Brigandine: Grand Edition Character Recruitment Guide Ver.1.0 02/08/10 Created by Leland3 (Leland_Cador@yahoo.com) Hello again, everyone! This is my second attempt to make a FAQ so please bear with me if you see any mistakes or errors. I'll try to fix and add more stuffs as I go on. In this guide I'll cover all the recruitable characters for this game, also I'll give the information about the secret class "Shadow", as well as how to get Lance class "King", and give you information about some diffrences in Multi Player Mode. Email me if you have any comments, questions or found any error in this FAQ. Please note that in this guide I'll not write about the characters you start with in each countries, or I'll not write about the characters stat growth. Just how to recruit the characters you can get on your play! I hope people will enjoy this game even more with this guide, and have all characters you can have in your playing. Enjoy ;) Copyright Leland3. Statement: Feel free to distribute freely but not for profit or for money! This FAQ was created to help people to know how exactly you need to do to get one character (I've seen many discussions, almost all of them are wrong methods some bad people made up to mislead other people into wasting their time without being able to get the character he wanted). And also credit me or let me know if you are going to use this FAQ elsewhere. Ver. 0.1 For the time being, I just listed method of recruiting characters in each countries, and how to get all the quest Knights. Also the requirement to get the secret class "Shadow", how to get Lance class "King", information about the difreences in Multi Player Mode. Ver.1.0 Added information about maximum knight numbers for each country. Added information about knights you will get when you dont choose Esgares and let it destroys a country. Corrected some information. ::::::::::Table of Contents:::::::::: 1) Intro 2) Quest Knights a. Aldis b. Cortina c. Clarence d. Hyude e. Limlight f. Sheluna g. Dogal h. Sheridan i. Aaron j. Cathleen & Klauques k. Layoneil l. Almina m. Neville n. Peryner o. Vanessa p. Belgar q. Balder r. Shiraha s. Mira&Millet t. Rain u. Rangunius v. Carmine 3) Waiting Knights a. Helrato b. Kazan 4) Battle Event Knights a. Schutleis b. Rand Family (Liguel, Castor, Miguel) 5) Knights you get after one country is defeated 6) Event Knights for New Almekia a. Glauze b. Alsace c. Halley 7) Event Knights for Nogard a. Morholt b. Luintail 8) Event Knights for Caerleon a. Millia b. Eloute c. Gush d. Lecarra 9) Event Knights for Iscalio 10) Event Knights for Leonia a. Baleen & Galowand b. Georg 11) Esgares a. Carmine b. Shred 12) Secret Class Shadow 13) Lance class King 14) Multi Player mode a. Scenario 1 b. Scenario 2 c. Scenario 3 d. Scenario 1' 15) Maximum number of Knights for each country 16) Easy leveling tips for you low level knights/ monsters 17) Special Thanks 1) Intro: There are four types of charactes in this game: Special event characters that only a specific country can have, Quest characters that you get after sending your knight to do quest and complete the requirements, Waiting Characters that you can do nothing but wait, Battle Event Knights and Characters that you will get after one country is defeated. Special Note: This game is a different game, it's not the same as Brigandine Legend of Forsena, so don't apply the method in this guide for Brigandine Legend of Forsena! In this game, the Enemy countries also send their Knights to do quest, so if they are luckier than you, they can get the Quest characters. Important Note: The random rate in this game can be changed by sending few knights to quest, go to a battle, change the battle formation. Ex1: If you save in the middle of a battle, Zemeckis has about 100 HP, now it's your Vaynard move, you can use Vaynard to kill Zemeckis in one attack. Now if after the battle you don't get what you want, reload, use a weak monster to attack Zemeckis first to reduce his HP, then use Vaynard to kill him: after battle it'll be different. Ex2: If you save in an organization phase of a turn and you send 3 knights to quest, the next turn you dont get what you want, reload, send 1 more knight, or 1 less knight, or send different knights... will change the random rate. In this game, one month = 2 turns, so one month will be divided into two part: the first part of that month, and