Nanima

@Sasori Oh yeah that blue flier is so annyoing and evil. Looks like you were able to deal with her well enough though. Merric is a tough one, though i loved when Marth jumped in to defend him from the axe cav. Ike surely proved himself tenacious as well. Luckily you were able to hold him down well enough until Silas managed to finish him off. Excellent clear, and from that side of the map as well! Thank you. I did like Zinnia, though I can see why she may disappoint in certain areas. haha;; Not with her theme though. Yeah, it greatly simplified things. I was surprised myself at Reyson's strength. He did get a lot of boosts to help him out though and Sakunyan helped with her dagger. Just need the right tools for the right job and even a heron can beat up Ike. haha @Landmaster Very cute theme clear. Seeing Sakunyan sneak in with Leon from the side looked adorable somehow. I am surprised the blue flier didn't let Soren go first to try and get at S!Leon, but I suppose neither was able to survive long enough. Definitely satisfying to see the flier go first. I am impressed by Leon's performance in general here. He did pitch in a lot of the time, while his picnic self came for the blue armour with a vengeance. Ike took a bit longer to whittle down, but the teamwork was too much for him at the end. Well done! You sure can't. haha I am glad I was able to pull it off and make even a small map such as this look fun to clear. That's always my goal.

One of the last clears I still need to do with my third team. Can't believe I am actually catching up to myself. haha @mampfoid @Landmaster @mcsilas @Sasori @Robert of Normandy @ruruo @Azuris @daisy jane @kirauza343 Music: Battle!Lorekeeper Zinnia - from Pokémon ORAS Went into this with the intent to lay on the pain(TM). These guys were just lined up too perfectly for it. Maribelle certainly didn't disappoint and the rest of the battle could be better described as an extended clean-up. Reyson got to shine by both taking and dishing out in turn. Now Ike knows how Oliver must've felt, though I hope it didn't break Reyson's wing this go around. haha;;; Luckily the annoying blue flier stayed out of range for the most part. The healer stretched the fight out for another round, but wipe-out by Sakunyan was simply inevitable. Hope you enjoyed!

Hmm, If I had my way, I'd probably S-support people like Felix and Dimitri (while F!Byleth goes after Dorothea). Seeing as Intsys is very unlikely to allow for gay shipping that does not include the avatar, I'll just have to go with making the right (not-)breeding pairs between characters I plan on recruiting so far, so... DimitrixEdelgard (should be a reasonable possibility) F!BylethxFelix or Dorothea (if the leaks are correct. Being bisexual gives me a hard time choosing.) SylvainxIngrid (Unlike others in this thread, I usually go for the lighthearted jokster that's usually a redhead) AshexAnette or Bernadetta DeduexMercedes (I like to pair mature, motherly girls with gentle giants) LinhardtxLysithea (Mostly a random thought, but I think she'd push him to work on things outside his crest obsession. Also sticking nerds together, with Linhardt's general laidback attitude making me comfortable about pairing him with the still a bit childish Lysithea)

Out of all the non-seasonal bonus units, they chose only the ones I didn't have. I am really lucky I pulled a Summer!Laevatein today. (Yes, I know it's not a big deal, but I prefer starting out with a bonus unit rather than awkwardly flail about until I get the 5* reward unit). I'll likely go with a full Laevatein team + Fjorm. As for seals, Spur Atk/Spd and Atk/Res are simply amazing to me. The latter especially. Armored Blow is eh, but can probably have it's uses. Overall, this TT looks pretty great.

Had to spent only 5 orbs before this adorable girl showed up: +Res -Def, which is a bit unfortunate, since I had thought to have her replace Spring!Camilla as a flying Raven Mage. Oh well, I'll think of another build for her~ Really glad I didn't have to spend many orbs, since I'll be going for Yune (and Towel!Hinoka if she is there) next week. With Bunmilla, Bride!Sanaki, Summer!Laevatein, and hopefully Yune I'll never need another green tome flier again. ever. xD

Laevatein is adorable (though Atk art still looks weird), but I really don't need another Green Tome flier, especially since I am also gunning for Yune later this month. Her skills are amazing though. The rest I really don't care about. Ylgr beihg the TT reward is fine by me, though I'll probably just use normal Laev as my bonus.

