General Horace

I myself was planning on catching a Spearow early on, then ditching it for the one that is given to you later on, for boosted exp. As long as you don't use them at the same time, I don't see the problem.

I could have got the body ring within 5 turns if I wanted, and FEWOD has the unit placements of final part 2. And you do have to remember that I had a grand total of 12 turns before final I had to train Myrhh, most of which she wasn't fielded/wasn't in range of enemies. I am re-doing from Chapter 16 on to do less luck reliant strategies (making sure Seth with a speedwing has enough speed to double Orson, getting Gerik to S in axes, etc.) And by rescuing Myrrh, I meant using the rescue staff.

I didn't have enough time/warp charges to get the purge tome, even though it would have been useful. Enemy difficulty is a big part of it in Hard Mode, as every unit from Chapter 1-Gerik 3HKO'd the enemies, meaning I had to use Seth to kill everything, which made maps like chapter 9 very annoying. Chapter 17 required a spear crit on Lyon (Seth doubled, had around 17 crit) and was barriered up before heading over. Chapter 15 was actually more or less soloed by Saleh. And I'm 100% sure you get much less exp in Hard mode then easy mode. If you decide to do this run again, Saleh is better at warping than Artur (in hard mode anyhow), and feed energy rings to your warpers to increase their warping distance.

I just want suggest a change to rule 9, you can't use two of the same pokemon at the same time, but you can catch more than one.

Sudowoodo

Sorry to steal your Thunder, but I recently completed Hard Mode in 93 turns. Here are my turncounts: [spoiler=Chapter Turncounts.] P - 1 Turn 1 - 3 Turns 2 - 4 Turns 3 - 4 Turns 4 - 3 Turns 5 - 3 Turns 5x - 7 Turns 6 - 3 Turns 7 - 4 Turns 8 - 5 Turns 9 - 7 Turns 10 - 5 Turns 11 - 6 Turns 12 - 8 Turns 13 - 2 Turns 14 - 8 Turns 15 - 5 Turns 16 - 3 Turns 17 - 1 Turn 18 - 6 Turns (I'm trying for 5 now) 19 - 1 Turn 20 - 2 Turns Final - 2 Turns, 1 for each part. I'm sure I could reduce 18 by one as well. This game is tough to LTC on Hard Mode because you don't have the opportunity to train a half decent flier.