the second part of that month. Ex: the first part of 5th month year 215, or the second part of 1st month year 217. The only way to know which part of the month you're in is to save, end the turn, if it's still the same month then you were in the first part, if it's the next month then you were in the second part. 2) Quest Knights: You get them by sending your knights to do quest. Esgares can only get Carmine, Rod. a. Aldis: Requirement: - Quest to meet her (1/288 chance, very low) - After meeting her, reduce your castle numbers to at most 3, have the knight met her at any caslte (do not send him to quest), don't have total 140 monsters, she'll come to the castle of the knight met her and join. b. Cortina: Requirement: from the second part of 4th month year 215, 1/6 chance c. Clarence: Requirement: from the second part of 7th month year 215, 1/6 chance d. Hyude: Requirement: from the first part of 9th month year 215, 1/6 chance e. Limlight: Requirement: send Hyude to quest, 1/6 chance f. Rod: Requirement: from the first part of 11th month year 215, 1/6 chance - After 8 turns, Rod's at one castle (not doing quest), he'll leave your army temporary. - After 2 turns of Rod's leaving, send the knight met him to quest, he'll rejoin. f. Sheluna: Requirement: from the first part of 12th month year 215, 1/6 chance, the knight to do quest must not have heal spell g. Dogal: Requirement: from the second part of 1st month year 216, 1/6 chance h. Sheridan: Requirement: from the first part of 3rd month year 216, 1/6 chance i. Aaron: Requirement: from the second part of 4th month year 216, 1/6 chance, have at least 12 castles, the knight to do quest must be a male knight j. Cathleen & Klauques: Requirement: from the first part of 6th month year 216, 1/6 chance, the knight to do quest must have heal spell k. Layoneil: Requirement: from the second part of 7th month year 216, 1/6 chance l. Almina: Requirement: from the first part of 9th month year 216, 1/6 chance, the knight to do quest must have one of these spells: Divine Ray, Meteor Doom, Curse, Extra Blast, Fall Berg, Geno Thunder To make it easy, I'll give a list of classes that has at least one of these spells: lv 10--> lv 19: Bishop, Sorcerer, Sorceress, Druid, Mystic lv 20+: Black Knight, Cardinal, Wizard, Witch, Necromancer, Paladin, Sage, Saint m. Neville: Requirement: from the second part of 10th month year 216, 1/6 chance, must not have the highest number of castles on the map in comparison to all other countries n. Peryner: Requirement: At the beginning of one of these three turn: the second part of 11th month year 216, the first part of 12th month year 216, the second part of 12th month year 216 have both Hyude and Limlight in one castle (not doing quest), they'll automatically go to quest together. Peryner will join in the first part of 1st month year 217. o. Vanessa: Requirement: from the first part of 12th month year 216, 1/6 chance, the knight to do quest must be a female knight p. Belgar: Requirement: from the second part of 1st month year 217, 1/6 chance, the knight to do quest must have at least 88 Str q. Balder: Requirement: from the first part of 3th month year 217, 1/6 chance r. Shiraha: Requirement: from the 2nd turn after Esgares is destroyed, 1/6 chance, the knight to do quest must not be a former Esgares's knight s. Mira & Millet: Requirement: Your country must destroy Esgares, from the 2nd turn after Esgares is destroyed, 1/6 chance t. Rain: Requirement: Your country must destroy Esgares, Mira & Millet and Your Ruler in the same castle (not doing quest), 1/6 chance u. Rangunius: Requirement: send Rain to quest, 1/6 chance v. Carmine: Requirement: - Advance to Disc 2 - Send both Mira & Millet to quest at the same time, 1/6 chance. - After 11 turns of meeting him, Mira & Millet at the same castle (not doing quest), he'll come to their castle to meet them and join. Note: Mira & Millet quest in this game Brigandine Grand Edition is completely different from Brigandine Legend of Forsena. In Brigandine LOF, you can let whatever country destroy Esgares and you can still have Mira & Millet. In this game, you must destroy Esgares your own in order to have them. 3) Waiting Knights: (Esgares can only get Helrato) a. Helrato: Requirement: from the second part of 7th month year 216, other country sends its knight to do quest and get Layoneil, the next turn it's randomly that you may get him (if you dont get him, reset, send few knights to quest, go to battle etc.. so that the random rate change and you may get him) b. Kazan: Requirement: from the 3rd turn after Esgares is destroyed, other country sends its knight to do quest and get Shiraha, the next turn it's randomly that you may get him (if you dont get him, reset, send few knights to quest, go to battle etc.. so that the random rate change and you may get him) Note: Play in Hard difficulty and the computer will send its knights to do quest more regularly. 