Serenoa’s father, Lord Symon Wolffort used his tactical combat skills to put a standstill to the war, acting as an intermediary between the two powerful nations and brokering a peace deal that would allow for the free trade of both salt and iron, with reasonable taxes on the two resources to opposing nations. Many years ago, Glenbrook, Aesfrost, and the religious nation of Hyzante, were embroiled in a fierce conflict called the Saltiron War across the continent of Norzelia, with Aesfrost controlling the continent’s supply of iron, Hyzante controlling the continent’s supply of salt (apparently a deeply important supply), and Glenbrook kind of just stuck in the middle of the two, geographically speaking.
Triangle Strategy, broadly, tells the story of Serenoa and Frederica, the former a fledgling lord from the Wolffort demesne within the nation of Glenbrook, and the latter a Rosellian princess from the Grand Duchy of Aesfrost.
Unfortunately, eventually, my strategy was undone by a battalion of enemies who were very resistant to magic, and it was back to the drawing board for me. Then it was time for the all-rounder to step up, using his electric attacks to shock any enemies standing in the water left behind by my previous two volleys of magic.Īs I said, it’s intensely satisfying when a strategy comes together like this, a triangular strategy (hey, I get it now) that effectively loops and makes me feel like a tactical god. Then, I’d utilise my fire mage, using her burning attacks to melt the ice and leave puddles of water across the battlefield. From there, I established a clever little loop, starting with my ice mage, who’d freeze the battlefield with his attacks. A shieldbearer would keep enemies from getting too close, while a healer and tactician would keep them alive, healthy, and buffed up. I decided I would go hard into magic and attacking from afar, so I built the rest of my team up around supporting and protecting my mages. Roughly halfway through the game, I had three elemental mages on my team: one for ice, one for fire, and one that was a bit of an all-rounder, with wind and electric spells on hand as well as a few nice support and healing spells. Let me give you a brief example of how this synergy all comes together on the battlefield. It feels a little bit like deck-crafting, in a way, and it’s very very satisfying to finally have your combinations click in a way that makes you feel powerful.
Some battles have specific gimmicks too for example, one battle has you reaching a specific point on the battlefield with a certain character, and another has you dashing around the map to defuse bombs before they go off, which means that the team you’re used to using might not get the results you want, leading to a delicious loop of creating, deploying, and revising different combinations. It’s a wonderful little system, and its general simplicity, combined with the absolutely bonkers amount of different combinations, gives you the option to really focus in on how you want to play. You’ll only be able to bring 10 (give or take a couple) characters into any given battle, so you’ll have to spend some time figuring out how synergistic each character is with others, and if or where a new character could fit into that configuration when you recruit them. Because every character is unique in how they use their abilities - each character has passive abilities that can change the way even shared abilities work - there’s a lot of variability in the way you play. For example, two spellcasters both have the healing spell Sanctuary, but other spellcasters don’t, and even other healers have different healing abilities that behave in different ways. What makes Triangle’s combat a little more unique is that there’s no classes or really much crossover between characters’ abilities at all each of the 20-odd characters you’ll come across and join to your party have almost a totally unique set of skills, with only one or two skills being shared between a couple characters.
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