SSbardock84

I play differently all the time, but here is what I'd consider an average playthrough for me. Part 1: I use Edward to do most of the work (obviously), I try to get him leveled up fast. Yes, I have gotten him to Trueblade before the Part is even done before, but that was difficult lol. Leonardo and Nolan I use as supports. Leonardo usually for the fliers on that one map and then for taking out weakened enemies. Nolan bashes on lance units. Micaiah I use as much as possible, I usually have her blast armored units and some time cavalry (there aren't many in Part 1). Sothe is usually around with Edward as a front man, plowing through enemies. Tauroneo I use on the first map you get him, I send him up against those armored units with Jill, Zihark, and Volug. I usually mix up who I use between Jill, Zihark, and Volug, Jill gets used the least. I use everyone else moderately. I almost never use Fiona or Meg. I also try to refrain from using Nailah and Black Knight in the final chapter as they make it too easy. Only on harder modes do I use them. On easy there's no point, they just steal EXP I could give to other characters. Part 2: Haar literally just does everything. Within the past few years I've made Elincia a main of mine, so she does quite a bit more in the first chapter and endgame for me. The other three in the first chapter I use too, but it's primarily Haar and Elincia I focus on. Use mostly Brom in the next chapter, probably obvious. After that chapter I basically use everyone. Same goes for Geoffrey's chapter, sometimes I'll get to the boss as quick as possible with Geoffrey. He usually class changed in the past for me, but I save the bonus exp for the endgame chapter or for much later. The endgame chapter I either have Haar just sweep in from the far right and kill Ludvec or I'll just see how things go with advancing with everyone else. I usually get that one skill that armored unit has on the bottom left (a passive maybe, can't remember). Always kill Ludvec though and always give the Tomahawk to Haar. Part 3: I try to use all of the Greil Mercenaries very early on, but they end up fading away from me, some of them. Usually it's Mist and Rhys who become fodder since I'm not a big healer, almost always Mist. Once you get the Crimea boys and girls, I use Haar heavily. Main characters I use otherwise are Ike, Mia, and Shinon. I pretty heavily use the other characters too though and get them all class changed, again aside from Mist (though you can't class change her yet anyway) and sometimes Rhys. My first class changed characters are Mia, Shinon, and Titania. Ike I always give Blossom too so I can gain a bit more oomf while slowing down his leveling since he can't class change until the endgame. Never have not gotten to Level 20. Once I switch to the Dawn Brigade again it's usually heavy focus of Edward, Sothe, and Volug. It depends where I'm at with Leonardo, Nolan, and Zihark. Jill depends and Micaiah usually does some good too. Edward kills it on all maps here. In the battle against Ike, I always send Edward flying down his way taking out Laguz. In the previous chapter, I un-equip Ragnell and give Ike a Wind Sword. It makes Edward's job all the more easier. I usually have him using Caladbolg or Brave Sword. Once Astra activates, Ike is dead. The finally chapter blows because I usually have someone with Corrosion and I have to be sure not to break one of my character's weapons. Edward is always hard to deal with and is the strongest character on the map. It takes a mix of several characters to kill, but the most effective way is using Shinon. Part 4: I usually have Dawn Brigade guys in the Silver Army. So as you can imagine, Edward does more work again. He basically clears the first map himself from up to right. Those reinforcements at the top are done in by a mix of Sothe, Leonardo, and Micaiah usually. The bottom right I use mainly Naesala and Skrimir to take care of things. I'll usually send Sigrun, Tanith, and Sanaki in that direction too. Or sometimes I just won't use them lol. In the second Silver Army battle I send Edward and Leonardo down from the left and Micaiah and Naesala to the right. If I have Haar on this team, that's where he goes too. Sanaki sometimes comes along. The rest of the characters go down in the middle. I have Micaiah pick up Stefan and he takes on those reinforcements above where he spawns in. For the Greil Army I primarily use the mercenaries and bring in Volug too. Shinon and Rolf (if I'm using him) go up plowing down foes. Nailah and Volke are my key carriers. Soren gets his new tome and bashes some losers. Ike goes and hangs out with Tormod then goes up, he or Gatrie usually fall asleep. Most of my units go to the right and then up. They hang out there, tearing apart any of the reinforcements who come. Always have to bring Rafiel up and have him recruit Oliver. Forgot about the first chapter of the Greil Army. I send archers and mages to the left, Boyd and wolves to the right, and the rest go down and to the boss. It's usually Ike doing most of the work and getting his axe skill level to SS. The Hawk army is usually my weakest team since I don't use most of the units that end up there. Laguz go left and Beroc go down + Reyson. Tibarn rakes the enemies apart and heads straight for the boss to get that light spell I never use. Elincia and company cut around by the time Tibarn finishes the boss and then its just clean-up duty from there on out. The second chapter I recruit Volke, of course, with Bastian. I usually give those skills that are effective against specific laguz to units here and that helps tear them down. Most characters kind of just hang back defending the place while Tibarn goes up to show Izuka who's boss. Usually Geoffrey, Volke, and Bastian go up on the right side. Elincia too sometimes. This chapter is the shortest out of Part 4 always for me. Endgame: Obviously I like to mix it up when it comes to entering the Tower of Guidance. But among the most common units I'd choose from are: Edward, Haar (though I usually don't know because he makes it too easy), Mia, Shinon, Stefan, Volke, Nailah, Leonardo, Zihark (not too much anymore), Giffca, Caineghis (only one lion if I bring one, they're super useful in the final battles), Elincia, Tibarn, and Naesala. That's the most common ones (unless I forgot some), but I've obviously used other characters. I've certainly used Soren a lot. I usually don't bring too many Greil Mercenary characters because you get to play as them for so long. I really do like bringing characters you get near the end of the game because you get to play as them so seldom. I've brought Renning like twice though. Anyway, first battle goes smoothly. I send Edward's gang left and Shinon's right. Ike goes up with some of the heavy hitters and Micaiah. Tibarn usually sweeps around on the left side and Naesala or Haar on the right. Always a laguz beast or two going up with Ike. Sothe is up there too, if I don't have Volke I give him everything he had which is handy. Except for his stillness skill, I give that too Micaiah. Bosses die easily, usually to Tibarn or Edward and Shinon. Second battle everyone does their fair share except for laguz dragons (because I don't use them much) and Sanaki. Micaiah is a wimp always so she hangs back on this battle and mostly the rest too. Ike then kills poor Zelgius. Battle three, I send several characters in five different directions. Ike goes straight up to the boss fight and others join him eventually to kill Dheginsea. Next battle I use Seraphim's attack range and stay one space away from it with as many units as I can. I then fly in, killing his defense spirits, and then take him down on the second turn. Piece of cake. Final chapter is one where Edward and some other guys actually don't do as much. I have them take care of reinforcement spirits since they don't do much damage to the aura. Laguz definitely do the most. Once the aura is gone, everyone attacks, and obviously mister Ike finishes the goddess off.

