Welcome, tacticians! Triangle Strategy isn’t just a game of tactical battles—it’s also a deeply layered story filled with morally difficult decisions, route splits, recruitable characters, and consequences that echo across your campaign. This guide is a full breakdown of all the branching paths in the game, including how they impact gameplay, which characters you can recruit, and—most importantly—how to unlock the elusive true ending.
Warning: This guide contains major story spoilers. While it avoids spoiling specific late-game endings, it will cover key characters, battle maps, and decisions in detail. You’ve been warned.
Chapter 3 – First Route Split: Heissand or Aesfrost?
The first meaningful choice comes when you’re asked to escort either Hyzante or Aesfrost back home. The outcome seems minor, but each path recruits a different character:
- Aesfrost (Moral): Recruit Rudolph, a powerful trap-setting archer.
- Hyzante (Utility): Recruit Corentin, an ice mage capable of shielding allies and controlling terrain.
The routes reconverge shortly afterward, so you’ll eventually see both sides through replays. Choose based on your desired early-game utility.
Chapter 7 – The First Major Divergence: Defend or Surrender Roland
Here’s where things begin to matter.
- Protecting Roland (Moral): Fight Avalora in Wolffort Castle. Hard battle.
- Surrendering Roland (Utility): Fight Landroy, a powerful long-range archer, in a siege-style map.
But there’s more: If you defend Roland and use the fire traps, you’ll lock yourself out of the true ending route. If you don’t use them, or choose to surrender Roland, you remain eligible.
Chapter 8 – Betrayal and Ambush
Depending on your Chapter 7 path, Chapter 8 splits again:
- Protecting Roland leads to:
- Accept or reject aid from House Tellior. Either way, they betray you. Accepting leads to an ambush across a sprawling vineyard map; rejecting means Tellior and Rufus attack Wolffort.
- Surrendering Roland leads to:
- A choice to ally with Aesfrost or betray them. You’ll either fight alongside Avalora or against her, facing Booker or Sorsley’s forces.
Maps and alliances differ, but both paths reconverge in Chapter 9.
Chapter 9 – Sorsley’s Salt Smuggling
A pivotal moment:
- Help Sorsley (Utility): Leads you to Svarog. In Chapter 10, you must reveal Roland’s identity to unlock the true ending later.
- Expose Sorsley (Moral): Triggers a tough ambush by Booker and assassin units on elevated terrain.
Chapter 10 – Arena or Investigation
If you helped Sorsley, Chapter 10 offers two results:
- Reveal Roland’s identity to Svarog (Liberty): Required for the true ending.
- Remain silent: You’re forced into an arena battle against Rufus (again).
If you exposed Sorsley, you conduct a Phoenix Wright-style investigation:
- Gather enough evidence: Attack Sorsley’s encampment and expose him.
- Fail to gather evidence: Face Sorsley in a trial by combat in the arena.
Chapter 11 – The Roselle Decision
After becoming one of the Saintly Seven, you’re told to surrender the Roselle:
- Protect the Roselle (Liberty): Required for the true ending. Leads to one battle where you fight Tellior and Rufus.
- Force the Roselle to return (Utility): Two battles, one against Jerome and another versus Tellior and Rufus. Longer but still manageable.
Chapter 12 – Exploration-Only Chapter
If you protected the Roselle, Chapter 12 is a puzzle chapter. You must explore thoroughly and find the Salt Crystal to avoid a game over. There’s no combat, just deduction.
Chapter 13 – Triple Split: Blow Up the Dam, Boats, or Bridge
This is Triangle Strategy’s first three-way route split:
- Utility – Blow Up the Dam (Benedict): Easiest path. Sneak into Tellior’s domain and fight Sycraes. Light combat.
- Liberty – Sneak Into the Castle and Destroy the Boats (Frederica): Moderate difficulty. Fight Erika and Thalas on boats.
- Moral – Blow Up the Bridge (Roland): Brutal map. Sandwiched between Erika and Thalas.
Each leads to a different Chapter 14 map:
- Utility: Easy boss-kill map vs. Erika and Thalas.
- Liberty: Fight Avalora in a brutal castle defense map.
- Moral: Fight Avalora again on a boat map (easier than castle).
Chapter 15 – Recruit Milo, Travis, or Trish
Another major route split:
- Return to Castle Wolffort (Utility): Required for the true ending. Recruit Milo, defend your father from ambush.
- Expose the Royalists (Moral): Defeat Patriatte.
- Help the Roselle Village (Liberty):
- If Roselle were surrendered: Recruit Travis.
- If Roselle were protected: Recruit Trish.
Each map has unique units, and the bottom paths end quicker via boss kills. But only the Wolffort route leads to the true ending.
Summary: How to Unlock the True Ending
To unlock the true ending in Chapter 17, you must complete all of the following:
- Chapter 7: Do NOT use fire traps in Wolffort Castle.
- Chapter 9: Help Sorsley smuggle salt.
- Chapter 10: Reveal Roland’s identity to Svarog.
- Chapter 11: Protect the Roselle.
- Chapter 15: Visit Castle Wolffort and recruit Milo.
Doing all five unlocks a fourth route in Chapter 17: “There must be another way.” This is Seranoa’s route—the so-called true ending path.
Chapter 16 – The Worst Chapter (But Necessary)
Regardless of your choices, Chapter 16 takes you into a massive, tedious map in the mines. You’ll defuse bombs while battling waves of reinforcements. Even on easy, this map drags. It’s a pain—but unavoidable.
Chapter 17 – Choose Your Ending
This is where the final route split happens:
- Roland’s Ending (Moral)
- Benedict’s Ending (Utility)
- Frederica’s Ending (Liberty)
- Serenoa’s Ending (True Route) – only available if you met all criteria above.
Once you choose a path here, you’re locked in for the rest of the game. Each route explores a different ideology and ends with its own final battles, conclusions, and consequences.
Final Thoughts
Triangle Strategy isn’t a game you finish once. It’s a story designed to be replayed, dissected, and fully explored. With dozens of meaningful choices, recruitable characters, and multi-layered chapters, no two journeys will feel exactly the same.
But if you’re aiming for the full picture—and that coveted fourth route—follow the path above. Let your choices build toward something greater.
Good luck out there, and may your convictions guide you well.
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