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[The Roger The Paladin]

Part 11- A tale of two Rogers.

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On 7/5/2020 at 4:43 AM, Benice said:

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"Here's the traitor your majesty"

Eliwood's children are everywhere! Berwick Saga, FE6, now FE11!
But Marth's doing the opposite of Eliwood for the latter part of the conversation. Once he gets past the exposition he just knows the whole damn thing already.

It would be a Merricle if he gets a good level!
You mean his first one? Where he missed two/three stats depending if you discount strength.. which he has no growth in. Not that the 5% def is any better. Really missing res was the only one I could have reasonably expected him to get.

He's hungry like the Wolf.
He's Wolfing down those kills.

RIP. He was a good man.
Sure saved me a lot of healing.

Me: Plays the 2nd easiest game in the franchise, has a death list that could fill an encyclopedia.
I'd say both PoR and Sacred Stones class as easier.

The Roger: Plays one of the hardest games in the franchise, has no deaths.
Also remembering you're further in than I am, I've got a decade of experience with this game, I legit should have a dead Matthis and possibly Caeda by now.

Bro, you should do a Lunatic Conquest LP after this!
I tried an ironman on Maniac once. It didn't go well. We're talking everyone died bad.

I have return!
I ho e your tri  was  leasant and did not involve being re laced by a sha eshifter named Doo liss

 

On 7/5/2020 at 6:42 AM, Saint Rubenio said:

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Hoo, boy... That could've been bad.
I'm so happy it didn't go differently to be honest. Even if I'm a coward who hasn't went full ironman... I'd have hated to have the reset going.

By the way, I love how both your update and my update featured extremely cowardly tactics that involved uneven terrain, villages, and a blue-haired girl somehow surviving a deadly blow.

I swear I remember that comment from somewhere. And this one for that matter. Deja vu?

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!

If only that were how it works.
I mean, it was a set up for how I literally screw up moments later by forgetting the Javelin's at 1 use because I'm too busy being happy she's alive.

Yes, just in time to... Twiddle her thumbs until chapter 20!

Well... to be fair... there's also the extra point of damage it adds to lances compared to B/C rank. As long as I'm not fighting an axe user. Doesn't sound like much... but remember Bradamante is working on effective damage.

Those arrows are still friggin' massive! He doesn't need the bow, just whack 'em over the head with one of those and they'll fall!

A fatal b(l)ow.

Wolf and Sedgar are the ultimate counter-argument to bases over growths. They've no bases, but I mean, just look at this! It's amazing!

I've actually thought this every time Mekkah says about growths not mattering. I mean, they don't in that the games can be beat without them... but growths like this are sure to make it easier.

Cough cough Matthis cough cough

Of course Matthis is gonna hit A lances before Cain. He's already a chunk of the way to B. Cain's still not at C. Actually, Gradivus is going to have some fierce competition with Matthis, Abel, Cain, Caeda, Wolf and probably Ukyo because I have a feeling I'm going to vastly favour lances over swords on anyone with the choice. That said... Ukyo's also a good candidate for Mercurius seeing as I do plan on dropping Ogma eventually.

Ahahahahah... Ahh, Merric and his shitty ass stats. A fact of life that didn't even change in the jump to FE12. I mean, he's better there, but... still painful, still thoroughly outclassed by a prepromote that can use his tome at base. Only difference is, the prepromote rocks a monocle instead of a pope hat.

I'd argue he's better off here. The lack of enemy resistance plus the fact no one else has particularly good magic growths/bases means he's not totally screwed. Not sure I'm using him long term all the same. Wendell really is a lot less work.

"You fool! I have been trained in the mustache arts by Moulder the Boulder!"

Should have realized Moulder doesn't fight with physical attacks for fear of ravaging the continent. He's been trained to hold back his wrath.

So uncivilized.

Well, Minerva did just fuck off the battlefield with her squad instead of whacking Wrys's bald head with the Hauteclere. I know you beat them all to a pulp, but even if you hadn't she would've just left after a few turns of idling over the mountains.  So maybe it's her. Just maybe.

I'm of the opinion it is. But I couldn't help but point out she had less choice than usual this time.

Nope, not just you. He has a legit Runysmile going on there. He still looks like he despises everything and everyone, though. It's the reason I like his portrait in this game better than in FE12, actually. Everyone else was better off (well, I did like Caeda's portrait in 11 a bit better), but Marth lost his intense glare and became a generic anime protagonist, and that was just such a shame.

I might have to edit Marthsmile/MarthGlare into FE12 in the same lazy manner as Ukyo.

Also, this is why SD!Marth is the best.

I had to point it out for that very reason.

Ah, yeah... I stopped watching that one when I realized it was going to be a Sedgar solo. In fact, that was the last Mangs thing I've ever watched. Nothing against the man, but I find his youtube personality to be rather annoying. Just my humble opinion, of course.

It's funny because later in the run Wolf had a forged Dragonpike (from memory) named "Deadgar" in memory of the deceased Sedgar.

I agree with this statement.

How to make my shilling less subtle.

Genius. You're a genius. You genius.
No joke here.

 

 

On 7/5/2020 at 8:22 AM, Eltosian Kadath said:

I am sure things will end up better next time, just don't loss hope. Sappy I know, but the past doesn't dictate the future, and someday the odds will be with you in real life, as they were here, so just keep trying.

Only catch is getting motivated. I once coined a phrase about my heart of stone. Made me laugh a little when Byleth literally had a crest stone in their heart. Who knew IS would make an "avatar" with an in-joke.

I think he means Minerva and the White Wings, who were supposed to attack you, but instead sorta waited around until they ran off, and will definitely betray them in the future.

I know. But I can't help but have a joke because the retreat was forced early. Though I'd have probably been screwed if they were actually aggressive. Then again... he was the genius who told Minerva not to attack head on... maybe she really was just following orders.

Man your Caeda is just staggeringly strength blessed.

The good thing is knowing that only makes early promotion look more enticing. I mean, if she were to get all of two more strength levels... once her promotion bonuses are factored in, she'd hit her 20/20 average. Anything past that's a benefit. I did realize that her average for defense is 8 at this point though.

Good catch noticing the slight difference between the two emotions his face has. They really could have done better making his face more expressive (FE12 did a slightly better job distinguishing his facial expressions).

I find the subtletly a nice touch actually. Only catch being it's easy to miss on a DS screen. Probably why I haven't noticed it prior.

You can save some of the child chapter for latter game recruits with their scaling stats and child seal (although some of those chapter shouldn't be faced late game *cough* IGNATIUS *cough*) and even stay available if one of the parents dies...

Didn't really think of that. See, I usually do child chapters as soon as they come available in an attempt to replicate the more linear Fire Emblem as much as possible. Then again, I didn't realize the things scale... so maybe that was pointless. Figures really.

That H5 ironman win was something amazing, with so many ups and downs, and is well worth seeing for those that haven't (also rip the fan favorite Unil, she was a generic, and an amazing mage/sage, and when she returned as a male Hero after death it was hilarious)

I find it hilarious that Auffle was one of the only survivors. I mean, with that name.

DS era healers are an odd mix, on the one hand the healing rates of staves are some of the worst in the entire series (Wrys literally heals less than a vulnerary per turn when he joins), but the warp staff comes so early, and is so powerful (similar idea in FE12, but with the Rescue instead of Warp), but on that first hand FE11 is missing all of the status staves, and most of the utility staves, so Warp really is carrying staff users a lot...

Remembering weakness of healers in this game really justify having more than one so they can do their job as a team rather than the sole healer. I find that actually makes you miss them more if you try to only use one... compared to the three I have.

Welcome back, hope you had fun on your backpacking trip.

Joke about back acking tri  here. (cursed  a er Mario:TTYD references)

It was looking like a Sedgar Solo at some point? I don't remember that, but I may have been distracted by all the memeing with Radd and Unil. Although if you don't like his youtube persona, than fair enough.

(side note in case you are curious Sedgar would end up dying to Gharnef. The ending was amazing with Marth getting the kill with exact damage after a sacrificial Wolf strike, the turn after he thought the game was lost as ambush spawns killed Nagi the turn before he planned on going for the kill. That left him with only a half health Marth, Elice, and a 2 health General Auffle alive at the end,  just to emphasize how close it was.)
Goddamn Gharnef. Always ruining things. Also I still can't get over Auffle being alive.

 

On 7/5/2020 at 8:30 AM, Saint Rubenio said:

Oh, shoot! I forgot something!

Sorry, Caeda! I can't stop giving strength! Come back when you're a little, MMMM unluckier!
Oh boy. I can't wait to bomb some strength growths.

There. The running gag has been mantained.
And reciprocated in kind.

Not exactly a Sedgar Solo, but it definitely looked like General Sedgar and Wolf would carry him through the whole run. That's not so fun to watch, though that finale does sound like something.
Did I pick a bad time to grind Wolf levels to get a reliable tank?

My favorite Ironmangs was Thracia, simply because of all the unique, hilarious ways in which he managed to screw himself over in every single way. Every part was a whole new adventure. Seriously, berserked Callion (never got the Seth joke) killing himself on Leif was amazing.
Berserk is my favourite Kaga joke. Besides the Devil Axe.

 

On 7/5/2020 at 11:08 AM, Pengaius said:

C'mon Roger, ol buddy, ol pal. Get something killed already, be like Ruben, or Benice, I need the work man, otherwise the IRS (Income Ruben Service) might investigate my contract, and find out that I'm just a write-off employee, then the whole company goes down. 
I can think of three times when by all rights I should have, but A.I. or RNG saved me. My luck can't possibly hold out forever.

 

On 7/5/2020 at 12:06 PM, JimmyBeans said:

This is one of the best changes IMO in this remake. Is not making Marth look like he knows nothing about the world he lives in. Though it is funny that he lets Malledus finish all that before telling him.
Could be he thought there might be new information in there and didn't get it. Or he could be messing with him.

 

On 7/5/2020 at 3:05 PM, This boi uses Nino said:

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I'm scared. You haven't made an update in a long time, I can only imagine that Caeda died and... that makes me really sad...
I actually got a bit distracted. Blame SNK for that.

Uh... well that sucks a lot. Like really, whatever it was it sounds like you have gone through a lot.
It's a lot because a few seperate incidents have occurred. But that's life. You get things good for a while, then you're a punching bag for fate for a while. I think I'm in the "good" part... despite the state of the world.

Damn, woo-hoo Caeda survived! CAEDA SURVIVEEEEEED!!!!!!!!!!
I mean.. 39% hit rate (true hit counted) meant that she had a pretty good chance. Hopefully I'm done with close calls.

Well at least you're not like me, who sold a bunch of 1-2 range inf FE7 because they were at 1 use or sth and decided they were worthless... but then I actually ran out so case in point is: It's better to retaliate and not kill than to do neither.
I mean... FE7 I like to have as many hand-axes and javelins as possible. Mostly because enemy phasing is very viable in that game.

Wolf, Wrys and... who else? Oh it's "Worst", the enemy!
Wendell, who had been helping with the healing before Wolf didn't need it.

Well, the Ridersbane does more damage than an iron lance no? He figures he can let his brethren die to kill Wolf.
That'd be all well and good if his pals didn't have steel weapons... which do more damage. And the ability to double before that level. He singlehandedly reduced the amount of damage Wolf was taking until he was fast enough not to be doubled. I just realized who the traitor was.

LOL! Man that joke was awesome! Also, Trachea 776.
I hear it has crushing difficulty.

Shadow Dragon giving you perfect levels is.... aaaaahhhh.
With Wolf, it's more or less expected. Even if he doesn't get a perfect level, he'll do well.

This is just mega awesome, wooo go Caeda!
Yeah. At this point she has no real competition for that first master seal. Both the bonuses, her being blessed to hell on strength and the fact it'll let her get speed again mean no one's getting as much use of it unless they miraculously hit level 20.

Wait the battle with the dragon happened a 100 years ago? That's an awfully lame "time ago" for the battle. Idk why I always thought they had fought like a 1000 years ago.
It's funny really, that for us World War 1 is now older than the clash between Anri and Medeus was for Marth.

I mean reading in general is helpful, sometimes watching a dondon ltc (like the FE5 or FE6 one) I like to practice reading the names of characters or simply use what I know to identify whether this cavalier is Lance or Allen. I don't know much Japanese though so usually all I can do is read transliterations of english words into japanese (which uses Katakana) or read a kanji that I happen to know, some of them are pretty simple. Like the Kanji for one, two or three is simple.

Really though, Katakana isn't that hard you should just look it up and practice a bit off it, it will be helpful in reading one time or another, even if you don't watch anime you'll see it somewhere.
I tried learning the Euclidean Alphabet once... but it was all Greek to Me.

I see, I did see a video where a dog "spoke" and it was quite close. Like "I love you" was there, but more like "a wo wyu" so it's the best he could do I guess. 
Well obviously you live in Armenia! Who... doesn't live... in Armenia?? oh wait, it has an A not starts with it... well then that broadens it to Armenia or Mozambique.
My dog does a pretty good approximation of my name when he decides I've been asleep too long. Among other things.

As for the trick, it should be noted of the 195 (depending on what you count) countries, only 31 don't have an A in the name. So the gag is, it's not much of a clue at all.

True! Though there are some points where it momentarily ends.
As is the case in any ongoing story really.

I never noticed that lol, you really don't get more units as you go along.
It's actually my biggest gripe with Fates, and subsequently WORSENED by Three Houses. As was pointed out, you can at least get the Child units late in Fates because they scale. But Three Houses... definitely very lacking in recruitment post time-skip. Kind of kills off the Gotoh archetype if no one joins after a certain point.

You must be brazilian then, or south american. (I think the Balkans just of prospect of being european will get something) Ok you may be Turkish because otherwise you aren't getting anything at all, anyways, if you're part of latin america then fuk u, Nintendo has forgotten about you.
I mean, the fact Turkey is one of the 31 countries without an A in the name kind of rules it out. Other than that... no comment.

That is a reasonable worry. Look up dondon's strat for it, you could use somethng from it.
For the moment I'm hoping to come up with something on my own. If I don't... well Pengauis gets an excuse to pun. Which he's dying for by now.

"They don't make them like they used to"
"Grandpa you're just a boomer with terrible strength"
"Go get a job kid"
"I have a job, keeping enemy units from reaching you and one rounding you"

Shadow Dragon suffers from this. I like the text in this game but man the characters really needed some development. Even just one or two support convos would have done a lot with SD's fantastic writing. I guess FE12 does this too?
FE12 has actual supports, and a lot of base conversations. From a characterization perspective it's a lot of steps up. Only problem is Vyland isn't very noteworthy there either. Then there's Maria/Lena/Elice/Nyna who join in the last chapter and thus miss out. But they get recruitment dialogue at the least, and Elice does have a scene in the prologue. Also Tomas doesn't get much... but what he gets is hilarious.

True, except for Florina. Her 4 def ass is getting her nowhere, I don't care what you say Lyn mode is not an answer.
To be fair, Kent, Wil and Nils have 5 def, Sain has 6, and Rath has 7. Dorcas has 3, Lyn, Erk and Serra have 2, and Luscius 1. Her defense growth is only 5% behind Sain, and 10% behind Kent while having those speed advantages and flier utility. Then again the speed doesn't matter quite as much because it's FE7, because my argument would have been that having enough speed not to be doubled is essentially halving the damage you take. But that doesn't matter as much when the enemies are slow. So basically I'd say she's still one of the best units in the game as long as Lyn mode's played... but if that's said... Sain's better. Marcus is better than Florina in either case just by bases that trivialize the early game.

Beautiful.
They are some damn broken growths. I think they may have compensated a little too hard for their design choices to be honest.

Oh damn it I meant Wolf lol.
Fair enough. That said, Sedgar is probably the better of the two marginally.

Lol, imagine having a goddess be your SO. lol.
I imagine it'd be heavenly.

Oh wow.

I use Seth all game anyways lol.
I find him a bit boring to use generally because he's that good. But I have used him. See, I tried to use everyone in between the playthroughs of Ephraim and Eirika's routes... but ended up not fitting in a couple like Marisa and Myrhh. Also Syrene. Maybe Duessel. I don't remember using him.

Lol, wait! Don't mention that game ever again! ... lol.
Sonic's Ex.

 

 

On 7/7/2020 at 1:13 AM, DragonFlames said:

That's rough. You have my sympathies.
Not much to be sympathetic about. Really it was more my way of filling space in the vain hope that no one would immeadiately see Caeda lived.

At this rate, we are running out of letters, too.
Which is fine by me. Caeda's considered the best unit in the game already. If she wants to be even better, who's gonna stop her?

He Cain't now, but he'll soon be Abel to Freyly use it.
What a Cavalier use of the English language.

Gotta say, having Wolf facetank the reinforcements so the weaker units can milk them for EXP is a good move.
Honestly, I considered having Wolf solo tank the whole thing to be broken... but decided it was more fun to read if everyone does something. Plus it gave people levels.

Gradivus Shiida hype!
As I said... Gradivus may be the most in demand weapon this run. I mean, Ukyo's practically got a lock on Mercurius, Barst is pretty solid as a choice for Hauteclare, and with Wolf being able to use bows... I think he should be good with Parthia. Gradivus has several cavs and Caeda after it.

I had to do a double take, but you're right. Arrows fired by Generals in Shadow Dragons are so huge, they might as well be ballista bolts.
Wolf doesn't use a bow, he has a portable ballista. I accept this as canon now.
Blame Saint Rubenio for that. He pointed it between things. I'm just sticking with it because it works.

Until one of them betrays the stable in the biggest upset of Archanean Wrestling his-- wait, wrong program!
Oh yeah. It's a shame Wolf's on the enemy team most of next game. Cursed heel-face turns.

Unfortunately, Archanean warfare hasn't thought of capturing enemies instead of killing them yet. That was invented on a different continent in probably a different timeline AND different dimension.
I seem to recall something about Naga being responsible for Loptyr being banished to Jugdral. Not sure if it was said in game or whether I read it elsewhere. I haven't played FE4 in 8 years so I'm fuzzy as hell on the game.

You'd think at some point, the enemy general would have realized that just throwing his soldiers to a demise that is as unnecessary as it is untimely is not going to work out for him.
I mean, his plan was for us to suicide trying to get past them.. as opposed to my turning the tables making use of Caeda's ability to fly.

Man, first it was overly polite horses, now this.
Wolf's not just a tank, but a dodge-tank.
Really makes you reconsider who is good and who is evil...
I mean... they've got Gharnef on their side. I don't think it's that hard.

Oh no...
I actually didn't know about 4 being an unlucky number, but seeing as how the words for 4 and death are the same (shi)... Oh no...
Holy shi...
Bad joke out of the way, they go so far as skipping the fourth floor in some buildings the same way some skip the 13th floor in America. Their number 9 is also unlucky because it sounds like their word for torment.

Small tangent: this reminds me of a certain villain in a Digimon anime, whose attack names were named stuff like First Sword, Second Sword etc. (all in the Japanese version, of course). His strongest attack was called "Shi no Tachi", which could translate to either "Fourth Sword" or "Death Sword" (which is how I learned that the words for 4 and death are the same in Japanese).
I'm afraid I barely remember anything past the series with the older versions of TK and Kaori. The stuff after that tends to be post-sleep disorder.
 

In a time where everybody, including the universe itself, has it out for the original blue-haired lord, only one young Mage stands by him.
Merric, a bro among bros.
Marth's not completely useless yet. That rapier will keep him contributing as long as there's cavalry and armoured units. Which is good because this game loves them.

And now, I like to imagine that guy's name actually was Steel Lance. Or Lance Steel. This is a Japanese game, after all.
Lancelot Steel is now my name for an original character.

And once again, it's time for this.

He tried to honor the one compliment you gave him.
If he was as good in gameplay as he was in the story (I mean from a not asking dumb questions) perspective, he'd be broken.

Gameplay-Story integration at its finest!
Also kind of a gimmick I'm using. I figure if i'm going to have four cavaliers, they may as well have a buddy system.

And now we officially did run out of letters. Holy crap, that's an amazing Shiida.
"Averages? What are those?"

Marth ascended to next level "being one point off of doing something".
Either that or he knows I've been thinking about who to give the boots to.

This is the first sign of Marth snapping from all that bullying. Eventually, a bitten dog will bite back.
Though why one would bite a dog I don't know. Fur in the mouth man.

The game itself still bullies Marth, having failed to register the warning signs...
Not much he can do about not being able to not be one-rounded by Medeus. I'm gonna be lucky if anyone's better off.

Hooray!

Gotta say, so far, I'm legitimately impressed that you went completely deathless so far. Hope you can keep it up! I'm rooting for you!
We'll see. I can only guess how far I can go.

 

On 7/7/2020 at 11:18 AM, twilitfalchion said:

Moments taken before *potential* disaster.
Better than actual disaster though.

Seriously, sorry to hear that.
All old news... when I'm not thinking about it because of some story I listened to.

I just Cain't get tired of these puns. I don't think I'll ever be Abel to.

Her devotion to you is so strong that she Cain't fail.

That's such a...descriptive way of thinking about the situation.

*kill every last one of them intensifies*

*kill every last one of them intensifies again*

He is also not Abel to fail. You've got a lot of reliAbel units at this point.
Really I do. Jagen's actually probably the most niche at this point, staying back as an emergency stop.

Wow. He's actually being somewhat useful for something. Surprise, surprise.
I mean, did you really doubt it after he did most of the work in chapter 6 to ensure the thieves didn't get away with anything... except that killing edge.

