# ogre battle
**URL:** https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/ogre-battle/14987
**Category:** Video Games Forum
**Created:** [September 16, 2005, 1:38pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/ogre-battle/14987 "2005-09-16T13:38:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Evangelion](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Evangelion)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2005, 1:38pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/ogre-battle/14987/1 "2005-09-16T13:38:01Z")
when’s the earliest i can start buying uh fighter people
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### Author:  [@ClothHat](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/ClothHat)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2005, 2:42pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/ogre-battle/14987/2 "2005-09-16T14:42:56Z")
You should be able to buy fighters as soon as you have a knight leader.
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### Author:  [@BahamutXero](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/BahamutXero)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2005, 2:45pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/ogre-battle/14987/3 "2005-09-16T14:45:05Z")
Could you be a little more specific please? Which Ogre Battle game are you talking aobut?
For the moment I will assume you mean March of the Black Queen. Each leader type of character can “purchase” units for their army. Again, I’m not sure what you mean by “fighters” so I can’t help you much further. Generally speaking classes can recruit it’s lower form, so a knight can recruit a soldier, a valkyrie can recruit an archer, etc.
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### Author:  [@Evangelion](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Evangelion)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2005, 3:11pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/ogre-battle/14987/4 "2005-09-16T15:11:17Z")
Yes that’s what I mean. So how do i do that again? I haven’t played for a year and I’m a little rusty.
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### Author:  [@BahamutXero](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/BahamutXero)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2005, 3:15pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/ogre-battle/14987/5 "2005-09-16T15:15:16Z")
I think you select a “recruitment” icon, then you choose your leader, then a box will pop with the units your leader can recruit. I believe you could to this at any town, but I may be mistaken.
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### Author:  [@Sephiroth\_Katana](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Sephiroth_Katana)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2005, 3:49pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/ogre-battle/14987/6 "2005-09-16T15:49:13Z")
A unit can only recruit people when it is stationed in a town or Temple. If that is the case, you can select the unit and a Recruit option will appear among the various commands you can give. The specific classes of people you can recruit depend on the class of the leader of your unit. So if you want to recruit Fighters, deploy a unit that has a Knight as the leader, and send that unit to any town.
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### Author:  [@Evangelion](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Evangelion)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2005, 4:40pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/ogre-battle/14987/7 "2005-09-17T16:40:48Z")
I’ve cleared the Sharom District and I still haven’t gotten access to any recruitment icon…
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### Author:  [@Pierson](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Pierson)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2005, 5:19pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/ogre-battle/14987/8 "2005-09-17T17:19:13Z")
There is absolutely no way that was Eva in the first post unless she suffers from some form of recessive net-tard disorder.
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### Author:  [@BahamutXero](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/BahamutXero)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2005, 6:22pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/ogre-battle/14987/9 "2005-09-17T18:22:21Z")
The unit you want to recruit a character has to have room for it first. That may be why you don’t have access to the recruitment option.
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### Author:  [@Evangelion](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Evangelion)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2005, 7:34pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/ogre-battle/14987/10 "2005-09-17T19:34:50Z")
That was the exact reason. Dammit. Ogre Battle needs to explain things better.
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### Author:  [@Vorpy](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Vorpy)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/ogre-battle/14987/11 "2005-09-17T20:55:18Z")
The recruits are 2 levels lower than the leader recruiting them.
Some leaders recruit units that are not lower level forms of that leader. For example, wizards can recruit hellhounds and giants.
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### Author:  [@Sinistral](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Sinistral)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2005, 2:41pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/ogre-battle/14987/12 "2005-09-18T14:41:36Z")
Just make 3 mages that you can upgrade to sorcerers and liches, boost em with int items and stick em in front of the enemy castle to kill everything while you clear the map. It works wonders. Don’t bother with recruits, its a waste of time. You should have enough with what you started off with. If you send a unit to a town and he has a free spot in the party, you should have a recruit option available to.
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### Author:  [@Sephiroth\_Katana](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Sephiroth_Katana)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2005, 6:54pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/ogre-battle/14987/13 "2005-09-20T18:54:39Z")
> [@Sinistral](#):
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> Don’t bother with recruits, its a waste of time. You should have enough with what you started off with.
Yes, this is probably right. If you take the time to find all the special characters, you’ll automatically acquire more units than you need.
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### Author:  [@Sinistral](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Sinistral)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2005, 7:02pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/ogre-battle/14987/14 "2005-09-20T19:02:40Z")
Exactly.
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### Author:  [@Evangelion](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Evangelion)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2005, 7:06pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/ogre-battle/14987/15 "2005-09-20T19:06:24Z")
I’m sorry, but I cannot deploy a unit with soldiers named Picks, Shot, Balville, Voils and Lilian. I just get the giggles everytime.
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### Author:  [@Sinistral](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Sinistral)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2005, 7:14pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/ogre-battle/14987/16 "2005-09-20T19:14:29Z")
Berekunti was everywhere in OB 64.
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### Author:  [@Evangelion](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Evangelion)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2005, 7:15pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/ogre-battle/14987/17 "2005-09-20T19:15:21Z")
Now I’d love to have that in my lord’s unit. Very exotic. and erotic.
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### Author:  [@Arac](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Arac)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2005, 9:30pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/ogre-battle/14987/18 "2005-09-20T21:30:47Z")
> [@Sinistral](#):
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> Just make 3 mages that you can upgrade to sorcerers and liches, boost em with int items and stick em in front of the enemy castle to kill everything while you clear the map. It works wonders.
Stick a princess (Archer+ItemCrown) in their unit, too. It gives them an extra attack, which just gets ridiculous. I then usually put a Dragoon or Evil One in with 'em to beat the hell out of things at Melee and protect the Princess.
Also, get a really high Ali unit that moves in air (::coughCanopuscough:🙂 to take cities, it works wonders for your Rep.
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### Author:  [@Evangelion](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Evangelion)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2005, 9:36pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/ogre-battle/14987/19 "2005-09-20T21:36:52Z")
I know, but I don’t like Canopus. It’s a horrible name. It sounds like Cannibis. I don’t like Ed and Ralph, the guys he came with either. So I buy my own with much cooler names.
I don’t like getting uber powered though. Things are either too easy or too hard. I can never get an in between in this game, due to the bloody alignment function.
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### Author:  [@Sinistral](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Sinistral)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2005, 5:13am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/ogre-battle/14987/20 "2005-09-21T05:13:20Z")
There is no in between in OB if you get all the good units and use them well. It will however make the game very very long and probably lead to some frustrations as you make strategic errors that make you lose hours of work.
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