Chapter 16 Units Fielded: Eliwood, Serra, Priscilla, Kent, Sain, Lowen, Matthew, Dorcas, Erk, Wil; (Lucius, Raven) Correct me if I screw up a chapter number, I almost screwed up this one. Used to Hector Mode. Eliwood slowly trudged up to the throne with the excellent escort of Dorcas, Wil, and Erk, Kent and Sain stayed back to take care of the cav reinforcements, and Lowen carted Matthew around. Matthew actually had all chests by turn 12, but I underestimated the amount of space Lowen could cover. Dorcas ORKO'd (Yes, he doubled) the boss with the hammer. [spoiler=Unit Stats] UNIT LEVEL HP STR SKL SPD LCK DEF RES WEP LEVEL SUPPORT Eliwood 09.49 23 9 9 12 12 7 4 B Sword C Hector Hector 08.05 26 11 8 7 4 10 0 B Axe C Eliwood Lyn 05.62 19 5 10 12 5 3 1 C Sword Marcus ??/01.27 31 15 15 11 8 10 8 A Lance A Sword B Axe Lowen 10.05 29 9 7 10 6 11 3 D Sword C Lance Rebecca 06.49 20 5 9 7 6 3 3 C Bow Dorcas 09.02 35 9 11 8 6 4 0 B Axe Bartre 07.14 33 13 8 4 6 6 2 C Axe Oswin 10.06 29 13 10 5 3 13 3 B Lance Matthew 06.17 21 4 7 14 5 4 1 D Sword Serra 05.01 18 4 6 9 9 3 7 C Staff Guy 05.98 22 6 12 12 5 5 0 C Sword Erk 08.15 22 9 10 10 5 3 6 C Anima Priscilla 04.69 17 6 7 8 8 3 6 C Staves Florina 04.21 19 6 9 10 8 4 5 D Lance Wil 06.67 23 6 7 7 8 6 1 D Bow Kent 07.39 25 8 8 9 6 8 3 D Lance D Sword Sain 06.80 23 10 6 7 5 7 0 D Lance D Sword Lucius 03.00 18 7 6 10 2 1 6 D Light Raven 05.27 25 8 11 13 2 5 1 C Sword EXP Gained: 1797/1100 Turns Taken: 13/18 Total: EXP Gained: 7032/5500 Turns Taken: 60/69 Chapter 16x Units Fielded: Eliwood, Lyn, Guy, Raven, Priscilla, Florina; (Canas) Lyn killed Damian. Raven is like, 5HKO'd at base by the iron axe dudes, even the silver axe guys weren't particularily threatening. Florina got all the villages before chatting to Fargus. Guy used his killing edge to great success. [spoiler=Unit Stats] UNIT LEVEL HP STR SKL SPD LCK DEF RES WEP LEVEL SUPPORT Eliwood 10.05 24 9 10 13 13 7 5 A Sword C Hector Hector 08.05 26 11 8 7 4 10 0 B Axe C Eliwood Lyn 08.50 21 6 12 15 7 4 1 C Sword Marcus ??/01.27 31 15 15 11 8 10 8 A Lance A Sword B Axe Lowen 10.05 29 9 7 10 6 11 3 D Sword C Lance Rebecca 06.49 20 5 9 7 6 3 3 C Bow Dorcas 09.02 35 9 11 8 6 4 0 B Axe Bartre 07.14 33 13 8 4 6 6 2 C Axe Oswin 10.06 29 13 10 5 3 13 3 B Lance Matthew 06.17 21 4 7 14 5 4 1 D Sword Serra 05.01 18 4 6 9 9 3 7 C Staff Guy 09.05 26 8 15 14 7 5 2 B Sword Erk 08.15 22 9 10 10 5 3 6 C Anima Priscilla 05.05 17 6 8 9 9 4 7 C Staves Florina 04.31 19 6 9 10 8 4 5 D Lance Wil 06.67 23 6 7 7 8 6 1 D Bow Kent 07.39 25 8 8 9 6 8 3 D Lance D Sword Sain 06.80 23 10 6 7 5 7 0 D Lance D Sword Lucius 03.00 18 7 6 10 2 1 6 D Light Raven 06.63 26 8 12 14 2 5 2 C Sword Canas 08.46 21 10 9 8 7 5 8 B Dark EXP Gained: 896/700 Turns Taken: 5/10 Total: EXP Gained: 7928/6200 Turns Taken: 65/79

Marcus.

... You're right, it was actually due to WTA >.<

Last post was getting kinda long. Chapter 15 Units Fielded: Eliwood, Hector, Lowen, Priscilla, Serra, Erk, Guy, Matthew Lyn's group joins. Looks like the autolevels are nice to Kent, and that's about it. Hector walks across the mountains, while everyone else goes south. Kent and Sain buy some swords and lances, and weaken stuff for Lyn. This chapter was really boring, just kinda moved forward and killed shit. Hector killed the boss. [spoiler=Unit Stats] UNIT LEVEL HP STR SKL SPD LCK DEF RES WEP LEVEL SUPPORT Eliwood 08.45 22 8 8 11 11 7 4 B Sword C Hector Hector 08.05 26 11 8 7 4 10 0 B Axe C Eliwood Lyn 05.62 19 5 10 12 5 3 1 C Sword Marcus ??/01.27 31 15 15 11 8 10 8 A Lance A Sword B Axe Lowen 08.74 27 8 6 10 5 10 2 D Sword C Lance Rebecca 06.49 20 5 9 7 6 3 3 C Bow Dorcas 06.04 34 8 10 7 5 4 0 C Axe Bartre 07.14 33 13 8 4 6 6 2 C Axe Oswin 10.06 29 13 10 5 3 13 3 B Lance Matthew 06.06 21 4 7 14 5 4 1 D Sword Serra 03.69 17 3 6 8 7 3 7 C Staff Guy 05.98 22 6 12 12 5 5 0 C Sword Erk 04.68 19 5 8 8 4 3 6 D Anima Priscilla 03.67 16 6 6 8 7 3 6 C Staves Florina 04.21 19 6 9 10 8 4 5 D Lance Wil 04.42 21 6 5 6 7 5 1 D Bow Kent 05.68 23 8 7 8 4 6 1 D Lance D Sword Sain 04.33 22 9 5 7 5 7 0 D Lance D Sword EXP Gained: 1235/1100 Turns Taken: 8/7 Total: EXP Gained: 5235/4400 Turns Taken: 47/51

