Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions

[Agamemnon]

After seeing the last few posts in this thread, I thought the game might be working. No such luck.

Just as before, the screen goes to black right after the battle to save Aragarth, (Or whatever his name is in FotL.) and never comes back. I left the game on that black screen while I slept. In the morning it was still on the black screen. I think it's safe to say it will never load past that screen. (With the current version.)

So basically, the game is not working. Move on.

However, if you insist on playing... There is an interesting trick I'd like to share. I'm sure many people know this already, but the enemy Chemist in the 2nd battle has infinite Potions. If you surround him, and you are careful, you can attack him over and over... To be more precise, you can attack him until his HP is low, then skip turns until he gets an action. His action will be to heal himself with a Potion. You can then resume attacking him. The battle will go on indefinitely.

If it isn't obvious, this allows you to gain near-infinite XP/JP during the second battle. Back on the PSX version of FFT, I got all my characters involved in that battle to level 10. The Squires all had enough JP to master their classes. (Or got very close.)

Things to watch out for:
- Delita will end the battle... if he can. Keep him away from the enemy Chemist. "Kill" Delita if you have to. As a Guest, he won't have a countdown timer. So, he will just lay on the ground until the battle ends.
- You should be particularly wary if Delita has the ability to throw Stone. If he gets high enough, he can take attack the Chemist... Even if surrounded!
- At least one person will be unable to attack the Chemist. This would ideally be the main character. "Ramza" plays the role of healer here. You use Chant to restore HP to any of your characters that get too low.
- Once Ramza's HP gets low enough, Delita will rush over and use his Chant on Ramza. They can exchange Chants over and over for easily exploitable XP/JP/HP. (Best of all it includes Delita in the cheesy goodness!)
- The enemies that die will leave behind crystals and chests. Your free character should aim to acquire these as quickly as possible. If left with no useful options, Delita will grab the items. This is fine for chests, but for crystals... He never takes skills from crystals, only HP/MP... Even if he is full on both!
- To earn the most XP/JP, you need to take an action every turn. Unfortunately, the Chemist will not always be available to attack. In these cases, consider attacking your own teammates. You will still earn XP/JP as if you had hit an enemy! Throwing Stones is useful in this regard.
- One poorly-timed knock-back can ruin the entire operation.
- Unequip your weapons once the enemy Chemist is surrounded.
- Don't rely entirely on the damage estimates. One critical hit can end the battle.
- After the battle, the game will go to a blank-black screen for 5-10 minutes. As long as you have "Ignore Illegal Reads/Writes" selected it should load the map... eventually. After that you can save your game! (So that hard work won't be wasted!)

Tested on Vista32 with v0.8.1-716