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Part of wonders what would happen if a future GHB's winning condition was a defense map with aggressive enemies and the GHB unit you're fighting was completely invincible and one shots every unit including by ignoring Miracle. Oh, and they have Wings of Mercy either built-in to their weapon, as a B-skill, or as a busted Sacred Seal. So, if you don't kill the other enemy units immediately or can't avoid them, then you are screwed. Probably the worst example of game design was just demonstrated here: essentially, impossible winning conditions.

Ooo, Astrid would be most welcome as she's a bow knight. ("Most welcome" is such a weird, clunky phrase.) More sword flyers would be welcome like Elincia, Tanith, or someone else preferably a wyvern rider since it's kind of weird only having wyvern riders be axe (and green tome) users when they're capable of using lances and swords. They could add 4 more versions of Camilla and it would work since she's a Malig Knight with access to axes and Anima magic and you can reclass her as a Wyvern Lord letting her use lances. We already have 2 Camillas, so why stop? Big sister army, here we goooo! :p Seriously, though, if they did at least 3 more seasonal Camillas, then she'd cover all forms of magic. Spring Camilla is green magic, Summer Camilla is red, and Winter Camilla would be blue ice magic. Not sure about Autumn Camilla who could be a blue mage or they could have her use lances and there you go, five Camillas for all your needs.

I figure that because Tellius has voice acting, there might be some lines that are just stuff the characters say in cutscenes. Then again, I haven't played those games, so I don't know much about them.

Isn't Kieran an axe paladin? Duessel's a great knight... When I meant axe knight, I meant as in the armor knights like Draug, Effie, etc., not great knights or cavaliers like Frederick. Couldn't find Luchar, but all of those guys are mounted units who happen to be classed as axe knights...

Just to be clear, you're not giving Ursula Hone Cavalry, right? Someone else should probably run Hone Cavalry. If you already have someone else with Hone Cavalry, then Ursula running Hone Cavalry too could work as well.

Selena has a special quote, "I've had enough!", that is one of her critical quotes from Awakening while Laslow and Odin don't as far as I know. It's said in a different way, though; "enough" doesn't have the emphasis it did in Awakening. Ray Chase was probably told to emulate Gideon Emery as much as possible leading to him having the same critical quotes in Heroes and Awakening. That, and the whole candy thing with Gaius. This would explain Camilla as well since Misty Lee voices her rather than Paula Tiso. At the same time, it doesn't explain Hinoka, Laslow, or Peri who also have different voice actors. This would be much more difficult to find, but I wonder if what the other characters say for their specials are things they actually say in their games. Echoes and the Tellius games might be easier to find.

Draug being the only summonable sword knight probably has to do with why he's been given out twice. With lance and axe, you still get 2 options even if axe knights are rarer. With sword, your only choice is one sword knight out of a ton of reds or waiting for Zephiel's map to repeat. Might be why Gunter was made available as a special map unit and not someone like Jagen or Sully. Before Titania, we only had 2 axe cavaliers compared to sword's 3 at launch and blue's 4 at launch. It also doesn't help that greens continue to number the lowest in unit count. I hope a 3* axe knight is added some day.

I just remembered that Palla was a quest unit. I could see Mkv or nstyler posting 2 strategies with and without her for this since some people joined after her availability. Also, I could see some shenanigans happening with Spring Camilla running T-Adept and Gronnraven going under the blue mage and mounted archer assuming neither have Watersweep or Windsweep. Hmm, Reposition, Pivot, and Smite could allow you to get a green mage over there. Unfortunately, none of the special map or quest units have those skills except for Barst which might not be ideal if whatever green mage can handle all the 2 blues and archer leaving Barst mainly for the axe flyer since Lloyd's definitely going to destroy him. Edit: Reinhardt and a dancer thrown over the river. Let the terror begin for those poor schmucks.

@phineas81707 and @KongDude, From what I remember from playing Blazing Sword and from checking the wiki, it's not that she was good which isn't to say she's bad, it's that she was fast. In Heroes? She's the slowest blue flyer and the fourth slowest flyer over Michalis (26), Cherche and Spring Camilla (25), and Beruka (23). Florina's dependent on Darting Blow to outspeed things which is pretty pointless compared to Camilla, M!Corrin through Yato, and Rebecca who are naturally fast and in vanilla Camilla's case, negating Brave Axe's speed penalty. Florina's stats in Heroes don't make sense. It should be low HP and defense, average-ish attack, and high speed and relatively high resistance since apparently her sisters have higher resistance according to the wiki. If you tore out 8 HP points from her and slapped it onto her speed to give her 35 base speed, then she'd be more similar to her Blazing Sword self. 34 HP, 29 Atk, 35 Spd, 25 Def, and 34 Res... Yeah, that looks like Florina. Could take 2 points from defense and give it to HP if needed, but anyway. Basically, her stat spread should have been like Caeda, Clair, Camilla, and Shanna's not... a high resistance Beruka, but with less bulk. And then there's the fact she uses a Heavy Lance. In Blazing Sword, Florina's constitution was low, so something like a Heavy Lance of all things makes no sense as it would have penalized her speed which you might be able to get away with when she's a higher level or she got extremely lucky with her speed level-ups. Yes, constitution doesn't exist in Heroes or the more recent FE games, but it's Florina. With her stats, it makes no sense for her to go against knights of all things. She should have had a Sapphire or a Silver Lance.

I watched a Blazing Sword speedrun a couple hours ago. Florina's speed and general usefulness... Meanwhile, in Heroes... On another note, the mine glitch is hilarious.

Yeah, I get that, but I was wondering if people who were here when they debuted and could get multiple copies of them.

