FE4 Mountless run (Complete)

[momogeek2141]

So one day in Let's play Fire Emblem Binding Blade (Blindish) by Dual Dragons, I sort of made a mini bet with Elf_01 that DD would not get chapter 16x on the first try. Needless to say I lost. The bet was an absurd challenge lp. So I thought to myself: why not take the one thing that makes FE4 bearable-and throw it out the window

FE4 Mountless everybody!

Here are the rules:
1: Because I suck at fire emblem, mounts may be used until chapter 2 Heirhein castle. After Heirhein is seized, mounts are banned from combat.
2: Mounts cannot use the arena from chapter 2 onwards.
3: Mounted units may pair with females. (Funfact: There is only one female mount in Gen 1!)
4: Mounted units may participate in Talk convos and Give.
5: If a foot unit promotes to a mounted unit, that unit may not promote.
6: I am currently unsure about the situation in chapter 7. That will be decided later.
7: Full Recruitment no deaths (hopefully.)
8: Mounted units may visit villages for items, money, etc.

I may add an extra rule I forgot to mention or temporarily suspend the rules if a chapter is impossible (and not like "I didn't get X item: the chapter must not be doable without someone dying.)

Planned pairings:
JamkaxAyra
ClaudxAideen
Some random doofus with Lachesis because it doesn't even matter. Probably Dew.
LexxSylvia. Maybe, I'm not sure.
LevinxFury
AzelxTiltyu
NoishxBriggid


Also, this is my first LP ever, so please give me feedback to improve it!

[spoiler=Prologue-Jungby Part 1]

Alright, lets go!

So basically I won't go through the story very much, just do whatever I feel like commenting on. Read the LP on the archive if you're confused.

Anyways, Gandolf the Green of Verdane is attacking Jungby castle in Grandbell, and Aideen is worried. Midir promises to protect her.

He fails

So somehow Sigurd of nearby Chalphy hears of this instantly, and tells Noish that he's going to solo the entire Verdane army and rescue Aideen. Truth be told, I wouldn't be surprised if he did. Anyways, Noish tells him that he's dumb and that he and Alec are going with him.

Alec tells him to rescue the villages. Also, OIFAYE .

God, Alec's a jerk isn't he? No wonder I'm not using him.
Anyways, this new dude is Ardan, and out of these guys, he's the only one I'm allowed to use longterm.

And our cue to begin!

So I won't discuss any of the mounted units except for this guy. THIS GUY. HE'S A PREPROMOTE LORD. Yes, Sigurd it THE best lord in the entire fire emblem series, better than Awakening Avatar even! (Tbh I haven't played that game). He has good growths for a FE4 first generation unit, in addition to his Baldo holy blood. Here's the thing though: he doesn't lose experience gain for being promoted. So imagine Seth getting the same EXP as Franz, and you have Sigurd. PURE. AWESOME.

He has skills too! Only one, but it's the most important. In this game, you need the Pursuit skill to double attack with higher speed. He has this skill.

Ardan is pretty bad. He is the bottom of the bottom tier. Although it's not the speed or skill that kills him. It's the unchanging 5 move. In a game with maps BIGGER than the Path of Mounts, this is just sad. I will use him.

He has vantage, which was nerfed from it's Thracia and FE9 form. It will only attack first when under 50% health. Nifty, but rarely useful (unless you have a certain other skill we will see later.)

He gets the privilege of being the first unit to move in the game!

For some reason I sent Sigurd north instead of south to Jungby, but I fix it later so w/e.

Next, transitioning to the area around Jungby, we have here Gandolf the Green. And holy shit, those stats are good. He drops a skill ring, but we can't get it this chapter. He doesn't have any skills. He's positioned just outside of Jungby, and who's guarding it?

Oh. Aideen's screwed.

Midir has pursuit and Charge, which activates when you have higher Hp and speed than your opponent. It's good on bow users because they can deal damage without getting countered, but Midir's HP growth isn't very good. It's still useful in ltc runs though. Anyways I won't be using him.

So we end turn, and Gandolf attacks Midir.


What the- HEY YOU CAN'T CRITICAL YOU HAVE NO SKILLZ! (Yes critical is another skill, Noish has it.)

So Gandolf snags Aideen from Jungby and moves-

Very far away. Cheater. First a crit and then this?! Why can't Ardan do this!

Gerrard has problems. Cannibal.

And now on EP Ardan sees his first combat! Yes I did directly defy Alec and Oifaye, why do you ask?

Sigurd on the other hand shows his brokenness and one rounds this doofus. I'm pretty sure no lord can do that except FE10 Ike!

Enemy phase is mostly uneventful. When suddenly-

Oh hey! The red haired one is Azel. He's a footed mage! I can use him! Too bad he promotes to Mage Knight.
The other guy is Lex, an axe knight. He's actually really good, but I can't use him.

Woo Azel! You player!

Azel has decent stats, as well as a decent magic and speed growth. That's not the problem though. The problem lies with his magic specialization, fire. In this game, all fire/wind/thunder spells have the same might. However, fire has 12 weight, thunder has 7 weight, and wind has 2 weight for each spell. This means that Azel is stuck with the worst kind of magic. Don't worry, he can buy and use thunder and wind magic too, but those are obtained in chapter 2 and 4.

Azel has pursuit, which makes him invaluable in these early game maps. The brigands have no resistance and use 18 weight axes (balance, am I right?) so Azel is able to one round some of them like Sigurd. His other problem is that he promotes to mage knight, a mounted class. So he's stuck with 5 move.

Showing here Azel's earlygame powah!

And Ardan gets his first kill! Whoo!

Meanwhile this archer pesters Sigurd.

Doesn't prevent him from being amazing though.

Also, this dude attacks Lex. I think he dodged, but I don't remember.

And then wHEEEEYYYY who are you guys? WHY ALL MOUNTS .

So apparently Sigurd's troubles have spread ACROSS THE CONTINENT INSTANTANEOUSLY. The chick is Ethlin, Sigurd's sister. She can heal! Finally!
The guy on the left is his husband, Cuan. He's the king of Lenster. He's also really good, and prepromoted. He also doesn't suffer Exp consequences.
The third guy who I didn't screenshot is Fin, Cuan's loyal knight. He's unpromoted, and has some decent potential. In addition, he serves Jeigan purposes in the second gen providing you trained him.

So Alec or Noish (I really hope it's Noish) kill the bandit, but they leave it for Ardan.

Sigurd bashes this guy

Then moves ever closer to Jungby.
The Lenster Trio move.

Meanwhile, Lex snags a kill.

And Azel continues being Azel.
Just FYI, I won't cover level ups. I'll just posts stats after chapters or something like that. Enemy phasee

Oh no Sigurd took damage.

And this bandit is still going. Let's correct that next turn.

Go die in a hole. I'm pretty sure Sigurd got hit twice somehow.

Cuan is such a BEAST!

Ethlin snags the kill

Finally, Ardan takes the village and some gold that's living in it.

Noish pesters this guy with a hand axe.

Lex gets this other guy with a hand axe.

With one kill and one or two battles, he already has 94 EXP. This is because he has Paragon, which is the main reason why he's so good.

Who else to get the kill but AZEL!

He even dodged!

Pfeh you.

Ethlin is really dodgy in the early game, which is good.
Will make part 2

How do I name spoilers?

EDIT: I have now decided on the situation in chapter 7. First, I'll have Nanna return Fin, Leaf, and then herself, and see what happens. If that breaks the game, then on the second attempt Leaf may see combat. Nanna may heal Leaf, but may not fight, and Fin has to cower in a corner or something, Idk. I might just have Leaf stand on Lenster castle and see how that turns out.

EDIT: Ayra was the MVP of the first generation, so the poll goes down.

Edited June 30, 2015 by momogeek2141

[buttmuncher.ops]

use spoiler='insert title here'

if you're using sigurd though you have to make sure he's never close enough to give leadership to combat units, but still close enough to seize castle without losing too many turns

edit: i thought this would be a non-sigurd combat run too* because of the mountless rule

Edited May 6, 2015 by buttmuncher.ops

[momogeek2141]

use spoiler='insert title here'

if you're using sigurd though you have to make sure he's never close enough to give leadership to combat units, but still close enough to seize castle without losing too many turns

edit: i thought this would be a non-sigurd combat run too* because of the mountless rule

Thanks!

