ClLoulD

I laughed so hard at the china dinner plate joke I spat juice everywhere X D can't wait for endgame.

Chapter 1 Nolan was used for a few this chapter. Thanks leo...Thanks Fantastic growths! Nolan had to be used for this chapter Micaiah and Leo provided support Yeah Nolan you and your axe will blend in just fine It's in there manifesto Chapter 2 :F Micaiah the tank! A higher defence than Leonardo so she's tanking and almost a higher defence stat than Nolan actually... i'm caught in a trap...I can't get out... No strength gain but speed will do for now outta tombs for Micaiah now, I'm relying on Leonardo and Sothe till I get that thani tomb the sad thing is...she's probably going to turn out a better tank than meg... Breaking news! Leonardo doubled something! Leonardo making up for those crap first two level ups!

loving this series keep it up!

I would prefer dialogue instead but that's just me.

Chapter 1 AKA Micaiah Solo! Micaiah growths...(Yes I gave her the dracoshield) WAT! Can't complain Defence rose and that's about it... Chapters 2 and 3 next time im on a computer.

I liked RD more simply because BEXP abuse changed and a lot more variation but most of all swapping skills from one character to another!

You recruit a character in the map where you see Gatrie again and she/he has to talk to Gatrie in that same chapter otherwise he won't rejoin.

If you play for turns yeah sure I see your point but I do not. I was just pointing out that Ike's team really do not need Bexp as much as the DB's and so I find it much easier to raise Soren than Ilyana and that is the only reason I don't use her very much and not because of her speed. I think you would have to raise a lot more of the characters I said were not necessary if you were playing on hard mode yes, agreed but I don't think anyone has the nuts to train units like Ilyana meg and fiona on hard mode anyway. I was just saying that a lot of characters in Ike's team do not really need THAT much experience so it's pretty easy to get Soren to a much higher level than Ilyana. Edward and Zihark were mentioned because I know a few people only really like to train one trueblade (unless for turns of course) Gatrie IMO is only worth using in the early chapters and then he falls behind because of bad movement. Nolan seems to get better rounded stats (apart from strength) than Boyd does and although I use both I reavers if you are gonna pick just one than I think Nolan contributes more. Titania is almost third tier so does not need BEXP therefore it can go around to other units (such as Soren to force cap some of his other stats such as defence) and Oscar apart from his support relationship with Ike which is pretty great I find his low caps and IMO bad durability to be a hinderance at times and choose to not invest in him although you could argue that Meg has bad caps so why bother with her anyway. This is just my opinion anyway, I'm not saying it's the best or correct but I think you can be a bit more selective with Ike's group especially when units like Haar and Nephenee show up than you can with the Dawn Brigade so for those first 3 chapters I try to invest the most combat experience in the units I want to use in the long term is all. I might try a LTC challenge actually just to try it :)

Ilyana actually capped everything for me once, her speed issues are incredibly over exaggerated and the only reason why I choose not to use Ilyana is because the Dawn Brigade has units that need exp such as Jill/Nolan/Micaiah (I like training Micaiah if I can help it) and Ike's team really doesn't have that many candidates to sink BEXP into unless you want to so I usually use Soren. Titania is amost a third-tier when you get her Boyd will probably be over-shadowed by Nolan Oscar is just a weaker Titania Rolf is just a weaker Shinon Shinon doesn't need a lot of exp and will promote if you just use him Gatrie isn't worth using Ike has a ton of time before he gets his promotion Rhys is just a weaker Soren Mist isn't worth using Mia is worth using as long as you havn't already decided to raise Edward or Zihark If I were to use Ilyana though she has great potential and her availability is second to none. Ilyana also has the exclusive use of using the Rexbolt tomb which comes in really useful in the Endgame chapters and if you still have a problem with her then just use her PoR transfers. There is really nothing to seperate Ilyana and Soren from I think it just comes down to whether or not you chose to use Ilyana in part 1 or not and there is more than enough experience to go around in part 3 so much that you can actually train a couple of units you don't even need to without harming the experience of those units you want to bring into endgame even on normal mode. That's just my opinion on Ilyana anyhow and that's coming from someone who prefers to use Soren.

Havn't been on a computer in awhile because of work etc, editted slots and 4 are left!

