The Wooden Cavalry

The Wooden Cavalry

Location Fort Menedy New units Astram, Beck Boss(es) Grigas Previous chapter(s) The Ageless Palace A Traitor's Worth Next chapter(s) Land of Sorrow

The Wooden Cavalry (Japanese: グルニアの木馬隊 Grunia's Wooden Horse Corps) is the thirteenth chapter in Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & 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

Main article: The Wooden Cavalry/Script

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

Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light Shadow Dragon

Chapter Data
Conditions	Unit Data
Victory: Seize	Player	Partner	Other	Enemy	Third
Defeat: Marth dies	14+2	{{{partner}}}	{{{other}}}	20-1	{{{third}}}

Chapter Data
Conditions	Unit Data
Victory: Seize	Player	Partner	Other	Enemy	Third
Defeat: Marth dies	14+2	{{{partner}}}	{{{other}}}	17-1	{{{third}}}

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Character data

Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light Shadow Dragon

Characters
New Units
Astram Hero HP 24 Inventory Silver Sword Wyrmslayer Level 1 Enemy, talk to with Midia	Beck Ballistician HP 20 Inventory Thunderbolt Vulnerary Level 1 Visit the village
Returning Characters

Characters
New Units
Astram Hero HP 26 Inventory Silver Sword Wyrmslayer* Level 1 Enemy, talk to with Midia	Beck Ballistician HP 20 Inventory Thunderbolt Level 1 Visit the village
Returning Characters

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Item data

Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light Shadow Dragon

Items

Name Obtainment Method Wyrmslayer Dropped by Astram Ridersbane Dropped by enemy Thief (×2)

Items

Name Obtainment Method Wyrmslayer Dropped by Astram Hoistflamme Dropped by enemy Ballistician Ridersbane Dropped by enemy Thief

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Shop data

Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light Shadow Dragon

Armories and vendors

Swords Lances Axes Bows Tomes Staves Items Secret

Name	Cost
Iron Sword	320
Steel Sword	500
Rapier	900

Name	Cost
Lance	450
Silver Lance	1800

None

Name	Cost
Steel Bow	560
Bowgun	950

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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

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Enemy data

Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light Shadow Dragon Shadow Dragon (Hard-5)

Enemy Units

Name Class Lv # HP Str Mag Skill Spd Lck Def Res Cha Con Mov Inventory and Skills Grust Thief 5 2 22 5 3 11 0 4 0 7 Iron Sword Drops a Ridersbane upon defeat. Grust Ballistician 3 2 23 6 2 4 0 15 0 4 Stonehoist Moves to attack any player unit in range; moves east of the gate if no one is in range. Grust Curate 5 1 22 3 3 3 0 5 0 5 Mend -- Grust Ballistician 1 2 20 5 1 3 0 14 0 4 Thunderbolt The westernmost on moves to attack any player unit in range; moves west of the gate if no one is in range. Grust Ballistician 1 4 20 5 1 3 0 14 0 4 Arrowspate The westernmost one moves to attack any player unit in range; moves west of the gate if no one is in range. Grust Ballistician 1 4 20 5 1 3 0 14 0 4 Stonehoist The westernmost two move to attack any player unit in range; move west of the gate if no one is in range. Grust Ballistician 1 2 20 5 1 3 0 14 0 4 Hoistflamme The westernmost one move to attack any player unit in range; moves west of the gate if no one is in range. Grust Ballistician 3 1 23 6 2 4 0 15 0 4 Hoistflamme -- Astram Hero 1 1 24 8 14 14 0 8 0 7 Silver Sword Drops a Wyrmslayer upon defeat. Does not move. Grigas Ballistician 5 1 26 7 3 5 0 16 0 4 Pachyderm Does not move; stands on a gate, the chapter's seize point.

Enemy Units

Name Class Lv # Inventory and Skills Notes Grust Thief 7 1 Iron Sword • Ridersbane Prioritizes destroying the village. Grust Ballistician 3 2 Stonehoist Immobile. Grust Curate 7 1 Mend -- Grust Ballistician 1 1 Thunderbolt Immobile. Grust Thief 7 1 Iron Sword Prioritizes destroying the village. Grust Ballistician 1 3 Arrowspate Immobile. Grust Ballistician 1 1 Arrowspate Immediately begins moving unprovoked. Grust Ballistician 1 2 Stonehoist Immobile. Grust Ballistician 1 1 Hoistflamme Immobile. Grust Ballistician 1 1 Stonehoist Immediately begins moving unprovoked. Grust Ballistician 3 1 Hoistflamme Immobile. Astram Hero 1 1 Silver Sword • Wyrmslayer -- Grigas Ballistician 5 1 Pachyderm Immobile; stands on a gate, the chapter's seize point.

Reinforcements

Name Class Lv # Inventory and Skills Notes

Enemy Units

Name Class Lv # Inventory and Skills Notes Grust Thief 7 1 Silver Sword • Ridersbane Prioritizes destroying the village. Grust Ballistician 3 2 Stonehoist Immobile. Grust Curate 7 1 Mend -- Grust Ballistician 1 1 Thunderbolt Immobile. Grust Thief 7 1 Silver Sword Prioritizes destroying the village. Grust Ballistician 1 3 Arrowspate Immobile. Grust Ballistician 1 1 Arrowspate Immediately begins moving unprovoked. Grust Ballistician 1 2 Stonehoist Immobile. Grust Ballistician 1 1 Hoistflamme Immobile. Grust Ballistician 1 1 Stonehoist Immediately begins moving unprovoked. Grust Ballistician 3 1 Hoistflamme Immobile. Astram Hero 1 1 Silver Sword • Wyrmslayer -- Grigas Ballistician 5 1 Pachyderm Immobile; stands on a gate, the chapter's seize point.

Reinforcements

Name Class Lv # Inventory and Skills Notes

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Boss data

Main article: Grigas

Boss data

Shadow Dragon & 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 Ballista Stone

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.

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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	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

Gallery

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  CG image displayed during the intro for Shadow Dragon

References

← The Ageless Palace • ← A Traitor's Worth •	The Wooden Cavalry	• Land of Sorrow →