Raftina

Huh, this was something that jumped out for Elise, Camilla, and Sakura (in roughly decreasing order of obviousness), but I must admit that the connotation escaped me for Hinoka. I am curious as to what you (and Mr. Sinister) think are the flags there.

The Oracles of Delphi are the most famous oracles. They are known for two things in Greek legends: 1. Prophecies of doom, often against the person who asked them for a prophecy. In many cases, the actions the person to whom the prophecy was addressed takes some action that lead to the prophecy coming true. The most famous example is probably the story of Oedipus. This is the inspiration for the poll. 2. Equivocal prophecies, which can be taken in a number of ways. The most famous story is probably the prophecy of "If you attack Persia, you will destroy a great kingdom." The king of Lydia then took that advice, lost the war, and got his kingdom conquered. The kingdom he destroyed was, of course, his own. This is the inspiration behind the Robin and Chrom choice: [spoiler=Awakening]As Euklyd pointed out, you are Validar in that scenario. Yes, your daughter takes the throne after you are killed, and your kingdom is conquered, but the reason for those events is that your daughter joined the king of the neighboring kingdom, then helped him kill you and conquer (take) your kingdom. A neutral observer would probably say the outcome is better for Plegia, but if I'm the loser, I am very unlikely to see it in that light. That's my choice for least hopeful. Most hopeful: Tristan and Destin. Tristan is the second most militarily accomplished in that list (first being Robin), which the Tower ending shows. He joined Destin less out of necessity and more out of practicalness--It was more expedient to join the charismatic leader of the revolution than run two at the same time. He demonstrates some degree of political acumen in the game, but sequels suggest that Xenobia entered a golden age under him. Versalia also leads a golden age, but the in game events suggest that she was a figurehead who had really good advisers--still an excellent outcome for the kingdom, but I'd prefer my child having more personal contributions to the rule. Elincia has a more admirable story, but her rule is not as good as Tristan--at least by the parts we are shown or told. Which Magnus? The only Magnus I know of helped a rebel army overthrown the kingdom and kill the entire (legitimate) royal family.

a champion will lead an army, and with the help of that army, your child will take your former kingdom. Your child, the champion, and you share roughly the same relationship as the parent, child, and champion do in the game of origin, or in the backstory, when available.

I mean you can't use editors, hacks, etc to make a character into a class that he or she cannot use within the limits of the game (including with DLCs). Sage is not permitted. This is because the player must have Chrom on the field, and he cannot change into sage. This is a corollary of the limitations. The second corollary is that staves are not permitted, because Chrom has no staff using class.

The conditions seem simple enough that someone must've done it: 1. Every unit the player has on the field is of the same class and 2. No third party tool Though perhaps additional limitations, such as no paid DLC, is necessary to make this interesting.

Your pairing strategy is the same regardless of whether you are using cross attack type or same attack type: You maximize dual strike chance and support position's raw attack power. This is because the damage increase from the str/mag bonus of a matching attack type is puny compared to the damage increase from str/mag caps of the support class. For example, a dread fighter is much better paired with an assassin than a bride. A dark flier is (almost always) much better paired with a general than a dread fighter. A sniper+sage is good, but that is because the sniper's high skl and skl pairup is good with anyone. You match attack type because it's easier to take advantage of different def/res values, not because of the negligible difference in str/mag.

You are thinking of the maiden's requirements. Olivia's special condition will override support points. As long as you do not achieve any support ranks between Chrom and his other potential wives, he can marry Olivia.

...to be able to marry the cute princess he rescues early in the game. Or am I missing someone else?

If you want to use LB and AT, switch out Aegis and Pavise. Limit Breaker gives you enough extra avoid, def, and res that you no longer need the chance to halve damage.

You can get 3 double Galeforce pairs with MaMU by delibately benching characters. If MaMU marries gen 1, you bench a girl and have all 3 Galeforce boys marry Galeforce girls. If MaMU marries gen 2, you bench the girl without Galeforce and one of the guys without Galeforce. When I made the MaMU marrying gen 2 causes you to lose an action comment, I was made the assumption that you'd deploy all gen 2 characters (7 pairs). So the comment was not quite correct. But MaMU marrying gen 1 and benching 1 girl is probably a better use of resources than MaMU marrying gen 2 and benching a boy and a girl. 100% DS is the result of Chrom's Dual Strike+ skill. Any of his wives can get 100% DS. But FeMU has the unique advantage of having a 100% damage proc (Vengeance) to go with the 100% DS. Maribelle can also guarantee results (Assume you will tak retaliation damage and use Lifetaker to restore lost hp), but she can only do so on player phase. She does give an excellent Lucina to support a 3rd gen Morgan if you want to go that route, though.

