Rance IX

Index :

Character List					Line 16
Stats 						Line 182
Stats "Stars" Bonuses				Line 247
Items List					Line 375
Optional Mission Objectives			Line 440
Fortress					Line 492
New Game + Choices				Line 528
Bad Ending List					Line 539
FAQ						Line 551




List of the playable Characters, their job, and also their special skills :



Fighters :

- Rance
	- Counter 80%
	- Strong Attack 10%
	- Dual-Move 6%
	- Fighters can charge their attack for one turn to deal 1,5x the damage next attack and works on Special Attacks
	- Bonus to Stat points earned

- Rick Adisson
	- Counter 95%
	- Strong Attack 10%
	- Dual-Move 8%
	- Fighters can charge their attack for one turn to deal 1,5x the damage next attack and works on Special Attacks

- Tillday Sharp
	- Counter 55%
	- Strong Attack 10%
	- Dual-Move 8%
	- Fighters can charge their attack for one turn to deal 1,5x the damage next attack and works on Special Attacks
	- Bonus to Stat points earned

- Alkanese Rise
	- Counter 60%
	- Strong Attack 15%
	- Dual-Move 5%
	- Figthers can charge their attack for one turn to deal 1,5x the damage next attack and works on Special Attacks
	- Alkanese deal more damage the less HP she have.

- Rolex Gadras
	- Counter 80%
	- Strong Attack 10%
	- Dual-Move 4%
	- Warriors can charge their attack for one turn to deal 1,5x the damage next attack, and works on Special Attacks




Guards :

- Hubert Lipton
	- Counter 65%
	- Strong Attack 15%
	- Dual-Move 5%
	- Protection of an adjacent ally 50%
	- Provocation chances 120%

- Pitten Clao
	- Counter 75%
	- Strong Attack 10%
	- Dual-Move 5%
	- Protection of an adjacent ally 33%
	- Provocation chances 95%

- Senhime (Tokugawa Sen)
	- Counter 65%
	- Strong Attack 10%
	- Dual-Move 5%
	- Protection of an adjacent ally 25%
	- Provocation chances 80%



Sorcerers :

- Shizuka Masou
	- Chances of extended area of effect for spell 30%
	- Dual-Move 4%
	- Sorcerers and Healers can deploy a Barrier for protecting against ennemy attacks

- Milacle Tou
	- Chances of extended area of effect for spell 10%
	- Dual-Move 4%
	- Sorcerers and Healers can deploy a Barrier for protecting against ennemy attacks

- Hanty Kalar
	- Chances of extended area of effect for spell 15%
	- Dual-Move 4%
	- Sorcerers and Healers can deploy a Barrier for protecting against ennemy attacks
	- Auto-heal at end of each turn for 3%
	- Can teleport anywhere on map instead of moving



Rangers :

- Kanami Kentou
	- Counter 60%
	- Strong Attack 15%
	- Dual-Move 12%
	- Rangers can pass their turn, anct act later before the end of the turn
	- Kanami can move and pass through ennemies

- Freya
	- Counter 60%
	- Strong Attack 10%
	- Dual-Move 10%
	- Rangers can pass their turn, anct act later before the end of the turn
	- Freya have 3% chances to insta-kill any ennemy

- Oluole the Third
	- Counter 60%
	- Strong Attack 10%
	- Dual-Move 10%
	- Rangers can pass their turn, anct act later before the end of the turn



Spartas :

- Patton Misnarge
	- Counter 70%
	- Strong Attack 10%
	- Dual-Move 6%
	- Protection of an adjacent ally 40%
	- Provocation chances 60%

- Pigu Gellciam
	- Counter 65%
	- Strong Attack 10%
	- Dual-Move 6%
	- Pigu can charge her attack for one turn to deal 1,5x the damage next attack




Gunners :

- Maria Custard
	- Strong Attack 0%
	- Dual-Move 3%
	- Chances of Covering Fire 2%
	- Gunner can end a turn and increase their chance of Covering Fire

- Sanada Tourin
	- Strong Attack 0%
	- Dual-Move 3%
	- Chances of Covering Fire 4%
	- Gunner can end a turn and increase their chance of Covering Fire
	- Sanada increase the Movement of each friendly unit by 1




Healers :

- Russian Kalette
	- Strong Attack 0%
	- Dual-Move 4%
	- Sorcerers and Healers can deploy a Barrier for protecting against ennemy attacks

- Crook Mofus
	- Counter 35%
	- Strong Attack 15%
	- Dual-Move 4%
	- Sorcerers and Healers can deploy a Barrier for protecting against ennemy attacks
	- Auto-heal at end of each turn for 2%





A little explanation on how stats works in this game :

Each character have three kind of stats. They can be upgraded by equiping items, or spending skill points.
You can also upgrade weapon and armor by spending gold, though it's random.

