Information about how to recruit Ignatz in Fire Emblem Three Hopes.
In Fire Emblem Three Houses you could recruit many characters simply by getting specific stats and skills high enough. Once done, they’d be impressed enough to realize that studying under you would suit them better than petty considerations such as life-long friendships, national loyalty, familial duty or even religious conviction.
Unfortunately characters in Fire Emblem Three Hopes aren’t quite as malleable - some characters will join your faction as you progress the Main Questline, usually due to story contrivances entirely outside of your control. The rest, however, must be met in battle and “persuaded” to join you… often by lumping them on the head enough times to realize that they’d be better off defecting than decomposing.
To recruit characters in battle, you’ll need to activate a “Persuade” Strategy before the battle begins.
Character Recruitment Strategies¶
In the case where a character can be persuaded to join you, this “persuasion” effort is achieved via the deployment of a Strategy. When you start a battle in which a character can be recruited you’ll first have to pick from a variety of available [Strategies]. You can find more information about Strategies on their own page, but for the purposes of recruiting characters you’ll be interested in any “Persuade [Character]” Strategies, which you must select prior to the battle to ensure you can utilize said Strategy(ies) during the battle. Deploying Strategies in turn require you to expend Strategy Resources, a currency gained by completing [Side Quests] during the chapter leading up to the Main Quest where enemy characters can be recruited.
During battle, when the character you wish to recruit spawns you must activate the Strategy to persuade them by entering the battle menu before you defeat them. If you defeat them without activating the Strategy - even if you selected it before the battle - they will die and you will not be able to recruit that character for the rest of the playthrough! Once the Strategy has been activated, the area where the Strategy is in effect (usually where the target character spawned) will be surrounded by a purple glow. Merely defeat them in this area and you’ll recruit the character.
How to Recruit Ignatz in the Scarlet Blaze Route¶
(1 of 4) Go capture the western stronghold when told
During the Main Quest in Chapter 6, you will be able to deploy the Persuade Ignatz Strategy by expending 10 Strategy Resources. You should have a total of 50 Strategy Resources if you capture all of the regions prior to beginning the Main Quest. The first main objective of the battle is to secure a route to Ladislava, who will be in the center of the map by herself. This is done by capturing the three strongholds right in front of you at the start. Once you have captured one of the strongholds, you will be given a side mission to get the stronghold to the west of there.
Seize the western stronghold and it will force Ignatz to appear in the little spot just northeast of it. It is at this time that you should receive the popup to initiate the Strategy to Persuade Ignatz. Trigger it and then defeat Ignatz to get him on your side. Note that if you don’t go to that western stronghold, Ignatz will appear to ambush you with ballistae upon capturing all three of the above strongholds and reaching the gate that leads to Ladislava. You can also trigger the Strategy here, then go over to defeat him like normal.
Accept the Golden Deer reinforcements at the start of Chapter 10 to recruit Ignatz.
How to Recruit Ignatz in the Azure Gleam Route¶
At the start of Chapter 10 you’ll be given the choice whether to recruiit several members of the Golden Deer to your team. No tricks, no complexity, if you pick the option “Recruit them to your team.” you’ll immediately gain the services of Lorenz, Ignatz, Raphael and Marianne. If you pick “Send them away to the rear.” you’ll pass on recruiting them for the rest of the playthrough.
How to Recruit Ignatz in the Golden Wildfire Route¶
Ignatz is one of the characters you will have from the beginning, if you decide to choose the Golden Deer near the beginning of the game.
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