I recall Pair Up being essentially a requirement in Lunatic and Lunatic+. I don't recall having any difficulties with Awakening Hard Mode. It felt like an average difficulty for a FE game. I don't think I used Pair Up much in Hard, because I barely used it unless I was trying to raise Support levels or obviously, like I said, in Lunatic and Lunatic+ modes it was a must.

Yep, I knew I should've been saving more orbs. Well, I hope I'm lucky and get him easy.

I'm surprised there isn't any pokemon topics ever on here. Maybe I should've made this more broadly about Pokemon Sword and Shield in general, but since Crown of Tundra was recently released I'll just put this here. Kind of surprised how quick Crown of Tundra took in comparison to Isle of Armor. I recall spending way more time on the latter, but I did everything except for all of the Legendary raids in the new DLC. What do you guys think of it compared to the last DLC? I really love the look of galarian Moltres, so that alone is my favorite take away. I'm not a big fan of the new dens because I don't have online and play with random NPCs, they make the dumbest decisions. It's challenging, but at least if you don't defeat the Legendary you get to keep one of the pokemon you caught. Though 8/10 times I feel its one I already have since my pokedex is complete for galar and mostly complete from the Isle of Armor.

Just a few more days until election day. Last election was the first time I voted and it was by mail since I was in college. I was going to just do it in the mail again because of COVID-19, but it shouldn't be a big deal. I'd rather vote in person since I have the option to.

I gave the Vinland Saga manga another try. I'm officially just going to drop it now. I went a little bit further because people said I wasn't far enough, but I just really hate it.

I guess I'll go with Rutger. This might be the first voting gauntlet where I didn't really care about any of the characters.

Man, I really wanted the Micaiah/Sothe duo since I didn't get them during their debut summonings, all I've gotten are three Mia/Masked Lucinas. I'm giving up, my orbs are too low and I don't know what the Legendary Hero for this month will be.

It's probably the best one so far. I thought Book 3 was going to be really good, but eh. Then Book 2 and 1 were just meh.

Poll updated. Caineghis is out. I'll be surprised if Micaiah doesn't win tbh, but it could happen at that end.

Oh my goodness, this is so cool. I'm going to cry so hard if anyone ever makes an Edward one, especially as a Trueblade.

Hopefully it doesn't end. If it does, then yeah, an offline version sounds best. It'd blow to no longer have any access to the game after investing so much time into it. Even a bit of money too. I've never played a game from the app store that quit, so hopefully it doesn't happen. It feels like the game has only been growing too. Anyway, it's already depressing enough that they're discontinuing Cipher, I'd hate for it to happen to FEH to.