I can only think of one notable threshold that the extra 1 spd mod allows Inigo to hit: 69 spd as a dread fighter without any class pairup spd bonus. There are probably others when we take away DLCs, but without some examples, I would not consider that 1 spd difference between Chrom and Stahl important enough to sacrifice Chrom's combat ability--Chrom is force deployed; Inigo is not. Olivia as a combatant means you lose your dancer; Maribelle and Sumia do not have any special use. Though my newfound favorite for Inigo is Frederick for being able to stack avd higher than Lon'qu!Severa (though he loses to Donnel!Kjelle).

If you are playing with DLC, it matters very little what pairings you use, because they are mostly different ways of overkill. How you choose the pairings depend on what you want out of the pairings more than anything. As for me, I like to, as much as possible, leave all the thinking to the planning stage instead of the execution stage and minimize RNG. I also like to leave room for non-DLC and non-rally challenges.

Skill builds Parentheses indicate builds if I decide to do a no DLC Apo run. Chrom: LB/DS+/BF/Charm/Agg as sniper (DS+/Charm/Hit+20/Skl+2/BF as BK) FeMU: LB/V/V/GF/Anathema as valkyrie (Vengeance/BF/Anathema/Deliverer//Mov +1 as sniper) Laurent: LB/TF/Anathema/Mag+2/AT (TF/Mag+2/Anathema/Skl+2/AT) Lucina: LB/V/V/DS+/GF (V/V/TF/DS+/DS+ as sage) Morgan: Spectrum/Strength/Skill/Luck/Mov+1 Nah: Heart/Speed/Magic/Move/Resistance (Speed/Magic/Move/Mov+1) Owain: LB/TF/Agg/GF/Luna Cynthia: LB/TF/Luna/GF/Anathema Gerome: LB/Deliverer/Tantivy/Agg/Lancebreaker Severa: LB/Luna/GF/BF/AT Inigo: LB/Luna/GF/Aggressor/AF Kjelle: LB/AF/AT/Axebreaker/Lancebreaker Brady: LB/Luna/GF/Aggressor/TF Noire: LB/Luna/GF/Hit +20/Anathema FeMU and Lucina +spd/-luk is because I did not relish the idea of trying to get to the DLC chapter with a +mag/-def MU--in L+, the few points of difference in starting stats makes for an order of magnitude of difference in resets needed to get the level up stats/enemy skills I need to beat the map. Compared to a +mag/-def setup, I believe the only difference is that the +spd/-luk setup is unable to VV tank 64 res non-throne sorcerers in a no DLC run. Every other enemy either can be engaged by both or can be engaged by neither. Laurent I could've salvaged the +spd/-luk FeMU!Lucina by pairing her with a Ricken!Laurent instead. This would give a Lucina x Laurent (cannot take on boss sorcerer on wave 3) that has comparable killing power to Ricken!Laurent!Morgan x Maribelle!Lucina (cannot take on 99 hp, 50 res berserkers on wave 4) (neither setup can take the 99 hp, 55 res berserkers). But I decided that I preferred having AT on Laurent so I did not need to think about positioning in no-restriction runs. As a matter of fact, Ricken!Laurent could've gone with sorcerer, Hit +20, and 3/25 Waste tomes to give me more leeway in no-restriction runs. I decided against it. Morgan and Nah I decided to not use Einherjars. This means MU, Morgan, or Morgan's sibling needs to be a rally bot for Rally Spectrum. I chose a setup that would allow me to field 2 pairs with VV and 100% dual strike. It is possible, with certain builds, to have 100% DS and VV without DS+ (e.g. sniper Frederick!Yarne!Morgan (+skl/-def) x dark flier Lon'qu!Severa), but these builds are restrictive enough that they are really not significantly better than FeMU x Chrom. Plus they require All Stat +2, a skill that I do not have. The other rally bot needs pegasus for Rally Speed and Rally Move and valkyrie for Rally Resistance (this is useful against the Mire dark fliers on wave 4). I chose to give those to Nah rather than use Maribelle because I like the Morgan x Nah supports. The staff classes are for thematic reasons. Flying classes would have been better for positioning. Everybody else Has thematic builds. Noire and Owain are the only ones that are not promoted from their starting class. Owain is dread fighter because the class fits Mr. Don Quixote better. Noire is a sorcerer because I wanted her to be a dark magic user. I expect to use Chrom's family to carry everyone else should they fall short.

1. I dislike her immensely. 2. I dislike Yarne somewhat. 3. I have an extra male gen 2. 4. I see no point in fielding 7 gen 2 pairs.

Does anyone care to comment on the strengths and weaknesses of my new setup? Gen 1 Chrom x FeMU (+spd/-luk) Ricken x Lissa Frederick x Cherche Vaike x Sully Stahl x Cordelia Gregor x Miriel Henry x Sumia Kellam x Olivia Lon'qu x Maribelle Donnel x Nowi Gaius x Tharja Gen 2 Laurent (sage) x Lucina (dark flier) Morgan (sage) x Nah (valkyrie) Owain (dread fighter) x Cynthia (dark flier) Gerome (wyvern lord) x Severa (bow knight) Inigo (hero) x Kjelle (general) Brady (sage0 x Noire (sorceror) Forever alone Virion Panne Libra