4) Battle Event Knights (Esgares can only get the Rand family) a. Schutleis: Requirement: The first country to capture a castle from Esgares. b. The Rand family: They are Miguel from Iscalio, Liguel from New Almekia and Castor from Esgares. If they meet their sibling in battle without any special conversation (such as Lance meet Zemeckis in battle for the first time), they'll chat and one of them may leave his/her country to join up with his/her sibling. If Liguel meet Castor in battle, Castor will join up with Liguel. If Miguel meet Liguel in battle, Liguel will join up with Miguel. If Liguel & Castor meet Miguel in battle, Miguel will join up with Liguel & Castor. If Liguel meet Castor & Miguel in battle, Castor & Miguel will join up with Liguel. If Liguel & Miguel meet Castor in battle, Castor will join up with Liguel & Miguel. If Miguel meet Castor in battle, Miguel & Liguel are in the same country, Castor will join up with Miguel, but if Miguel & Liguel are not in the same country, nothing will happen. 5) Knights you get after one country is defeated When you defeat one country, you will get: (Esgares can only get Daffy, Victoria, Rod, Helrato) Defeated country You get New Almekia Carlota Loufal Caerleon Bilcock Jandafar Leonia Chantail Langueborg Nogard Dillard Kirkmond Iscalio Daffy Victoria Esgares Fiel Ivan Soleil* *Soleil: You can only have him if you have Schutleis and he is at one castle (not doing quest) at the time you defeat Esgares. If the country you defeat has the following Quest Knights, they'll join you: Quest Knights Aaron Cortina Schutleis Neville Vanessa Rod Layoneil** Kazan*** Helrato**** **Layoneil: You can only have him if you dont have Helrato in your army ***Kazan: You can only have him if you dont have Shiraha in your army ****Helrato: You can only have him if you dont have Layoneil in your army *Extra Special Note*: If Esgares destroys the country has Schutleis, Vanessa, Layoneil, they'll randomly join other countries to get revenge, in this case Layoneil may join the country has Helrato. If you manage to have Helrato first, then allow Esgares to destroy the country has Layoneil, then you may have both Layoneil and Helrato in your army. When other country defeat one country, it's randomly that you may get these knights (if you dont get them, reset, send few knights to quest, go to battle etc.. so that the random rate change and you may get these knights): (Esgares can only get Helrato) Note: If you choose New Almekia or Caerleon and you have not broken the alliance, when your ally (Caerleon if you choose NA, NA if you choose Caerleon) destroy one country, you wont get any knight in this case, except Miguel and Castor from the Rand family when you choose NA. Defeated country You get New Almekia Adilicia Batercus Caerleon Cierra Shast Leonia Charlene Isfas Raizen(2) Nogard Ector Faticia Zerafin Iscalio Bagdemagus(2) Teath Esgares Roecod Shred***** *****Shred: To make Shred appear, you need to reduce Esgares's castle numbers to at most 2 castles, Cador will leave Esgares. Then, from the next turn, anytime Logres is captured directly from Esgares and Esgares is not destroyed, Shred will appear in Esgares army. (it means, after Cador's leaving, if Esgares is not owning Logres, let Esgares capture Logres, then capture Logres again from Esgares to make Shred appear) Note_1: If you choose Nogard and destroy Leonia, Langueborg wont join you but Charlene will join you. If you dont choose Nogard and let Nogard destroy Leonia, you may randomly get Langueborg. Note_2: Raizen and Bagdemagus are two special characters. Any time their country is defeated by another country (not you), you may randomly get them. For example: You defeated Iscalio, Bagdemagus joined Nogard, then Esgares defeats Nogard, Bagdemagus may join you. *Special Note*: If you don't choose