Kichikuou Rance:Walkthrough/City States

=City States Phase=

After the Rebellion is put down, the player may start taking over other territories. The AL Church will re-request a pledge. Additionally, the Dark Lords under the command of Kamilla will start attacking Leazas. To trigger the most events raise tax in the associated territory (for example: Gandhi in Zeo, choose "Temporary Levy" in Zeo).

The Little Princess
At the end of the first turn after the Rebellion, two waves of monsters will assault Leazas Castle. The monsters are easily defeated, but the second wave include the Dark Lord La Saizel who cannot be harmed (even if you kill off all her troops). Miki, Kentarou, and Nikkou will show up at the castle, and the next week the player will be given two choices regarding what to do with Miki the Demon King. The top choice is to H the Demon King, which gives a CG but forces the Demon King ending a few weeks later (and lead to Miki's unhappy end). Thus, the normal thing to do is the bottom choice, "see how it goes". The beginning of week 3 will give Rance access to the Holy Sword Nikkou, at which point Rance's attacks will finally be able to harm the Dark Lords. At the end of week 3 two Dark Lords, Satella and Megallas, will join Leazas to protect Miki, giving you additional captains to fight the Dark Lords. However, the very same turn both Ray and Kamilla will begin attacking separately, so make sure your anti-dark lord resources are spread out.

Note that you'll get an event CG if you take hirari lemon off Miki. She will become the Demon King without access to lemons for long, so don't forget to equip it for her afterwards.

The Fights

Except for scripted battles, in general the dark lord army will retreat as soon as the dark lord takes any damage. At most three group of Dark Lords will attack in the same turn, though typically only one attacks. Note that while your troops can damage the Dark Lord's troops, only other Dark Lords, the Demon Sword Chaos, and the Holy Sword Nikkou can actually harm the Dark Lords leading the troops.

After Satella and Megallas have joined, fighting Ray once will cause him to go to the house of his lover, Mary, (an old lady) in Rich. Levy once at Rich to make Mary's house available as a city event. Visit Mary's house and you will get four choices. Taking her hostage allows you to kill Ray without a fight, killing her causes you to fight Lei to the death and fighting fair causes you to fight Ray to the death, after which Mary will kill herself by hugging Ray's corpse. Running away simply runs away. There is no CG for any of these choices.

Sieg will show up after Ray's death, as reinforcement. He will randomly either try to infiltrate the Leazas Castle (and fail) or attack with his troops. Once Rance has visited Cell 's church, Sieg will morph into a fake Rance and obtain the Demon Sword Chaos from Cell. From that point on Sieg will only try to infiltrate the castle. Visiting Cell's church again afterwards will let Rance learn from Cell that Chaos has been stolen, and then Sieg will attack again. Letting Rance attack Sieg will let Chaos jump back into Rance's sword. Sieg will still run away at fights, but not at the first sign of damage, and he will not get healed anymore.

Warning : You must obtain Chaos before the battle with the Monster Realm starts. After it starts, Kamilla returns to the Monster Realm and it becomes impossible to obtain Chaos. Cell will still refuses to give you Chaos, although you can kill Ray. Sieg will not appear even if you kill Lei however. There is no special mention of Ray or Sieg after Kamilla returns to the Monster Realm if you have not killed them by then. If you do not obtain Chaos, you will not be able to obtain the true ending of the game and the only major difference is that Kamilla dies in a different way when you take over her house (but you do not get a CG for this).

After you get Chaos back (see Sieg's section above), Kentarou and Miki will join. Miki is unkillable (in regular play) and can be deployed in defensive battles as needed to absorb all damage.

La Saizel cannot be killed. However she will stop appearing after a certain battle in the Monster Realm. She attacks Leazas the most often.

Kamilla cannot be killed. However she will stop appearing after the Monster Realm has been unified. She attacks Leazas very sparingly, though more often after La Saizel disappears.

The People
Generals

Free Cities
The Towns

When fighting the cities in the Free Cities Alliance, most of them offer choices of either to "Negotiate" or to "Force" them (and a third choice to cancel). Some cities will offer bribes, some cannot be persuaded, some give you benefits either when persuaded or when forced. In general, this can be a good opportunity for the player's army to rest and recover from the previous war, while still expanding the territory at a constant pace. On the other hand, the fights in general are not overly challenging, and can be a good way to earn experience for your captains.

The four most important cities are Red, Custom, Shangri-La, and Toushin City. Since Shangri-La forces the player to skip 3 weeks of game time, it's best coupled with the Lazeal wait.

