Whitefang

I'm fine with taking a penalty, but I just wanted to point this out. ;)

I'm not 100% but I think he needed Matthew to step on a switch? At least I hope so because I'm already way past that chapter and used Matthew to open doors and chests as I thought he was free for that. Prologue 5/5 Chapter 1 5/10 Chapter 2 7/17 Chapter 3 7/24 Chapter 4 7/31 Chapter 5 7/38 Chapter 6 6/44 Florina uses the Angelic Robe Chapter 7 2/46 Florina crits and saves the good levels the team earned. Chapter 7x 6/52 Forgot to deploy Nils. Oh well. Chapter 8 7/59 It's important to keep Florina out of range of attacks. Chapter 9 4/63 Chapter 10 7/70 Wallace stole a good level up AND waited to get D axes until after he killed Lundgren. Jerk. Florina got the Energy Ring. Unit Lev Exp HP Str Skl Spd Lck Def Res Wep Lyn 12 98 25 8 13 16 9 3 6 Swd-A Florina 8 51 27 9 11 10 12 5 6 Lnc-B Wil 7 98 23 8 7 8 7 7 0 Bow-C Rath 8 76 25 8 10 11 5 7 2 Bow-B Nils 2 22 15 0 0 12 11 6 5 Wallace 2 74 35 16 10 9 10 17 5 Lnc-A Axe-D

Yeah, it's like golf. You want to beat each boss at the lowest level that you can, and the more characters you have drafted below the boss's level, the lower your score will be. Yes, these work I think. Penalties: +1 point for using an undrafted character in a random battle. +Level of Encounter points (in addition to the points that the character would otherwise generate) for using an undrafted character in a boss battle. So if I did not draft young Rydia but use her to defeat the Octomammoth at level 1, I'll get +1 to my score (+10 from the level of Octomamm, -9 from the difference between Rydia's level and the boss's). I don't think Cecil ever has a hard time running away, so that might be what you have to do if you don't have Porom, Palom, or Tellah. Of course you'll be running a lot to keep your score down, too. You have to have a way to revive the character and then kill that character in the next battle immediately (or take a penalty), but if you can do that, then go ahead.

These units aren't on our teams in the first post. Raven - Boss killer? Priscilla - Best healer! Wil - Worst archer, which makes him super terrible Florina - Rescue shenanigans Lowen - Worst cavalier, but still a good unit Lyn - At least she'll be a high level Farina - Starts out slow, she might not get a chance to grow like she should. She'll cost me some turns on Chapter 25 probably (I'm overestimating my abilities again) Harken - Solid prepromote, of course Wallace - Might kill Lundgren and will then disappear forever. Rath - I don't know, at least he's fast. Considering that nearly half my team is in Lyn mode, I'll be going there. I also hope to get lower than 75 turns.