Well, I've decided to do EHM, I might do the other modes, and give people following this the choice in who I promote, just for fun. I'm not doing Lyn Mode again, fuck that. I'm also not doing videos for EHM, as they are 90% redundant. Chapter 11 Easy chapter. Steel Sword!Lowen + Eliwood kills all enemies sans the boss on the map, and Lowen + Rebecca get all the level 1 bandits. Steel lance Marcus convieniently leaves level 2 bandits at 1 HP, although I only did this once, and Dorcas and Bartre have solid chip damage as well. I bought a couple of vulneraries midchapter. Eliwood managed to get the boss kill after Lowen weakened him. Could have finished in 6, but i'm lazy, and didn't want to restart. Tactics isn't an issue in EHM anyway. UNIT LEVEL HP STR SKL SPD LCK DEF RES WEP LEVEL SUPPORT Eliwood 02.84 19 5 6 8 7 5 1 C Sword Marcus ??/01.04 31 15 15 11 8 10 8 A Lance A Sword B Axe Lowen 03.01 24 7 5 7 3 8 0 D Sword D Lance Rebecca 02.36 17 4 6 6 4 3 1 D Bow Dorcas 03.61 30 7 7 6 3 3 0 C Axe Bartre 02.97 29 9 5 3 4 4 0 D Axe EXP Gained - 583/450 Turns Taken - 7/8 Chapter 12 I forgot Hector and Oswin don't show up for a while >.< Not that they take long to clear the north. Marcus ran to the village, then handed his statboosters off to Rebecca so he could go shopping. Myrmidon!Eliwood is doing well in the first few chapters. Lowen got a nice level of Strength and skill to end the chapter. Eliwood killed this boss too. UNIT LEVEL HP STR SKL SPD LCK DEF RES WEP LEVEL SUPPORT Eliwood 04.99 20 6 6 10 8 6 2 C Sword Hector 02.09 20 8 4 6 3 8 0 C Axe Marcus ??/01.07 31 15 15 11 8 10 8 A Lance A Sword B Axe Lowen 04.23 24 8 5 8 3 8 0 D Sword D Lance Rebecca 03.81 18 4 7 6 5 3 1 D Bow Dorcas 04.05 31 8 8 6 4 3 0 C Axe Bartre 03.44 29 9 5 3 4 5 1 D Axe Oswin 09.24 28 13 9 5 3 13 3 B Lance EXP Gained - 709/550 Turns Taken - 8/8 Total: EXP Gained - 1292/1000 Turns Taken - 15/16 Chapter 13 Bartre and Dorcas went north, to get the village. This isn't a great chapter for them anyhow. Lowen lead the charge south, and to my surprise, Guy doesn't move until turn 5 O.o Oswin, Rebecca, and Lowen stayed back to kill the reinforcements, Matthew went shopping for handaxes, and Marcus weakened the boss for Hector to kill. This chapter is substantially less annoying than it's HHM counterpart, as Pegasus Knights don't exist. UNIT LEVEL HP STR SKL SPD LCK DEF RES WEP LEVEL SUPPORT Eliwood 05.76 20 6 7 10 9 7 3 C Sword Hector 05.16 23 9 6 6 3 9 0 C Axe Marcus ??