Femboy Fantasy Tit Tacs
I really thought slamming my way through Tactics Ogre would prep me for this. I’m only like eight hours in and already I have underlevelled characters I can’t do anything with. I haven’t even started messing with classes yet, please help. Save me, training battles.
Also why team size so small 
EDIT: Why are black mages evil. Ranged lockon fire attack that kills you.
EDIT2: the best strat for black mages is kamakaze basically. They have a lot of range and can snap to targets freely, so running next to another enemy will result in their multi target fire killing one of their boys.
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If you played through the old version of Tactics Ogre, you can definitely do this lol.
Yeah I plowed through PS1 Ogre. I fucking LOVE PLAYSTATION OGRE AAAAA
this feels weird though Idk, I am getting clowned very early on. Units dyin.You’re an adult who has played harder tactics RPGs, you’ll be like Kong Ming compared to middle school aged me when I first played the game lol. It might just take you a minute to figure out the flow of gameplay in this one.
Tell me how to bully black mages
Oracle. Use the ying yang magic for silence or lower their faith to the point they become atheist and magic does zero damage.
What if I have none of that cuz this is my first encounter with a black mage :>
You could try just ganging up on them, they’re quite squishy. Also good for early game is to have a female thief who can charm male units since most characters in the game are male.
I have four guys there is no ganging up
good to know about fem thieves tho.
I came back to this thread and it looks like you gotta be an old school Fire Emblem person since those games don’t have random grinding like FFT lol. Sorry, I don’t make the rules
Alright I guess I am playing Thracia 776 after all?
The name of the game in tactics is leveling a good couple levels over the battles in the game. It takes grinding but you can do it in the first chapter with the random battles on the map. Just get into an encounter, kill all the enemies except one, weaken them, and while they run away spend your turns doing actions that get you experience and jp. Stuff like casting chakra as a monk or potions as a chemist.
Once you get into the second, third, and forth acts you’ll get access to holy knight characters like Agrias who can do op sword attacks on enemies. Later on Cid all but breaks the game for you.
Some classes I remember being OP are the monk for it’s offensive and healing powers. The ninja for dual wield. Samurai for the draw out commands and rare swords that do great things like offense and defense. Geomancer for having access to magic without using MP. And the broken calculator that has access to every magic in the game (save for summons) and can cast on every enemy at once with the right arithmetic combo.
I like all the stupid hidden characters you can get late-game:
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I remember being hyped for Cloud and getting the materia blade…only for his limit breaks to be totally wimpy compared for Worker 8’s lasers or Reis.
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Yeah, his abilities are pretty whack, but there’s the
factor lolEdit: especially in like 1998 or whenever
Wait this has random encounters? Okay… what was wrong with training battles but okay…
Uh I don’t have classes yet, all squires. Actions gain you xp???
how the fuck did I spend 150 hours playing Ogre and not understand a thing about this gameWait this has random encounters? Okay… what was wrong with training battles but okay…
Walk back and forth on the map dots that are wilderness and you’ll run into random battles.
Uh I don’t have classes yet, all squires. Actions gain you xp???
Yeah, doing actions gets you either XP or JP,
I had this guide I borrowed from a cousin growing up with the game.
Maybe I just wont play video games
thank u anyhow…Ganbare comrade-kun I know you can do it, I’ve armed you with the nintendo power.
No, random battles feature the gang fighting for their lives, lv2 squires vs lv4+ goblins and dogs and shit, getting totalled. On my way to the Trade City the first time and having to savescum random battles. Bought phoenix downs they are useless, nobody does any damage. Why can I not counter, why are chemists trash healers, why is the game like this.
The first step is knowing when you get to this part you will know what true suffering is.
You absolutely need Ramza as a monk in this battle for chakra. I’ve seen more skilled players clear it though with crazy shit like a level 1 Ramza and a party of level 1 black mages.
I can’t remember, is this the stage you can’t back out of to grind more if you saved at the wrong time thay forced me and all my 4th grade buddies to start new save files?
That’s it.
“Draw your sword Ramza”
Definitely taught me to keep a second save file lol
Yeah I was save locked and ended up selling the game to a friend for $20.
