As of now we're all still level 20. At this point everyone is kind of flimsy and I have to be careful not to let anyone take more than a couple of hits, because more than that will result in death. One thing I did not account for is the Loyalty system. It's the one thing about this game I'm not thrilled about. Tactics Ogre has a hidden attribute for each unit called "Loyalty." It measures the unit's desire to fight for Denim or their Leader's cause. You can get a ballpark by selecting a unit and doing the descriptor cursor on their name, the phrase that appears gives an idea of what they think. Since we're on the chaos route and our army consists of mostly Walstanians, most everyone's loyalty is middling to low. Fortunately, this can be remedied by allowing units to level up during actual battles and scoring kills. Forcing a unit to kill an enemy of their own race lowers loyalty, making them wait without performing an action lowers loyalty, and certain dialogue choices made during the story can lower or raise loyalty for units of certain alignment. Killing certain races also lowers the starting loyalty of recruits from that race. If a unit is at a low enough loyalty, at the end of a battle they participate in the game will give a warning about their possible desertion. There's also this thing called Chaos Frame...but I'm not going to even get into that, other than say that we're probably not doing so well on that front. It doesn't matter, as it only applies in a very specific circumstance.

Of all the generic classes in the game, this is one of my favorites. A Terror Knight's unique ability is Terror, a 2-panel range buff, which lowers the attack power of enemies. It affects L-Aligned characters the most, N-aligned half of L, and does not affect C-aligned people. They have decent all around attribute growth and favor axes. There are battles in the game where you must fight  entire squads of them and if you have mostly N or L allies, they will be very difficult fights. Their sprites are also nice looking, though Ashley thought I was a weird lizard or frog. On the downside, it takes a lot of work to get one, they must be C-aligned and have at least 30 kills, which is ridiculous. In the PSP remake they get the sore treatment: the terror effect is replaced by "Lament the Dead" which is a skill that does kind of the same thing, but has a low hit rate. On the upside they get to use dark magic, but lose a lot of their usefulness as you can no longer build a character in that game. Our resident Terror Knights are Peter and Dylan.

Achievements: Boss Blocks

You're still doing alright with your shield/axe combo. Whenever I deploy you, you're my front-line tank due to your handy Terror effect. I typically have two other beaters support you, since if you get swarmed you will die. Hopefully I get to William City soon so you have a new axe to play with.

You are now the proud owner of a Dragon Shield. I forget if it has any special properties, but it's currently the best shield obtainable at this point in the game. Enjoy.

You did okay in Vahanna, but in Coritani you got stuck blocking the mage path and healing yourself. Your attributes make you tougher and stronger than the other berserker, so you can take a hit and deal it right back. Dealing damage on a counter is always a useful method of tanking.

Fortune favored you and you actually got to do some things, like dealing lots of damage to stuff. Still surprised to see you blocking with that power gauntlet, it saves me a hell of a lot of trouble and allows me to focus support on other dudes.

I haven't been paying much attention, but you're one of our highest strength non-monster units. You're slightly stronger than Josh and weaker than Brian, it's too bad your avoid rate is abysmal and I have to panic heal you all the time. Just block an attack once for me, just one time!

Velika - Witch - Earth
HP 193 MP 92 STR 114 VIT 111 INT 139 MEN 145 AGI 136 DEX 145 LUK 50

Achievements: Dragon Charmer, Stone Cold

I don't know why petrify hits more than any other spell you have, but you managed to petrify almost everyone you threw it at. You were Stone Cold.

Achievements: Here Comes The Stun

If it weren't for you, Velika would have had to cast petrify at least 2 more times to do what we did inside Coritani. You managed to stun half the enemy team, allowing her to stone the rest. You gained the achievement Here Comes The Stun, I pick that name because I always imagined your stun spell emulated a solar flare or something, and I always sing that song when bright sunlight shines directly in my face.

Your Rambo days are over, as the damage enemies are dealing is so high that I can't leave you alone anymore. Still, it's not that easy to kill you and you have the rest of team Dragon Squad for support.

People really weren't kidding when they said Golems are not great. They're not, but that isn't stopping me from using your skills as an item carrying wall to their full extent. You're the least of my troubles and still do an acceptable amount of damage when you connect a shot. There was one attempt where you dodged every single arrow fired at you, though that wasn't the one that made it in.

Achievements: Bitchin

It was probably because your race is Gargastan (and we killed a lot of gargastans in chapter 1 and 2), but your loyalty score was so low that I was given a warning that you were considering deserting at the end of the Coritani Gate battle. I had to get you a level up and an MVP in the next battle just to get you to quit yer Bitchin. 

Achievements: Charming, Quite Charming

Don't have much to say, in the last 2 battles you either were too slow or were stunned most of the time. You still tank well, but damage is ramping up. Hopefully we get to Tiamat soon.

Not entirely impressed with anything in particular, I'm not the most dexterous or the strongest or toughest, but I'm doing okay. Might want to mix in some ninja levels or something just to get the attributes up.