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Yeah over time I figured it out. That actually is pretty cool. Nice strat. Assassin Ignatz sounds cool tbh, I might want to try that just in general haha 😆

Huh? Lol I honestly don't know what this even means. I personally feel there is better ways to make use of Ignatz, and mine had impregnable wall. I'm trying to understand this strategy tbh 🤣 I love Ignatz and fall under the category of people who think he is VERY good

This sounds fun!! Haha. I always loved making mage/healer type units into Wyverns 🤣 Gotta try this out next time!!

Bro I am so sad.... Playing Three Hopes and hearing his voice is gonna hit so different..... I'll share a story of how his character impacted me: When I first played Three Houses, I remember falling in love with all the students, even the ones I didn't recruit. Their voce acting and personality was so filled with life, I was so surprised how much I enjoyed their character. Before the game, Ferdinanad was a character I was sure I wouldn't care for, but he was actually the first student I ever talked to ironically when getting to meet all the students. His character gave me a taste of just how charming the cast can be. He was a really cool and funny guy!! Later throughout the game, I didn't get to recruit everybody, including Ferdinand, this will lead to me getting to the timeskip and meeting him on the battlefield. Seeing him again and battling him was so tragic to me, and after his death, it was honestly the most surprisingly saddest moment for me regarding a character death.... I didn't expect to feel the most sad from Ferdinand of all characters compared to all the other students I had to fight. Billy Kametz knocked it out of the park with Ferdinand. He will always be an iconic FE character and remembered forever. After all, how do you forget a character that announces his name proudly: The great Ferdinand von Aegir! R.I.P. Little did I know, I will be heartbroken from the person behind the voice's passing as well.... Great guy!! Great voice!! Thank you for being apart of the Fire Emblem franchise, one of my favorite series ever!! ❤️

Thank you. 😁 Also, I wasn't offering the NG+ idea as a strategy. I was simply saying anyone who is gonna tackle doing an iron man on maddening should do ng+ without question. I don't think iron manning the game without it would be a good idea. I think to fully get the iron man experience in a fun and mostly "fair" way is by using everything you can in this game, since this game restricts you already enough haha. But thank you for all the extra tips you added, I pretty much agree with everything you had to add. 😁

I definitely don't recommend Three Houses for a first time run. This is definitely only recommended for those who already love three houses and are on the fence about trying it out. Again, this is why I specify the things you need to avoid for the iron man to have the most amount of "fairness". Like I do feel that its possible to avoid the "things that aren't your fault" if you take a similar route to what I did, which is why I provided a "guide" of sorts lol Also yeah I meant Chapter 1, my mistake. About the "fun" thing, I meant for anyone willing to give it a shot. I'm aware people won't find it fun. But for those who want to give it a shot may find a fun challenge from it. That's all I meant.

Sorry I meant Chapter 1. My mistake 🤣 I forget the first battle doesn't count as chapter 1 Well this is why I wrote up this to be able to play the game in the most fair way possible, without feeling things are "not your fault". This is why I mentioned you have to be willing to throw away anything you knew about other FE game iron mans. If someone wants to enjoy and try this one, they have to be willing to use what they have and study certain things first, which I mentioned. Thanks for mentioning Chapter 4. Yes if you have the mages reach him and stand next to him, he starts to move for some reason. I will edit and add that to my tips ASAP. Pretty much what you mentioned is why I went over them. Like studying the reinforcements. I have said this. This is a necessity and I am well aware of it, which is why I mentioned it. I also recommended avoiding paralogues, again, this is not meant to be a "clean, well designed iron man". I simply showcasing a way to do it if you want to avoid all the hiccups and still find some fun in it. Hope that makes sense

Yes!! Thanks for this!! If anyone else has any important points I missed for tips, please feel free to remind me!! Yes, make sure Gilbert dies and don't trigger the Chapter 5 enemies to start moving. Stay out of the enemy archers range that are at the top of the map!! Make that a PRIORITY!! Glad I was reminded, this is very important!!

