#wish Claude would ignore my ass on post ts Gronder... could he and his god range plz go after Edelgard and leave me alone plz

[butwhatifidothis]

It’s paralogue Anon again! Let me tell you my version of White Cloud’s Gronder battle. Or, as I like to call it, The Battle Of The Houses. I’m playing the Blue Lion House route, and I was worried about every other houses’ levels…Only to see that my house was literally overpowered compared to everyone and I laughed. Anyway, I did the split too: I was still a bit cautious with Mercedes, Annette, and Ingrid but I wanted them to level up. I had them go left where Ferdinand was leading a charge of pegasus riders and such. Poor thing lost his troops so fast and then got beat up by three girls who didn’t even struggle against HIM, not his troops, HIM.

Sylvain and Dedue were charged to sneak through the forest-covered area on the right to take out Claude. I had them take Flayn to not only protect her, but to bond and help her level up. Dedue got his revenge on Hilda(long story), but what got me was Claude. I will not lie, I did a lot of favoring of Claude whenever the game allowed me. So, imagine my intrigue, and surprise, when Claude completely IGNORED MY HOUSE and went after Black Eagle House’s army. I was amazed at Claude’s strategic skills, it was pretty good. Even when Lorenz broke formation to fight Hubert solo to get to Edelgard, and got ganged up and beat on like a wimpy kid against a group of big pre-teenagers. Bless Lorenz’s heart, he tried, but Hubert didn’t even bother to entertain him.

I generously would have let Claude finish off Edelgard and her troops if it wasn’t for the prize that would be gained for taking out the most enemy troops. So, Sylvain took Claude out. Oh, Byleth and everyone else took to the center and took over the archer post. Felix dominated that post for a while before handing it over to Ashe to join the fight. By the time my house was through, Edelgard was literally the only one left. She was cornered. I decided to let Dimitri have the honors of taking her out, this was going to be a fight between house leaders after all. He deserved to be the one to end this…

But then Edelgard turns right to Byleth and straight up ATTACKS HER. Dimitri was RIGHT IN FRONT OF EDELGARD AND HE WAS IGNORED ಠ_ಠ. I legit gasped (my face when she attacked Byleth: ಠOಠ), I was so offended by the sudden attack that I took Edelgard down so fast that you might as well said she got slapped to the ground. That was how fast it was, I didn’t give her a second to register that.

And I still gave a lecture of how rude she was being, even when the battle was over. Seriously, forget getting ANY compliment from me Edelgard, all of it is going to Claude for his great strategy skills! Then I’m gonna do a whole speech of how proud I am of Dimitri’s leadership skill AND my class’s amazing win at a FEAST with confettis, and deserts, AND everyone, BUT YOU AND HUBERT, are getting most of these deserts (because we all know that Rhea will not let anyone be excluded from the festivities like that, let’s be honest). You both will be stuck with the stuff no body likes!

…Anyway yeah, that was how the battle when for me on my playthrough.

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What a neat battle! You know, the way your Claude acted (which btw wtf lmao the AI seems to love to try and beat my ass) has me thinking that they could have implemented a mechanic where if you get on the good side of one of the opposing lords before WC Gronder they don’t target you as hard (like their priority will be the third house), just to maybe mix it up on future replayings. Also lol Edelgard attacking Byleth and ignoring Dimitri xD