New Hard mode efficient playthrough

[Narga_Rocks]

Why is Soren/Ike not getting going until 3-4 or 3-5? They only need 5 adjacents by 3-2 in order to get C there, which isn't hard. I know I couldn't get Ike/Mia up to a C by that point, but that's 8 adjacents. And 5 adjacents in 3-2 and 3-3 get them B, but that's iffy since the chapters are shorter.

I'm not sure why Soren/Ike is somehow slower than other supports, either. It's faster than everyone but Mist, Boyd, Titania and Oscar.

Heather is a joke. She joins later and wants to be off running errands and stealing stuff instead of fighting and needs more adjacents. 8 in two chatpers for a level instead of 5, and no option to early crown and heal. Ike's hit is fine, and I'd rather have +8 avoid than +8hit when he has 100 display or close to it on most enemies. He's durable, sure, but mages are always a concern.

(Now, obviously the horse has bolted and QE shouldn't try to train Soren or get him an Ike support, but Soren/Ike is not an awful idea in general, assuming you're already committing the mistake of using his slow ass.)

The entire problem is that she's already at 3-5 (hence my numbers: C now, B in 3-8, A in 3-11).

soren x ike is a terrible idea in general for reasons you already know, I'm sure. The point I was making earlier, though, was that because she is now at 3-5 soren x ike support is a particularly terrible idea this time around.

[RNG Princess]

Chapter 3-4

Completed in 7 turns

10,248 BEXP

33,780 Funds

I sold the Ashera icons I had to raise funds. I wanted to bring Kyza, if I had a spare speedwing I would have used it on him to see if he was useful; since I do remember somebody telling me he'd be useful with it. However I had no spare speedwing since I had forgot to take it off Marcia, and I could have used Kyza as shove bot but Soren was my chosen shove bot and in the seventh turn he got a little bit of CEXP. I had to kill the mage on the left side of the left ballistae archer in order to get Ranulf to the point faster and have more cexp, Gatrie with a javelin is wonderful here although 60%hit is scary. Ike, Heather, Shinnon, Nephenee, and Haar went through the right all the others left. Ranulf weakened some enemies for Ilyana. Haar pretty much cleared most of the path, oh and I had thought this chapter detremented Gatrie's and Titania's move but it doesn't, its 3-7 that kills her move completely. Ike had Celerity, Heather stole a vulenary and found a coin however on that last turn I had her kill the enemy archer because Haar missed the hit so I couldn't have her land on the ettard spot:(, Ike wouldn't be able to pass if the archer was there since he and a mage blocked Ike's way to the seize.

Unit       Lvl HP ST MG SK SP LK DF RS   Support

Ike      12.81 45 24  2 28 23 14 22  7
Mist      4.64 29 11 17 14 19 19 10 16
Boyd     10.08 47 24  1 21 19 13 17  8
Shinnon  15.61 44 22  7 30 26 17 21 15  
Gatrie   12.44 45 25  5 19 21 16 26 11
Mia      10.11 36 17  5 26 29 19 15  8  C Soren
Nephenee  7.52 36 18  6 26 25 15 18 17 
Heather   8.78 33 16  9 22 26 17 10 14  C Haar
Haar      2.08 51 29  6 29 26 15 29 11  C Heather
Soren     5.85 28  9 23 21 18 11  9 21  C Mia
Ilyana    3.27 29 14 19 17 21  8  9 15  

Chapter 3-5

Completed in 3 turns

12,248 BEXP

33,780 Funds

Everybody available except Brom was deployed. I sent Heather, Nephenee, Titania, Haar and Shinnon straight towards the boss all four of them forming a square around Heather after turn 1. Gatrie, Mist(healing only) and Ike took on the right side and the others took on the left side ledges. Reyson took a laguz stone, Rolf played around with ballistae. Heather found a olivi grass and stole the energy drop, Nephenee landed a critical on the boss and killed him.