Sigurd is allowed until Heirhein. Then he's banned as well as the other mounts. Don't worry I'll make it as mountless as possible as you'll see in the next update.

[spoiler=Jungby Part 2]

Cuan finishes this lone bandit.

Meanwhile Ethlin goes to heal Sigurd. She can talk to him, but the healing is more important.

Plus, even after healing she can talk to him anyways!

How...generic. It sounds like FE10 support conversations.

And Ethlin complains about Sigurd and his father. But Sigurd thanks her for filling their mother's shoes.

Sigurd has taken the fight to Jungby itself!

Unfortunately he cannot one round them without using the iron lance, which puts him at a WTD. I no want that.

Cuan continues the overkill.

Finally, that buffoon died!

Those damn archers!

Lex is almost there...

BAM! Important village saved

Cuan.png

Cuan's only earlygame problem is the WTD, meaning he eats a lot of hits. His defense can handle it though, but it gets worrying.

If not for his wife. What's give? Lovers (in this case Cuan and Ethlin) can give all of their money to their lover. Yes, each individual unit has money in this game.

Fin may not have Cuan's awesomeness, but he can double!

Noish enters the home castle for reasons.

Followed by Ardan.

Lex, commence operation DESTROY!

Ouch!

Sigurd pretty much clears out the stray enemies.

Okay, that's it, Cuan is officially more than awesome.

Azel's next victim! Go Azel go o wait you have 5 move.

Sigurd hates archers. DIE FOOL!

GG JUNGBY

Why am I still taking pics of Cuan?

Because the trio is approaching Jungby.

DAMMIT LEX! (He missed but the enemy missed.)

I have Noish sell his steel sword. Can you see where I'm going with this?

Ouch! One of the bandits hit Sigurd. Now Dimaggio steps up to die...

Wait WHAT NO THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS THAT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN!

SIGGGGUUUUUUURRRRRRDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fortunately I savestated this turn.

Screw Lex and his bandit, this is what it's about! Also, Sigurd got an amazing 6 stat level with resistance. And he didn't die.

Azel.png

Ardan just entered Chalphy. Still don't know where I'm going?

Dimaggio gets rekt.

Aaand done!

Moral of the story: glitches can't kill anybody.

Midir says screw you I'm going to fight. Then he joins.

YAY. Wait a minute....CRAP REWIND

I do the same thing but I don't seize.

Lex doesn't miss this time.

And Ardan buys Noish's steel sword, and he buys Ardan's Iron sword!

And then he begins his treck!

Azel robs their bank

Once Ardan and Azel are positioned next to the Evans bridge, I save.

And THEN I seize. That's all for now!

Edited May 6, 2015 by momogeek2141

[momogeek2141]

All right, it's update time! I'm also going to add a poll, so go ahead and vote.

[spoiler=Evans]

Last time on FE4 Mountless, I stalled in order to set up a chokepoint like so. The AAA Squad (Azel Ardan Attack Squad) will take care of most of the enemies. Later Ayra will be added to this...organization.

And then I realized that poor Noish is still in Chalphy. Oh well.

He's going to be a father, so I have him head towards the village Azel and Lex saved.

Oh really? I'd like to see you stand up to the likes of SIGURD.

PRINCE GANDOLF WON'T BE PLEASED BECAUSE YOU DIRECTLY DEFIED HIS ORDERS!!!

My, my. That's quite the number of enemies.

And you are...?

Also, Sigurd and Azel can take care of them easily, don't worry.

Now this guy's stats...

JESUS CHRIST! HOLY SHIT WHAT IS THIS LEGENDARY WEAPON IN THE PROLOGUE! Obviously we can't recruit him. He does something useful for us though.

You're lucky Cuan spared your life. For ARDAN.

Since these guys have 4 more hp than they used to, Azel can't one round them anymore, but they will still be crippled and suicide into Ardan.

Meanwhile, Sigurd talks to Alvis.

What the hell was IS thinking?

Guys, Marth wasn't good enough. We need to make the next lord really good!

How about one rounding the enemy bandits? Even Alm couldn't do that!

Okay, but that's not good enough. How about giving him the STRONGEST NON LEGENDARY SWORD IN THE FRICKING PROLOGUE!

So yeah, Sigurd is now baws.

Yikes, archers can attack Azel. After Ardan chipped, Azel finished him off.

And Ethlin makes it as if nothing ever happened.

Dammit, another?

I do the same thing. I apologize for the boredom, there really isn't anything to say, I'm pretty much just repeating this over and over again.

Ardan keeps killing.

Cuan continues the Mercychip^Tm

Ethlin continues healing.

Tactical screwups are the only thing that make this interesting. Then again it's Sigurd, and he dodged it.

My god, this is so booooorrrrrrriiiiiiinnnnnnnngggggg!

That's it, I'm done. There's literally nothing more to talk about. The map animations just add to the boredom.

Doesn't this look a lot more interesting? I really like the FE4 and FE5 animations. They're my favorite in the series.

I mean just look at this fireball! This is actual fire magic, not that junk introduced in the GBA and DS games!

Azel is too good.

I'm not sure if even Sigurd can one round this guy. I think he can, but w/e.

Ardan gets his revenge against handaxe buffoons.

My swordplay is too good for you!

I tried to get a picture of the fireball over the bandit, but I failed. Even the stationary poses look cool in this game!

Yuck, more archers. Go die.

Azel procced a lot of magic and speed in this map. And I like it!

Temporary healbot continues her job.

I'm not even sure what happened here. I think Cuan might have done a chip or something.

Wow, this loser can't even 2HKO Azel. How sad.

BAM!

NOOOOO!

THIS IS WHAT IT FEELS LIKe TO BE BURNED AT THE STAKE!

(Oh cmon, don't blame me, SF doesn't have an Azel smiley!)

Eventually, it's just this.

Ardan eats this bandit.

While Sigurd eats this other bandit in order to feed kills onto the Silver sword.

Horse animations are really cool. Sigurd jumps up, lands right next to his opponent, and smacks him like so. So great.

This is Gerrard. His speed looks intimidating at first before you realize that his axes tank his AS to -2. Yes, this game includes negative AS.

In all of this boredom and fire, I forgot to move Noish. I do that now.

Meanwhile, Sigurd readies his sword against Gerrard.

Hey Scrubbie!

Don't you know the weapon triangle?

I plan to feed the bosskill to Ardan because he's the only one that can promote out of the group.

So unfortunately he heals and Sigurd has to face him again.

And we're done!

Or we would be if Ardan didn't MISS! CMON, YOU HAVE A WTA!

CAN'T YOU AT LEAST DODGE!!!! *sigh*

This would have been a reset if not for her.

DAMMIT ARDAN!

At least he hit in return.

All right, I'm taking no chances. I'm not going through that hell boredom again.

Ardan raises his sword...

AND STRIKES TRUE! THANK YOU FINALLY! THE AA SQUAD IS FINALLY NOTICED!

Screw you too buddy.

Noish finally visits the vilage and guess who it is? It's weapon triangle man! We will be seeing him later as well if the other village isn't killed.

I've got big plans for Serlis that require money, so Sigurd gets this village.

The last and most important goes to Azel. Why?

The speed ring. This will allow Azel to double and kill archers next chapter.

I should do an ltc guys! Such efficiency! I only took 3 times longer than the normal amount!

Anyways, Sigurd seizes.

Well no shit Sherlock, Gerrard blatantly told us that she isn't here and that has her!(Looks close enough)

...I like Sigurd's idea. More footies for me the better!

Ohai who are you?

He deserves it. Good job!

Finally, the prologue is over!

Stats:

[elf_01]

Wooooo promise delivered! This looks like it's going to be awesome (and probably going to take you ages because mounts are sort of useful :P), even though I haven't played FE4 since...a really long time ago...and remember almost nothing from it. Def looking forward to seeing how this unfolds, and best of luck!