Also known as "the unit whose only real purpose is to seize and open chests."
I have to wonder if it's cruel to keep mocking Marth for being worse than everyone when everyone worse than him tends to get dropped off the team.

Strong, fast, precise, beautiful. What more could a man want from his peg knight?
I mean, she could have more growth in her defensive stats. But that's what her promotion's for.

Marth certainly wasn't proving himself to be very smarth (not my pun but it fits) in this scene.
More sMarthass, because he was letting the guy rant on before revealing he knew it all to begin with. Troll.

He's trying to follow Eliwood's example.
By actually knowing what's going on instead of repeating it as a question? That doesn't sound like Eliwood.

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H5 test-run has been crazy successful so far. I'm genuinely impressed. Best of luck in the next chapter! 👍

 

On 7/7/2020 at 8:49 AM, This boi uses Nino said:

You mean you accept it as cannon now?
We're having a blast with these puns.

That's a cool tangent.

 

On 7/7/2020 at 6:01 PM, DragonFlames said:

Why didn't I think of that? XD
Yes, absolutely!

Heh, thanks.

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And because I didn't have time to do this last time:

We all made mistakes playing FE, some more dumb, some less so.
Mangs just likes to meme around a bunch and he has a Stream to entertain, too. But I agree that some of his decisions can be a mite frustrating at times.
I mean, I'm being a hypocrite in some ways joking about it. Given Caeda could have died. Not to forget the Matthis incident. Or the time the A.I. decided to target Bord and Cord instead of killing Barst with a team up. I guess it's easiest to mock a mistake when it's not you making it.

And it paid off wonderfully, as we saw in this part. Cain becain a "beast" in his own right, even if his Defense is a little lacking at the moment.
Now to get Ukyo Javelins.

That is next level cursing right here.
Can't wait until the sequel. I mean, I don't know how you top it. Maybe you step on the map and everyone dies?

Oh joy.
I'm not sure what to expect for endgame dracoknight speed... but if they cap it... anyone with 19 or less speed is getting quadrupled with that thing. Is it any wonder I'm considering chickening out on the endgame?

That is probably why, yeah.
It makes the  most sense to me.

curse the class sets not letting knights become paladins this game

Update.
 

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I don't know about you, but favourite part of a warm welcome is discovering enemy troops approaching from the North with intent to kill me and all I hold dear.


Shame no one else on my team agrees for some reason.

First thing's first. While doing my pre-battle analysis of the map... I discovered the Horsemen are fast enough to double anyone not named Ogma, Wendell, Caeda (Who isn't going to survive based on the effective damage) and in the case of two of them who have slightly lower stats... Barst. I feel like I'm Saint Rubenio looking at this.
Also of note... I find it hilarious Roger's both faster and more well defended than the generic knights. Shame he doesn't share the strength, skill and HP.

Starting positions. Reclassing Jagen to a Paladin because there's so damn many bow users this time, getting Matthis and Abel to trade the silver lance and steel lance. There's more rearranging items, but It's nothing very interesting. Also Merric is off the team for this chapter... because lack of roster slots.

Here we meet Caesar and his friend who he doesn't introduce because he's too busy with his surfer-talk. Damn coastal towns. Anyway, he gives us some dubious advice that I'm sort of taking anyway. See if I move Wolf just 1 space up, he can choke the narrow point in the pass. But I did enough of that last chapter. The other thing Caesar neglects is that the fortresses will be spewing reinforcements like crazy. Mind it's possible to take the castle first... but I want the sweet exp from the Horsemen.

"From back here"

So, first order of business, we'll be having Caesar and his unnamed friend pick up some extra steel lances, javelins, a couple vulneraries, and a new wing spear. I mean, Caeda can now do most of what she used to need Bradamante for with an unforged Wing Spear... so I might save the legendary weapon for special circumstances. Shame I'm an idiot and didn't think of buying it last so that it'd go to the convoy. This is the last you'll see of it this chapter. Everyone else heads North to intercept the enemy. Can you intercept someone who is seeking you? I don't know.

At the end of turn 2, this is how everyone's positioned. Wolf's ready to weaken as many cavs as possible.

Thankfully, the horsemen, two cavs and half the knights and archers are holding back because who knows.
It'd be damn near impossible to recruit Roger otherwise.

Wolf stabs two of the cavs, and does a running tackle on the third. The fourth sees this flagrant disregard for convention... and hangs back waiting for an easier target.

Catch is, he doesn't realize he's committed suicide. See that? I sure did. If you didn't I'll explain as we go.

Cain helps Marth get the first kill of this map. Note Marth's actually looking pretty good right now because the cavs are both mounted and using swords. Barst and Ukyo also team up. Note if Barst Missed that shot, I had enough units to do the job he failed to. But seeing as he didn't, Ukyo got some lance practice.

Speaking of lance practice, Wolf traumatizes this guy into running away from him to get C rank.

While my gren cavalier is unAbel to quite finish the other cav, Ogma fills that role. Matthis takes a potshot at the remaining cav for fun and experience before Caeda reminds him he was doomed before the game even started.

Now, by switching to specific ranges, I can higlight what I noticed earlier. By positioning Caeda like this, I can enemy phase that one knight and make next turn about killing the enemy archers and recruiting Roger.

Needless to say, this being Caeda, it goes even smoother than expected.

One archer down by Ogma and Abel. Time for recruitment. Caeda able to deal enough damage to the archer anyone should be able to finish him. Yep. This plan went without a hitch.

I mean, can you blame him for being worried? She just oneshot the guy in front of him.

Unfortunately just Roger. Not The Roger The Paladin. I can't even reclass him to Paladin this game for the meme.

No wonder Caeda's got him flustered. Look at that topic whiplash. From "sweetheart back in Grust" to "Think of the Children". If the devil's ever in Archanea, he best not challenge this woman to a fiddle contest.


Give it a minute Roger.


If you did, you might have saw through the ruse.

I mean, I never could say no to Caeda either other Roger. Don't feel bad.

After that, Caeda decides to celebrate by one shotting the unfortunate archer. She even gets a rather lacklustre level. Then again, now she's got even more avoid.

Because I'm trying to go faster this chapter... Wolf gets healed and sets up so between him and the mountain the cavs won't be able to progress.

Don't ask questions you don't want t know the answer to Marth.

Marth looks like he wants to tell him, but it's funnier not to.

Now Marth's aware what a monster his girlfriend is... let us continue.

Positions taken.

See this is why I wanted Wolf to choke the point. Those Horsemen may double him, but 2x 0 is still 0.

Catch is, I never used horsemen in the DS games... and because ultra specific circumstance... I'd never realized they can cross mountains. Should have checked. Because now my plan of advancing everyone else while Wolf deals with the horsemen doesn't work.

So Wendell, who is quick enough not to be doubled and therefore only going to die from a crit (I know), weakens the first cav for Barst. Catch is Barst misses a 75% hit. Which is garbage. Who misses a 75% hit? Ignore all the times Wolf dodged the same last chapter

Cain and Abel finish the task that Barst failed. Wolf switches to Bows and takes a shot at one of the horsemen, as I need that other cav alive to block a space so Cain and Abel both survive. As opposed to one (I did the maths before. The horsemen can't kill either). Barst gets healed by Lena using physic for obvious reasons.

Wendell doesn't get crit, and the cav keeps blocking the space. Just as planned. Cain's alive. Wendell's alive. What of Barst?

There was no chance of him dying in the first place. See the only risk that move was a 5% crit on Wendell... which was necessary to keep Cain from being attacked twice. Also Wolf is self explanatory.

Wrys heals Wendell, and takes another step to being flat out magic-proof. Next step? Kill the horsemen. (Boy Ruben's going to love this turn. Wrys level and horsemen deaths)

You know what? So do I. Barst was meant to weaken the horseman. But because he thinks he's a berserker he breaks in his silver axe with a crit. Abel gets to break out the Gae Buidhe for the first time since he took it off Jagen. He gets more hp, luck and most importantly strength.

Wolf takes out the horseman who fought Cain. He gets his first non-perfect level. He missed a point of HP and luck. I'm fine with this.

Matthis and Ukyo set up the cav so Marth can kill him with a common ironsword. The wexp for the is a bonus. Ogma starts off on the last horseman... but I'm not done.

Okay. Now I'm done. But only because I ran out of horsemen.


Wendell and Lena get to work healing. Because I'm going to need everyone back in fighting shape soon.

Anyway, next turn Wolf sets out closer to the forts. He's going to be the diversion, seeing as steel bow horsemen can't hurt him, and as long as he's got a lance neither can steel sword cavs anymore. Cheap? Yes. Yes it is.

One sided curb-stomp commences. Also the fact Wolf just casually dodges an 85% that wouldn't have hurt him anyway. Notably the enemies on the other side have also begun their march.

Wendell and Ukyo tag team one knight. Matthis sets up the other for Barst.... who decides to get his second consecutive crit. Because he apparently forgot what regular attacks are at this point. If I were smart... I'd have left things there. Except I was playing this in a bout of insomnia.

Because of that, I failed to do the math to realize I should have used the silver lance if I was going to try and Jagen an archer for Marth.

Mind, Jagen and his silver lance were there to act as an emergency stop and make sure I didn't pay for my error with two archers attacking enemy phase. And boy does he do it. Guess he's been upset with his declining contributions, because full blown crit.

Wendell gets healed by Lena, who gets a res level. Also Wolf takes a shot at one of the enemies. Then I have Roger save the game. Because lord knows I'm tired at this point.

Catch is when I returned to the game the next day... I was in for a rude awakening (and I don't mean a version of FE13 with cursing added in) I forgot about the reinforcements because I had tunnel vision on getting Marth a level. Which makes this a perfect cliff-hanger moment don't you agree?

Next time we find out if there's any merit to the theory about the RNGoddess having a thing for me, or whether she's about to give me a black eye for suggesting it.

Deaths:
My evasion of arenas
My credibility.
Tradition*
Slow Cav
*-revived
Crit Counter:
Abel: 1
Barst: 6
Caeda:8
Draug:2
MarcusJagen:2
Marth:2
Ogma:3
Wolf:2
Generic enemy:1
Pollux Disappointed Counter: 3

 

[DragonFlames]

1 hour ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Which is fine by me. Caeda's considered the best unit in the game already. If she wants to be even better, who's gonna stop her?

Not me, that's for sure!

1 hour ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Lancelot Steel is now my name for an original character.

👍

1 hour ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Though why one would bite a dog I don't know. Fur in the mouth man.

I'd rather pet a dog than bite one, myself.

1 hour ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Not much he can do about not being able to not be one-rounded by Medeus. I'm gonna be lucky if anyone's better off.

I'm not too versed on average stats or H5 Medeus, but can't Wolf, Tiki (if trained) and Nagi survive a round against him?

1 hour ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

I don't know about you, but favourite part of a warm welcome is discovering enemy troops approaching from the North with intent to kill me and all I hold dear.

Hospitality!

1 hour ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

First thing's first. While doing my pre-battle analysis of the map... I discovered the Horsemen are fast enough to double anyone not named Ogma, Wendell, Caeda (Who isn't going to survive based on the effective damage) and in the case of two of them who have slightly lower stats... Barst.

Oh goodness, this is going to be rough...

1 hour ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Here we meet Caesar and his friend who he doesn't introduce because he's too busy with his surfer-talk.

Hey, it's Steel Sword and his friend, Iron Sword!

1 hour ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

"From back here"

Freshly-squeezed bench juice!

1 hour ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Shame I'm an idiot and didn't think of buying it last so that it'd go to the convoy. This is the last you'll see of it this chapter.

It happens to the best of us.

1 hour ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Wolf stabs two of the cavs, and does a running tackle on the third. The fourth sees this flagrant disregard for convention... and hangs back waiting for an easier target.

He's waiting for Marth to expose himsel-- err, be exposed.

1 hour ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Cain helps Marth get the first kill of this map. Note Marth's actually looking pretty good right now because the cavs are both mounted and using swords.

*happy Marth noises*

1 hour ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Speaking of lance practice, Wolf traumatizes this guy into running away from him to get C rank.

Dragonpike Wolf.
Oh my.

1 hour ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Needless to say, this being Caeda, it goes even smoother than expected.

Shiida will ascend into deity-dom if this keeps up...

2 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

No wonder Caeda's got him flustered. Look at that topic whiplash. From "sweetheart back in Grust" to "Think of the Children". If the devil's ever in Archanea, he best not challenge this woman to a fiddle contest.

I'm thinking he'd lose.
Badly.

2 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

I mean, I never could say no to Caeda either other Roger. Don't feel bad.

"Other Roger". Has a nice ring to it.

2 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

After that, Caeda decides to celebrate by one shotting the unfortunate archer. She even gets a rather lacklustre level. Then again, now she's got even more avoid.

Shiida subtlely showing Roger what could have been had he declined her offer.

2 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Because I'm trying to go faster this chapter... Wolf gets healed and sets up so between him and the mountain the cavs won't be able to progress.

Wolf doing what Wolf does best.

2 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Catch is, I never used horsemen in the DS games... and because ultra specific circumstance... I'd never realized they can cross mountains. Should have checked. Because now my plan of advancing everyone else while Wolf deals with the horsemen doesn't work.

I did not know this, either.

2 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

So Wendell, who is quick enough not to be doubled and therefore only going to die from a crit (I know), weakens the first cav for Barst. Catch is Barst misses a 75% hit. Which is garbage. Who misses a 75% hit?

God damn it, Barst!

2 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Cain and Abel finish the task that Barst failed. Wolf switches to Bows and takes a shot at one of the horsemen, as I need that other cav alive to block a space so Cain and Abel both survive. As opposed to one (I did the maths before. The horsemen can't kill either). Barst gets healed by Lena using physic for obvious reasons.

Just glad his miss did not have any bad consequences.

2 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

You know what? So do I. Barst was meant to weaken the horseman. But because he thinks he's a berserker he breaks in his silver axe with a crit.

Barst got frustrated after that miss.
He really should keep his temper in check.

2 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Wolf takes out the horseman who fought Cain. He gets his first non-perfect level. He missed a point of HP and luck. I'm fine with this.

wOlF iS FalLInG oFf!
This was sarcasm, of course.

2 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Anyway, next turn Wolf sets out closer to the forts. He's going to be the diversion, seeing as steel bow horsemen can't hurt him, and as long as he's got a lance neither can steel sword cavs anymore. Cheap? Yes. Yes it is.

Effective? Even more so, as evidenced here:

2 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

One sided curb-stomp commences.

This is about what I expect when Wolf is involved.

2 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Matthis sets up the other for Barst.... who decides to get his second consecutive crit. Because he apparently forgot what regular attacks are at this point.

Barst really is going to become a Berserker in the most literal sense at this point...

2 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Catch is when I returned to the game the next day... I was in for a rude awakening (and I don't mean a version of FE13 with cursing added in) I forgot about the reinforcements because I had tunnel vision on getting Marth a level. Which makes this a perfect cliff-hanger moment don't you agree?

OH NO!

Desperately praying for things to end well... Looking forward to next time!

[Benice]

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Get something killed already, be like Ruben, or Benice

Oof.

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"Here's the traitor your majesty"

"Please, your omnipotence, have MERCY!"

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But Marth's doing the opposite of Eliwood for the latter part of the conversation. Once he gets past the exposition he just knows the whole damn thing already.

Exposition?

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You mean his first one? Where he missed two/three stats depending if you discount strength.. which he has no growth in. Not that the 5% def is any better. Really missing res was the only one I could have reasonably expected him to get.

Oh. Forgot about that.

Instead, I guess I'll play a song with the word miracle in it.

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I'd say both PoR and Sacred Stones class as easier

3rd easiest.

Unless you count PoR's Maniac mode, I guess.

Speaking of which, I started my own H2 Shadow Dragon run.

It's not going so well, maybe because I'm using exclusively meme builds.

But still, Myrmidon Wrys is low-key good with a +15 mt iron sword. And for some reason my Mage Gordin's gotten both speed and magic three times.

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Also remembering you're further in than I am, I've got a decade of experience with this game, I legit should have a dead Matthis and possibly Caeda by now.

True enough, but honestly, resetting for Caeda in an ironman is forgiveable IMO because otherwise the bosses all take a billion years.

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I tried an ironman on Maniac once. It didn't go well. We're talking everyone died bad.

THAT'S more like it! See, it's a great idea! You can prove yourself to be better at ironmans than Mekkah!

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Here we meet Caesar and his friend who he doesn't introduce because he's too busy with his surfer-talk.

C'mon, you've gotta use Radd! He's the legendary meme!

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Bad unit, 0/10, would not recommend.

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about the RNGoddess having a thing for me

I ship it. RogeRNGoddess.

 

[Hanes]

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15 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

It's a lot because a few seperate incidents have occurred. But that's life. You get things good for a while, then you're a punching bag for fate for a while. I think I'm in the "good" part... despite the state of the world.

Heh, lol. Once you lose a lot, every bottle of water is a dear present.

15 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

That'd be all well and good if his pals didn't have steel weapons... which do more damage. And the ability to double before that level. He singlehandedly reduced the amount of damage Wolf was taking until he was fast enough not to be doubled. I just realized who the traitor was.

Damn, epic storyline.

15 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

I hear it has crushing difficulty.

Hehehehe.

15 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

It's funny really, that for us World War 1 is now older than the clash between Anri and Medeus was for Marth.

Yeah, in general ww1 and 2 are very weird becuase people tend to think they were very recent wars or very very old wars, they exist in a weird middle ground of tremendous technological advancement but not yet enough.

15 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

I tried learning the Euclidean Alphabet once... but it was all Greek to Me.

*sigh* look it's not too hard "But why does japanese have two symbols for every syllable?"
English be like Aa Bb Cc Dd, so while japanese is more complicated than english, you really just get used to it. And it's not that mega hard. (also damn it with that joke lol).

15 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

My dog does a pretty good approximation of my name when he decides I've been asleep too long. Among other things.

Lol, like babies this time must be arbitrary, basically when they wake up lol.

15 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

As for the trick, it should be noted of the 195 (depending on what you count) countries, only 31 don't have an A in the name. So the gag is, it's not much of a clue at all.

No shit sherlock, I know!

15 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

To be fair, Kent, Wil and Nils have 5 def, Sain has 6, and Rath has 7. Dorcas has 3, Lyn, Erk and Serra have 2, and Luscius 1. Her defense growth is only 5% behind Sain, and 10% behind Kent while having those speed advantages and flier utility. Then again the speed doesn't matter quite as much because it's FE7, because my argument would have been that having enough speed not to be doubled is essentially halving the damage you take. But that doesn't matter as much when the enemies are slow. So basically I'd say she's still one of the best units in the game as long as Lyn mode's played... but if that's said... Sain's better. Marcus is better than Florina in either case just by bases that trivialize the early game.

That just shows how crap FE7 is, also her defense growth is *only* 5% lower than Sain's...pretty crap 20%.

15 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Fair enough. That said, Sedgar is probably the better of the two marginally.

Use both, serbian.

15 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

I find him a bit boring to use generally because he's that good. But I have used him. See, I tried to use everyone in between the playthroughs of Ephraim and Eirika's routes... but ended up not fitting in a couple like Marisa and Myrhh. Also Syrene. Maybe Duessel. I don't remember using him.

Meh really, if I want an easy game I go to FE8 anyways, if I want a hard game I go to FE12.

15 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

We're having a blast with these puns.

Hehehehe.

16 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Caesar and his unnamed friend

Caesar literally says "and this is Radd"

16 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Unfortunately just Roger. Not The Roger The Paladin. I can't even reclass him to Paladin this game for the meme.

This game sucks now -4/10, literally unplayable.

16 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

If you did, you might have saw through the ruse.

I mean, I never could say no to Caeda either other Roger. Don't feel bad.

This recruitment convo was always weird lol. Poor Roger, he got lured into simping.

16 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Marth looks like he wants to tell him, but it's funnier not to.

Now Marth's aware what a monster his girlfriend is... let us continue.

Hahahaha oh man... this is... hilarious.

16 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

As opposed to one (I did the maths before. The horsemen can't kill either)

You said maths, you are British end of story.

16 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Why is Wolf screaming MAGE! in the stats?

16 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Catch is when I returned to the game the next day... I was in for a rude awakening (and I don't mean a version of FE13 with cursing added in) I forgot about the reinforcements because I had tunnel vision on getting Marth a level. Which makes this a perfect cliff-hanger moment don't you agree?

oh god no.

16 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Next time we find out if there's any merit to the theory about the RNGoddess having a thing for me, or whether she's about to give me a black eye for suggesting it.

"Teehee! Oh my dear The Roger The Paladin, come closer and I'll show you I never betray you"

I hope so

 

[Eltosian Kadath]

19 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

I seem to recall something about Naga being responsible for Loptyr being banished to Jugdral. Not sure if it was said in game or whether I read it elsewhere. I haven't played FE4 in 8 years so I'm fuzzy as hell on the game.

Nah, Bishop Galle crossed the sea to find the Earth Dragon Loptyr, and perform the blood ritual that would give him and his kin their god-like powers (and give the insidious Loptyr the ability to infect the mind of the Loptian emperors with his dragon stone hidden within the Loptyr tome). Naga and 11 other dragons would have to cross the sea to perform similar rituals with the Crusaders to even the odds. Note the phrases in italics are details added by the novelization.

 

19 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Here we meet Caesar and his friend who he doesn't introduce because he's too busy with his surfer-talk. Damn coastal towns.

Wait does that mean Radd Quetz's only line in this game is his death quote...

sigh, Shadow Dragon, you disappoint me once again.

 

19 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Unfortunately just Roger. Not The Roger The Paladin. I can't even reclass him to Paladin this game for the meme.