This is a draft competition for four players. Each player will draft 4 characters, each of which must be unique (so you cannot draft Kain's first appearance if you have drafted Kain's 3rd appearance.) The remaining two character appearances will be free. If you have no option but to draft a character that you have drafted previously, then you may do so. The winner will be determined by whose team has the best difference in levels between their characters and the bosses that they defeat. A lower score is better. For example, I draft Kain's first appearance and defeat the mist dragon with Kain and Cecil both at level 10 before the fight begins. The Mist Dragon (D. Mist) has a level of 10. I would earn 0 points toward my score. Had Cecil been level 11 and Kain level 10, I would have earned 1 point. Undrafted characters give 0 points and must be killed immediately. Using an undrafted character results in an additional number of points equal to the level of the encounter. Drafted characters must be alive at the end of the boss fight in order to progress. Save often! Optional bosses are optional, so defeat them if you can! However, you must defeat them before taking on Zeromus, which freezes your score. Draft order: 1234 4321 1234 4321 1234 Cecil is free for all. Edward is free for his fight with the WaterHag (not a boss battle). Rydia is free for Golbez because that fight sucks. That fight also does not count toward your score. Penalties +1 point for using undrafted characters in a random battle (each random battle). However, you are allowed kill off the character after they are revived by a cottage or game events and after you get the character the first time. +LEVEL points for using an undrafted character in a boss battle (LEVEL is the level of the boss). Drafted characters must be revived as soon as they are swooned/KO'd Characters Teams 1. Marth - Rydia (Adult), Yang (2nd), Edge, Cid (1st), Fusoya 2. Baldrick - Rosa (2nd), Cid (2nd), Kain (2nd), Palom (1st), Rydia (Young) 3. General Horace - Kain (3rd), Yang (3rd), Edward (2nd), Porom (1st), Tellah (1st) 4. Whitefang - Palom (2nd), Porom (2nd), Tellah (2nd), Edward (1st), Yang (1st) My question to fellow drafters is how to prevent a sandbagging character from lowering a player's score by a lot. Say I draft Young Rydia and just kill her off right away, that would result in -24 points, though perhaps at the expense of requiring a higher level Cecil. My only solution currently is to require the character to be alive at the end of every boss fight, but that might be difficult. Give me your suggestions! An alternative measure of victory could be time, which might be better, but then relegates the optional bosses to being rather useless.

I had that question as well. Will the player who gets Karla also get a free Bartre? Same for Geitz, you can't recruit him without getting the Lords leveled up. Guy SP and I posted at the same time. Karla. I guess I'm blind.

Farina.

I've never really used Rath before. This will be exciting. Hawkeye.

Isadorable

I'll be nice this time. Pent.

Dorcas in

Sure, I'll be gone for a bit. Let's throw in Rebecca.

I wouldn't be sad about getting "stuck" with Serra out of that group! Easy for me to say, though...

Stop giving away my strategy Renault in.

I will add Sain.

IN! This will be awesome.

Vantage + Adept. Save wrath for someone who, I don't know, doesn't crit! Best: FE9 Black Knight. It's Ike's chance for revenge and you get to choose whether he faces his nemesis or runs away? Plus all the previously mentioned reasons. Worst: Denning. Is he really the 3rd boss before the end? It's like a filler episode so that you can get stronger for Victory or Death, and no one really displays any concerns over how this guy is a broken record. They could have at least had a philosophical discussion on something...

