Paper Jam

Cormag isn't that frail, is he?

To avoid increasing your L rank on any of your guys, you can make two copies of your current save file, let a non-lord and a lord each take a loss on one of those two files, delete that file, and make a copy of the other file. Then, when you restart the chapter, everyone will have L 0, but the Within Sadness and Game Over tracks will be unlocked in your Sound Room.

Because Vigarde specifically ordered him not to, and it's not like Lyon to defy Vigarde. I disagree. I like how close Lyon came to regaining control over himself in Ephraim's route, but I don't think he should have come any closer than that.

I've known for a while how easy it is to exploit the so-called Random Number Generator in the GBA games, but it only recently occurred to me to take thorough notes about it. I thought I might share those notes with the forum, with the caveat that this is very much a work in progress. It's probably easier to find out what I've found out (and then some) by hacking the game, but here's a taste of what can be learned without hacking. gbaferng.ods

The game keeps track of your rankings on both a cumulative basis (to determine your overall score) and a chapter-by-chapter basis (to determine your Tactician Points). https://serenesforest.net/blazing-sword/miscellaneous/the-tactician/ and https://serenesforest.net/blazing-sword/miscellaneous/rankings/tables/ have more information.

The Value of Life can be completed in 1 or 2 turns with a use of the Warp staff and a crit or two.

I'd like to see Eliwood recover from his illness and join Roy late in the game, and have a word with Zephiel too while he's at it.

We actually don't know whether Hector's attack on the soldier was lethal or not, but I think it's safe to say that Oswin and Serra would have had a much bigger problem with it if it were. They only call it "violence," after all, not "murder."

That wasn't an assumption; it was a fact. More than one dragon did come out of that gate, and all three of them roasted Athos medium-well before Ninian put two of them on ice.

Merlinus/Nino needs the same prodecure as Merlinus/Vaida. Battle Before Dawn is a survive chapter, and Merlinus is unavailable in Night of Farewells, so the earliest Merlinus and Nino could get their C support is Cog of Destiny, and then they have to stay together enough turns after that to unlock B support on the first turn of Sands of Time... Well, you know the drill. The final chapter is technically two chapters, so if you got any of Renault's C supports in Victory or Death or The Value of Life, you can get his B support in the first part of the final chapter (with Nergal as the boss), and then his A support in the second part (with the Dragon as the boss).

I think it would be nice to have a dedicated convoy unit, but with a bit more utility than Merlinus had. And I think the most logical addition to a convoy unit's utility would be stealing. It makes sense to me that the person in charge of overseeing the convoy should have some ability to... make acquisitions... for that convoy. I'd call such a class a Fence or a Smuggler.

I have an idea for Ein's speech, which should have a similar effect to his katakana speech in the original Japanese. During his dialogue with Flaer...

Just that Conrad revealed himself to Celica and her party doesn't necessarily mean that he revealed himself to anyone else. He could put the mask back on as easily as he took it off. It doesn't seem like anyone recognized him as Lima's son when he became a civil servant, or when he took over Mycen's job as chancellor; if anyone did recognize him, they didn't make a bigger deal out of it than he did.

All those forests and rivers suggest to me that Ilia's main source of food is probably hunting and fishing. The rest of what they need, they probably import.

Technically two of the lords in Three Houses meet the criteria of "playable at first, but become unplayable and unrecruitable after certain points in the story." You play all three in the prologue, and when you choose to teach one of their Houses after the prologue, the other two "leave the party" permanently. They're only playable for one chapter (outside of DLC, anyway), but so is Orson. Depending on how hard and fast the "become unplayable and unrecruitable" criterion is, you could count Dedue in the Blue Lions route too; he will only rejoin you in Azure Moon if you did his sidequest during White Clouds, and there is no way of knowing in advance that that is a prerequisite for him rejoining you. By a similar token to Dedue, Wallace in the Blazing Blade will only show up in Eliwood's/Hector's tale if the Lords' levels are low enough in the mid-game to trigger the map in which he shows up; otherwise, he arguably "becomes unplayable and unrecruitable" after Lyn's tale too.