That reminds me, kind of weird you can't have multiple copies of Sacred Seals. The new set of quests gives us a HP +3 seal, but it doesn't add to it; it's the same seal. I can understand why, but they could have done something like you cannot have a team with the same seals e.g. if they gave us two Spur Defense +3 seals in two separate quest lists and you equip it on Draug and Zephiel, you cannot have both of them on the same team unless you remove or swap out the seal for something else.

I just saw a tomato get stabbed. Speaking of tomatoes, kind of weird how Oboro couldn't be Forrest's mom. Oh well... Weird double post.

I just saw a tomato get stabbed. Speaking of tomatoes, kind of weird how Oboro couldn't be Forrest's mom. Oh well...

Oh yeah, that reminds me about the diagram I saw today of how Sharena does her hair braid... thing. Whatever, it's this: https://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/fireemblem/images/b/b7/Sharena_Hair.png/revision/latest?cb=20170228071858. Reminds me of Lucina's hair diagram.

Aww, I expected Sigurd's theme to involve lyrics about being burned alive or something. Anna's theme, though. I love my gold grubbing RNG goddess. Also, that silent part was strange. All I saw was _____'s theme. Did the creator upload an unfinished video or something? :p

Reading about ships made me want to listen to sea shanties again. I wonder if Celica's boat maps would be better if shanties were sung in the background?

Argh! Someone's sheep daughter and a particular slow waifu are the bane of my existence for Lunatic 11-5. Guess who can't do damage to Genny? 3* Raigh and 4* F!Robin with Gronnwolf. Raigh can substitute for Sophia to kill Boey sort of... not really, I just tried it and it failed since his stupid Renewal activated and Raigh not having a +4 attack buff ruined it on the second enemy phase where Boey attacks Raigh. Anyway, but once Genny is involved, everything goes downhill. 4* Donnel leaves Genny with exactly 6 HP which a =Atk 4* Sophia does with +4 to her attack which is how nstyler's strategy works or Mkv how had Dragon Gaze activate on the poor thing. 5 more levels. 5! until Sophia is level 40 and hopefully being merged once does not screw up anything. So much envy to anyone with fast red mages or very high damaging ones like Sanaki. Also, @MaskedAmpharos, why do you call Genny a "sheep daughter"? Is it because of her fluffy hair which is like a sheep or lamb's wool?

I wonder if Oboro gets tired or sick of spinning around like that?

All this talk about red mages... ;-;

Clair's "My my!" is really amusing to me. I think it's her tone of voice. Man, I really want to make her into a flying red magic wall, but that's not going to happen considering my lack of resources and how niche it could be. On another note, I have no idea how I'm going to get a decent rank on team Tharja other than burning all the flags I have left -- should have 1900 flags by the time I get all the quests done. She's likely to not be in a losing position, so, I can't have a multiplier to help out, and I don't have Tharja to begin with, so, no 10% bonus.

I feel like waiting for Aversa might be the best option I have now considering my luck with red mages -- I've never summoned anyone but Sophia with bad boon/bane and recently, one Raigh. Assuming she is a GHB unit, then everyone gets her which means there's no RNG involved in whether or not I can summon her. Yay, a fool's hope...

I only have 24 orbs and my last 2 summons, the 2 Celica banner summons, only had blues and greys. Yeah, not feeling confident.

I'm assuming highlighted means they're the ones you're using or are level 40? Have you looked at the strategies from Mkv: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQf05yC7uYU, and nstyler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya5dFpRqfuk, for ideas? Both use Donnel, Olivia, and Sophia with Mkv not using F!Robin or any GHB unit and nstyler not having that challenge imposed. Have Cecilia or F!Robin bait Bruno. Maybe Nino can work, not sure. After that, bait Boey which red mage is preferred since his defense is really high, especially after Earth Boost kicks in. 4* Kagero can try to brute force her way with Poison Dagger -- she will kill Boey on the following turn --, but if she's not +Res or +HP, she will die to Genny who does 17 damage to a =Res Kagero. So, you'll need Vantage or something if you intend to let Kagero bait Genny and Mae. I think 4* Kagero can one-shot everyone, but Boey and Bruno if they're away from each other and not on defense tiles. There is the issue of whether or not the AI will move the way you want. Someone in Mkv's video said 4* Cecilia will not work as Mae will move away to the left side rather than to the right with Celica and Genny. I used a 4* -Atk, +Res Sophia and Mae did the same thing which lead to her being merged with a neutral Sophia from a quest way back since I'm that fed up with her. I'm not sure if 4* Olivia affected anything, but she might. Equipping a Ruby Sword might persuade Mae to follow her friends, though... This might not be a problem if you follow nstyler's strategy since you want Mae to move to the left side.

Clair is pretty much my only blue flyer with very good resistance and who shouldn't be doing anything else like Est whose high attack is better used with a Brave Lance and while Est has high resistance as well, it's like a secondary thing for her while stabbing people to death is the primary or Shanna whose default kit works well for zero investment. Florina... well... she's disappointing. My only Florina is +Atk, -Def. Let's just say she's fragile. Between Clair and Florina, I'd rather invest in Clair knowing her natural speed is high enough that I won't need to depend on Darting Blow or speed buffs. So, while I don't have the resources I'd want to spend -- hopefully we'll get more Sapphire Lance users who don't have amazing other skills --, Clair seems like someone that would be useful even in those niche situations like specific GHB maps, other special maps, etc., as a red check, especially as a red magic check. Also, personally, I've found great use in having Titania be a blue, especially blue magic, check who sits there, hits back, soaks up hits, and then unleashes Glacies on poor blues. Then again, she's green and she's fighting blues, so, a different story. It's just satisfying seeing enemies do single digit or zero damage.