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Well, biniki armor, especially worn by a sufficiently attractive female, seems like a good way to distract your male opponents and gain an upperhand in battle. Or maybe it just attracts even more male opponents.

Wasn't it specifically mentioned though that only Chaos can break demon's invisibility shield, so if you don't send him up you can only facepalm yourself. The same goes for all the other "traps" as there are various hints telling you what you should be doing next. The only "trap" I find stupid is the Nogiku one.

This is pretty hilarious. And you need to dump the units you are using because they are not crappy anymore.

I have played games where there is an M rank that is higher than S. Really hammers in the idea that masochists > sadists > all other preferences.

The music in the Nobunaga fight is pretty epic. Also I'm disappointed that you sent out Rance against Nobunaga. You could have used a different lineup that doesn't include him like I did, and watch in horror as everyone does zero damage.

Natori really is not that impressive on normal mode because there are tons of better units. The difference is that the other units wane on higher difficulties while Natori doesn't. Oh and good job so far. I remember my first game, I just used my footsoldiers to poke at enemies and never used guard haha.

Update 3

Wow, impressive.

They are moved now, hopefully things work now. If not I'll be back to fix it later. Oops. Yeah I did that intentionally because I thought photosharing services would support their built-in photo organising service. Apparently not... Should have been obvious really. Also they appeared fine on my computer so I thought it worked.

Update 2

Halp I no speak Japan (or whatever else).

It's too late now, I have gone to the dark side years ago. The pictures SHOULD be viewable, but if more people complain I'll move them to a proper image host.

This is something I did more than a year ago but never really found a good place to share. Seeing as there is a bunch of Rance topics active I decided to put it up to gather some comments. Game completed in 24 turns, which is likely to be the theoretical minimum. I tried to mess around in Ran route too, but the plot development is really slow. Starting bonus: 5 star kill monkey, all commanders except Kenshin and Mouri. Kenshin saves a fan through surrender and Mouri saves a fan through all-out battle, so I can't have them. The others are gotten so I don't have to declare war on them. Due to the speed at which I expand I actually need to wait around for forces to be introduced before I can declare war, which is definitely sub-optimal. Items and other stuff are good to have too, though a lot of them are not necessary. Three updates of 8 turns each should be a good pace.

Well it depends on what you want... If you like anime a lot I think PS3 is the better choice since there are more anime-based games (as far as I know). Also you can emulate the Wii on a PC.

Hilarious read so far. I rejoice in your pain.

The ogre bones are good to have in a farming game where you spend many turns visiting all the dungeons and raising commanders. It's useless for any fast game though. There is captain's guard which makes for a good platform for 9999 troops, also the warrior squad which is decent on charge warriors. The textbooks are always good to have too. I'll refrain from more tips for now. I read these strategies from a Chinese forum so they are all in Chinese, but maybe I'll translate some over when I get free time. I thought about puting the 21 turn 4 fan strat on the wiki, but it was too difficult to excute imo by casual gamers.

I forgot why carnival is relevant, and after rereading that log it seems that I remembered it wrong. It was relevant for a New Game Maximum Point game, which has a limit of 154+5 for sure. 322 has kind of reached a theoretical limit though with regard to how many fans you can devote on satisfaction and how many you can use on conquering areas and clearing characters. He managed 4 fans in 21 turns by the way, which was insane by itself. Even following his log I didn't manage 4 fans until turn 24 or something, because it's got so much luck involved. Everything and their mum needs to be lined up for a 322 clear. You need SenriQ Cups aplenty, random affection points have to go on the right characters, hot spring must not be in Iga, you need to capture random generics whenever possible for Orochi while still managing the necessary female generics, there must be a random action2 book in Owari or clam dungeon for Inukai, you must capture certain fixed female generics that start with normal affection, you must beat Orochi with an insanely weak squad, the list goes on and on. It's really not for anyone not bat-shit insane. Really, I'm kind of glad I could only manage 295. Your instinct is right, the capture rate drops as the prison fills up, and once you have 25 prisoners you can't capture generics anymore. Also, an easy way of getting a fast start is to actually not load up Katsuie, but Morita Ai instead. If you have her start with close to 500 troops you can get her up to permit range right away (use popularity staff for the barrier) and then capture a generic footsoldier. You'll have two permits to work with very quickly, saving a ton of fans. Naturally it also means much higher financial difficulties and trouble fighting off enemy waves. Good work so far, eagerly awaiting updates.

I'm at least 90% sure that the maximum you can achieve is 323, any more would involve the carnival bonus points and hence require saving 12+ fans on the basis of 323, which is impossible. I have seen a logged game with 322 points and it required insane luck, and 323 is even worse. This is all without counting the +20 from routes. Really though, anything more than 300 is pretty crazy already. I think my best attempt was 295 and I was killing myself. Good luck. You'll need it.

I think the auras have fixed stats, so you can easily draw up a map and plan the last chapter in advance. It's not too difficult with the exception of getting Micaiah and Sanaki up to around max magic. You also won't need anyone except those you use for LTC, except maybe Shinon and Boyd. Well that's what I did anyway, there are definitely other strats. If you want here are the NM stats, hopefully they are not changed in HM. Auras: 90HP, 30Def, 30Res, 35AS Ashera: 120HP, 35Def, 50Res, 32AS, tile adds 15 avo

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I remember posting a thread about this a few months ago which detailed the strategy for finding all the desert items in one go, which also had mechanical explanations and numbers. Edit: http://serenesforest.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=25046

It's really pointless though... I feel like three is enough to do everything in an adequate timeframe already and four is extra freedom. Five is just... lots of empty fans with nothing to do. Two fans is really annoying though.

Man that's some crazy stuff... Excellent work. Also this kind of thread never get a lot of response. People are probably just lurking.

Ah, the cherry blossom. Looking back at that scene after playing Rance 8, only now I realise how twisted the producers truly are. Anyway, if something warrants a specific picture made for it, you bet it'd be important (if boring). Good read so far, I particularly enjoy the rage parts. Edit: what happened to my Elincia badge

I think an-chan means big brother. Not sure why Kou is shy about saying that though... Also I have the txt file with all the game scripts if you are interested.