Final Fantasy Hacktics

I was holding my breath there.  To be honest I was really shocked when I lost the first round.  I hadn't really considered how squishy my Summoner was, giving her Auto Potion to keep her alive was so hard countered by that big damage one shot.  I have a feeling it's going to be my downfall at some point in this tournament.  I absolutely love my Wizard, she is just so perfect and does exactly what she's built for very effectively.  Actually everyone on my team functions well the way they are designed, it all came together well.  My team has good survivability despite the achilles heel, but it's an even bigger problem since my Summoner is my other revival unit.  When both the Summoner and Mediator die, that's it I'm done for.  Going up against Barren in the next round is going to be scary too since I suspect I'm going to run into similar problems.  Fortunately with a little luck some statuses can go my way, but I think it's really going to come down to luck and Barren will have the edge.

Oh boy I was practically having a seizure with anticipation when I noticed the match was up.  And well to be honest going into the match I was especially worried about Charm, but I didn't see a single charm oddly enough.  It was quite the haste/slow war, and I'm really fortunate to have won the status battle.  I'm glad Preach kicked in as it's not something the AI is usually willing to use, but I think the way I built that Paladin worked out even better than I had planned in terms of how the AI used it.  Overall I'm very pleased to see how well my team was able to maintain control and effectively sandbag.  I was able to shut down that Archer for the most part with the 1-hit KO Cyclops'.  Sleep is overpowered, and my frogs and don't act got just the right amount of usage.  I think everything just came together really well.  I guess on the downside my team tends to layer on tons of status before it gets around to finishing people off, and that can give them a chance for a comeback or just needlessly drag on the match.  But I would rather err on the side of caution in this case.

DomieV, I think your team was really good.  I love your time mage, that Paladin is pretty tough too.  I feel odd about the chemist though, and while the archer isn't bad she was just a bit too weak to do much in this match.  Unfortunately for you Defense Up and Projectile Guard didn't factor in since my team was a magic focused team.  I think more than anything it was simply a bad match up for you.  Hopefully you do better in the underworld.  You have good survivability, status, and damage, so I think you'll do well.

A couple noteable quotes from Barren:

"It's not a good day to be Arthur right now."  After sleep landed on the slowed, poisoned, don't acted, frog.  This really made me chuckle.
"Wow, Preach Magic Attack Up Moogle for 306, that is pretty impressive actually."  It was really cool to see that happen in the match.