Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together - This one map in the optional Forest Dungeon in Chapter 2 is seriously testing my patience. The map is filled with a combination of three undead, anywhere from two to four dragons, occasionally an octopi, and about three to four Fairies and Imps. Now the interesting thing about the map is that for some reason, the undead will occasionally fight with you, ignoring your party as long as you don't attack them and focusing on the other enemies which makes the fact the fight is usually my six party members against about nine to ten enemies on the map a bit more manageable, but it's difficult to figure out what causes this.

My issue is that the dragons hit hard, take little damage unless inflicted by Threaten, and are more efficient with killing my front line by ganging up on them than I am against them. The Fairy/Imp combo is weird as well since they can pepper me with arrows and magic from a distance and for depending on their skill load out, they either dodge everything that isn't augmented with a Skill ability with exasperating frequency, hit me as hard as the dragons with high critical hit rates, or simple make the battle a chore by inflicting Sleep and Poison on my party from a safe distance. There range is their real issue. The battle pretty much hinges on the undead enemies fighting with me since they draw the attention of the dragons and imps long enough for my party to set-up an effective assault but their Dragon Tail skill will generally OHKO anyone that doesn't have full health or isn't one of my knights. The scary part here is that the enemy level is the same as mine, so it's not like I'm fighting with a level handicap.

What's annoying me is that I have come close to winning this fight but it almost always turns into a Pyrrhic Victory for me cause I either have to decide to let one of my units die and lose their loyalty points and a Title I'm working towards, or I could resort to the Chariot mechanic (let's you rewind the battle back to change your decisions) which also screws me out of a title I'm working towards, and I'm just opposed to the mechanic in general since I feel it cheapens the whole gaming experience. I have spent most of this afternoon fighting this one battle over and over again. My last battle had me finish off the last of fairies with the aid of the undead, only to learn the battle doesn't end until they are dealt with as well, and sadly I had let one of my character left for the three turn incapacitated because I was under the illusion that I can win without killing the undead and I simply didn't have enough time to kill the undead without losing that unit.