Yeah I know I posted this elsewhere, but:
Posted by BA on TRC
Hey tell stories not only about the game, but the drama of getting the game.
I did not realize it was coming out till Tuesday. I called all the gamestops in town (about a dozen) but they did not have enough to even cover their preorders, but they said they would have them today. I called this morning and asked them to hold one for me. Then I asked my wife if she would pick it up while I was at work. She not only got it, she pre-orderd Black 2 for me.
When I got home, I got to play it for a half hour, but then I had to go to my daughters choir concert. My 8 year old son asked if he could start over and play it while I was gone. When I came back he begged me to let him play a little more because he had got 8 pokes and defeated two cities. I am such a sucker for the sweet little child, I said I would let him play for two more days.
Jun 22nd, 2012 6:44:14 AM


Onething I noticed last night is positioning is important. If you are higher than your opponent, you have an advantage. Also if you can attack them from the side or especially from behind you have an advantage. Some move, like ember, can only be used from one space away, so if you can pen in an ember user, they are helpless. I am not sure if you can use a range move like ember over your own team mate. I will have to try that.
Also you can move thru your teammate, but can't stop on the same square.


I got a lttile confused on marching from one of your own castles vs attacking. I kept trying to march to an enemy castle, but you just click on it and choose the battle option, then it asks you where you want to invade from. You can take units from multiple locations.

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Jun 22nd, 2012 8:00:02 AM


Here is some more info my son told me this morning - he got all the in game tips, so I will try to relay them.
He said that you have to defeat a trainer in 4 turns to recruit them.
Most moves you have to be next to the poke to use, but flame wheel you start out one square away and you move up as you use the move.
Ember as mentioned you have to be one square away and you stay where you are after using the move.
Human's abilities can be used ones a battle. The jumpluff girl has an ability to heal some damage for all team pokemon once per turn.
Does anybody know if you are stuck with the same started poke - evee for the guy, or can you restart and ge another started poke?
The instructions said that trainers are better with certain type of poke, but I have not really looked into that too much.
Have not evolved yet or caught second pokes yet. Apparently you can only use one poke in battle, but having a variety to choose from would be nice.

OK so we started out with the hormal kingdom of Aurora and we conquered (not necessarily in this order) Ignis - fire, Greenleaf - grass (duh), Fontaine - guess what - water, Viollight (a dislexics mightnare) - Electric, and Chrysalia - bug.
Now we have to fight Pugilis fighting type which is the hardest kingdom so far.
To make things worse, it is a capture the flag. You have to eaither defeat them all or capture the flags and hold them for 5 turns. I recommend trying to defeat them. The arena has a raised square in the middle with an entrance walkway on either side. If you are on the edge of the square and someone hits you they will push you off. Then you have to walk around and re-enter the square.
We are trying to level up our flying type pokemon as they are the only ones with a type advantage - no psychic so far.

We conquered Pugilis. I will tell you my strategy later.
Strategy and positioning are very crucial in this game!

OK so we had a capture the flag battle to take Pugilis, the fighting castle.
They had a fighting square platform that had a flag in each of the four corners. If a pokemon is on the edge and someone hits you, you get pushed off and have to go around the arena and up some stairs to get back in the battle. Eachside had a plank to cross over to the arena.
So my strategy was to use two starlies (which unfortunately had quick attack - Normal vs wing attach flying which is what staravia gets) The starlies could fly over the dge of the arena, sothe were tactically important. I had two fire pokemon with ember which can be in the second ranks and attack over the first rank. Then I had a shinx and a bidoof on the front line.
The four non-flying pokes stood in the middle of the arena and the goofy computer pokes went straight to the flags in the corner. So my strategy was to use my fire pokes to attack the pokes not in the corners and used my front line or birds to knock the pokes on the corners off. In this way I whittled away at the other team and defeated the pokes, then just went to the corners and captureed the flags.
Next you get to attack the Terrera kingdom, but when you go to attack them, the leader refusesto battle you. Then they sneak attack you, so it is back th the pugilis arena and the same strategy, only this time I used water ranged attackes againstthe ground pokes. it was easier.
Position is very important. You get more damage attacking from behind or attacking from above. Also if you position yourself right, you can sometimes use two pokes to attack their one poke and create a bottle neck for them.

One thing I like about pokemon conquest vs pokemon rangers is you link wiht pokes by pressing the A button repeated at just the right time vs making circles on the touch pad - big improvement IMO.

We just go thru the poison kingdom - flying is last of the four - how hard is it?

Flying has the best music by far, which helps, but it's really annoying when you're defending, so don't lose it after you get it.