Unit       Lvl HP ST MG SK SP LK DF RS   Support

Ike      13.27 46 24  3 29 23 14 22  7
Titania  19.12 38 26 12 25 25 20 21 15  C Mist
Mist      4.89 29 11 17 14 19 19 10 16  C Titania
Boyd     10.42 47 24  1 21 19 13 17  8  C Oscar
Shinnon  16.12 45 22  7 30 26 17 21 15  C Nephenee
Gatrie   12.60 45 25  5 19 21 16 26 11
Mia      10.55 36 17  5 26 29 19 15  8  C Soren
Nephenee  8.65 36 18  6 26 26 15 18 18  C Shinnon
Heather   8.98 33 16  9 22 26 17 10 14  C Haar
Haar      2.43 51 29  6 29 26 15 29 11  C Heather
Soren     6.47 28  9 23 21 18 11  9 22  C Mia
Ilyana    3.99 29 14 19 17 21  8  9 15  
Rolf      2.75 33 17  3 20 19 13 13  9  C Rhys
Oscar    13.71 39 21  7 23 21 18 17 13  C Boyd
Rhys      4.88 27  9 24 16 15 22  7 25  C Rolf
Reyson   15.20 Base Stats

I supported a bunch of people I just have to go check on it.

Edited June 28, 2010 by Queen_Elincia

[Fenrir]

Ilyana is beating her soren by 3 speed right now and if she hasn't been building the soren x ike support yet there is no point. Ignoring the fact that soren x ike is a terrible support from pretty much every perspective on what makes a good support pairing.

I wouldn't say that, It makes soren a lot more durable, it's not ike's best option, but using a mage isn't your best option. Soren doesn't need it but he wants it, Mia might be better but, she will do ok on her own.

Also, someone said use callil, Callil is probably the best mage for endgame b/c rexflame and rexfalme + white tide = double on auras, Sanaki cannot pick up rexflame without a lot of levels and a lot of str blessing, and then theres lolmod.

[RNG Princess]

Chapter 3-6

Completed in 10 turns

3,156 BEXP

14,525 Funds

I had to use some BEXP on Nolan and Jill I made sure they got a speed level up, I used a seal on both Jill level 19 and him at level 18 leaving me with 906BEXP. I gave Paragon to Jill, Renewal to Sothe, Vantage and Beatfoe to Nolan, Cancel and Imbue to Zihark, Resolve and Wrath to Volug. Interceptor's words were very accurate, Zihark is very fragile in this chapter I had 16 resets because someone would die each reset.

Laura died once due to a mistake of improper shielding (Leonardo and Edward died on that same turn after Laura)

Volug died three times due to not dodging

Jill died twice because of low hp

Zihark died 4 times because he wouldn't dodge even on a grass tile 1 of his deaths was caused by forgetting to unequip brave sword

Sothe died 6 freaking times! Half of those was due to landing crits with steel dagger and getting owned by the next laguz the rest of the times were my fault of not trading off beast killer.

I was surprised that Nolan never got killed even once and thats him having bad speed so I really admire him right now :D Vantage and support with Aran really works well for him. Anyways in order to fix this:

Gave Jill a seraph robe

Had Jill block that spot on the right instead of Sothe but I had her move up one space to face 2 enemies at a time instead of one

Sothe join Zihark, Aran, Micaiah, and Nolan on the left side after turn 1. His support healped him and Zihark dodge sometimes.

Gave Volug a support with Laura and traded Micaiah and Laura because at first I was sending Laura left and Micaiah right.

Somehow Zihark and Sothe still gave me trouble since they wouldn't dodge, I'd say of my main fighters Zihark and Sothe had the worst durability and its funny because I gave them plenty if not too much cexp on Part 1.

For the rest I gave torch item to Fiona trading it to Meg after my army moved on from the first island (since Fiona can't move away from it). Edward Meg and Zihark each took a wind edge, Fiona took a javelin, gave vulenaries to Sothe, Zihark, Nolan, Volug and Jill just in case and only Nolan Zihark Volug and Sothe had to use it. Bought a torch staff for Micaiah and a beast killer for Sothe which was completely unnecessary. Sothe had his knife forges from part 1, Fiona took Reiginleaf, Aran had Slim Lance, Jill took Wyvern Axe, and Nolan took Trainee Axe. I had Nolan use it to save Tarvos some uses and then having Aran or Micaiah trade him off for Tarvos, Fiona took that lance to weaken untransformed Laguz same for Aran and Sothe. Micaiah had the physic staff but I only used it twice.

Edward, Fiona, Meg and Leo would help me reduce cat/tiger transformation gauge which was very helpful saving uses on that brave axe. Laura used the recover/mned staff on Jill plenty of times. I'm surprised I didn't even notice but Aran got some kills of left over untransformed laguz, I gave as much enemies to Nolan. Black Knight didn't do anything at all, in fact the npcs didn't do anything either. This is one of my favorite chapters because everyone was doing something helpful :3. Leonardo's chipping was very helpful it was even more significant than Edwards, and Fiona's tinking/missing/chipping was also very helpful because of canto. After turn 6/7/8 Volug and Jill moved upwards with Laura being close by, Eddie Meg and Leo moved right Meg would torch and Leo would pretty much leave the kill for Eddie.