Note: this is just my opinion. It is simply just my feelings and thoughts about this and my goal is simply to make fans of the game happy and encourage them to try something for fun!! That is all. This isn't meant to be taken so seriously and overanalyze the game design. I am well aware of the poor design choices of the game and am not defending those choices. I am simply giving a way to tackle the game and make it available to fans who have doubts of trying an iron man due to many urging against it, but for those who might really want to. So let's all have a pleasant discussion. Anything otherwise will be ignored, so don't bother, and keep your thoughts to yourself if you don't have anything nice to say. Just like you have your opinion, I have mine. Now let's begin!! After now completeing both a Hard & Maddening Iron Man, I just want to give my thoughts on here. A lot of people have said it isn't possible or isn't fun to do. And I want to just urge anyone who hasn't tried it and loves Three Houses to give it a shot. After playing this game I can confirm, it is very doable to do 1. A Hard Mode Iron Man on ANY route 2. A Maddening Iron Man on the Crimson Flower Route (bare minimum) If you allow yourself to use all the tools the game gives you, it is a very fun and an okay investment of your time to do if you are a fan of Three Houses and willing to try it. Prepare yourself though, it requires you to throw away everything you know about iron manning with other fire emblem games. It is a very different game after all. You have to be willing to put in a lot of work if you want to accomplish completing this (mostly Maddening. Hard is a lot more doable). For Maddening, you want to make sure you study the reinforcement spawns of every map before each map so you know what to expect. It's not as time consuming as you think. All it takes is a few minutes of one's time to look on the fire embelm wiki. It has all the reinforcements spawns laid out for you there. For the arguement of what happens when you lose a unit, you simply want to recruit any students by using renown to get them up to A support so you can replace them with your fallen unit. Be ready though, because after timeskip, you want to try to lose as few amount of units as possible. But do not worry. Right before the timeskip initiates, make sure to recruit every other student and ashen wolf you can, so that way if someone dies, you have someone to replace them. Now how is this possible? They might be too low leveled you say? You want to make sure you have Professir Rank A at all times (use renown in the very beginning of the game for this) then simply use your 3 adjutant spots to train up 3 backup units, as they will train up just enough every battle to be able to replace any fallen units. Make sure you obtain the experience gem, so that way if you need to train them for the next battle when you are grinding (which you should do atleast twice a month for maddening anyways) you can slap the exp gem on them and level them up very quickly. If you have a knowledge gem you can also quickly get them to learn Death blow or Fiendish blow respectively (if they are phys or magic units) and they will be all set to replace your previous units. This is a hardcore, balls to the wall iron man challenge, so you must be prepared. It will not hold your hand and give you units throughout the game like other ones, so you have to make use of as many of the things the games give you. If you have any questions from me, I have all the info provided to tackle this challenge if you want to try it out for yourself. Also, check out my recent playthrough of me doing a Maddening Mode Iron Man for Three Houses on the Crimson Flower Route. It was quite the amazing journey!! It has everything there to help you on your quest for Three Houses Iron Man: Hard mode: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtQEfrONYtZDePBPySFz_fWEDAvxkWVHt Maddening Mode (recommended for guide): https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtQEfrONYtZAncP2aQE64q_wluxpvYoIv Also here are some random recommendations I have for tackling your first Three Houses Iron Man: 1. Get the Thyrsus. Its very useful, especielly combined with magic range+ skills and 3 range spells. It gives you A LOT of coverage!! 2. Make Knowledge Gem a priority!! There are 2 you can get in the game, and they are very helpful for completing classes for skills as early as possible that can help you A LOT on your run!! One is in the "Tale of the Red Canyon" Paralogue (in the chest). And one on Chapter 11 (by collecting all the crest stones in that map). 3. Experience gem is helpful for training up backup units who are falling behind in levels, so if you want that quick replacement, use this!! Be sure to pick this one up in the Hanneman/Manuela Paralogue. (JUST BE VERY CAREFUL, use rescue or stride to get Manuela to safety, she is in a very scary spot) 4. Try to always have some units with the "Shove" or "Draw Back" combat art. You will be surprised how much this comes in handy in emergencies when you make a mistake. It can make the difference between your unit dying and surviving to live another day. 5. Use DLC (if possible). It's not mandatory, but the Ashen Wolves, and DLC classes are VERY useful (for Maddening Mode especially). Dark flier and Valkyrie have some amazing utility that will help a lot in mid game/end game. 6. Battalions are your friend. They boost stats, so make sure you give ones that give necessary boosts. Crit to critters. Hit rate for shaky hit rate units. Tankyness for your tank units. Avoid for your fast ones. And strength/magic you might want all the time for most of your units that are attacking constantly. Having Impregnable Wall, Blessing, Stride, Dance of the Goddess are super useful, so be sure to use them and keep them safe. Because if a unit falls while holding onto one of these battalions, you will lose them forever. So try to keep them on units you keep out of danger most of the time!! 7. ALWAYS take your time and play when you are in the right state of mind. It's not worth it if you are tired. You are likely to make mistakes and lose a lot of your hard-earned progress. So play when you are AWAKE and concentrating!! (Then again, that's what makes this iron man so hardcore and devastating if you lose. Making it more thrilling and rewarding for everything you accomplish. It's not for the faint of heart, so beware and prepare yourself if you fail!!) 8. Do not take too long of a break from your iron man and try not to play other fire emblem games during your run. It may confuse you coming back from it and adjusting to all the three houses-only mechanics again, it can