Thanks! Yeah silly raventomes can be so annoying, but they are no match for my kitty. I actually forgot I had miracle equipped, so I thought I would have to reset when the archer approached OG!Sakura, but, well, it was a miracle. haha She didn't need her bonds either to perform a counter-kill. Reyson is so happy to be a fighter now. Sakunyan had to tank a bit more than before, but she still managed to pull through. Thank you! Thanks. Indeed, there is no weapon against them. That would be nice, but also put me in quite a dilemma. I hope my orbs will be ready for her. This was my dream scenario when I put together Team Stars, so everyone kicking ass is just great. Glad you enjoyed!

So it's finally time to get back to this... @mampfoid Yeah, she is just way up front, gung ho as ever, so it's easy to shoot her down immediately. Pegasus Knights shouldn't be diving at groups of archers.. Neat to see Velouria out there. She immediately impressed with her strength. Seeing Airzura being marched up first scared me before I remembered this is a one turn clear. haha Cynthia really should have packed a different lance to protect against B!Roy, but I doubt it would have helped her in the end. Congrats! @Sasori Not afraid to charge your guys right on in either I see, though it didn't seem good for Siegbert and Soren's health. These non-heroic dudes had to fight at a disadvantage quite often here but kept holding on. Soren was probably happy to challange all of his anger into killing that red mage at the end. Looks like your boys here left poor Cynthia alive for juuust a bit longer. Didn't let her show off anything more, but oh well. It's impressive how far away from his team Brave!Roy was and still held his own. Galeforce is truly great. It was definitely satisfying to see the red mages do manage to do so little this go around. The last mage wasn't too bad actually since Takumi needed no boosts to survive him and the battle was almost over. But yeah, not too many threats for the Takus. @kirauza343 Thanks. I was glad about that too, since he had me a bit worried. Another awesome clear for your girls! Cynthia being wiped with magic is fun to look at. It was really impressive to see the enemies go down before they had even shown up completely. Total overwhelm there. @Landmaster Congrats on both Nah and Yarne coming home! Poor Cynthia has to get beaten up by her friends, but I am sure they'll make up after this. Nah certainly showed everyone what a beast dragon she is. Yarne sliding around was fun to watch too. Don't underestimate them.~ Lucina and Morgan definitely weren't unimportant either and the whole team just came together very well. Yeah that lady can be pretty annyoing. And thank you, I am glad you agree on Taku's adorableness! haha @daisy jane Glad you enjoy them! Sorry to hear about your phone being dumb, but I enjoy hearing about your clears regardless. Celica is indeed a force to reckon with, I am sure there isn't much that can hold up against her and it sounds like you are using her really well. Sounds like Myrrh had a bit more rough of a time, but once the pieces fell into place, it all worked out. It's always a great feeling when that happens. Congrats! And now finally to finish my clears for this map: @Azuris @ruruo @Robert of Normandy @mcsilas Music: 1. One for all 2. Absolute Configuration - both from, Madoka Magica Rebellion Since Cynthia is a wannabe superhero, this is kind of a fight between that and a bunch of magical girls. Exciting times! It was tough to get positioning right at the start but it quickly fell into place. Senkura actually got to be offensive today, though the glut of the fight was on OG!Sakura as usual. Still Sakunyan made my life easier by dealing with the peskiest of the mages on her own. The big moment in this fight was leaving OG!Sakura on her own against that annyoing Bow Knight, but she managed to survive through a literal miracle! Overall a very exciting clear for me. And now for the stars again, after a long break: Sunkumi is such a thumbnail hogger, I swear! Music: 1. Tutelage (Materiae Homurae) 2). Numquam mitescam - both from Madoka Magica Portable I continue to be impressed at how well this team works together when they are all such vastly different unit types and have horrible colour coverage. They really showed their strength on this map. Maribelle and Reyson fought just as offensively as Sunkumi and Sakunyan did. So much for support characters.~ Kind of makes me regret not even trying them against Gharnef earlier, but oh well. Sakuyan mostly did the same as before, but she just demonstrated how easy it is for her to pull it off. Hope you enjoyed!

Pretty much. I suppose most DC armours would work too, but the dragons just tend to have great mixed defenses, so it doesn't matter who the Rokrr is. I was able to permanently camp F!Tiki and Nowi/H!Myrrh next to the Rokkr, while the rest of the girls hammered the reinforcements down.

Dragon Girls with Aether are you friends in this. Already have all the standard rewards and only keep playing for score now.

It's strange how his character art looks so nice, yet his model is just horribly bland. Honestly, "Aside from my obsessions, I just want to sleep all day" is pretty relatable. I like him more than expected. Maybe I'll let him join the cool kids over in blue lions depending on what our recruitment limit is.