I tried to make progress! It worked! Voting is done guys...(so glad I'm not doing H5) though I might do an inefficient quick run with this team on H5 just to say I did it. Though I'd rather take the team into FE12 when I unlock the restriction on class changing. Chapter 11 10/101 turns I don't know if I can do it in 200 or less. I'll keep trying! I thought this chapter would be pretty hard, but it was tame compared to previous chapters. I avoided Khozen and the Sniper, which means no good loot sadly. The first step I took was to warp Darros into the northern area on a fort. He was pretty grumpy about this, but +2 Def later and he was impenetrable except to the Stonehoist guy. By the time I had gotten there, only one wandering enemy remained, and Lena mopped him up. But before that... Lena and Athena went east to clear out some mercs so that I could send some folks shopping. They had a good deal going. Athena started it off by countering with an Iron Lance, then she would strike from range, Lena would trade with her to get the Iron Lance equipped and finish off that enemy. Then they both would counter and the process repeated. Sadly, they weren't worth much XP, but oh well. Radd tried to tank one merc and did poorly. Barst had to kill it. Roshea and Draug finished up the last one. Marth even got in on the action a little here! He needed some action, too. He sucks. Barst takes the second save, and Cord+Athena defeat the Thundershot ballistician. Everyone tiptoes around the Sniper/Khozen attack range and Barst and Darros kill the Stonehoist ballistician. I have to kill the Cavalier on the gate with Barst+Cord, which sadly meant I only had Vyland to attack the boss. He had no chance to kill him, unfortunately. I could have risked Athena flying in, but if Khozen had moved the Sniper would have gotten her. I didn't feel like starting over again (Marth got hit by Jake and Stonehoist.) In summary, Radd, Caesar, and Wrys suck. Wow do they suck. Caesar and Wrys didn't even do anything. At least Radd did some damage. I had Radd double Jake for 0 damage just for the weapon exp. Barst is still awesome, especially now that he can use the Killing Edge. Lena is surprisingly useful because she is a Pegasus Knight. I will continue warping Darros to slaughter the enemy as needed (might change to Barst on promotion). Athena rocks with Levin Swords and Javelins! Looking ahead, I have to figure out a way to get Wrys to the arena or something. I need to get him to level 10 so I can promote him and try to bench him. The next chapter I lose 2 deployment slots. At the moment this is Gordin and Barst (Ouch). In addition to those two, Lena, Darros, and Cord are ready for promotion. They would go to Sniper, Berserker, and Horseman respectively. Promoting all 3 (using my remaining seals from wifi shop) would give me Barst and Gordin, then I would probably select Lena for this mission, saving Darros and Cord for later. I'll try it without doing that first. I have to collect the master seal, which means I may as well collect the boots, too, though who knows how effectively I'll be able to use them. Stats time! Unit Level Exp Class HP Str Mag Skl Spd Lck Def Res Weapon Ranks Marth 6 11 Lord 22 8 0 6 10 11 7 0 Sword C Draug 9 39 Fighter 27 8 0 7 13 4 4 0 Axe D Gordin 16 45 Curate 23 0 3 8 8 9 6 8 Staff B Barst 13 72 Merc 27 10 0 16 16 9 9 0 Sword C Cord 10 75 DM 18 3 4 5 10 9 6 4 Tome C Darros 12 91 Knight 29 8 0 5 1 7 19 0 Lance B Lena 12 22 Pegasus 18 6 3 12 14 16 8 7 Lance C Roshea 7 24 Myrm 24 6 0 15 13 5 4 0 Sword D Vyland 9 6 Mage 21 0 5 5 7 4 2 5 Tome C Athena 1 61 Falcon 29 12 1 9 10 6 10 10 Sword C, Lance D Radd 3 69 Cav 21 7 0 1 7 4(2*) 9 0 Sword D, Lance E Tank MVP: Darros Damage MVP: Darros Healing MVP: Gordin

Best: Reign of Despair (FE12) I don't know if that counts. If not, my second pick is Everything into the Dark (FE7) Worst: In the Name of Bern (FE6)