As for Nolan/Zihark/Sothe/Nolan/Aran/Mic/BK I made sure Aran and Micaiah were shielded. Aran's use of javelin helped a lot too, whenever i needed combat I had Micaiah help out. I always placed Sothe and Zihark, especially Zihark on grass tiles. None of the laguz payed attention to BK and aimed for everyone else, in fact a cat attacked Aran but he survived.

Also Volug had A Strike but leveled up to S strike before the chapter ended, this is probably Fiona's best chapter in terms of usefulness IMO, and I was trying to get her and Volug to accumulate a support but that probably takes too long huh? Jill capped speed and Zihark has Master Crown so it can be stolen by Heather.

Unit       Lvl HP ST MG SK SP LK DF RS   Support

Micaiah   2.38 28  7 20 12 13 20  8 18  C Jill
Nolan     6.44 38 20  5 22 19 15 14 11  B Aran
Sothe     5.89 36 21  4 24 21 18 16 10  C Zihark
Aran     15.25 27 18  0 19 14 10 17  4  B Nolan    
Volug    17.80 51 12  4 12 13 15  9  5  C Laura
Zihark    6.83 32 18  6 23 25 13 14 13  C Sothe
Jill      8.58 40 21  4 19 25 19 21 10  C Micaiah
Laura     8.88 18  5 14  9 11  8  4 12  C Volug  
Eddie    12.33 26 13  0 14 17 14  8  1   
Leo       8.77 19  9  1 15 11  7  5  7  C Meg   
Meg       5.83 22 11  1  7 10 10 10  6  C Leonardo
Fiona     9.48 25  8  6  8 10  7  8  6
Black Knight   Base Stats

Edited June 28, 2010 by Queen_Elincia

[Interceptor]

Nice idea with using your scrubs to de-transform the laguz. It's too bad that the untransformed ones are worth crappy EXP.

[RNG Princess]

Nice idea with using your scrubs to de-transform the laguz. It's too bad that the untransformed ones are worth crappy EXP.

Thanks :D they sure are but I untransformed the ones that would affect Jill's survival and CEXP, like 2 tigers would kill my Jill or some cat ready to untransform had to be killed so Jill could go kill some untransformed tiger and face two enemies instead of 1 on enemy phase. I still fed some untransformed tigers to Jill iirc they gave her 30 CEXP per kill. I enjoyed giving her transformed tiger kills though those really helped Jill (and Nolan) a lot.

Edited June 28, 2010 by Queen_Elincia

[RNG Princess]

Chapter 3-7

Completed in 12 turns

13,527 BEXP

Haar has Savior and Pass, I think I gave Celerity to Reyson or Gatrie, Ilyana took blossom, Ike had flourish and disarm, Heather has the 2nd shade. I tried to disarm as many things before turn 8 and stole a crossbow and physic staff, and also stole a thunder tome and master crown; Ilyana took on Zihark. I had Ike attack BK with a reaper card because he would get owned if he used a wind edge. Also is there a way to get Sephiran Creddylaid? Last time I got him but he only came with a staff. Oh I found a coin with Ranulf, and talking about him he had weakened some enemies for Ilyana. The crown is going to Titania, I didn't want to get close to Jill because she had brave axe. Jannaf and Ulki are wonderful :).

Unit       Lvl HP ST MG SK SP LK DF RS   Support

Ike      14.53 47 24  3 29 23 14 23  8  C Mia
Mist      6.32 30 12 19 15 20 21 10 17  C Titania
Gatrie   13.51 45 25  5 19 21 16 27 11  C Ilyana
Mia      11.35 36 18  5 27 29 20 15  9  C Ike
Nephenee  9.37 36 18  6 26 26 16 18 18  C Shinnon
Heather   9.62 34 17  9 23 27 18 10 14  C Haar
Haar      3.10 52 30  6 30 26 16 30 11  C Heather
Ilyana    5.55 30 15 20 19 22 10 11 17  C Gatrie
Reyson   16.00 40  3  6  5 11 32  6 17
Ranulf   26.06 Base Stats
Jannaf   29.08 Base Stats
Ulki     28.03 Base Stats

Edited June 29, 2010 by Queen_Elincia

[Anouleth]

Lehran will never join with Creiddylad. Only Ashera. You will need to trade him a blessed tome (preferably Rexaura because Micaiah can bless it).

