Kichikuou Rance:Walkthrough

Rance, Chief of Bandits (Prologue)
The game starts with Rance leading a group of bandits in north eastern Helman. There are two main ways to play this phase: the normal way and the "Bandit King" ending.

The Bandit King Ending
To acheive the Bandit King ending, you need to defeat Ruberan of the Ruins Guard. To defeat her, you need a bit of luck, but a level or two will help a lot. Thus you want to stall for time before she attacks.

Every week raid Uradiostock (the town on the right) using all 4 captains (doesn't matter if one melee group cannot hit enemies), and H with Shiiru. Save every week. By the time you get to the third week of June, Rance should be at level 3 whereas everyone else should be at level 2.

When Ruberan attacks you, have Soul and Bound on auto-attack mode. Have Shiiru attack Ruberan every turn. Have Rance use Rance Attack every other turn. If you are lucky enough, Rance will survive long enough, and deal enough damage with Rance Attack, to defeat Ruberan.

Once you win, your group of bandits move down south to Zeth. After a few years you gain enough power to be more influential than the nations of the world. Thus you reached the Bandit King end.

The normal way
The normal way to play the prologue is to provoke Ruberan and have her defeat you, so you will flee and start the main story. Because some events in the main story trigger on specific the calender weeks, you want to optimally get out of the prologue as soon as possible to be better prepared for the events.

After you have done Harem with either of the girls, raiding Goraku (left town) will cause you to capture Anasel. After Harem with Anasel, she will inform you of a girl named Merushi, and at the same time the people of Goraku will request the Helman military to help them out. Ruberan of the Ruins Guard will volunteer to take care of the bandits. The next time you attack Goraku, you will capture Merushi, but at the same time Ruberan's troops will show up and overwhelm your troops.

Rance will escape towards the Leazas border, while Soul and Shiiru get locked into the prison at Borugo Z. Then the Opening of the game will play.

Rance, King of Leazas
After the opening, Kanami will be scouting the Helman-Leazas border due to rumored troop movements in Helman. After finding out the Helman army is just searching for a fugutive, Kanami was going to head back and report the reassuring news that Helman isn't preparing a military offensive against Leazas. Then Kanami found a man lying on the ground. As she approached to help the man, she found out it is Rance (who woke up for a short bit then passed out again)! Kanami carried Rance back to Leazas Castle.

For three days, Lia stayed by Rance's side, who remained unconscious. On day three, Suzume the maid came to ask Lia to rest a little, but the suspiciously-paranoid Lia thought Suzume wanted to create an opportunity to seduce Rance. As Lia slapped and yelled at Suzume, it woke Rance up.

While eating, Rance told Lia about the exploits of his Robinhood-ish bandit group, which killed 1,000,000 Helman troops before forced to retreat (extreme embelishment). When Kanami asked the whereabouts of Shiiru, Rance asked Lia to lend him the entire army of Leazas, so he can take revenge upon Helman (he won't admit he wants to rescue Shiiru). Of course, the army of an entire nation cannot be mobilized just for the sake of one individual's revenge. However, Lia made a proposal: if Rance marries her, then he will become King of Leazas. Then the army will be his to command, as a slight to the king can be counted as a slight to the nation. After giving the matter some thought, Rance agrees, and a week later they are married. The people present at the wedding are: Bales, Maris, Kaname, Maria, Shizuka, Rick, X, and Cell, each of them with different wandering thoughts.

The next day, Rance was going to make a speech as the new king of Leazas to his citizens from the balcony of Leazas Castle. However, he lost the prepared speech Maris prepared for him, so he made up his own. The next day, rebellion broke out.

The Rebellion
The Rebellion is led by X, the general of the White Army. Other significant participants including Pegasus (former general of the White Army), Helen (second in command of White Army, and daughter of Bales), and Merufeis (magic unit). The Rebels have a total of 7 captains, and in general they split into two platoons to attack Leazas. Pegasus's platoon launches from the town of In, and includes Dozzi and Merufeis, whereas X's platoon launches from Baranchi, and includes Helen, Sekanaku, and Jipuru.

The rebels retreat easily, typically in one or two rounds of fights, or as soon as one of their captain is defeated. Initially most of the Leazas army will be very short on soldiers (who have joined the rebels), thus inexperienced players are encouraged to start slow and defensively, building up strength at first.

Most of the rebel captains will simply die when defeated, except for Helen, Merufeis, and X. Helen and Merufeis are captured when you defeat them. In order to make Merufeis join, select the option to H with her or she will die. She has a curse that grants her powerful magic abilities, but every two months she has to have sex with a man more powerful than her. Helen on the other hand will join you after an automatic H scene. X if defeated will escape, and show up in the next fight again, until you have captured the town of Orcs, the main base of the Rebellion.

Saidou the spy will appear after taking over Branchyia.

Once the Leazas army attacks Eas, what's left of the two Rebellion forces will join together.