For LP tips, you could probably get away with a bit more explanation and less pictures (especially if its just your units slaying their way through a choke)? Also, I was wondering if it's possible to make the screenshots slightly smaller (not really a big deal, but it currently takes a decent amount of scrolling). Otherwise, looking good so far

[GrySun]

Nice run.

For the MVPs, Briggid's base stats are ridiculous, she should easily carry you through the remaining 2 chapters once you get her. As Leaf can't promote he sadly can't be your best unit in gen 2, so I say Scathach. You have him from start to finish and astra should make him able to kill anyone. Although from my experience with FinnxAira, 1hp Scathach and Lakche are unkillable with Miracle so that would be even easier.

[momogeek2141]

Wooooo promise delivered! This looks like it's going to be awesome (and probably going to take you ages because mounts are sort of useful :P), even though I haven't played FE4 since...a really long time ago...and remember almost nothing from it. Def looking forward to seeing how this unfolds, and best of luck!

For LP tips, you could probably get away with a bit more explanation and less pictures (especially if its just your units slaying their way through a choke)? Also, I was wondering if it's possible to make the screenshots slightly smaller (not really a big deal, but it currently takes a decent amount of scrolling). Otherwise, looking good so far

Thank you very much for the feedback. I'll try to use less pictures. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to get snes9x or imgur to make the images smaller, I might ask Themoniker about that.

Nice run.

For the MVPs, Briggid's base stats are ridiculous, she should easily carry you through the remaining 2 chapters once you get her. As Leaf can't promote he sadly can't be your best unit in gen 2, so I say Scathach. You have him from start to finish and astra should make him able to kill anyone. Although from my experience with FinnxAira, 1hp Scathach and Lakche are unkillable with Miracle so that would be even easier.

Thank you.

That's what you think? Well, we'll see.

[spoiler=Genoa]

Unfortunately, some of the screenshots were eaten. Meaning that my story commentary and arena shenanigans were deleted. Ah well.

So basically, Eltshan of Nodion visits Sigurd and asks him why he took Evans. Sigurd says that they took his woman and that he wants her back. Eltshan says okay and agrees to protect Sigurd from Agustrian attacks. Meanwhile, Gandolf got mad, and asked his brother Kinbois to take back Evans. Kinbois captured a kid (Shanan) in his castle, and uses that to force Ayra to fight for him. Shanan is the prince of Isaac, which Grandbell is at war with, and tells Ayra not to fight for his sake, but Ayra agrees to fight in order to protect Shanan. She threatens to slay Kinbois if he double crosses her. Shanan tells Ayra not to fight again, but Ayra goes out anyways. I would listen to your prince, woman!

Anyways, for the Arena, Sigurd clears it (surprise) Ardan gets to level 6 (further than Cuan, huge surprise) and Azel gets to 4 (screw Shark.) I also accidentally savestated over Fin's arena failure, so he has one hp.

Sigurd and Cuan lead the charge, with everybody close behind except for Alec. Because screw Alec.

Starting the second turn...

Oh hey, it's Aideen! What's up! Who's your boyfriend? So this is Jamka. He's Gandolf's other brother, and is loyal to his country, which is why he won't escape with Aideen. You're a terrible boyfriend, no wonder I'm not pairing her with you.

Jamka has his priorities straight. Good luck!

THIEF! That means...NO MOUNT RIGHT?

Dew is such a liar. Don't you know that's part of the thief's code? Jamka's such an idiot, amiright guys?

Gandolf you're a failure in life. I'm surprised Aideen doesn't have PTSD yet.

And with that we get two new recruits!

This is Dew. He's a thief, and you can see that by his stats too. 15 speed, wow! Yet 1 defense, wow. Looking at his physical capabilities, Dew sucks. However, his job ain't combat (although he has good growths for a first gen unit.) You'll see his true passion later in this update.

And by later I mean now! He has the steal skill, which means that he takes the gold off of enemies when he hits them. He doesn't have to kill them, just hit them. In addition, he can give to anybody, not just his lover. This alone makes him incredibly useful, as he's a walking bank. When I pair him with Lachesis, he'll have two stores of money to access. He also has Sol, which is like it's FE9 counterpart. Whenever it activates, you heal yourself for the damage you take (although with that strength Dew...) Finally, he has bargain, which means he can buy things for half price. Really useful, and if he's paired with Briggid you can have a Holy weapon user with it! Very nice skill indeed.

In addition, we finally get Aideen! She's the stereotypical staff chick, decent magic with mediocre everything else. She joins with a mend staff, and is going to be my main staffbot after Heirhein. I plan on using her a lot more than Ethlin for that reason.

No skills, meaning that she's pretty much guaranteed to be staffbot4life.

They start out by a village, and Dew robs their bank like Azel did (except more thieflike rather than KILL EVERYTHING WITH FIRE!)

Turn two, Sigurd kills a bandit that's approaching a village near Evans and Genoa. He's in range of all of Kinbois's archers (man without a screenshot these comments are weak aren't they) as well as 5 of Kinbois's bandits. Cuan is in range of 3 of them.

Being the retards that they are, one of the brigands in range of Cuan attacks Sigurd instead. WHY? THERE IS LITERALLY NO POINT!

The other two have measurable IQ levels.

SIGURD. HATE. ARCHER!

Cuan procs an adept here and kills the other bandit.

Meanwhile the group Gandolf sent is approaching Dew. They have a zero hitrate on Dew, believe it or not, except for the captain who has 6. He's worrying.

Here are Kinbois's stats. Once again, that speed looks scary until you look at his weapon. The Silver Axe has a ton of might, meaning that whoever is on the receiving end of it will be ahurtin'. He drops a hand axe, and y'all would want to give that to Lex.

Here's the generic guarding Genoa. He has the exact same stats as Kinbois. What the hell.

And here we have AY-ay-ay-ay. Oh god, 23 attack? 11 AS? 92 hit? She's scary. She would tear Alec apart! Good thing she's recruitable.

That's not the dangerous thing. She has pursuit, which is a class skill of myrmidons. (So all of them have it, even the enemies.) She also has Nihil, which in this game doesn't negate Charge, adept, prayer, and a bunch of other skills. Here's the killer green skill. Astra. That's right, if she activates it, screw you, 5 attacks in a row, you're pretty much dead if you're not Ardan. And even he will be taken down to like 2 health or something when combined with pursuit.

Sigurd kills this handaxe douche in order to prevent hard hitters.

At this point I bring out Alec, whose Nihil will negate Ayra's astra.

OH SHIIIII-

I completely FORGOT that Fin was still on one hp and forgot to heal him with Ethlin! Good thing he's attacking an archer!

You dumb.

Okay, fine Gonzales.

Problem solved! (kinda) Aren't you happy this isn't thracia where staves can miss?

NOBODY IS ALLOWED TO ATTACK FIN!

Cuan then talks to Fin. No, Fin doesn't get a lance, he just gets stat boosts.

Noish job, everybody!

Azel will draw the fire of the two archers.

Aideen runs. While Dew...

GETS MONEY! YEAH!

Wow. Them archers completely ignore Azel and go for the staff chick. What wimps.

Meanwhile, Fin takes a hand axe hit.

Oh shiiiiiiii-

Thank god, he dodged that one.

OH SHIIIIIIIIIIII-

I really don't deserve to be this lucky. And Fin's prayer only boosts his evade by 20. There you go guys, tactical screw up number one.

Major screwup count: 1

If Dew's hit anytime soon, he's history. BTW, he actually does 1 damage because that's the minimum damage for this game.

What a mess. I really should have died that turn.

Ah well, might as well take advantage of it. Fin takes on something that WON'T kill him.

Then he RUNS THE HELL AWAY.

Sigurd attacks this guy before proceeding to Solo Genoa.

Azel takes a hit but almost kills Kinbois in the process.

Screw Lex, Ardan is going to get the bosskill!

Yay, free money.

Noish can't double, so he finishes the last Brigand with a weapon that will let him one shot it.

Oh yeah, Midir literally hasn't done anything. Even last chapter. No really, his iron bow was at 50 uses during the arena shenanigans.