That is it, time to stop the test and restart with FE12 on a save with the combined male reclass options unlocked to make the Roger, the Paladin. How could the Roger of Shadow Dragon not be the Paladin.

(I am kidding, keep going, but that is a massive disappointment...)

19 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Catch is, I never used horsemen in the DS games... and because ultra specific circumstance... I'd never realized they can cross mountains. Should have checked. Because now my plan of advancing everyone else while Wolf deals with the horsemen doesn't work.

Horsemen always have such odd movement penalty that they always manage to sneak up on you. In FE6 it was those treacherous rivers, and in this the mountains.

 

19 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Except I was playing this in a bout of insomnia.

As someone that both plays and watches ironman runs, I know that sleepiness is the harbinger of death...

 

19 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Mind, Jagen and his silver lance were there to act as an emergency stop and make sure I didn't pay for my error with two archers attacking enemy phase. And boy does he do it. Guess he's been upset with his declining contributions, because full blown crit.

He really doesn't want to get shown up by all those young cavaliers that used to lookup to him.

 

19 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Wendell gets healed by Lena, who gets a res level. Also Wolf takes a shot at one of the enemies. Then I have Roger save the game. Because lord knows I'm tired at this point.

Catch is when I returned to the game the next day... I was in for a rude awakening (and I don't mean a version of FE13 with cursing added in) I forgot about the reinforcements because I had tunnel vision on getting Marth a level. Which makes this a perfect cliff-hanger moment don't you agree?

Things aren't looking good for Cain...

 

[Saint Rubenio]

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21 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Berserk is my favourite Kaga joke. Besides the Devil Axe.

My favorite Kaga joke is the Xavier recruitment. You can just feel the man's anger against humanity there.

21 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

curse the class sets not letting knights become paladins this game

Yeah, that really does suck.

21 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

I feel like I'm Saint Rubenio looking at this.

Good... Use your aggressive feelings... Let the hate flow through you...

21 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Here we meet Caesar and his friend who he doesn't introduce because he's too busy with his surfer-talk.

21 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

"From back here"

I never understood why they do that. Idiots just... run back to the town so they take three more turns to get to the action! As if they weren't bad enough already! It's as frustrating as the FE6 endgame, where Roy gives his great speech about how he's gonna take compassion on Idun and such shit... And then he retreats exactly 6 tiles so you need to move him back to the exact same spot where he gave the whole speech. Grrrrr... Annoying...!

21 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Ah, yes. There we go. Caeda preys on an innocent man's sexual frustrations.

21 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Now Marth's aware what a monster his girlfriend is... let us continue.

As if he wasn't angry enough as it is.

21 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Kill the horsemen.

Yes! Kill every last one of them!

21 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Mind, Jagen and his silver lance were there to act as an emergency stop and make sure I didn't pay for my error with two archers attacking enemy phase.

All's well that ends well. When in doubt, Jagen.

21 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Catch is when I returned to the game the next day... I was in for a rude awakening (and I don't mean a version of FE13 with cursing added in) I forgot about the reinforcements because I had tunnel vision on getting Marth a level. Which makes this a perfect cliff-hanger moment don't you agree?

Oh, goodness... Well, Cain's dead. I bet those two can two-shot him, and even if they couldn't, the archer's right there. His chances of survival are nonexistent. Unless you get lucky, like, extremely lucky.

19 hours ago, DragonFlames said:

Hey, it's Steel Sword and his friend, Iron Sword!

Hey! How dare you insult Shop Visitors! They're top tier units to visit the shops in Port Warren! I mean, they even start there instead of with the team for no reason at all!

19 hours ago, DragonFlames said:

I did not know this, either.

Did you know they can raid villages?

...Actually, they're not supposed to, it's a glitch in FE12. One I discovered the hard way.

 

[DragonFlames]

26 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Hey! How dare you insult Shop Visitors! They're top tier units to visit the shops in Port Warren! I mean, they even start there instead of with the team for no reason at all!

Of course. I forgot about their shop visiting abilities! I am so very sorry!

27 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Did you know they can raid villages?

...Actually, they're not supposed to, it's a glitch in FE12. One I discovered the hard way.

Really now? Well, that's certainly odd.
Brigand Horsemen. Because why not?

[null]

On 7/8/2020 at 7:46 AM, The Roger The Paladin said:

I don't know about you, but favourite part of a warm welcome is discovering enemy troops approaching from the North with intent to kill me and all I hold dear.

Like a hug from grandma...if your grandma was a trained soldier armed to the teeth with lances, axes, swords, and bows.

On 7/8/2020 at 7:46 AM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Shame no one else on my team agrees for some reason.

They're just too difficult to please. *tsk tsk*

On 7/8/2020 at 7:46 AM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Starting positions. Reclassing Jagen to a Paladin because there's so damn many bow users this time, getting Matthis and Abel to trade the silver lance and steel lance.

I really love the reclass system of SD and New Mystery for this reason. If you need to switch units back and forth between classes for different chapters, it's stupidly easy to adapt to each situation as they come up. The growths are affected, but on normal difficulty and some of the higher ones it won't matter too much. Palla actually made for an better Palladin instead of a peg knight back in my playthrough of New Mystery.

On 7/8/2020 at 7:46 AM, The Roger The Paladin said:

So, first order of business, we'll be having Caesar and his unnamed friend pick up some extra steel lances, javelins, a couple vulneraries, and a new wing spear. I mean, Caeda can now do most of what she used to need Bradamante for with an unforged Wing Spear... so I might save the legendary weapon for special circumstances.

Prf weapons are the best weapons. Wing Spear for the Win Spear! I know I've used that joke already but I'm tired and can't think of anything better.

On 7/8/2020 at 7:46 AM, The Roger The Paladin said:

and hangs back waiting for an easier target.

The occasional intelligent AI does exist after all.

On 7/8/2020 at 7:46 AM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Now, by switching to specific ranges, I can higlight what I noticed earlier. By positioning Caeda like this, I can enemy phase that one knight and make next turn about killing the enemy archers and recruiting Roger.

Shiida doesn't need a prf weapon to be effective, she is the effective weapon all on her own. She could probably use a wooden stick and be good with the right training.

On 7/8/2020 at 7:46 AM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Unfortunately just Roger. Not The Roger The Paladin. I can't even reclass him to Paladin this game for the meme.

*sad The Roger The Paladin noises*

On 7/8/2020 at 7:46 AM, The Roger The Paladin said:

No wonder Caeda's got him flustered. Look at that topic whiplash. From "sweetheart back in Grust" to "Think of the Children". If the devil's ever in Archanea, he best not challenge this woman to a fiddle contest.

The. Best. FE. Recruitment. Ever. Absolute comedy gold. 👌

On 7/8/2020 at 7:46 AM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Then again, now she's got even more avoid

Dodge-goddess in the making, if critting so often wasn't enough.

On 7/8/2020 at 7:46 AM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Marth looks like he wants to tell him, but it's funnier not to.

What's even funnier is how Roger goes into New Mystery still infatuated with Shiida in his supports with Kris.

"Ohh... Caeda... She's so dreamy..."

On 7/8/2020 at 7:46 AM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Catch is Barst misses a 75% hit. Which is garbage. Who misses a 75% hit?

Almost every unit in FE6. That's who. Do I rag on FE6's hit rates too much? Probably.

On 7/8/2020 at 7:46 AM, The Roger The Paladin said:

bout of insomnia.

On 7/8/2020 at 7:46 AM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Which makes this a perfect cliff-hanger moment don't you agree?

Yep, great way to end a chapter! Looking forward to the next one! 👍

[The Roger The Paladin]

Part 12- Fire up that counter boys.

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On 7/9/2020 at 12:04 AM, DragonFlames said:

Not me, that's for sure!
I mean, the last guy who tried ended up dead. Come to think of it, everyone who tried ended up dead.

👍

I'd rather pet a dog than bite one, myself.
Now now, don't judge Bizarro-world. Biting your dog is considered a sign of affection there. Probably.

I'm not too versed on average stats or H5 Medeus, but can't Wolf, Tiki (if trained) and Nagi survive a round against him?
Wolf can as long as he's got enough defense and HP (at maximum defense as a general he'll take 40 damage between the doubling and Medeus collosal 50 attack) Medeus also has 15 crit, meaning you'll want him to have 15 luck, as not one character in this game can survive that. Not only can't base Nagi survive a round with Medeus.. but even at capped speed either divine dragon has an AS of 24 due to manaketes having a 20 cap (a leftover from the original game). Their level 30 averages for defense being at 8.8 (Tiki) and 9 (Nagi), plus the 15 from the divinestone (but only up to a maximum of 30 total, any defense over 15 isn't really helping in this circumstance) means they're going to take more damage than Wolf... which is a problem when Nagi's average HP at level 30 is 45 and Tiki's is slightly lower. So on average, you'd need stat booster aid to make either one last. Or you could do what Dondon did in his zero 0% growths, and Aum them and have them take another shot to win. I'm hoping to do something a bit different though.

Hospitality!
Reminds me of my childhood. Except with more people trying to kill me and less of the stuff I actually did in my childhood.

Oh goodness, this is going to be rough...
Well it would be... if they didn't have drastically stunted attack to make up for it. 18 is pretty low compared to everything else we've been seeing.

Hey, it's Steel Sword and his friend, Iron Sword!
Raddical.

Freshly-squeezed bench juice!
The irony Matthis is an active part of the team while this is being thrown around.

It happens to the best of us.
I mean, it's far from the worst mistake I made this chapter. The first. Yes. But not even close to the most drastic.

He's waiting for Marth to expose himsel-- err, be exposed.
It'd be a mistake on his part given he's one of the few units in the game at maximum disadvantage against Marth. I mean, the only way he could be worse off is if he had an axe (which he can't this game) or was stuck at 1 range with a bow (which the horsemen can).

*happy Marth noises*
All the bullying aside, I'm happy for Marth. He's finally pulling his weight this chapter.

Dragonpike Wolf.
Oh my.
Given next chapter has the first enemy manakete... that'd be very handy.

Shiida will ascend into deity-dom if this keeps up...
Then two Rogers can be in love with a Goddess.

I'm thinking he'd lose.
Badly.
Worse, she'd manipulate him into thinking it was a good idea first.

"Other Roger". Has a nice ring to it.
I'm just ashamed that I haven't come up with a way to logically fit him on the team. Because... he's got no chance to reclass into something that makes use of his lance rank. Which sucks honestly. He has it a lot better next game.

Shiida subtlely showing Roger what could have been had he declined her offer.
I thought the same thing at the time. It's interesting how I inevitably end up using her to kill/wound archers so they can't harm her later. Guess there's a lesson that the "fliers should avoid archers" rule only applies if the archer is capable of hitting them AND killing them.

Wolf doing what Wolf does best.
I've said it before, I'll say it again. He's an apex predator on the hunt.

I did not know this, either.
Horsemen are a sneaky bunch. Every game they come up with a new way to surprise you, be it raiding villages, or moving across rivers, or this. Good thing I had my backup plan ready in case... even if it were a bit riskier thanks to the chance for them to crit Wendell than my plan A.

God damn it, Barst!
I mean, he has more excuse than the 95%, and he's gotten more crits than anyone save Caeda with his 6.

Just glad his miss did not have any bad consequences.
I did actually have it planned out in the event of that. Indeed, even if that crit hadn't occurred... I had further plans. Though it sure saved me using them.

Barst got frustrated after that miss.
He really should keep his temper in check.
You say that, but I don't mind if he's using it productively. And what's more productive than doing your job more efficiently?

wOlF iS FalLInG oFf!
This was sarcasm, of course.
I'm sure someone could make this into a legit argument even Wolf's excellent growths can theoretically get screwed into him being a substandard unit.

Effective? Even more so, as evidenced here:

This is about what I expect when Wolf is involved.
There's a reason I didn't bring both Sedgar and Wolf. If I could literally do this with both it'd turn very boring very fast.

Barst really is going to become a Berserker in the most literal sense at this point...
I was favouring the idea of hero due to class bonuses. Maybe warrior because it's one of the only classes that can get the speed not to be doubled by Medeus,  and bow uses on dracoknights. But only if he's really speed blessed/as needed. Hero's overall better.

OH NO!

Desperately praying for things to end well... Looking forward to next time!
Good thing about these cliff hangers is the heart attack is momentary for me. After all... by the time I do them I've already uploaded the whole chapter to imgbox.

 

On 7/9/2020 at 3:08 AM, Benice said:

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Oof.

"Please, your omnipotence, have MERCY!"
We can talk about mercy, after you scrub all the floors in Archanea Hyrule. Take him away.

Exposition?
Questions?

Oh. Forgot about that.
I mean, after his second and third levels.. it's easy to do. He got my hopes for him up and shattered them magnificiently

Instead, I guess I'll play a song with the word miracle in it.

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Or we could get Est back to see if she's still using that skill.
3rd easiest.

Unless you count PoR's Maniac mode, I guess.
You don't have to be crazy to play Maniac, but it sure helps.

Speaking of which, I started my own H2 Shadow Dragon run.

It's not going so well, maybe because I'm using exclusively meme builds.
I mean, that'll make any run harder.

But still, Myrmidon Wrys is low-key good with a +15 mt iron sword. And for some reason my Mage Gordin's gotten both speed and magic three times.
When your mage Gordin is low key better than any archer Gordin ever. What sorcery is this?

True enough, but honestly, resetting for Caeda in an ironman is forgiveable IMO because otherwise the bosses all take a billion years.
More like Van Million years.

THAT'S more like it! See, it's a great idea! You can prove yourself to be better at ironmans than Mekkah!
Better at what? Getting my units killed in higher difficulties of Conquest? I don't know exactly why, but I seem to screw up on that game a lot more than the others.

C'mon, you've gotta use Radd! He's the legendary meme!
But then I'd be treading the same path that Mangs did, and thus forever live in his shadow. Unlike using Matthis and Wrys which completely doesn't put me into Saint Rubenio's shadow because.... uh....

Bad unit, 0/10, would not recommend.
His name starts with W. Everyone else in this army starting with W is squishy. Ergo Wolf must be squishy. Do not frontline.

I ship it. RogeRNGoddess.
One of the least expected things to come out of this LP honestly.

 

 

On 7/9/2020 at 2:08 PM, This boi uses Nino said:

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Heh, lol. Once you lose a lot, every bottle of water is a dear present.
I wouldn't know. I carry my own water everywhere.

Damn, epic storyline.
Slow cavalier's sacrifice will not be forgotten. Thanks to him I could clear the chapter slightly faster and with less healing.

Hehehehe.

Yeah, in general ww1 and 2 are very weird becuase people tend to think they were very recent wars or very very old wars, they exist in a weird middle ground of tremendous technological advancement but not yet enough.
I guess it depends on what sort of time scale you're using. If you go by a human life, they're definitely old. If you're using another time scale... say the life span of a Greenland Shark (the longest lived vertebrate on the planet)... they're pretty recent. If you go by humanity's existence as a whole, even something as old as the fall of Rome is a relatively recent event. I guess my point is, perception of time is largely a relative thing due to the fact it's an abstract concept we've assigned quantative values to. While those values help keep things somewhat consistent between people... there is going to be a difference in the way two people view it. Someone who was alive in WWII and someone born post 2000 might have very differing views on how long ago it was.

*sigh* look it's not too hard "But why does japanese have two symbols for every syllable?"
English be like Aa Bb Cc Dd, so while japanese is more complicated than english, you really just get used to it. And it's not that mega hard. (also damn it with that joke lol).
I remember my brothers took Japanese in school. I took a different language. Mostly wanted to make a joke about a certain alphabet.

Lol, like babies this time must be arbitrary, basically when they wake up lol.
I think with the dog he decides whenever he's sick of waiting at the end of the bed for me.

No shit sherlock, I know!
I have a tendency to go into exposition mode anytime I get half a chance. Ruben's seen it probably three hundred times by now.

That just shows how crap FE7 is, also her defense growth is *only* 5% lower than Sain's...pretty crap 20%.
My point. I've seen Sain outright top tierlists for FE7 with Lyn mode included despite only a slightly higher base and growth in defense. Florina shares many of Sain's advantages, and has the added bonus of flier utility that allows her to contribute in ways he cannot. But without Lyn mode... oh boy. The Caelin crew turn into some bench-warmers.

Use both, serbian.
Is this going to be a recurring thing with random nationalities thrown at me?

Meh really, if I want an easy game I go to FE8 anyways, if I want a hard game I go to FE12.
Fair point. While you can make FE8 rougher than it needs to be... you can always go with a game that just needs the difficulty cranked up. It's like the difference between playing Real Bout Fatal Fury Special and playing Fatal Fury Special. Those two words make a hell of a difference because they're completely different games. One of which I can breeze through without trying, and the other of which is an input reading cheat and will kick the crap out of anyone fool enough to challenge it. (Hint, Real Bout is the easy one)

Hehehehe.

Caesar literally says "and this is Radd"
Thread canon is that he's talking like a stereotypical surferdude, and said "This is Rad" as in "radical". But Marth mistook it for his friend's name.

This game sucks now -4/10, literally unplayable.
I wonder if they had the entire class set split for males just to prevent a "The Roger The Paladin" reference to spite Kaga.

This recruitment convo was always weird lol. Poor Roger, he got lured into simping.
And hard. This isn't just cash. This is his life.

Hahahaha oh man... this is... hilarious.
I can't even decide who got the worst end of this deal. Marth or Roger. I mean, imagine what's going on in Marth's brain right now.

You said maths, you are British end of story.
If I was, I'd do a nice Hanneman impression for everyone.

Why is Wolf screaming MAGE! in the stats?
It's a little known fact that Wolf's immunity is because Merric's been enchanting his armor. This is why Merric's stats are so low, as they are all being concentrated on Wolf. It's also why Wolf has a lack of resistance, as other mages know the counter-spell.

oh god no.

"Teehee! Oh my dear The Roger The Paladin, come closer and I'll show you I never betray you"
I'm not sure about never, but I'll settle for "not right now".
I hope so

 

 

On 7/9/2020 at 5:46 PM, Eltosian Kadath said:

Nah, Bishop Galle crossed the sea to find the Earth Dragon Loptyr, and perform the blood ritual that would give him and his kin their god-like powers (and give the insidious Loptyr the ability to infect the mind of the Loptian emperors with his dragon stone hidden within the Loptyr tome). Naga and 11 other dragons would have to cross the sea to perform similar rituals with the Crusaders to even the odds. Note the phrases in italics are details added by the novelization.

This is what I get for trying to remember things from a playthrough so old that New Mystery's translation patch wasn't complete yet. Especially with my tendency to screw up on those pre-game backstories as is.

Wait does that mean Radd Quetz's only line in this game is his death quote...

sigh, Shadow Dragon, you disappoint me once again.

New Mystery really did wonders for the guy, seeing as that means he lacked dialogue in FE1, FE3 book 1 and FE11. Everything we know about Radd could literally be obtained from a New Mystery playthrough given that his ending there is virtually the same as in the others.

That is it, time to stop the test and restart with FE12 on a save with the combined male reclass options unlocked to make the Roger, the Paladin. How could the Roger of Shadow Dragon not be the Paladin.

(I am kidding, keep going, but that is a massive disappointment...)
I definitely have a save file for FE12 with combined reclass options (would have been hard to get my signature otherwise). So if I ever get to that game... well, that's basically a unit slot reserved.

Horsemen always have such odd movement penalty that they always manage to sneak up on you. In FE6 it was those treacherous rivers, and in this the mountains.

Truly the most evil units in the series. More so than any monster unit ever made.

As someone that both plays and watches ironman runs, I know that sleepiness is the harbinger of death...

Really, any lack of clarity is. I should have learned my lesson from nearly killing Matthis when I had a migraine. But no.

He really doesn't want to get shown up by all those young cavaliers that used to lookup to him.

Well, he's been watching over them as "break glass in case of emergency", because that silver lance and his skill/weapon rank means he can finish off enemies effectively if a plan doesn't quite work out. He's also got a low enough luck to act as a provoke skill given the enemies like to prioritize those they can crit.

Things aren't looking good for Cain...

But I'm sure I can hear Pengauis' anticipation of the potential pun from here.

 

On 7/9/2020 at 7:32 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

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My favorite Kaga joke is the Xavier recruitment. You can just feel the man's anger against humanity there.
When you make a Troll Emblem hack, and find out that every one of your gags was something Kaga's already used.

Yeah, that really does suck.
Especially when the joke's just asking to be made.

Good... Use your aggressive feelings... Let the hate flow through you...
Isn't it your hate seeing as I'm imagining I have PTSD from horsemen raiding a village?

As I said. I'm imagining he's saying "Radd" as in "Radical", and the guy's name is something else entirely.

I never understood why they do that. Idiots just... run back to the town so they take three more turns to get to the action! As if they weren't bad enough already! It's as frustrating as the FE6 endgame, where Roy gives his great speech about how he's gonna take compassion on Idun and such shit... And then he retreats exactly 6 tiles so you need to move him back to the exact same spot where he gave the whole speech. Grrrrr... Annoying...!
Maybe giving Idun the extra time was the compassion?

Ah, yes. There we go. Caeda preys on an innocent man's sexual frustrations.
Again.

As if he wasn't angry enough as it is.
Well, this is the chapter for him to use that anger productively.
Yes! Kill every last one of them!

https://i.imgur.com/VTCqbL2.png[All's well that ends well. When in doubt, Jagen.
Jagen's a life saver.

