ARMADS!!!

Does the first image of this page serves? https://fireemblem.fandom.com/wiki/Archanea There's this one too, that also festures Valentia:

Yeah, if you made the thread cause you're looking for recommendations, you're better off trying Tear Ring Saga (I guess Berwick Saga and Vestaria Saga too but I don't know enough about these to say anything) and ROM Hacks. These have the tiles/grids, chatacters with personality, permadeath, hability to calculate exactly how much damage you're taking or inflicting, no grinding, class changes like in FE, etc. If you opt for Tear Ring Saga, beware of certain things like that it doesn't have weapon triangle, look up the calculations here on SF (like how AS, crit chance, etc, works), beware that your weapons might become cursed after reaching 100 kills, maybe you'll wanna look for a guide for the route split to get as many special scenes and items as possible, etc, etc. But the difference in mechanics (like route split, calcualtions, no weapon triangle,...) Is really on par on how the mechanics are different between the games of the FE series anyway so nothing to worry about.

Yeah, the creator went on to do his own series and it's very similar to FE, the games are Tear Ring Saga, Berwick Saga and Vestaria Saga. Also, I've been hearing about Unicorn Overload a lot here on the forums, as far as I could tell it's one of these too. And, apart from the examples that Imuabicus der Fertige gave, well, I'm not sure if you're looking for lookalike games just because you're curious or cause you wanna play them, but if it is for playing then there's a LOAD of FE fan games that naturally are on the tone of the series, a bunch are pretty popular among the fandom, even.

I agree with Jotari that they're wildly variable in quality. Buy yes, some do look a bit goofy and I think it's generally because they have sort of a baby face (large chin/round head+ very tiny mouth), sometimes characters that smile on the portrait have the mouth be too close to the nose (that is only a tiny spot for a lot of them) and some have different that looks a bit goofy on the eyes part too (like the eyes to close to one another, very long eyebrows,...). I don't think they're bad ("goofy" really is the right word for some), I like how they use a lot of different angles and how even back then, the characters used to have different facial expressions on the portraits (though, speaking if the angles, maybe it'd have been easier to make them look prettier if everyone had a standard angle like on the later games, idk, but I think the objective was to make them more reconizable- since there were so many characters- not prettier anyway).

For me, it's a tie between (or rather, my preference periodically changes between) FE5, BSFE, the gamecube ones, and the OCs of FEH (mainly the ones drawn by Kozaki Yusuke, Idk why but I find Kozaki's characters to look way better on feh than they do on Awakening or Fates, probably it's the character design, i don't know...). I'm also a sucker for the GBA ones, they look so different from one another, SoV is very pretty too (though I like the ones I said first better). I'm talking only about the portraits, if I have to consider official art and the like then it's harder. In terms of battle animation and sprites, it's definitly the GBA ones by a mile.

I heard about it a lot too, guess it was supposed to be viewable from where I am (Portugal) but I didn't see it, I ended up forgetting + my sleep schedule is horrible so I was sleeping when it happened too. After it happened, I asked my mother if she saw it and she said she tried but couldn't (don't remember if it was because the sun wasn't visible from where she was or if it just wasn't too intense from here or what, but alas). I never saw an eclipse before, it'd have been nice if I hadn't forgotten but at the same time I don't care about this too much so it's not like it's some major regret that will keep me up at night too. At the same time, I don't think I have good sunglasses at home so maybe it'd have been better to not keep staring at the sun even if I had remembered it, gotta prepare myself better for the next one I guess. When I was a kid I was obssessed with the idea of seeing an eclipse (and two or three years ago I had phase were I was very on par with astronomical events so I'd probably have freaked out over this then too), now I still want to see one someday but not enough to miss a day at work for, neither to go somewhere else that is not very close on foot to my house (unless if a friend of mine decided to make an event out of it and invited me to go see it somewhere, still would very likely not miss work for it, but would be up to go to another place to see it).

What the hell? FALLEN WRYS EXISTS?! Maybe I'm being delusional now but with all of the cool premium staff units we've been getting now, I think that he has a chance of being on a fallen banner (though Lena, Nyna and Elice have way more chance than him as a staff unit from Archanea for the fallen banner, I'll choose to be delusional for a bit). From now on I'll be disappointed on the fallen banner each year that Wrys doesn't appear on it (also it'd be specially neat if Daisuke Izuka -the guy that drew the feh arts for Medeus, Formortiis, Fallen Hardin, Validar, Ashnard, Resplendent Surtr, etc (I wouldn't be surprised if he was the one to have drawn this fallen Wrys art from cipher too)- was to make his art for Heroes). I find it hella weird that some of these characters never got a card, I thought most people liked Harken better than Karel so it's odd that Karel has a card and Harken doesn't, Dart too is someone I always thought was popular enough, and Zeiss too (I mean, he's even required to be recruited and alive for most of the game for you to get the true ending!). Also surprised by the most obvious ones you mentioned like Duessel, Freyja, Duma and actual older Hector. Do they release the decks/packs/whatever they're called by characters that are associated with each others or the lineups are random? (Just asking cause I noticed the absence of both Harken and Isadora and wonder if it's because they were probably gonna be released together if Cipher hadn't been discontinued, or if it's just coincidence). Also, seems like FE7's Fire dragon doesn't have one which is sorta understandable since fire dragons are just generic enemies in FE6 but also a bit weird since it's the final boss of FE7, I still wanted he to have one just because he's not votable for CYL. Also, I love the idea of having Sanaki with both Alondite and Ragnell, there's a card where Lilina wields Armads and it's likely one of my favorite ideas from Cipher (and I've been waiting for it to be used for her Ascended/Rearmed since the concept came up).

