Anomalocaris

My favorites are Setsuna's "Seeee yaaaa...~", Niles' "Oh-ho-ho, YESSS!", and Yukimura's "What WAS your exit strategy?" Oh, and Garon's "DIE!!!" because it's exactly what I'd expect a crit quote from him to be.

Why does this work?

Gazzak is probably the ugliest, but Hans looks like a thumb.

That ending though.

It's a lot harder to cap all your stats here than in Awakening; you'd have to get statues of every character upgraded to gold, then keep switching them out to max out each stat individually; like, say, build all your Strength-cap-boosting statues, max your strength, then switch them out to build all the Magic-cap-boosting ones, ect. Also, Eternal Seals are very expensive and only give you five more levels, it's not like Awakening's easy infinite grinding, but at least you don't have to keep buying weapons. The good news is that once your unit is strong enough to solo the Boo Camp DLC stage, you can easily gain those five levels in a single battle each time.

He's been a Spearmaster for a while now, so too late. I could just use Ghostly Gold if I run low on cash, though... :P I have the Dual Naginata but I somehow missed the Guard one. Or maybe I overlooked it. Either way he doesn't need it at the moment, he's tanking just fine. He took on most of the Kitsune with a Beast Killer.

You can get a Guard Naginata in Conquest?

I wouldn't mind if the capturable bosses didn't have supports, but I'd like it if they at least had battle voice lines, level up quotes, and could appear in My Castle facilities/idling around.

Haitaka did not face either of the bosses in Chapter 18, but he did break off from the main group by his lonesome to choke an ingress point that some Paladin reinforcements spawned at, taking them all on unassisted. I think I'll give him a Beast Killer for 19, unless you think I should let someone else face the brunt of the Kitsune clan. ...Nah, it's gotta be Haitaka.

That's a very big if. I decided to be a Bow Knight this run instead of a boring ol' Nohr Noble like I was last time. It's fun and still keeps Yato. Edit: Even when he's not trying to be badass, Haitaka is badass. Kotaro dodged everything Kaze, Effie, Charlotte, and Xander threw against him, but then Haitaka stepped up and immediately took him down in a critical hit.

Sadly, no. I just promoted him now and he's generic. He's super-powerful, though. I'd like to snag an Aether scroll from Vanguard Dawn, but I don't know how difficult it'll be at this level.

In Birthright and Revelations I jump around between different units and let most everyone get some experience, though I don't bother to recruit any children until after beating the game (Even though that makes Shiro really tough to get). In Conquest I try to bench anyone I'm not using ASAP and maintain only as many units as the deployment totals allow. If a chapter has a lower deployment total than the previous one, I bench whoever needs the experience the least, and sub them back in next chapter. By the endgame I have 16.

Beruka actually slipped in to steal the kill with a crit, but Haitaka doesn't mind, he still softened him up the most. Now only Sakura remains.

Fair enough. Spear Master it is. My only magic user is Nyx right now, so I'll definitely pick up Leo once he joins even though I'm trying to avoid units I used last time.

Yeah, it's a tough call. Spear Master is probably better for him statistically, but Basara has cool skills and having more attack options is never bad even if his Magic is suboptimal. I might promote him to Basara first then switch to Spear Master at 15, but that might skew his stats away from the ideal Spear Master too much...

So I'm replaying Conquest on Hard mode, and this time around decided to use Haitaka. I didn't last time, and I've seen all the memes about him, so why not? What I didn't realize was that this was going to be the beginning of something beautiful. In Chapter 10, Haitaka did not need to Rally Defense; he choked the main ingress point by himself with a Dual Naginata. Chapter goddamn 10. In Chapter 11, I split my squad in half to take on each path. Haitaka led the charge in the west half, and even though he was supported by Niles, Effie, Azura, and Silas, none of them mattered much; Haitaka survived the Ninja Lunge Conga Line with no issue, killing all of them then advancing into the Samurai Room of Doom and just taking all their hits with no issue while one-shotting them with a Subaki's Pike, while my other half of the army struggled to get past Rinkah and Azama's chambers. He then faced off against Hinoka and defeated her. In Chapter 12, Haitaka was backed up by Mozu, who was now a Dread Fighter. She was pretty tough now, and a good sidekick, softening enemies with shuriken for Haitaka to then wipe out, or Haitaka rallying her Defense so she can take on the Ninja squad and Saizo. Then we got to the end of the map, and Defense Daddy squared off against Lobster Lord one-on-one. He declawed the lobster in two rounds of combat. Azura DID sing for him, and therefore was close enough to support him in battle for round two, but it didn't make a difference because Haitaka dodged Ryoma's Vantage strike and finished him off neatly. Who needs to Rally Defense when a good offense is the best defense? I'm even tempted to give him some Boots, but then it'll be tough to buy him in my Revelation file. I've hereby sworn to make sure Haitaka squares off against Takumi and Sakura down the line so he can go 4/4 against Hoshidan Royals, and he's definitely going to land the final hit against the final boss. So I ask you, the community, what else should Defense Daddy Haitaka accomplish as the chosen Defender of Nohr? And when he's ready to promote, should he hone his naginata mastery further as a Spear Master, or add deadly magic and Rend Heaven to his repetoire as a Basara?

It's a fucking towel. Calm down.

The bath towels are weird because it's pretty obvious that they translated those lines BEFORE they cut the swimsuits from the game, so they talk about mundane bath towels as if they're underwear or sexualized outfits rather than just... towels.

They have special reactions to the Emblem Shield, Fell Dragon Feather, Bear Hat (Those are really funny), and Butterfly Mask.

Keaton, Camilla, Niles, Nina, Peri, Soleil, Velouria, Selkie, Setsuna, Shigure, Azama, Anna, and Izana like receiving bath towels. Best reactions are Elise, Yukimura, Beruka, and Percy, though.

I like the challenge they provide, but I ***HATE*** that they locked class-changing items and stuff behind them. They're a pain to farm; at least with Vanguard Dawn, Ballistician Blitz, and Witches' Trial I can just put my max-stat Corrin on the map and mash Auto until I have a fancy new item, but the others I have to manually solve every time. I'm actually tempted to just use convoy editing to give myself 99 of all those items, but I don't know how to edit my savefile or even get homebrew running. If anyone knows how to do that I'd appreciate help. It also produces the unfortunate side effect that since all the hard DLC gives you fixed units, there's no real point to making my units any stronger. What am I gonna do with these hard-earned Dread Scrolls when there's no context to use them in any more? I guess we might get Apotheosis-style maps in the future, but until then there's nothing to do anymore.

I tried to use HANS but it just ran around slaughtering Hoshidans with an axe and even killed my Lilith. 0/10 would not use again.

Incorrect. I can't see her being Solid Snake any time soon, so by default she can't be my favorite.

One of these two is my favorite character in the game. I'll let you guess which.

I'm emotionally dead inside so nothing in the game touched me. I laughed at most of the death scenes actually because of how silly they were. Like Elise just suddenly teleporting into Siegfried's path and somehow dying without actually having a visible wound, while Xander bawls like a baby then suddenly is good to fight moments later. Or Flora being Sigurd 2.0.