Oh, goodness... Well, Cain's dead. I bet those two can two-shot him, and even if they couldn't, the archer's right there. His chances of survival are nonexistent. Unless you get lucky, like, extremely lucky.
Well... Hardin has a B in Lances and good bases...

Hey! How dare you insult Shop Visitors! They're top tier units to visit the shops in Port Warren! I mean, they even start there instead of with the team for no reason at all!
Unironically the obvious way to use them in an LTC.

Did you know they can raid villages?
If he didn't, he does now.

...Actually, they're not supposed to, it's a glitch in FE12. One I discovered the hard way.
And we've been beating that dead Horse(man) since. I mean, I even wrote a song about it.

 

 

On 7/9/2020 at 8:00 PM, DragonFlames said:

Of course. I forgot about their shop visiting abilities! I am so very sorry!
I feel like they were designed for that role unapologetically.

Really now? Well, that's certainly odd.
Brigand Horsemen. Because why not?
Because otherwise I couldn't parody the Headless Horseman song from a certain Disney film?

 

On 7/10/2020 at 11:11 AM, twilitfalchion said:

Like a hug from grandma...if your grandma was a trained soldier armed to the teeth with lances, axes, swords, and bows.
And set upon your demise.

They're just too difficult to please. *tsk tsk*
I bet none of them visit their grandparents either.

I really love the reclass system of SD and New Mystery for this reason. If you need to switch units back and forth between classes for different chapters, it's stupidly easy to adapt to each situation as they come up. The growths are affected, but on normal difficulty and some of the higher ones it won't matter too much. Palla actually made for an better Palladin instead of a peg knight back in my playthrough of New Mystery.
Sometimes you can actually make a unit a lot more viable by using the growths... or use it to try and rig levels in your favor. Matthis for instance benefits a lot from a Dracoknight reclass once he promotes... because it fixes his biggest weakness. His speed growth, while only taking 5% off his solid strength and def. It also leaves him with 80% instead of 90% in HP, but once you're that high it hardly matters. That's not even factoring in the better bases and movement options.

Prf weapons are the best weapons. Wing Spear for the Win Spear! I know I've used that joke already but I'm tired and can't think of anything better.
I mean... that depends. Marth, Eliwood and Roy don't benefit much from their rapier on high difficulties.

The occasional intelligent AI does exist after all.
Not that intelligent, or he'd have realized that spot was going to get him killed by Caeda.

Shiida doesn't need a prf weapon to be effective, she is the effective weapon all on her own. She could probably use a wooden stick and be good with the right training.
As she demonstrates with that crit shortly after.

*sad The Roger The Paladin noises*
Just sad noises in general at this point.

The. Best. FE. Recruitment. Ever. Absolute comedy gold. 👌
I was tempted to let it speak for itself.

Dodge-goddess in the making, if critting so often wasn't enough.
I'm figuring she's gonna cap speed and luck at this point. I mean after promoting, not before.

What's even funnier is how Roger goes into New Mystery still infatuated with Shiida in his supports with Kris.

"Ohh... Caeda... She's so dreamy..."
I mean, look at what she's been doing all game. Can you blame him?

Almost every unit in FE6. That's who. Do I rag on FE6's hit rates too much? Probably.
I recall there being an extremely rare bug where a 100% can be missed in FE6. Quite a feat.

Insomnia is a curse.

Yep, great way to end a chapter! Looking forward to the next one! 👍

 

Update.

Spoiler

So last time on Dragon Ball Z my insomniac self thought it was a good idea to try and get Marth a kill. Not only did I screw up on that aspect of the task and end up being forced to have Jagen finish the job, it left me in this rather uncomfortable position... with Cain in range of the remaining archer and two newly spawned knights. Worse... this was just after I used a damn save point, meaning my options are to
a) redo the chapter...
or
b) hope I can replace Cain with another unit and that I didn't bully him Hardinough for him to still be sore at me.
Seeing as Hardin's lance rank and bases make him a suitable substitute... let's continue.

Well, I knew that'd happen in advance thankfully. See, if you remember last update I used the enemy's preference for the chance to crit over damage output in the exact same way to get Wendell targetted by a horseman so Cain could survive. So that's the second time a deficient luck stat's taken an arrow for Cain. Note he's too weak to kill Jagen with a crit. Nice to see I remembered that at least.

Well... here's the results of the first knight's skirmish with Cain. While the guy gave a good account of himself, unless that other knight's using paper mache he's as good as dead. I mean who misses a 75%?

This is where I actually blurted out "I love you RNGoddess" by the way. I didn't know whether the combination of the circumstances here and the previous jokes in the thread have unhinged me a little. But I didn't care.

Regardless, of whether I felt silly then, what followed meant that two Rogers decided they were in love with a "Goddess" that chapter. Brings a whole new meaning to "getting lucky" doesn't it? I know I've since did the math, and probablity that one of the two attacks failing is roughly 24%.  But let me have my fantasy waifu.

Besides, how else do you explain Wolf getting a crit this enemy phase as well as Cain getting the dodge and crit?

Then Marth takes Cain's would be slayer, and kills him for his power. Look at it. A good Marth level. I should tell the RNGoddess I love her more often.

At this point Matthis starts work on the other archer, Cain and Jagen seize the forts to stop any more mishaps with the knights (seeing as the only units they couldn't two shot are Barst and Wolf). Speaking of Wolf, he's on the other side of the map.. still playing diversion.

Ukyo practices his lance work on the archer... but doesn't quite finish him. I'd be disappointed in this level, but to be honest that speed would have kept him from being doubled by the pegasus knights last chapter. So I'm gonna let it slide.

Wendell chips the knight for some exp before Barst... unleashes his third consecutive crit this chapter (!!!). He even gets speed. Good old Barst. Still convinced he's a Berserker.
Anyway, seeing as enemy phase is literally more Wolf curb-stomp... I think we'll stick to the highlights for that side of the map. Seeing as everything else is "plink! No Damage!"

Matthis has finally done it. He's helped Ukyo learn to throw a javelin after all this time. Now Marth and Ogma are the only units locked to 1 range... and the boss has something that'll sort of help with that. Not much from memory.

I know I was intending to only show the notable stuff with Wolf... but for some reason I took this screenshot. I don't get it either.

Anyway, after checking Ukyo's far enough back knight reinforcements can't reach him, I have everyone else fall back, Wendell and Lena heal Cain and Jagen. Caeda crosses the bridge, because I'm of the understanding that's supposed to trigger the reinforcements... and I figure I may as well milk the bastards a little if I'm letting Wolf do his thing. Plus Cain deserves a level for not dying, and Matthis hasn't got one in a while.

The next couple enemy phases I wait patiently. Wolf notabely dodges an 86% that couldn't have hurt him in the first place and gets a level where he misses luck and more importantly speed.  By the end of the second enemy phase there's still no more knights despite Wolf being surrounded.... maybe Cain's dodge/crit scared them?
So I decide it's time to start moving units across the bridge to see if that does anything.

It does. Also, Wolf just dodged a 75%. Who misses a.... oh never mind. Maybe it's not as uncommon as I thought.

Anyway, Jagen sees to it Ukyo has a Javelin to make use of now that's he's learned how to throw them. My team sets up to ambush the oncoming knights. Wolf, being down to his last cavalier... switches to bows to finish him so that the horsemen can start suiciding on him. He even gets a weapon level out of it. Rate he's going he'll have A in both Lances and Bows.

Enemy phase is notable this time because more cavs show up. Which is notable now Wolf has a bow out... because they can damage him without weapon triangle working against him. He also gets a perfect level again (his fourth for those keeping count... out of six total). He also dodges an 84% shot for fun. Because it wasn't doing damage.

Wendell EnAbels my green cavalier to finish off the first knight... without stepping into range of the reinforcements. He gets HP and luck while doing so... leaving him less susceptible to crits. Fine by me. I don't intend to use him to bait enemies again... that was an emergency.

I felt necessary to point out, Wolf is now using the bow to damage the cavs from a distance on player phase while he can. Plan is to try and enemy phase a bunch of horsemen, get a level and bank on that 90% def growth making Wolf impervious to the steel sword cavs. Because Ukyo can weather a hit from a knight better than most thanks to that 10 defense, he weakens the other knight for Barst. Who doesn't need it. Because unexpectedly (though I should have seen it coming in retrospect)... he procs his 4th consecutive crit this chapter. At this point I'm laughing.

Anyway... by this point I remember that one of the knights took an odd path... and wasn't able to reach the bottom left square... so I decided it was safe to have Marth enemy phase instead of Barst. Look at that. He's done it. Also Wolf misses an 88% on a horseman... who then reciprocates by missing Wolf. I've never seen the dodge animation on a Horseman before in this game. Lot less polite than the cavalier horses. Figures. Cavaliers don't raid villages.

Anyway... seeing as the other knight continued being an idiot for some reason (look how far he is from everyone), Wendell heals Marth up so he can take credit for killing a knight all by himself. He's grown up a lot since... well last chapter.

Seeing as that bow plan wasn't working out for me due to Wolf gaining exp too slowly and the fact Wolf's now surrounded by 4 cavs and losing 4 hp a turn consequently, he switches back to the iron lance. Honest Abel gets a crit on the knight seeing as none spawned last phase. Ukyo tries to help weaken the knight... but his inexperience with the Javelin is clear as he misses not once but twice.... and it's  75% again. Both times. I didn't even notice that at the time.

Anyway, if Ukyo can't Jagen for Matthis, I always have the original model to show him how it's done.

Enemy phase sees Wolf once again engaging in unneccessary dodges. However today is truly a tragic day. For Wolf's long serving iron lance breaks. Fortunately before he re-equipped it last turn I arranged for his steel lance to be next in his inventory. He's still invincible.

Anyway, seeing as the knights have stopped early again, I start my troops over the bridge. I figure that'll either start them, or I can have Wolf finish enemy phasing the horsemen and end the chapter. Point is, I want to leave no horsemen alive. Which is why Wolf's back to the iron bow. Also the unnamed guy picks up a rapier to reward Marth for his work this chapter (and because it'll help him keep doing it).

No new knights appear for some reason. But Wolf procs a crit... and gets a level that only lacks luck. It's at this point I notice his missed point of speed earlier means he can't cap. Go figure he has exactly the amount of levels he needs to get to the General's speed cap. Also this level means he's now fully impervious to steel sword (and lance) cavs until they reach a higher strength than the ones we've seen thus far.

He finishes another cav on player phase... and one of my units(take a guess who) cross over to Caeda. Go figure the knights are back. But as you can see I expected it this time. Everyone's in formation still.

If you paid attention you might have noticed Caeda was now in boss range. Without Marth she had 92%... with him adjacent it's 100%. Kannival can't one shot her, but she can one-round him with 100% certainty. His quote reflects the hopelessness of his situation nicely.


He puts up a better fight than any boss we've seen since Gomer though. He actually gets a hit in. Fancy that.

Grust will live on. More than I can say for you friend.

Caeda gets a crap level and the levin sword. I'd be more pissed if my luck wasn't exemplarary for the rest of the chapter... Wolf now being guaranteed to be doubled by anything with 24 or more speed aside and Ukyo's speed only level and a few missed 75%'s aside. I mean... the enemy missed more.. and my crit counter exploded. Also one more point of luck and Caeda has all the avoid an unpromoted unit can.

Wolf gets another dodge/crit combo. Shame his level wasn't as good. Him missing speed a second time means those forged brave-axe Dracoknights are gonna quadruple him at endgame unless I:
a)get him speed every level from here and give him a speedwings
or
b)reclass him and lose the defense
That's gonna be fun.

Anyway, Caeda flies over so Wrys and Lena can get some healing in. Wolf kills one of the cavaliers (the steel bow is for precise damage). My team sets up for enemy phase. Matthis is going to move over to lure the other cav from Wolf, seeing as he must be sick of dealing with scrubs by now, and obviously Ogma's moving to a spot out of enemy range.

Barst... in a move that's unusual for him, dodges. The distraction must have stopped him from critting... because he lands two attacks and neither's a crit. Or maybe 4 is all he can do in a chapter. Either way, it's good because I have someone else who could use the kill. Matthis obviously has trained his horse well, and reaps the benefits of it's politeness. Manners maketh man and all that.

Matthis finishes off his target, and wendell weakens the knight who didn't make it to anyone earlier. Ukyo finishes off Barst's former sparring partner so he's not rusty on his swordplay, after all there's a lot of pirates next chapter.

Cain finishes what Wendell started. Putting him closer to that level. Now there's two more knights approaching, so Abel sets up next to Cain, and Barst blocks off Wendell.

Deja Vu. I could swear I saw something a lot like this earlier in the update. But seriously, I missed Cain's portion of the phase because I was laughing at the fact he did it again. Shame he didn't crit... but you can't have everything.

Matthis, Ukyo and Abel team up to finish the first knight. Matthis somehow misses his 90% HP growth. But he does need both the strength and luck. Mind if memory serves there's a Goddess Icon next chapter that would have solved the latter.

Barst Jagens the remaining knight for Cain. I was honestly terrified he'd crit. I mean... can you blame me when  he did it four times in one chapter? But he leaves one hp for Cain.

Who decides to end this update in a strangely similar fashion to how he started it. With a crit. I have no words.

Guy even went and fixed my biggest complaint about him by getting defense. Come to think of it, Caeda's near death experience triggered a good level too...

Regardless, now I've milked those forts for all they're worth (actually I think there's more knights, but I don't think they spawn if the boss is dead), I figure it's time to end this chapter.

For some reason, Malledus decides that having taken the forts and castle, decimated the enemy troops and otherwise made a mockery of the Grustian forces isn't enough to stop them over-running us (seriously, I felt more endangered back in the Ghoul's Teeth). So we're fleeing to a hostile territory... where we'll obviously be much safer.
Can't help but wonder if this decision wasn't an indicator of why he's replaced with Jagen by book 2/FE12.

So that chapter... what a ride. For those who weren't keeping track... between the two updates we saw a dozen crits. Barst has managed to catch up to Caeda and draw for the most crits by a unit. Cain finally got his first crit moments after fooling me into thinking I'd have to use Hardin. Wolf got non-perfect levels and Matthis missed a 90% growth on HP. RNG on a rollercoaster. Will next chapter be more tame? Only one way to find out. We'll have to wait and see (and this time I mean we because I don't know yet either).

Deaths:
My evasion of arenas
My credibility.
Tradition*
Slow Cav
*-revived
Crit Counter:
Abel: 2
Barst: 8
Caeda:8
Cain:2
Draug:2
MarcusJagen:2
Marth:2
Ogma:3
Wolf:5
Generic enemy:1
Pollux Disappointed Counter: 3

 

[Eltosian Kadath]

 

On 7/11/2020 at 10:12 AM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Well... here's the results of the first knight's skirmish with Cain. While the guy gave a good account of himself, unless that other knight's using paper mache he's as good as dead. I mean who misses a 75%?

This is where I actually blurted out "I love you RNGoddess" by the way. I didn't know whether the combination of the circumstances here and the previous jokes in the thread have unhinged me a little. But I didn't care.

Regardless, of whether I felt silly then, what followed meant that two Rogers decided they were in love with a "Goddess" that chapter. Brings a whole new meaning to "getting lucky" doesn't it? I know I've since did the math, and probablity that one of the two attacks failing is roughly 24%.  But let me have my fantasy waifu.

That is some never punished kinda luck showing up. The crit is just rubbing it in at this point.

 

On 7/11/2020 at 10:12 AM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Who doesn't need it. Because unexpectedly (though I should have seen it coming in retrospect)... he procs his 4th consecutive crit this chapter. At this point I'm laughing.

You have the devil's luck...

 

On 7/11/2020 at 10:12 AM, The Roger The Paladin said:

He's done it. Also Wolf misses an 88% on a horseman... who then reciprocates by missing Wolf. I've never seen the dodge animation on a Horseman before in this game. Lot less polite than the cavalier horses. Figures. Cavaliers don't raid villages.

Horsemen really are the epitome of rude. Surprise movement, village burning glitches, and now this.

 

On 7/11/2020 at 10:12 AM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Anyway, if Ukyo can't Jagen for Matthis, I always have the original model to show him how it's done.

He just has to show all the younguns how its done.

 

On 7/11/2020 at 10:12 AM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Also the unnamed guy picks up a rapier to reward Marth for his work this chapter (and because it'll help him keep doing it).

After all that bullying, Marth gets some small recognition for his effort.

 

On 7/11/2020 at 10:12 AM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Deja Vu. I could swear I saw something a lot like this earlier in the update. But seriously, I missed Cain's portion of the phase because I was laughing at the fact he did it again. Shame he didn't crit... but you can't have everything.

On 7/11/2020 at 10:12 AM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Who decides to end this update in a strangely similar fashion to how he started it. With a crit. I have no words.

Edit: I wanted to note that I was out of the loop about the allegations against Mangs when I made this, and just wanted to say I didn't intend this to link you to such things, only joke about how lucky you have been. I generally avoid social media, have been busy recently thus not keeping up with other sources of community news, plus this forum is well moderated enough that the allegations against Mangs were not well publicized here on my main way of interacting with the FE community.

 

Edited July 14, 2020 by Eltosian Kadath
Wanted to comment on a meme I made in light of context that I was unaware of at the time

[Saint Rubenio]

Spoiler

On 7/11/2020 at 7:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

 

Hey, where's the funny joke in small text? You disappoint me so...

On 7/11/2020 at 7:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Well... Hardin has a B in Lances and good bases...

Woo, using the antagonist-in-the-making!

On 7/11/2020 at 7:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Well... here's the results of the first knight's skirmish with Cain.

What.

On 7/11/2020 at 7:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

This is where I actually blurted out "I love you RNGoddess" by the way.

What?

On 7/11/2020 at 7:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!?

Why does everyone else get all the luck... Share some of that with me, damnit! The most I ever get is a unit not dying to a 50% blow, and then I spent three maps paying for it!

On 7/11/2020 at 7:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Then Marth takes Cain's would be slayer, and kills him for his power. Look at it. A good Marth level. I should tell the RNGoddess I love her more often.

Grrrrr... preferential treatment... hmph... I bet you haven't even sacrificed any children... grumble grumble...

On 7/11/2020 at 7:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Matthis has finally done it. He's helped Ukyo learn to throw a javelin after all this time.

Woohoo. Now he just needs to get to ridersbanes, and he's set. Also, stats.

On 7/11/2020 at 7:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

That has to be the worst Wolf level I've ever seen. Which, really, says a lot about Wolf, doesn't it?

On 7/11/2020 at 7:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

If you paid attention you might have noticed Caeda was now in boss range. Without Marth she had 92%... with him adjacent it's 100%. Kannival can't one shot her, but she can one-round him with 100% certainty. His quote reflects the hopelessness of his situation nicely.

I do have to wonder why there's a Grustian commander on his own guarding a fort in the middle of nowhere.

On 7/11/2020 at 7:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Caeda gets a crap level and the levin sword.

I don't even have anything to say here. If she got strength on top of everything else I think I would've bursted out of sheer jealousy.

On 7/11/2020 at 7:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

I'd like to point out he's better than Ukyo in every stat except defense and luck. So much for the worst cavalier.

On 7/11/2020 at 7:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

For some reason, Malledus decides that having taken the forts and castle, decimated the enemy troops and otherwise made a mockery of the Grustian forces isn't enough to stop them over-running us (seriously, I felt more endangered back in the Ghoul's Teeth). So we're fleeing to a hostile territory... where we'll obviously be much safer.

I mean, Malledus did canonically cause Frey's "death" when he could've just sent Gordin instead. That already speaks volumes of his tactical prowess.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Goddamn you and you luck...!

 

Edited July 13, 2020 by Saint Rubenio

[Hanes]

Spoiler

On 7/11/2020 at 12:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

I wouldn't know. I carry my own water everywhere.

It's a dumb metaphor that alludes to a question presented before in a science study, "Which is more valuable, a diamon or a bottle of water?" obviously in here it depends on the context of whether you're about to die of dehydration or not.

Here moreso I just wanted to say that when you have very little, or so many things are taken away from you, you treasure the smallest things.

On 7/11/2020 at 12:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

I guess it depends on what sort of time scale you're using. If you go by a human life, they're definitely old. If you're using another time scale... say the life span of a Greenland Shark (the longest lived vertebrate on the planet)... they're pretty recent. If you go by humanity's existence as a whole, even something as old as the fall of Rome is a relatively recent event. I guess my point is, perception of time is largely a relative thing due to the fact it's an abstract concept we've assigned quantative values to. While those values help keep things somewhat consistent between people... there is going to be a difference in the way two people view it. Someone who was alive in WWII and someone born post 2000 might have very differing views on how long ago it was.

That is true but I still argue that the measurement currently used in human lifespans is more useful than comparing it to that of the Earth's, Universe or a greenland shark. Sure it means those things can't use our timescale but it's not like we made it for them to use, if greenland sharks want a timescale, tell them to make their own 😛 (But yes I do get you rpoint)

My argument was more so that when speaking of WW1 or WW2 or simply learning about sometimes my mind goes "Woah that existed back then? Then these wars weren't that long ago" but then other times something I consider normal things or norms in war to be a thing and I learn they weren't quite yet there and I go "Wait wut? Is this the fucking middle ages or something?" To think Africa was still mostly colonialized 70 years agoish is mindboggling, that and that racism isn't a dead issue like omfg people!

On 7/11/2020 at 12:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

I remember my brothers took Japanese in school. I took a different language. Mostly wanted to make a joke about a certain alphabet.

Which alphabet the Latin one? I do know you know some Latin.

On 7/11/2020 at 12:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

I have a tendency to go into exposition mode anytime I get half a chance. Ruben's seen it probably three hundred times by now.

