The Wooden Cavalry

The Wooden Cavalry

Location Fort Menedy New units Astram, Beck Boss(es) Grigas

The Wooden Cavalry is the thirteenth chapter in Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light and Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon. It is one of the five chapters that were cut from book 1 of Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem.

Plot

Marth and his cohort begin the march towards Altea. They are faced with the Wooden Cavalry, Grust's artillery regiment. Marth elects to charge in and silence them from up close before they can do too much damage. After the battle, Nyna notices Marth is troubled; he explains that a commoner told him that Grust is divided about the war against Altea, causing him to doubt his own feelings of hatred towards Grust and Gra.

Chapter data

Chapter Data
Conditions	Unit Data
Victory: Seize	Player	Other	Enemy
Defeat: Marth dies	14+2	n/a	17-1

Character data

Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light Shadow Dragon Characters New Units Astram Hero HP 24 Level 1 Enemy, talk with Midia Beck Ballistician HP 20 Level 1 Visit the village Returning Characters Characters New Units Astram Hero HP 26 Level 1 Enemy, talk with Midia Beck Ballistician HP 20 Level 1 Visit the village Returning Characters {{{content3}}} {{{content4}}} {{{content5}}} {{{content6}}} {{{content7}}} {{{content8}}} {{{content9}}} {{{content10}}} {{{content11}}} {{{content12}}} {{{content13}}} {{{content14}}} {{{content15}}}

Item data

Items

Name Obtainment Method Wyrmslayer Dropped by Astram as an enemy. Hoistflamme Dropped by a Ballistician. Ridersbane Dropped by a Thief.

Shop data

Armories and vendors

Swords Lances Axes Bows Tomes Staves Items Secret Name Cost Steel Sword 875 Name Cost Steel Lance 980 Silver Lance 2200 Name Cost Steel Axe 700 Name Cost Steel Bow 770 None None None None {{{content9}}} {{{content10}}} {{{content11}}} {{{content12}}} {{{content13}}} {{{content14}}} {{{content15}}}

Enemy data

Shadow Dragon Shadow Dragon (Hard-5) Enemy Units Name Class Lv # Inventory and Skills Notes Grust Ballistician 1 4 Arrowspate -- Grust Ballistician 1 3 Stonehoist -- Grust Ballistician 3 2 Stonehoist -- Grust Ballistician 1 1 Hoistflamme -- Grust Ballistician 3 1 Hoistflamme -- Grust Ballistician 1 1 Thunderbolt -- Grust Thief 7 1 Iron Sword -- Grust Thief 7 1 Iron Sword • Ridersbane -- Grust Curate 7 1 Mend -- Astram Hero 1 1 Silver Sword • Wyrmslayer -- Grigas Ballistician 1 1 Pachyderm -- Reinforcements Name Class Lv # Inventory and Skills Notes Enemy Units Name Class Lv # Inventory and Skills Notes Grust Ballistician 1 4 Arrowspate -- Grust Ballistician 1 3 Stonehoist -- Grust Ballistician 3 2 Stonehoist -- Grust Ballistician 1 1 Hoistflamme -- Grust Ballistician 3 1 Hoistflamme -- Grust Ballistician 1 1 Thunderbolt -- Grust Thief 7 1 Silver Sword -- Grust Thief 7 1 Silver Sword • Ridersbane -- Grust Curate 7 1 Mend -- Astram Hero 1 1 Silver Sword • Wyrmslayer -- Grigas Ballistician 1 1 Pachyderm -- Reinforcements Name Class Lv # Inventory and Skills Notes {{{content3}}} {{{content4}}} {{{content5}}} {{{content6}}} {{{content7}}} {{{content8}}} {{{content9}}} {{{content10}}} {{{content11}}} {{{content12}}} {{{content13}}} {{{content14}}} {{{content15}}}

Boss data

Boss data

Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light Shadow Dragon Ballistician Level 5 Movement 4 Experience 52 Stats Max HP 26 Speed 5 Strength 7 Luck 0 Skill 3 Defense 16 W. Level 10 Resistance 0 Inventory Drops Pachyderm -- Weapons Sword Lance Axe Bow Tome Staff Normal Hard-5 Ballistician Level 5 Movement -- Stats Max HP 26 Speed 6 Strength 7 Luck 0 Magic 0 Defense 16 Skill 3 Resistance 0 Inventory Pachyderm Weapon Levels -- -- -- -- -- -- Ballistician Level 5 Movement -- Stats Max HP 40 Speed 9 Strength 15 Luck 0 Magic 0 Defense 16 Skill 5 Resistance 0 Inventory Pachyderm Weapon Levels -- -- -- -- -- -- Note: Boss stats in five-star Hard Mode are rounded to the nearest whole number. {{{content3}}} {{{content4}}} {{{content5}}} {{{content6}}} {{{content7}}} {{{content8}}} {{{content9}}} {{{content10}}} {{{content11}}} {{{content12}}} {{{content13}}} {{{content14}}} {{{content15}}} {{{content3}}} {{{content4}}} {{{content5}}} {{{content6}}} {{{content7}}} {{{content8}}} {{{content9}}} {{{content10}}} {{{content11}}} {{{content12}}} {{{content13}}} {{{content14}}} {{{content15}}}

Strategy

This section details unofficial strategies that may help with completion of the chapter. This may not work for everybody.

In this chapter you get Astram and Beck. Astram's base stats are utterly awful; they are comparable to Ogma and Caesar's average stats at level 10 unpromoted, making him less valuable than the swords in his pack. If you want to recruit him, you must deploy Midia, that sub-par Paladin you picked up in Chapter 12. Beck, on the other hand, is a powerful Ballistician. Anything that can be said about Jake applies to him, and the two can be used interchangeably or even in tandem. There are mercifully no reinforcements this chapter. Finally, note the many Arrowspate Ballisticians lurking about; Caeda and Minerva should be grounded or even benched for this chapter.

Since the three Ballisticians in the bottom row are all immobile, a cavalry rush can put them out of commission safely and efficiently. Armored units will be particularly effective in drawing out the enemy's artillery fire, allowing your squishier units a chance to zip in and pop them. Marth can also make for the village to recruit Beck, who comes with a Thunderbolt that does effective damage against enemy artillery. If you kill the guy with the Hoistflamme on the bottom row with someone with a full inventory and then transfer said Hoistflamme to the convoy, Beck can immediately take it from Marth and use it to good effect.

Once the initial rush is dead, you can start advancing by using Beck's Thunderbolt to wound the enemy Ballisticians and Jake to finish them off (or vice versa). Be careful with the enemy packing his own Thunderbolt, or you'll quickly find yourself short one artilleryman. Once he's dead and it's just down to Grigas and his three cronies, you can send in a General to help mop up.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology and notes
English	The Wooden Cavalry	--
Japanese	グルニアの木馬隊	Translates to "Grunia's Wooden Horse Corps"
Spanish	Artillería de Grust	Artillery of Grust
French	La Légion de bois	The Legion of Wood
German	Hölzerne Reiterei	The Wooden Cavalry
Italian	L'artiglieria di Grust	Artillery of Grust

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References

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