On my third playthrough, after finishing Quest 73 Search for Gantz and the tribute dialogue I remember the saddle making quest was suppose to trigger which would allow you to recruit Gaptahl, but I can't seem to get it to start even by Chapter 9 this time! Someone mentioned before that it requires Wil to be a certain level. I promoted him so now he's only level 36. Do you think that's preventing it? I hadn't had any issues with other events up till now. I have saves before starting each new chapter btw. Does anyone know what I need to do?

It's extremely likely to be Wil's level. Wil should be a minimum of lv37 in chapter 8 to trigger everything, if I recall correctly.

Level Wil up. Although you may have missed it by going to chapter 9.

Wow, that's weird. I haven't done anything in Chapter 9 yet, so I'll just go back to my Chapter 8 save and level him.

Yep that worked, thanks!