easily cause mistakes, so be cautious of this!! 9. Don't be afarid to use what you need to!! Someone once told me Maddening Iron Man isn't forgiving, so shouldn't you. Use DLC items, classes, characters, renown. Don't resrict yourself. A lot of people like to put self-implemented restrcitions for other FE games, but for this game, I do not recommend it at all. You are justified for anything you use for this challenge, since this is a lot harder to iron man than other games. Also side note: I'm here to vouch that I didn't use renown for class skill levels. I trained those up naturally. So I recommend doing that too for a more natural challenge. It trains yourself to make every Instruct/Seminar session count. But that's only if you want to, it is a very hard challenge so only do what you feel is doable for YOU. 10. Professor Rank A is a must!! Atleast.... if you hate the monastery. The monastery is slow to get through sometimes and you are going to need it a lot. If you want to reduce time however, and do not want to gift all your students constantly to get all those motivations up, simply feed all your units with your plentiful amount of activity points that are available to you at the very start of the game if you simply use renown to make your Byleth get Professor Rank A. Feeding students is very necesarry and you're gonna want to always maximize the amount of times you instruct them at max motivation. Getting those skills as early as possible, especially in Maddening is very helpful. (Death blow, fiendish blow, darting blow, hit +20 etc.) 11. Rescue or Warp are very helpful. Try to have them on your team if you can. I personally didn't have rescue on my current maddening iron man run, but a flier with warp can help as a nice rescue alternative in emergency, since you are able to canto out of the danger zone in certain situations. 12. Right before timeskip, put every single convoy weapon in all of your units inventory (even the ones you recruited who aren't doing anything). All your inventory gets fully charged up on durability and is a very nice exploit when you're low on money or ore. 13. Make sure to get money, ore and meat when necesarry. Always do the highest level maps to get as much experience as possible when grinding in between main battles. Make sure you are at a good level to take them on though. If you need rare ore, do get it!! It's helpful for forging good weapons and repairing if needed. Money is good when you don't want to repair and simply want to buy weapons to replace them. 14. Reminder: For backup units, if you have the extra resources, make sure they are getting to their classes they need to, so that way when they are needed as a replacement unit, they are already halfway through getting the necesarry skills to keep up (like death blow and fiendish blow etc.) 15. Protect Byleth, your lord, and your waifu at all costs!! You lose the run when you lose Byleth, Edlegard, Dimitri or Claude. And we all know deep down we lose... when we lose our waifu in our iron man.... Jokes aside. Always pay attention to the Defeat Condition. If there is a unit on there that can cause a game over. PROTECT THEM AT ALL COSTS. While not mandatory, Alert stance+, Sword Avoid, Brawl Avoid, guard adjutants and the Blessing gambit on these units, help keep you at ease during the maps throughout the run!! Speaking of guard adjutants.... 16. Guard adjutants are very helpful. Your backup units aren't doing much. You may want to sometimes have them in brigand or mage during easy grind maps so they can get death blow or fiendish blow ASAP. But when you are doing main story maps, have them get to armor knight or brawler as soon as possible!! These provide you with guard adjutants and if you are at Professor Rank A, you can protect 3 of your precious units from a fatal hit once per battle!! That's very helpful!! So protect Byleth, protect Edelgard, protect your waifu (that's what I did xD) or any other unit that causes a Defeat Condition and you should be good to go!! 17. Do not take on paralogues if you feel it's too high of a risk. In fact do not do most of them!! It is not worth losing a unit over getting a simple item you wanted. You want to do the least amount of high-risk maps as possible during this run!! Unless you are VERY familiar with the paralogues and their reinforcements, do not do them, they are not necesary. It is entirely doable to complete the iron man without them. However. The knowledge gem and thyrsus paralogues are VERY worth the risk, trust me. Just be careful!! 18. New Game+ is very much recommended. It allows you to carry over gambits that you can't have in certain routes on a normal run, and you can use renown all you want to do literally everything I recommended you SHOULD do xD 19. Have fun. If you fail, do not worry. Chapter 2 is dumb, so don't worry about failing on it. I and many others have got crit several times just to officially start the run correctly 🤣 Don't let that discourage you!! This is probably the worst designed map in the game for an iron man specifically, so feel free to not count it as an iron man map if you don't want to and start at chapter 3!! Edit: 20: Chapter 5, make sure Gilbert dies and that he doesn't trigger any of the archers from above. Avoid these danger zones at all costs!! All the units randomly just start charging you if you get in the range of units at the top. So be VERY careful. 21. Also be weary of enemy skills like vantage, miracle, or wrath-type skills. Always check skills and battalions on enemies every so often!! There will be times where it may catch you off guard, so be weary!! 22: On Chapter 4, the Death Knight randonly moves and this triggers when the dark mage reinforcements stand next to him. Either defeat them before then, or be ready to defeat the Death Knight or the boss before he reaches you. Note: this is an Iron Man, so it is without divine pulses or retreating allowed since that kinda defeats the purpose of an iron man run. I thought this was obvious, which is why I didn't state it at first (since that is similar to not using Mila's Turnwheel during an iron man of Echoes). But I will mention it here just in case. Hope there is no confusion now 🙏 (End of edits) I will be making a video version of this topic, so look forward to it soon!! I will try to use video examples to showcase the different tips!! Thank you for reading and I love you all!! I hope this either convinced you to try an Three Houses iron man for yourself or at the very least intrigued you to read about what it took to complete an iron man on Three Houses for me personally!! God bless and keep gambitting my fellow iron manners!! (P.S Hapi best girl ❤️)