Aaaand of course his first attack is a miss. His pursuit attack hits, but...BENCHED!

What an organized formation.

Awww snap, shit's about to get REAL!

Wait why did she...OH NO SHE'S GOING FOR AIDEEN! RUN WOMAN RUN!

She also might go for Sigurd.

I have Sigurd slay one of the bandits and stand juuuust outside her range. It goes to no avail as she continues after Aideen.

Next turn, he chips the boss. This is my strategy for this castle in every playthrough, the SigSolo^TM.

I need Alec to be in Ayra's range so that she will go towards Genoa instead of pursuing Aideen. So the AAA SQUAD MAKES A RETURN AND CLEARS A PATH!

Go die in a hole Azel.

Cmon...

These other guys are ready to protect Aideen if the plan fails.

Mean while the FFF Squad(Fin's Fighting Failure Squad) goes home. Hopefully I won't need them.

On EP, the Captain SigSuicides^TM. Good, everything is going according to plan.

I save...

Then command Alec to RUN THE HELL AWAY! Ayra one rounds him! So much for Nihil! After that, Ardan takes his place as the bait. If she activates Astra we're screwed.

In retrospect I realize this was a stupid idea, because Ayra will double him with the lance equipped, but not with a sword, and that's not worth the WTA.

You dumb.

Shut up! Sigurd seizes after equipping the lance.

Damn right we did! It was all in the mage.

Yeah! Someone's got his priorities straight! I can't wait to use you in Gen 2!

Don't worry kiddo, Sigurd's not a douchebag unlike .

Why did the retards in the Ultimate Fire Emblem Lord kill off Sigurd? He deserves the honor! Also, OIFAYE!

Take note of that my friend, and do exactly what he did!

Will Ayra be successfully recruited? Will Dew take a hit from the Bandit captain? Will Shanan continue being a badass? Find out...

NEXT TIME!

[momogeek2141]

Does anyone know if deleting images in Imgur will prevent it from showing in old updates? Because all my images are out of order and randomly deleted because of snes9x and I'm sick of it. I missed Ayra's conversation, what the hell happened between Genoa and Marpha, and I'm just...AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH! Maybe I should just replay it.

[spoiler=Marpha]

Enough of my rant. Let's get the "what the hell was deleted and why"crap out of the way.

Back near Nodion (recall this was where Eltshan was) troops from Heirhein of Agustria led by Elliot tried to take advantage of Sigurd's distractions and began attacking Evans. However, the border patrol alerted Eltshan and he and his cross knights completely wiped the floor with Elliot. Eltshan himself wielded the Demon Mistoltin.

At the same time, Sigurd recruits Ayra, sells his silver sword in the pawn shop, and Ayra buys it. She then clears the arena, and heads south with the other footies to bail Dew out of the everlasting threat of the Captain hitting him. I proceed with the ASS strategy (Ayra solo stuff) against the bandits. Ayra is one strength away from killing the 40 hp bandits, but she can kill the ones Dew chipped and robbed. IIRC, only one survived because one of the 40 hp bandits was astra'd and then gave her a str proc, allowing her to one round them all naturally.

Meanwhile, Aideen talked to Ethlin, and gave her the return staff that returns people home. Ethlin then returned Aideen to Evans.

Back near Marpha...

I don't like the sound of that.

Oh, just these fools. Suicide into Ayra, everybody!

Ardan takes on the captain. (My swordplay is too good for you!)

And Azel finishes him off.

We end like this, but I screwed up. Why? The bandits have 0 hit on Ayra, meaning that they will stand next to her without attacking. Goddamn.

You dumb.

Are you going to input useful commentary anytime soon, huh? ARE YOU GOING TO PROTECT MY IMAGES? Maybe YOU'RE so dumb that you can't tell images from food and you eat them!

I realize my mistake next turn, and place Ayra on the fort in the off chance that she eats a hit. The others flee.

She not only SLAUGHTERS THEM ALL, but the church heals the +2 hp she got on levels! What the hell!

Like seriously, holy shit woman!

Sigurd killed like 6 enemies. Just showing you the effectiveness of the ASS strategy.

Anyways, now that that's over, Ethlin returns her home.

I stall until turn 50, because then I can let Aideen and Ayra stand next to whoever without worrying about them falling in love (Aideen's lover comes waaaayyy later, and I just want to be safe with Ayra.)

There is something special about bandits.

They are walking gold mines.

Good job Ardan!

So yeah, this.

Dew heads over to Genoa and buys the slim sword we saved especially for him. Then he gets to level 3 in the arena before failing. 1 defense isn't exactly the best base stat to have.

Since Aideen can't go in the arena for now, she gets the village for money instead.

Then Dew talks to her. Don't get excited, the Warp staff is nowhere near as good in this game. It allows people to warp to various castles.

I bring everyone near Marpha, then I save. This includes Aideen.

This is my battle formation. I pray they all go for Ayra. Or at least the archers.

HYAAAAAAHHHHH! GET REKT SON!

That's right Ardan, learn from the master!

Another thing attached to Ayra's sword: Sigurd's hate for archers. Die!

Dew on a forest=Dew in the village. They can't hit him, but the archers can (SCREW ARCHERS!)

*sniff* Ardan has come so far...

Despite the low hit rate, the fact that these archers have a hit rate is a threat, because Dew has nonexistant defense. AND THEN THE PIC WHERE HE ACTUALLY GETS HIT IS DELETED. DAMMIT SNES9X!

This is the new formation. Ayra kills archer, Ardan continues being Ardan, and Dew retreats. I have Aideen heal him, so she's exposed to enemy fire.

CRAP

CRAAAAAAAAAAAP

Major Screwup Count: 2

DAMN YOU DAMN ARCHERS YOU GOT ME INTO THIS DAMN MESS!

God!

I want compensation for that horror!

It looks like it, but the other bandit isn't dead, just weakened. I really wish there were vulneraries in this game!

Azel is so mad that his fire lingers on his foe!

I arranged my formation in such a way that Aideen won't be attacked. None of the others will die.

Predictably he goes after Dew, who then kills him with his shiny new slim sword (It's actually better in every stat than the iron sword, including mt, believe it or not.)

Aideen warps Ayra to Genoa...

So that she can repair her sword. Damn that's expensive! I guess the ASS strategy has its drawbacks...

Everyone catches up.

I'm not going through hell again, Ethlin fixes this right up. Fortunately just when Ethlin is no longer usable, we get a SECOND footed staffbot!

This is Gandolf. His strength is scary. His defense is scary. His speed is not. Why?

Say it with me

His speed looks scary until you realize that axes tank his AS to 0.

So basically, Axes are shit in this game.

HEY!

HEY! YOU DUMB! I SAID IN THIS GAME!

Cmon Gandolf, pick a card, any card!

He picked the wrong card

The reason you're so unlucky is because SIGURD and then AYRA! Deal with it! You're not like Kinbois who had the brains to actually go out and almost kill Fin!

He dumb.

Yeah!

Uh, wow. Ayra is a real role model for him, isn't she? And I like it. Keep it up, and you just might find yourself with a promotion!

Oooooh, are you going to take that Azel?

Azel shows him who the real mage around here is!

GODDAMMIT AZEL! TWICE IN A ROW! ARE YOU FRICKING SERIOUS! GO JUMP IN A PIT AND SHOOT YOURSELF! HOW DO YOU MANAGE TO AGGRAVATE ME SO! YOU LITERALLY HAVE NO STATS CAPPED! SO STOP BEING A BUFFOON AND GET GOOD PROCS ALREADY AAAAHHHHHHH!

Maybe I should rename Ardan to Arya. It'll be a cool name, Ayra and Arya. He certainly seems to be doing well!

*sigh* two empty levels in a row...That's just sad, man.

Guys, I'm going to add a nickname thing to the poll. Add your own suggestions if you want. The kid deserves it.

Like seriously, he really deserves it! Holy crap man!

And thus, Ardan avenged Aideen. He is the new champion, who managed to beat the legendary .

Did Ardan ever proc skill? I think he can keep this for a while.

Yes, you're seeing that correctly, that's 64.

And we're done here!