Attacking Custom will get you Mill, Milli, Shizuka, Maria and Eleanor as commanders, making it a very, very good idea. Shizuka is one of the best mage units in the game and has a special bomb, while Maria is a strong unit in her own right.

Conquering Shangri-La will give you Shariela in your harem. If you H her once she will tell you about Housesnurse's room in Shangri-La. Visiting Housesnurse and letting her go will force you to attack Helman through the mountains, but will eventually get you the unit Kaiju Prince. Refusing to let her go will give you easy access to invade both Helman and Zeth. If you choose not to let her go, you can visit her for a CG later and also choose to release her later. Releasing her after you have declared war on Helman or Zeth will not allow you to obtain Kaijuu Prince however.

Letting Housesnurse go has serious consequences for the rest of the game.

The People
Generals

Civilians

Sayori Unga
Events Destiny
 * Recruitment: Negotiate when conquering M Land.
 * Harem: Gives 3 experience when summoned.
 * Visiting M Land's amusement park with Sayori gives the option to let Sayori go from the harem.
 * Fortune: Free Sayori from the harem after taking M Land.
 * Misfortune: Give Sayori to Shinoda.

Merim Tser
Events Destiny
 * Recruitment: Conquer Toushin City.
 * Harem: Gives 4 experience when summoned.
 * Merim can be taken on dungeon explorations along with a general. She does not participate in combat.
 * She has a random chance of finding an item that improves the general's dungeon stats.
 * She has a random chance of getting attacked by a monster.
 * If there is no hospital in Leazas Castle when she is attacked, she will die.
 * Fortune: Find enough (5?) items while exploring dungeons with Merim.
 * Misfortune: Let Merim be attacked by a monster without having a Hospital.

Sanakia Drelshkaf
Events Destiny
 * There will be a CG when Toushin City is taken.
 * Fortune: Do not conquer Toushin City.
 * Misfortune: Conquer Toushin City.

Raylee Serika
Events Destiny
 * Recruitment: Negotiate when taking Lazeal, wait a month as agreed, then attack and negotiate again.
 * Harem: Gives 5 experience when summoned.
 * After summoning Raylee twice, it will become possible for an event to occur in the library, when it is built.
 * After this event, there will be a choice to forgive, punish or banish Raylee.
 * Fortune: Banish Raylee from the harem after the library event.
 * Misfortune: Punish Raylee after the library event.

Rebecca Copri
Events Destiny
 * Recruitment: Visit, but do not pay for Rebecca in the Merchant menu. Then, conquer Portugal by force.
 * Harem: Gives 4 experience when summoned.
 * When you first visit the Merchant, you will be introduced to Rebecca and given the option to pay for sex with her.
 * Fortune: Recruit Rebecca.
 * Misfortune: Pay for Rebecca in the Merchant menu. Then, conquer Portugal by force.

Aoi
Events Destiny
 * Recruitment: Take Rockearth by negotiation, enabling the option to visit DX Association. Visiting it will recruit Aoi.
 * Harem: Gives 4 experience when summoned.
 * Summoning her twice will give the option to rehabilitate Aoi, removing her from the harem.
 * This will enable visiting Aoi via the "Aoi Rehab" option in Leazas Castle.
 * After enough time and visits, she will be rehabilitated and set free.
 * Fortune: Rehabilitate Aoi.
 * Misfortune: Meet but do not rehabilitate Aoi.

Kaoru Quincy Kagura
Ninja Information Events Destiny
 * Recruitment:
 * Recruit Ragnarokarc Super Gandhi and Kaoru will join the harem.
 * After summoning her in the harem once and seeing the resulting start of turn event, she will become a ninja on the subsequent turn.
 * Harem: Gives 3 experience when summoned.
 * Sabotage Effect: Reduce the enemy troops' ATK or DEF.
 * May Assist in Battle: Gandhi
 * During the war with Zeth there will eventually be an event where the Flash bomb goes off.
 * Executing Gandhi at this point will lead to Kaoru and Wichita's deaths.
 * Fortune: Do not recruit Gandhi until Zeth's Flash bomb has gone off.
 * Misfortune: Send Kaoru out on a ninja maneuver in Kayblis faction territory that results in her capture during the Monster Realm phase. There will then be an event with Medusa.

