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Helman[]
Timing[]
In general, there is no forced timing to attack Helman. In fact, the player doesn't even need to attack Helman directly, as the Demon Army will eventually begin attacking the humans, and Helman will be the first to fall. Helman will not attack the player unprovoked.
However, in terms of story, the reason Rance became king of Leazas was so he can take revenge upon Helman (and to rescue Sill). Also, in terms of strategy, the Helman plotline offers a few decent generals whose story scripting might be messed up or be unavailable when the Demon has taken over Helman.
Two or three weeks after attacking Helman, they will send a ninja called Freya to your territory, who will poison food supplies in your cities and cause you to lose a lot if not all of money. To prevent this, visit the cities that Maris mentions at the beginning of the turn. After 3 encounters with the spy, buy Ninja Birdlime from Pluepet. You can recruit her by picking the option of paying her twice as much as Helman.
Sill and Soul are kept in the prison of Volgo Z. At the end of year 3 August 3rd week, Soul will be taken away. At the end of year 4 January 3rd week, Sill will also be taken away. There will be CGs in those situations, and if the player captures Volgo Z afterwards, there are also a few CGs. For those looking to complete all the unhappy endings and all the CGs, they should just wait around to capture Volgo Z and then load back to a previous save game.
Allying with Patton or not is an important choice to make. If you ally with him you will save the trouble of fighting him later, conquer two Helman territories and get 4 commanders. Patton, who's really good at dungeons, Hunty, probably the best mage you will have in a while, Hubert, and Freak, who serves later on the Demon Army war to defeat a Dark Lord and unlock Rona's happy end.
If you don't ally with Patton you will lose many potentially great commanders but it allows you to get Aristoles, who by himself is a good strategist commander and is needed for Sheila's happy end, and Rolex who's a great Knight unit with one of the best skills in the game.
If you don't care about Sill and Soul, but still don't want to miss the other Helman events, keep in mind that the Demons will begin its assault around the end of year 4. Also, saving Sill or not changes the ending completely.
There's the easy way, and there's the hard way[]
The hard way to assault Helman is via the mountain pass of the Helman-Leazas border. You may attack Rog A and Rog B through the mountain pass. The Helman army will always choose to fight in the streets, which limits combats to 320 in Rog A and 620 in Rob B. Additionally, only one unit of troops may march through the mountain pass at one time, whereas the defending side can have up to 4 units. Rog A and B are defended by the Helman First Army, which has 9 captains too. All these factors make the direct assault very challenging, though not impossible. It's even doable to get through in one single week, by repeatedly attacking Rog B many times with different generals but still not recommended really. Specially if it's a first playtrough and you are still getting used to the Game's mechanics.
The good news is, for Helman to attack you, they have to march through the same mountain pass too. Ie, they can only send one unit across the mountain at a time, and you can fight it with four of your units. The two cities on the player side of the mountain, Maunes and Scale, both have battle field size 210, making them extremely defensible.
The easy way to assault Helman is via Shangri-La. From there, you completely by-pass the one-unit limit of the mountain passes. Additionally, it has a direct path to Volgo Z, which will only be guarded by one unit of Helman troop who will run away quickly. Thus through Shangri-La, rescuing Sill and Soul will be extremely easy. Shangri-La is also connected to Sudori 13, though that is much better guarded.
In order to open the path from Shangri-La to Volgo Z, you must first H Shyariera, then pick the new "Deathcoco's Secrete Room" option in Shangri-La. Afterwards, you will be presented with two options, pick the bottom one to open the path. For the optimal play chart, this is already included in the Expansion section on June 2nd week. The bad thing of this option is that will waste at least a whole month to take over Shangri-La due to different events. You could even get late to rescue Soul if you were slow enough.
The Fights[]
All of the main Helman Armies will disband once the player take over the capital city.
The First Army[]
The Helman First Army is the largest army. It patrols most of the border cities with its 9 units. However, when the player conquers Rog B, there will be an event causing Arch Glad to be very weakly defended by the General Lelyukov. Defeating him will cause the First Army to disband, and the cities under its protection will become defended by civilian militia. If attacking through the mountain pass, the defenders will fight to the death.
