Bobeque

I guess I haven't really introduced myself. I've made a thread and posted a reply but hey, whats up heh. You can call me by my name to the left. I was wondering seeing as this is a Fire Emblem forum what other tactical games you guys can recommend. Here's a few free to play games I like. I've been playing off and on Tactics Arena Online with occasionally my moments but I will admit... for as much as I play these types of games, I'm pretty bad. I usually end up repeating Fire Emblem chapters 20 times until I get them just the way I want. Anyway, Tactics is a turn based game between two players. Only one unit moves at a time and depending on if they attack or move, each unit has a cooldown before they can be used again. One fortunate thing is that the Cleric doesn't have to be adjacent to anyone to heal them unlike Fire Emblem. They just stand back and be defended. If that doesn't peak your interest, there's Battle Dex. I haven't played this nearly as much as I've played Tactics. In this game everyone moves at once, including your opponent. In this way, there are two phases essentially. A command phase (tell em what you want em to do) and a simulation phase (where it all happens at once). This I imagine makes it more fun because there is no waiting for your opponent to make his move. I've only done maybe 2 online games that were not just my brother. You can pay for better decks of cards to battle with others but there is a mode where you can both fight with a random deck so no monies needed. There is a pretty nice tutorial to all of this that still allows for plenty experimentation to make learning this as easy and fun as possible. The voice work is pretty silly.

I guess I'm the odd one here when I say Erk. Canas is too heavy and doesn't drop doubles as often. Lucius is too powerful for his own good and tends to get himself killed from an onslaught on an enemy phase. Erk is the balanced decision. He doesn't have the weaknesses the other two have but he also doesn't have any major strengths to him. All in all, any decision is sound.

Interesting... The thief in Ch 11 always just attacks me. Maybe cause I import a Lvl 20 Matthew though. He could just be like, ah fuck this! Unless there's some sort of way I can get him to steal from me, he'll only steal from Hector. Also, hi! I'm new too.

For my next run, I still plan to try and max out experience again. At least now I'll have an epilogue save if I can't stand spamming A, up, A anymore. This time, I'm not going for just any ol support I find. I've planned this out and tried to give priority to units that don't come pre-promoted. Every standard unit will at least have an A rank support with only Legault who will be missing his B support (that is to say, his B rank is just a pre-promote). Priority is also given to have un-promoted units support each other. This was the result. I've mapped out when each support will be available. It just makes it that much easier for me when I finally run this thing. Feel free to use it if you like. The initial after each name is what weapon they will S-Rank. If there's multiple initials, I'm undecided but I'll shoot for their alternate weapons if possible. I try to make sure that any link arena team I make after this will have a diversity of weapons. Obviously it won't happen every time with supports like Guy and Matthew, but it's the best I could do. M means magic. Oh, and I think it's badass having lords master their alternate weapons. I had a team back when my data was mysteriously deleted (like... everything! It was like it was a brand new cardridge!). It had the lords, Dart, and Athos. Every S rank weapon and Prf weapon was in it. Lyn had Mani Kati, Sol Kati, Reinfleche, and Brave Bow. Eliwood had Rapier, Durandal, Rex Hasta, and Brave Lance. Etc, etc. Athos had his hands pretty full as you can imagine. Surprisingly, his best weapon is Luna for link arena. All his power plus negating resistance does some devasting effects apparently. Every unit was level 20. This team was completely unstoppable! I remember Eliwood was pretty squishy though. I want to try and get this team back but I already ruined my last run. Ch 12 A Rank: Matthew S - Serra M Dorcas B - Oswin L/A Lowen S/A - Rebecca B B Rank: Bartre A - Dorcas B Eliwood L - Lowen S/A Hector S - Oswin L/A CH 13 B Rank: Guy S - Matthew S CH 14 A Rank: Erk M - Priscilla M Marcus S/L/A - Merlinus N/A B Rank: Erk M - Serra M Ch 16 A Rank: Eliwood L - Lyn B B Rank: Rebecca B - Sain S Ch 17 A Rank: Lucius M - Raven S/A B Rank: Raven S/A Wil B Lucius M - Priscilla M Ch 17x A Rank: Bartre A - Canas M CH 19 A Rank: Dart A - Wil B Fiora L - Sain S B Rank: Fiora L - Florina S CH 22 A Rank: Heath L - Legault S Guy S - Rath S B Rank: Heath L - Kent A Lyn B - Rath S CH 23 A Rank: Hawkeye A - Ninian N/A CH 24 A Rank: Kent A - Wallace L CH 25 A Rank: Farina L - Hector S B Rank: Dart A - Farina L CH 26 A Rank: Louise B - Pent M B Rank: Hawkeye A - Pent M CH 27 A Rank: Harken S/A - Isadora S/L/A B Rank: Harken S/A - Marcus S/L/A Ch 28 A Rank: Florina S - Nino M B Rank: Canas M - Nino M Ch 28x B Rank: Jaffar S - Legault S CH 29 B Rank: Vaida S - Wallace L CH 31x A Rank: Karla S - Vaida S CH 32 Isadora S/L/A - Renault M

