(FE7) HHM draft tournament

[Raven]

Chapter 15 (7/35)

Wow. This took a while. I managed to create an optimal strategy after about 5 dry runs, one which included a sick level up for both Erk and Lowen. About 30 tries later, I finally managed to clear the map. Here's what happened for each unit:

Hector: Moved South, toward Sealen, hand axed a few archers and actually managed to overcome WTD to kill a few mercs. This was the cause of much of my frustration, as he had to hit with about 50-55 displayed on 2 mercs.

Marcus: ORKO'd a soldier turn 1, then went south and drew out Sealen, killing him in 2 turns.

Lowen: Ran Northwest with his sword out and killed some fighters. Sword rank going up!

Erk: Killed a knight and a myrmidon, and also got an awesome level up, as mentioned previously.

Prissy: Healed as needed

Oswin: The usual

Matthew: Got both chests

Oh yeah, Marcus also got a level up. It fucking BLEW. Health and Skill. He's still at base speed, and it's causing me MANY problems.

I drafted Oswin. Unless you're just using him to meatshield.

[chococoke]

I drafted Oswin. Unless you're just using him to meatshield.

Yeah, by the usual I meant I sent him Northeast to absorb blows like he is intended to do.

[chococoke]

Double posting because I'm a bastard

Chapter 16 (10/45)

Lyn fail squadron is annoying. Barely managed to keep everyone alive down there, with Kent doing his best to hold off the Mercs and Pegs at once. Which was NOT easy, at all. Marcus killed a lot of shit, once again, and leveled. Health and resistance. I'm slowly finding out that Marcus proccing speed is VERY important in a HHM draft run, as he is still borderline doubling a lot of shit, that he would be ORKOing if he had 12 speed. Which is frustrating as fuck. UGH anyway, everyone got some solid exp, everyone actually managed a level up in this chapter, which was kewl.

NAME    LEVEL     HP  POW  SKL  SPD  LCK  DEF  RES  WEP
Hector  09.03     26   11    8    8   6    14   2   B Axe
Marcus  05.24     34   15   16   11   9    10  10   S Lance A Sword B Axe
Lowen   08.62     29    9    7    9   6     8   1   D Sword D Lance
Erk     05.71     18    8    7    9   5     4   6   D Anima
Prissy  04.37     17    6    6    8   7     4   7   C Staves
Kent    06.41     24    9    7    9   4     6   1   D Sword D Lance

Lowen is very close to C swords, so I'm gonna go ahead and give him the Killing Edge next chapter and get his sword rank up as fast as MFing possible. Marcus is going to level next chapter, and if he doesn't proc speed I'm going to claw my eyes out.

Chapter 17 (10/55)

2 attempts. Fun! Everyone got solid level ups. Missed out on the Silver Sword, but then again, who doesn't. I basically blitzed up the middle with my 4 mounted units passing around Hector like a cheap prostitute. LOL FUNNY JOKE. Marcus assaulted the throne room, and equipped the Hammer and waited in front of Bernard. He survived with 1 HP after being hit at 33 displayed by two different fucking javelin knights. Retarded. He critkilled Bernard, leveled up, and got fucking LUCK AND RESISTANCE. FUUUUUUUUUUCK. Hector seized on turn 10.

NAME    LEVEL     HP  POW  SKL  SPD  LCK  DEF  RES  WEP
Hector  09.92     26   11    8    8   6    14   2   B Axe
Marcus  06.59     34   15   16   11  10    10  11   S Lance A Sword A Axe
Lowen   09.53     30   10    7   10   7     9   1   C Sword C Lance
Erk     07.85     19    8    9   10   7     4   6   C Anima
Prissy  05.04     18    7    7    9   7     4   8   C Staves
Kent    08.09     26    9    8    9   4     7   1   D Sword D Lance

Dicks. So far, Marcus has leveled a whopping 5 times, and has procced the following:

3 HP

0 Strength

2 Skill

0 Speed

2 Luck

0 Defense

3 Resistance

Can anyone please appreciate how retarded he is turning out? 0 Strength, Speed, and Defense? Those are like the ONLY stats I look at when a character levels up. UGH.

EDIT: Did 17x in 4 turns, RNG abused a level up that included speed for Marcus, etc. I'm kind of too blazed right now to write any more about that chapter.

Edited March 19, 2011 by Chococoke

[chococoke]

Triple post oh noezzz

Chapter 18 (3/58)

Quickly discovered an optimal strategy, but a few things usually prevented it from working. One of these things was Lowen dying. He died pretty often, being tasked to guard the stairs and shit. The other really annoying thing was mother fucking ZOLDAM CRITKILLING MARCUS UGH, I swear to fucking god that fuck always critkills me every playthrough. FUCK. Anyway, everyone got a solid level up or two, aside from Prissy, but that bitch never levels because she's a cunt. Turn 3, Marcus ORKOs Zoldam etc. You all know the rest. Quality shopping is done, ready to take on the Dread Isle and Darin's bitchass.

NAME    LEVEL     HP  POW  SKL  SPD  LCK  DEF  RES  WEP
Hector  11.27     28   13    9    9   6    14   4   A Axe
Marcus  08.20     35   15   18   12  11    13  11   S Lance A Sword A Axe
Lowen   08.62     31   10    8   11   7    10   1   C Sword C Lance
Erk     08.77     20    8    9   11   7     4   6   C Anima
Prissy  05.60     18    7    7    9   7     4   8   C Staves
Kent    09.64     26    9    9    9   4     8   1   D Sword D Lance

Lowen is growing nicely. I'm glad I RNG abused that speed level up for Marcus in 17x, because he still has yet to proc Strength or speed outside of that. Cocks. Kent is also starting to fail me, that ass.

