Hrathen

So I recently beat all three paths of FE Fates. Had a lot of genuine fun, cried at bs rng, laughed at Azama, even spent like 4 hours in one run to try and level up the villager and then realized it wasnt worth it. Needless to say, it has been a journey. Most recently I began a new playthrough on Birthright hard. Hard because Im not going through lunatic levels of reinforcements again and Birthright,because I want to recruit several copies of characters like Yukimura for my logbook. Of course after enduring more fates than reinforcements on lunatic, I wanted a fresh experience. So it was, wishing for more variety, that I decided that on this run I would exclusively use one class. My (unfortuneately) favorite class in all of Fire Emblem. A class I spent an unhealthy number of hours grinding to simply make feasible and an unpleasant number of restarts to save in FE Shadow dragon. I am of course referring to the Ballistician (now with extra tank!). I essentially used the mycastle to recruit a stupid powerful Xander and proceeded to clear Ballistician Blitz some 2 dozen times. I set the rule I may use 5 non ballisticans, but they must weild bows and that all male units must be promoted to Ballistician asap. This means Hayato sucks even more than usual. The first few chapters were interesting, but at chaprter 10 I noticed a discrepencie. It was as if the game wasnt balanced around the player's team having only archers?! Weird right? The enemy Ninja, if they got too close would devestate my tanks, I mean Ballistae. Likewise, the player phase decimated all enemy units. My low movement and defense created an interesting dynamic which revolved around baiting the enemy and punishing with my full pachyderm might.A lternatively it was a never ending stuggle to prevent my units from being one round ko'd. Seriously though, I just had a blast being frustrated while at the same time pleased with the silly results of my holy army of the Fuijin Tankumi. I thought it would be fun to read other peoples experiences of breaking the game with class issolation or really anything funny at all, especially in regards to challeng like runs. I do love this game and I grudgingly enjoy the dlc, but why oh why, can I beat this game using my (unfortuneately) favorite, weak ass, store brand armor knight, knock off archer, gimmicky, situtational, gets doubled by enemy generals and inadvertantly sets all units weapon rank to E class!? please tell me about you own thoughts or experience, Im dying to know what everyone else is doing.

Really? Thank you for the expedient reply. So I guess the answer to cloning units is fairly straightforward, beat the game on multiple completely different saves. Thank you so much Thor Odinson!

Fe fates gameplay has been awsome so far. However since beating all three routes, I've wanted to do a run using only one character. The idea is to somehow use the unit logbook to purchase something like 16 copies of one character, say Yakimura for instance. I tried to search online, but all my searches bring up results relating to the copy cat skill. I also tried to save the same file multiple times and use the card shop to add each save's Yukimura to the logbook. This idea failed when each subsequent Yukimura over wrote the last one added to the logbook. Even leveling and changing skills had no impact to allow multiple Yukimuras to the logbook. I tried to use the character select at the end of the game, which allows you to select 5 units to put in the logbook, to add Yukimura to the logbook. This had the same effect as the card shop however. I haven't yet tried adding Yukimura from a different avatar's save, I would need to beat the game again to do that and at the moment I dread going through the game again, especially if it may not even do anything. Finally I won a Yukimura from a my castle battle and this worked, I just don't like the idea of rolling with 16 maxed out character x, all with a mess of skills and other nonsense. I know I can search online, I just want to find a way without my castle battling to get clones of unit X. So any thoughts on what I should try or has anyone attempted to clone units in the logbook from two seperated avatar save files?