New Characters

Portrait	Name	Class	Recruit	Comment	Rating
	Minerva	Dragon Knight	Visit the village	She’s a very good unit with great bases in strength, speed and defense, but mediocre skill and HP. She also has support effects with Katua and Paola, 2 of the best units in the game.	4/5

Strategy

Your initial location:

Put a thief at spot 13 or 14, so he can go grab the chests located at the east. One of them contains the Capricorn orb.

Send Marth and a couple of units towards the village; you have to protect it at all costs, as Minerva is there, and besides being a great character, she also has the Virgo orb. Don’t let the thieves get there before Marth does. Preferably, have Feena accompany him so he recruits Minerva and then gets to the throne fast.

Other that that, you have to be careful with your lowered movement in the sand, especially for mounted units. The enemy mages are very weak, so your units shouldn’t have problems. As for the dragon knights, lure them and proceed to attack with magic and arrows.

Advance as fast as possible, because Astria’s squad will arrive. I suggest not to confront them, and much less to kill Astria, you can recruit him later.

Buy as many spells (Blizza and Elfire) and staffs for curing. You’ll need them in later chapters.