First part on the character status screen is about defence.
  - Hit Points. When you character reach 0, he can't fight anymore.
  - Evasion, basically it's your chances to dodge an attack.
  - Parry, to reduce incoming damage, and it work for ranged/magic attacks too. Warry that you will take damage from ennemies with a high score in critical though.
  - Armor : the higher your armor, the less damage you take.

  - Magic defence, an expensive and hard to raise stat, but very usefull to reduce damage from spells casters
  - Tenacity : your chance to stay at 1 Defence Point and not die when taking a hit that should kill you.

For every stat, the chances decrease it battle every time.
Exemple : If Rance have 50 in his dodge score, and actually dodge an ennmy attack, next time in this battle, he will only have 40 in Evasion score left, or so. It work for Everything, untill your stats are "depleted" for the battle.

Next, about offense :
- Attack Score, basically, your ability to deal damage
  - Your rough attack score
  - Weapon Factor

  - Critical Score (actually, not chances, as the attack like "critical" are the "Strong attacks" that only some character have. 					Critical score actually directly modify your attack power, even if it's not show in the above score. If you have a high critical score, be ready to do way more damages on every single attack on an ennemy with no armor left)
  - Number of Special Attacks

And finaly, the last part :

- Movement (How many tiles one char can move each turn)
- Range (Range of the normal attacks)
- Speed (When in the turn the character get to act)

A little note about how Special Stat, listed with the character list above works :
  - Counter attacks work actually if you parry the attack; so you won't be able to Counter anymore if you parried too much attacks already. You might want to raise Parry a lot, and use parry items on a character with high Counter score.
  - Strong Attacks are the "real" "Critical Attacks", that can occur and do much more damage than a simple attacks. But, be warry that some characters CAN do them, but start with a score of 0%. You need to zquip items on them to raise their chance !
  - Dual-Move is your chance to act again; moving and attacking, just after finishing your turn.
  - Covering Fire is when a Gunner can shot at an ennemy, tring to attack an ally; without taking a turn, and breaking the ennemy's.



Next, how to raise the stat part :
you get skill points by killing ennemies, and as a "team poll" at the end of each battle.
Girls also win points with some event, and with H-events.

You can use those points to raise 8 stats, that are :

- Hit Points		 1 Point each time 	(cheap cost)
- Evasion		 1% each time 		(moderate cost)
- Parry 		 1% each time 		(moderate cost)
- Magical Defence 	 1 Point each time	(high cost)
- Tenacity 		 1% each time		(moderate cost)
- Attack Score		 1 Damage range		(cheap cost)
- Critical Score	 1 Point each time	(high cost)
- Speed			 1 Poibt each time	(moderate cost)

But that's not all of it !

- Each time you raise ONE stat TWO time, you get a black empty star on it.
	- You can get up to 4 stars, so 8 upgrade on one stat.

- If you have one black star on the EIGHT stats, so if you have upgraded the EIGHT stats TWO times each, you get a yellow filled star.
	- For EACH of those stars, you get a specific bonus to the char, see the list bellow !
	- So, if you have raised at last 8 times EACH stat, you get the 4 filled yellow stars, and thus, the full bonus.


Here the full list for each character !

Rance
★ 2 Cost of Special Moves Reduced to 18
★ 4 Cost of Special Moves Reduced to 16
★ 6 Cost of Special Moves Reduced to 14
★ 8 Cost of Special Moves Reduced to 12

Kanami Kentou
★ 2 +1 Special Move
★ 4 +1 Special Move
★ 6 +1 Special Move
★ 8 +1 Special Move

Shizuka Masou
★ 2 +5% chances of increased area of effect for spells
★ 4 +5% chances of increased area of effect for spells
★ 6 +5% chances of increased area of effect for spells
★ 8 +5% chances of increased area of effect for spells

Maria Custard
(Maria deal damage in cross shaped patern, but, the middle ennemy take full damage, while surrounding take only half)
★ 2 Damages inflicted to surrounding ennemies = 60%
★ 4 Damages inflicted to surrounding ennemies = 70%
★ 6 Damages inflicted to surrounding ennemies = 80%
★ 8 Damages inflicted to surrounding ennemies = 90%

Patton Misnarge
★ 2 +5% chances of Counter-attack
★ 4 +5% chances of Counter-attack
★ 6 +5% chances of Counter-attack
★ 8 +5% chances of Counter-attack