Not that I don't either but as is with these things, I forgot what it was I knew.

On 7/11/2020 at 12:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

My point. I've seen Sain outright top tierlists for FE7 with Lyn mode included despite only a slightly higher base and growth in defense. Florina shares many of Sain's advantages, and has the added bonus of flier utility that allows her to contribute in ways he cannot. But without Lyn mode... oh boy. The Caelin crew turn into some bench-warmers.

Honestly like I do like Sain's offensive capabilities but he is quite frail, and it takes time for him before mercenaries don't nearly kill him. Seriously in his joining map it's very hard to save that village with Lyn's group because Sain and Kent are so bad. I appreciate movement as much as the next guy, but in a map with forest hell and weak units. No thank you.

On 7/11/2020 at 12:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Is this going to be a recurring thing with random nationalities thrown at me?

Yes Iranian.

On 7/11/2020 at 12:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

And hard. This isn't just cash. This is his life.

It's a reverse simping in a way but also still simping, rather than losing money he gets it. But he also simps his life.

On 7/11/2020 at 12:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

If I was, I'd do a nice Hanneman impression for everyone.

Hanneman based. But since you're not british then that won't happen, Australian.

On 7/11/2020 at 12:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

This is where I actually blurted out "I love you RNGoddess"

"I love you too my dear"
Well you're a lucky bastard. Truth be told though I'm happy nobody has died yet. You've proven to be more capable at playing an ironman than I ever could. I mean I've lost so many units in my FE8 ironman... it's embarrasing.

 

On 7/11/2020 at 12:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Look at it. A good Marth level. I should tell the RNGoddess I love her more often.

I would keep rolepaying as the RNG godess but that's cringe. I think you should make a subplot about the RNGoddess.

On 7/11/2020 at 12:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

[...] before Barst... unleashes his third consecutive crit this chapter (!!!). He even gets speed. Good old Barst. Still convinced he's a Berserker.

OK, add a subplot of you revealing to be Mangs and explain his luck came through an affair with RNGoddess.

On 7/11/2020 at 12:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Wolf gets another dodge/crit combo. Shame his level wasn't as good. Him missing speed a second time means those forged brave-axe Dracoknights are gonna quadruple him at endgame unless I:
a)get him speed every level from here and give him a speedwings
or
b)reclass him and lose the defense
That's gonna be fun.

I mean at one point hero is a good pick for him isn't it? Once he gets enough defense and hitpoints to instead become a hero, I think level 5 would be a good time to change for more speed level ups and with decent defense.

On 7/11/2020 at 12:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Guy even went and fixed my biggest complaint about him by getting defense. Come to think of it, Caeda's near death experience triggered a good level too...

Passable I guess. This game is like EChoes (or the reverse) where level ups with 2-3 stats is pretty good.

 

On 7/11/2020 at 12:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

For some reason, Malledus decides that having taken the forts and castle, decimated the enemy troops and otherwise made a mockery of the Grustian forces isn't enough to stop them over-running us (seriously, I felt more endangered back in the Ghoul's Teeth). So we're fleeing to a hostile territory... where we'll obviously be much safer.
Can't help but wonder if this decision wasn't an indicator of why he's replaced with Jagen by book 2/FE12.

And considering there's like a checkpoint there for Wolf to abuse... you could also bring Sedgar for him to attack from 2 range with either a bow or hand axe and then also make him overpowered.

On 7/11/2020 at 12:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Pollux Disappointed Counter: 3

Also who is pollux?

 

[Benice]

On 7/9/2020 at 6:11 PM, twilitfalchion said:

Wing Spear for the Win Spear! I know I've used that joke already but I'm tired and can't think of anything better.

You've just gotta Wing it, man. You have to believe in yourself! Then I can say "That's the spearit!"

I apologize for these Caedatrocious puns, but I've Sedguarded these puns for this moment.

...These puns are going to be Gordinstrumental in my downfall.

[Eltosian Kadath]

2 hours ago, This boi uses Nino said:

Which alphabet the Latin one? I do know you know some Latin.

Looking back at the quote he is hinting at the old joke William Shakespeare made in Julius Ceasar that

"it's Greek to me"

by obliquely referencing the Greek alphabet.

 

2 hours ago, This boi uses Nino said:

Also who is pollux?

Castor and Pollux are the twins of Greek Mythology that would eventually become the Gemini constellation. It was a joke I started about Castor being a disappointment that eventually got its own counter.

[DragonFlames]

On 7/11/2020 at 7:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Wolf can as long as he's got enough defense and HP (at maximum defense as a general he'll take 40 damage between the doubling and Medeus collosal 50 attack) Medeus also has 15 crit, meaning you'll want him to have 15 luck, as not one character in this game can survive that. Not only can't base Nagi survive a round with Medeus.. but even at capped speed either divine dragon has an AS of 24 due to manaketes having a 20 cap (a leftover from the original game). Their level 30 averages for defense being at 8.8 (Tiki) and 9 (Nagi), plus the 15 from the divinestone (but only up to a maximum of 30 total, any defense over 15 isn't really helping in this circumstance) means they're going to take more damage than Wolf... which is a problem when Nagi's average HP at level 30 is 45 and Tiki's is slightly lower. So on average, you'd need stat booster aid to make either one last. Or you could do what Dondon did in his zero 0% growths, and Aum them and have them take another shot to win. I'm hoping to do something a bit different though.

TL;DR: H5 Medeus is ridiculous.
Though it's befitting of a Dragon Emperor, I suppose.

On 7/11/2020 at 7:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Raddical.

Ha!

On 7/11/2020 at 7:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

I've said it before, I'll say it again. He's an apex predator on the hunt.

That would certainly explain the name.

On 7/11/2020 at 7:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

So that's the second time a deficient luck stat's taken an arrow for Cain.

Cain using others' bad luck for his own advantages.
Watch out for him, or else he'll turn into a villain...

On 7/11/2020 at 7:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

I mean who misses a 75%?

*looks over at Barst*

On 7/11/2020 at 7:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

This is where I actually blurted out "I love you RNGoddess" by the way.

*enemy looks over at that Knight*

On 7/11/2020 at 7:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Regardless, of whether I felt silly then, what followed meant that two Rogers decided they were in love with a "Goddess" that chapter. Brings a whole new meaning to "getting lucky" doesn't it? I know I've since did the math, and probablity that one of the two attacks failing is roughly 24%.  But let me have my fantasy waifu.

Besides, how else do you explain Wolf getting a crit this enemy phase as well as Cain getting the dodge and crit?

Then Marth takes Cain's would be slayer, and kills him for his power. Look at it. A good Marth level. I should tell the RNGoddess I love her more often.

This right here is the Power of Love at work.

On 7/11/2020 at 7:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Wendell chips the knight for some exp before Barst... unleashes his third consecutive crit this chapter (!!!). He even gets speed. Good old Barst. Still convinced he's a Berserker.

Very much so!

On 7/11/2020 at 7:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Matthis has finally done it. He's helped Ukyo learn to throw a javelin after all this time.

Hooray for friendships!

On 7/11/2020 at 7:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

The next couple enemy phases I wait patiently. Wolf notabely dodges an 86% that couldn't have hurt him in the first place and gets a level where he misses luck and more importantly speed.

He wanted to even out his Skill, Speed, and Luck stats. They're now triple 8!
Because Wolf missed the memo that triple 7 is the actual lucky number.

On 7/11/2020 at 7:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Rate he's going he'll have A in both Lances and Bows.

Parthia and Gradivus?
Overkill? Maybe. Stylish? Definitely.

On 7/11/2020 at 7:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Enemy phase is notable this time because more cavs show up. Which is notable now Wolf has a bow out... because they can damage him without weapon triangle working against him. He also gets a perfect level again (his fourth for those keeping count... out of six total).

And now he's at triple 9's. Wolf is all about that balance, apparently.

On 7/11/2020 at 7:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Because unexpectedly (though I should have seen it coming in retrospect)... he procs his 4th consecutive crit this chapter. At this point I'm laughing.

Barst is really bringing his A-game today.

On 7/11/2020 at 7:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Anyway... seeing as the other knight continued being an idiot for some reason (look how far he is from everyone), Wendell heals Marth up so he can take credit for killing a knight all by himself. He's grown up a lot since... well last chapter.

Knightkiller Marth!
The other Knight probably had his survival instincts kick in and that's why he stayed so far away. Or he really hated his colleague and wanted a front row seat while watching The Bullied One eviscerate him. Must've said something bad about his footwork at the Grustian dance clubs or something.

On 7/11/2020 at 7:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Ukyo tries to help weaken the knight... but his inexperience with the Javelin is clear as he misses not once but twice.... and it's  75% again. Both times. I didn't even notice that at the time.

It was not inexperience, Ukyo just got the cursed number.

On 7/11/2020 at 7:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

However today is truly a tragic day. For Wolf's long serving iron lance breaks.

F

On 7/11/2020 at 7:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

No new knights appear for some reason. But Wolf procs a crit... and gets a level that only lacks luck.

The triplet is ruined!

On 7/11/2020 at 7:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Caeda gets a crap level and the levin sword.

Shiida had an off day today.

On 7/11/2020 at 7:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Who decides to end this update in a strangely similar fashion to how he started it. With a crit. I have no words.

Book ends!

On 7/11/2020 at 7:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

So that chapter... what a ride. For those who weren't keeping track... between the two updates we saw a dozen crits. Barst has managed to catch up to Caeda and draw for the most crits by a unit. Cain finally got his first crit moments after fooling me into thinking I'd have to use Hardin. Wolf got non-perfect levels and Matthis missed a 90% growth on HP. RNG on a rollercoaster. Will next chapter be more tame? Only one way to find out. We'll have to wait and see (and this time I mean we because I don't know yet either).

A lot of stuff happened and yet nobody has died yet. Even if there were a lot of close moments. Keep going strong, friend!

[null]

On 7/11/2020 at 1:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

hope I can replace Cain with another unit and that I didn't bully him Hardinough for him to still be sore at me.
Seeing as Hardin's lance rank and bases make him a suitable substitute... let's continue.

*Hardin intensifies*

On 7/11/2020 at 1:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

I mean who misses a 75%?

Marcus, Allen, Lance, Shanna, Jerrot, Noah, Treck, Deke, Lot, Wade...okay! okay! I'll shut up about FE6's hit rates. They're awful!

On 7/11/2020 at 1:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

This is where I actually blurted out "I love you RNGoddess" by the way. I didn't know whether the combination of the circumstances here and the previous jokes in the thread have unhinged me a little. But I didn't care.

Or the insomnia. If it did, I understand that all too well.

On 7/11/2020 at 1:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

But let me have my fantasy waifu.

We all have them.

On 7/11/2020 at 1:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Then Marth takes Cain's would be slayer, and kills him for his power. Look at it. A good Marth level. I should tell the RNGoddess I love her more often.

Maybe she can buff Marth up after all. I wish she could do the same thing for him in Smash.

On 7/11/2020 at 1:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Marth up so he can take credit for killing a knight all by himself.

Marth? Killing? A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one. I feel like I made this same joke about Lyn in Benice's LP.

On 7/11/2020 at 1:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

but his inexperience with the Javelin is clear as he misses not once but twice.... and it's  75% again. Both times. I didn't even notice that at the time.

I seriously don't remember SD's hit rates being that bad.

On 7/11/2020 at 1:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

a)get him speed every level from here and give him a speedwings
or
b)reclass him and lose the defense
That's gonna be fun.

Decisions, decisions.

On 7/11/2020 at 1:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Matthis obviously has trained his horse well, and reaps the benefits of it's politeness.

Maybe he should work on training himself so he can be a better unit.

On 7/11/2020 at 1:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Guy even went and fixed my biggest complaint about him by getting defense. Come to think of it, Caeda's near death experience triggered a good level too...

He'll be so good that he Cain't fail you.

On 7/11/2020 at 1:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Will next chapter be more tame? Only one way to find out. We'll have to wait and see (and this time I mean we because I don't know yet either).

Looking forward to it. See you next chapter! 👍

[The Roger The Paladin]

Part 13- No Manakete's an island.

 

Spoiler

On 7/12/2020 at 6:37 AM, Eltosian Kadath said:

 

That is some never punished kinda luck showing up. The crit is just rubbing it in at this point.

Imagine being the commander of the enemy army. You're being outplanned in virtually every aspect despite having largely superior troops (Wolf not-withstanding). Then when the enemy strategist slips... you finally seize the opening. Only for even the smallest victory to slip through your grasp like the billowing smoke it is. For the utterly unforeseen happened. The enemy's bizarre habit of training horses to politely greet their adversary before battle causes your knight to lose the initiative as he misses. Stunned by this stroke of misfortune, he has foolishly allowed the opponent to slip his lance between the plates of his armor.

You have the devil's luck...

I mean, the odds of Barst critting 4 times in a row was roughly 1 in 166,666. So that might be very fitting given that.

Horsemen really are the epitome of rude. Surprise movement, village burning glitches, and now this.
I think they're just irritable because they aren't the best of anything. They can raid villages but not visit them. They can't open doors and chests unlike thieves. They don't have a sniper's innate crit bonus because they traded it off for a mount and a sword... but they're inferior to other mounted units in all but the most niche of situations. The horseman is angry because he's put effort into learning many skills, but he's not particularly good at any of them.

He just has to show all the younguns how its done.

Jagen is going to get another chance to do so this chapter... albeit in a slightly different manner.

After all that bullying, Marth gets some small recognition for his effort.

I mean, if he can help out in even the smallest way... I'm happy with that. Though to be fair the only unit with no contribution (as even though Hardin and Vyland didn't get to do anything, they were part of a backup plan in chapter 5, and I did think those forts they blocked could spawn enemies) would be Bantu. Who has quite a big contribution latter in the game... in that without him I don't get Tiki, and without Tiki... the game gets harder.

Edit: I wanted to note that I was out of the loop about the allegations against Mangs when I made this, and just wanted to say I didn't intend this to link you to such things, only joke about how lucky you have been. I generally avoid social media, have been busy recently thus not keeping up with other sources of community news, plus this forum is well moderated enough that the allegations against Mangs were not well publicized here on my main way of interacting with the FE community.

Not much to apologize for. It's a joke with unfortunate timing. Literally could have happened to anyone. Regardless, I think i managed to stay out of the loop on it even longer because I missed the "edit" in reading these. So basically because of general distraction (migraines mostly)... I found out about the allegations last night.

 

On 7/13/2020 at 7:26 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

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Hey, where's the funny joke in small text? You disappoint me so...
I think it's visiting this update's one and was out at the time.

Woo, using the antagonist-in-the-making!
That was the plan... for about as long as it took for me to type this.

What.

What?

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!?

I don't know. Lately I've noticed everytime something's set on 75% hit, it seems to miss. I wonder how many times I can find that if I look at old episodes.

Why does everyone else get all the luck... Share some of that with me, damnit! The most I ever get is a unit not dying to a 50% blow, and then I spent three maps paying for it!
I was going to ask how... but then I remembered Enid's levels.

Grrrrr... preferential treatment... hmph... I bet you haven't even sacrificed any children... grumble grumble...
I think I pay for my luck in games with my luck in life. Would explain the migraine I've had on and off this week. Then again... I tend to be lucky on avoiding death in real life too. I'm pretty good at it.

Woohoo. Now he just needs to get to ridersbanes, and he's set. Also, stats.
Yeah. I kind of realized when I did up a table for averages (factoring in the reclass)... he's a point screwed on skill... and actually 2 points blessed in speed and 1 in luck. Mind if he doesn't get strength or skill next level, he's 1 screwed on strength and 2 screwed on skill.

That has to be the worst Wolf level I've ever seen. Which, really, says a lot about Wolf, doesn't it?
Kind of does. The irony is, I did up Wolf's averages as a general, and I realized his average level 20 speed is a mere 14... because he should miss it just under half the time. Actually the only stats he averages capping as a general are his HP and defense... and only then at level 20. Which means if you go by averages my Wolf is blessed by 1 point in everything or 2 in speed. Funny right? Because the notion that this is a blessed Wolf actually surprised me because I thought the dropped speed was a sign he was screwed.

I do have to wonder why there's a Grustian commander on his own guarding a fort in the middle of nowhere.
I don't know. I also don't know why he's arbitrarily a knight after two generals despite his stats being... similar. Is he being screwed out of promotion and given an irrelevant post out of jealousy?

I don't even have anything to say here. If she got strength on top of everything else I think I would've bursted out of sheer jealousy.
I mean, I couldn't have all of the luck all of the time obviously. Also it seemed apt that level 13 was just luck. Though I can't help but notice both times I had near deaths like that Caeda got a luck only level after... even if it was Cain who nearly died this time.

I'd like to point out he's better than Ukyo in every stat except defense and luck. So much for the worst cavalier.
Also speed, where they're tied at 9. Mind they're also tied with Cain and Abel... so it's kind of universal for my cavaliers.

I mean, Malledus did canonically cause Frey's "death" when he could've just sent Gordin instead. That already speaks volumes of his tactical prowess.

Yeah, but Gordin wouldn't have ever survived that beating. See the reason Frey's better than everyone else (except arguably Jagen due to earlygame) is because he can survive that beating when none of the others could.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Goddamn you and you luck...!
I think I found my lost mini text joke... wait. No that's yours.

 

 

On 7/14/2020 at 7:30 AM, This boi uses Nino said:

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It's a dumb metaphor that alludes to a question presented before in a science study, "Which is more valuable, a diamon or a bottle of water?" obviously in here it depends on the context of whether you're about to die of dehydration or not.
I mean, I personally would rather have the water regardless.. just because it's got more practical use. Unless you're using the diamond for a drill bit or something.

Here moreso I just wanted to say that when you have very little, or so many things are taken away from you, you treasure the smallest things.
Essentially Saint Rubenio with Matthis... then again his Matthis was a God.

That is true but I still argue that the measurement currently used in human lifespans is more useful than comparing it to that of the Earth's, Universe or a greenland shark. Sure it means those things can't use our timescale but it's not like we made it for them to use, if greenland sharks want a timescale, tell them to make their own 😛 (But yes I do get you rpoint)
I mean, I just tend to go all philosophical for no reason. Besides, the Greenland shark's cost of it's lifespan is having skin that literally stinks like urine when exposed to air. I mean, it most likely does underwater, it's just you're not going to be smelling it underwater unless you're an idiot who doesn't mind taking off their diving helmet so they can fill their nostrils/lungs up with stinky water in a frigid section of ocean with high pressure due to the depth.
My argument was more so that when speaking of WW1 or WW2 or simply learning about sometimes my mind goes "Woah that existed back then? Then these wars weren't that long ago" but then other times something I consider normal things or norms in war to be a thing and I learn they weren't quite yet there and I go "Wait wut? Is this the fucking middle ages or something?" To think Africa was still mostly colonialized 70 years agoish is mindboggling, that and that racism isn't a dead issue like omfg people!
I mean... it's not that hard to think. Then again I have quite the comic collection... so I've seen them trying to fit with the "current year" from every year from 1935 (a copy of Detective Comics 1 for the record, which is quite the oddity because it's the only issue I've read from before Batman was a thing) through to... well literally the current year.

Which alphabet the Latin one? I do know you know some Latin.
Well, the reference was to the Euclidean alphabet, which is one of the historical variations of the Greek alphabet... and a certain Shakesphere reference. Mind the Latin alphabet having been derived from the Greek alphabet means it's not as distant as it could be.

Not that I don't either but as is with these things, I forgot what it was I knew.
I think everyone has memory lapses.

Honestly like I do like Sain's offensive capabilities but he is quite frail, and it takes time for him before mercenaries don't nearly kill him. Seriously in his joining map it's very hard to save that village with Lyn's group because Sain and Kent are so bad. I appreciate movement as much as the next guy, but in a map with forest hell and weak units. No thank you.
FE7 balancing really likes to tell you "play Lyn mode or suffer" doesn't it?

Yes Iranian.
How did you get from Iraq to Afghanistan in three days? "Iran".

It's a reverse simping in a way but also still simping, rather than losing money he gets it. But he also simps his life.
Simp-ly confounding.

Hanneman based. But since you're not british then that won't happen, Australian.
Hanneman's Australian cousin. He's a descendant of a convict that was sent to Australia, and talks with an Australian accent about how he researches Marsupials.

"I love you too my dear"
Well you're a lucky bastard. Truth be told though I'm happy nobody has died yet. You've proven to be more capable at playing an ironman than I ever could. I mean I've lost so many units in my FE8 ironman... it's embarrasing.

I mean... in theory I should have lost 3 so far. Maybe 4 depending on how the A.I. worked with Barst that time.

I would keep rolepaying as the RNG godess but that's cringe. I think you should make a subplot about the RNGoddess.
I have no idea how I'd portray such an entity. I mean besides sheer lunacy.

OK, add a subplot of you revealing to be Mangs and explain his luck came through an affair with RNGoddess.
I think I already commented on the unfortunate timing of those jokes in Eltosian Kadath's responses. Seems my luck set me up for this.

I mean at one point hero is a good pick for him isn't it? Once he gets enough defense and hitpoints to instead become a hero, I think level 5 would be a good time to change for more speed level ups and with decent defense.
He does have a 100% strength growth in hero... though it's 120% in Berserker or Warrior (with the added bonus of 200% HP so he can't miss the second hit point)

Passable I guess. This game is like EChoes (or the reverse) where level ups with 2-3 stats is pretty good.

I kind of found in OG Gaiden, level ups didn't matter much at all unless you were using someone who could breach class bases (Kliff with speed). Hence levels were more about being able to promote. Echoes increased growth rates feel like they changed that just a little for me.