Wichita Skate
Ninja Information Events Destiny
 * Recruitment:
 * Recruit Ragnarokarc Super Gandhi and Wichita will join the harem.
 * After summoning Kaoru in the harem once, the second time Wichita is summoned she will ask to become a ninja too.
 * Harem: Gives 3 experience when summoned.
 * Sabotage Effect: Reduce troop replenishment amount.
 * May Assist in Battle: Magic
 * During the war with Zeth there will eventually be an event where the Flash bomb goes off.
 * Executing Gandhi at this point will lead to Kaoru and Wichita's deaths.
 * Fortune: Do not recruit Gandhi until Zeth's Flash bomb has gone off.
 * Misfortune: Execute Gandhi after Zeth's Flash bomb goes off.

Cell Curchgolf
Events Destiny
 * She holds Chaos and can be visited in Red.
 * Doing so the first time can result in a CG, but she will not hand Chaos over.
 * After she has been visited, Sieg, if he has joined Kamilla, will steal Chaos from Cell.
 * After Chaos has been stolen, Rance can visit the church to find this out and save Cell.
 * Subsequently deploying Rance against Sieg's unit will cause Rance to acquire Chaos.
 * If Rance is pretending to be the pope's representative, visiting the Temple AL HQ twice will result in an H-Scene with Cell.
 * This will cause some thugs to appear at Cell's church and visiting her house will save her from them.
 * Visiting the Temple AL HQ and then Cell's church after saving her from the thugs will result in an H-Scene.
 * Fortune: Save her from thugs, then visit the Temple AL HQ and finally Cell's church.
 * Misfortune: (Unconfirmed) Do not rescue Cell from the thugs.

Shariela Aries
Events Destiny
 * Recruitment: Take over Shangri-La.
 * Harem: Gives 3 experience when summoned.
 * When first summoned in the harem she will mention a secret room in Shangri-La, giving a new option to visit it.
 * This is necessary to interact with Housesnurse, which has important consequences on game flow.
 * If she has not been summoned in a long time there will be a start of turn event as warning that she may turn back into a doll.
 * Fortune: Take over Shangri-La.
 * Misfortune: Do not summon her in the harem for a long period of time after taking over Shangri-La.

Housesnurse
Events Free Housesnurse Keep Housesnurse Captive
 * She can be visited by summoning Shariela in the harem and visiting the new option in Shangri-La.
 * There is the choice to free Housesnurse or keep her captive. This has far reaching consequences.
 * Subsequent visits net a CG and still allow freeing Housesnurse, removing the desert paths permanently, but Kaiju Prince is still unrecruitable if Helman or Zeth have been attacked.
 * If she is freed during the first visit, it enables recruiting Kaiju Prince and Princess.
 * Disables the alternate path to take over Helman.
 * Helman must be conquered through the mountains, where only one unit can be sent through at a time.
 * Lelyukov's recruitment conditions are harder because it's difficult to defeat the defenders in one attack with a single unit.
 * Rolex's recruitment conditions are harder because the path to the capital starting through the mountains must pass through his HQ.
 * Disables the alternate path to take over Zeth.
 * Zeth must be conquered through the heavily defended Adam's Fortress, destroying the Fire Army in the process.
 * Because the Fire army must be defeated to enter Zeth, Uspira's Fortune Destiny is impossible to achieve.
 * Alternative and easier paths are available for attacking Helman and Zeth.
 * Disables recruiting Kaiju Prince and Princess permanently.

JAPAN
The Fight

The week after you obtain Portugal, JAPAN will seek a (temporary) alliance with you. If Leila is still with you, picking the second option will have her married to JAPAN's Nobunaga for temporary peace. If Leila is dead, or if you pick the top option, then you'll enter war with JAPAN.

JAPAN has three distinct armies, and only one capturable captain: Yamamoto Isoroku. Their foot soldiers, while numerous, are very weak, thus fighting in the city give you a major advantage. Their armored samurai are tougher and do more damage, and are best taken care of via magic. Their massive archery units can pose a serious problem to your magic or archery when fighting in the plains, and still a non-negligible threat in the city. Thus it's best to fight conservatively in the city especially in the beginning.

One of the three armies of JAPAN is lead by Nobunaga personally. Note that Nobunaga is considered a Dark Lord, and thus even if you wipe out all his troops, you still cannot harm him without using Dark Lords, or the two swords Chaos and Nikkou. Defeating him outside of Osaka will only cause him to retreat. This means that Demons can be deployed against Nobunaga on the final assault on Osaka.