*lands at feet* *Throws what is thought to be Stefan but is actually Homasa*

I was thinking of doing a PMU but decided against it because I find it a bit too easy at times (even on Normal Mode) so I figured I should "Change it up a bit" and have a "Kill my units" Basically you select a character and as soon as the game "Allows" them to die without a game over screen I have to kill them (of course they are not allowed to inflict a single point of damage unless for example I have to kill titania off before I can remove counter or in the process of killing of certain Laguz characters they inflict damage) anyway, I am hoping this will be a bit more challenging and interested to see what characters you guys want me to kill off and also forces me to use and train characters I may not want to simply because there is no one else to use. Rules: I will be using: Micaiah, Sothe, Sanaki, Kurthnaga, Ena, Ike and the Herons. Edward, Leonardo, Nolan, Elincia, Lucia, Geoffery and Volug will also be used until they are no longer forced. I must have at least one unit in each chapter (excluding the units in Rule 1) I will be using Normal Mode as a difficulty 1 Haar (ClLoulD 2 Vika (Inspector closeau) 3 Marcia (13th) 4 Soren (Apolu) 5 Edward (Loocy) 6 Jill (Jedi) 7 Nolan (Jack SBarrow) 8 Oscar (Ice Sage) 9 Mia (Dio) 10 Makalov (Silith) 11 Titania (Hawk King) 12 Shinon (Zeemm) 13 (Ninja Monkey) Haar is already dead :) Tibarn (ClLoulD) 14 Naesal (Silith) 15 Renning (Whase) 16 Mist (Blaised) 17 Nephenee (Inspector closeau) 18 Rhys (Quick) 19 Elincia (Liquid Snake) 20 Skrimer (ClLoulD) I've filled in the blank spots and tried to make it as hard as possible, challenge starts now :)

If i'm not too late, Shinon.

There is also this to consider. Would it be at all different on the european version or not?

Start 3 files with (One easy, Normal and Hard) with your FE9 Data and then save them all at Prologue then use the remaining 3 files for your actual game play. This way you have FE9 Bonuses for each playthrough on every difficulty setting as long as you don't overwrite.

What levels would you expect Tanith + Marcia to be at that period? Also, would Marcia's strength be a problem or not?

You've gone wrong somewhere there, she starts with 10 str as a level 3 armour knight.

I've used Meg many times even once on NM and on NM she was actually pretty decent, but at the expense of my other units that could of used that BEXP to force her growths like Jill or Nolan. I choose not to use meg not because of her portrait or her stats or her slow movement (because that could be fixed by celerity quite easily) but because she is Sword locked and she will get destroyed in the first couple of chapters without a decent forge.

Yes but most likely niether Gatrie nor nephenee is going to reach that before the rest of your group so that's not really a problem especially when you have access to the likes of Tibarn and Caineghis.

Laura is one of those units that is there to make the DB chapters a bit easier. If I or anyone else wanted a saint/bishop I'm sure we would all just go for Rhys (or oliver lol) likewise if you wanted an archer you would decide to use Shinon over Leonardo. Laura is relatively useful for the chapters that she is in but not much more.

Every character is 20/20 and most of them have capped stats and at least half of those characters have 3+ stats capped and obviously this is INFINITE BEXP and growth band abuse. If you don't want to use that file there is another epliogue file at the bottom you can use but that was without any growth bands and tons of resets so the Caps on each character isn't as great as the top file. https://rapidshare.com/files/1980678422/MemoryCardA.EUR.raw https://rapidshare.com/files/1295050444/MemoryCardA.USA.raw https://rapidshare.com/files/2929842614/SRAM.raw not sure which one has the data (probably the EUR.raw one seeing as I have a PAL version FE9) just copy it into your GC folder on Dolphin.

Or just have a Tanith with capped speed in a PoR File. Nephenee shows the most use to me by using the impale skill but seen as how after you get the wishblade she really isn't going to be using it on anything at all because of all the enemies with "Nihil" equipped, and I don't thing Impale works on a 1-2 range either? I could be wrong though.

You realise if it doesn't work you just return it...Right? Unless the seller states in the description that it isn't working.

Brom might be slightly better for a few chapters but I don't think it's worth going through the trouble to make him a 20/20 unit for only a few chapters that he's really worth using. I can't see Brom being good for long term just because there are faster, better axe users out there such as Nolan, jill, haar and heck even Boyd IMO.

Agreed 10000%. Last time I did a NM run she struggled a lot until she hit lancer status and it wasn't because I was being a bad tactician I just thought she would be able to handle 3 enemies.