Felix is doing it for me and I have seen many girls gush about the latter two. I have seen a LOT of girls going gaga over post time-skip Dimitri. Ashe also seems to get some attention in that departement though usually more of the mothering kind. Ultimately it all boils down to personal taste though and some peopleay just be turned off by the art style.

It also didn't look too hard for you. Your girls just slotted in perfectly between the enemies and deleted them one by one in a perfectly timed motion. Poor Cynthia never stood a chance against these fliers~. I'll proceed with the Taku clear: @mampfoid @mcsilas @Landmaster @kirauza343 @ruruo @Azuris @Sasori @daisy jane Music: Like the Gale - Umineko no naku koro ni (Let's face it, this song screams Cynthia) After Gharnef, Cynthia steps up to try and continue the tradition of GHBs with reinforcements. Sadly, I just don't think she quite lives up to it. The stats on this map are just much easier to overcome, especially when there are no tanky dragons or armours to deal with. As a result, the Takus were able to one-shot everything and even tank a couple hits while steadily pressing forward. The only remotely scary thing to them was the Raven mage, but I only needed to inherit a breaker before Skadikumi was able to murder him without receiving any critical damage. Considering what these boys have faced before this, I am sure they welcomed the rather easy fight. Not sure when I'll upload the Princesses and Stars, since this weekend is simply going to be packed full with stressful stuff. I'll try to get to it when I can and hope to catch up with responding to all the other clears in this thread by the time I do. Until then!~

Now I am all spooked out and it's not even Halloween. xD At the beginning you played it safe and I was a bit concerned you would be overwhelmed by the end, but Myrrh simply ate all those pesky green enemies and the rest weren't too much of a problem therafter. Nice tanking from Berkut. Those guys are as effective as they are scary too look at. Thanks! Let's hope they add these maps to a rotation like they did in the past. That way I could come back to this when I finally have a full Baby!Tiki-emblem!

Another long gap between updates. Here I go: I finally reached 100. haha;; But to only have a net gain of 6 5* units in almost 4 months really shows how liberal I am with foddering them off to make my top faves better. Anyway, we'll see how this continues from here.~

Well, I mean I gave a detailed explanation and argument for my case, but if you don't want to engage with that, that's fine too.

And even with the flying pegasi, magic and all kinds of other creative freedoms with their "medieval" setting, the one thing they absolutely HAD to stay faithful to is the sexism? Sorry, but I really dislike this kind of argument. This isn't a historical treatise or even documentary, it's a fictional world created in the last years of the 20th century for a modern audience. When sexism is shown in old FE it's never actually a focus of anything in the story and pretty much just a random background fluff thing that vanishes everytime we get celebrated female warriors anyway. If you want to argue FE is just accurately representing the sexism of the time as a sort of force in the life of it's female characters, that's just not consistently true. There is no off-switch for the patriarchy in RL. So what's the point of implementing it in the first place? And representing the fact that women rarely join the military even today is also very farfetched to think of as the motivation for the game developers. Fact is, the low number of female units is just another expression of the 90s (and somewhat 00s) attitude towards female characters in video games as an after thought. It's as visible as Alm having to rescue every single female member of his army. That doesn't detract at all from the fact that Heroes prioritizes female characters solely on a money-based angle and treats them accordingly, while male characters get left in the dust.

Glad you agree. 🙂 Yeah it's the most satisfying feeling. I felt really bad when I just couldn't beat it back then and now the tables have turned. As you said, the armour was especially infuriating. I couldn't help myself. Tiki and Tak-Tak do compliment each other very well. Takumi destroys everything from afar while Tiki protects him and baits the enemies to their doom. Oh that's definitely team kindhearted. So glad to see Sharena in the running again. This was a great sow, especially all the teaming up to take out guys you couldn't beat in one go. A close call for Louise but it only seemed to strengthen her. Sharena had quite the damage output. Overall you really didn't let the enemy intimidate you and actually made this map look pretty easy. Good Job!

Finally some bunny ears that aren't unintentionally horrifying. Also those shades are dope.

Oh man, they just had to bring out Brady and Nah when I am fresh out of (unsuccessfully spent) orbs. I have no choice but to skip out on this one. Sorry, Maribelle.. Though Nah being infantry red makes it less hard for me, since I couldn't face replacing my decently merged Baby!Tiki. Don't need to spent orbs for a dust gatherer, I suppose. Brady doesn't have too good a set, so I am really hoping he'll demote in a few weeks time. The sensitive son needs to join his moms and bro.

