Recruit Requirement: Bartre must participate in Ch 31x. If he is a Level 5 Warrior or higher, Karla will appear above the arena. Make Bartre talk to her and if both survive a round of combat she will join. (Hector’s story only)
Oh joy! You have to use one of the worst units in the game. I don’t just mean use him, I mean he has to be promoted and at least at Level 5. Then they have to survive a round of combat against each other. What could possibly go wrong?
# 4 - Nasir (Path of Radiance)
Recruit Requirement: Defeat the Black Knight
Oh yeah! I’ll totally defeat the Black Knight. What a piece of cake. Right? Right? Yeah no. Fighting the Black Knight in Path of Radiance is a total RNG fest. I mean sure it’s optional, but if you’re trying to recruit Nasir you basically have to beat him. The only way to defeat the Black Knight that I’m aware of is to level up Ike, give him Aether, and then pray that it activates at least one time. At best Ike will have a 27 % chance of activating Aether and that’s assuming that his Skill stat reached its cap. There’s also a time limit to beating the Black Knight too so you have to activate Aether at least one time in the span of about 5 turns. Have fun with that.
# 3 - Klein / Tate (Binding Blade)
Klein’s Recruit Requirement: Appears as an enemy from Turn 5 (A) / Turn 8 (B), talk with Roy or Clarine
Tate’s Recruit Requirement: Appears as an enemy from Turn 7 (A) / Turn 10 (B), talk with Klein (or talk with Thany before and after Klein has been recruited (note that if you only talk with Thany after recruiting Klein, Tate will just become an NPC))
These two in particular can be pretty frustrating to recruit. They’re surrounded by their own personal armies who will try to kill you. The thing is that being surrounded by said armies wouldn’t be so bad if you wanted to just cut through the schmucks to get to these guys.
But Binding Blade dangles a carrot in front of the player’s nose in the cruelest way possible: If Klein and Tate are recruited and ALL of their soldiers survive by the end of the chapter you get an Orion’s Bolt and an Elysian Whip. Even if you don’t plan on using them to promote anybody that’s still a hefty chunk of change. These items take what would already be a somewhat annoying recruitment into a frustrating nightmare. As you can tell I replayed Binding Blade recently and this one hits pretty close to home.
# 2 - Sephiran / Lehran (Radiant Dawn)
Recruit Requirement: 2nd playthrough onwards *1, automatically if you viewed Ike’s memory scene in Part 4 Final-2, which is triggered by: 1. Deploying the Black Knight in Part 1 Final and 2. Making Ike fight the Black Knight in Part 3 Chapter 7 (and the Black Knight survives)
Oh look. Another Tellius recruitment based off of fighting the Black Knight. Except this time you have to do it earlier in the game. And you have to have already beaten the game once before you even get the chance to pull it off. Yay.
# 1 - Xavier (Thracia 776)
It’s the completely obvious choice that everybody saw coming a mile away. Yes, sadly Xavier deserves the reputation he’s gotten for having the most ridiculous recruitment requirement in the entire series. So how do you get this guy again? “Let the civilians talk to all 8 Lenster Armors near Xavier. Then talk with Leaf”. Did I mention that the civilians are NPC’s? That means that they’ll walk straight toward enemy units that are trying to kill them. Guess who are among these enemies? The Armor Knights that are supposed to be talking to said NPCs.
So you have to find a way of keeping them from suiciding onto your troops. Oh does that sound too easy for you? Ok then. If you start recruiting any of these Armor Knights then the ones you haven’t recruited yet will turn on their former allies. Guess what these guys usually wield? Killer Lances and Hammers! Which means that the likelihood of slaughtering their former allies is really high.
If that wasn’t bad enough there’s another ridiculous element to it all: You have to get specific NPCs to talk to specific Armor Knights. I repeat: “You have to get specific NPCs to talk to specific Armor Knights.” Does the game ever tell you which NPCs go with which Armor Knights? No! Of course not.
If any civilian dies before they talk to their specific Armor Knight you can’t get Xavier, but if they die after recruiting their specific Armor Knight then that’s okay. If any of these specific Armor Knights die before talking to their respective NPC then you also can’t recruit Xavier.
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