Totally not me getting rolled by a bunch of chocobos
Oh no
https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Arts_of_War_(Tactics)
Unironically read the Art of War by Sun Tzu. Don’t worry so much about, like, chariots, but try to analyze the principles he’s describing. Chariots are units that can move very quickly to harass the enemy. What are your chariots?
I’m not even that far yet. All squires idk.
Archer/Knight. Just make a fireteam that can shoot the weapons out of the other squads hands.
Mediator/Oracle. I forgot how but they can so stupid damage and have crazy combos.
Monk riding a black chocobo. I don’t remember this combo but it slapped.
YOU UNLOCKED A MEMORYWhy are mages. Black mages with their “OMAE WA MOU SHINDERU” lockon fire attack that fucking kills you lol.
I remember using Gameshark to hack the game when I was a kid and creating a super OP calculator duel class character and was able to kill everyone on a map(both my side and the enemy side) in one move. It was pretty cool.
I forget how I did it but I was able to find the right stat to use for the calculator and it affected everyone and I used an insta-kill skill that like only one character in the game could actually get.
Also there is a skill that you can’t learn normally it’s the final boss’s skill called All Ultima and it fucking wrecks. I burned up 2 Gamesharks and 3 PS1s playing around with the hex editor finding codes that worked.
Video of All Ultima: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0UP1gJHu9g
The first three battles in Tactics are a pain in the ass specifically because you only have squires/chemists. I’m not even sure if you can grind on random battles at that point - but if you can, just run around for a bit and grind using the random battles (they’re green dots on the map). The 4 unit cap on battles is only for the first handful of battles.
You can do it if you’ve played through Tactics Ogre!!! I believe in you.
Also what version are you playing? War of the Lions or the original? If you’re finding yourself stuck on it, I’ll be happy to take the excuse to emulate whatever version you’re playing and see if I can get you a detailed Hexfaqs strategy guide for the exact battle you’re struggling with.
PS1, I am straight up not having a good time. Game is not really requiring me to grind four hours in, right?
Battle is Dortor, where you first see Weigraf.
Yasumi Matsuno is bullying me
I might give it another go…
You can do it comrade - Yasumi Matsuno won’t make another Tactics game until you beat it so you’ve gotta!!!
Use terrain. The stone throw ability has a knock back chance IIRC, and you can use it so that the enemies can’t easily get to you. Don’t sleep on Ramza’s brave-buffing skill. Always do something even if you can’t attack so that you’re generating job xp. Take Ramza from squire to knight to monk to samurai. Some battles are nearly impossible without the monk’s chakra ability, especially mid-game. Grind some easier random encounters until you’re comfortable with your abilities and have a few levels. Keep multiple save files, including at least one “fail safe” save after the last big story battle; there are a few places where you can get locked into a really tough series of battles (fucking Wiegraf). When in doubt, make everyone a monk (at least until you get Agrias and Cid). The gunner guy whose name starts with an M is also pretty good. It’s been like 20 years since I played it, but man that game was my jam when it came out, and it holds up really well.
I don’t have stone throw yet, soz. That was a default ability in Tactics Ogre but nobody starts with it now. I only just got through Gariland on my way to the trade city. Brave buffing, what is that? Also I tried classing into knights but they cannot wear leather and I cannot buy other armour. I have no monks, random encounters outside Gariland are killing me.
I thought Ramza started with stone throw by default, even if most squires don’t. The ability I’m thinking of was called something like “accumulate,” and it was another Ramza-exclusive. It increases your attack stat by a bit, but stacks and lasts the whole battle. You can power Ramza up pretty hard with a few rounds doing it.
Have you spent all the JP you got from the first battles? You should be rolling with three squires (Ramza plus the other two story guys) and probably two chemists to start with. Use positioning, and gang up on one target at a time: it’s a game of action economy, so taking one enemy off the board is worth way more than doing moderate damage to lots of them. Attack from the sides and behind if you can, and similarly try not to get surrounded. The beginning is a little rough because you can’t do shit, but you’ll see a good power spike as soon as you unlock a few skills and get new gear.
I’m going solely off of memory from the PS1 version, so maybe some things have changed (or I’m misremembering).
I’m only just staring down this game’s absurd tutorial menu (even worse than Ogre’s somehow) and trying to parse out how Learn Ability and Set Ability even work. But no Ramza does not have strone throw, had to buy it. Also bought some Accumulates. I noticed the Wiegraf guy charging attacks a lot (he flattened me) This job ability system is absurd, stone throw is equipped automatically under Guts when learned by Ramza but is a Basic Skill for random squires???