Leif is indeed a great wall for an infantry sword. Yeah, I was unsure if it would wor out for her through the fight, but she managed to either kill the enemies right away or stay out of their way. I think telling her that is useless, she enjoys the fight too much at this point. haha;; Princesses worked great together, which was a relief with this map. Glad to have it thoroughly beaten now. xD And speaking of: @mampfoid @mcsilas @Sasori @kirauza343 @Azuris @daisy jane @ruruo @Robert of Normandy Music: Ghost Ship- from Grandia 1 (perhaps an odd choice of music, but I liked how the more sinister athmosphere fit with Gharnef, while the triumphant parts fit with the general feeling of glorious payback!) Tak-Tak helps the Tikis get revenge on this old bastard. I originally wanted this to be an all Tiki clear, but L!Tiki sadly still refused to show up for me, so the chance for that has now passed (considering Intsys doesn't re-add the old GHB maps anymore). Having three units with dragon effective attacks on this map definitely helped a lot, even if two of them being red limited my options a bit. F!Tiki was the mvp here, taking on lots of different enemies. Sunkumi shot up the left side, while Og!Tiki made sure he wouldn't get hurt. It was sweet to see how easy a time the Tikis had with this map and especially satisfying to murder Gharnef with F!Tiki. Now that's what I call a thorough payback. Hope you enjoyed!

Thank you, yeah their mobility is truly wonderful. I am sure he is, considering he is currently living the dream of being a potent fighter. Sorry to hear about your continued lack of Leanne. I hope you can get her off this banner or the next one she appears on. Very nice team. They worked extremly well together. Alm and Celica obviously had a blast, while Nino played a vital role at many points. Even Azura got her kill in. Not a single move was wasted on this map. There was a point were you looked almost overwhelmed by the enemies, but the team pulled through admirably. Well done! Impressive. Raventome!Camilla is a real boon for this map. She cleared away so many of the pesky archers. Ophelia was of course overwhelming with her magical power. Nothing stood a chance against her. Siegbert had some close calls but you could see just how much power was behind his blows, especially with Galeforce making him go on a spree attack. A very well deserved victory all around!

Thanks. It's definitely nice being able to plough through most enemies so well on player phase. Enemy phase is dodgier for them, but we also get cool moments like you mentioned. The green twins had to take a step back today and let the dragon girls do most of the job. It's funny how those two solved almost all problems simply by standing there. The enemies did NOT have a good time with them. Of course the boys still helped secure kills via buffing and sniping. Overall a very good clear that showcases the power of dragons. haha

Thanks! It was a really great moment for that to happen, although Gharnef fired back with his own effect a turn later. Still, Skadi proved superior. 🙂 Nice seeing those boys! And even nicer that they don't have to be all red anymore. Alm really did well balancing it. This looked very easy for them, seeing as they hardly had any trouble smiting the enemies. Leif using his tankiness to take out that annoying tin can was especially sweet. Yes, it's very satisfying to have gotten so far. There was still a lot of trouble, but I am glad to have beaten it the way I wanted. Thanks! And now let's show that the Princesses also have no fear of Gharnef: @mcsilas @Sasori @Azuris @ruruo @daisy jane @kirauza343 @Robert of Normandy Music: 1. Another Episode - from Madoka Magica Rebellion 2. Credens Justitiam - from Madoka Magica (just like them Magical girls) First off, the girls have some new toys to play with: Sakunyan now has Swift Sparrow from that one off-banner Brave!Lyn I pulled recently, Senkura has Atk/Spd Bond from Louise (although it didn't get to be showcased this time) and OG!Sakura now has Joint Hone Spd 4! Yes, giving my faves expensive skills is how I cope with terrible luck on banners.. Anyway, the girls were all happy to show off around here, except Senkura whose role was mostly to buff and heal at the end. Seems like my clears for this map always require someone like that. There was definitely some shuffling needed at times and it was not easy to figure out my way through, but oh so satisfying when I did. OG!Sakura being the mvp isn't too surprising anymore, but I loved how much she did on this map regardless. I have one more idea for a clear to this. Not the stars this time, but something a little thematic. I'll see if I can pull it off soon. Anyway, thank you for watching so far and hope you enjoyed!