[Interceptor]

FYI: make sure that you don't leave any skills on Raisin in 3-10 that you want to use in 3-11. I've shot myself in the foot before by leaving Celerity on him, and making the bridge rush harder than it necessarily needed to be.

[RNG Princess]

Thanks for the tip Interceptor :)

Lehran will never join with Creiddylad. Only Ashera. You will need to trade him a blessed tome (preferably Rexaura because Micaiah can bless it).

So much effort for nothing :( it costed me Ike to loose CEXP for 2/3 turns on a side not at least he is better at chipping auras than Micaiah.

Edited June 29, 2010 by Queen_Elincia

[Anouleth]

Much better. 40 magic and enough speed to double. Even if Micaiah is capped, which is unlikely, he does double her damage, and probably with perfect accuracy. Problem is, trading it to him, since he starts all the way on the other side. Plus, he can only attack a Wardwood aura, so he doesn't even deal that great damage. Probably better to have him use Ashera and free Mickey up to attack, then take Rexaura the turn after.

[Narga_Rocks]

Thanks for the tip Interceptor :)

So much effort for nothing :( it costed me Ike to loose CEXP for 2/3 turns on a side not at least he is better at chipping auras than Micaiah.

Much better. 40 magic and enough speed to double. Even if Micaiah is capped, which is unlikely, he does double her damage, and probably with perfect accuracy. Problem is, trading it to him, since he starts all the way on the other side. Plus, he can only attack a Wardwood aura, so he doesn't even deal that great damage. Probably better to have him use Ashera and free Mickey up to attack, then take Rexaura the turn after.

But what's the point? I've 2 turned Ashera while a few units didn't even do anything on turn 2. Laura warded Gareth for no reason (in case I failed the 2 turn, basically). Micaiah attacked an aura with a non-blessed tome (oops). I think there may have been another unused unit.

Lehran's job in 4-E-5 is to Ashera staff at the end of turn 1 Player Phase to recover from counters by spirits and aurora on any unit that attacked Auras without Nihil. He's also got a secondary job to heal at the beginning of turn 2 player phase in case someone that was damaged by Ashera's AoE needs healing in order to survive Aurora. He's great at his job, really. Fortify would never recover as many hp, and with a 10/5/1 Micaiah or something (many people have one) Fortify would be quite sad in comparison. He doesn't serve much purpose by attacking, quite frankly, and it costs a unit's turn to trade, anyway.

I didn't even have Rafiel, so only one of the two turns received a 4 person Vigor.

Edited June 29, 2010 by Narga_Rocks

[RNG Princess]

I added a new list to my first post about a List of Worst unit performance, pretty much personal experience.

Chapter 3-8

Completed in 7 turns

17,642 BEXP

On my first try Heather stole a disarmed Storm sword but I had to restart because Mia died against a general and shaman. However on this one Heather was pretty much useless only used for the mage reinforcements on turn 7. Haar, Titania, and Gatrie took the right and the rest took left, Jannaf saved my life thankfully I had put wildheart on him and he killed a shaman which Haar had missed a hit on. I took blossom away from Ilyana so she could gain more cexp and she capped speed. I decided to leave Shinnon behind because his crossbow damage is ridiculous and I'm saving the uses of killer bow, too bad bringing Heather didn't help me steal anything. Haar took celerity for this chapter, I should have brought Soren he'd been the best candidate for the last spot.

Unit       Lvl HP ST MG SK SP LK DF RS   Support

Ike      15.32 48 24  3 29 23 14 23  8  C Mia
Mist      7.38 31 12 19 16 21 22 11 17  C Titania
Gatrie   14.39 45 26  5 19 21 16 27 11  C Ilyana
Titania   1.44 42 29 16 27 27 20 24 19  C Mist
Mia      11.94 36 18  5 27 29 20 15  9  C Ike
Nephenee 11.31 38 19  6 26 27 16 20 18  C Shinnon
Heather   9.69 34 17  9 23 27 18 10 14  C Haar
Haar      3.74 52 30  6 30 26 16 30 11  C Heather
Ilyana    7.77 31 15 20 21 24 10 13 17  C Gatrie
Reyson   16.61 40  3  6  5 11 32  6 17
Ranulf   26.07 Base Stats
Jannaf   29.23 Base Stats

Edited June 30, 2010 by Queen_Elincia

[RNG Princess]

Chapter 3-9

Completed in 6 turns

17,695 BEXP

Funds not tracked

I bought an adept for Kieran and took gamble off him and put it on Astrid instead, Marcia took Geoffrey's paragon. The hardest part of this chapter is getting the spirit dust. Marcia killed the first soldier on the top, that way she won't have to stop to extinguish the house and she killed most of the top layer. Callil and Danved took care of the left mid layer, except he missed a lot of hits to actually count for anything. Marcia or Kieran took the boss kill, I can't recall who it was. Makalov and Astrid killed a few enemies, he weakened them for her actually and Geoffrey was just weakening for the npcs or taking care of the healer npc. Astrid activated criticals more often without gamble actually, but I only tried 3 times with gamble on that ledge with the enemy units on the bottom layer.

