ARMADS!!!

I heard about it a lot too, guess it was supposed to be viewable from where I am (Portugal) but I didn't see it, I ended up forgetting + my sleep schedule is horrible so I was sleeping when it happened too. After it happened, I asked my mother if she saw it and she said she tried but couldn't (don't remember if it was because the sun wasn't visible from where she was or if it just wasn't too intense from here or what, but alas). I never saw an eclipse before, it'd have been nice if I hadn't forgotten but at the same time I don't care about this too much so it's not like it's some major regret that will keep me up at night too. At the same time, I don't think I have good sunglasses at home so maybe it'd have been better to not keep staring at the sun even if I had remembered it, gotta prepare myself better for the next one I guess. When I was a kid I was obssessed with the idea of seeing an eclipse (and two or three years ago I had phase were I was very on par with astronomical events so I'd probably have freaked out over this then too), now I still want to see one someday but not enough to miss a day at work for, neither to go somewhere else that is not very close on foot to my house (unless if a friend of mine decided to make an event out of it and invited me to go see it somewhere, still would very likely not miss work for it, but would be up to go to another place to see it).

What the hell? FALLEN WRYS EXISTS?! Maybe I'm being delusional now but with all of the cool premium staff units we've been getting now, I think that he has a chance of being on a fallen banner (though Lena, Nyna and Elice have way more chance than him as a staff unit from Archanea for the fallen banner, I'll choose to be delusional for a bit). From now on I'll be disappointed on the fallen banner each year that Wrys doesn't appear on it (also it'd be specially neat if Daisuke Izuka -the guy that drew the feh arts for Medeus, Formortiis, Fallen Hardin, Validar, Ashnard, Resplendent Surtr, etc (I wouldn't be surprised if he was the one to have drawn this fallen Wrys art from cipher too)- was to make his art for Heroes). I find it hella weird that some of these characters never got a card, I thought most people liked Harken better than Karel so it's odd that Karel has a card and Harken doesn't, Dart too is someone I always thought was popular enough, and Zeiss too (I mean, he's even required to be recruited and alive for most of the game for you to get the true ending!). Also surprised by the most obvious ones you mentioned like Duessel, Freyja, Duma and actual older Hector. Do they release the decks/packs/whatever they're called by characters that are associated with each others or the lineups are random? (Just asking cause I noticed the absence of both Harken and Isadora and wonder if it's because they were probably gonna be released together if Cipher hadn't been discontinued, or if it's just coincidence). Also, seems like FE7's Fire dragon doesn't have one which is sorta understandable since fire dragons are just generic enemies in FE6 but also a bit weird since it's the final boss of FE7, I still wanted he to have one just because he's not votable for CYL. Also, I love the idea of having Sanaki with both Alondite and Ragnell, there's a card where Lilina wields Armads and it's likely one of my favorite ideas from Cipher (and I've been waiting for it to be used for her Ascended/Rearmed since the concept came up).

I know, but it still feels like they like to avoid characters with actual kid designs for child banners, not that I think it's definitively on purpouse or some sort of conspiration or anything, probably just a weird coincidence. The Awakening kids are the only ones that have canon child designs and were festured on the child banner until now, right? That might mean they're starting to do it from now on (even though they started with the ones that have child designs that are concept art only), not that I want every child banner to be about the characters that have canon child designs (my most desired title for this banner is likely Heroes so) it's just weird that they had never done it before (until now, sorta) and each year it feels more and more like they're avoiding it. Oh, it was you then! I saw the part where you guessed the whole lineup just before coming to this thread yesterday but didn't relemember ir had been you to also make the comment about Titania and Seth. Btw, pretty nice guess, and I wouldn't have thought that Lissa would've been chosen as the demote over Emmeryn too that would have been hard to guess right (speaking of this, they seem to like repeating demotes, they repeated one or two characters on sort of recent past seasonals and now did ir again with Lissa, maybe I'm confusing it and it's TT units though, or both, I'll check it later to refresh my memory). Yeah, and at this point attack stacking is mattering less too with these skills and weapons that inflict unavoidable damage at start of combat or every other weapon inflicting extra damage based on a % of whatever stat. The ones that suffer the most are Def and Res I think, since most good tanks have so much DR now that it doesn't matter too much with you target, so much that Hexblade is definitly becoming a basic bitch effect that they throw on demotes/TT units and refines when they don't know what to give them, danm we even get it as a thing that some units can easily concede to a bunch of allies at once (like one recent define I forgot who was, and now Jorge's refine too) while some 2 years ago only a handful of units had it. The stats mainly only visibly matter for checks to trigger some effect on specific weapons now lol (like if you need your res to be higher than foe's to do something like Ninja Camilla's weapon).