And considering there's like a checkpoint there for Wolf to abuse... you could also bring Sedgar for him to attack from 2 range with either a bow or hand axe and then also make him overpowered.
I could... but I feel Caeda and Wolf are good enough without adding in Sedgar. That said... some ballista shenanigans might be in the works.

Also who is pollux?
Eltosian Kadath explained it pretty well below... so I'll leave you with that.

 

 

On 7/14/2020 at 7:59 AM, Benice said:

You've just gotta Wing it, man. You have to believe in yourself! Then I can say "That's the spearit!"

I apologize for these Caedatrocious puns, but I've Sedguarded these puns for this moment.

...These puns are going to be Gordinstrumental in my downfall.
Let's hope they don't get you pun-ished too harshly. That would not be Radd at all, and certainly not in my bEst interests.

 

On 7/14/2020 at 10:56 AM, Eltosian Kadath said:

Looking back at the quote he is hinting at the old joke William Shakespeare made in Julius Ceasar that

"it's Greek to me"

by obliquely referencing the Greek alphabet.

 

Castor and Pollux are the twins of Greek Mythology that would eventually become the Gemini constellation. It was a joke I started about Castor being a disappointment that eventually got its own counter.
Which ironically outlived Castor's active membership on the team... as he was that much of a disappointment.

 

On 7/14/2020 at 11:51 PM, DragonFlames said:

TL;DR: H5 Medeus is ridiculous.
Though it's befitting of a Dragon Emperor, I suppose.
Yeah. Maxed out everything except Def and Res... which are both at 25. Dual range. A 20 might dragonstone. Throne bonuses. There's the more standard final boss ... and then there's H5 Medeus. That said... in theory if you could get a Berserker up to max HP, Speed and Def as well as 15 luck... they'd be able to survive two rounds of combat before dying on the third. Notably Wolf and Sedgar can both be Berserkers.... though capping them out that way may not be likely, and there are other ways to lower that HP faster. But the biggest threat on the map isn't even Medeus himself. There's ballistae and siege tomes. There's a never ending wave of reinforcements. When the most reliable strategy REQUIRES three/four warps and an Aum staff...

Ha!

That would certainly explain the name.
I mean, judging by his initial stats, I think he was just trying to compensate. Except thanks to his growths he can fake it until he makes it.

Cain using others' bad luck for his own advantages.
Watch out for him, or else he'll turn into a villain...
I mean, to be fair... that bad luck was literally to his advantage in that he's only alive because of it (both times). Hard not to take advantage of that without giving them a free second shot.

*looks over at Barst*
I'd be careful. I think I'm going to stop mocking Barst's misses, on the ground he keeps critting everything.

*enemy looks over at that Knight*
Him though... well he's got killed by Marth after missing a 75% that should have killed someone and taking a crit in retaliation. Not a good start to one's career.

This right here is the Power of Love at work.
Caeda has Marth. Marth has Caeda. I have the RNGoddess. Seems to be working out well.

Very much so!
He's going to feel a bit demoted going to Pyrathi.

Hooray for friendships!
When my LP gradually becomes a Saturday morning cartoon about the power of friendship. I mean, if the enemies worked as a team or we didn't, this stuff wouldn't work at all. Wolf-notwithstanding. He's the exception that confirms the rule.

He wanted to even out his Skill, Speed, and Luck stats. They're now triple 8!
Because Wolf missed the memo that triple 7 is the actual lucky number.
"I'm not an unbalanced unit. See my stats are fairly even." ~ Wolf, on why he's not broken.

Parthia and Gradivus?
Overkill? Maybe. Stylish? Definitely.
Little thought. Xane duplicates a unit... right down to weapon ranks. Imagine what I can do with that if I use him to duplicate Wolf. Like having two units that can use a legendary weapon on and survive a round with Medeus.... if I go down that route (which I may not... as Xane isn't the most efficient way of dealing with Medeus either).

And now he's at triple 9's. Wolf is all about that balance, apparently.
Definitely sick of people saying he's an unbalanced unit.

Barst is really bringing his A-game today.
And A is for Axes. Which is his thing.

Knightkiller Marth!
The other Knight probably had his survival instincts kick in and that's why he stayed so far away. Or he really hated his colleague and wanted a front row seat while watching The Bullied One eviscerate him. Must've said something bad about his footwork at the Grustian dance clubs or something.
Maybe he thought he'd soften the enemy up for him. Only to find out that it didn't quite work.

It was not inexperience, Ukyo just got the cursed number.
75 is going to be a running joke at this rate.

F
Fortunately... we got a new one for free early in the chapter.

The triplet is ruined!
Such is always the way.

Shiida had an off day today.
I mean, what's an off day to her is still damn awesome to anyone else.

Book ends!
I found it one of the most poetic parts when I played that session that Cain doing a dodge and crit on knights was both the start and end. History may not repeat... but it often rhymes.

A lot of stuff happened and yet nobody has died yet. Even if there were a lot of close moments. Keep going strong, friend!
That critical counter went nuts on that one though. I literally had to read things through multiple times to make sure I didn't miss one.

 

On 7/17/2020 at 8:57 PM, twilitfalchion said:

*Hardin intensifies*
I completely expected to be using the guy and making jokes about why Ogma has his silver sword. I didn't get it.

Marcus, Allen, Lance, Shanna, Jerrot, Noah, Treck, Deke, Lot, Wade...okay! okay! I'll shut up about FE6's hit rates. They're awful!
I tend to avoid blaming the RNG for misses except as a joke... but I do find 75% being cursed hilarious.

Or the insomnia. If it did, I understand that all too well.
I don't have that excuse. See, the point Roger saved was so I could go to sleep. I returned to the game roughly 14 hours after to find I'd saved with Cain in a position which I really should not have had him. The save was going to be my "split" point when I uploaded the events... but on realizing Cain was in a shit position I opted to go with that instead. Even if the amount of time I thought Cain was screwed was significantly less than it took to right this.

We all have them.
I mean... but how many of them can affect your level ups and crits?

Maybe she can buff Marth up after all. I wish she could do the same thing for him in Smash.
Bring Melee Marth's grab range back. Done.

Marth? Killing? A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one. I feel like I made this same joke about Lyn in Benice's LP.
Most likely. But I was more surprised by Lyn to be honest.

I seriously don't remember SD's hit rates being that bad.
I imagine in part it's the speed difference. But in part it's also the fact that weapon rank and skill both help contribute to accuracy... and Ukyo's a bit lacking in both. At least with lances.

Decisions, decisions.
I mean... there's always the option of seeing how he goes.

Maybe he should work on training himself so he can be a better unit.
Oh... Matthis has one advantage over the other cavs on promotion. See Dracoknight irons out his speed growth while affecting his HP, defense and/or strength growths less than other cavs. His diminished strength growth as a dracoknight is still equivalent to Cain's. His 80% HP growth as a draco-knight is still absurd. His 25% def growth as a draco-knight is still higher than any other natural Cav/Paladin in the game. He also gets to keep his lance rank to boot.

He'll be so good that he Cain't fail you.
Hopefully so. It'd Cain if he were to die after all that.

Looking forward to it. See you next chapter! 👍

The text joke from last time.
The text joke from this time.

Update:

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Like an overdue library book, I am returned.

I really don't know why we went to this island. I suppose canonically the Grustian army was a lot more threatening than it was last chapter. Regardless we successfully turn an uninvolved nation to an enemy by not considering how they may feel about an army showing up on their island unnannounced. Knowing their king was a dragon.

Anyway, speaking of dragons, Jagen gets back to riding the one we inexplicably have had since chapter 4. Barst puts on the magic bandana that allows him to swim. I consider reclassing Wolf to hero, but decide not to for reasons. Lena gets a new heal staff. Various items get reshuffled and merged.

Okay. Two things here. To the right, we see our formation. For the record Ukyo's the one by the bridge, and Matthis is next to Caeda. See, the plan is for Marth, Ukyo, Wendell and Jagen to head for the village. Caeda, Barst and Ogma have something else to do. Julian's opening a door or two and getting to the treasure ASAP. Wolf's taking point, because the guy on the left is one nasty piece of work. 31 attack, and 121 hit. He's got enough power on him to do noteworthy damage to even a General Wolf. And he's close to being able to one shot Caeda. Though, his obvious weakness is his brains. He's carting around a devil axe... with a luck stat of 0.

So... I take it he doesn't mind Jagen. Probably has a thing for the Wyvern.

So, my starting moves are somewhat basic. I mean, I already explained this plan. Bar the whole fact I'm luring some of the enemy pirates (though only one of them is going to reach him, and he's got one of the vulneraries that Radd bought in place of the hammer, which I figured was dead weight this chapter). Obviously Ogma is there because bonuses with Barst. Caeda.. well you'll see.

See the good thing about this, is that Barst's not only got more avoid naturally, but throwing in the extra from the sea and Ogma.... he's quite capable of sidestepping an axe throw or two. Alas, Barst is also more accurate than these pirates to begin with... and with their 0 luck and lack of Ogma bonus he can still hit them. Suckers.

On the Eastern front, Ukyo, who has reclaimed his killing edge for this mission... secures the town. As you can see everyone else just goes as far as they can.

Barst now can take advantage of the combined hit and might of the silver axe to finish off the damaged pirate... then Caeda helps him switch to a hand-axe again for enemy phase. After all she can take one hit from the guy... and has a javelin.

Julian unlocks the door to the Pyrathi treasury, Abel sets up on the other side in case Wolf needs help unblocking it for some reason. Wolf readies his Javelin and stays in place so that attacks on my healers can't occur, and the pirate tardgets either Caeda or Barst as per plan.

Caeda takes the hit... and only manages to land one of her two counters. Not her best day. But this really is a bad map for her. Axes and bows everywhere. A boss who can oneshot her. No one to Bradamante. It's the worst deal she's had since chapter 3.

Ukyo didn't get a crit... despite using the killing edge. Huh. Strange.

Player phase he takes the opportunity to throw a javelin, as (Jagen can do the same in the event he misses) to soften up the pirate for Marth to get a guaranteed kill.

Seeing as Jagen won't be needed to deal with that pirate, he deals some damage to the much less dangerous theif so he can suicide next turn. Julian finds an object I'll sell after the chapter (wouldn't want to support this place's economy after this lousy greeting), and Barst deals some damage to the other hand axe pirate... who doesn't miss this time.

But big deal. See da point of the previous maneuvers was to block off the pirate from being able to reach anyone by sea that couldn't retaliate... fatally. Thanks to the trick of having Caeda borrow Barst's vulnerarly, mission accomplished. Also Abel gets out of the way because devil axe pirate is now on the warpath... and I'd rather have Wolf take that blow.

The hand axe pirate decides to get up close and personal so he doesn't miss his throw, seeing as everyone's capable of throwing back. Catch is, he forgot he's dealing with Caeda. She's not taking two hits so soon together. Unlike him.

Look at that. 100% hit. 9 damage on Wolf. Can you blame me for getting everyone else out of his way? He's a menace to everyone.

Himself included. He's just lucky he dodged that, or he'd be ready to star in a Whoisthisgit video about guys killed by walls. Either way, the RNG took him from the biggest threat on the map (unless you count attacking the boss at 1 range) to free experience.

Speaking of free experience... Marth's getting decent strength now that thief (who had all of 1 defense) decided it was a good idea to fight him. Now if Ukyo and Ogma can hit 9, I'm set. Speaking of Ukyo heals up.

Ukyo now waits, killing edge in hand for the other pirate. Meanwhile... Jagen goes about his twist on the plan. Damaging the thief to preserve the wrymslayer for later looting. So... now the thief should suicide on him, with the door being blocked right?

Speaking of thieves Julian picks up the goddess icon from the other chest... leaving only one plausible target for a thief on the map... not counting the village, which obviously will be dealt with by turns end because I'm not forgetful or anything. So what was the other topic? Suicides? Like the guy who used a devil axe with 0 luck. Merric decides to lightly char him... but leave him with one HP. Which gives Abel an adequate chance to engage in the very action I put him that side of Wolf for. Namely to clear enemies so other units could go through without taking Wolf's turn. Funny how it worked out like that.

So Abel gets this level from ending the reign of the devil axe. Look, he's now my fastest cav by a single point lead over everyone else Barstand Caeda trade the vulnerary back in case Barst needs it for his next diversionary tactic... and Barst goes to Wrys to get healed. Which is why I needed Abel, so I'd be able to move Wolf... who was standing where Wrys is now. Wolf and Cain are set up to lure a pirate but not far enough to be targetted by that nasty Elfire Mage. Seems a neat wrap up... what could I be forgetting...

If you guessed Jeorge... you're dead wrong. I was saving the best for last. Reading his statements... I have to wonder what section of Archanea palace Jeorge was in. I mean, he might have been useful in a certain Archanea Saga chapter had he been there. Though I guess it's fair to say it's a big palace. What isn't fair, is how sharp a barb his comment on the enemy intelligence is. Specifically if you're playing normal. Here's it's quite a hit. There, you might say it's doing effective damage.

You know... I somehow doubt that Jeorge. Mostly because a lot of my family are quite skilled with a bow. But then I don't know. At this point I decide to show how the battle's going. You may notice we're decisively ahead of Pyrathi both in kills and surviving units. Four turns in.

Ukyo and Cain do the exact same routine on their attackers. Dodge and strike. I do kind of lament that there's no crit by Ukyo, but whatever. Surely next time right?
At least my horses still have manners.

So... because the thief arbitrarily decides he's going to not attack Jagen, I decide that I'm going to let him get the wyrmslayer. Because I've decided it'd be less hassle to let him open the chest then kill him than moving Marth or Julian to that chest with the reinforcements this map uses. I should have done it this way to begin with. Meanwhile Jeorge shows us that Marksmanship such as we've never seen by missing a damn 93%. Ukyo proceeds to not get a crit for the third time, leading me to conclude that the killing edge's double crit on Hyman broke the mechanism. Either that or it was damaged in the Matthis incident. Ukyo's horse doesn't bow because it met this guy during enemy phase, and hasn't left his company since.

Anyway, Marth wraps up the last major battle of the Eastern front by finishing off the pirate, as Ukyo more than successfully weakened him, which was all I needed him to do. Ukyo's rewarded for his efforts with some healing.

Anyway... back to the western front.Wrys heals Barst up that last bit, because I want him to distract the other steel axe pirate. Merric and Cain team up to fry and skewer the pirate from enemy phase.

Matthis: Stop there thief! I'll die before I let you harm my sister.
Julian: Yeesh. Watch where you're pointing that thing. You're liable to hurt somebody.
Matthis: Stay back, or I'll smite you where you stand blackguard.
Julian:Yikes! Cut that out! I'm on your side! A little help here... Lena?
Lena: Matthis... calm down. He's on our side.
Matthis:... Why would a criminal like him be on our side?
Julian: Ex-criminal. I'm reformed. I'm trying to turn over a new leaf.
Matthis: You say that while exiting a building, sack full of loot over your shoulder. Why should I believe you?
Julian: They're funds for Prince Marth's war effort. In case you haven't noticed... the war chest was drying up. And I picked up this Goddess Icon for Lena... because I'm fairly certain these godless pirates aren't going to miss it.
Lena: For me? I'm sorry, but I think I have another use for it. Matthis, carry this with you into battle. If I pray for you, perhaps the hand of the Goddess will protect you.
Matthis: I... don't know. It's stolen.
Julian: How do you think the pirates got it in the first place?
Lena: Quiet Julian. Please Matthis, for my peace of mind take it. It'll be like I'm with you, always.
Matthis: Lena... you know I can never say no to you.

Anyway, after Matthis and Julian were introduced... and Barst set out for purpose of diversion... Caeda sets up at the end of the mage's range to lure him with a javelin.. and get healed by Lena.

He managed to hit Caeda. But all this achieves is suicide. Also getting Caeda to A-rank lances at last. Anyway, so ends the turn.

Problem. Steel axe pirate and two hunters began their approach. My original plan of baiting him away with Barst so I could deal with the hunters relatively safely by blocking the bridge has went belly up.
So I start off the turn rather differently than planned. Well not entirely, my Eastern front units return the way the came... with Ukyo getting healed. Caeda falls back and gets healed by Wrys and Lena... so anyone in real danger (bar Merric for reasons) is out of range in case the next part of my plan goes south.

First off, my Cavs start two ranging that pirate, as he's the biggest threat. Matthis misses... but I expected at least one miss. Cain gets weapon level out of this. Now Matthis, Abel, Cain, Jagen, Wolf and Caeda can all use ridersbanes... not that Caeda needs it with Bradamante. My point is trading shenanigans are due for wrecking cavs/paladins and horsemen. Now just to get Ukyo up to scratch... and it's gonna be hilarious.

Now, next part of my plan is why I needed Merric. See, he was just enough to wreck the pirate if someone missed. More so if... as in this case, he crits. Thanks Merric. A crit now that I legitimately don't have use for it. Regardless, it means Wolf can  take his Javelin, block off the bridge... and get a weapon level. Just because.

Anway, because there's another hand-axe pirate... Barst decides to take another aspect of high seas adventure and salvage my plan of luring someone out into their death upon the waves. Matthis also realizes that smart-ass Julian pick-pocketed him earlier and takes the vulnerary back.

Enemy phase starts off with the first wave of reinforcements appearing... and the thief nicking the Wyrmslayer.

Even without the extra 5 hit and avoid from Ogma, Barst is still too good for this chump. If he had a bit more HP, he could be better than him in literally every way. Wolf on the other hand turns the hunter into the hunted.

Now here's a little problem. See this reinforcement can theoretically block off Jagen's escape if he goes in for the thief. I can't have Jagen wait outside either because that A-rank from H5 means the thief could actually use the Wyrmslayer. So the obvious solution was this... to check both and kill. Jagen doesn't get a level.

But he does get the Wyrmslayer. Which takes us a bit over the half-way point for my screencaps. With only one crit yet. I don't even have a damn cliff-hanger to end on, because there was no way to make the Wyrmslayer into one. I guess we'll have to wait for next time for some axetion. Because thus far Pyrathi's went pretty damn smoothly. The only things that have went astray have been back-up planned straight down.

Deaths:
My evasion of arenas
My credibility.
Tradition*
Slow Cav
*-revived
Crit Counter:
Abel: 2
Barst: 8
Caeda:8
Cain:2
Draug:2
MarcusJagen:2
Marth:2
Merric:1
Ogma:3
Wolf:5
Generic enemy:1
Pollux Disappointed Counter: 3

 

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10 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

The text joke from last time.
The text joke from this time.

HAHAHAaHHABHBDaewvbejwbgaeuw.f fbsdg hilarious my Slovenian.

10 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

I mean, I personally would rather have the water regardless.. just because it's got more practical use. Unless you're using the diamond for a drill bit or something.

The point is if you would take the diamond because it's more valuable and you could (theoretically) sell it. While a bottle of water has special uses, when you are already faring well, you don't need it.

10 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Essentially Saint Rubenio with Matthis... then again his Matthis was a God.

Yeah uh how the hell do you do that?

10 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Well, the reference was to the Euclidean alphabet, which is one of the historical variations of the Greek alphabet... and a certain Shakesphere reference. Mind the Latin alphabet having been derived from the Greek alphabet means it's not as distant as it could be.

Yeah yeah someone else explained the joke I didn't get.

10 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

FE7 balancing really likes to tell you "play Lyn mode or suffer" doesn't it?

no, it tells you "don't play or suffer" FE7 sucks.

10 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

How did you get from Iraq to Afghanistan in three days? "Iran".

HAHA! Hilarious my azerbaijani compatriot... also these countries border each other iirc.

10 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Hanneman's Australian cousin. He's a descendant of a convict that was sent to Australia, and talks with an Australian accent about how he researches Marsupials.

What a strange thing my Argentinian friend...

10 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

I have no idea how I'd portray such an entity. I mean besides sheer lunacy.

Grab Naga, waist/thigs/breasts/whatever suits you +100% and there you go. There's your goddess.

10 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

I think I already commented on the unfortunate timing of those jokes in Eltosian Kadath's responses. Seems my luck set me up for this.

Oh well I don't care, I'll still meme about the egg every now and then. As bad as he was, his content is still gob.

10 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

He does have a 100% strength growth in hero... though it's 120% in Berserker or Warrior (with the added bonus of 200% HP so he can't miss the second hit point)

I meant so more for the speed bonus.

 

11 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Speaking of free experience... Marth's getting decent strength now that thief (who had all of 1 defense) decided it was a good idea to fight him.

Huh well that's cool... surely but slowly!

11 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Meanwhile Jeorge shows us that Marksmanship such as we've never seen by missing a damn 93%. Ukyo proceeds to not get a crit for the third time, leading me to conclude that the killing edge's double crit on Hyman broke the mechanism. Either that or it was damaged in the Matthis incident. Ukyo's horse doesn't bow because it met this guy during enemy phase, and hasn't left his company since.

Damn George!
Also Killing Edge critting ahhahaha what a funny joke no seriously guys please help why don't I ever crit?
And that bowing comment is genius.