Whoa, HEY! Stop it, Sigurd's coming! If you value your life you would run like mad!

Oh no! It's too late!

Seriously, what the hell is wrong with the people in the Ultimate Fire Emblem Lord? Look at this guy, he's so badass!

Whooooaaaa, waaaait a minute. How the hell do you know his name?

Ooooohhhhh, so you're not a stalker. I would have been surprised, how do you stalk someone without computers?

Vut

Really, why?

Wait...is she...?

OH NO OH NO THIS IS REALLY REALLY BAD! AIDEEN YOU BETTER MAKE A MOVE ON SIGURD BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!

OH NO IT'S TOO LATE!

...Why? Are they cursed or something?

Way to repeat yourself old man.

Sigurd doesn't believe in superstitions either? I believe we would be best friends!

And that's all for this time because THEM STUPID DELETED IMAGES!!!!!

If you guys feel like it, feel free to find some more nicknames for Ardan. He's done...not that much tbh, but at least he didn't empty level twice in a row! (Jesus Azel!)

[momogeek2141]

Because I'm feeling inspired, your gift is another update! This next castle is kinda long, so it's going to be split into two parts. Also, no images were deleted! And get even more psyched up, because this is the FIRST TRULY MOUNTLESS UPDATE! YEAH!

[spoiler=Jamka]

This first part will be the recruitment of Jamka and the cleanup. The second part will be the assault on Verdane castle.

After conquering Marpha...

What the hell? Since when did Grandbell want to invade Verdane?!

First we have and now this Sandima person? What?

AKA he'll kill his father.

What what NO DAMMIT JAMKA!

His promise to Sandima rings true

...

...............

Sandima...you DASTARD!

The dude on the left is Manfloy, and he's the head honcho of the Dark Sect.

*Ayra. He meant Ayra. Ardan too.

EEEEWWWW, INCEST! Yep, the plot of the story revolves around incest.

...So by reviving the Dark Lord, you think you'll be spared and the world will be a better place? Nuh huh, I don't think so buddy.

Too many archers...We hate archers and can take on one or two, but eight?

This was one of the badly designed castles in FE4. I mean, your troops and Jamka's troops are on opposite sides of a big forest, and the first few turns is just waltzing across the forest, and then one or two units engage at a time. AKA not fun.

Here's Jamka. His stats are really good, and he has a very good Strength growth as well. Ayra still blows him out of the water. Since in order to critical, you need the critical skill, the Killer bow does not boost crit rate. Instead, it simply gives the wielder the critical skill as long as it's equipped. This makes Jamka quite formidable.

His skills on the other hand make him EXTREMELY formidable. Pursuit? Check. 31% Adept? Check. Charge? Check. This guy is basically a multihitting nightmare with critical. Not. Fun. Until he's on our side, that is!

We move out like this. I sent out my mounts in case I would need them, but it turned out a nonissue.

Bad map design, etcetera...

Eventually it comes down to this. They literally have a 1% hit chance on Ayra. Until she procs Astra and kills one, then gains speed. The bad news is that she cannot one round these bandits without Astra due to their absurdly high defenses and hp (they're 3HKOed with 1 hp after 2 hits.)

The death zone. Not nearly as deadly as the Black Knight, but still.

There it is, there's the astra, and there's the speed proc.

The bandit next to Ayra didn't attack. They attacked Ardan, however, and continues to do the Ayra.

Take a deep breath Ayra!

By killing this guy we isolate the southern bandits from the northern ones.

And we guard Aideen like this. The bandit didn't attack Sigurd, if you're curious.

CMON AYRA DON'T DIE DON'T DIE ON ME NOW!

Oooooooowwwwwwww

Just look at that hit rate!

Aideen is now in position, and Ayra is healed up! We survived!

Ayra gets hit, then this idiot gets in my way. The one time I want her to, Ayra doesn't proc Astra!

I have to give it to the loser instead!

Lemme tell you the secret.

Saaaaaannnnnnnndddddddiiiiiiiimmmmmmmmaaaaaaa!

Yes! I get the killer bow multihitting badass dude!

*sigh* Just like Sigurd...

Sorry Jamka, you're out of her league. You're going with the other badass.

Welcome to the team, Jamka.

Is recruiting Jamka worth a risk of death?

No.

Yes. He means yes.

Kill?

Dang! I guess your partner can take the kill.

Go Azel go! Azel megachips this dude while Ardan goes to the other side of Aideen and hits that guy.

Feeding kills to Dew. (Thanks Azel!)

End of turn situation

OW.

Azel took negative damage.

Will Jamka proc Adept or Charge?

Yes he did!

End of turn situation. Jamka and Ayra are going to near Verdane while waiting for the assault force.

Guys...I can't believe it. Azel became a badass again!

Useful badass too, cause then Dew gets more money.

Sigurd moves up and wait who are you?

2 problems bro.

1: I haven't used you nearly enough for you to be able to do that.

2: You have shitty RES.

Wait really? Silence staff! YES!

WAIT NO! WHAT ABOUT AIDEEN! ISN'T SHE YOUR WOMAN?

Sorry Aideen, looks like you'll have to deal with torment by Azel.

Note that Deirdre isn't Sigurd's lover yet because turn 50 passed, and they require a turn to become compatible.

Courtesy of Ardan! He's Azel without pursuit!

This is Deirdre. Her Magic is really impressive, and so is her Res. The problem is not her speed, but her weapon. Aura is WORSE THAN AXES. It has a ridiculous weight of 20, meaning that she actually has -8 attack speed. Good thing she doesn't have pursuit-wait some enemies have pursuit. Crap. Fortunately her Silence staff works well with her because of her high magic score. The Circlet provides with the prayer and renewal skills. Prayer is when a unit goes to 10 health or below, their evasion goes up by 10*(11-current hp). So it's kinda broken if someone manages to get to that point. Renewal restores some health per turn, and it can be used to set up the perfect prayer tank.

She has Nihil. Useless in this early part of the game (and even later it's relatively useless except against major bosses.) And she leaves after the early part of the game. Yeah. Deirdre is pretty bad.

Before we go out, let's take a look at Sandima.

...18 magic. 18 FRICKING MAGIC. DARK MAGIC IS THE MOST POWERFUL IN THE GAME. HOLY SHIT! Sandima is scary as hell to fight without Deirdre, and Fenrir has 3-10 range. Jormung is even stronger! He can one shot pretty much my entire team besides Deirdre and maybe Aideen! Fortunately, Deirdre's Silence will pretty much trivialize him.

If he has skills this would be BS.

Next time: Jamka's fury.

Edited May 10, 2015 by momogeek2141

[momogeek2141]

Wow, I'm on a roll today!

[spoiler=Verdane]

I figured to start on a high note. Look how much gold Dew has stolen! (For reference, the money cap is 50k) I don't think money will be that much of an issue, folks.

*Deep breath* I'm ready. After the rest of the squad shows up.

Restore everyone's hp.

Let's do this thing.

Jamka moves over there, and then...

GET REKT SANDIMA!

We now have a 4 turn time limit to clear out the cronies and kill Sandima.

Roll out!

Jamka, as you can see, is one str off from one rounding archers. And he procced str after multihitting this dude to death.

Turn 1, check. Ayra continues to show her hate of archers.

Meanwhile, Jamka shows off his 26 attack!

Even Azel joins the fun!

OUCH!

Phew!

And then he died to an archer. Let's try that again. Except Azel doesn't attack the archer.

SHIT!

AND THEN HE DIED! DAMMIT JAMKA!

You dumb.

...Touche.

Screw this. I moved Jamka to a different spot this time.

Count how many archers were slaughtered. Then count Jamka's damage. Yeah, it was complete and utter destruction.

Jamka murders the steel axe fighter, and everyone gets in their positions.

Does this warrant a major screwup? I don't think this warrants a major screwup.

You dumb.

Of course, the dumb brute can't hold himself back.

You picked the wrong fight. Go learn from Ephraim which fights you can win.

Aideen dodges a bullet, and it's PP again.

At this point I realize I left Dew and the other mounts behind. Oh well, they aren't doing anything important. Besides, it was pretty much a Jamka solo.