Esgares and let it destroy New Almekia, Leonia or Caerleon, you may get: New Almekia Adilicia Batercus Carlota Caerleon Cierra Shast Jandafar Leonia Charlene Isfas Raizen Chantail If the defeated country that other country defeat has the following Quest Knights, it's randomly that you may get these knights: Quest Knights Balder Clarance Sheridan Sheluna Kazan (if his country is destroyed by a country has Shiraha) Helrato (if his country is destroyed by a country has Layoneil) Layoneil (if his country is destroyed by a country has Helrato or by Esgares) Also, when his/her country is defeated, the Rand family (Liguel, Miguel, Castor) will join the country that has his/ her sibling. It's randomly whether you defeat his/her country or you let other country defeat his/her country. That means: - New Almekia may get Castor, Miguel - Esgares may get Liguel, Miguel - Iscalio may get Liguel, Castor 6) Event Knights for New Almekia a. Glauze: Requirement: From the second part of 4th month year 215, send Coel to quest b. Alsace: Requirement: From the first part of 8th month year 215, Gereint is at one castle (not doing quest) c. Halley: From the second part 6th month of year 215, have at least 14 castles. She'll leave when you have at least 26 castles, or if you don't break the alliance with Caerleon Halley will leave when on the map there is at most 4 enemy castles. 7) Event Knights for Nogard a. Morholt: Automatically join in the first part of 4th month year 215. b. Luintail: Requirement: Have at least 9 castles. 8) Event Knights for Caerleon a. Millia: Requirement: From the first part of 6th month year 215, Merriot is at one castle (not doing quest) b. Eloute: Requirement: Millia has joined for at least 3 turns, then send Millia to quest. c. Gush: Requirement: Eloute has joined for at least 3 turns, have both Eloute and Millia in the same castle, then send both Millia and Eloute to quest at the same time. d. Lecarra: Requirement: Gush has joined for at least 3 turns, have all Eloute, Gush and Millia in the same castle, then send all Eloute, Gush and Millia to quest at the same time. 9) Event Knights for Iscalio None 10) Event Knights for Leonia a. Baleen & Galowand: Requirement: From the first part of 4th month year 215, Kiloph is at one castle (not doing quest) b. Georg: Requirement: From the first part of 6th month year 215, send a knight to quest, 1/6 chance. 11) Esgares: Having at least 26 castles (Cador'll leave) will advance you to Disc 2. a. Carmine: Requirement: - Advance to Disc 2 - Send both Mira & Millet to quest at the same time, 1/6 chance. - After 11 turns of meeting him, Mira & Millet at the same castle, not doing quest, he'll come to their castle to meet them and join. b. Shred: Requirement: - Advance to Disc 2 - From the third turn of Disc 2, have Logres, Esmeree is at one castle (not doing quest) Note: If you want to keep Soleil, don't let Shred appear by letting the enemy capture Logres, and make Logres the last castle you capture in Disc 2, you'll go straight to fight Bulnoil with Soleil in your army and Shred wont appear. 12) Secret Class Shadow: It's the Ninja class in Brigandine LOF, now in Brigandine Grand Edition it's being called Shadow. When you have Shiraha or Kazan in your country, your male knights with lvl >= 10, reach the Expert status of the Ranger class, str >= 55 and agi >= 60 can change into Shadow class. That means, unlike Brigandine LOF, in this game even if you play as Esgares, you cannot change any of your knights to Shadow right away, because none of your starting knights have reached the Expert status of the Ranger class. If you play as another country, you'll have to defeat Esgares and then get Shiraha or Kazan. In this game, unlike Brigandine LOF: Shadow +5 lvl = advance to Shadow Master, Shadow Master + 5 lvl = Expert Note: You can train your knights to become Ranger - Shadow - Shadow Master right after you have either Shiraha or Kazan, you DONT NEED to train Shiraha/ Kazan to Exprert status or to train them to Shadow Master, it's just false rumor bad people made to waste your time. One more thing, if you have mastered the Shadow Master class for a knight and change him to another class, he wont have the Twice moves (React) ability like when he's in the Shadow Master class, he'll only have the Hit & Run ability. 