I have Ramza, two story guys, two chemists and four squires although it’s a waste since team cap is less than a Pokemon game.
Yeah I played Tactics Ogre, it’s not that I cannot tactics rather that my units are all useless dogshit and the systems are all worse. Also playing PS1 in both cases.
Your primary skill is determined by your active class, but the others can all be set from all the different classes you’ve unlocked. This is the key to really breaking the game: pick and choose your ability combos so that they complement each other. You learn skills by spending JP, and then equip them to the different ability slots.
Look at the characters you’re using and make sure their stats are well matched. Squires should be high in brave, and chemists should be high in faith, since you’re eventually going to make some of them mages, at least for a while. If necessary, move jobs and gear around to make that true; it’ll give you an edge, especially early on.
Remember that you can see the move range of enemy units. Use that to isolate one at a time if you can. If you can drop one early, that will very often snowball into a win.
Yeah I finally figured out how to learn and set abilities from the tutorial menu, (even worse than Ogre’s already dense ones) and black mages flattened my team (four guys) in a single turn. Good game?
Stats? No clue how to view those, but also I dunno they’re level three. Nobody can learn magic yet, I am fighting the guys Wiegraf leaves behind and getting obliterated. On 16x16 tiles it almost doesn’t matter, plus black mages and archers (which I cannot access currently) are so long range anyway.
I know, you can do it in Tactics Ogre too although it takes more button presses now. They have basically managed to make everything worse than Tactics Ogre - UI, jobs/classes, view getting obscured by buildings, equipment not showing what classes can equip it, I’m literally impressed. Some of these areas were already problem spots in Ogre so the fact they made it worse instead of better is startling.
Brave and faith are the two big core stats. Brave influences physical attack, and faith influences magic. Even though you don’t have magic yet, you want your two highest faith characters set as chemists, because the magic classes are accessed though chemist (different jobs have order jobs as prerequisites). You want your highest brave characters as squires, both because they’ll be going into physical classes later and because they’ll hit harder now. You should be able to view those stats somewhere in your party management in between battles. If you’re set up so that your two highest faith characters aren’t chemists and your highest brave characters aren’t squires, switch that around.
Magic doesn’t go off instantaneously, so you can sometimes get to the caster and interrupt them if you are clever with your CT (or use a stone to knock them to a place where they can’t hit their target and the spell fizzles). Don’t forget to heal if you need it. Buy enough potions to keep you going, and focus fire on the units that are giving you trouble.
Does this matter when I’m level 3/4, but also I just have one default chemist plus another preset chemist. I appreciate the info about stats and classes but I don’t think this is that relevant to getting flattened by the Dorter squad.
Sometimes it does, different spells I guess, but also I’ve had my Ramza get all the way over and attack the shit out of a black mage and their spell goes off without a hitch anyway. I unironically find it more useful to kamikaze the enemy with it. Also what is CT, but stones only have a lowish chance to knockback Idk.
I have like eight potions but when I bring a healer, archers kill her every single time.
Ramza has an ability called Yell or Tailwind (depends on the version you’re playing) in his default class. Spam it on himself and enjoy the cheese
He does not, I could have learned it (yell to increase speed?) I assume it works like the Haste/Quicken spell in Ogre but I only have so many Jp so.
You can earn JP in random battles. Yell increases a character’s speed by 1 during the battle, but it stacks. After using it a few times, Ramza will play multiple turns in a row.
He has another skill that does the same, but for strength. It’s very cheesy but it will make you win fights.
Okay so turn order is just governed by Speed then? No adjustable Wait Turn stuff?
Yes it’s proportional, someone with 16 SPD will act twice as often as someone with 8 SPD. Of course turn order is affected by other things like charge skills and status effects, but having crazy speed (it caps at 99) will allow you to have like 8 turns in a row. It’s broken and available from the start.
I’m lazy and I like to have Ramza buff himself by switching his AI to protect himself. Expect Ramza to level up a lot with this strat
WAIT TURN I LOVE YOU COME BACK TO ME, SPEED BASED TURN ORDER IS FOR SHINING FORCEI do not wanna grind…