Unit       Lvl HP ST MG SK SP LK DF RS   Support

Geoffrey 15.-- 37 24  8 23 20 19 18 15
Marcia   10.67 37 19  6 20 25 13 22 16
Kieran   12.37 42 22  6 21 21 17 19 12
Astrid    6.58 36 17  8 20 18 21 13 15
Makalov   7.50 37 18  5 17 18 20 17  9
Danved    9.63 39 17  8 23 21 18 15 12
Callil    6.99 32  9 19 18 18 16 11 17

Chapter 3-10

Completed in 6 turns

24, 661 BEXP

39,834 Funds.

I forged a hand Axe for Haar so he could kill ranged enemies instead of weakening them, I noticed Titania activate Sol more often than landing a critical with a killer axe. I took 6 turns due to a miscalculation of Reyson, I thought Mist could shove him while he was transformed. Anyway on turn 5 four enemies remained, the boss Sergei and a bow paladdin and two generals. I had formed Nephenee, Haar, Ulki,and Jannaf in a fashion to be refreshed and I wanted to move Reyson to refresh them but he couldn't reach so I had Boyd shove him and he only reached Nephenee, and I moved Mist to shove him but she couldn't. Anyways Nephenee took the boss kill, and Heather stole 2 mends and a Ellight. Titania and Haar went the top way, both Ulki and Jannaf joined them on turn 2 after being refreshed. Everyone else went downwards, I gave Boyd a left over hammer so he could clear the Generals, him and Ilyana helped a lot there, Ranulf was shove bot pretty much. I had wanted to bring Soren to help against the generals but he was slowing me down too much. I bought a recover for Mist.

Unit       Lvl HP ST MG SK SP LK DF RS   Support

Ike      15.48 48 24  3 29 23 14 23  8  C Mia
Mist      8.41 32 13 20 17 22 23 11 18  C Titania
Gatrie   15.21 45 27  5 20 21 16 27 12  C Ilyana
Titania   2.17 43 30 17 28 28 21 24 19  C Mist
Mia      12.65 37 19  5 28 30 21 15  9  C Ike
Nephenee 13.29 40 19  7 26 27 17 20 18  C Shinnon
Heather  10.20 34 17  9 24 27 19 10 15  C Haar
Haar      4.33 53 30  6 30 26 17 30 12  C Heather
Ilyana    8.72 31 15 20 21 24 11 14 18  C Gatrie
Reyson   16.61 40  3  6  5 11 32  6 17
Boyd     11.29 48 24  1 22 19 14 18  8  C Oscar 
Ranulf   26.15 Base Stats
Jannaf   29.30 Base Stats

Edited July 2, 2010 by Queen_Elincia

[RNG Princess]

Chapter 3-11

Completed in 7 turns

56,161 Funds

25,689 BEXP

I finally found my missing paper. Anyways I used some BEXP on Gatrie and a few others I didn't bring to this chapter. I tried using Mia, Nephenee, and the others I was training but they were slowing me down too much and Ike had celerity, bringing Gatrie wasn't necessary but at least he gained some experience of left over enemies during the earlier turns but both him and Ranulf were Mist shoving and rescuing/dropping iirc. I brought characters with better move as you can see, I gave Astrid the Lady Bow forge and Sigrun took the knight lance forge and the javelin forge battle spear. I forgot what the others wielded but some of them had forges on them like Tanith and Haar. Haar is so wonderful his move is convenient from start to end, him and Sigrun took care of the mage and the soldier with the barrier items on turn 2. BTW Astrid is the easiest bottom-tiered to pick-up and play, because she never has to face 1-on-1 with the enemy and has canto to help her a little bit, she also had better hit and a forge so I brought her over Kieran. Marcia and Astrid had Paragon, Ike celerity, Gatrie had provoke.