Roy and Lilina also have kid designs that keep getting skipped and that pisses me off a bit, but SoV likely pisses me off more cause it's so obvious! I wonder if they'll even make the Ram village kids full the whole banner when it comes, since the only girls are Faye and Celica, think they might want to throw Mae, Genny and/or Silque instead of one or two of the boys. Would be really curious to see who'd be the duo too, since Alm+Celica was already used. Oh yeah, and Dimitri and Edelgard have kid designs too, they keep skipping the ones that have it (not that I wanted another crazy Edelgard just now but anyway). Say that to baby Est.

Oh, cool, I haven't even noticed that. Can't believe they didn't do it before but in any case, it's better late than never.

Fallen Julia has been one of my MVPs until at least the end of book V (and I still use her a lot of times), so it's awesome that she's getting such a good refine! Also, great that there's some justification on spending orbs to try to get Bridal Nailah now, I've always wanted her but after each year it feels like I'll be wasting orbs because I only wanted her cause I like her art and character anyway (and I'm not too much into building units so I'd be using her with her base kit or ay least no premium skill inherited from anyone), but now the refine totally justifies it!

Most boring lineup they could possibly do with Awakening. Also, I agree with whoever was it that said on the Pre Banner Discussion thread that it's a bit of a shame that Frederick makes it into the banner while Titania and Seth didn't on the previous years. At first sight, I thought that the Duo inflicted Hush Spectrum on itself and I was hella interested to know why or how the unit would potentially use it to it's own benefit or as trade off for something better (I love when they do this sort of thing, like Emblem Ike, Summer Ephraim, Urvan's refine, Haar's prf, how Julius's weapon treats him as if he was a dragon, etc...) but then I realizei I had just misread it and that it's the foe that gets Hush Spectrum and became less interested. The units are alright and all not but nothing struck me as particularly interesting (or at least not enough for me to spend orbs on it, not even Emmeryn, and I tend to be a sucker for these new Prf staves), + I don't care about the characters so definitively a skip. Also, not sure how popular or unpopular this opinion is but it I detest when they put both genders of the same avatar on the same banner (if it's on the same year I mean, if they did something like fallen male Byleth now it wouldn't annoy me), it pretty much takes a slot and makes the lineup more boring than it'd have been otherwise, pisses me off specially more on banners that they don't repeat for the same title (like Valentines or child banners) because then it's a slot that was even more wasted for the same character. Didn't notice this lol, but yeah that was fast. I reckon they tend to take a bit longer to release counters than that (right? Or am I missing something?), makes me worry a bit that the powercreep might start to happen even faster and that the meta might move even faster. Although maybe it's better to have the stronger units be dehtroned fast than to have another Fallen Edelgard/Brave Edelgard situation.

Oh lol, of course. I always forget!

The video you linked is to a smash bros video and I can't find anything about "Fire Emblem: Sins of Thousand Year War" either, is this a troll post or some joke I didn't get or you just put the wrong link? Well, if it's serious, I'm pretty curious to know how it'll turn out (and even though I'm happy and hopeful about it being a new title, I gotta admit I'm a bit bummed it's not a remake...). Hopefully it won't have any aspect of Dating Sims but I'm not sure we can count on that.

Throught a sorta quick search I couldn't find it, maybe it's some concept art or as you said, a fanart. Do you have the image? Lol, really though... And the art could've been so sick if she didn't look like a kid cause the cape and the colors were great, what a waste. When we get actual kid Lucina, I'll refer to her as kid Lucina 2, so no one will confuse it with the kid Lucina we already have (AKA Resplendent Lucina).

I think that maybe they decided to count all of the Archanea games as just one title because it had 4 games while Tellius was just 2? (or 5 for Archanea if we count BSFE, Plus that OVA if we count it too, anyway the point is that Archanea is featured in a way bigger number of material even if some are obscure and some are remakes, while Tellius has only it's 2 games and that's it) So it seemed like a good idea at first but then Feh moved a bit forward and they regretted it cause there was really no reason to keep PoR and RD separated, even if the designs are slightly different between the two games. But they detransform into people (like Laguz) or are just regular wolves?