Due to OCD, sleep deprivation, and excitement, I killed her way too early. It's easy to do to any boss when you're mashing buttons and lose track of numbers, even her. Don't get me wrong, she's been the best boss to bash up. Overpowered health, capped defense and resistance and whatnot, but really... REALLY, am not looking forward to going through this battle again. So, I'm not. I didn't get Hector trained, but that's fine. I don't like the supports in this run and I've already mapped out the supports I want for my next run. I'll at least finish the final chapter. I've come too far not to. Plus, it's great to have a final chapter save to burn off some steam if I get myself stuck on a chapter again. I just want to say using these characters, at this level (mostly starting level 1s), versus these enemies, has been one of the most challenging fights I've ever done. Some of the early HHM stuff is pretty intense before you level up, don't get me wrong, but this just seems that much more intense because of number of units on screen, including yours.

I've done it!!! Well pretty much anyway. Details soon. I still need to wipe out about 15 units and break Limstella's Fimbulvetr. Until then, I reek so I'll take care of that first... I also need to eat... Lowen would be disappointed.

That's right. I might have been misleading when I said I used RNG to pass my first few turns. Basically all I meant by that was I knew the exact moves to have specific unit deal criticals when I wanted them. It's extremely critical for killing the Nomadic Troopers that spawn beyond the northern bridge. I didn't memorize any code. I'm doing this on the GBA, not on PC or anything like that. As far as maximum stat growth, I'm not sure that's possible. I don't have save states like someone mentioned. I do have some damn good stats though. Lyn has capped HP, STR, SKL, and SPD naturally... with the help of the Angellic Robe and Energy Ring from her story. Everyone you don't see in this chapter has maxxed out experience with promotion. Nino was given Afa's Drops making her the ultimate Sage. I tested, there's just no competition. I'm not sure who would win once I get Athos. It'll be exciting. Ultimately what keeps killing me is random hiccups, but I have my execution down. In my last attempt, Heath even reached the center village without even taking damage. I know someone suggested that I just avoid the center village but it saves my restore when I do take down the Bishop there.

I thought I'd throw this up here early before completing. I'm already going to move forward regardless what the poll says but was just curious what you guys think of this. It's a project literally years in the making. I wanted to see if it's possible... to... gain maximum experience and promotions in FE7 on HHM. And well... it is. Obviously the arena being the funnest, fastest, and most convenient, it doesn't cover everyone though. Any speedy character can jump on a mountain unarmed and "lol" at bandits to gain experience (that one's brutal). Heavy characters can when they're ready disarm and meatshield themselves for a couple extra levels until the enemy's weapon breaks. And of course, you can abuse bosses. Abusing bosses becomes a non-issue as far as funds are concerned after your first arena, obviously. Okay so... why, you might ask? For the ULTIMATE chapter to pull link arena teams from, of course. It will have every character, fully powered, with supports, and S rank weapons. However, this run has not been perfect. I didn't recruit Harken/Karel just cause it wasn't in the cards for me at the time to do so. Too many weak units needed supports. I figured it wouldn't be a problem until I discovered there were no more Brave Swords (that I know of) beyond that point. This is sad, because it means I won't have every brave weapon for every class of unit. I'm going to get it next time, but for now, I'd like to see what I've been dealing with for the past 2 weeks I end up having to walk away from in fury. It's down to Victory or Death. This might provide some context. I intend to abuse Limstella which means no extra chapter. This is the last chapter before everyone will be maxxed out. Don't worry, they're all at least promoted with the exception of Legault who will be once I actually get to that shop behind Limstella. So far, my strategy has been to split my team into 2 instead of 3, ignoring the middle path. Going north, I have a Lvl 1 Heath, Lvl 5 Hector, Lvl 1 Lowen, Lvl 4 Isadora, Lvl 1 Marcus, Lvl 3 Geitz, Lvl 1 Lucius, Lvl 20 Nils, Lvl 20 Legault (unpromoted), and Lvl 7 Merlinus. Going east, taking lead is a Lvl 11 Sain doing a decent job trucking along, but behind him is, lvl 5 Karla, Lvl 1 Canas, and Lvl 13 Jaffar. There is only 1 fully powered unit in this chapter since there's just no room anymore; Lyn. She's going east with the truck to help protect the fragile Karla. Thanks to some RNG abuse, I know what I need to do to survive the first few turns with the maximum level of carnage needed to reach each village. To get to the center village, I stand just at the edge of the Bishops berserk range there, let him hit me, restore it, and charge in guns blazing with Heath. There's a chance he doesn't make it... That's just the beginning. Every now and then, I don't even get this far as Karla turns into a puff of mist. The mist smells good, at least. If my north group reaches the top map, I usually have them sit on the adds spawn points as... I just really don't want to deal with that crap, but what keeps killing me is the ballistas. I pretty much have it figured out beyond that but, Lucius is best for the charging shamans coming from the bridge there. Which is a problem............ cause there's ballistas there. If I can get the ballistas figured out and the eastern group doesn't keep running random problems, I think I'll finally be able to reach Limstella and kick the living shit out of her with these weaklings. Legault and Jaffar get trained last since what they fight tend to explode. If they insta-kill her, I'm moving on. Alright! Wish me luck!