Fort Condor

Fort Condor is involved in several small side quests which you can complete throughout the game. Check out the Fort Condor guide in the Side Quests section for more information.

This section of the walkthrough pertains to Disc 2 when Cid ventures from North Corel to Fort Condor in search of the Huge Materia.

Enter Fort Condor and speak to the man blocking the pathway. He will request assistance with defending Fort Condor from Shinra attacks. Agree to help him and then follow him up the path.

Speak to the man sitting at the table once you reach the interior of the Fort and listen to his story about the locale. Climb the ladder on the left side and proceed upward.

Watch Room

You can take a look out the window in the Watch Room to see the Condor perched outside atop the reactor. Speak to the man standing on the lookout for more information about strategy, hiring soldiers, and how to conduct the actual battles.

You have had the opportunity to conduct the Fort Condor operations ever since your first trip to Junon, but at this point in the game, your characters have become strong enough that the boss you will fight for losing is a pushover.

You can also receive an excellent reward for defeating the boss, and you can save money by not spending gil on expendable combat units.

With that in mind, you should avoid hiring and placing any soldiers and wait for the enemy to reach the base and engage you in combat. Your team will have to jump into combat to save the Fort against a boss-type battle against CMD. Grand Horn.

CMD. Grand Horn
Boss Battle

Boss Battle against CMD Grand Horn at Fort Condor

HP: 8,000
Reward: Imperial Guard

This boss only has 8,000 HP, which means it will go down quite easily. Keep yourself healed up, as it can use Quake magic against your entire party. It will use one final “Grand Attack” before it dies.

Take the doorway outside the ‘Watch Room,’ which leads up to the “top of the mountain.” Pick up the Phoenix Materia lying on the ground. Speak to the old man at the table inside the mountain again to pick up the Huge Materia.

Bahamutype-0
Achievement/Trophy

To obtain the Bahamut ZERO Materia later on in the game, which will reward you with the Bahamutype-0 Achievement/Trophy as well, you need to pick up several items, including each of the four Huge Materia with this one being the second out of the four.

You should restart your game if you were unsuccessful in defeating the CMD. Grand Horn boss at the top of Fort Condor, as there is no way to obtain this Achievement/Trophy unless you retrieve this Huge Materia.