Yeah, I think the most obvious lineup for a Heroes child banner would be Alfonse, Sharena, Peony, Bruno, Triandra and Plumeria. Maybe Veronica takes the place of one of the latter 3 (probably Bruno? Also I assume Mirabilis wouldn't be on the banner at all as it seems not many people care about her, to the point she even got to be the demote on the Easter banner). I'm glad cause those are my prefered options for a Heroes child banner, as much as I'd like to see Eir or Reggin (+ Ótr), or the Muspell sisters or... anyone but Fjorm. I think 3 Houses would be all of the lords and Byleth, as they seem to want to include all of the lords on these. Speaking of this, I wonder if RD is an option and we can get kid Micaiah (maybe kid Elincia too), doubt they'd do it just yet thought, but it would be neat if it ever happened. I hope an SoV one could include Boey and Mae, they are in desperate need for alts and I think they'd want to put someone from Celica's side too, not just Alm's, and these two are my favorite characters from the cast. Though since the Ram village kids are mostly boys, I fear they'd want to leave Boey out (specially considering how much more popular Mae is than him...). Awakening has a lot of options, wonder if they'd want to mix gen 1 with gen 2, maybe something like Chrom, Lissa, Emmeryn (being an older kid), Lucina and 2 others (maybe Morgans, or Owen)... But that'd be too much like the Ylisse Valentines banner. I'd be okay with any lineup really, I don't particularly like Awakening's cast to strongly hope for a specific lineup, but guess I like them enough to have a good chance of being interested. Lucina seems obligatory though. For FE6 we'd surely have Roy and Lilina, they even have kid designs from FE7, same for Guinivere. I guess Wolt could be in it too even though no one gives a shit about him. I wouldn't be surprised with Klein or Igrene either, though I wouldn't be very happy with Igrene getting a second alt this year (specially so soon). Apart from these, I think that there's not any other completly obvious answer and they could add just about anyone they wanted (wouldn't be surprised with kid Sophia too even though she's not supposed to be a kid at the same time the others are... But guess Igrene isn't too so not sure if that'd be an issue). In any case, maybe they won't want to do a second Elibe child banner on a row anyway.

I'll put my personal thoughts on a separated post as always: - I think it won't be 3 Houses this year, cause that one will obviously be another Lords + Byleth freakshow and we already got this on this Christmas. - I think FE4 and 5 are not too likely too but I'd love it (although... If it was FE4/5 then we'd probably not get our yearly FE4/5 seasonal banner later so there's that). I can easily see all the others, even Heroes (I'd kill someone with a spoon for Child Sharena and Peony on the same banner, and for a Bruno duo with either Alfonse, Sharena or Veronica). Hopefully it won't be Engage.

We're to get the next special heroes banner on the 5th or 6th of April. Who are you expecting for this year's child banner? Drop your expectations and theories here. We already got Archanea, Tellius and FE8. The remaining options are SoV, FE4, FE5, FE6, Awakening, Fates, 3 Houses, Engage and Heroes (and TMS but not sure if that should even be counted...).

Slow ike? Noice. I found it weird that our second Emblem is another male sword infantry, specially since it's been said here that Ike is an armoured unit (with a hammer, if I got it correctly) on Engage. Gotta admit that it bothers me a bit too that Ike is always sword infantry with Ragnell, with Hector it never bothered me that he's always armoured axe with Armads but with Ike the repetition does annoy a bit... At least Hector got an axe that is obviously Wolf Beil (but for some reason with a different name) on his kid alt but except for this, he could have some crazy verison of Armads in every single alt of his until the end of the game and I'd be ok. Not sure if that's cause I'm biased towards Armads (I mean... Look at my name) or if that's a feeling that more people share, cause I've never seen much complaint about Hector, while with Ike it happens a lot more. Guess it might be because we have more sword infantry lords than armoured axe, idk. Anyway, I liked Ike's gimmick here a lot, I like it when a tank lets the foe attack some times before being able to counter (like B!Ike, Summer Ephraim), or when an unit gets something a bit bad in exchange for something good (like how Haar's prf took away his weakness against bows but gave him a weakness against blue tomes... Even though those were probably gonna kill him most of the times already, or how Julius' Loptous tome made him vulnerable to anti-dragon attacks). Also, I'm particularly surprised he could survive that A!Reinhardt so well on the trailer. And I wish his Emblem effect was cooler, not that it's bad or that I wanted it to be super broken... Just more interesting, I'm not straight up disappointed but I guess Marth set the bar a bit high. Yeah, I think they regretted making PoR and RD count as separated titles but now it's too late for them to make it count as one. It should've been like Archanea from the beggining, don't both of them have a 3 year timeskip between the first and second game of the duology after all? That's one of the reasons for SD to be so toxic, you have no time to think so what people do to guarantee they can win is to put the most meta units they can and with the bigger amounts of text on their weapons and skills. Not that it wouldn't be toxic if we had more time but I heavilly suspect it would be notably less. At this point they should start listing what the weapons and skills do in bullet points... Well, they did give us the option to hide parts of the text on the current update but I suspect that this feature will be used to give even more effects on the weapons and not to make the texts easier to digest. I'm actually a bit surprised that Engage has zero beasts, I feel like they'd add some on purpouse for feh's sake since there's not a lot of popular beasts left to add from the other games (so much that they even made Askr and Embla -who have been explicitly mentioned as being dragons on the first few years of the game- be beasts). I guess it's good they don't let the sucess from FEH be in the way of the writing of the new entries, I've seen people saying on Reddit that they got the impression that Engage has a shit-ton of lords because they wanted more options of Legendary/Ascended heroes for FEH but I'm glad that might not be true.