I know, but it still feels like they like to avoid characters with actual kid designs for child banners, not that I think it's definitively on purpouse or some sort of conspiration or anything, probably just a weird coincidence. The Awakening kids are the only ones that have canon child designs and were festured on the child banner until now, right? That might mean they're starting to do it from now on (even though they started with the ones that have child designs that are concept art only), not that I want every child banner to be about the characters that have canon child designs (my most desired title for this banner is likely Heroes so) it's just weird that they had never done it before (until now, sorta) and each year it feels more and more like they're avoiding it. Oh, it was you then! I saw the part where you guessed the whole lineup just before coming to this thread yesterday but didn't relemember ir had been you to also make the comment about Titania and Seth. Btw, pretty nice guess, and I wouldn't have thought that Lissa would've been chosen as the demote over Emmeryn too that would have been hard to guess right (speaking of this, they seem to like repeating demotes, they repeated one or two characters on sort of recent past seasonals and now did ir again with Lissa, maybe I'm confusing it and it's TT units though, or both, I'll check it later to refresh my memory). Yeah, and at this point attack stacking is mattering less too with these skills and weapons that inflict unavoidable damage at start of combat or every other weapon inflicting extra damage based on a % of whatever stat. The ones that suffer the most are Def and Res I think, since most good tanks have so much DR now that it doesn't matter too much with you target, so much that Hexblade is definitly becoming a basic bitch effect that they throw on demotes/TT units and refines when they don't know what to give them, danm we even get it as a thing that some units can easily concede to a bunch of allies at once (like one recent define I forgot who was, and now Jorge's refine too) while some 2 years ago only a handful of units had it. The stats mainly only visibly matter for checks to trigger some effect on specific weapons now lol (like if you need your res to be higher than foe's to do something like Ninja Camilla's weapon).

Roy and Lilina also have kid designs that keep getting skipped and that pisses me off a bit, but SoV likely pisses me off more cause it's so obvious! I wonder if they'll even make the Ram village kids full the whole banner when it comes, since the only girls are Faye and Celica, think they might want to throw Mae, Genny and/or Silque instead of one or two of the boys. Would be really curious to see who'd be the duo too, since Alm+Celica was already used. Oh yeah, and Dimitri and Edelgard have kid designs too, they keep skipping the ones that have it (not that I wanted another crazy Edelgard just now but anyway). Say that to baby Est.

Oh, cool, I haven't even noticed that. Can't believe they didn't do it before but in any case, it's better late than never.

Fallen Julia has been one of my MVPs until at least the end of book V (and I still use her a lot of times), so it's awesome that she's getting such a good refine! Also, great that there's some justification on spending orbs to try to get Bridal Nailah now, I've always wanted her but after each year it feels like I'll be wasting orbs because I only wanted her cause I like her art and character anyway (and I'm not too much into building units so I'd be using her with her base kit or ay least no premium skill inherited from anyone), but now the refine totally justifies it!

Most boring lineup they could possibly do with Awakening. Also, I agree with whoever was it that said on the Pre Banner Discussion thread that it's a bit of a shame that Frederick makes it into the banner while Titania and Seth didn't on the previous years. At first sight, I thought that the Duo inflicted Hush Spectrum on itself and I was hella interested to know why or how the unit would potentially use it to it's own benefit or as trade off for something better (I love when they do this sort of thing, like Emblem Ike, Summer Ephraim, Urvan's refine, Haar's prf, how Julius's weapon treats him as if he was a dragon, etc...) but then I realizei I had just misread it and that it's the foe that gets Hush Spectrum and became less interested. The units are alright and all not but nothing struck me as particularly interesting (or at least not enough for me to spend orbs on it, not even Emmeryn, and I tend to be a sucker for these new Prf staves), + I don't care about the characters so definitively a skip. Also, not sure how popular or unpopular this opinion is but it I detest when they put both genders of the same avatar on the same banner (if it's on the same year I mean, if they did something like fallen male Byleth now it wouldn't annoy me), it pretty much takes a slot and makes the lineup more boring than it'd have been otherwise, pisses me off specially more on banners that they don't repeat for the same title (like Valentines or child banners) because then it's a slot that was even more wasted for the same character. Didn't notice this lol, but yeah that was fast. I reckon they tend to take a bit longer to release counters than that (right? Or am I missing something?), makes me worry a bit that the powercreep might start to happen even faster and that the meta might move even faster. Although maybe it's better to have the stronger units be dehtroned fast than to have another Fallen Edelgard/Brave Edelgard situation.

Oh lol, of course. I always forget!

The video you linked is to a smash bros video and I can't find anything about "Fire Emblem: Sins of Thousand Year War" either, is this a troll post or some joke I didn't get or you just put the wrong link? Well, if it's serious, I'm pretty curious to know how it'll turn out (and even though I'm happy and hopeful about it being a new title, I gotta admit I'm a bit bummed it's not a remake...). Hopefully it won't have any aspect of Dating Sims but I'm not sure we can count on that.

Throught a sorta quick search I couldn't find it, maybe it's some concept art or as you said, a fanart. Do you have the image? Lol, really though... And the art could've been so sick if she didn't look like a kid cause the cape and the colors were great, what a waste. When we get actual kid Lucina, I'll refer to her as kid Lucina 2, so no one will confuse it with the kid Lucina we already have (AKA Resplendent Lucina).