How the hell do you people do it!?

I cannot beat the 2nd battle in this game. I've been trying for the last 2 years and cannot do it. So what am I doing wrong? just how the hell do you play FF Tactics?

Patience and strategy. Make sure that each player is playing thier respective role and don't rush into battle, let the enemy come to you. So let Ramza and the other squires engage the enemy while the chemists heal Ramza and the squires on the front line.

do you not know how to place your party members other than ramza? I had that problem. Use L1 or R1 at the placement screen if that's the trouble.

Yeah see, I don't get what that whole thing where it has Razma standing on a line of squares and you can place him on whichever square you want...I don't know what the purpose of that is. O_o

Thats where you place ALL of your team.....ALL 4 OR 5 of them.

YOU GET like 4 OR 5 guys...... IF you arent sure how to place all five on the squares ask us here we are VERY HAPPY to help!!

NOT JUST RAMZA.....Hope you arent only playing with Ramza....

Heh, I played that battle with Ramza on his own when I first played FFT, since I didn't know what the shoulder buttons did :p

Also, once you press L1 and R1 to scroll through your characters, you have to press O to put them down. Press X to remove them from the battlefield. I don't remember exactly, but I think you can press O to partially lift a character off of the battlefield to put them somewhere else.

If in doubt, put your generic units in the best places first and then put Ramza wherever, because in many story battles Ramza has a set position, usually a little away from where you put the rest of your units.

So I have more characters than just Razma on the 2nd battle in the game? The only character I know of is Razma...

Also, do I get to control these other charaters oir do they fight by themselves (like that other guy)?

You will control every member of your party that you put on the battle field from here on out. The only exception is guests in your party. Delita is one of those guests in the second battle, and you can't control him, just like you couldn't control any other characters at the beginning of the game.

But should there be more people fighting with me besides Delita?

YES

Here's a screen shot to help.
http://www.geocities.com/chadmonkey/fft.jpg
You will see on the left side towards the bottom of the screen that you can put up to five units on the field, "Capacity:5 " and that you don't have any units placed yet: "Remaning: 5". Everytime you put a unit on the field you will see the "Remaining: X" count drop by one. Use the "L1" and "R1" buttons, as signified onthe top left and right corners of the screen, to move through the available troops. When you come across a troop that you want to place, Press "X" to place the troop on the grid. Make sure that your cursor is over a vacant space, or you will replace the existing troop.

Hope this helps.

When you see that screen Push the L or R buttons to see the Other Characters.

You should have about 6 or 7 other characters besides Ramza.

Ok, that was my problem...all this time I didn't know I was supposed to press L1/R1 :p

Btw, kill Delita. He gives the other side exp when you can get it yourself (by killing him :P). Moreover, he steals exp from your party.

The only time when I found the formation thing useful is when your team starts with poison stats on them (the poison bomb). Just use stigma (sp?) Magic (monk's ability) and all will be cured. Monk must be at middle btw.