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I'm glad I play all my old favorite games on emulators. Nintendo's online services were never that good nor did I like buying the same games again every new console generation. Their subscription programs are not any better since all their games with online play besides Mario Kart 8 are not that great.

Almost had a full team of New Years units but I forgot I foddered NY!Eir off some time ago so Gunnthra filled in the last slot.

I don't see why Male Byleth having more alts than Female Byleth is that much of a big deal (I kind of don't even consider this a Byleth alt since it is more of a Sothis alt with Male Byleth attached to her). Male Kris also has more alts than Female Kris yet no one seems too mind that. It's kind of funny actually since usually people are complaining about female characters getting too much attention. Also, we all know Female Byleth is going to win CYL6 and get a Brave alt and we will also get a Legendary alt when IS is desperate for more Legendary Heroes.

So we've had Infantry Sothis, Armored Sothis and now Flying Sothis. Is the next alt for Sothis make her cavalry? Jokes aside I like her art here and she's with Male Byleth so I might spend some orbs to summon her especially since I didn't get Harmonic Tiki last year. Don't really care for anyone else on the banner. Sophia is interesting choice for the TT unit. Looking at the trailer she seems to be a flying blue tome unit. I'm guessing she is going to be slow but have tanky defenses based on her base self but I will wait to see the stats

I think the reason they were more reserved with Three Houses units back in 2019 was because they were not sure how well received the game was going to be. Even the devs were surprised how much Three Houses blew up in popularity which is why they are more willing to pump out more units from that game because they now know they wil sell.

With an epithet like Bound Spirit Duo I really don't see Sothis' partner being anyone but Byleth. It really just comes down to gender. I just think it will be Male Byleth though, not just because of JP VA theory but I think it will be a nice balance to have Male Byleth be with Sothis since Female Byleth got a Duo alt with Rhea already. It's not like a character getting multiple new art in Heroes in the same year is anything new. Though I also like Sothis and just so happen to have a preference to Male Byleth over Female Byleth so naturally I would to see the two of them together. I also wonder if they will show silhouettes tonight or just jump straight to the trailer since we kind of know who they are already.

October's combat manuals is looking nice. Been waiting for that last Young Innes to come in so I can finish him and start working on Summer Norne next. Halloween L'Arachel is also funny to see since it would be the fourth free copy of her I've gotten.

Almost decided to use a different team but I just needed to swap up my supports to Commander Anna and Apotheosis Anna so she wouldn't die to the Steam Lance unit. Also needed someone to give an Infantry Pulse boost since the red tome cav had guard on them. @Landmaster Nice clear! It's funny seeing those steam tank units not being able to move far because of the gravity effect. @Alexmender Nice one turn clear! Duo Eirika is crazy strong even without merges. @GuiltyLove Great clears! Brave Micaiah getting guaranteed follow ups was a great boon for her. @SatsumaFSoysoy Nice Arden build. It was nice seeing him clean house. Even took Otr down in one round of combat. Guessing L!Lyn is good now after her skills were upgraded.

Not really expecting too much here. They will probably show off Metroid Dread one more time, maybe they will show off the final Smash Bros DLC character, probably more SMTV, that new Mario Party game which is still the most interesting Nintendo game for me this year and I kind of hope it's actually good and sells well since it could (though unlikely) lead to it getting DLC with boards based on the Gamecube games, and lastly probably a few new game announcements. So outside of Mario Party and maybe Pokemon I'm not expecting anything from Nintendo to wow me. I would still like an announcement for a new Fire Emblem or Mario Kart game but I don't think either of those will happen here, maybe next year.

@Diovani Bressan Haha, yeah figured I save some grails waiting for Innes' manual next month since there are a lot of grail units I want to merge as of late. Nice clear by the way. L!Ephraim is quite powerful with his new refined skills. @GuiltyLove I didn't notice your Sacred Stones abyssal clear was above my post the first but it was still a great clear. Myrrh is great at tanking as always. @SatsumaFSoysoy Nice clear with the hyper offensive Eirikas. @BoaFerox Nice one turn clear with the Tanas and guest member Marisa.

Wasn't too bad for me since I have tons of good Sacred Stones units built up. I always wanted to show off Marisa in something. @GuiltyLove Nice Whitewings clear! Est defeated a lot of foes and it was funny seeing Grima get one shot by a carrot. @Landmaster Nice clear. I like how you sent in a team of almost all dragons to fight the lady with a dragon slaying weapon.

