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If Farra hits, Sam goes to (5,10) and performs for Esther!

If Farra misses however, Sam still goes to (5,10) but performs Brock instead.

Can't quite remember where I've seen it, but there's a few that manage alright, there. Go the route of letting anyone play with anyone, but the expansions or whathaveyou being needed to play as a particular faction. So long as the extra stuff isn't too wildly unbalanced and the base is meaty enough, it's a fairly decent setup to keep things from splitting too hard.

The original Dawn of War series did something almost the opposite of that. Each game was standalone in single-player with all of the factions released up to that point available, but if you wanted to play multiplayer with the older factions you needed the older games installed.

Still need Edmund's equipment choices. I want to try and get Chapter 1 rolling tonight.

The general's fiancee spoke up for the first time.

: "Is that truly wise? What if something hears you?"

Up in the courtyard, soldiers and grooms bustled about preparing the recruits for departure. Horses (including a rather magnificent charger) were laden with supplies and bundled with weapons. The weapons were tied into their sheathes and scabbards, to keep them from being used right away; Eastland wasn't about to take too many chances.

Panicked grooms did their best to calm a pissed-off wyvern, while others carefully examined the wings of a beautiful pegasus for bent feathers. Standing close by, comforting the creature, was a young woman with dirty blonde hair. She and Eastland spoke to each other in low voices, then kissed before she mounted the flying creature. Clearly, this was the General's fiancee.

Once everyone had mounted up, orders were shouted to open the castle gates. Eastland took one final look at the group.

: "Ride hard. Stay alive. Do not fail. Go."

: "We won't let you down, sir. Hi-yah!" Porkins' charger reared up and then took off into the night, followed by the horses of the recruits. They were on their way.

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Dawn was only a couple of hours away when Porkins finally called a halt in a small forest clearing.

: "We'll rest here until the sun comes up. Sleep if you wish, just don't wander off too far. We're well outside Castle Konrad's regular patrol range, and anything could be lurking out here."

That's why you enable the "automatically exit mission when last alien is dead" option.

"Hmm, Eastland, Eastland. Ah. I know."

"Does name Bolferos mean anything to you?"

: "I believe my father may have mentioned that name in one of his letters, but that's about it."

Ghamina pulled her glove back on with a sour expression. Did you not think of that, you camel-brained morons?
She also made a note to seduce the man's fiancée just to get revenge.

"Now you are done mutilating the hands of a musician, I suppose I have to ask. What is this item, and what makes it so valuable?"

: "I will leave the exact description to my fiancee, as she knows more about it than I do. Suffice to say, it may hold the key to securing the Empire's interior at long last."