Mission 9: Desert Escape

Mission Overview

Situation: Andrew was supposed to distract the soldiers so that we could escape! But the army is closing in! What do we do? Objective: Annihilate all enemies.	3D Map:

Enemies

	Muspel 1 (Yurangol ATAC)
	HP: 88			Level: 9			Money: 3500
	BAS: 10	POW: 8	DEX: 10	AGL: 8	DEF: 5	WEP: 14	Spirit: 42	Range: 4	Speed: 4.82
	Equipment: Battle Axe, Topaz, Thieves' Ring			Attacks: Slash, Strike, Str. Slash, Kick			Dormant Abilities: Desert Motion
	Muspel 2 (Yurangol ATAC)
	HP: 84			Level: 9			Money: 3500
	BAS: 9	POW: 9	DEX: 10	AGL: 8	DEF: 6	WEP: 13	Spirit: 42	Range: 4	Speed: 4.78
	Equipment: Battle Axe, Topaz, Thieves' Ring			Attacks: Slash, Thrust, Str. Slash			Dormant Abilities: Desert Motion
	Muspel 3 (Yurangol ATAC)
	HP: 86			Level: 8			Money: 3500
	BAS: 10	POW: 8	DEX: 7	AGL: 7	DEF: 5	WEP: 13	Spirit: 39	Range: 4	Speed: 4.58
	Equipment: Battle Axe, Topaz			Attacks: Slash, Strike, Str. Slash, Kick			Dormant Abilities: Desert Motion
	Muspel 4 (Yurangol ATAC)
	HP: 86			Level: 8			Money: 3500
	BAS: 10	POW: 8	DEX: 7	AGL: 7	DEF: 4	WEP: 14	Spirit: 39	Range: 4	Speed: 4.58
	Equipment: Battle Axe, Topaz			Attacks: Slash, Strike, Str. Slash, Kick			Dormant Abilities: Desert Motion
	Muspel 5 (Yurangol ATAC)
	HP: 86			Level: 8			Money: 3500
	BAS: 10	POW: 7	DEX: 7	AGL: 8	DEF: 5	WEP: 13	Spirit: 39	Range: 4	Speed: 4.82
	Equipment: Battle Axe, Topaz			Attacks: Slash, Strike, Str. Slash, Kick			Dormant Abilities: Desert Motion
	Muspel 6 (Yurangol ATAC)
	HP: 86			Level: 8			Money: 3500
	BAS: 10	POW: 7	DEX: 7	AGL: 8	DEF: 4	WEP: 14	Spirit: 39	Range: 4	Speed: 4.82
	Equipment: Battle Axe, Topaz			Attacks: Slash, Strike, Str. Slash, Kick			Dormant Abilities: Desert Motion

CPU Controlled Allies

	Andrew (Vedocorban ATAC)
	HP: 90			Level: 12			Money: 4400
	BAS: 9	POW: 10	DEX: 10	AGL: 23	DEF: 8	WEP: 12	Spirit: 51	Range: 6	Speed: 8.38
	Equipment: Shimmerswrd, Olivine. Armor Amulet			Attacks: Slash, Thrust, Str. Slash, Str. Thrust, Tornado			Dormant Abilities: Assassinate
	Zeira (Toreadore ATAC)
	HP: 144				Level: 9
	BAS: 14	POW: 11	DEX: 8	AGL: 10	DEF: 14	WEP: 17	Spirit: 42	Range: 7	Speed: 5.46
	Equipment: Gunganir, Royal Jade			Attacks: Slash, Thrust, Tackle, Str. Slash			NONE

Important Battlefield Events:

- After Bastion and each Muspel soldier has taken their first turn, Andrew appears on the battlefield. - 14 turns after that, your party appears on the south side of the map. That's your cue to attack.

Strategy

Begin this mission the cowardly way... by running as far as you can away from the Muspels. Run south as far away as you can, so that when your party appears, you will meet up with them and you can beat the Muspels together. Meanwhile, most of the Muspel soldiers will move in and attack Andrew, but he should be able to handle them pretty well (check out Andrew's dodge animation!) before croaking. After they're done with Andrew, wait for them to come to you and fight them off, hitting in the back whenever possible, and letting your weaker guys catch up. That's all there is to it. This mission isn't too difficult; once you reach the soldiers, you'll do just fine. You may not always be able to hit them from behind though, what with the high AP cost for moving. But that shouldn't matter much; just focus on the soldiers one at a time, and you'll be able to overwhelm them, just as they did to you a mission before. Serves them right.

Now that the mission is complete..

- Nana will join your team later in the game

- Andrew joins your team in the Vedocorban ATAC!

- You move on to Mission 11

Before beginning Mission 11, save your game and load stats from the Options screen as you do, and head to the Interview screen and do your thing. Check the Briefing for an overview of what's next, and when you're ready, head to Mission 11: Ganlon's Betrayal. Sorry for the spoiler.