You shall not pass!

After familiarizing myself with the new Base menu option I set out to the next chapter, or rather the chapter came to me...

The black armor army some how tracked down the old fort the party was staying in, and sent an endless army after us. Fortunately the fort has only 3 entry points and the objective was to only survive 8 rounds (not kill all attackers), but it still took 4 tries to manage it without out losing any of my party. My main strategy was basically place one of my strongest party members at each entry point so that only 1 enemy could attack at a time (and maybe ranged too), the trick was balancing who stood the best chance at which door.

During my last attempt I noticed that one of the attacking army was a unique female mage (not one of the generic models) with a name, and any one with a name is either a boss or a potential party member. So since she was not attacking any one I managed to clear a hole in the army enough to get the main character to talk to her, and sure enough she joined my side (turns out she was kidnapped by the army).

At the end of the fight some beast-people show up and chase away the last of the army, and they sort of joined my party (I can give them rough directions but not command them directly).

The last thing I did was go on to the next mission and where the group stumbles across another army base, and it looks like I'll be getting 3 more party members tomorrow...