13) Lance class King Lance is the ruler of New Almekia, he's starting at lvl 1 Prince. To make his class change to King, the requirements are: - Esgares is destroyed (any country destroy it would be fine) - New Almekia has Logres castle. If you destroy Esgares last, Lance wont become King but you go straight to fight Bulnoil. 14) Multi Player mode: Only available for this game: Brigandine GE. 3 Scenarios and a hidden Scenario which will be available after finishing the game once with Hard difficulty in Story Mode, remember to save when it asks you to save after defeating the Snake of Chaos. In Multi Player mode, you can arrange alliance between countries, ex: You can make Leonia and Iscalio alliance, you can play in Hard difficulty without time limit. Basically, Character Recruiments are the same as in Story Mode, just some differences in Multi Player mode: For all Scenario: Carmine will never join, as he's a character from Disc 2, Multi Player mode only take place in Disc 1. a. Scenario 1: New Almekia: - Glauze will never join - Halley will join whenever any country on the map has at least 14 castles, and she will never leave. Caerleon: - Eloute, Gush, Lecarra will never join Esgares: - Cador, Meltorefas, Eniede will never leave - Shred will never join Quest Knight: - Rod will never leave b. Scenario 2: Nogard: - New Knights from the start: Luintail, Morholt, Carlota, Charlene, Chantail, Clarance, Layoneil, Schutleis Caerleon: - New Knights from the start: Millia, Eloute, Gush, Lecarra, Lance, Gereint, Adilicia, Isfas, Sheluna Iscalio: - New Knights from the start: Liguel, Langueborg, Cortina, Sheridan, Dogal, Helrato Esgares: - New Knight from the start: Rod - Missing Knight from the start: Esclados - Cador, Meltorefas, Eniede will never leave - Shred will never join Quest Knights available: - Aaron, Aldis, Almina, Balder, Cathleen, Klauques, Neville, Belgar, Hyude, Limlight, Peryner, Vanessa - After Esgares is destroyed: Shiraha, Mira & Millet, Rain, Rangunius Waiting Knight: - Kazan c. Scenario 3: Nogard: - New Knights from the start: Soleil, Fiel, Ivan, Vanessa - Missing Knight from the start: Noie - Nogard's only Quest Knights: Mira, Millet, Rain, Rangunius (other country can't get them in this Scenario) Requirements: Just the same as in Story Mode. Caerleon: - New Knights from the start: Belgar, Neville, Balder Iscalio: - New Knights from the start: Shred, Roecod, Castor, Cathleen, Klauques Quest Knights: - Aaron, Aldis, Almina, Shiraha, Hyude, Limlight Waiting Knight: - Kazan Battle Event Knight: (Nogard can't get this knight) - Kiloph: Requirement: the first country kills Vaynard in a battle. d. Scenario 1': It's a secret Scenario. You can unlock it by finishing the game in Hard difficulty of Story Mode, save when you are asked to right after you defeat the Snake of Chaos. On the very first screen, go to the Recollection, select the memory card you saved above, then go back, start the game and the Scenario 1' will appear. This Scenario 1' is the same as Scenario 1, the only difference is in each country there are high level monsters from the start, such as Loki, Thor, Lilith, Lucifer, Seraph, Bahamut,... 15) Maximum number of Knights for each country Well I've decided to put it here for someone who loves numbers. When you choose a country that is not Esgares, there are 25 quest knights you can get, together with Schutleis = 26, and if you make both Helrato and Layoneil join your country, it'll be = 27. If you destroy a country, you get: New Almekia = 2 Nogard = 2 Leonia = 2 Caerleon = 2 Iscalio = 2 Esgares = 3 If you let other country destroy a country, you get: New Almekia = 2 Nogard = 3 Leonia = 3 Caerleon = 2 Iscalio = 2 Esgares = 2 but if you let other country destroy Esgares in this game, you wont get 5 quest knights: Mira, Millet, Rain, Rangunius, Carmine. If you dont choose Esgares and let Esgares destroy New Almekia, Leonia or Caerleon, you get: New Almekia = 3 Leonia = 4 Caerleon = 3 Also, if you choose New Almekia, Iscalio or Esgares, you will get 2 more from the Rand family. For the knight numbers originally from 1 country, New Almekia has 15 knights, one of them is Halley who will join any country before the final battle against Bulnoil; Leonia has 14; Nogard has 15; Caerleon has 12; Iscalio has 12, Esgares has 19. The key to get the maximum number of Knights is: You will only destroy Esgares and one last country on the map, and you must let another country do