clarissassin

Late to the conversation, but I'm doing a Silver Snow challenge where from the beginning of the game I can only use church people (so a lot of early chapters are only Byleth, or Byleth with Edeglard in a corner) on maddening NG+. Just don't be an idiot like me and completely forget that the game will force you to use BE students in that one chapter post timeskip who will likely still be severely underleveled if you haven't prepared... (you can adjutant them pre-timeskip and have them focus on flying I suppose to avoid massacre). Additionally, I have a NO SHOPS rule. So no buying any weapons, items, ores, batallions, etc. They only exception is for seals to advance classes. I would recommend having online play turned on, because this heavily relies on picking up some weapons on the purple sparkling squares. Also having the DLC helps because of the place that gives you a few weapons every month. You can repair weapons if you have the ore, but you can't buy ore so it needs to be chosen carefully. Definitely utilise the free repairs you get post timeskip. Recruiting students always come with a free weapon, so utilise this as well. It also makes bows very valuable early game.