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    Fire Emblem Cipher - Rules and Q&A

    in Fire Emblem TCG

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    Hmm... From what I've deduced Cipher are 67×92mm in size, while Magic and Pokémon is 63×88mm if my memory serves me right. The information for the Cipher cards could be wrong though, so I'd appreciate it if someone who has already obtained some cards could measure them. ;p

    I compared my 2 cipher cards to my mtg cards and they are the exact same size.

    I just got my Special Edition Fire Emblem if and New 3DS in the mail

    in Fire Emblem Fates

    Posted

    ...That's a Marth card, not Chrom. Do you have the first edition Lucina card btw? I have that one, but I don't remember if it comes with the Special Edition package.

    And 19580 JPY?? Holy crap. Even with all three routes and shipping costs, it should be around 9k... Where did the rest of that go?

    Right. I seem to have made a mistake in my excitement. Lucina card was behind it; I didn't notice until you said that, then I remembered it seemed extra thick.

    Fire Emblem Cipher - Rules and Q&A

    in Fire Emblem TCG

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    2) Yes, the card will say “Unpromoted” or “Promoted” on it. If the cost is 4/3, you can promote the character by putting the Promoted unit on top of the unit and paying the 3 cost. You also draw a card as a bonus for promoting units. If you don’t have the unpromoted unit, you pay the 4 cost. I think once a unit is upgraded you can't play another promoted unit on top of it (e.g. to change the ability), but I'm not sure. It doesn't say on the website, but I think the idea is that once a character is promoted you can't stack more on it.

    When I was reading the rules back when I started this topic it seemed like you could play a promoted card on top of a different promoted card by paying the promotion cost and it would be called "class change" and work the same as promotion.

    Known Information (2nd June)

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    Yes! more information! is there anybody who understands Japanese that can tell if there's anything new?

    well, this is what he says about each of the two games (~2:02-2:15):

    hoshido story: fight back against the nohr invasion.

    nohr story: prevent intrigue/conspiracy (probably rebellion) from within. higher difficulty.

    stuff we pretty much already knew, but it's confirmed.

    there's a scene of Aqua using a lance to attack at about 3:16.

    pair up and dual guard are explained, but that's already in the front page articles.

    as we already knew, Kamui isn't the only one with a skill (dragon's vein) that affects the battlefield. other royals have skills and Camilla is shown using some sort of fire move that turns the river to steam (presumably so that your allies can walk across it). you can also see male Kamui using some sort of ice-based skill on an object which freezes a small pond or lake on the map at 6:34.

    there are over 60 characters that can be recruited into your army.

    [spoiler=male kamui can bathe with ryouma] 7iQQIhx.png

    Known Information (2nd June)

    in Fire Emblem Fates

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    Well, it's definitely confirmed that Tsubaki is a man now.

    On the characters page of the FE:if official site it shows the Hoshido side, the Nohr side and at the bottom it has Hoshido and Nohr common characters. We already knew they were recruitable in both routes, but now when any new characters are added we'll know which route(s) they're in.

    Fire Emblem Cipher - Rules and Q&A

    in Fire Emblem TCG

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    Some stuff I gleaned quickly from that new page:

    • A Lord has to be 1-cost

    • A deck is exactly 50 cards (probably including the Lord, but not definite)

    • A deck can have up to 4 cards with the same card name (e.g. you can have 4 Lodestar Marth and 4 Great Lord Marth, not 4 total of every card featuring Marth).

    You can download the playsheet from the fe cipher website: PDF ZIP

    There's a ton more information on that page but unfortunately I don't have the time to translate it. I see now, aubergine, that you said you would do it, so I'll leave it to you.

    Fire Emblem Cipher - Rules and Q&A

    in Fire Emblem TCG

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    This is gonna be a tad awkward for me, but I have some concerns about the wiki that I feel haven't been discussed yet and I also feel they should be.

    For translations (since we need to agree on universal terminology here, so as to limit confusion), do we go with fan translations or Nintendo translations? After all, for them, it's "Navarre", not "Nabarl". Do we go with "Lord" or "Main Character"? "Brand" or "Shepherds"?

    And what of the effects themselves? By this, I mean, a universal way to phrase them. Do we go casual and make it sound like how an actual person would phrase how it works, or do we go technical to limit ruling confusion (aka "idiot-proofing")? And even after that, there are multiple ways to go about that, as well, seeing as YGO and CFV take different approaches to that.

    And then there are the affinities. One can easily go "just list every card with that affinity on its respective page", but right off the bat, male and female will have really long lists. And that isn't even going into how many sword wielders there is going to eventually be. Do we just do separate pages for each series with each affinity (despite series mixing being possible)?

    Thank you for your time and all that.

    I agree with aubergine, we should use Nintendo Official translations as much as possible, and that's a good observation that "Lord" can be confusing since we're not sure if it has to be a Lord class. User-friendly and idiot-proof are good general policies.

    As for the affinities/genders/weapons, we can use the built-in categories function like on Wikipedia, you go to the bottom of the page and it lists the categories, and you can click a category and it will list every page in that category.

    Famitsu 21st May Digital Issue Out Now

    in Fire Emblem Fates

    Posted

    You can see her weapon here, the image is a bit small though.

    That looks more like a short sword or a long dagger, but in the other screenshot it's clearly been thrown (and from what we've heard they're 1-2 range weapons).

    I came across the kijin thing, too, and I wonder if it's a pun on 鬼神 (kijin or more commonly kishin), which are fierce gods--not oni-gods, but rather gods that are as destructive/wrathful as oni. Along those lines, kijin would presumably be fierce people.

    Oh, cool. I looked into this a little more and 鬼神 are "monsters" that are invisible to normal people and are the spirits of the deceased who have been given superhuman abilities. The word also has many other meanings in Chinese, which is where it comes to Japanese from, but it's really only the "monster"/bakemono/youkai meaning that exists in Japanese. source

    Famitsu 21st May Digital Issue Out Now

    in Fire Emblem Fates

    Posted

    Two thoughts:

    • Since they are analogous to the shurikens, might these "Hidden Weapons" just be throwing knives or kunai (which is a more ninja-y throwing knife)? Have we seen any pictures of them yet?

    • It seems we're calling Rinka/Linca's class "Oni," but the knaji for her class is 鬼人. Only the first kanji is pronounced Oni. The two together don't have a meaning or pronunciation, but there is a character (from Touhou) named 鬼人 which is pronounced Kijin. The first kanji means Demon and the second means Person. That can be a specific type of Japanese demon or just a demon/monster in general, but usually the specific type. Her necklace of large, round beads and her horned headdress both reflect the imagery of the Oni in Japanese culture. Based on the class name, I wonder if she is supposed to be half-human, half-oni or something like that. Or perhaps it's some sort of berserker-type class.

    Fire Emblem Cipher - Rules and Q&A

    in Fire Emblem TCG

    Posted

    For card games, wording is really important. It's the reason why there's weird issues in games like Yu-Gi-Oh!, where "sent to the graveyard" doesn't trigger effects that require the card to be destroyed, etc.

    It definitely is, that's why I tried to establish some terms in the first post so we wouldn't have to guess which things are the same as each other and what stuff means.

    One suggestion; perhaps it wouldn't hurt to add the Attacking power and Supporting power of each card along with skills, range, etc.?

    Might as well add cost and promotion cost and get all the information in one place; it'll make it easier to transfer everything to the wiki once it's back.

    Thank you so much, Aubergine, for all the work you've done on this. And everyone else as well, I don't mean to exclude anyone, but the amount of effort Aubergine's put into the translations is just fantastic.

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