Hubert Lipton
★ 2 +5% chances of Strong Attack
★ 4 +5% chances of Strong Attack
★ 6 +5% chances of Strong Attack
★ 8 +5% chances of Strong Attack

Russian Kalette
★ 2 +1 Special Move
★ 4 +1 Special Move
★ 6 +1 Special Move
★ 8 +1 Special Move

Rick Adisson
★ 2 Cost of Special Moves Reduced to 18
★ 4 Cost of Special Moves Reduced to 16
★ 6 Cost of Special Moves Reduced to 14
★ 8 Cost of Special Moves Reduced to 12

Tillday Sharp
★ 2 +3% chance of Double-move
★ 4 +3% chance of Double-move
★ 6 +3% chance of Double-move
★ 8 +3% chance of Double-move

Crook Mofus
★ 2 +2% Automatic Recovery (at the end of each turn)
★ 4 +2% Automatic Recovery (at the end of each turn)
★ 6 +2% Automatic Recovery (at the end of each turn)
★ 8 +2% Automatic Recovery (at the end of each turn)

Alkanese Rise
★ 2 +1 Special Move
★ 4 +1 Special Move
★ 6 +1 Special Move
★ 8 +1 Special Move

Pitten Chao
★ 2 +5% Chances to Protect a Frendly Adjacent unit
★ 4 +5% Chances to Protect a Frendly Adjacent unit
★ 6 +5% Chances to Protect a Frendly Adjacent unit
★ 8 +5% Chances to Protect a Frendly Adjacent unit

Senhime
★ 2 +1 Special Move
★ 4 +1 Special Move
★ 6 +1 Special Move
★ 8 +1 Special Move

Milacle Tou
★ 2 +5% chances of increased area of effect for spells
★ 4 +5% chances of increased area of effect for spells
★ 6 +5% chances of increased area of effect for spells
★ 8 +5% chances of increased area of effect for spells

Sanada Tourin
★ 2 +1% Chance of Covering Fire
★ 4 +1% Chance of Covering Fire
★ 6 +1% Chance of Covering Fire
★ 8 +1% Chance of Covering Fire

Pigu Gellcian
(Pigu Special Attack create clone of herself, up to 8 the third time. Each time, clone lose 50% of Pigu's Defence Points)
★ 2 Penality Reduced to 45% for the clones
★ 4 Penality Reduced to 40% for the clones
★ 6 Penality Reduced to 35% for the clones
★ 8 Penality Reduced to 30% for the clones

Freya
★ 2 Chances of Instant-kill are now 4%
★ 4 Chances of Instant-kill are now 5%
★ 6 Chances of Instant-kill are now 6%
★ 8 Chances of Instant-kill are now 7%

Rolex Gadras
★ 2 100% of Attack is now used in Special Moves
★ 4 110% of Attack is now used in Special Moves
★ 6 120% of Attack is now used in Special Moves
★ 8 130% of Attack is now used in Special Moves

Oluole the Third
★ 2 Number of Targets of Special move is now 5
★ 4 Number of Targets of Special move is now 6
★ 6 Number of Targets of Special move is now 7
★ 8 Number of Targets of Special move is now 8

Hanty Kalar
★ 2 +5% chances of increased area of effect for spells
★ 4 +5% chances of increased area of effect for spells
★ 6 +5% chances of increased area of effect for spells
★ 8 +5% chances of increased area of effect for spells





Here the list of all the items :

Name				Rarety		Usage				Sells For

Manga Meat Bone			Common		+10 Hit Points			60
Manga Meat			Common		+20 Hit Points			80
Meat beginning			Common		+40 Hit Points			100
Rabbit pot			Rare		+80 Hit Points			380
Soft-shelled turtle god		Rare		+120 Hit Points			520
Dora Cat Bell			Common	 	+6 Attack			105
Pure gold Bear			Rare		+20 Atack			390
Magic tomato			Common	 	+ 5 Magic Attack		115
Cup of magic			Rare		+20 Magic Attack		405
Light Feather			Common	 	+5 Evasion			110
Rice with Green tea		Rare		+20 Evasion			?
Shiitake			Common	 	+5 Parry			90
Marimo of Safeguard		Rare		+20 Parry			410
Protect Doll			Common	 	+2 Magic Defence		120
Bakkubaku			Rare		+5 Magic Defence		430
Nio natto			Common	 	+5 Tenacity 			130
Bro Bro Blossom			Rare		+20 Tenacity 			435
Strange Quick Bug		Common	 	+1 Speed			140
Piyo Skewer			Rare		+3 Speed			395