Finally, Deirdre in battle! Aura sucks balls as you can see, it doesn't even have a good hitrate to make up for it's retarded weight.

It looks kinda cool though.

Another kill for the Armored-Ayra-without-Pursuit.

Azel is the best megachipper.

Surprised?

Now, here's the thing. Jamka is EXTREMELY MAD at Sandima.

He's got a score to settle with the loser. (Look, Sandima's retardedly high magic stat will one shot Jamka)

You DASTARD! I WILL SHOW YOU NO MERCY! HYYAAAAAAAAH!

TAKE THIS! CRITICAL ARROW! YAAAAAAAHHHHH!

Yay, another useless thing for the archer. Now is just cleanup and some last-minute things.

First, Aideen warps Deirdre home to take on the Arena.

Her high resistance means she slaughters the mages. Unfortunately, she has to fight a myrmidon in order to get to the other mage.

Aideen does the same to Jamka

And he does it too. He, like Sigurd and Ayra, cleared through it entirely. Without RNG abuse too, Ayra and Sigurd required it against THIS LOSER! Wind magic is the lightest weapon in the game, with 2 weight. THIS BITCH HAS A SPEED RING TOO. HE'S FASTER THAN GODDAMN AYRA! WHAT THE HELL! Jamka dodges this guy twice and smacks him twice. Taught that idiot a lesson, eh?

More funds, right? Plus, repairing that bow will be expensive.

Yikes!

Lex, what in the world are you doing all the way over there?

Oh. A secret event appears where the story of the farmer or whatever drops his axe into the water and then the lady asks if the gold or silver axe is his. Same thing but Lex gets a brave axe instead. Neat!

The brave axe is the best axe in the game. First of all, it doesn't have WTF 18 weight, instead weighing a less severe 12. Second, it hits twice in a row, making Lex's lack of pursuit less painful. Third, it has decent might because axe. Lex makes really good use of it.

Hell yeah! EXACTLY 100! Whoo!

Yeah, apologize for Gandolf!

Sandima's more of a douche on the inside, it turns out!

Yes sir! Sigurd, do what this man says! I thought he was a bad guy at first, but now...not so much.

Of course.

Next time: What happens after bandit's? Obligatory Country invades other country?

Stats:

*sigh* Still base defense...

[Ansem]

Who would get the Brave axe? Ardan?

[momogeek2141]

Who would get the Brave axe? Ardan?

Tbh, I dont even know if he can use it post promo. I think he can, and will probably use both the Brave Axe and Lance.

[Ansem]

I think Azel is pretty great with pursuit for this run, sucks that you'll have to bench him once he promotes. But you have Levin to come replace him soon after.

[momogeek2141]

Actually i don't need to bench him. He just can't promote at all.

[Jedi]

Funny thing is you'll be able to keep using Celice. Because when he promotes he gets a dismount command.

[momogeek2141]

Haha, it would be a dick move if he lost stats upon dismounting. I don't think I'll end up promoting him because I'll probably forget to have him equip something. I'll just stick the leg ring on him and call it a day.

[momogeek2141]

This is it guys! I'm so sad...the last castle with Sigurd as a usable unit! Well...here goes!

[spoiler=Chapter 2 prep]

Last castle with Sigurd...let's do this thing.

Oh hey Eltshan! Wait, Shagaal killed his father? Sounds a lot like someone...Ashnard, that's it!

Oh right, Eltshan's a righteous man who says screw superstition. So he's a lot like Sigurd! I like him!

GOOD. BECAUSE I BELIEVE LACHESIS.

I think they're a wee bit too cozy for siblings.

So Eltshan leaves Nodion...

And goes to Aguswait a minute why is the castle red?

And what is going on here? Shagaal is building a huge military and is trying to conquer Grandbell. What a loser.

Don't you know rulers like this guy don't give a crap about the people?

I just...What? Your logic is dumb Shagaal. I don't like you at all. Screw you.

Uh oh...

WHAT THE HELL!!! GODDAMMIT SHAGAAL!

ELTSHAAAAANNNN!

Oh really? You SOAB!!!!

Yep, I was right. He's an idiot.

YOU! YOU'RE THE ONE BEHIND HIS DEATH! SCREW YOU MANFLOY!

There are a few problems with that.

1: You have to beat Ardan.

2: You have to beat Jamka.

3: You have to beat Ayra.

I don't see that happening.

I KNEW IT! LACHESIS WAS RIGHT!

Too late! Shagaal has already sent his messenger!

Ummmmm..... please don't make me think like that.

She's serious. If they die we lose a neat reward. Necessary in this case because mountless and all.

So her knights and Lach herself ready themselves for battle.

Nooooo! Eltshan can't kick their ass like he did last time because the Cross knights are somewhere else! Looks like it's up to us, folks.

We'll help them, right? Right?

I know right! They're complete buffoons!

Um...Sigurd you're not a player. Oh wait, I forgot, Eltshan n'all.

Awwww....

SIGURD, SHUT UP! I need all the footies I can get, even though she's relatively useless.

Hey, don't worry. Sigurd's broken.

Yeah!

And that's our cue to begin!

Let's see the enemy force first.

O-oh my. Oh my god, that's a lot! Fortunately the AKs will be defending their castle, and only Elliot and co will attack, but still!

The armors are led by Phil here, and I'm sorry but Ardan has way better stats than you. Except speed, but he's unpromoted. And res. And skill. You know what? If Ardan was promoted he'd be as good as you.

Screw that skill. Just...screw it. Right now it isn't a huge deal, but later-It's going to be a pain in the ass. That there is Great Shield, the same thing as in FE8. It's the class skill of Barons and Generals, so Ardan will have it when he promotes. It's activation rate is level %, and the max level is 30. 30 percent chance of negating all damage! The worst part is that it occurs last in the skill chain, so Dew can show his sol and then it'll be negated! What the hell! The return ring does the same as the staff, except only the user can return himself.

Elliot here conveniently drops his Silver Lance. Bad news is that only Cuan can use it, and Ardan's going to have to promote to use it. But at that point he can use the brave axe, so why bother?

This is also the first encounter with Ballistae. Their stats are shit, but they can launch one powerful attack over 10 range. The hit rate isn't very good though.

These are the weapons and stats of Lach's guards. They are formidable, but no pursuit. They'll quickly get overwhelmed, leaving Lach vulnerable, which is why I made this castle mount allowed.

Lachesis herself isn't very formidable just yet, but her strength growth is high because minor Hezul blood. However, she promotes into the BEST CLASS IN THE GAME. It has A ranks in everything except Dark magic and Light magic. It has crazy good stat gains, and pursuit as a class skill. Bad news? It's mounted. So Lachesis is merely here to help Dew in his money shenanigans.

Her other job is staffbot. Since Ethlin is banned after this, it's good that she can do it. The skill is charisma. And it's really good. It provides +10 hit and evade to all allies within 3 squares. Very nice indeed. Her children are both mounts, so the pairing is mostly to help out other first gen units with their money.(SIGURD)

Now the arena! Elfire is the next step up from fire. It's just as bad. It's decently powerful too. Notice the kinda low hitrate. Light has a triangle advantage against anima in this game. So does Dark. Light and Dark don't negate each other, however.

I like it better than GBA Elfire.

Myrmidons are a pain in the arena because of their innate pursuit. Ardan's ludicrous defense allows him to shrug it off, however.

And the shop! Azel buys thunder, and it's going to be his weapon of choice for a while. Thunder is less shitty than fire, with 5 less weight, but all the other stats are the same.

Thunder beats fire, fire beats wind, wind beats thunder. Except that wind is the lightest, so it beats everything but dark.

Ayra clears the arena without much trouble and hey who are you? Say...you look kinda like that last opponent.

HUH.

The unit we just got is Holyn. He's a myrm like Ayra. However, he promotes to Hero instead of Swordmaster. (SM is a way better class). He joins if a one range unit clears the arena. Ardan lost to a Lance Armor that he probably wouldn't have beaten, Azel and Deirdre lost to the myrm, Dew lost to the Lance knight (1 defense is still sad.) So Ayra is the only one who's good at it. (Sigurd could pull it off too, but remember mounts cannot use this arena.) Statwise, he's currently inferior to Ayra. However, he trades Ayra's absurd offensive power for slightly more durability.

