Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones/Chapter 5: The Empire's Reach

Chapter 5: The Empire's Reach
	Objective	Defeat the boss		Units Allowed
	New Members			9
	Boss: Saar
		Class	Knight	STR	11	DEF	11
		Level	8	Skill	7	RES	3
		HP	30	SPD	3	Move	13
		Weapon	Javelin	Luck	4	CON	4

Items

Name	Location
Dragonshield	Village to the southeast (from Tethys)
Armorslayer	Village to the east
Secret Book	Village to the northwest
Torch	Village to the north (from Amelia)
Guiding Ring	Reward; received after the chapter if all villages are safe

Shops

Armory
Name	Uses	Cost
Slim Sword	30	480
Iron Sword	46	460
Steel Sword	30	600
Slim Lance	30	450
Iron Lance	45	360
Steel Lance	30	380
Iron Axe	45	270
Steel Axe	30	360
Iron Bow	45	540
Steel Bow	30	720

Shop
Name	Uses	Cost
Fire	40	560
Lightning	35	630
Heal	30	600
Vulnerary	3	300

Defeat the Boss

You have to bench four of your units this time. Again, Colm isn't very useful, and you might as well give all of Moulder's stuff to Natasha, as she has to fight in this battle. At the start of the fight, send Seth down to the village in the southeast corner, then have him and one other unit deal with the bandits north of there. Split your party into three from there. Have Eirika go to the middle staircase and wait. Have Garcia, Franz, and Lute go up the left staircase and take out the enemies in that street, as well as the Archer on the other side of the wall. Have them wait near the armory, and stock up on equipment if necessary. The rest of your units should lure out the Soldier and the two Fighters in front of Joshua, weaken them on the counter-attack, then finish them off on your next turn. Recruiting Joshua isn't hard once you've taken out the soldiers. Natasha won't get attacked. Just go put her near him and select the talk option. At this point, you should have had Eirika take out the Fighter next to the vendor and the soldier in front of the village. Visit the village while Joshua takes the brigands near the arena out. Send the left-side party east to visit the village and attack the enemies around Saar. Once Saar is the last enemy, you can have Joshua visit the arena with his killing edge. Chances are he'll do better than he did before the chapter began. (Note: Because of the prominent arena in this chapter it may be viable to do exp grinding in it, this is quite easy with an emulator's "Save State" option, alowwing you to save at any time. With this you simply grind in the arena, saving before each battle, reloading in case a unit perishes. This is a long and tedious process but an easy way to get many units to level 20.)

Boss: Saar

Equip the armorslayer to Joshua and the rapier to Eirika. Have them both attack Saar on the same turn, and he should go down against the two effective weapons. If not, have Ross waiting to make the final blow.