It is still possible to recruit Lelyukov if attacking through the mountain pass, but it requires you to defeat the defenders when Laumiere shows up so that Lelyukov is not killed. This is possible without RNG only with a sufficiently powerful general that they defeat all 4 enemies in the first battle (when Laumiere always appears), or by weakening Laumiere's team only a little bit in the first battle, then using RNG to get your stronger general to face him in a subsequent battle when Lelyukov does not appear. Obviously, if you have a general like Kaijuu prince, this can be done very easily, but even in early game, Barres can very realistically do this, ideally with a Napoleon or Shingen writing, but just a Leazas Holy Sword will do.
The First Army is the only army that will cross the mountain to attack Leazas territory and will constantly generate 3000 strong unit of Oddses. They are very weak and generally retreat in 2-3 turns of fighting.
The Fifth Army[]
The Fifth Army is based in Sudori 10, but once it start fighting you, it will attack any of your holdings on Helman territory. Defeating its general, Rolex, will cause the army to disband.
The Fifth Army will start attacking the player if the player attacks Sudori 10, or approximately 3 months after the war against Helman began.
The Crusader Army[]
The Crusader Army is based in Path, but will attack anywhere in Helman territory. They will start attacking if you take too long to conquer Path. It will resurrect infinitely. To stop them, the player must take over Path and levy there. If you take over Path before they start attacking, they will not appear.
The Fourth Army[]
The Fourth Army guards Sudori 13, Pon, and Kosakku. If you defeat it's general, Neo, first, the army will not disband, and will fight til its last captain. However, if you first defeat the second-in-command, Cream, then defeat Neo, the entire Fourth Army will disband, leaving just civilian militia to defend the territories.
Patton's Rebellion[]
From Sudori 13, if the player choose to attack Sudori 17, there will be a choice to either ally with Patton's forces or fight them. Choosing the top choice will give you 4 captains and 2 territories, placing you just 2 stops away from the capital city of Lang Bau. You can also ignore them, but once you have taken Lang Bau, Patton's forces will start attacking you.
Defeating Patton will cause his entire force to disband. Defeating the other commanders will not kill them.
The Second Army[]
Allying with Patton will cause the Second Army to start attacking you.
The Third Army[]
The Third Army guards Micro Grad as well as the capital city of Lang Bau. If you take over Micrograd before Rance visits the Kalar Forest and stations guards around it, the Third Army's general, Minerva, will be able to outfit his unit with Crystal Swords, which greatly increase their damage. If Minerva gets the crystal swords, you can levy in Lang Bau afterwards to get it as a treasure. If Minerva does not get the swords, Maha will fight to the death to defend Lang Bau (no special scene for this). Minerva will not get the swords if you kill Maha in battle before taking over Micrograd. Minerva is incredibly hard if she gets the crystal swords but the treasure might be worth it.
Defeating Minerva will not kill her. She will escape and come back with the remainder of her army later. The only way to kill her is to take over Lang Bau, then Rance will have a 1 on 1 duel against her. Warning : Do not use Rance to defend after the duel, because he will have zero troops.
Final Resistance[]
Once you've taken the capital, all remaining Helman territory will fall under the Leazas flag. However, 5 of the western Helman cities will resist you and rebel even if you have conquered them before. They are all civilian militia and can be easily defeated. It is also possible, by using a "smart" captain to fight the militia once, to use a brutal tactic to win without fighting. Using this method leads to another CG with Sheila. You need to H Shiela once to discover that she is a drug addict, fight a rebel city once, then the next time you attack, a event will popup and ask if you want to use the brutal tactic. The city you attack will then surrender without a fight.
The People[]
Generals
Civilians
Elena Flower[]
- Recruitment: See her start of turn events, then visit the location indicated by Maris when she finds Elena.
- Harem: Gives 7 experience when summoned in the harem.
Events
- After capturing Pawn and defending Pawn from attack, there will be 4 start of turn events with Elena Flower. (Exact trigger unconfirmed*.)
- Rance will then have an event asking Maris to find her, and in a subsequent event Maris will share her location.
- Using the city command in the city where she is located will recruit her into the harem.
- (*If all the Helman armies are getting obliterated before the events can trigger, consider defending Pawn against Mineva and focus firing on her unit, as it'll always regenerate after being destroyed while attacking. Keep the rest of her army alive once she's joined the frontline.)
Destiny
- Fortune: Recruit her into the Harem.
- Misfortune: Do not recruit her into the Harem.
Amiran Berkov[]
- Recruitment:
- Do not attack Archgrad when it is weakly defended.
- Defeat Lelyukov in battle and capture him, putting him in prison.
- Then levy in Archgrad when you conquer it. She will be found and can be added to the harem.
- This also serves as Lelyukov's recruitment.
