engagement farming, pt. 13

We are back once again with Engagement Farming, our continued playthrough of Fire Emblem Engage. Last time we repelled an invasion; this week it's time for battle on the high seas! Let's begin. Two chapters tonight, which is a pretty comfortable pace. You may have guessed by now. Our first one is Leif's Paralogue, which I wanted because this lets me give Vantage to Panette and make her an unstoppable death machine; the second one is a story chapter. Leif's Paralogue is . . . interesting. The enemy has a lot of ballistas which do massive amounts of damage and have a 100% hit rate and a range that will require you to spend several turns in their range in order to get them in your range (barring warp and rewarp and rescue shenanigans). To discourage you from just baiting out their attacks until they're out of ammo, there's also a bunch of enemies with lootable items fleeing towards the exit. And as a bonus, behind Leif, there's two very beefy units with even more lootables behind him,…