Unit       Lvl HP ST MG SK SP LK DF RS   Support

Ike      16.64 49 25  3 29 24 14 24  9  B Mia
Mist      9.87 32 14 21 17 22 24 12 19  C Titania
Gatrie   18.07 45 27  5 20 23 17 30 13  C Haar
Titania   2.74 43 30 17 28 28 21 24 19  C Mist
Haar      5.64 53 30  6 30 27 18 30 12  C Gatrie
Marcia   12.77 39 19  7 21 26 15 22 16
Astrid   11.36 38 17 10 22 20 24 15 18
Leanne    7.31 27  0  4  1  6 28  2 11
Tanith   16.63 Base Stats
Sigrun   19.81 Base Stats
Ranulf   26.15 Base Stats
Jannaf   29.34 Base Stats
Ulki     28.13 Base Stats

Chapter 3-12

Completed in 7 turns

4,798 BEXP

18,340 Funds

I know I gave some bexp to someone, I think it was Nolan and I bought a silver poleaxe so I could save some uses on Tarvos. Micaiah and Laura shared the physic staff. Jill and Nolan as well as Volug and npcs guarded the right side. Tauroneo took care of the left with the help of Zihark and Sothe. I rescued an archer so Eddie would wind edge them (I should have done it for Zihark instead but his brave sword helped me take care of the pegs). I had Meg wind edge an enemy and she actually hit them so she gained cexp, she was mostly there gaining B support with Leo. Nolan is still amazing here and Jill became godly, training her solo on and off. NPCs were on and off for the first phases i put them on roam and then jumped between halt and roam.

Unit       Lvl HP ST MG SK SP LK DF RS   Support

Micaiah   3.59 29  8 21 12 13 21  8 19  C Jill
Nolan     7.80 38 21  5 23 19 16 14 12  A Aran
Sothe     6.50 37 22  4 25 22 19 17 10  C Zihark
Aran     16.23 27 19  0 20 14 10 18  5  A Nolan    
Volug    18.19 52 13  4 12 13 16  9  5  C Laura
Zihark    7.05 32 18  6 24 26 13 14 14  C Sothe
Jill     13.68 44 25  4 21 25 23 21 14  C Micaiah
Laura    10.32 19  7 15 12 13  9  4 13  C Volug  
Eddie    14.08 28 13  0 15 18 16  9  2   
Leo      10.05 19 11  3 17 11  9  6  8  C Meg   
Meg       5.96 22 11  1  7 10 10 10  6  C Leonardo
Fiona     9.48 25  8  6  8 10  7  8  6
Tauroneo 14.53 Base Stats

Chapter 3-13

Completed in 8 turns

5,102 BEXP

11,211 Funds

I used BEXP on Nolan and Jill to crown her early at level 15, I bought a few axes to deal more damage and a steel greatlance for Jill when she had bad/worst bio, along with a recover and physic staff. Fiona went ahead to cover the left ledge ASAP, Tauroneo rescued and dropped an npc and blocked the right ledge with Eddy/Meg/Volug. Nolan, Volug, Aran, Sothe, and Zihark covered the mid ledges. Nolan covered the left (after Volug left to heal himself) and Zihark the right, Sothe was just there in the middle chipping from time to time, Aran and Eddy were range attacking enemies where they could. After Nolan cleared the left side by himself he switched with Zihark and cleared the right with the help of Volug. Jill was at the bottom layer by herself depending on vulenaries and sometimes Laura for healing, Micaiah healed npcs and my units with the remaining 4 physic uses. Ike was no trouble for Jill on turn 7 she took most of his health with the lance and she killed him on turn 8, I could have cleared it in 7 turns but I wanted more CEXP for Nolan, so on turn 6 I had Jill kill Soren instead of attacking Ike. Jill took parity and paragon, Nolan still had both vantage and beastfoe. Npcs were on avoid on turn 1, they all moved except the ones in the bottom layer, so Leo took over the ballistae on turn 2.

