tanks, killing enemy leaders (command point guys), and enemy aces (they all have special names), so it's not always best to run straight for the enemy's camp. Not to mention that attempting to do so is more or less suicide on the later missions.

It's possible to get through the first skirmish on normal in a single turn (quite easy actually, once your characters are leveled up).

The mission I was talking about was about a princess. That is all I will say outside a Spoiler Tag.

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You had the shoot the armored cars engine to stop it and rescue the princess. Easiest mission I have ever done. Lol.

[BatsareBugs]

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Just beat it last night. Total game time of around 46 hours, but it would appear that there's still plenty to do after beating it.

I'll hold off on the spoiler talk until more have beaten it, though.

(Love the mid-battle save feature, btw - saved me from a lot of headaches on the longer battles late in the game)

Same here. I actually only used the mid-battle save feature if I was unsure of how to achieve the objective and that I didn't want to restart from the beginning.

[BatsareBugs]

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The mission I was talking about was about a princess. That is all I will say outside a Spoiler Tag.

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You had the shoot the armored cars engine to stop it and rescue the princess. Easiest mission I have ever done. Lol.

Spoiler tags are the best thing since sliced bread.

Of course, if you haven't played... don't read! Thanks.

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Yeah, I made that battle a lot longer than it should've been because I was blocking the APC with the Edelweiss. I had a bunch shocktroopers waiting for it at one of the corners and took it down once it got there.

[Candyman5]

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Spoiler tags are the best thing since sliced bread.

Of course, if you haven't played... don't read! Thanks.

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Yeah, I made that battle a lot longer than it should've been because I was blocking the APC with the Edelweiss. I had a bunch shocktroopers waiting for it at one of the corners and took it down once it got there.

Yeah I Agree about the Spoiler Tags. Lol. I remember the old ***********SPOILER********* thing...lmao.

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Yeah, I just waited at the first intersection with Rosie and the Eldaweis. Took it out on the 3rd turn. Lmao.

[BatsareBugs]

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Yeah I Agree about the Spoiler Tags. Lol. I remember the old ***********SPOILER********* thing...lmao.

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Yeah, I just waited at the first intersection with Rosie and the Eldaweis. Took it out on the 3rd turn. Lmao.

(Again, don't click unless you're up to Ch. 10 on Valkyria).

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Yeah, after I finished that I was thinking "Damn, I think I made this one harder than it actually was" and I thought about just letting the APC through the first couple of blocks and ambushing it with the shocktroopers instead of waiting for it at a different point.

So the Edelweiss's machine gun fire worked?

[Candyman5]

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(Again, don't click unless you're up to Ch. 10 on Valkyria).

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Yeah, after I finished that I was thinking "Damn, I think I made this one harder than it actually was" and I thought about just letting the APC through the first couple of blocks and ambushing it with the shocktroopers instead of waiting for it at a different point.

So the Edelweiss's machine gun fire worked?

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Yep the Edelweiss Machine Gun did work. You just got the be careful when selecting it. I accidently failed the first time because I clicked on the Cannon instead of the Machine gun. XD. Also what is cool is I had Rosie and the Edelweiss together so they both shot at the engine at the same time. Took 3 turns because the first turn I put the Edelweiss by the intersection instead of right on it, then I moved Rosie over also. The next turn only Rosie could shoot the engine because the Cra was not out far enough. You also got to make sure to kill the Lancer and scout that follows the vehical. Turn 3 I just used Rosie and the Edelweiss and won.

[fishepa]

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I've been playing this a little bit the past couple of days. Anyone have any tips or tricks that you know now that you wish you would have known earlier? I really don't know what I'm doing.

[Candyman5]

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I've been playing this a little bit the past couple of days. Anyone have any tips or tricks that you know now that you wish you would have known earlier? I really don't know what I'm doing.

Never run into the open unless you need to. You dont know when reinforcments will come. Pay attention to who is doing good and who isn't. For example, If I find that one of my units that usually doesn't do well in my party is actually doing good, try to use him more. Remember that you can also use a unit more than one time per turn, I didn't know that when I first played and was getting my arse handed to me. Also do skermishes and such and try to get all upgrades that become availiable at that time from the R&D facility, etc.

[bcruise]

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I've been playing this a little bit the past couple of days. Anyone have any tips or tricks that you know now that you wish you would have known earlier? I really don't know what I'm doing.

Which chapter are you on?

"When in doubt, go with Shocktroopers" is the best advice I can give early on in the game. Some of the other classes don't get more useful until later in the game, but shocktroopers are pretty useful throughout. Often times you can run them right through a hailstorm of interception fire right up to an enemy, and blow them away. That gets more difficult when they group up and you face two or three of them, but it works for awhile at least.

Oh....and don't try to headshot crouching enemies - you can't. Crouching negates extra damage from headshots, even if they're not actually behind a sandbag. But it works the same way for your guys too - that's certainly one thing I wish I had realized sooner. That's why this game isn't a third person shooter - stuff like this.

[fishepa]

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I'm on Chapter 3 right now.