/01.18 31 15 15 11 8 10 8 A Lance A Sword B Axe Lowen 05.36 25 8 5 8 4 9 0 D Sword D Lance Rebecca 04.68 19 4 7 6 5 3 1 D Bow Dorcas 04.67 31 8 8 6 4 3 0 C Axe Bartre 03.94 29 9 5 3 4 5 1 D Axe Oswin 09.40 28 13 9 5 3 13 3 B Lance Matthew 03.33 19 4 5 11 3 3 1 D Sword Serra 01.80 17 2 5 8 6 2 5 D Staff Guy 03.64 21 6 11 11 5 5 0 C Sword EXP Gained - 974/750 Turns Taken - 9/12 Total: EXP Gained - 2266/1750 Turns Taken - 24/27 Chapter 13x This chapter is actually ridiculously easy in EHM. Like, Lowen was a point of speed away from doubling Nomads, and he OHKO'd some of them with a Steel Lance. Marcus got the village, Guy and Matthew took care of the south, and Rebecca ended up getting the bosskill, because her level ups quite frankly have blown horsecock, so she needs to take what she can get. UNIT LEVEL HP STR SKL SPD LCK DEF RES WEP LEVEL SUPPORT Eliwood 07.09 21 7 7 11 10 7 4 B Sword Hector 05.48 23 9 6 6 3 9 0 C Axe Marcus ??/01.23 31 15 15 11 8 10 8 A Lance A Sword B Axe Lowen 06.86 26 8 5 8 4 9 1 D Sword D Lance Rebecca 06.11 20 5 9 7 6 3 3 D Bow Dorcas 05.24 32 8 9 7 5 4 0 C Axe Bartre 05.02 31 11 7 3 5 5 1 D Axe Oswin 09.82 28 13 9 5 3 13 3 B Lance Matthew 04.23 19 4 5 12 4 4 1 D Sword Serra 02.46 17 2 6 8 7 3 6 D Staff Guy 04.74 21 6 11 12 5 5 0 C Sword EXP Gained: 846/700 Turns Taken: 8/7 Total: EXP Gained: 3112/2450 Turns Taken: 32/34 Chapter 14 I can't believe I'm saying this, but a support bonus saved me a turn here Marcus went shopping, Dorcas killed all the knights at the start (Bartre just flat out OHKO'd the ones in the field with Steel). Fed Bartre the bosskill. Lowen was able to lure in the far west enemies before the rain came. Erk sniped stuff from his cliff and got the Iron Blade. Eliwood fell one strength of ORKO'ing the Bandit on the last turn, but that was remedied by his support with Hector. UNIT LEVEL HP STR SKL SPD LCK DEF RES WEP LEVEL SUPPORT Eliwood 07.43 21 7 7 11 10 7 4 B Sword C Hector Hector 06.21 24 9 7 6 3 10 0 C Axe C Eliwood Marcus ??/01.27 31 15 15 11 8 10 8 A Lance A Sword B Axe Lowen 08.01 27 8 6 10 5 10 2 D Sword C Lance Rebecca 06.49 20 5 9 7 6 3 3 C Bow Dorcas 06.04 34 8 10 7 5 4 0 C Axe Bartre 07.14 33 13 8 4 6 6 2 C Axe Oswin 10.06 29 13 10 5 3 13 3 B Lance Matthew 05.39 20 4 6 13 4 4 1 D Sword Serra 02.90 17 2 6 8 7 3 6 D Staff Guy 05.11 22 6 12 12 5 5 0 C Sword Erk 02.21 17 5 7 7 3 2 5 D Anima Priscilla 03.00 16 6 6 8 7 3 6 C Staves EXP Gained: 888/850 Turns Taken: 7/10 Total: EXP Gained: 4000/3300 Turns Taken: 39/44

