Congratulations crabman.

I like the senators mission too, except I killed them. I didn't have Heather with me, and the senators had a white gem, and something else and the only way to get them was to kill them ( I needed money plus I was too lazy to restart). Soren warned me not too, but whatever........I'll have to suffer the consequences in the future.

Should I be a tease and not tell you how to quickly/easily level up some very-latecomers for the final series of battles? :)

Hey, if you have interesting ideas feel free to share them. 

It's likely that your tricks may actually be common knowledge but I'm willing to learn if you have something neat to share.  ^_^

Chapter 4 Tower

In the first mission of the "tower" there are 2 priests at the top/center of the map with psychic rods (the strong ranged healing rods, I can never recall the spelling of those things), kill everything but those two. Beforehand, of course, equip your new 2 dragons with the half-power transformation and experience doubler skills. The half-power transformation will decrease their damage to the extent that they barely damage anything, including the priests, but yet still get a large amount of experience per attack. Also, put each dragon the square below the priests, you don't want them to get any bonuses from each other (dragon auras). For some time, the priests equipment will fully heal their wounds after each round. AS SOON AS you start causing more damage than their equipment auto-heals, skip attacking them that turn (that they don't have full HP) to lengthen the "leveling" process.

Also abusing the battle-saves (IMHO it's a must-do since dragons have SLOOOOW stat gains) I managed to get this process going long enough that I managed to nearly max out the prince and our old friend to the point that, with the "blessing" and the permanent-battle item transformation, our prince was a level 35-ish black dragon that was toe-to-toe in stats with his father (excluding his HP bonus obviously!). Needless to say it made the last stages of the game *considerably* easier. :)

I admit it's cheap, technically just a hole in the system (I wonder if they put it there intentionally?) but it can be a big help if you're having trouble in the final tower. :)

Interesting.  I never really bothered with the Prince at all. I didn't have much trouble with the end game actually.  With the exception of facing the father, the entire endgame was really really easy for me.

Well, my dragon prince did far more damage than anyone else could, so I was quite happy with my investment :)
Off-topic, but in case any fellow SRPG fans didn't know, FFTA2 was announced for a June 24th release in North America. :)

Invest some levels into capping Caineghis' STR and you'll see even more damage than that.  ^_^

I forgot to mention the part about the King won't counterattack his son, something Caineghis has to worry about a lot. :o

Maybe, but IIRC the king died on the same turn or the turn after I began attacking him.  His counter attacks were nasty, if shortlived.

is Rhys any better in RD?

I know in POR I only use him as far as when u get Mist LOL