Final Fantasy VII Walkthrough for PlayStation Game Name: Final Fantasy VII Format: PlayStation Submitted By: Widge Fort Condor battle FAQ How to win the Fort Condor reactor battle the easy cost effective way: Always make sure you have a decent amount of money so that you can always buy the troops that you want. If you're low on cash, go to a small foresty patch near Junon harbour where you can fight decently hard monsters AND steal ethers off some of them. Selling ethers will always guarantee you a nice bit of money. First of all is your initial soldier placement. Look at the map of the fighting area, about halfway down you can see three pathways in which you can walk through. One on the left, one in the middle and one on the right. Place 1 Attacker for each pathway as far down the map as you can, start the battle and have them walk so that they would block the pathway from anything coming up the battlefield. Once in place, for each pathway, purchase a Fighter, Defender and a Shooter. Make each one of these walk to EXACTLY the same position as the Attacker that is there. Once everyone is in place, whack the speed right up and you should clear the field of normal foes as the come and attack you. When the Commander appears, he will always tramp up to the top via the middle path. Send all your remaining units from the left and right paths to the middle path units that you have. The Commander should then be decimated before he gets more than 1 hit out! That is the strategy at its most simple. You can expand on this by having 1 Healer stand behind each group of units on each pathway to repair anyone that gets a pasting. Also you can eventually position things like Fire Catapaults so that the projectile that they fire lands in the spaces in front of your units on each path. With this setup, its pretty much guarenteed that you'll win every battle including the battle for the reactor. You'll also win without really incurring any losses, so you'll get a decent amount of money which you spent on your units back again. New fights at the reactor tend to appear every time you make it through a major section of the game (i.e. getting across the ocean from Junon, doing the Gold Saucer area, getting across the mountains at Nibelheim). Going back not only gives you the chance to get some battle experience and money but the items you can win from the reactor battles are pretty decent too!