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Ok, for those who have more experience in Ranked Runs than me I offer you this ... problem. I kinda wanted to do another run through Blazing Sword after ~3 years from my last run. In my hubris I decided to do S-Rank HHM + LHM while recruiting every single character. This resulted into the mess, I'm in right now. My roster looks like this at Chapter 28: Name: LVL HP STR SKL SPD LUK DEF RES Weapon Ranks Notes Lyn 17.78 27 15 14 20 14 3 6 A Sword Kent 17.45 34 11 16 16 4 7 5 C Sword, B Lance Sain 17.15 35 16 10 8 8 8 7 C Sword, B Lance Florina 17.13 36 14 11 16 17 6 7 A Lance 1x Angelic Robe Will 3.0 21 7 6 5 7 5 0 D Bow Dorcas 3.0 30 7 7 6 3 3 0 C Axe Erk 16.18 28 14 8 16 6 5 10 A Anima Serra 15.34 23 8 8 14 18 4 14 A Staff Rath 8.0 25 8 9 11 6 7 2 C Bow Matthew 14.42 28 5 7 18 9 4 0 B Sword Lucius 15.93 23 14 9 16 5 1 12 B Light Hector 20 38 16 14 10 8 16 5 A Axe Oswin 16.12 35 17 12 8 5 15 4 A Lance Eliwood 15.45 30 13 10 15 13 9 3 A Sword Marcus -/8.71 34 17 19 12 10 11 10 A Sword, A Lance, S Axe Lowen 15.26 35 8 11 10 10 11 4 C Sword, B Lance Bartre 10/4.61 41 18 13 8 10 11 9 A Axe, E Bow Rebecca 11.44 23 7 13 12 7 3 4 C Bow Guy 14.97 32 9 19 19 9 9 5 A Sword Priscilla 20 23 15 12 16 21 6 16 A Staff Raven 15.92 38 14 19 19 8 8 3 A Sword Canas 8.0 21 10 9 8 7 5 8 B Dark Dart 15.38 39 18 9 12 4 6 2 A Axe Fiora 17.59 28 11 20 20 9 6 12 A Lance Legault 18.58 32 10 16 20 16 11 6 C Sword Ninian 15.77 25 0 2 23 21 7 15 - Isadora -/1.55 28 13 12 16 10 8 6 A Sword, B Lance, D Axe Heath 18.28 40 17 14 16 10 17 3 A Lance Hawkeye -/8.80 53 19 15 12 15 14 11 S Axe Geitz -/7.49 49 21 15 14 13 12 6 A Axe, B Bow Farina 17.27 26 12 14 17 13 10 14 A Lance Louise -/4.12 28 12 14 17 16 9 12 A Bow Pent -/8.02 33 19 21 17 14 13 16 S Anima, A Staff Harken -/9.07 43 23 22 18 12 16 11 B Sword, B Axe As you can probably see, with the exception of Bartre (who needs to be x/5 for Karla) none of my units are promoted and Florina got her Robe from LHM (so basically free). I didn't use a single booster or promotion item yet. However if you look at my current rankings. Tactics **** (234/328 Turns) Survival***** (0 deaths) Funds **** EXP ***** Combat ***** I visited Linus' and Kenneth's map. With the exception of 19xx every Gaiden chapter was visited and the Silver card was stolen. As you can see I'm probably a bit hard pressed for Tactics. I know that you can cheese the later maps with Warp but the bigger problem are funds and EXP. Since I intended to do full recruitment I had to sell some stuff (mostly Blue and Red Gems) to scratch myself the Gold for Farina but that also left me with a scarce inventory. I forgot to buy extra weapons in Linus chapter and my barracks are kinda full due to conserving the money items. Also I have little experience with rankings in general. I don't know if I did well with sharing my EXP among all the units. I had to leave out Dorcas because most of the spare EXP went into Bartre and Will was simply unsalvageable (somehow got a Lvl. during his return). I didn't use Canas at all because his weapons are kinda expensive. Rath was used in his re-recruitment chapter but unfortunately I didn't had any opportunity to use him more. This is probably the part where FE7 starts to take itself a bit more seriously, so I don't think I should try to train that underleveled units anymore. In fact I should probably think about a more permanent line-up. Since this game has good pre-promotes Marcus, Hawkeye, Geitz, Pent, Harken and Vaida seem like no-brainer to me. The problem is the rest. I think promoting Kent with a Knight Crest is better than using Isadora with a Robe since he has higher stats and better growths. The same goes for Heath who has absurdly good stats for some reason. That should be enough for promotions, right? I don't think I can further strain my Funds rank. So ... how do you think, I'm doing? Is it still doable to S-Rank this run or should I just drop it? I think I can save my Tactics rank if I skip 32x but everything else seems pretty bleak. It doesn't help that I forgot to re-stock my weapons during Linus' chapter so I'm kinda lacking in Javelins and Hand Axes (which in turn could ruin my Combat rank, aaaaaaa).