Raskuja !

[Carlos Spicywiener]

This guy is standing in the battle field at the start of a mission. How to I interact with him? Is there a certain character that needs to touch him or something? Won the battle, figuring the Raskuja would interact, but it never did

[NF_Crenos]

This the mission where there's a swamp on the left side, and some plains on the right? He SHOULD offer you his services there for a few thousand gold and you gain him as a permanent unit. If not you still gain him a few missions later.

[Carlos Spicywiener]

Originally posted by NF_Crenos:

This the mission where there's a swamp on the left side, and some plains on the right? He SHOULD offer you his services there for a few thousand gold and you gain him as a permanent unit. If not you still gain him a few missions later.

No, this is mission 10 I believe. There is a friendly castle on the bottom left being defended by two green armies on a double bridge. There are a whole mess of bad armies on the bottom right. The Raskuja(with an exclamation mark) is just standing about 6 spots below our starting location in the north. We were presented with hiring this fellow about 5 chapters earlier but we did not have the 3000 gold he was asking for, so he just bailed

[NF_Crenos]

Yeah, he should join you on that mission, then. I believe you need the main character to interact with him by just going right next to him.

[Carlos Spicywiener]

Originally posted by NF_Crenos:

Yeah, he should join you on that mission, then. I believe you need the main character to interact with him by just going right next to him.

Ok. Ill try that when he shows up again. Thanks

[grognardgary]

He usually comes on to the map as you head south in the swampy part to kill the two closest enemies, as you complete your portion of turn one, He then offers his services for 3k gold. He is worth it as you get two medic a ranger and two others plus raskuja and his special ability so yeah worth every bit of that three k gold.

[abaoabao2010]

If you don't pay the 3k gold and he bails now, he'll join you for free very soon anyway, so don't sweat it.

Edit: also, I personally wouldn't pay the 3k gold. The skirmisher/ranger line are pretty bad, and so will be benched pretty soon. Medics are a lot cheaper than 3k gold. Raskuja himself is the only highlight, but that early in the game, I'd much rather get a damage focused mercenary than a backstab shield.

[grognardgary]

Originally posted by abaoabao2010:

If you don't pay the 3k gold and he bails now, he'll join you for free very soon anyway, so don't sweat it.

Edit: also, I personally wouldn't pay the 3k gold. The skirmisher/ranger line are pretty bad, and so will be benched pretty soon. Medics are a lot cheaper than 3k gold. Raskuja himself is the only highlight, but that early in the game, I'd much rather get a damage focused mercenary than a backstab shield.

The big thing isn't so much that it's the greatest squad ever assembles as it is that it start out five stron when most of the mercenarys you can hire at that point do good to get to four,

[Carlos Spicywiener]

His squad just appeared in my roster. lol.

[ulzgoroth]

Originally posted by abaoabao2010:

If you don't pay the 3k gold and he bails now, he'll join you for free very soon anyway, so don't sweat it.

Edit: also, I personally wouldn't pay the 3k gold. The skirmisher/ranger line are pretty bad, and so will be benched pretty soon. Medics are a lot cheaper than 3k gold. Raskuja himself is the only highlight, but that early in the game, I'd much rather get a damage focused mercenary than a backstab shield.

A mercenary squad leader nearly as good as Raskuja would be a unique costing more than 3 times as much, and not come with a team. No?

[abaoabao2010]

Originally posted by ulzgoroth:

Originally posted by abaoabao2010:

If you don't pay the 3k gold and he bails now, he'll join you for free very soon anyway, so don't sweat it.

Edit: also, I personally wouldn't pay the 3k gold. The skirmisher/ranger line are pretty bad, and so will be benched pretty soon. Medics are a lot cheaper than 3k gold. Raskuja himself is the only highlight, but that early in the game, I'd much rather get a damage focused mercenary than a backstab shield.

A mercenary squad leader nearly as good as Raskuja would be a unique costing more than 3 times as much, and not come with a team. No?

First of all, his squadmates sucks.

Secondly, while Raskuja is a pretty decent support focused leader, you most likely don't actually have the good units to fill his squad yet. You probably won't even have enough to fill your other story character's at that point, so it's much better to focus on getting those good units first.

And finally, you're not spending 3k gold for Raskuja, you're spending 3k gold to get him a little bit earlier. Like I said, he joins for free soon anyway. Not to mention more than half of the unique mercenaries are better than him and costs a similar amount.

To be fair, 3k gold down the drain isn't a big deal either way, so it matters little whether you hire him or not.

[grognardgary]

Originally posted by abaoabao2010:

Originally posted by ulzgoroth:

A mercenary squad leader nearly as good as Raskuja would be a unique costing more than 3 times as much, and not come with a team. No?

First of all, his squadmates sucks.

Secondly, while Raskuja is a pretty decent support focused leader, you most likely don't actually have the good units to fill his squad yet. You probably won't even have enough to fill your other story character's at that point, so it's much better to focus on getting those good units first.

And finally, you're not spending 3k gold for Raskuja, you're spending 3k gold to get him a little bit earlier. Like I said, he joins for free soon anyway. Not to mention more than half of the unique mercenaries are better than him and costs a similar amount.

To be fair, 3k gold down the drain isn't a big deal either way, so it matters little whether you hire him or not.

A the point in time you get him every body's squad mates are at best acceptable fortunately your opponents with a few exceptions are no better.

[Dare Wreck]

Apologies for necro-ing a discussion from last year, but I just finished this chapter and had the same exact question. Raskuja is just standing in the middle of the field with a little question mark icon in Chapter 10, and I couldn't figure out what to do to to interact with him. I placed characters next to him and tried to see if I could heal or attack him, but nothing worked.

It was very confusing, since I knew from this forum that he eventually joins you if you missed the earlier chance when you have to pay 3000 for his services. I then assumed he would jump in with a mid-battle cutscene at some point and join the action, but he never did before I finished the level. I don't recall him saying anything at the start of the battle too, to indicate what you need to do - he's just standing there on the screen.

It feels like that aspect of the level could have been better flagged as to what is supposed to happen.