His special skill is Luna. Between the other two sword skills (Astra and Sol) Luna is in the middle. Like its FE9 counterpart, Luna will negate defense. It's good on units like generals and Barons, who have FRICKING GREAT SHIELD TO NEGATE LUNA. Also, a RD mastery skill is better than an FE9 mastery skill, so Astra is naturally better.

The Steel blade (and all blade weapons) are A rank, so Holyn buys this one for himself. It's stronger than the Silver sword by two might, but it has terrible hit. He can't clear the arena because he was replaced at the end by Keimos, a retardedly fast and powerful Hero who completely slaughtered Holyn. I accidentally saved over, so he has 1 hp.

Jamka buys the steel bow and clears all but the last enemy, against who he uses the killer bow instead.

How far everyone got into the arena.

Finally, Sigurd buys the Steel Lance. It's as powerful as the Steel blade, and most of the enemies aren't wielding swords, so he'll still be able to double most of them.

Let's roll.

[Jedi]

Haha, it would be a dick move if he lost stats upon dismounting. I don't think I'll end up promoting him because I'll probably forget to have him equip something. I'll just stick the leg ring on him and call it a day.

I'll test it maybe in a bit.

[Zasplach]

I'll test it maybe in a bit.

He loses all of his promotional gains, from mount to lance proficiency to stats.

[Jedi]

He loses all of his promotional gains, from mount to lance proficiency to stats.

Ouchy lol. I had thought he kept some of his stats.

[momogeek2141]

He loses all of his promotional gains, from mount to lance proficiency to stats.

I suspected that. At least my decision is now justified.

[momogeek2141]

Just a post letting you know that I completed Heirhein (god, that castle was painful.) However, I have 170 images to sort through and half of them are failures. I'll try to make an update as soon as I can.

[momogeek2141]

Okay. Let's get this started.

[spoiler=Nodion]

Once again, long update, will split into two parts.

First, I have Ethlin sell her return staff. She won't need it anymore.

I'm not going to do any of the conversations. I'm that tired, okay?

She gives Ethlin the light sword. This is on a failed attempt. On the actual one I forget to do that.

Turn 1.

So I guess that you'll be jerking her around?

Generic Phil even gets in a word.

Damn. This is the start of a time limit. In order to get something awesome, you need to seize Heirhein in 11 turns, 12 if you rig.

We can't attack them because they're technically not enemies yet.

The mounted part of the squad...

Alongside with the footed. I'm trying to set it up so that Aideen stays as far away from people as possible.

The battle has begun, with Heirhein getting in the first strike!

Yep. Next turn Lach's knights will be assaulted.

Still moving forward. Don't worry, these guys get some combat.

Cmon, in range now...

Next turn, Lex shows off the power of Brave Axe.

LolMidir.

Cuan gets in a kill

I'm sorry, I just had to take a picture of this!

Sigurd's looks cooler however. I guess it's the downward pose.

End of turn.

See above. I'm not going to express much about this castle because it was tedious and required lots of attempts on my part.

Thank god. AHAHAHAHA NOPE THE LANCE KNIGHT WILL KILL HIM.

WAIT WTF!? AN AXE KNIGHT? YOU HAVE A DAMN WTA WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?

The next couple of attempts were Cuan getting wrecked by LK and then Elliot smacked him.

The third time, I set up my formation like this, as to protect Ethlin and Midir (Who get one shotted by Elliot-at least Ethlin does.)

Ow.

Alright, I made it this far, Cuan didn't die. Let's finish this part. Hopefully.

Noish gets one...

And Fin Javelichips this dude.

AW, CMON, SERIOUSLY?

Scratch that. LolMidir.

Sig gets a kill...

And Yoink!

I don't think he missed this time.

Imagine how good a trained Lex would be. Probably do twice as much damage or something.

So yeah, Elliot dies.

And we get the weapon Ardan might but probably won't use.

It's just cleanup at this point.

God, if this was Heirhein, just imagine how bad my commentary will be in something, like, Melgen!

Then again, in Melgen I'll have more than 6 foot units. Plus Shanan.

Fin needs to be healed. That's all for this time.

Next time: How in the world am I going to plow through that army of Armors with my Losers?

[momogeek2141]

I'm feeling better from that yucky gameplay of Heirhein. Hopefully my commentary is better.

[spoiler=Hellhein]

Yep. Here is where the huge mess begins. Starting with unreliable strategy. I don't think I can count how many major screwups are made. I just suck that badly.

Here is our end turn formation.

Next turn, I save to make sure that half the hell is guaranteed to be finished.

Ballistae have a scary range. Also, you know how my mounts suck?

...yeah. I have to fight those armors with them.

Always be prepared!

Assault force

Main force. The knights of Nodion will follow Lachesis, so they can either be helpful or they will get in our way.

Yep. Turn 6 and the first village is already being pummeled.

I could heal lolMidir, but Cuan's gonna need all the hp he can get in these next few turns.

Chipped ballistae are fun!

The last thing Cuan needs is more damage. Fin misses twice.

I then reset and Cuan procs continue for some reason.

Sigurd has to face Phil!

Also, Fin javechipped the Axe armor, and Lex Brave'd it to death.

Main...force...

Alert, Alert! Everyone Brace for Impact!

And then someone dies.

Let's try that again, but in a different order.

First, Jamka critkills this armor.

And Lach buys the Return staff. She'll probably spam it to some extent so that she can go decently far in the arena, something you need in order to be able to be a bank.

Brace for impact second!

Then, Cuan and Siggy go up to face Boldo himself!

Next turn, everyone ate a bunch of damage. Noish eats this armor.

Midir, you're such a loser. Lex hits twice.

I doubt Ayra is going to Astra all the armors. I doubt the armors are going to go for Ayra. That's a problem.

I put Dew here to draw the fire of the armors, but they go for Deirdre anyways.

Yes, I even brought Alec for the ride. This is what happens in Hellhein.

Strike force, engage the enemy!

Shit! I forgot to heal Holyn!

Major Screwup count: around 7

They'll go for Aideen but she can take a hit if needed.

Next turn, Midir chips

HNNNNG!

And then Ardan missed. Ah well.

In my tedium I had Dew talk to Lach. She got the Thief sword. It's as light as wind magic, but weak and innaccurate as hell. It's also a cheap sword to repair. All in all, it sucks.

And then Cuan was shot by a ballista. Dammit!

I do the same thing up north as last time.

I don't actually think I covered Boldo. I think the fact that Phil is better is sad.

Screw Great Shield, etc...For some reason though he never seemed to activate it.

Lach heals Aideen's wounds.

Thief Sword

I didn't remember what I did last run, so I just let Ayra astra him to death.

Like so. Luna is blue and Sol is red.

You don't deserve a generic death quote. You're Philip, man!

Ayra gets the return ring AKA money.

There's no way to chip this guy for Ardan, so I let Ardan do the chipping.

Overkill Galore~

Noish gets a level from this, and that's nice, since he's unusable after this.

Now these two javelarmors hit Sigurd twice so now he's at 2 hp. Thank fricking god Boldo has horrid hit. Cuan takes care of one of them.

Actually wait, this was the run where Cuan was shot by a ballista. See how confusing things get in crappy runs!

Heal up, you have one last kill to make for this castle!

I barely make the time limit.

Die

Die.

Last heal ever!

Fucking finally!

I TURN ON ANIMATIONS FOR THIS FINAL MOMENT OF GLORY! FOR SIGURD!

FOR SIGURD!

FOR SIGURD!

FOOOOOOOORRRRRRR SSSSIIIIIIGGGGGGUUUUURRRRRRDDDDDDD! GG bro, you were amazing. I'll miss you for sure.

God that was hell!

Yes, I think that's a sound idea!

Remember Shagaal, THE CITIZENS ARE IMPORTANT.

Damn right! That one village will probably get crumpled by now!