I reacted to all the new designs on stream and I was fanboying so hard. The Golden Deer always been special to me cuz they were the first students I played as when I first played Three Houses. I love all of them!! I give my thoughts on my recent video, but I will echo them here just in case: Claude: looks amazing as always. I miss the beard, but he'a such a good designed character anyways, it barely matters. He looks great!! Hilda: While I loved her timeskip design, this one looks super cute and fits her well. It grew on me a lot. Lorenz: At first glance from one of the old screenshots of this game, I thought it looked worse than his timeskip look. But then I been realizing something ever since I looked close at something of the characters I was iffy about with the redesigns. When you actually look at their gameplay model with the new designs they look 10x better than the character portraits! So when I saw Lorenz make his grand entrance, actually seeing his personality and in his model in movement, the design looked incredible. I think the portraits just really needed to be original and not cop-paste of the Three Housed timeskip with slapped on new hairstyles lol Raphael: His best design. I was so surprised by the bandana and his new outfit looks so cool. He looks like a throwback to the old brigand units of old in classic FE. Loved him flexing too. Ignatz: This was the one I was looking forward to and they did NOT let me down. His new hair style is great, and his outfit is what really does it for me. I LOVE the fact that he's dressed as a knight and we get to see how Iggy would have looked if he became one. He has these little new hair pins on his hair that are cute. And I adore the paint detail when he did his special. I fanboyed so hard in particular for this one. I love Ignatz so much. He has finally become CHADnatz. Lysithea: She looks similar but the changes are great. She removed her accesories and changed her hair style a bit. At first I was trying to figure out what looked different than her previous one, cuz something definitely was. And then I realized she had bangs covering her eyebrows now. She always had noticeble eyebrows so them being covered and having her face more caved in by hair is adorable. Leonie: this is probably the most controversial ome for me. Timeskip Leonie is probably one of my favorite FE designs and glow ups of all time. But I do appreciate the fact they showed us how she would look if she kept her short hair in timeskip. However the hair choice is a bit strange to me. It's just not the best cut. However, again, in the actual 3d model it looks so much better, and I think she actually looks so good similar to Lorenz in the model itself. (My HOPE is that they let you choose between the hairstyles from 3 houses as a nice unlockable option. Come on, who wouldn't want to play as Timeskip Dimitri in warriors gameplay?) And finally.... Marianne: Probably the best one overall along with Petra. Her timeskip was like Mercedes, where she made her hair shorter, but I actually adored it, cuz it somehow worked for her and she looked really pretty and it represented her development. Here, she lets her hair down and gets a beautiful "dark" aesthetic to her outfit that compleyely matches and compliments her moody, grim backstory. Her new hairpiece reminds me of those women on rainy days with umbrellas during the olden days (idk if anyone knows what I'm talking about). Her baggy eyes are back and she looks more sad and I just want to say....IS, what did you do to my Marianne, huh? Where is her development and why is she still depressed? I'm watching you IS!! (Jokes aside she looks beautiful with and without the bags on her eyes and I feel they fit her for this look) Overall this design looks GOREGEOUS, love her with long hair!! Thats all of them!! I cannot wait for this game and am beyond hype to play this. I hope this gives me the same hype that Age of Calamity did for Breath of the Wild, filling in all the gaps that were missing in the initial experience and delivering on a fun and amazing story. My HOPE is that they do it even better than Age of Calamity, as that still had some issues with its story. Here's my reaction if you are curious to see (timestamp for reaction is 38:00):