- Harem: Gives 5 experience when summoned in the harem.
Events
- After Log B is conquered, there will be an event where she is planning to get married in Archgrad.
- During this turn Archgrad is vulnerable and weakly defended, but taking advantage of this will render finding Amiran impossible.
Destiny
- Fortune: After Amiran marries, capture and release Lelyukov. Then conquer Helman.
- Misfortune: Recruit Amiran.
Ruberan Tser[]
- Recruitment:
- After rescuing Sill, conquer the Ancient Ruins before the capital of Lang Bau.
- Visit Ruberan in the Leazas Castle dungeon three times.
- Harem: Gives 5 experience when summoned in the harem.
Events
- Conquering the Ancient Ruins before Lang Bau will lead to fighting Ruberan's forces.
- Doing this after Sill has died will lead to Ruberan's death.
- Otherwise she will be captured and put in the Leazas Castle Dungeon.
- Conquering Lang Bau first will place the Ancient Ruins under Leazas control, and Ruberan will disappear.
- Exploring the Ancient Ruins dungeon with Merim after Ruberan has disappeared will activate an event with both of them when exiting the dungeon (Finishing the dungeon is not necessary for this).
- If Rance has Chaos, exploring the Ancient Ruins dungeon will enable a new command at the city for a CG.
- Exploring the Ancient Ruins dungeon with Merim after Ruberan has disappeared will activate an event with both of them when exiting the dungeon (Finishing the dungeon is not necessary for this).
Destiny
- Fortune: Explore the Ancient Ruins dungeon with Merim Tser while Ruberan is there.
- Misfortune: Recruit Ruberan into the harem.
Sheila Helman[]
- Recruitment: Conquer Lang Bau.
- Harem: Gives 5 experience when summoned in the harem.
Events
- Conquering Lang Bau will lead to the rise of rebellions in the Western cities in Helman.
- Summoning Sheila in the harem and deploying a general against the rebels will result in an event.
- This will give a new option when attacking rebel cities, making use of Sheila to avoid a battle.
- Summoning Sheila in the harem from the second time forward will give three options: Just talk, have normal Sex, or use drugs.
- If Lang Bau was conquered without allying with Patton, and both Patton and Aristoles remain alive three turns after taking Lang Bau, then Aristotles can be recruited in an event with Convert Tax.
- This will remove Sheila from the harem, and disable the new option for taking Rebel cities.
Destiny
- Fortune: Recruit Aristoles Calm and keep him alive.
- Misfortune: Summon her in the harem twice and use drugs.
Katyusha Bosch[]
- Recruitment: Defeat her in battle.
- Harem: Gives 5 experience when summoned in the harem.
Events
- When defeated in battle, she will be added to the harem.
- If Rolex Gadras is defeated, she will disappear, along with Saulnia Benz.
- After both Katyusha and Saulnia have been summoned in the harem once, a new threesome option will be available when either is summoned.
- Taking this option when Sill is not available will result in the Drugged ending.
- The option to visit the DX Association and trade both of them for a Dress also becomes available at this point.
- Buying clothes for Sill from Pluepet at any point locks this event.
Destiny
- Fortune: Defeat Rolex Gadras without capturing her or Saulnia Benz first.
- Misfortune: Trade Katyusha and Saulnia for a dress for Sill and the DX Association.
Saulnia Benz[]
- Recruitment: Defeat her in battle.
- Harem: Gives 5 experience when summoned in the harem.
Events
- When defeated in battle, she will be added to the harem.
- If Rolex Gadras is defeated, she will disappear, along with Katyusha Bosch.
- After both Katyusha and Saulnia have been summoned in the harem once, a new threesome option will be available when either is summoned.
- Taking this option when Sill is not available will result in the Drugged ending.
- The option to visit the DX Association and trade both of them for a Dress also becomes available at this point.
- Buying clothes for Sill from Pluepet at any point locks this event.
Destiny
- Fortune: Defeat Rolex Gadras without capturing her or Katyusha Bosch first.
- Misfortune: Trade Katyusha and Saulnia for a dress for Sill and the DX Association.
Freya Idun[]
- Recruitment: Levy in the territory where she's located while owning the Ninja birdlime.
- Harem: Gives 3 experience when summoned.
- Sabotage Effect:
- May Assist in Battle: Hubert
Events
- After being recruited by Helman, she'll head to Leazish territory and each turn will be in one of the cities from Leazas. Levying the territory where Freya is in will lead to an encounter with Freya.