On my Dolph selection earlier, make him Hunter--> Warrior so you have a bow user, so you don't have to beg others to change theirs.

Yeah, it's kinda what I want clarification on. Theorectically, I could have drafted a team of Dratini, Swinub, Jynx, Ursaring, Rhyhorn,Entei, and Raikou and I could go through the first 7 gyms without catching a draftable one.

Spearow/Fearow Also, is there some sort of rule that discourages soloing the game with your starter?

Fighter Dolph

It still kinda helps later on, for people that aren't as familiar with the game. And Scyther should be decent enough, even a stab U-Turn hits well enough. Might be tough to find though.

He removed it. I might put one together in half an hour or so, because it's hard to make picks.

It's my turn right? Machop/Machoke/Machamp. I wish Chuck still gave Dynamicpawnch.

I second the notion to put the order in the OP.

I will over the course of the week, because the university's internet is about 3 times faster than mine.

SENTRET FUCK YEAH Also, Geodude and Onix are still on the list.

And I'm done. I cleared the final chapters quick for fun. [spoiler=Unit Stats] UNIT LEVEL HP STR SKL SPD LCK DEF RES WEP LEVEL SUPPORT Hector 20/14.65 52 27 20 21 22 22 9 S Axe D Sword C Eliwood Eliwood 19.09 30 13 14 15 15 10 4 A Sword C Hector Lyn 20.00 33 12 19 20 13 8 5 A Sword C Florina Marcus ??/08.60 36 18 17 13 11 10 9 S Lance A Sword A Axe Bartre 20.00 47 18 10 10 11 14 4 A Axe Dorcas 15.98 38 14 10 8 7 6 4 A Axe Lowen 14.41 34 10 9 12 7 8 5 B Lance D Sword Rebecca 13.02 24 8 12 13 8 6 4 B Bow Oswin 14.45 32 15 9 7 4 17 5 A Lance Matthew 19.25 29 10 8 20 6 7 8 A Sword Serra 20/15.48 38 21 18 16 27 11 28 S Staff B Light Guy 20.00 39 11 20 20 12 8 6 A Sword Erk 17.40 24 11 11 13 8 3 11 A Anima Priscilla 20/14.61 35 18 22 17 23 9 23 S Staff C Anima Kent 19/12.61 44 21 26 22 11 16 8 S Lance C Sword E Axe Sain 17.01 33 18 9 11 11 8 5 B Lance D Sword Wil 14.34 28 13 12 7 10 7 1 B Bow Florina 20.00 26 18 17 20 15 6 13 A Lance C Lyn Raven 18.73 42 18 19 20 6 10 4 A Sword Lucius 19.33 27 20 14 15 4 1 15 A Light Canas 16.46 25 13 14 10 9 7 12 A Dark Fiora 19.78 30 12 18 16 9 6 14 A Lance Dart 18.90 40 19 10 15 8 9 3 A Axe Legault 19.81 31 9 14 20 13 10 5 B Sword Nils 20.00 29 1 2 24 25 11 15 Bard Isadora ??/02.92 28 13 13 16 10 8 6 A Sword B Lance D Axe Rath 14.53 30 13 13 14 8 8 4 B Bow Heath 20/16.47 58 27 25 23 13 20 11 S Lance D Sword Hawkeye ??/11.05 53 23 16 11 15 14 15 S Axe Geitz ??/11.31 49 22 14 19 12 13 5 A Axe B Bow Farina 18.03 29 12 16 17 14 12 14 A Lance Pent ??/11.13 35 18 21 18 17 13 19 A Anima S Staff A Louise Louise ??/09.90 33 15 16 18 20 11 13 S Bow A Pent Harken ??/19.79 51 25 28 23 15 17 11 B Sword S Axe Nino 16.18 26 13 13 15 14 7 11 B Anima Jaffar ??/20.00 41 19 28 27 12 19 14 S Sword Vaida ??/10.68 47 22 21 15 11 22 7 A Sword A Lance EXP Gained: 567/3000 Turns Taken: 4/10 Total: EXP Gained: 45240/40000 Turns Taken: 318/328 Key units in my run were Heath, Kent, Marcus, Harken, Ninils, Priserra, and Matthew. Pent was surprisingly superfluous, (although his combat was appreciated).