11 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Matthis: Stop there thief! I'll die before I let you harm my sister.
Julian: Yeesh. Watch where you're pointing that thing. You're liable to hurt somebody.
Matthis: Stay back, or I'll smite you where you stand blackguard.
Julian:Yikes! Cut that out! I'm on your side! A little help here... Lena?
Lena: Matthis... calm down. He's on our side.
Matthis:... Why would a criminal like him be on our side?
Julian: Ex-criminal. I'm reformed. I'm trying to turn over a new leaf.
Matthis: You say that while exiting a building, sack full of loot over your shoulder. Why should I believe you?
Julian: They're funds for Prince Marth's war effort. In case you haven't noticed... the war chest was drying up. And I picked up this Goddess Icon for Lena... because I'm fairly certain these godless pirates aren't going to miss it.
Lena: For me? I'm sorry, but I think I have another use for it. Matthis, carry this with you into battle. If I pray for you, perhaps the hand of the Goddess will protect you.
Matthis: I... don't know. It's stolen.
Julian: How do you think the pirates got it in the first place?
Lena: Quiet Julian. Please Matthis, for my peace of mind take it. It'll be like I'm with you, always.
Matthis: Lena... you know I can never say no to you.

Aww that's pretty cute.

11 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Because thus far Pyrathi's went pretty damn smoothly. The only things that have went astray have been back-up planned straight down.

This LP in a nuthsell, I mean many times you almost lost someone but you didn't so you've been playing pretty well so far.

 

[Benice]

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On 7/11/2020 at 10:12 AM, The Roger The Paladin said:

We can talk about mercy, after you scrub all the floors in Archanea Hyrule. Take him away.

Yes, my liege!

On 7/11/2020 at 10:12 AM, The Roger The Paladin said:

When your mage Gordin is low key better than any archer Gordin ever. What sorcery is this?

Eh, dunno. I bet Ryan may even end up worse, somehow.

On 7/11/2020 at 10:12 AM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Better at what? Getting my units killed in higher difficulties of Conquest? I don't know exactly why, but I seem to screw up on that game a lot more than the others.

Well, it is probably the hardest or 2nd hardest game in the franchise.

On 7/11/2020 at 10:12 AM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Unlike using Matthis and Wrys which completely doesn't put me into Saint Rubenio's shadow because.... uh....

Because everybody uses Wrys! The humble curate is low-key top tier.

On 7/11/2020 at 10:12 AM, The Roger The Paladin said:

His name starts with W. Everyone else in this army starting with W is squishy. Ergo Wolf must be squishy. Do not frontline.

Wendell...Warth...Waeda....Wagen...Werric...Wordin...Word...Word...Warst...Wgma...Wbel....Wain...Wrys...Wyland...Woshea...Wedgar...Wadd...Watthis...Wena...Wulian...Waesar...Wrey...Woah...

Speaking of which, you should use Dolph. Only a true legend could possibly do that.

On 7/11/2020 at 10:12 AM, The Roger The Paladin said:

One of the least expected things to come out of this LP honestly.

Better than a "The Roger and RNGoddess break up after catfight over Matthis' fate! Family devided! Not click bait!!1" headline.

11 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

So... I take it he doesn't mind Jagen. Probably has a thing for the Wyvern.

I ship it. Manyvern is real.

12 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Ukyo didn't get a crit... despite using the killing edge. Huh. Strange.

Is TB catching up with him? Sure hope not.

12 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

See da point of the previous maneuvers

AGH

Annnd I forgot to reply to the previous update. As always. Scantastic.

[Eltosian Kadath]

11 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Barst now can take advantage of the combined hit and might of the silver axe to finish off the damaged pirate... then Caeda helps him switch to a hand-axe again for enemy phase. After all she can take one hit from the guy... and has a javelin.

Now that is a classic tactic straight from the games with Canto...I guess you got it to work here, but in those games its a mainstay, where as here it is a maneuver that takes a bit of planning to pull off.

 

11 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Ukyo didn't get a crit... despite using the killing edge. Huh. Strange.

I mean its only around a 1/5 chance of critting, which is no where near high enough to expect it every battle. I guess the luck of last chapter has set some really high expectations.

 

11 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Look at that. 100% hit. 9 damage on Wolf. Can you blame me for getting everyone else out of his way? He's a menace to everyone.

The Devil axe leads to some tempting numbers in the games where it has 100 hit...but unless things are getting desperate its rarely worth the risk.

 

11 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Himself included. He's just lucky he dodged that, or he'd be ready to star in a Whoisthisgit video about guys killed by walls. Either way, the RNG took him from the biggest threat on the map (unless you count attacking the boss at 1 range) to free experience.

That's hilarious...the luck Goddess taketh and giveth once again.

 

12 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Lena: Quiet Julian. Please Matthis, for my peace of mind take it. It'll be like I'm with you, always.
Matthis: Lena... you know I can never say no to you.

Daw....that's adorable.

 

12 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

I don't even have a damn cliff-hanger to end on, because there was no way to make the Wyrmslayer into one. I guess we'll have to wait for next time for some axetion. Because thus far Pyrathi's went pretty damn smoothly. The only things that have went astray have been back-up planned straight down.

The sign of a good tactician is how many contingency plans he has left over.

Now for something completely different; the cliffhanger comment got me thinking that the old Dwarf Fortress motto applies even more to LPs than it does the gameplay it was originally commenting on.

 

46 minutes ago, Benice said:

Well, it is probably the hardest or 2nd hardest game in the franchise.

Now that is a debatable claim, I feel like Conquest comes closer to 3rd, but I suspect a clever enough argument could convince me of a ranking as low as 5th... hmm.... I just might open up a topic about ranking the difficulties of the games...eventually...

 

[Saint Rubenio]

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On 7/18/2020 at 8:32 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Yeah. I kind of realized when I did up a table for averages (factoring in the reclass)... he's a point screwed on skill... and actually 2 points blessed in speed and 1 in luck. Mind if he doesn't get strength or skill next level, he's 1 screwed on strength and 2 screwed on skill.

That is a speed blessed unit?! Holy shit, Navarre is more pitiful than I thought... He couldn't double Derrick!

On 7/18/2020 at 8:32 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Essentially Saint Rubenio with Matthis... then again his Matthis was a God.

I'd say what Boi was talking about fits my Marcus more. When literally all your sword and horse units die, you treasure the Jeigan that actually happens to grow well. Mostly because he's your last chance.

...What do you mean, Perceval? Why are you bringing that guy up? He's a mage, he has nothing to do with this topic!

On 7/18/2020 at 8:32 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Hanneman's Australian cousin. He's a descendant of a convict that was sent to Australia, and talks with an Australian accent about how he researches Marsupials.

Did somebody mention Hanneman? I am obligated to state that Hanneman is the best character in Three Houses by far, and anyone who disagrees is a horseman.

On 7/18/2020 at 8:32 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

The text joke from last time.
The text joke from this time.

Here, inspiration for next time's text joke.

On 7/18/2020 at 8:32 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

I really don't know why we went to this island. I suppose canonically the Grustian army was a lot more threatening than it was last chapter. Regardless we successfully turn an uninvolved nation to an enemy by not considering how they may feel about an army showing up on their island unnannounced. Knowing their king was a dragon.

Still, it begs the question. Why come here instead of, you know... going back to Talys, which is just a bit up above? In fact, I just looked up a map, and I'm pretty sure Talys is even closer to Port Warren than Pyrathi. There was literally no reason to invade this guy's nation.

On 7/18/2020 at 8:32 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

So... I take it he doesn't mind Jagen. Probably has a thing for the Wyvern.

I'd wager he has a bigger problem with him, actually. I mean, he's literally made one of his brethren into a slave.

Also, I'd like to point out that "Manu", in Spanish, is short for "Manuel", a really common name. In other words, this age-old dragon who is king of a realm is effectively named "Joe".

On 7/18/2020 at 8:32 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Julian unlocks the door to the Pyrathi treasury

You aren't just invading them, you're robbing them too. Does your selfishness know no bounds?

On 7/18/2020 at 8:32 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

He's a menace to everyone.

He's a menace to the entire city!

On 7/18/2020 at 8:32 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

You know... I somehow doubt that Jeorge. Mostly because a lot of my family are quite skilled with a bow. But then I don't know.

He cannot match Tomas

On 7/18/2020 at 8:32 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Matthis: Stop there thief! I'll die before I let you harm my sister.
Julian: Yeesh. Watch where you're pointing that thing. You're liable to hurt somebody.
Matthis: Stay back, or I'll smite you where you stand blackguard.
Julian:Yikes! Cut that out! I'm on your side! A little help here... Lena?
Lena: Matthis... calm down. He's on our side.
Matthis:... Why would a criminal like him be on our side?
Julian: Ex-criminal. I'm reformed. I'm trying to turn over a new leaf.
Matthis: You say that while exiting a building, sack full of loot over your shoulder. Why should I believe you?
Julian: They're funds for Prince Marth's war effort. In case you haven't noticed... the war chest was drying up. And I picked up this Goddess Icon for Lena... because I'm fairly certain these godless pirates aren't going to miss it.
Lena: For me? I'm sorry, but I think I have another use for it. Matthis, carry this with you into battle. If I pray for you, perhaps the hand of the Goddess will protect you.
Matthis: I... don't know. It's stolen.
Julian: How do you think the pirates got it in the first place?
Lena: Quiet Julian. Please Matthis, for my peace of mind take it. It'll be like I'm with you, always.
Matthis: Lena... you know I can never say no to you.

This is great. Anything Matthis is always fine by me. These are some fine Matthis moments.

...I still don't understand how or why the phrase "Matthis moment" became a meme. But I liked Matthis before it was cool to do so due to memes. As filthy elitist scum, I am compelled to point this out.

On 7/18/2020 at 8:32 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

I guess we'll have to wait for next time for some axetion.

Hit that old manakete so hard, he stains his robes with mannure.

17 hours ago, This boi uses Nino said:

Yeah uh how the hell do you do that?

You challenge him. No, really, that's how my signature's SD!Matthis came to be. I complained to a friend that he was speed-screwed. Matthis proceeded to get speed in every single level up after that until he capped. And then he one-shot Camus.

16 hours ago, Benice said:

Speaking of which, you should use Dolph. Only a true legend could possibly do that.

I've gone further. I have used Macellan! And I killed Medeus with him, too. But you've probably heard about that before. If there's one thing I love to brag about constantly and obnoxiously, it's the times I've killed final bosses with bad units.

Incidentally

 

[The Roger The Paladin]

Part 14- Blown away.

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On 7/19/2020 at 4:01 PM, This boi uses Nino said:

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HAHAHAaHHABHBDaewvbejwbgaeuw.f fbsdg hilarious my Slovenian.

The point is if you would take the diamond because it's more valuable and you could (theoretically) sell it. While a bottle of water has special uses, when you are already faring well, you don't need it.
Catch is, selling a diamond actually requires having a buyer. I've seen a lot of "investment purchases" go bad because no one's willing to pay the full value. Ever see an Aepyornis egg? I sure as hell have. See, there's a doctor I'm well aware of who has more money than sense here. He bought all kinds of crazy shit over his life for the purpose of selling it. I've bought more than a few of his comics... but the shit he can never sell is museum worthy. An Aepyornis egg (the egg of the largest species of flightless bird to ever live), a sword that had been gifted to someone by a sheik, and various other stuff that you'll never find a buyer for out here. Mind not only can't he get the value, he can't even get the prices he's trying to sell them for now that it's a few decades in and he's trying to cut his losses (seriously, I've checked).

Yeah uh how the hell do you do that?
By being Ruben.

Yeah yeah someone else explained the joke I didn't get.

no, it tells you "don't play or suffer" FE7 sucks.
Still hard for me to say that given the whole "introduction to the series" bit.

HAHA! Hilarious my azerbaijani compatriot... also these countries border each other iirc.

What a strange thing my Argentinian friend...

Grab Naga, waist/thigs/breasts/whatever suits you +100% and there you go. There's your goddess.
That'd be difficult. I find the amount I like a female relates to how much fun she is to be around. That is to say if dealing with her is a chore... I won't be able to stand her. If I enjoy being around her, she arbitrarily becomes more attractive. Or maybe that was just the fact my ex from the end of high-school was a late bloomer (I mean that in a she went from looking like a normal girl of our then age to super-model out of nowhere) and suddenly ended up with triple D cups after dating a while. But I think not because her personality kind of got shit as she became more conventionally attractive. Possibly because she started acting increasingly "valley girl" as opposed to actually fun.

Oh well I don't care, I'll still meme about the egg every now and then. As bad as he was, his content is still gob.
Insert joke about the egg going rotten.

I meant so more for the speed bonus.
Ah yes. The catch is, I kind of realized the speed's never going to be made up for while growing (because unfortunately it never goes over 100%). So I'm figuring the 70% from Warrior while I get the bonuses on HP and strength should work while he's growing... then end in Hero to reap the rewards of the class's better bonuses. Also it kind of gives Wolf a chance to brush up on axes while keeping bows... so he kind of learns a new weapon as he goes. Or I could just keep him as a general for Xane antics.

Huh well that's cool... surely but slowly!
The hilarious thing being it put Marth 1 HP over his average, and on par with everything else.

Damn George!
Also Killing Edge critting ahhahaha what a funny joke no seriously guys please help why don't I ever crit?
And that bowing comment is genius.
I miss when it double critted Hyman. It's all the crits I've got out of the thing. Mind, it could never crit again and I'd still take that trade.

Aww that's pretty cute.
I find there's three traits that define Matthis above all. He's a bit over-zealous, ready to rush into a plan before it's fully developed, he loves his sister, and would die to protect her if it were a matter of choice and of course, he's a bit of an everyman. Whereas another character may be written so as not to have the human emotion of fear, Matthis, no matter how far he progresses, will be vulnerable to fear. Whether it's for his life, for his sister, or for his ability to pull his weight... it's there. He's no chosen hero, or born soldier. He's possibly the best representation of a conscripted service-man in the series for that reason.

This LP in a nuthsell, I mean many times you almost lost someone but you didn't so you've been playing pretty well so far.
Thankfully as I write this, I've just got done counting a bunch of squares for chapter 10. Long story short, there's a lot of planning there.

 

 

On 7/19/2020 at 4:36 PM, Benice said:

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Yes, my liege!
*sequence ended. Insert new joke*

Eh, dunno. I bet Ryan may even end up worse, somehow.
The average Ryan caps Strength and skill pretty early on average (20/12 and 20/9). He also tends to come pretty close to capping speed (1 off at 20/20). His 20/20 average for HP is 56.4, his average def at 20/20 is 21.3 (of 23). You can actually get him to that strength cap pretty early by making use of the hunter class without screwing his speed or skill too much. You might lose out on defense though... if you keep him out of enemy range that shouldn't be a problem. Really the ability to be hunter before promoting and sniper after alone  makes the archers in FE12 a lot better than FE11.

Well, it is probably the hardest or 2nd hardest game in the franchise.
Is it though? Or is it because I refuse to learn my lesson and just use the damn captured generics?

Because everybody uses Wrys! The humble curate is low-key top tier.
I mean... Dondon's LTC uses the hell out of him.

Wendell...Warth...Waeda....Wagen...Werric...Wordin...Word...Word...Warst...Wgma...Wbel....Wain...Wrys...Wyland...Woshea...Wedgar...Wadd...Watthis...Wena...Wulian...Waesar...Wrey...Woah...
Worne, Weorge, Wraug, Wardin, Warros, UUkyo.

Speaking of which, you should use Dolph. Only a true legend could possibly do that.
Seems redundant after Macellan.

Better than a "The Roger and RNGoddess break up after catfight over Matthis' fate! Family devided! Not click bait!!1" headline.
But if things went that way, there'd have been no breakup because the gag wouldn't have got off the ground.

I ship it. Manyvern is real.
What have I created?

Is TB catching up with him? Sure hope not.
It's funny actually... the only things he's levelling reliably are speed, luck and HP. That defense, skill and strength are 1 off base.

AGH
arrgh

Annnd I forgot to reply to the previous update. As always. Scantastic.

 

On 7/19/2020 at 6:11 PM, Eltosian Kadath said:

Now that is a classic tactic straight from the games with Canto...I guess you got it to work here, but in those games its a mainstay, where as here it is a maneuver that takes a bit of planning to pull off.

It feels a bit more rewarding here... mostly because of the work.

I mean its only around a 1/5 chance of critting, which is no where near high enough to expect it every battle. I guess the luck of last chapter has set some really high expectations.

Oh, I know. I just can't help but find it hilarious Barst did 1/20 four consecutive times, then I can't get a 1/5.

The Devil axe leads to some tempting numbers in the games where it has 100 hit...but unless things are getting desperate its rarely worth the risk.

Better the devil you know than the devil you don't. And one never knows when that devil is going to backfire.

That's hilarious...the luck Goddess taketh and giveth once again.

I'll take the trade off. It actually worked nicely for Merric and Abel honestly.

Daw....that's adorable.

I hoped I wasn't too cheesey with it. Besides I couldn't resist the chance to get in a joke about the sack of loot thieves carry on the map in the DS games. I always loved that.

The sign of a good tactician is how many contingency plans he has left over.
Well.. this was the chapter I never came close to running out. Those migraines gave me a bit of time to think.

Now for something completely different; the cliffhanger comment got me thinking that the old Dwarf Fortress motto applies even more to LPs than it does the gameplay it was originally commenting on.

I had to look it up. In some ways it is. It's more fun to write when you screw up a little... but not so much you lose someone important.

Now that is a debatable claim, I feel like Conquest comes closer to 3rd, but I suspect a clever enough argument could convince me of a ranking as low as 5th... hmm.... I just might open up a topic about ranking the difficulties of the games...eventually...

I never was good at deciding on a game's difficulty. Perhaps because I have a way of either bashing my head against it till something breaks (I cheat by wearing a helmet), or

 

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That is a speed blessed unit?! Holy shit, Navarre is more pitiful than I thought... He couldn't double Derrick!
Yep. Base speed and skill of 0 (so he's using class bases there). 1 more base HP than Matthis (or 3 from class base), 2 more strength and 2 more def. No javelins either. Shows how much people's opinion of the characters are shaded by that killing edge... as I could argue Matthis' Javelins at base make him the better of the two. I mean, I could argue the extra HP, strength, luck and defense. Sword rank doesn't even really come into it because of how bad they are in this game.

I'd say what Boi was talking about fits my Marcus more. When literally all your sword and horse units die, you treasure the Jeigan that actually happens to grow well. Mostly because he's your last chance.
I mean, I was partially referencing the meme you posted earlier in the LP after the Matthis/killing edge incident but before Chad Matthis vs the Virgin Hyman (which sounds worse when you say it aloud).

...What do you mean, Perceval? Why are you bringing that guy up? He's a mage, he has nothing to do with this topic!
Perceval doesn't miss 75%s. He just misses.

Did somebody mention Hanneman? I am obligated to state that Hanneman is the best character in Three Houses by far, and anyone who disagrees is a horseman.
This is why Wolf reclassed. He did not want to be associated with people who disagree.

Here, inspiration for next time's text joke.
Is this gonna work?

Still, it begs the question. Why come here instead of, you know... going back to Talys, which is just a bit up above? In fact, I just looked up a map, and I'm pretty sure Talys is even closer to Port Warren than Pyrathi. There was literally no reason to invade this guy's nation.
Yes. It is. I'm going to have a fan-fiction-y stab at giving a reason. Because why not. Unless I forget.

I'd wager he has a bigger problem with him, actually. I mean, he's literally made one of his brethren into a slave.
It's not slavery. That wyvern is being paid very well. Where do you think Matthis' arena winnings canonically went? Wait.... no I explained Matthis Arena antics as training with Ukyo in canon...
Uhhhh..... next comment.

Also, I'd like to point out that "Manu", in Spanish, is short for "Manuel", a really common name. In other words, this age-old dragon who is king of a realm is effectively named "Joe".
I mean, maybe he popularized the name?

You aren't just invading them, you're robbing them too. Does your selfishness know no bounds?
I mean, who even lives here? We see the island and they've got a couple locked up buildings with arbitrary treasure, some pirate forts, an armory, and Mannu's castle. When the only non-hostile on the whole island is this random armory owner (who picked a terrible place to set up shop), there's gonna be some incidents like this.

He's a menace to the entire city!
I bet he put the axe through the webbing of his hand.

He cannot match Tomas
You cursed him to miss that 93% with that.

This is great. Anything Matthis is always fine by me. These are some fine Matthis moments.

...I still don't understand how or why the phrase "Matthis moment" became a meme. But I liked Matthis before it was cool to do so due to memes. As filthy elitist scum, I am compelled to point this out.
Wait when did it become a meme? Oh never mind. This one kind of happened semi-intentionally. I meant to have the Julian/Matthis meeting (as this was the chapter he gets the Goddess Icon and fixes his crit risk)... but when I realized Lena was right next to Matthis position.. I decided to add her into the conversation. It was a lot better for it.

Hit that old manakete so hard, he stains his robes with mannure.
When I'm done with him he'll be a lot more like manure. Because he'll be fertilizer for that crimson stained grass he mentioned earlier. Plot-twist, he's the one who stains it.

You challenge him. No, really, that's how my signature's SD!Matthis came to be. I complained to a friend that he was speed-screwed. Matthis proceeded to get speed in every single level up after that until he capped. And then he one-shot Camus.
I can't complain about his speed.. but he's roughly two points def screwed.

I've gone further. I have used Macellan! And I killed Medeus with him, too. But you've probably heard about that before. If there's one thing I love to brag about constantly and obnoxiously, it's the times I've killed final bosses with bad units.
Which probably doesn't help you with PoR/RD enjoyment. I mean the closest you can get is killing Ashnard with Ena... and she's intended to be able to do that in case your Ike got screwed.

Incidentally

 

this text joke not inspired by Saint Rubenio.

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Last time we ended off with Jagen getting this Wyrmslayer by killing a thief.

Which I should have shown got sent to the convoy. Sort of important later. But not really.