- The territory in which Freya is located is randomly decided at the end of the prior turn. Thus reloading the turn will not reset it.
- Even if Freya has an event in a city during Helman's turn, that does not necessarily mean she is located in that city for the levy event.
- The only way to know which territory to levy is through a very low priority start of turn event with Maris, so avoid other start of turn intensive events like Asuka's events with Mill Yorks or prepare to levy cities randomly hoping to find Freya.
- After three encounters with Freya, there will be an option to buy Ninja birdlime from Pluepet.
- Encountering Freya after buying the item will finally capture her.
- If enough time passes without Freya being captured, she will poison the food in multiple cities and severely curtail Leazas' national budget.
Destiny
- Fortune: Do not capture Freya.
- Misfortune: Send her on a ninja maneuver to Helman such that she is captured.
Anasel Caspora[]
- Recruitment: Levy in Golak after building an S&M Tower.
- Harem: Gives 3 experience when summoned in the harem.
Destiny
- Fortune: Do not recruit Anasel.
- Misfortune: Summon Anasel in the harem.
Merci Archa[]
- Recruitment: Levy in Golak.
- Harem: Gives 4 experience when summoned in the harem.
Destiny
- Fortune: Do not recruit Merci.
- Misfortune: Summon Merci in the harem.
Stessel Romanov[]
Unrecruitable. Associated with Helman.
Events
- After conquering Lang Bau he will have a series of events activated by levying cities.
- These are: Laurengrad; Ikoma; Great Wall of Helman A
- Unconfirmed: To activate the next event, this should be done before the end of LP 4.
- Once the Monster Realm phase starts, there will be a series of events culminating in Stessel's demise.
- These are: Laurengrad; Ikoma; Great Wall of Helman A
Pastel Kalar[]
Unrecruitable. Associated with the Kalar Forest.
Events
- Visiting the Kalar forest, available through the Helman territory of Laborie, will lead to an encounter with Pastel, the recruitment of Somita, and two sex scenes.
- On the third visit she will inform Rance that she has gotten pregnant and given birth to Reset Kalar.
- After several months Reset will have grown up.
Destiny
- Fortune: Allow Reset to grow up.
- Misfortune: Do not visit the Kalar forest.
Optimal Play (Helman)[]
| Y/M/W | Actions |
|---|---|
| 3/08/3 | (Start-of-Turn Event) Asuka and Mill event Volgo Z -> Force Captain -> Kentaro -> Talk (Keep Talking Until He Get Rance Attack) Kill the first Helman soldier, ignore archer |
| 3/08/4 | Captain -> Kentarou -> Talk (Until He Get Rance Attack)
Rockearth -> DX -> Top (Visit) (Aoi) Log B -> Force
Harem -> Soul |
| 3/09/1 | Captain -> Kentarou -> Talk (Until He Get Rance Attack) Nagasaki -> Force Hanna -> Shinoda's House Defend Log B, defeat Lelyukov: 2nd choice (Join Me) , then 3rd choice (Imprison) |
| 3/09/2 | Bottom (Suppress Poor) Search (Levy) cities for the spy (keep reloading) Captain -> Kentarou -> Talk (Until He Get Rance Attack) Osaka -> Force (2 or 3 if you were lazy. Use Miki Nuke to kill Nobunaga) -> Top |
| 3/09/3 | SECOND IMPORTANT SAVE POINT FOR CG
(Start-of-Turn Event) Asuka and Mill event You will get 1 CG if you let Nero alive and he will kill Cream Construction -> Girl Officer Academy |
| 3/09/4 | Search (Levy) cities for the spy (keep reloading) Captain -> Kentarou -> Talk (Until He Get Rance Attack) Pawn -> Force Harem -> Kaoru |
| 3/10/1 | Search (Levy) cities for the spy (keep reloading)
Micrograd -> Force |
| 3/10/2 | THIRD IMPORTANT SAVE POINT FOR CG
Search(Levy) cities for the spy (keep reloading) -> Bottom (Get Freya) (Need to use range to take out last 2 to get Katyusha and Saulina) |
| 3/10/3 | THIRD IMPORTANT SAVE POINT FOR CG
You can Try to get Ruberan First for Extra 2 CG or go straight to Lang Bau you need to meet ruberan in dungeon 3x after you conquer Ancient Ruin (but if you want to go for Ruberan you can't follow this guide) Lang Bau -> Miki Nuke to clear defense |
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