GOD I'M DONE GUYS! I'M DONE WITH THIS RETARDED CASTLE! THANK GOD! I HATE THIS MAP SO MUCH IT FEELS SWEET TO TELL IT TO SUCK IT!

Next time: Worse than Hellhein.

Edited May 11, 2015 by momogeek2141

[momogeek2141]

295 images...what have I gotten myself into?

[spoiler=Electricity and classics]

This is the formation at the end of the turn. You might think that I'm stupid because Ardan is out of formation, but just watch.

Do rewarp staves exist in this game? Or is Shagaal cheating the mechanics again?

Also, OBLIGATORY SHAKESPEARE REFERENCE!

One volt is a joule per coulomb! I learned that in chemistry.

Hmm, I hope that Voltz is recruitable.

BEOWULF FROM...BEOWULF.

*COUGH COUGH RECRUITABLE UNIT COUGH COUGH*

Meanwhile in "The bandits are pummeling our villages land"

Hey look, it's Alec's younger brother!

Yeah Levin, where the hell is Macbeth?

Oooh, Levin, I never knew you had a girlfriend!

LOL HAHAHA! I like Levin already!

Bards and dancers do the same thing. Wait...bards and dancers do the same thing. BARDS AND DANCERS DO THE SAME THING! DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS? DOUBLE DANCING!

Er, Sylvia, people might take that the wrong way. You should be more careful of what you say.

And, just like that, we get a bard and a dancer.

This is Levin. Sadly, we don't get double dancers, because bards use magic in this game. That said, LEVIN IS AMAZING. He starts with some of the best bases in the game, and HEY LOOK WIND MAGIC! He specializes in the best kind of magic there is! In addition, he has major Holsety blood, meaning SPEED GROWTH OFF THE CHARTS! In addition, Bards promote to Sage, which is the best magic using class in the game! He gets even BETTER for a reason we'll find out later.

IS knew how broken he was, so they did the one thing they could to nerf him: take away the best skill in the game. He suffers from no pursuit. He does have adept though, and with his absurdly high speed and speed cap, he'll activate it extremely often. In addition, he has critical. Did I mention his 50% skill growth? Riiiiight.

Sylvia is nowhere near as good as Levin combatwise, but she's good for a different reason. She has broken dancing. What do I mean by that? Imagine Rafiel with 6 move. Or a permanently transformed Reyson with 6 move. Basically, she can dance to four units adjacent to her. Sweet. Her bases and growths suck balls, but she shouldn't be seeing combat anyways.

She has adept which will rarely activate, Dance which we already covered, and prayer.

Levin begins his journey by adepting this poor bandit.

Sylvia dances for him...

And he goes west to save that one village that the bandit started killing on turn 6.

Meanwhile, this happens.

Yep.

And Mr. Joule per Coulomb begins his long march across the country.

Agustria has pegasus knights?

Wait PRINCE Levin?

Here's Macbee protecting Agusty. That defense is scary. So is that Hp. He also has Great Shield. All in all, Levin will plow through him...with a little trouble, but he'll do it.

Voltz on the other hand is kinda scary. He's gonna have a hard time missing with that 21 skill, and his defense is pretty solid. He hits pretty hard too. However he has something that we want...that paragon ring. Whoever holds this ring will gain exp at double the rate. That's real nice. Especially for those who have money but have a hard time getting exp (DEW)

This is the real reason he's scary. 32% chance of activating continue. Yikes. Ardan is the only person who'll survive one, and maybe Holyn, but I'm not sure about Holyn and Ardan is out smoking weed somewhere. So I think I'll just pray.

Beowulf is nowhere near as threatening, however he is recruitable, so we'll want to be careful.

Pursuit and Charge. He'll gain continue upon promotion. Unusable/10.

Since Levin is out of reach, Sylvia will take on this bandit. It'll take a while, but she can do it.

See? On EP that village will be down to 2 houses. Meaning that Levin can Elwind him twice and win. If we finished Heirhein in 12 turns, we'd have to rig an adept or critical to save the village.

I didn't show it, but there is a small trio of a Duke knight and two Fins north of the swordies and Jamka. We prepare to face them.

And by that I mean Holyn killed them all.

BARELY. I CAN MATH GUYS.

You dumb.

Inchin' ever closer.

I give the kill to Jamka because archer, and PP is important.

Holyn isn't going to die anytime soon. I didn't forget.

Lach returns Aideen home. We don't want her falling in love, no we don't.

Ardan, I know you're high but, seriously, I think armor is a little heavy for a beach trip.

Sweet! Levin crits and saves the village!

New formation.

Don't worry, Alec's benched now! Also, you're literally the strongest on the team, don't worry. (spoiler: Ayra gets stronger )

Sorry man, but the lper gets to decide who gets laid.

Wait, you're not serious!

YES! ARDAN'S GONNA LOVE THIS! I DON'T REGRET MAKING HIM SMOKE POT!

At this time Ethlin gets the light sword. And I send the FFF squad (Fin's fighting failures, as you may recall) back home. Unfortunately, this is a failed run. Again.

The first time I tried to do this, I tried to put Holyn, Jamka, and Ayra out in the plains and have them get mobbed. It resulted in death. That left me no choice but to resort to the ASS strategy. Except those guys have high hit, so she'll need the evasion from a castle. Say goodbye to Jamka for now!

Healing.

FUCK! BY PUTTING LACHESIS THERE THE KNIGHTS GOT IN RANGE OF THESE BUFFOONS AND NOW THEY'RE SCREWED! NOOOOOO!

Major screwup count: Let's say 10 to be safe.

Next run, I get light sword now, FFF goes home.

I have no idea what sort of ugly formation these guys are aiming for, but it isn't working.

Syl finally kills the bandit.

Home free!

Ayra fixes her sword and sits on the castle.

Darn. You'll fall for Jamka soon!

IT BEGINS.

This is the average result.

Cmon, no adept no adept no adept...

No...Ayra got hit. And it hurts.

And then SHE PROCS ASTRA AND ONE ROUNDS HIM! WHAT THE FRICKING HELL? HOLY SHIT WOMAN!

Hell yeah!

Thank god she heals. I'm not sure she can eat all the hits. And Beowulf better stray from the pack.

Beowulf strayed away. I'm going to use Ardan as bait. If that doesn't work I'll use Dew.

FUCK! Ah well, she's had a good run. Plus, she's almost as strong as Ardan (Seriously, what?)

Yep. Ayra is seriously killtastic.

Well, what if we paid you?

Ardan still does more damage despite the double.

Wait, what the hell does Dew have to do with Beowulf? I'm so confused!

He doesn't even mention him by name!

Basically, you need a unit with 10000 gold to talk to Beowulf, and you'll recruit him. 10000 gold of the unit you're using will go to Beowulf. In this case HE'S ROBBING DEW'S MONEY BECAUSE I CAN'T EVEN USE THE DAMN GUY!

RIP.

Two of them were actually smart enough to run away. Ardan pokes one of them.

Ayra follows suit and HEY STOP STEALING MY KILLS!

Ha! He's so scared of Ardan he goes for the prepromote instead!

Damn, a perfect feed for Dew! Oh well.

You might think I'm stupid and that this is pointless. In reality it's not. Why?

Hell YES! The silver sword is now at 50 kills. It is stained red. What does this mean?

...it has innate critical. Yes, Ayra can now critical as long as she's using this sword. In addition, for every additional kill, the crit rate goes up by 1%, capping out at 50 (100 kills). So imagine Ayra right now. She has 25 skill. Pursuit. Astra. Critical, which can activate within an Astra! She's become a goddamn killing machine!

Meanwhile, Lach returns Levin (I honestly don't know why I did that, it was probably to have him stay at home to prevent love growth with Sylvia.)

And he clears the arena no trouble. No RNG abuse. Not even against Keimos, the OP Hero. Never underestimate Wind magic and a 90% speed growth.

She also returns Sylvia

Who abuses Prayer to no end. She lost to the myrm (screw them and their mediocre damage. If he was a nuke like this guy she could prayer abuse but nooooo.)

AyraXJamka got quite a bit of Love here, and so did DewXLachesis.

I think this is a nice time to end the update.

Next time: Never say Macbeth on stage.