Usually male because I'm a guy. Occasionally I'll try female on like Dark Souls or Skyrim, but I never play those levels much. Idk, I just prefer playing as a guy because I am one. The FE games I've done female a few times, in some ways I prefer female Byleth over male. Depends on the game, but I don't really care too much about gender. But I can't think of any game I've played where the character you play as is only a female and only that. Last time I played a game like that was probably one of the old Metroid games. Though obviously this is about avatar characters, so you're always given the choice between male and female.

I don't really have one. I'm just kind waiting for something new to come out that'll I want to work on. If I really wanted to I have enough Heroic Grails and Feathers to get some character to +10, but I'd rather save them for now.

Figured it'd be Three Houses, but disappointed in who we got. Hopefully the next one will be Blue Lions characters.

Poll updated. Ike and Haar are out.

There's several things I recall not liking regarding his story involvement. Him becoming the leader of whatever their group was called (the resistance or something) just felt awkward and weird. And I remember it was a huge deal that Alm was a commoner and that one guy left because of it (I'm not gonna look up his name). But I remember Clive making a big deal that he was a commoner and that it made the most sense that Alm was the leader (also largely involved his 'grandfather,' of course). Still doesn't make much sense though since he's this random scrub with no war experience. It's not realistic. Then it turns out Alm is in fact not a commoner and heir to the empire. That took away any strength they had, because they were pouring so much into the idea that he was a commoner (not that we didn't see it coming). You could argue that he still grew up with one so it doesn't take the strength away entirely, but I think it reinforces that nobles and royalty are better in this world. Bad writing imo and super cliche. I don't remember all of the details obviously, but I remember hating the awkward approach to it all. Very messy. Alm's personality on the other hand I don't have any problems with. I liked his character in that department and remember liking him much more than Celica. Celica was really annoying and snotty. Then she became the typical damsel in distress. Which I guess doesn't really bother me, but it felt so cliche and wasn't done in a clever way. Idk, I have many problems with this game. Very average game. Probably the third from the bottom as far as FE games go imo. Maybe I could convince myself overall its worse than Fates, but definitely not Binding Blade. At least we had Berkut though, that man added a lot.

I feel fine because it's what I expected. I can't imagine how they could've fit a dragon sprite onto the map anyway. Especially Dheginsea's lol. Anyway, they're not technically called "manaketes" in PoR/RD, but they are their version of manaketes. Imo, it makes far more sense for them to be a breath unit (they do use breath attacks in the games too) than beast units. I really would've been shocked if they came out as beast units. Edit: You can make the argument that they should be beast units because they shift and don't use dragon stones. But the other beasts that have made it into FEH do not shift, they use beast stones. So the decision to make the dragons from Tellius breath units is consistent with how they've released dragons/beasts.

Poll is updated. I'm torn between Mia and Haar, but I think I'll go for Mia

Another one I thought of was Dark Souls 2, I won't whine about it too much though since I haven't beaten it. Imo it really just pales in comparison to 1 and 3 (I played those before 2). It also feels like it isn't even connected to the two games. Dark Souls 3 feels like a sequel to 1, but not 2. I'm almost convinced when they were in the beginnings of the game they weren't intending for DS2 to even be a sequel. Which doesn't seem too farfetched considering Demon's Souls exists before Dark Souls and has no connection other than Dark Souls being a spiritual successor. But yeah, story stuff has little to do with it. The game just feels far more choppy and unorganized. I do want to finish the game eventually though, maybe I'll like it more then. I've like every other game with their normal style from FromSoftware and I've played them all except Demon's Souls. I have heard from most fans though that Dark Souls 2 is their least favorite of all the games.

I don't think it'd be that confusing to pick up on FE3 first if you prefer to do that. But I do think you should give Shadow Dragon a finish at some point, if you're a hardcore FE player anyway. I think it's kind of an underrated FE game and I like it more than its sequel.

I'd prefer a male character tbh since it's only female characters that get them. Like, how does Ike of all people not have one? I don't like the figures that move (idk the word for it), just the stiff ones like statues (I sound dumb). What would be amazing would be a character on a horse. Seeing an Eliwood figure on his horse with Durandal would make me ball.

Being able to play friends with your units. This may or may not have been a thing in Awakening, but I don't think it was. I think what you could do was battle your friend's chosen units and at the end you received their avatar, but it wasn't a pvp mode. In this day, I can't believe it hasn't happened. Like, online play is all the hype (though I barely play it) these days. You'd think they'd want to give more incentives for people to buy the Nintendo online subscription too. I still haven't seen a single reason to buy it. Just imagine large scale battles against your friends in Three Houses though, that would be amazing. I've dreamed of pvp in Fire Emblem since Blazing Sword. I fear it may never happen.

Just give me Path of Radiance and I'll be content. I hate running the game on an emulator. This thread also made me realize Awakening has been out for what like 8 or 7 years? Man, it feels like it didn't come out that long ago. Time goes fast.