5-γ6 Hour of Grief Normal/EX
Objective: Get Erma to the marked node
Failure Condition: Erma dies
Recommended Echelon(s): AR/SMG
Echelon Limit: 1
For this map, we need to escort Erma through a fair few death stacks to get her to where she needs to go. Thankfully, she can give us some good help by using her ability to split clones of herself off her echelon. These things function like Scarecrow's clones: they'll do damage to any enemy that attacks it, and are treated as if they're one of your own echelons, so enemies will go after them. This gives us some ability to bait things as well as take out some of the death stacks. The main thing we gotta do is avoid the Ares mech that's chasing us. Thankfully its pretty easy to outpace, so we shouldn't have much issue with it. So, with all that, let's get started.
Turn one will have us start with moving Erma to the left one node. Leave a clone of her to the node above her, so the Hydra attacks it. Move your echelon up one node, then swap with Erma. Keep moving over to the Cyclops with your echelon and take it out. Move up one node and then move Erma to the left two nodes. Swap with your echelon, then have Erma drop another clone above her, so there's two clones surrounding the Hydra. End the turn there.
On turn two, swap your echelon with Erma and then her clone, then move to the stationary Cyclops. Take it out then move to the left one node. Swap Erma with her clone, then move her to where the Cyclops was. Swap with your echelon, then have her drop a clone above her to bait the Hydra. End the turn.
On turn three, move Erma to the left one node, then up one node. Drop a clone to her left, then move your echelon one node to the left. End the turn.
On turn four, move Erma to the marked node. This should clear the map.
Video of me clearing this map
Author: Kazuki
Tags: Longitudinal Strain