Love all the designs!! I think Annette and Felix are my favorite!! Felix ponytail looks so badass and Annette's little hat is *mwah* SO CUTE!! Also the music remix was amazing. Also it is REALLY nice to see all the non lord characters seen with more expressive animations and in actual good looking cutscenes. (No more cheap recycled animations for every character. We could acually see them have exclusive fight animations and expressions). Also, I am so looking forward to hearing all the new music remixes in this game, especially since Three Houses had such bangers already!! Changing them up and having different versions of them is gonna be so nice to hear after hearing the same tracks over and over again after playing 3 houses so much LOL Lastly, I really hope Hapi gets in as DLC.... thats all I want.

Plug? 100 hours of non-stop grinding?! No one's gonna watch tha-.... Oh wait 💀

Shaky is an iron man content creator now and not a PMU'er anymore. I knew my 1000 attempts at 3 houses iron man would make an impact 💀

You should probably change the title of this post. I feel bad for anyone that would get spoiled. It's on the front of page of Serenes and even with the spoiler tag in front of it, it's not easy to miss reading it accidently.

More Rune Factory 5!! This game is so freakin fun!! Im never gonna stop playing 💀

So excited to play this!!!! You have no idea!! Imma stream the heck outta this game!! ❤❤❤❤

I only played 4 and Frontier. Forte was my girl but all of them are great tbh. I love all the characters so much!! 🥰

Yoooooooooo. There's Rune Factory talk here?! I am so excited to play 5!! If anyone is interested in playing it, honestly just start with 4. Its on 3ds, Switch and Steam. Rune factory is basically a spin off of the iconic Havest Moon series except better in every way. It gives you that Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons itch but with RPG elements, Dungeons, more customizability and exploration. It's super addicting. I honestly find it more fun than Animal Crossing sometimes (which is what I consider the standard for simulation type games). This one comes close. Not sure which bachelorette I am choosing yet, but I look forward to getting to know all the characters 🥰 I love this series so much and it deserves all the attention after what happened during 3 and 4. Glad to see people excited for it!! Imma stream the heck out of this when it comes out lol It's a great series, nothing quite like it.

I'm here to give my review of Tear Ring Saga so far: - Maps are fun (the one where I was killing a hundred zombies and feeding golden ones to my weaker units for exp was funny) - Characters look really cool. (Kate, Sasha, Julia, Juni, and Raquel in particular, so far!!) - Music is nice. I have one track I like a lot so far - Crossbows and Tanks? Neat!! *Marle and Valkyria Chronicles has entered the chat* - Route split. Very interesting, excited to see how it plays out!! *Echoes of a wild FE are heard in the distance* - Norton is amazing. He protects my stream from viruses and running issues with his "Rock Solid" defense 😏 - Eugene is funny -That's it so far. This has been The Chosen One, bored and in the process of fixing his infamous sleep schedule, causing a hiatus for stream content, with your weekly update. Thank you and have a wonderful day.

This is why you should pair Odin and Selena, that way everyone is happy LOL xD (OwainxSevera best ship 👀)

I been playing TRS blind if anyone wants to see the shenaniagns we get into. Or cause them... 💀 Streaming it right now:

I know. Like for how Ultimate this Smash is supposed to be. I don't find myself coming back to it as much as Smash 4.... I wish I would, but Idk.... online is bad and even after the final DLC character, I feel like I stopped playing for a while. It gets me sad cuz it deserves better. They need to fix the online amd support it more

Luminary uppercut you all!! ✊️ (except Shrimp. He gets it 😉 )

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