quest to get Layoneil (that country must not be the last country on the map), and you must make sure the Helrato will join you, if not, reset to change the random rate. And let Esgares destroys New Almekia, Leonia, Caerleon to get you more knights. a. New Almekia: Maximum knight numbers = 15 + 27 + 17 = 59: the highest knight numbers in this game. I spent time to achieve it, here's my save file: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZV33T7GP How I got it: First I let Leonia destroyed Nogard and get 3 knights. I wait until Leonia got Layoneil and Helrato joined my army, then I let Esgares destroyed Caerleon and get 3 knights. Then I let Esgares destroyed Leonia and get 5 knights (one of them is Layoneil). Then I destroyed Esgares, got Mira, Millet, Carmine, Rain, Rangunius. The last enemy country on the map should be Iscalio. Before the final battle with Bulnoil, I had 59 knights. b. Nogard Maximum knight numbers = 15 + 1 + 27 + 15 = 58 1 is Halley. How to get it: Let Esgares destroys New Almekia, Caerleon, Leonia, then you destroys Esgares. Make sure you have both Layoneil and Helrato and all quest knights. The last enemy country on the map should be Iscalio. c. Caerleon 12 + 1 + 27 + 15 = 55 1 is Halley How to get it: Let another country destroys Nogard, let Esgares destroys New Almekia, Leonia, then you destroys Esgares. Make sure you have both Layoneil and Helrato and all quest knights. The last enemy country on the map should be Iscalio. d. Iscalio 12 + 1 + 27 + 17 = 57 1 is Halley How to get it: Let another country destroys Nogard, let Esgares destroys New Almekia, Leonia, then you destroys Esgares. Make sure you have both Layoneil and Helrato and all quest knights. The last enemy country on the map should be Caerleon. Note: For Iscalio, it's various choices, you would change Caerleon for New Almekia or Nogard, just make sure if you change it for Nogard position, you must let Esgares destroys Caerleon to get 3 knights. e. Leonia 14 + 1 + 27 + 14 = 56 1 is Halley How to get it: Let another country destroys Nogard, let Esgares destroys New Almekia, Caerleon, then you destroys Esgares. Make sure you have both Layoneil and Helrato and all quest knights. The last enemy country on the map should be Iscalio. f. Esgares 19 – 4 + 1 + 1 + 3 + 4 = 24 4 are: Cador, Eniede, Meltorefas, Soleil. 1 is Shred. Another 1 is Halley. 3 are quest knights: Helrato, Rod, Carmine 4 are Victoria, Daffy from Iscalio and 2 Rand family knights. How to get it: You must destroy Iscalio your own in your game play. Any country is the last country on the map is fine. However, the maximum number knights in game you can get for Esgares is 25. It's 19 + 2 + 4 = 25. How to get it: - Dont get your caste numbers to at least 22 to keep Eniede and Meltorefas. - Destroy Iscalio, then New Almekia to get 4: Victoria, Daffy, 2 Rand family knights. The 2 quest knights are Rod and Helrato. 16) Easy leveling tips for you low level knights/ monsters Easy, simply. When you reduce the castle number of one country to 1, dont destroy it immediately. Try to trap it in a two ways position, such as this: Your castle - Its castle - Your castle. Place the knight or monster you wish to train there, each turn attack the castle, use Halo on the one you want to train and let him/ it kills off two knights without killing the Ruler of that country, each turn you would gain about 4000 exp for your low level knights and he would be at level 30 very soon. Knights with Halo spell: Cleric - Lector - Saint; Bishop - Cardinal; Guardian. Monsters with Halo spell: Pegasus; Arch Angel - Seraph - Lucifer. 17) Special Thanks * Thanks to Atlus & Hearty Robin for making this wonderful game. * Thanks to Yukitoshi Hotani and Youzi Kurati for their great artwork. * Thanks to Jeff Veasey n' GameFAQs - for posting my FAQ. * Thanks to people at gamevn: L0ngspear, lightpearl, trinhphuctuan, fire emblem, runan http://forum.gamevn.com/showthread.php?t=660413 to let me enjoy this game more deeply. * Thanks to people at forsena board: Clove of WildMage, Caladbolg, Avenger, Dryst, Tyrfing, Humble Novice, Shred: http://forsena.org/brigboard2/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=293&view=previous with their wonderful idea about the Life philosophies of Brigandine, which fills me with unspeakable joys. * Thanks to you for loving this game so much and reading my guide : )