Haney Zippo			Common	 	Resurection (One Time)		480
Satisfaction Fish		Rare		+5 Rate of Strong Attacks	445
Raku-ba				Rare		+1 Movement			390
Year-end barrier		Rare		-2 Barrier Cost (Priest/Mage)	450
Saiya ginseng			Rare		Effect of the store x2		440
Provocative Cat			Rare		+10 Provocation Rate (Guard)	385
Clown mask			Rare		+20 Drop Rate of Gold		460
Tekaru chestnut			Rare		+5 Critical Score		425
Carrot				Rare		Power of charged attack become x2 instead of x1.5

GOLD zippo			Common	 	Just for selling sake		300
Golden Bell tree		Common	 	Just for selling sake		2000
Fortune rice cake		Common	 	Just for selling sake		6000


(All the next items are Uniques, you can only have one, and they are mostly rewards from optional missions)

MAX Corps			Unique	 	Attack power (magic) 50% UP (Not sure of this one)
Pig thingy?			Unique	 	Negate Ennemy Tenacity
Ghost pipe			Unique	 	Character Cost -100
Fairy Lantern			Unique	 	+2 Range
The fake fan			Unique	 	x2 Covering Fire chances
Runrunba			Unique	 	+1 Special Move
Super drill			Unique	 	+30 Critical Score
Rocket motor			Unique	 	+3 Movement
Will of the month		Unique	 	+100% Hit Points
Autumn leaves Sakura		Unique	 	+1 Special Move
Blue Miko Ema			Unique	 	Max out Equipement Slots
Red priestess Ema		Unique	 	Max out Equipement Slots
Green Miko Ema			Unique	 	Max out Equipement Slots
Dimension hat			Unique	 	+1 Range
Hatsuyume treasure ship		Unique	 	Negate Ennemy Evasion
Tange dog			Unique	 	+10% Rate of Double-action
Eagle grasping			Unique	 	Negate Ennemy Parry


Treasure of Gunagan		Unique		Unlock Secret CG



Optional Missions Objectives : (To get Monkey Orbs)

Mission							How to get Monkey Orb


- Mission 1 (1 Star)					Finish the Map

- Mission 2 (1 Star)					Finish the Map

- Mission 3 (3 Stars) (Sliding Map 1)			Let one monster slide the defence line (not an pixeled invader)

- Mission 4 (3 Stars) (Plaza full of Mages)		DO NOT use Pitten

- Mission 5 (3 Stars) (Fortress Defence 1)		Let one ennemy slide in the core room

- Mission 6 (3 Stars) (Fortress Defence 2)		DO NOT let any ennemies slide in the core room

- Mission 7 (2 Stars) (Big guy alone)			Wait a few turns, ghost will pop, and one will random drop the orb.

- Mission 8 (3 Stars) (Map full of Dinos)		Kill 30 Dinos by the end of turn 6.

- Mission 9 (Ants and Plants)				Only use 4 characters. Plants MUST stay alive, protect them.

- Mission 9? (Sliding Map 2)				Don't destroy ANY rocks.

- Mission 10 (Fortress Defence 3)			Let 10 or more ennemies slide in core room.

- Mission 10? (Hanny Room)				No Monkey Orb

- Mission 11 (Desert Temple)				Only use 4 characters. When you kill all ennemies, treasure dumpling get out of the egg in center. You need to kill it too before ending quest. Number of turns is limited !

- Mission 12 (Fortress Defence 4)			Let 20 or more ennemies slide in the core room.

- Mission 13 (Fortress Defence 5)			Two ennemies must KILL THEMSELVES when trying to hit the core.

- Mission 14 (Giant Foot)				Put two characters on the glowing tiles, then wait a few turns while killing the trash monsters. A mime robot will pop, kill it, the boss foot, and you get the orb.

- Mission 15 (Small alley with robots and mages)	Ennemies must broke the rock monster near them.



Mission Boss (5 Stars) > Gungam  			No Monkey Orb
Mission Boss (4 Stars) > 3 Jelly Bug Thingy		Kill them to get orb. You MUST kill same on the SAME turn, or they resurrect.
Mission Boss (5 Stars) > Hanny King			No Monkey Orb
Mission Boss (4 Stars) > Gigantic Black Bug		Kill the boss.
Mission Boss (5 Stars) > Lockness			Kill the boss. Beware, he attack the line in front of him, AND the whole map.
Mission Boss (4 Stars) > Wave of spectres then boss.	Kill the boss.





After the middle of the Chapter 4, you finnaly unlock one more big feature of this game : the Fortress.
It allow you to use some skills from it's facilities on specific maps, like the Fortress Defence ones.
Here a little tips on how does it works, what does it do, and how to upgrade it !