Unit       Lvl HP ST MG SK SP LK DF RS   Support

Micaiah   4.25 29  8 22 12 13 22  8 19  C Jill
Nolan    12.07 42 23  5 26 22 19 16 13  A Aran
Sothe     6.84 37 22  4 25 22 19 17 10  B Zihark
Aran     17.92 28 20  0 20 14 11 19  6  A Nolan    
Volug    18.74 52 13  4 12 13 16  9  5  C Laura
Zihark    7.98 32 18  6 24 26 13 14 14  B Sothe
Jill      5.20 49 32  9 24 31 28 29 19  C Micaiah
Laura    11.84 19  7 16 13 13 10  4 13  C Volug  
Eddie    14.28 28 13  0 15 18 16  9  2   
Leo      11.52 20 12  4 18 11 10  7  8  B Meg   
Meg       5.96 22 11  1  7 10 10 10  6  B Leonardo
Fiona     9.48 25  8  6  8 10  7  8  6
Tauroneo 14.62 Base Stats

Chapter 3-E

Completed in 5 turns

28,708 BEXP

Funds not tracked

I'm surprised I even made it in 5 turns, and thats because Haar Mia and Ike were put to sleep by the enemy bishop/priest. I didn't have restore staff on me, Ike was put to sleep on turn 2, Mia on 3, and Haar on turn 4. Tanith migrated to the right after the first two turns to help out the hawks, Sigrun found the rescue staff she has enough luck Heather isn't needed here ;). Somebody killed Zihark but I forgot who it was, maybe Astrid. Haar was so close to Jill and then he was put to sleep luckily Mist was close so she recruited Jill, Jill did gain cexp but not much. Ranulf is useless here, gave Reyson a stone and Ulki the olivi grass. Nolan fell on Titania's axe :o, activated pegasi triangle once.

Unit       Lvl HP ST MG SK SP LK DF RS   Support

Ike      16.74 49 25  3 29 24 14 24  9  B Mia
Mist     10.83 33 14 22 18 22 25 12 20  B Titania
Gatrie   19.53 45 27  5 21 23 18 30 13  C Haar
Titania   3.54 43 31 17 29 28 21 24 19  B Mist
Haar      5.91 53 30  6 30 27 18 30 12  C Gatrie
Marcia   14.97 40 19  7 22 27 17 22 16  C Astrid
Astrid   14.60 40 19 10 23 23 27 15 19  C Marcia
Nephenee 16.24 43 21  7 26 27 19 20 18
Tanith   17.20 35 20 10 23 25 22 19 21
Sigrun   20.00 35 19 13 22 24 29 21 22
Ilyana   10.66 31 15 20 21 24 11 14 18  *
Reyson   17.32 41  3  6  5 11 33  6 17
Mia      13.18 37 19  5 28 30 21 15  9  B Ike*
Ranulf   26.15 Base Stats
Ulki     28.16 Base Stats

Now to set up teams, ugh marcia Jill and Astrid have paragon and I need one for Elincia who is better to send?

Edited July 6, 2010 by Queen_Elincia

[incognit0]

Just send Jill (and probably Marcia) to the Silver Army and put paragon in the convoy. You already want them there for the desert.

[RNG Princess]

Chapter 4-P

Completed in 5 turns

70,036 Funds

39,584 BEXP

I sent Haar, Jill, Rhys/Micaiah, Ilyana, and the three pegs the norther way and the others went to the east. Jill and Haar equipped Tomahawks/forged hand axes, the pegs did clean up on weakened units and used/traded horseslayer on reinforcements, I did the mistake of giving some kills to Ilyana and Micaiah/Rhys were heal bots. The other side has everybody team up against the enemies but usually Skrimir and Naesala did the hard work. I think I found a hidden item or two. Most enemies targeted Haar instead of Jill idk why, the one that gave me some issues was Zihark because he would miss some hits.

Skills:

Sigrun: Imbue

Skrimir: Provoke

Tanith: Adept

Jill: Cancel, Parity

Haar: Fortune

Ilyana: Paragon

Zihark: Imbue, Cancel

Nolan: Renewal

Unit       Lvl HP ST MG SK SP LK DF RS   Support

Micaiah   4.89 29  8 22 12 13 22  8 19  
Nolan    14.29 44 24  5 26 22 19 16 13  C Jill
Zihark    8.43 32 18  6 25 27 13 15 15  A Sothe
Ilyana   13.76 34 15 22 23 24 14 14 20  C Haar
Marcia   17.73 40 20  8 24 27 20 22 17  C Leanne
Haar      5.91 53 30  6 30 27 20 31 12  C Ilyana
Jill      8.08 50 33  9 26 32 30 30 21  C Nolan
Tanith   19.66 37 20 10 24 27 23 20 22  C Sigrun
Leanne    7.81 27  0  4  1  6 28  2 11  C Marcia
Sigrun    1.36 39 22 17 24 26 29 24 26  C Tanith
Sothe     7.59 37 22  4 26 23 19 17 10  A Zihark
Rhys      5.48 27 10 25 16 15 23  7 26
Naesala  27.41 Base Stats
Skrimir  25.60 Base Stats
Sanaki    1.49 Base Stats

