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@3PercentCrit Yeah, definitely very tedious with countless restarts per chapter, a lot of it also boiled down to luck. I did Ephraim route actually, Erika has this Swordmaster boss in the desert castle which is possible if you have a 20 strength Erika and enough Killing Edges, both which I didn't and is almost impossible at that point in the game... @MadBoar Thanks! I replayed Cog of Destiny and Battle Before Dawn so many times that I nearly dropped the challenge. Perserverance is definitely the key 🙂

@Shadow Mir Kind of up to pure luck. If you are super lucky Jafar will move towards the prince's room and, with his 20 attacks before the Killing Edge breaks, take down enough enemies for Eliwood to arrive and rescue the prince and hopefully wait out the turns. I must've replayed that level over and over for about 3 days in a row until luck finally was on my side, round about 30-50x replaying it. I really hated that chapter, even though once it all falls into place its super easy.

I was bored so I beat both Blazing Sword and Sacred Stones with only the Lord characters. For Blazing Sword, I did the full Lyn Hard Mode -> Hector Hard Mode. The 3 Lords were allowed to perform and action and use any items I cam across. Other more generic units were allowed to give their items to the Merchant / Sell / Visit Towns but they cannot attack or rescue. They could also move around and die 😄Since I had no way to store items, I did allow the Merchant to pitch his tent so I could stock up, otherwise the challenge would probably be impossible. The challenge overall itself wasn't too bad, but there were some maps which were just brutal, such as Cog of Destiny, I must've replayed that map off camera like 20x. Even the Final chapter came down to a bit of luck, as I almost ran out of Elixirs by then! Very similar rules I set for myself in Sacred Stones, and I killed off all the extra units at the tower. I decided to go the Ephraim path because Erika has one boss which is nearly impossible for her to beat in her unpromoted form, a Swordmaster inside the desert castle. In fact, I had to start all over AFTER I realized this, but I remembered all my strategies when I played through again. Unpromoted, the chapter where the two Lords want to recapture their own home was probably the most difficult. In the end I spent all my precious stat boosting items on Ephraim, and a Boots item that gave him +2 movement which I got by pure luck in the desert chapter. The final boss is very easy in this game, and his attack only has about a 50% chance to hit the Lords, and I got quite lucky 🙂