I just finished my PoR playthrought (which was my first fire emblem btw) , and, well, I am asking for advices on this one, since, apparently, this game is way harder.
How does strategies play out in easy mode? Cause in PoR... Well I had none during mostly the whole game.
Same thing for grinding. At some point in PoR, I actually reset the whole thing because I saw that some of my units were underleveled. And also I realised that you can actually recruit some ennemies (thanks internet). That's how I got one of my most useful units, Jill. In other words I'm bad at recruiting and getting a group of units all on the same level. At least, at the beginning, there were fewer hnits to focus on. Also, thanks internet again, Oscar, turned out to be wholy useful after promoting (and by useful, I mean I cleared a lot of stages only using him and, if necessary, "bait" units). Endgame turned out to be a representation of my playthrought: used Ike and Giffra (or whatever is his name?) on the central way, Jill on the left (supported by mist with physic) and Oscar on the right, with no supports (Sol is broken boyz). Also, I never actually gave anyone a skill, because I haven't found a lot of them actually (stupid me not opening chests), except AETHER(!) and Sol. And all of that because of me reading characters review. The problem is, I don't want to spend time on a in-the-end-useless character. Characters that ended up like that on my playthrought were probably Boyd and (surprisingly) Titania (she was still in my top 5 in the end, tho, which tells you that all my other characters, excluding Ike, Jill, (even Boyd) were underleveled (idk lvl 10 on endgame is awful). (I don't know if it was me being stupid, but when Oscar reached the same level as her, he was already more useful, excluding (I think) any skills, like Sol, and that made him even more broken)
Also, are there any forced units at some point that I should level up? (the only one that made me mad in PoR was being forced to use Mist on the black knight stage, and I knew you'd be forced to use Mist, and that's why I used here on the first place)
Now, I get that I should use less units than the maximum, I actually knew that since a long time, but mostly never applied it because of level up needed on some characters. It's my main concern with this game, since I'd like to keep people leveled up, but for them tobe useful in the end. Also me not recognising that characters can be recruited, but I'll probably just check the wiki for that.
(Also, is it true that, for difficulties, the japanese normal, hard and maniac became easy, normal and hard on NTSC/PAL?)
I don't know, if this changes anything, too, but, in PoR, when acharacter died, I basically always treated it like a game over (I know it's not, It's just me) and restarted the chapter. Would it be harder if I did this in this game too?