Awakening seems to be the most likely to me for this month if Muspell is on the next banner. They don't really have many (if any) popular characters left to add so I could see them getting a Heroes character put on the banner with them. Only other games I could see happening is Tellius, Three Houses and Archanea. Three Houses has plenty of popular characters left to add to the normal pool so it doesn't really need an OC tie in to carry the banner. For Tellius, maybe it could happen but I think it is unlikely. I think they will get a banner next month. And for Archanea they are not really in need for a new banner right away plus I'm thinking they will start Book 6 off with Archanea and tie them to the new Heroes ally to help carry the banner. Also, I would like more time to stock up on orbs if they have Nyna, Hardin and/or Wolf there. So yeah, I'm thinking Awakening will be this month, Tellius next month, Three Houses in November and Archanea to start of Book 6 in December.

I'll skip some on my like the shapeshifters. Lord (Marth/Celica)- Eirika Lord (Chrom/Lucina)- Alm Myrmidon- Lonqu Thunderblade- Felix Paladin- Eliwood Dancer- Phina Soldier- Lukas Pegasus Knight- Ingrid War Priest/Cleric- Hector Wyvern Rider- Cherche Great Knight- Marcus Mage (Robin/Tharja)- Athos Mage (Linde)- Merric Mage Knight- L'Arachel Archer- Innes

My mistake, I didn't the + in the weapons when I watched the trailer.

I'm still assuming the last character is going to be a gen 8 Pokemon but I at least hope it is something cool like Zacian. Other characters I would like to see but are probably not as likely are Adol from YS, Kiryu from Yakuza, Hayabusa from Ninja Gaiden, Ragna from Blazblue or the Hisuian Pokemon Trainer.

Looks like IS found out that there is another gender besides females and Xander that could be used for Harmonic Heroes. The banner looks good for Jugdral fans even though Julia's and Lewyn's Prf weapons look underwhelming. Well, I'm kind of glad it turned out like this because I wanted to skip the banner. Free staff flyer is nice even though I have Flayn already but maybe Nanna will have nice fodder on her.

Chrom- I see him in his Great Lord outfit wielding Awakened Falchion since he doesn't have an alt with either of those yet in Heroes. Though I wouldn't mind seeing him using a lance or bow either. Felix- Blue Tome using thunder or light magic and wearing the Mortal Savant outfit. Maybe even give him his father's horse if they feel like being a little creative. Hilda- I honestly just see them fusing her post-time skip and the Wyvern Lord outfits together, giving her a variant of Freikugel and calling it a day. Female Corrin- I see her wearing an outfit based on that one cipher card of them depicted as a Vallite Monarch and using a variant of Yato. Robin (either gender)- Grandmaster outfit with a colorless tome with an attack animation of them using all the magic types. Anna- I used to think they would just make her Brave outfit based on her Apotheosis self but they went and made that variant of her a normal unit so...Maybe something similar to her Master Merchant outfit from Warriors would be neat. Awakening Tiki- Green Dragon wearing an outfit modeled on what she wore in Shadow Dragon/Mystery of the Emblem and have her Brave alt be from the Awakening DLC where she ascended and became the next Naga. Yeah, most of my suggestions were kind of plain and predictable but I pretty much expect the bare minimum from IS based on the last two sets of Brave Heroes.

@GuiltyLove Nice clear! The Catrias and bunny Est wiped everything out easily. Bridal Catria looks like she was good at positioning her allies in the right spot.

I'm guessing Lewyn on the left and Nanna on the right. I wouldn't mind if it was all Jugdral characters since it would be a banner I could safely ignore. I would like to have orbs saved up for when another Archanea themed new heroes banner shows up, maybe even the halloween/ninja/winter seasonal banners depending on who is on them.

@Alexmender Nice solo clear with the newest Eirika. She really got a nice Brave alt. Good luck getting the remaining merges for her. @SatsumaFSoysoy That was a quick one. Micaiah just didn't stand a chance against all these Brave women. @Landmaster Great clear! Pulse Smoke and Starfish didn't let Micaiah do anything.

Not really a big fan of this map with the very limited space to move around in and all the ranged units huddled up together. Lance cav with Guard was also kind of annoying and I didn't even notice Micaiah had Miracle on her during my several attempts to one turn clear the map. Ninja weapons are still fun for one turn clearing. Hopefully they are adding an inheritable Ninja Bow this year.

Would everyone introduced in Book 1 count as mediocre at this point in the game's lifespan? Because I still use I lot of characters from back then like Lonqu, OG Cordelia, Lukas, Awakening Tiki, and Raven.

I know people don't like seeing Heroes OC showing up as Legendary/Mythic Heroes but I would still like to see the Askr Trio (Alfsonse, Sharena and Anna) all get Legendary alts someday.