So, the facility interface works like a tetris :
each facility take some blocks, and you need to arrange them to be able to put the more of them into the maximum room you have !
To BUY a facility, you use the Point you earn after each battle that are displayed in the bottom bar !
to UPGRADE a facility, you use the green stones that ALSO are displayed in the bottom bar !

	- Yellow Facility power up the core, from core room. Each one of them gives +50 Hp to the core, and make it harder to be         destroyed, thus harder to get a game-over. You really want to have one or two of them, unless you have very strong characters that    won't even let any ennemy slide in the core room. (Though you NEED to for some specific mission objectives)
>>>> Upgrading this facility have a very high cost to upgrade; and it shrink the facility; so it take less room, and you may use more.

	- Green Facility shot a laser all a line long. It will damage all the ennemies it hit, and will not be evaded or parried.
>>>> Upgrading this Facility don't shrink it, but insted boost-up it's power by 25 each time. It has a low cost to upgrade.

	- Blue Facility create a shield on the map that can reflect ennemies attacks as long as it's "alive".
>>>> Upgrading this facility shrink it, and has a low cost to upgrade.

	- Purple Facility act exactly like in a crane game : you can take an annemy with the crane, and move it anywhere on the battlefield.
>>>> Upgrading this facility shrink it, and it has a low cost to upgrade.

	- Pink Facility make you able to play again any character at the end of the turn (Move + Attack)
>>>> Upgrading this facility shrink it, and it has a low cost to upgrade.

	- Red Facility create a bomb, that you can equip a character at the begining of a battle (just above where your Red Crab Orbs stands). Thus, this character will need to move onto a pack of ennemies, and use the bomb to damage them on a area of 2.
>>>> Upgrading this ability give it more power, 30 each time. It won't shrink though, and has a medium cost to upgrade.



That's all for the Facilities, and remember that using them will "consume" the facility that you will need to rebuild between fights !






New Game + Choices and Bonuses :
(remember that with a new game +, you keep items, characters, their skills, your fortress upgrades, but you lose girls hearts, and you can't get monkey orbs from optional missions again)


- Brand New Game
- New Game + (Keep everything; no other changes)
- X2 : Ennemies stronger, x2 drop in gold (and sells twice as much too), more skills points, and can loot the same item twice as strong.
- X4 : Same as x2, but x4 !
- Insane difficulty?


List of the differents Bad Endings : (you need to let the girl die, and then a choice will unlock on main screen)

Siera			Chapter 14		Last Fight
Kanami 			Chapter 11		First Fight
Shizuka			Chapter 13		First Fight
Tillday			Chapter 13		First Fight
Pigu			Chapter 12		First Fight
Senhime			Chapter 14		Last Fight
Milacle			Chapter 12		First Fight



FAQ :

Q. Help, how can I beat the final boss?
A. AFter trying to kill him once, a short event involving Rance and Patton will show up. Then, "kill" it again, but Patton MUST deliver the final blow on the gold shield thingy.

Q. How do I get past the mission with Rance and Tillday on chapter 13?
A. You need to drop both their HP (Defence Points) to around 30%, then the mission will clear.

Q. How do I get past the mission with only Rance and Russian?
A. First you need to get far east at the end of the scrolling; BUT Rance HP MUSN'T drop low, or it's game over, so keep him healed with Russian. It dosn't matter if she ket killed though, as long as Rance get to the goal.

Q. I'm stuck at the first mission of the Chapter 9 !
A. You need to kill ALL the ennemies by the end of Turn 2? or else, it's Game Over !

Q. How do I get the girls ending?
A. You need to finish the Chapter 15 first. Then, the first door, for the True Route will show up. Open it, go to the last boss and beat it; a new save will be created. Load that save, you will be back in front of the doors, and those for the girl you can actually get will be open.

Q. I'm missing some gear events in chapter 11 and above.
A. They're probably related to girls events. Or you havn't enough heart with a girl, and thus, the event won't show up, or, if the gear is linked to a battle event, it's the "bad end" event if th girl fall during the fight. Refer to the "Bad End List" section to learn more.

Q. What are the Point in the bottom bar and the green stones used for?
A. The points can be used to trade for gold (5P = 1 Gold), or for Skill points (2P = 1 Skill Point); or used to buy new facilities for the Fortress after using the related skill.

Q. What's the use of the RED facility in the Fortress?
A. It's a Bomb; you can use it by clicking just above the box with the 4 red orb on character select screen before a mission. You will equip it on a character that will be able to use it when near ennemies. Like the Green Laser facility; you can upgrade it's power by spending some green cystals.