As for the battle... well, Barst takes us back into the action by using a steel axe to finish off the pirate he lured last time. Because he's the last reaver in range, Caeda doesn't need to help him swap back to hand-axes. I also decided it was a good point to take stock of the battle. All but 8 of the original enemy have fallen, and the four reinforcements have since joined them. We've well and truly turned the tide this battle... and it's time to see if we can stir it to a tsunami to sink this island kingdom.

Hmmm.. 95%. No thanks. I remember the other time a 95% missed something and an archer could've potentially doubled and killed Merric. I went with a safer option then, and I'll be damned if I change tact now when I have more than one this time.

While Abel's a little less accurate than Merric, not only doesn't he get one rounded... but that archer would have to hit him three times to kill him. Abel only needed one, so he never even got to nock his first arrow, let alone the third. Matthis using an ironsword is even more reliable, as melee range attacks tend to be. So the second archer follows the first a second time. This time instead of crossing a bridge together, they cross into the afterlife. Perhaps he should have been less eager to follow his compatriot. Wolf engages in his long-standing hobby of stabbing curates. He's been doing it since chapter 5, and the only way I see him stopping is if they stop deploying them. Maybe he misinterpreted the word "pray" once, and never let up?

Oh for... Merric always coming up just short of everything. Too slow not to be doubled by the hunters. Too inaccurate to guarantee a hit with enough confidence for me. Too... unmagic? Mundane? Inexperienced? to finish this cleric without wasting an Excalibur use because I didn't buy him a thunder tome last chapter. Why? Will you ever contribute anything to this team?

So Cain tries... but fails to do the job Merric couldn't. That curate's leading a charmed life I swear. But I can't let him live, lest he make the boss unbearable. I also save, because I was feeling paranoid about those reinforcements. See... this time the plan isn't to wait them out. We're wading through them like they do water, and killing the boss while they futilely try and stop us with their ridiculous pirate strength stats.

So enemy phase combat is basically exactly what you might have predicted if you paid attention last update. It's that battle forecast from right before Jagen killed the thief... to make sure he wasn't at risk of a crit. Or doubling. Or a one-shot. You know, things that might have spoiled his day. Also one of the pirates reach Wolf. The fact he can actually damage the guy at this point... in spite of 23 defense, is exactly why I saved. I was worried I was going to get swamped but...

Literally everyone except the pirate who attacked Wolf, a handaxe pirate, the boss (who is stationary), one hunter and the injured curate all decide that they're going to gangpile Jagen for taking that wyrmslayer. They must know their king's gonna be pissed if it's used on him. Either that or they decided to go with the easy target and not Wolf.

Shame all I have to do is give a reminder on why pros always say movement is the best stat. Jagen's ten move is unmatched, and hindered by terrain and sea these chumps will never catch him.

Barst and Matthis team up to finish off that unfortunate pirate who got abandoned by half his pals... netting Barst some more HP and strength. Wolf resumes his hobby, but forgets his own strength and breaks his chew toy like an excitable puppy.

That done, I get as many characters as far as I can, set Abel up next to Cain so Abel can enemyphase the hunter, and set Jeorge up to enemy phase hand-axe pirate. This may sound like a terrible idea... but Jeorge's defense stat at base is similar to most of my other characters... and this is two range.

Enemy phase starts off with more reinforcements. The hunter and Abel exchange shots over the ocean. Here you see my logic for having Abel enemy phase. See had he player phased him, then enemy phase he'd have killed him... freeing his square for the hand axe pirate. And between the two arrows and hand-axe Abel would be dead... assuming nothing missed (Abel included, as he needs to kill the hunter for this to work in the enemy favor). But if Abel killed him with a crit on enemy phase it'd be fine... because he needed to take BOTH arrows for the hand-axe to work.

I mean, Abel has 9 defense. Jeorge has less and still only takes 13 damage. This guy's kind of a wimp compared to the one that hit Wolf earlier huh?

Player phase Jagen continues his flight around Pyrathi. Ogma, having 100 hit, finishes the hand axe pirate seeing as he doubles him and has a 100% hit rate despite that sea avoid bonus. The dodge is an unexpected bonus. I mean, with 34 hit maybe I should have expected it. But I tend to anticipate the worst. Anyway, now Abel has no reason not to player phase the hunter.

So now that we're so close to him... I guess I should point out the Boss. Mannu is a character you may remember being a bit of a joke on normal mode. Catch is.. here he's not. 9 strength on a manakete gets pretty rough this early in the game... but you can see that with the 32 attack (the most we've seen thus far). But that speed. If you're not named Caeda... you're gonna be doubled... and with 32 attack that means he can one round anyone except Wolf here (as he can one-shot Caeda)... who as you can see is going to have a tough time trying to 1v1 him too. So we're gonna be cheap and make use of the fact he's a sitting duck who can't move and thus can be turned into a pincushion from a safe distance. The catch being he's kind of got a crew of pirate reinforcements showing up constantly to make that harder. The one on the map by the castle showing how far they can get the turn they spawn. Also with water everywhere we can't effectively block them either.

Anyway, Jeorge and Abel get healed... and Wrys gets a level. Look at that speed and res. He's got more res than Imhullu has mt now. How will Gharnef ever cope? All that work for a forbidden tome, and at the rate this guy's going he's not even going to be able to be scratched by the damn thing.

Barst and Caeda team up to range attack this pirate... so that everyone's able to advance while they stay out of reach of reinforcements. Barst hits A-rank in axes... just in time for Hauteclere to debut next chapter (and to boost his axeuracy a further 5% against anything that's not got a sword).  Wolf moves into his natural habitat, a forest with a bow to hunt some prey.

Enemy phase sees no new reinforcements (to my surprise and delight) as well as this poor fool walking into Wolf's amBush and getting hit with a crit. He couldn't even hurt Wolf. This was the most one sided fight all game. That curate took more to kill.

So, I would block the bridge with Wolf at this point to stop those two hunters..but between the two sets of bridges lies a problem. Namely this guy.That hammer isn't a fun time for Wolf and even he'd fall in three hits.

So instead I target Mannu... who doesn't seem to realize that hammer pirate's still able to do more damage to Wolf in a round than he is. Regardless, for a stationary old-man turned giant dragon the guy's pretty nimble. Why can't Bantu be like this?


Anyway, after a bombardment where he manages to dodge Matthis' attack.. I kind of wish he dodged Ukyo's instead. Maybe he'd have got a decent level if he got it later. As it is, instead he's got more luck than he could ever possibly need. At least Mannu's now a good portion of the way in his transformation to his third form... a porcupine.

At this point during the advance, Ogma gets the Wyrmslayer out of the convoy... (I told you that'd be important later... but not really) Then enemy phase starts after everyone's moved as much as possible while being safe (relatively speaking). You may notice on the minimap that despite the fact Jagen outdistanced them completely, four of the pirates are still trying to catch him by following his path. I find this hilarious. Also reinforcements. Yaay.

Anyway, come enemyphase hammer pirate manages to land a 28% on Cain. Didn't expect that. I mean, I planned for it, but I didn't expect it. Also Barst gets hit by the reinforcement and just kind of glares angrily at him.

Anyway, Jeorge Silver bows the hammer fighter (he doesn't have the ability to double him with the steel), Wolf blocks the bridge and starts on the one enemy capable of crossing it. Caeda teams up with MissingNo (I didn't notice that while playing) to start off Barst's assailant. The usual.

Also, I realize the Wyrmslayer has all of 68 hit on the boss and I'm not risking that shit.

Instead Ogma gets rid of the pirate Caeda damaged, so Marth will be able to seize the moment Mannu bites it. Wendell borrows Excalibur for a bit, and weakens Mannu down to precise damage for Barst's handaxe... after Barst takes Ukyo's old spot for safety reasons.

You know why I call you Mannure? It's because you're...

...shitting me.

Well... plan B. Abel weakens him. Cain falls back to get healed just in case I need plan C. Now he's on 4 HP Matthis can get him.

Plan C it is then. Guess the battle's going another turn.

So some chumps try to fight Wolf but can't get through his armor... and the only guy to think to target someone else (perhaps because he's the only one to reach anyone else) suicides by Caeda. They never learn. He could have attacked Jeorge at 1-range but he went for Caeda like a moron.

The last hunter attacking Wolf and almost dying for it. Now Mannu's fallen into my trap.

In AMerrica.

I know I was ripping on him earlier too. How humiliating. After being in position to one round almost every unit on my team, you die to the guy who pinch-hits when there's a spare roster slot.

That said... this level does help his case.

Anyway, I decide seeing as those hunters are already damaged... I may as well get in a bit of last minute experience before seizing.

Consequences include Lena getting this pitiful level and A rank staves. (Three A ranks in one chapter?)

To my disappointment... Abel doesn't hit the hunter... and Caeda's just shy of leveling after killing him in Abel's steed.

Wrys gets in some last minute healing. Then I realize the hammer guy gets one rounded if Ogma uses Hardin's silver sword that I never gave him. So Ogma breaks the weapon in by breaking a buccaneer's bones, complete with dodge. As I did this I questioned why I was wasting the uses.

Then this level happened and slowed Ogma's falling off significantly.

Jagen: My Liege. The diversionary tactic has suceeded. By the time the enemy reinforcements arrive, we can secure the castle.
Marth: I knew I could count on you Jagen. Though I have to wonder... were we in the right to invade a neutral nation? Perhaps we'd have been better falling back to Talys?
Jagen: Alas, we had not the choice. Malledus' sources had recieved word the Grustian Navy were patrolling the routes to Talys. They obviously anticipated your return there.
Marth: All the same, I feel I have blood on my hands from this. Perhaps we should have sent word here first. Asked permission to come ashore?
Jagen: It would have made no difference sire. Since we came ashore, our reconassaince has discovered that the secret behind Pyrathi's isolationism was simple. The nation is a haven for cut-throats and corsairs who are wanted on the mainland for their crimes. The king would have been most eager to keep the secret behind his economy a secret... by any means necessary.
Marth: In the end... I suppose someone would have had to clean out this viper's nest. Even so, I've had my fill of bloodshed today, and the thought of more sickens me. Let us get this over with.

You know, I was going to make some joke about how Catria and Minerva should both be dead from the events of chapter 7 but they playtested casual mode... but we already did that.

Here I've screencapped the exact moment Catria fell for Marth. Notable is the fact Marth hasn't said anything all "conversation. He's most likely too caught up in morose thoughts about the war to even realize she's talking to him.

I just realized the timing of this cap actually blocks off the text.... meaning I could totally use this again in 5 updates or so and see if anyone notices.
Anyway that's a wrap. Next chapter (though not necessarily next time but not necessarily not) we get our first Master Seal. Also speedwings. Mind I'm not decided who I want to give the latter, so suggestions will be considered. But Caeda's earned her promotion.

Deaths:
My evasion of arenas
My credibility.
Tradition*
Slow Cav
*-revived
Crit Counter:
Abel: 2
Barst: 8
Caeda:8
Cain:2
Draug:2
MarcusJagen:2
Marth:2
Merric:1
Ogma:3
Wolf:6
Generic enemy:1
Pollux Disappointed Counter: 3

 

[DragonFlames]

Oh crap, I missed the last update! I'm sorry!

17 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Last time we ended off with Jagen getting this Wyrmslayer by killing a thief.

It's probably scaring his wyvern right now.

17 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

We've well and truly turned the tide this battle... and it's time to see if we can stir it to a tsunami to sink this island kingdom.

Damn, the part I missed just had to be the part of your people being awesome...

17 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

So the second archer follows the first a second time. This time instead of crossing a bridge together, they cross into the afterlife. Perhaps he should have been less eager to follow his compatriot.

They probably swore an oath of brotherhood. Together in life, together in death.
Most likely hoped to create a kingdom ruled by benevolence one day... Hopefully, they didn't leave a third oath brother somewhere, who will send his entire army to take revenge only to fail spectacularly, because you have Shiida and Wolf.

17 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

That curate's leading a charmed life I swear.

This guy must be the third member of the cursed curate family.
Only he got all the luck, while his brothers inherited the curse.

17 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Wolf resumes his hobby, but forgets his own strength and breaks his chew toy like an excitable puppy.

*sad Wolf noises*
The Roger: Don't cry, Wolf, we'll fetch you a new curate to chew on!
*happy Wolf noises*

17 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

So now that we're so close to him... I guess I should point out the Boss

My question is, why in the heck does he have a Door Key on him?
When founding the kingdom, was there no scepter available and he declared that that key would be proof of his royalty?

17 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

So we're gonna be cheap and make use of the fact he's a sitting duck who can't move and thus can be turned into a pincushion from a safe distance.

That's another thing I never really understood: why do dragons in Shadow Dragon only have 1-range? I mean... one would assume, since their weapons are their elemental breaths, that they would have at least as much range as a Mage throwing a fireball.
Though I am happy about it from a gameplay perspective. Manaketes are hard enough to deal with as they are and if they had 1-2 range... hoo boy!
Awakening shows us what that would be like, though luckily, all the Manaketes there are playable (and singlehandedly saved my first Awakening playthrough).

17 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Caeda teams up with MissingNo

Wait, what?!

18 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

You know why I call you Mannure? It's because you're...

...shitting me.

And this, ladies and gents, is what you call the Attempted Trash Talk Backfire, or ATTB, for short.
Which I totally didn't make up this second.

18 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

(Three A ranks in one chapter?)

Triple A game! For real this time!

18 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

I just realized the timing of this cap actually blocks off the text.... meaning I could totally use this again in 5 updates or so and see if anyone notices.

You totally made me pay attention to that now.
I'll be on the lookout!

Anyway, sorry again that I missed the last update, but this one was really entertatining once more! Congrats on still having everyone alive!

[Hanes]

Spoiler

19 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Catch is, selling a diamond actually requires having a buyer. I've seen a lot of "investment purchases" go bad because no one's willing to pay the full value. Ever see an Aepyornis egg? I sure as hell have. See, there's a doctor I'm well aware of who has more money than sense here. He bought all kinds of crazy shit over his life for the purpose of selling it. I've bought more than a few of his comics... but the shit he can never sell is museum worthy. An Aepyornis egg (the egg of the largest species of flightless bird to ever live), a sword that had been gifted to someone by a sheik, and various other stuff that you'll never find a buyer for out here. Mind not only can't he get the value, he can't even get the prices he's trying to sell them for now that it's a few decades in and he's trying to cut his losses (seriously, I've checked).

Yeah that is true, you do need a buyer and this isn't an RPG where "Ye humble shope" has billions to buy whatever you sell them. Heck shops won't even take your stuff... ugh

All that stuff however sounds cool. The fact you mentioned the Aepyornis must mean you live in Madagascar! That is the only place they lived after all... what do you mean they could've bought it from a Madagascarian? That doesn't make sense at all.

On a more serious note, that does sound sad, can't he sell them to a museum though?

19 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Still hard for me to say that given the whole "introduction to the series" bit.

It's even bad at that. Many people were almost put off because the tutorial is so slow, it's maybe good as a first game, but as a 2nd game or to someone that already has played SRPGs before like me, it's a terrible introduction, specially since it doesn't teach you anything cool. Meanwhile FE8 even has one chapter to show you how useful flying is by rescuing Ross.


Hey I notice you aren't replying to me calling you from different nationalities... guess that's another dead joke.

19 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

That'd be difficult. I find the amount I like a female relates to how much fun she is to be around. That is to say if dealing with her is a chore... I won't be able to stand her. If I enjoy being around her, she arbitrarily becomes more attractive. Or maybe that was just the fact my ex from the end of high-school was a late bloomer (I mean that in a she went from looking like a normal girl of our then age to super-model out of nowhere) and suddenly ended up with triple D cups after dating a while. But I think not because her personality kind of got shit as she became more conventionally attractive. Possibly because she started acting increasingly "valley girl" as opposed to actually fun.

That is understandable to be honest, no problems there.

And yeah how that can affect people so much sucks.

19 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Ah yes. The catch is, I kind of realized the speed's never going to be made up for while growing (because unfortunately it never goes over 100%). So I'm figuring the 70% from Warrior while I get the bonuses on HP and strength should work while he's growing... then end in Hero to reap the rewards of the class's better bonuses. Also it kind of gives Wolf a chance to brush up on axes while keeping bows... so he kind of learns a new weapon as he goes. Or I could just keep him as a general for Xane antics.

That's not a bad idea honestly. Work on axes while having bows and then go to hero.

19 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Thankfully as I write this, I've just got done counting a bunch of squares for chapter 10. Long story short, there's a lot of planning there.

See you actually make plans! That's pretty cool.

 

19 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

[...] netting Barst some more HP and strength. Wolf resumes his hobby, but forgets his own strength and breaks his chew toy like an excitable puppy.

Aye that's a decent level.

Also sentences like that last one is why I like your LP so much, your writing is very enjoyable. I also like how you couple several screenshots in one and then make a long parragraph for it.

 

19 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Anyway, Jeorge and Abel get healed... and Wrys gets a level. Look at that speed and res. He's got more res than Imhullu has mt now. How will Gharnef ever cope? All that work for a forbidden tome, and at the rate this guy's going he's not even going to be able to be scratched by the damn thing.

Lol this Resistance is hilarious. You have to promote Wrys and use him for combat, preferably mage tanking...

Hey wait I haven't heard about Wendell, where is he?

 

19 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Barst hits A-rank in axes... just in time for Hauteclere to debut next chapter (and to boost his axeuracy a further 5% against anything that's not got a sword).

That's actually really cool!

19 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

[...] I kind of wish he dodged Ukyo's instead. Maybe he'd have got a decent level if he got it later. As it is, instead he's got more luck than he could ever possibly need.

Well that sucks.

19 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Caeda teams up with MissingNo (I didn't notice that while playing) to start off Barst's assailant.

Huh strange.

 

19 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Wendell borrows Excalibur for a bit, and weakens Mannu down to precise damage for Barst's handaxe...

Oh there he is, guess I jst missed him.

 

19 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

That said... this level does help his case.

Hot damn Merric, I guess he's good because of that Excalibur, otherwise he seems to be ok. Man I really don't like Erks. The Erk-like mage are my least favorite.

19 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Then this level happened and slowed Ogma's falling off significantly.

Oh wow! He may actually like not fall of at all given that hero promotion bonuses are pretty good. No but seriously this higher speed and strength and bulk is just incredible...

19 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Jagen: My Liege. The diversionary tactic has suceeded. By the time the enemy reinforcements arrive, we can secure the castle.
Marth: I knew I could count on you Jagen. Though I have to wonder... were we in the right to invade a neutral nation? Perhaps we'd have been better falling back to Talys?
Jagen: Alas, we had not the choice. Malledus' sources had recieved word the Grustian Navy were patrolling the routes to Talys. They obviously anticipated your return there.
Marth: All the same, I feel I have blood on my hands from this. Perhaps we should have sent word here first. Asked permission to come ashore?
Jagen: It would have made no difference sire. Since we came ashore, our reconassaince has discovered that the secret behind Pyrathi's isolationism was simple. The nation is a haven for cut-throats and corsairs who are wanted on the mainland for their crimes. The king would have been most eager to keep the secret behind his economy a secret... by any means necessary.
Marth: In the end... I suppose someone would have had to clean out this viper's nest. Even so, I've had my fill of bloodshed today, and the thought of more sickens me. Let us get this over with.

I hope this gets touched upon on the actual story, this is a neutral nation after all. Also I won't believe soemoen telling me their economy was a secret when the nation is named "Pyrathi"

And again, your writing is very solid!

19 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Next chapter (though not necessarily next time but not necessarily not) we get our first Master Seal. Also speedwings. Mind I'm not decided who I want to give the latter, so suggestions will be considered. But Caeda's earned her promotion.

Hmm... speedwings could go to Barst. Maybe Marth. Wolf can also use them to not get doubled but reclassing fixes that. When you get a Talisman though, give it to Wrys.

Also I agree, Caeda has been awesome!

 

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19 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Last time we ended off with Jagen getting this Wyrmslayer by killing a thief.

Watch where you're swinging, Jagen. As old as he is, he might forget he's on a dragon and slice it into dragon sashimi by accident.

19 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

We've well and truly turned the tide this battle... and it's time to see if we can stir it to a tsunami to sink this island kingdom.

I'm sure it was a well-earned victory.

19 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Hmmm.. 95%. No thanks. I remember the other time a 95% missed something and an archer could've potentially doubled and killed Merric.

95% being an unsafe option. I never thought I'd see the day.

20 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Oh for... Merric always coming up just short of everything. Too slow not to be doubled by the hunters. Too inaccurate to guarantee a hit with enough confidence for me. Too... unmagic? Mundane? Inexperienced? to finish this cleric without wasting an Excalibur use because I didn't buy him a thunder tome last chapter. Why? Will you ever contribute anything to this team?

*sad Merric noises*

On 7/20/2020 at 7:05 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Also reinforcements. Yaay.

My reaction to ambush spawns in general.

On 7/20/2020 at 7:05 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

You know why I call you Mannure? It's because you're...

...surprising resilient for an old bag of a dragon.

On 7/20/2020 at 7:05 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

They never learn. He could have attacked Jeorge at 1-range but he went for Caeda like a moron.

MVP of the run right there. It's inconCaedable (oof bad pun) why they keep trying when they know death awaits them at the end of a peg knight's spear.

On 7/20/2020 at 7:05 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Now Mannu's fallen into my trap.

On 7/20/2020 at 7:05 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Next chapter (though not necessarily next time but not necessarily not) we get our first Master Seal.

Promo time!

Well, except for Marth anyway.

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Missed the last one but glad I caught this one! Looking forward to the next update!