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Cthulhu said:
I can not beat the Big Turtles :(

My characters are all around 15k HP and snow has over 20k HP

What to do? I tried casting death but I get killed before something happens

First and foremost, for a head to head tactic, you'll need to have two characters that can buff and debuff properly.

The adamantortoises are your best bet for early attempts, those are the ones standing still on the northern part of the Steppe. They have 3.5M HP. The ones roaming about, Adamantoises, are harder and have about 5M HP

To defeat them, equip yourself with two General Belts *, that will reduce physical damage by 30%. Also equip Aurora Armlets (First Strike) and Genji Gloves to Fang

Use the following paradigms:

- Start the battle with SYN/SYN/MED. Buff your party with Haste/Faith/Protect for your magic users, and Haste/Bravery/Protect for Fang
- Once buffed, switch to RAV/RAV/MED and stagger one of the legs
- After you see the stagger, switch immediatly to COM/MED/MED and use Highwind on the staggered leg, that will kill it.
- Repeat for the other leg
- Switch to SAB/SYN/SAB and give the Oretoise Deprotet, Deshell, Slow and Imperil
- Switch to RAV/RAV/RAV, stagger the Oretoise and build the chain up to 800%
- Switch to COM/COM/RAV and rip on the Oretoise. That should be enough. Should he stand up, immediatly use an Highwind to knock out the rest of the HP.

This strategy works 100% of the time if you have everything needed.

Other than that, equip a Malboro Wand (Upgraded from Belladona Wand) on Vanille, get SAB/SAB/SAB, summon at the start of the battle to knock out the legs, immediatly do gestalt and final attack and spam Death when your party returns. Death won't work unless the enemy is down.