After taking over the town of Orcs, X will be captured, and Rance will have 4 choices. The first three are all punishments, whereas the fourth choice is to ask him to join you. If you choose asking him to join, he will respond that he cannot do it, and Rance will simply let him leave. However, after September, if any enemy attacks the Leazas Castle and you choose to not defend it, X will show up with a group of his troops, fend off the enemies, and join you.

Story
At the end of the first turn against the Rebellion, X and Pegasus will chat. X will mention he miscalculated, and overestimated the number of people who will join the Rebellion. He had hoped Kurudoba and Rick would join. Pegasus said he will give Bales, Rick, and Kurudoba a punch of justice to open their eye.

Later when it's X's turn to lauch an attack, he spaced out while Helen was talking to him. X asked if Helen's father show up on the field, whether Helen will let personal feelings interfere. Helen responds that perhaps it will, her father's eyes have been clouded by Rance and she wants to clear his vision. After Helen leaves, X thinks about the entire Rebellion: "While it is in the name of Rightousness as Rance's speech has clearly shown he's going to be a messed up king, both Bales (who is wise) and Rick have chosen to side with Rance. Those two have fought alongside Rance during the Leazas Liberation War.  Do they know a side of Rance that I don't...?  But anyways, no matter how you look at it, having Rance as king is simply an unreasonable thing.  Anyways it's no use to think too much, there's nothing else to do but fight.  I am the leader of the Rebellion.  If I waver, it'll weaken the resolve of those who fight because they trusted me."

The next turn, Maris advices to fighting in the towns at first until the enemy has weakend, then go forth and counterattack them.

Leazas Expansionism
After stopping the Rebellion, Rance wants to immediately assault Helman. However, Maris advises against it. The mountain pass between Leazas and Helman only allow very few troops to cross at a time, whereas the entire Helman army can wait at the other side. Maris suggests to find some other means against Helman. Rance thought about the possibility to attack Zeth, but Zeth currently has friendly relationship with Leazas, and it's not good to unnecessarily create a powerful enemy. Finally Rance suggest to conquer the Free Cities Alliance. Maris said while it's not a problem to conqure them, they aren't harmful either. However, Rance's goal is to eventually unify the entire continent, so it's decided that the Free Cities should be the next target.

Bales was moved by (what he mistaken to be) Rance's nobel intention: "For the sake of world peace, it is necessary for one nation to rule over all. Rance is willing to carry the forsaken name of the Conquerer in order to acheive world peace.  He's definitely a great person."

The Free Cities, Demon Civil War, and AL Church
When fighting the cities in the Free Cities Alliance, most of them offer the play the choice of either "persuade" the individual cities to join you, or to fight them (and a third choice to cancel). Some cities will offer bribes, others mights request bribes, some cannot be persuaded, and some give you other benefits when persuaded. In general, this can be a good oppertunity for the player's army to rest and recover from the previous war, while still expanding the territory at a constant pace.

Story
The week after the Rebellion has been quenched, the AL Church have a meeting. Pope Murararu revealed that the rise of King Rance has already been foretold in the prophecies, and instructed one of his officers, Sarubenaotto, to ask Rance to continue supporting the Church.


 * May week 1: Talk to Menado. Use Menado to attack Zeo, withdraw when low troops.  Commandeer at South.  Take over Rokkuasu peacefully.  Harem -> Kanami.


 * May week 2: Talk to Raira. Harem -> Raira. Visit DX in Rokkuasu.  Use Menado to attack Zeo, withdraw when low troops.  Take over Ice peacefully.


 * May week 3: Continue to pay AL Church (top). Attack Shangri La with small force.  Give Rajiru one month to be taken over.  Take over Shifteria by force.  Visit AL Church.  Harem -> Raira.


 * May week 4 ~ May week 3: Visit AL Church to get Elizebeth (keep reloading). Harem -> Shyarieru. Take over Hanna.


 * June week 4: Make sure Maris report about treasure issues at the beginning, then talk to Menado. Harem -> Menado.  Visit AL Church to get Gauin (keep reloading).  Take over Temple AL, and pretend to be the Pop's representative.


 * July week 1: Talk -> Setera. Harem -> Merufeis. Commandeer Ricchi. Take over Rajiru peacefully.


 * July week 2: Take over Custom. Talk to Maria. Harem -> Miri.  Explore Dangerous Hole to 50F.  Visit DX.


 * July week 3: Take over Red peacefully. Explore Hyper Building (201F). Visit Meari's house in Ricchi, fight honorably (choice 3). Harem -> Miri.


 * July week 4: Visit Cell's church. Take over M Land peacefully (keep it operating, choice 2).  Build officer school. Talk to Maria.  Harem Sayori.


 * Aug week 1: Harem Sayori. Visit Shinoda's place.  Take over Purutogaru by force.  Talk to Gauin.


 * Aug week 2: Reject alliance. Visit Desukoko's secrete room in Shangri-La, second choice.  Conquer Toushin Toshi.  Harem -> Maria, then talk to Maria (order important).


 * Aug week 3: Conquer Borugo Z. Visit Cell's church.

Getting the Demon Sword Chaos

 * Defeat Rey first
 * Find out Demon Jeek has stolen Chaos from Cell
 * Fight Jeek