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This probably says something bad about me, but... I like how the back of a Wolfssenger's shirt is hiked up just a tiny bit around where his tail sticks out. It's a really nice little detail.

Benny. He might be my favourite unit in the game.

5 enemies left on the Fuga's map in Conquest, and I decided it would be a great idea to give Felicia a bit of extra exp by healing a nearly full health unit. Ten seconds later she gets killed by a Spear Master because I somehow didn't realize that there was a bridge between the section she was on and the one the enemy was on. Also, I don't know if it counts, but leaving Ignatius' paralogue so late was a pretty big fail. The Master Ninjas that go after him are strong enough that they have 6% crit, so I just watch him die over and over again while missing 86% hits on them while trying to save him.

It gives you an extra visit point, makes them happy, and most importantly, you don't lose the accessory. There's really no reason not to do it. I think the only reason people aren't doing it is because they think they'll lose their accessory, but you don't, so, start gifting.

My guesses are: Ryoma: ~30 Xander: ~28 Camilla: ~26 Hinoka and Azura: ~21 Corrin: ~20 for the bigger build, ~17 for the smaller Sakura: ~14 Elise: ~13 Though, the younger siblings are definitely "technically" older. Also, am I the only one who things Ryoma's the older of the two older brothers? Everyone else seems to put Xander as the eldest.

Maybe it's more viable to switch them up on Normal, but on Conquest Hard I find that if someone isn't paired up they tend to get bodied by enemy dual strikes, and since everyone and their dog has either a shuriken or a Seal, units tend to fall pretty quickly no matter how tanky they are.

So, pretty much everyone had characters that they thought they liked or thought they'd use, or knew which characters were good and which were bad, but actually playing the game is a completely different story. So, did any characters surprise you, either gameplay-wise or even just personality-wise? For me, it was definitely Benny. Pre-English release, I remember people going on about how Generals were bad and that Effie was so good that there was no reason to use Benoit ever, but the guy's an absolute beast. His defence is so overkill high that even after being Defence Sealed, he still only gets hit for sub-10 damage, and his pair up bonuses are godly to boot. I paired him up with Dread Fighter Selena and they legitimately solo half of maps while the rest of my army takes care of the rest. Special mention goes to Ophelia because I was kind of ambivalent about her until I heard her voice and the fact that she's so softspoken while trying to shout ridiculous things just won me over immediately.

http://serenesforest.net/fire-emblem-fates/nohrian-characters/recruitment/ Kaze has a footnote marker that doesn't reference anything, leftover from the Birthright page

Branch of fate is a new game, but starting at Chapter 6 instead of the prologue. You can save it in a new slot and your old file will be fine. Explore Fates lets you buy the other routes. You can't choose a side in chapter 6 that you haven't bought; if you try to it just takes you to the store to buy it. When you buy another path, the game also gives you three more save slots, so there's literally no reason to download the other full game.

No, Corrin can buddy anybody of the same gender but nobody can ever buddy Corrin

It's more the fact that it didn't exist at all in the JP version. If they're adding in new weapons, they could change a bunch more things. Usable Revelations Odin plz

So, in that list of items, Mire is listed amongst the tomes, despite not being listed on the site. ...Did they actually give us another Dark tome?

I thought My Castle battles weren't supposed to give any EXP in Conquest, to prevent grinding. Or, is this something else?

I'm going to use a scroll on Selena, since I loved Severa in Awakening but have heard she's got some problems starting off this time around. I'll probably just hold on to the second one, though.

Camilla > Elise > Marx > Sakura > Leon > Takumi > Hinoka > Ryoma. From Marx to Takumi they're all pretty close, and Hinoka and Ryoma are both characters I don't really care about at all. Camilla and Elise soundly take spots one and two, though. I... really like obsession as a character trait, so Camilla's probably my favourite character in the game, as of now.

Honestly, most of them kind of suck, but, it doesn't really matter in the end anyway. Some of the names I'll get used to, some of them I'll reject forever and keep calling them by the Japanese name in my head, but it's not going to make me like a character any less, and I'm not going to go around after the English release calling them by their Japanese names and confusing everyone.

I haven't read a ton, but Odin x Kagerou is definitely my favourite of those I've seen. Odin is his usual eccentric self, Kagerou takes him completely seriously, and it somehow ends up being really sweet. http://serenesforest.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=54886&p=3887852

They could pull a Genealogy and have the male and female versions of the class be for all intents and purposes different yet similar classes. It wouldn't really be that much of a stretch.

I know that; it's just going to be a casual first time through playthrough. But like, characters with negative mods tend to have low growths, and so their kids won't have great growths even with a +Mag mom, which kind of wastes her.

So, for my first runthrough of Hoshido, I'm going to have a +Mag spellcaster Femui (who will eventually A+ Crimson into a magical Revenant Knight because I'm 12 and magical wyvern riders are my weakness), but I'm kind of at a loss as to who to pair her up with. The only one who'd really appreciate having her as a mother that I can see is Syalla, and, well, there's no way I'm marrying her off to Tsukuyomi, since he kind of sucks and I honestly don't really like him as a character. Deere and Mitama both have magical class sets, but they also both have -Mag mods from their parents. Other than that, I've heard things about Grey being decent, but he'd have to deal with E tomes. So, is there someone I'm missing, or is Hoshido just not very keen on magical Femui?

I figured as much. It's a shame, but it makes sense.

Can a parent get an A+ support with their child? Obviously this would be a waste of time in most situations, but in a few cases (Harold, Ryouma, and Midoriko's mom, off the top of my head), it yields a class the parent couldn't otherwise get via A+-ing. It just says on the site that they have to be the same gender, but I've never heard of anyone mentioning getting one with a parent-child pair.

Well, Muarim's my favourite unit in the series, so I'd be extremely biased and give it to him, but, he's also not even in the poll... Realistically, the Cats want it the most, especially Ranulf since he's great with no investment.

I was always a fan of Ismaire, even if she's not that great as a unit. Her whole sideways-facing portrait thing that she's got going on always struck me as uniquely appealing, too. Riev is probably the best of them as a unit due to the fact that Bishops are unquestionably the best class in the postgame, but it's hard to like him as a person.

My plan for Zero is to have him snag the ninja tree from Kamui and go puppeteer, which takes advantage of his bow rank and lets him have kunai for situational debuffs and eventual copycat puppet. But, it's not even in the poll, so, I guess bow knight, for the movement and bows, which I've heard are in high demand in Nohr.