This is the battle walkthrough for the mission Confrontation at the Palace (Golden Deer Route) in Fire Emblem: Three Houses (FETH, FE3H). Read on to find out about map features, what enemies you will encounter, and tips for winning!

Chapter 20 (Golden Deer) - Map and Overview

Chapter 20 (Golden Deer) - Enemies

Reinforcements

Once you are nearing the Throne Room, Edelgard will start to send in reinforcements from these 2 tiles. Enemies will come to each tile one by one. To stop them from appearing, you need one unit to step on each tile.

Enemy Stats

Loot

The most important dropped items are the door keys, which you will need in order to access Edelgard's throne room. These are dropped by Dorothea, Petra, and the Grappler in the garden. Additionally, there is one Talisman lootable from the Gremory in the garden.

Door Key

Essential for the map, as this is the only way to access Edelgard's throne room. There is no reason to not go for the one Petra holds, as she is closest, aside from the fact that she's difficult to face.

Talisman

It increases Resistance by 2. While useful especially because the Throne Room is filled with magic users, it might be a bit too out of the way to be worth it.

Chapter 20 (Golden Deer) - Chests

There are three chests, in the treasure room southwest of your starting position. There are no chest keys dropped in this map, so you either need to bring your own or have a thief with you.

Silver Gauntlets

Silver-grade hand-to-hand weapon. Do not bother unless you have a brawler/grappler/war master in your army. Even if you do have one, you can easily buy Silver Gauntlets so it may not be worth going all this way to get it.

Kadmos Shield

A shield that negates any anti-armor damage. Must have if you field a Armored Knight or a Fortress Knight, but not really worth it otherwise.

Giant Shell

Increases Defense by 2 points. Good if you want to make your magic users less squishy, or if you have an unarmed class or armored class, buff them up to be even more tanky.

Chapter 20 (Golden Deer) - Map Features

The player army starts at the central grand hall.

North of the grand hall is a singular staircase that leads into the throne room. To the west and east of the grand hall there are corridors.

South of the western corridor is the treasure room, while south of the easter corridor is a garden. The north of either corridor leads to a locked door protecting a small room where reinforcements pour out from, and these rooms lead into the throne room.

Likewise, the throne room, north of the grand hall, is locked behind a closed door as well.

Chapter 20 (Golden Deer) - Tips and Tricks

Engage Edelgard All At Once

Edelgard is seated in her throne, which buffs her greatly and heals her a lot. Do not engage her one by one, as she can just heal from it the next turn. Finish her in one or two turns by doing all out attacks.

Engage Petra with Ranged Units

Petra is an assassin, which means she's both hard to hit and has a good chance of landing critical hits. If she hits even your strongest melee units, there's a chance that she kills them instantly. Engage her with ranged and be wary of dealing with her, even if the predicted attack should kill her.

Enemy Reinforcements

Once you open the door to the Throne Room, Edelgard will commend you for getting this far, but then order her units to defeat you. From here on out, there will be enemy reinforcements coming from the northeastern room in the form of Imperial Soldiers (Warriors) and the northwestern room in the form of Agarthan Soldiers (Warlocks).

Dedue Holds the Line

In turn 3, Dedue will arrive from the northeastern room as a Fortress Knight. Soldiers who attack him will more often than not deal no damage, so just ensure none of the Mortal Savants or Gremories attack him. He'll do a good job holding off reinforcements from that side.

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Part 2 - Verdant Wind
Chapter 13: Hunting by Daybreak	Chapter 14: Protecting Garreg Mach	Chapter 15: Ambush at Ailell
Chapter 16: The Great Bridge Coup	Chapter 17: To War at Gronder	Chapter 18: Taking Fort Merceus
Chapter 19: The Enbarr Infiltration	Chapter 20: Confrontation at the Palace	Chapter 21: Stand Strong at Shambhala
Chapter 22: For the Freedom of Fódlan