Actually I was on the assumption we'd go as far as we can go without promotion, then whoever is judge of that could promote them. The items are in the Caravan as of right now however the Chess battle is as hard as I remember it to be. I could just end it by killing the king immediately but that wouldn't yield sufficient experience.
EDIT
Alright I am now done, and finished the long, tough, bloody battle. It was annoying, and frustrating aswell but alas I am proud because this was certainly better then my first time doing this (a whole week).
The trick was I drew the enemy out to come to me, I only really start getting in trouble when the casters start coming out to play or the King himself because he just walks around like he owns the place and sorta does one shotting everybody or his uncanny ability to double attack and counter every close combat attack I give him. I only lucked out because a bishop decided to kill Jaha (bringing my force down to a mere five at this point) instead of healing him when he was at 2 health, in the end desperate suicide tactics won the day.
As far as performance goes Gerhalt, Peter, and Slade were invaluable in this fight. While Peter was concentrated on most of the fight he and Slade were fairly equal in terms of damage but Slade was faster (obviously) while Gerhalt (this is why he is the highest level below) was punching everyone into oblivion because every enemy was invaribly drawn into his line of fire (right beside him) after they were softened up by Slade and Peter and he was largely ignored in the last fight this time. Unfortunately Chester was only good for bait and his crits did 2 damage, surprisingly I managed to lvl him up so he can get promoted now.
Everyone except Bowie, Sarah, May, Gerhalt, and Rick were dead and I revived them. it was chump change cause I noticed we got alot of money. Interestingly enough it was May who won the battle even though she was seemingly slow, the next speed chicken should go to her after promotion I say. This battle strengthens my belief that we should do this when we promote her.
Bowie: 24, 40exp
Sarah: 24, 2exp
Chester: 20, 13exp
Jaha: 23, 63exp
Kazin: 24, 37exp
Slade: 24, 13exp
Peter: 23, 73exp
May: 24, 65exp
Gerhalt: 25, 23exp
Luke: 22, 23exp
Rick: 23, 41exp
Elric: 21, 44exp
Anyways I put everything that wasn't an aid or was vendor trash (or just something wasting space at the moment or didn't need to be used right now) in the Caravan.
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