After your first attack on Osaka, Nobunaga will sent out his ninjas (Gekkou and Shinobu) to assassinate the top generals including Rance and sabotage your war funds.If they target the general that already has been used in that turn, the hit will success. Letting Shinobu to kill Rance will result in 1 HCG and game over. If she fails around 4-5 times both Gekkou and Shinobu will commit suicide. The best way to handle this is simply to conquer Osaka in one single week. Because JAPAN has a finite number of captains, you can wear his forces down before attacking Osaka. Use the Miki-bombing technique to eliminate the powerful Samurai guarding Nobunaga. Osaka has a fighting field size of 400, so if Rance, Kentarou, and Megallas have more than 399 troops, they need to use their skills to hit Nobunaga.

If you have traded Leila for a temporary alliance, after the fall of Osaka you will see a pic of her, pregnant, standing in the fire that burns Osaka. That is her unhappy ending.

Once Nobunaga is defeated in Osaka, he will die and the JAPAN generals will be gone. So make sure you capture Isoroku before it happens. Note that the town of Sado will still be under JAPAN, but it really functions as an independent state, and will not attack you. It has very high economic power though, so if money is an issue to you, you might want to grab it early.

In the Optimal Play schedule, the fight against JAPAN starts during the expansion period, but it's mostly a defensive war until Helman is mostly taken care of.

The People
Generals

Citizens

Kouhime
Events Destiny
 * Recruitment: After the fall of Osaka, choose the top option to add Kouhime to the harem.
 * Harem: Gives 3 experience when summoned.
 * Summoning Kouhime in the harem results in an event where Rance sees a giant being.
 * Doing so 4 times before conquering all territories will be necessary to achieve success in the Creator Phase of the game.
 * Not doing so before the start of the Creator phase results in Kouhime's death.
 * Unconfirmed: To achieve Kouhime's Fortune end, she must not be summoned in the harem.
 * Fortune: Have Isoroku's child and achieve the Unification ending.
 * Misfortune: Let Kouhime die.

Makoto
Destiny
 * Recruitment: Levy in Osaka.
 * Harem: Gives 5 experience when summoned.
 * Fortune: Do not levy in Osaka.
 * Misfortune: Summon Makoto in the harem.

Tamagushi Fuuka
Events Destiny
 * Fuuka will eventually have a start of turn event announcing her circumstances and how she'll enter Orochi's cave.
 * If the cave is not visited and Orochi is not slain before 4/1/4, Fuuka will die.
 * Once you've seen Fuuka's start of turn event and visited the shrine in Nagasaki, you may get to the bottom of Orochi's cave and defeat Orochi.
 * If the unit used to defeat Orochi is Rance, there will be a CG with Fuuka.
 * Fortune: Defeat Orichi using a unit other than Rance before Fuuka is killed.
 * Misfortune: Reach 4/1/4 and witness Fuuka's events without killing Orochi.

AL Church
The Fight

At the beginning of the third turn after the Rebellion, the player may choose to keep paying 6500 every month to the AL Church (top choice), or make them an enemy (bottom choice). The bottom choice will cause the AL Chruch to declare Rance a heretic, resulting in battles with the AL Church almost every week, against Temple Knights and regular peasant followers. It will also decrease the maximum troop size of many of your captains, as AL followers defect. While the enemies are not too strong, the constant battles may become a drain on the captains especially during major military campaigns against other nations, not to mention refusing to pay shuts out the happy end for Cell and Elizabeth Des.

Continuing to pay tribute to the AL Church will allow you to visit the AL Headquarters as a city event if you have conquered the neighboring Diphtheria, enabling recruitment of the AL associated characters.

At any point in the game you may attack the AL Church, even if you have decided to continue paying them tribute. However, if you cannot take them out in a single week, you will suffer the same defect penalty as when you reject paying them tribute, being declared a heretic. After the church is defeated, choosing the top option allow you to pretend to be Sarubenaotto, enabling additional events. Picking the bottom option will cause AL followers to attack you randomly.

The People
Generals

Citizens

Elizabeth Des
Events Destiny
 * Recruitment: Visit AL Church while donating to them for a random chance at recruiting Elizabeth.
 * Harem: Gives 5 experience when summoned.
 * After she has been recruited, being declared a heretic by the AL Church will not cause her to leave or impede her Fortune ending.
 * Fortune: Recruit Elizabeth into the harem.
 * Misfortune: Conquer AL Church without recruiting Elizabeth into the harem.

Optimal Play (City States)
Continue to Helman