I did that intentionally because I don't need the exp anymore, I thought it would be funny, as Raven said. You'll see in the video I do in fact have Hawkeye on a peak tanking the south ones. Whenever I get around to posting it, that is... [spoiler=Unit Stats] UNIT LEVEL HP STR SKL SPD LCK DEF RES WEP LEVEL SUPPORT Hector 20/13.57 51 26 19 20 21 22 8 S Axe D Sword C Eliwood Eliwood 19.09 30 13 14 15 15 10 4 A Sword C Hector Lyn 20.00 33 12 19 20 13 8 5 A Sword C Florina Marcus ??/08.60 36 18 17 13 11 10 9 S Lance A Sword A Axe Bartre 20.00 47 18 10 10 11 14 4 A Axe Dorcas 15.98 38 14 10 8 7 6 4 A Axe Lowen 14.41 34 10 9 12 7 8 5 B Lance D Sword Rebecca 13.02 24 8 12 13 8 6 4 B Bow Oswin 14.45 32 15 9 7 4 17 5 A Lance Matthew 19.25 29 10 8 20 6 7 8 A Sword Serra 20/15.48 38 21 18 16 27 11 28 S Staff B Light Guy 20.00 39 11 20 20 12 8 6 A Sword Erk 17.40 24 11 11 13 8 3 11 A Anima Priscilla 20/13.91 35 18 22 17 22 9 23 S Staff C Anima Kent 19/11.98 44 21 25 22 10 16 8 S Lance C Sword E Axe Sain 17.01 33 18 9 11 11 8 5 B Lance D Sword Wil 14.34 28 13 12 7 10 7 1 B Bow Florina 20.00 26 18 17 20 15 6 13 A Lance C Lyn Raven 18.73 42 18 19 20 6 10 4 A Sword Lucius 19.33 27 20 14 15 4 1 15 A Light Canas 16.46 25 13 14 10 9 7 12 A Dark Fiora 19.78 30 12 18 16 9 6 14 A Lance Dart 18.90 40 19 10 15 8 9 3 A Axe Legault 19.81 31 9 14 20 13 10 5 B Sword Nils 20.00 29 1 2 24 25 11 15 Bard Isadora ??/02.92 28 13 13 16 10 8 6 A Sword B Lance D Axe Rath 14.53 30 13 13 14 8 8 4 B Bow Heath 20/16.03 58 27 25 23 13 20 11 S Lance D Sword Hawkeye ??/11.05 53 23 16 11 15 14 15 S Axe Geitz ??/10.10 48 22 14 18 12 13 5 A Axe B Bow Farina 18.03 29 12 16 17 14 12 14 A Lance Pent ??/10.77 34 18 21 18 17 13 19 A Anima S Staff A Louise Louise ??/09.90 33 15 16 18 20 11 13 S Bow A Pent Harken ??/19.06 51 25 28 23 15 17 11 B Sword S Axe Nino 16.18 26 13 13 15 14 7 11 B Anima Jaffar ??/19.48 40 19 28 27 12 19 14 S Sword Vaida ??/10.68 47 22 21 15 11 22 7 A Sword A Lance Chapter 32x post. EXP Gained: 1824/0 Turns Taken: 16/0 Total: EXP Gained: 44673/37000 Turns Taken: 314/318 I haven't been this close in Tactics in a while.

Most people decide not to burn RN's in the prologue because they don't believe in it, and decide to take the 3 turn. The 5 turn in chapter 1 is pretty luck based too.