Khuutra on 30 March 2010
famousringo said:
It's a little tricky to keep straight, so I sympathize. Attacking from behind risks lowering the attacking unit's alignment, which doesn't directly affect your CF. However, since liberating towns (instead of capturing them) requires a unit of the proper alignment, it might not be healthy to drive all your unit's alignments into the ground by attacking retreating units. One solution is to get a chaotic jerkface like Diomedes to finish off those pesky cowards and preserve the virtue of your more noble units. |
Got it. Okay, credit to http://www.neoseeker.com/resourcelink.html?rlid=95921&rid=89083 and http://www.gamespite.net/talkingtime/showthread.php?t=4983 (do not click these links, there are spoilers)
Alignment:
- First, the characters you have in your unit affect an individual’s alignment. If you take a Chaotic character and place him/her/it in a unit with four Lawful characters, over time the Chaotic character will become more Lawful. The same would be true if a Lawful character was put in a unit with Chaotic characters.
- Second, if a character kills an enemy that is more Chaotic than he/she/it is, he/she/it will be come more Lawful. If they kill a character that is more Lawful, then they become more Chaotic. At any time in the game you can stop and check an enemy unit’s alignment, so you need to carefully and meticulously plan each encounter if you want to manipulate your character’s alignment.
- Third, while battles occur automatically, you do have some control over your units. You can pick from a set of predetermined commands. Telling them to “Attack Weakest” influences them in the Chaotic direction while telling them to “Attack Strongest” influences them in the Lawful direction.
- Fourth, fighting enemies that are a lower level than the character makes them more Chaotic, while fighting stronger enemies makes them more Lawful.
As an addendum to number one, I once had a chaotic unit corrupt a neutral unit, but he was like an evil lord of the undead so I don't know if that's typical or not.
- Second, if a character kills an enemy that is more Chaotic than he/she/it is, he/she/it will be come more Lawful. If they kill a character that is more Lawful, then they become more Chaotic. At any time in the game you can stop and check an enemy unit’s alignment, so you need to carefully and meticulously plan each encounter if you want to manipulate your character’s alignment.
- Third, while battles occur automatically, you do have some control over your units. You can pick from a set of predetermined commands. Telling them to “Attack Weakest” influences them in the Chaotic direction while telling them to “Attack Strongest” influences them in the Lawful direction.
- Fourth, fighting enemies that are a lower level than the character makes them more Chaotic, while fighting stronger enemies makes them more Lawful.
Chaos Frame:
From my observations, I can say that there are three things that affect
the chaos frame:
1) liberating or capturing strongholds,
2) the order that missions are played when there is a divided path,
3) whether or not some of the special characters join your party.
None of these things have any affect on the chaos frame:
*Defeating the enemy boss and liberating the enemy headquarters
*Letting Magnus walk around the map and grow old
*Killing only the enemy unit leaders
*Killing the entire enemy unit
*Creating and using legions
*Creating Vampires, Lichs, Angel Knights, and Zombies
*Changing the special characters' classes (including undead
classes)
*Using 'Love and Peace' to recruit enemy characters, including
an Angel Knight and a Saturos
And that's all there is!
the chaos frame:
1) liberating or capturing strongholds,
2) the order that missions are played when there is a divided path,
3) whether or not some of the special characters join your party.
None of these things have any affect on the chaos frame:
*Defeating the enemy boss and liberating the enemy headquarters
*Letting Magnus walk around the map and grow old
*Killing only the enemy unit leaders
*Killing the entire enemy unit
*Creating and using legions
*Creating Vampires, Lichs, Angel Knights, and Zombies
*Changing the special characters' classes (including undead
classes)
*Using 'Love and Peace' to recruit enemy characters, including
an Angel Knight and a Saturos