Well, this was a difficult chapter and I had a lot of things to do. Plus I just got New Mystery imported, which is a lot of fun. I also didn't want to do the really hard strategy that I kept failing at (it was close sometimes), so I started the promotion fun (which took a while because I kept forgetting to hit the WiFi shop at the right times ). Chapter 10 9/91 turns Well, I need to promote some units to make things easier. I'd have had a decent run if Wrys hadn't missed, forcing Draug to not pull a knight who then went after Rickard and trapped him. It was a rough outing. So here I am, saying, "I have to buy some promotion items anyway." So I go ahead and promote Athena and Caeda. Things are looking up now. Jagen is benched automatically, and I decide that Athena will join him. For reference, since I'll be avoiding some promotions (Barst, Lena, etc.), I will force the promotion of any character who reaches level 20. Beck and Tiki will also count as promoted units when I get them. I don't know how I came close to finishing this chapter without Caeda. She, Barst, and Lena ran with Marth, while everyone else went to kill the Sniper and collect loot. The first obstacle was the four cavaliers that rush the group right away. Caeda countered one on EP and Darros finished it off with a Riders Bane hit. Caeda ORKO'd another with the Wingspear, and Lena and Barst teamed up to kill a 3rd. The last one hit someone and died next PP. The Dracos were easy, I had Lena trade Caeda the forged Lei, and she countered them down to 12 HP. She finished one off with Javelins. Lena (from range) and Barst teamed up to exactly kill the other (saved Barst from taking a counter-attack). Somewhere in here I save-scummed so that Cord got a crit on the thief and I got a Levin Sword. He countered the Knight and Vyland got the KO. Rickard got the physic. For some reason, the second knight didn't want to attack, so everyone here sat around. At least Gordin did some healing and physic-ing. The Peg Knights were a joke, as always, and Lena made the last battle save. Marth moved into position and crit on EP to ORKO the wandering knight who guarded Zharov. Caeda moves in to attack Zharov, dealing 32 damage and taking none (she would have taken only 6 or 8 or something like that.) Marth positions himself so that the Cleric can't heal Zharov. Barst goes in with the Killing sword on the Master Seal Hero, but doesn't get the crit. Lena supports with a Javelin strike. Gordin uses one more physic use to heal Barst. The scene in the Sniper room is frantic, but I have (barely) enough units to kill the knight, archer, and surround the Sniper. No thanks to Cord missing one of his attacks on the knights, however. All's well that ends well? We'll see how this team continues to perform as we move along. Oh yeah, and Barst was able to finish off the Hero. Unfortunately, I forgot to differentiate my stats between battle saves, so the data was a bit messed up, but my MVPs are obvious this time. Caeda ran away with the offensive and defensive awards, and Gordin, being the only healer, was the best healer. Unit Level Exp Class HP Str Mag Skl Spd Lck Def Res Weapon Ranks Marth 6 1 Lord 22 8 0 6 10 11 7 0 Sword C Caeda 2 68 Paladin 26 8 0 12 22 18 12 6 Sword E, Lance C Jagen 4 23 Master 23 5 1 18 15 2 7 3 Sword B Draug 9 29 Fighter 27 8 0 7 13 4 4 0 Axe D Gordin 14 59 Curate 22 0 3 7 6 8 6 8 Staff C Wrys 6 64 Archer 18 5 2 8 8 5 6 0 Bow D Barst 13 9 Merc 27 10 0 16 16 9 9 0 Sword C Cord 10 35 DM 18 3 4 5 10 9 6 4 Tome C Darros 9 64 Knight 27 8 0 4 1 5 17 0 Lance C Lena 11 1 Pegasus 18 6 3 12 14 15 8 6 Lance C Roshea 6 54 Myrm 23 6 0 14 13 4 4 0 Sword D Vyland 8 87 Mage 21 0 5 4 6 4 2 5 Tome D Rickard 1 11 Thief Base Athena 1 0 Falcon 29 12 1 9 10 6 10 10 Sword C, Lance D Caesar 4 59 Pirate 23 6 0 1 9 6 6 0 Axe E Radd 3 29 Cav 21 7 0 1 7 4(2*) 9 0 Sword D, Lance E

Or you can import it, as I did. Alright, that's pretty much the same, isn't it? Arriving in ~1 month! I just hope that for the 3DS release, I don't have to import the 3DS...because I'm not going to do that.

Best: Unfulfilled Heart Worst: Escape! I'll nominate Most/Least Realistic FE character.

A magic user would be sweet, actually. Plus their 1-2 range gives them a reason why they can't obliterate you from across the stage, so it all works out (we all know how SSB hates ranged attacks). So I guess that leaves Lilina or Micaiah. Oh.

The European version apparently has a special gate that costs 1 movement for Marth, which allows him to seize one turn earlier than in other versions of the game.

If it's the same game, why would they release two versions of it? If anything, it would simply be an option within the game. One we can already exercise by choosing to exclusively use characters of our own choosing. If this really did happen (And it was actually two different storylines), then my decision would depend on a few of the design choices. If the female version had no cavaliers, fighters, mercenaries, or knights, I would get the male version. I would also expect that the female characters would have similar growths/caps as the male version of the game, even though typically females get a little screwed stat-wise.