Final Fantasy Tactics Walkthrough

This battle isn't too tough if your characters are leveled up nicely and can take enemies out quickly with a high damage-per-turn. You do start at a slight disadvantage, as all of the enemies have the high ground on you and the first turn is likely to involve your group taking a fair bit of ranged damage with less ability to reply in kind. Start by keeping the party stage right on the formation screen and keeping them together for the next turn or two, splitting them later to pursue the right side of the map.

Start by taking out the Ninja and the Thief, because their speed is high and they'll get a lot of attacks if you don't rid yourself of them quickly. After that, take out the Archers. The Knights won't be problematic because they're so far away and don't have any long-range attacks. If you just take out each enemy systematically, this battle will be easy, even though they have seven characters to your five.

In the chaos that ensues, Dycedarg gets poisoned from the cloud which Balk recently spread, and Prince Larg is afflicted alongside. Seeing that the poison is not fatal, Dycedarg takes a further step and assassinates Larg (much to his brother Zalbag's surprise), then orders Zalbag to put the knife in one of the fallen soldiers' hands so that they can wash the scenario away as the actions of a low-ranking traitor.