Non-deployed units:

Unit       Lvl HP ST MG SK SP LK DF RS   Support

Lethe
Fiona
Danved
Mordecai

Chapter 4-1

Completed in 6 turns

70,036 Funds

27,940 Bexp

I was having a hard time with this chapter on the left side actually, and I needed more combat over there so I gave Mia the brave sword and Heather the second last crown, Laura took the last master seal. Nailah soloed the right all by herself and even crossed all the way to the bottom left (thanks to Rafiel and Celerity) to help with those hidden reinforcements which caused me to restart once. Ike, Mist, Rafiel, Titania, and Astrid took the bottom part most shielding Rafiel. Mist helped with combat actually since I gave her the holy crown she has to herself and she kept up with her team. I took paragon off Astrid just so Mia could catch up, Astrid didn't need it much since she was busy OHKOing the enemy pegs (I was going to give her the boss kill but I let Ike take it so she could migrate to the left with Titania, Mist and Nailah). Heather helped out a lot thanks to resolve, although I didn't find any items. Soren was actually helpful with the old wind forge I gave him against the left peg which put Volug on wrath mood.

Skills:

Laura: Shade

Mist: Pass

Nailah: Celerity

Rafiel: Daunt, Resolve

Titania: Adept

Volug: Wratch, Resolve

Gatrie: Provoke, Adept

Mia: Disarm, Paragon

Soren: Corrossion

Heather: Counter, Resolve

Unit       Lvl HP ST MG SK SP LK DF RS   Support

Nailah   33.43 66 17  5 23 19 35 16 13   
Ike       4.21 55 29  8 33 29 15 27 13   B Mia
Titania   7.10 45 34 17 31 30 24 25 22   B Mist
Mist      3.18 37 21 25 21 26 27 17 23   B Titania
Astrid   16.81 40 19 11 25 24 29 16 20  
Mia      17.30 40 20  6 30 30 24 17 11   B Ike
Heather   2.20 38 20 13 27 30 20 13 19   C Gatrie
Soren     7.79 28  9 24 22 18 11  9 22  
Gatrie    1.95 49 29  9 24 25 19 32 18   C Heather
Volug    19.68 53 14  4 13 13 17  9  5   B Laura  
Rafiel   14.11 32  1  6  1  6 32  3 14  
Laura     1.75 21 10 18 15 15 10  7 14   B Volug

Non-deployed units:

Unit       Lvl HP ST MG SK SP LK DF RS   Support

Nealuchi
Aran
Edward
Kyza
Rolf
Lyre

Chapter 4-2

Completed in 7 turns

29,254 Bexp

47,780 Funds

Tibarn cleared the bottom half and he swinged to the left and then right back to the right to kill the reinforcements on turn 7. Kieran, Callil, and Pelleas stayed to kill the two warrior reinforcements. Boyd and Lucia were shove bots mostly. The first three generals were killed by Callil, Kieran, Shinnon, Boyd and Tibarn. The rest worked their way to Valtome. Ranulf seemed very useful here., and Jannaf was in wrath mood after turn 1 and it really helped a lot ;). I forged some weapons.

Skills:

Elincia: Paragon

Reyson: Pass

Lucia: Gamble

Ulki: Nullify

Jannaff: Wrath

Unit       Lvl HP ST MG SK SP LK DF RS   Support

Tibarn   31.29 68 18  4 24 29 16 10 10
Elincia   7.35 37 20 21 22 29 31 19 25
Jannaff  29.84 57 16  2 19 17 20 12  8  C Ranulf
Ulki     28.63 59 16  3 17 18 25 11 10  C Reyson
Lucia    15.15 38 18 10 28 28 20 14 16
Reyson   17.82 41  6 12 10 11 33  6 17  C Ulki
Pelleas  12.79 33 13 24 20 21 14 14 19
Ranulf   26.70 55 14  6 16 15 23 12 10  C Jannaff  
Callil    8.29 34  9 20 20 20 17 11 17
Boyd     11.85 48 24  1 22 19 14 18  8  C Shinnon
Kieran   12.49 42 22  6 21 21 17 19 12 
Nephenee 18.63 44 22  7 26 27 19 20 18
Shinnon  18.41 45 24  7 30 26 18 22 15  C Boyd

Non-deployed units:

Unit       Lvl HP ST MG SK SP LK DF RS   Support

Makalov
Meg
Leonardo
Brom
Tauroneo
Oscar