Chapter 19 (8/66)

Pretty easy. Lowen chills up north with Oswin and Dart, who tank like men, while Lowen does his thing with the Killing Edge. Gonna promote him soon so he can sling axes, AKA devil axe (I'm a risky bastard) Everyone headed toward Uhai. Standard people killing stuff takes place, with Marcus chewing through a full use Javelin before reaching Uhai, and 3RKOing with the Silver Lance. Simple enough, gg Uhai.

NAME    LEVEL     HP  POW  SKL  SPD  LCK  DEF  RES  WEP
Hector  11.66     28   13    9    9   6    14   4   A Axe
Marcus  09.61     36   15   18   13  11    13  12   S Lance A Sword A Axe
Lowen   12.07     33   11    9   11   8    11   1   C Sword C Lance
Erk     10.40     21    8    9   12   7     4   6   C Anima
Prissy  06.30     18    7    8   10   7     4   9   B Staves
Kent    10.59     27    9    9   10   4     8   2   D Sword C Lance

Edited March 22, 2011 by Chococoke

[General Horace]

You dreading Chapter 27 too Soul? Jerme's map is a bastard.

Anyway, I should be finishing this in the next few days.

[Junkhead]

Yeah, I am. 0/

Still wondering how to get through quickly.

[General Horace]

Somehow, I might not lose turns recruiting Harken. If it was NM, for sure, but there are a LOT more reinforcements in HM. Marcus!Rush Jerme time.

[Junkhead]

Yeah, it doesn't take turns. In the SOYO draft, my Marcus is as good as your current one, and he can get Hector there.

[General Horace]

But we have Jerme's map... its a rout map. It doesn't matter where Hector is.

[chococoke]

Chapter 20 (9/77)

Phew. 9 was the absolute maximum I could afford on this chapter, because Eliwood and Lyn will die on turn 10 due to Peg knight reinforcements. ANYWAY, everyone burst up the middle, saying "FUCK TREASURE!" I did the best I could to break through the horsey brigade in the chokepoint by having people abuse both ranged weaponry and by copious passing around of the horseslayer. Marcus was forced to dodge one hit out of 2 hits of 43 displayed from Darin in order to kill, and her managed to pull that off (the first hit landed, if the second one had I would've fucking killed myself.) Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE got sick level ups, save Marcus, but I don't expect anything from him anymore. I think I got a level up of HP, STR, and SPD on five different occasions. That'll do, pig. That'll do.

NAME    LEVEL     HP  POW  SKL  SPD  LCK  DEF  RES  WEP
Hector  13.01     30   14   10   10   7    14   5   A Axe
Marcus  10.73     37   15   19   13  12    13  12   S Lance A Sword A Axe
Lowen   13.91     34   12    9   12   8    11   1   C Sword C Lance
Erk     12.11     23   10    9   14   7     4   6   B Anima
Prissy  07.43     19    8    8   10   8     4  10   B Staves
Kent    11.76     28    9   10   11   4     8   3   D Sword C Lance

Everyone's speed is looking pretty awesome. Otherwise, eveyone's pretty average. Lowen is above average in Strength and Speed, which is helping me out quite a bit. He might see a promotion sometime soon. Marcus still hasn't procced Strength, so he's behind about 3 points behind on his average, making that stat the biggest screwage out of my entire team. Thanks a bunch, Marcus.

[chococoke]

Chapter 21 (6/83)

Could've done this much faster, but elected to instead do some much needed shopping and get the Elysian whip, which required a few turns unfortunately. Erk was the shining star of this level, murdering those pesky Wyvern Knights. He can ORKO them with thunder. Marcus has the next best combat against them, a 2RKO with the Silver Axe. I love Erk. Got a shit load of stuff, including like 7,000 javelins, so I'm pretty happy with that. Bosskill went to Marcus, who leveled and got HP and Skill. Unsurprising. I'll post stats after Kinship's Bond, didn't get many level ups this chapter.

[Junkhead]

Shopping only takes a turn. 8[

[chococoke]

Take note of the locations of all shops and armories in chapter 21. And the Elysian Whip village.

It takes more than 1 turn.

Also, how the FUCK did you guys kill Eubans in Kinship's Bond?

[General Horace]

Take note of the locations of all shops and armories in chapter 21. And the Elysian Whip village.

It takes more than 1 turn.

Also, how the FUCK did you guys kill Eubans in Kinship's Bond?

Marcus

All my scrubs distracted the rest of the army, and tried to survive.

[Junkhead]

You need a blessed Marcus to get through there, it seems. Blessed enough to 1RKO Wyerns. So he gets to the boss by around Turn 3. Have a 2-ranged weapon equipped so he can counter back. On the last turn, kill him with the Horseslayer.

[General Horace]

IIRC, Eubans speed is balls, so my Marcus was able to 0RHKO with the Silver Axe. Lemme check his stats...

EDIT: An average ??/12 Marcus can 0RKO with a Silver Lance. Turns out that my +2 Strength and +3 Speed was negligible in this case. 0RKOing the Wyverns are a different story though, unless you want to burn through Silver weapons.

Edited March 27, 2011 by General_Horace

[chococoke]

It appears Eubans DOES move? o____O

My Marcus could damage him more if he wasn't at base Strength, urgh. I'll come up with a strategy soon enough.

[chococoke]

Chapter 22 (5/88)

HELL YEAH. So, taking advantage of the fact that EUBANS MOVES WHEN YOU ENTER HIS RANGE, I decided to send Marcus down the right flank. He chugged two uses of an elixer and entered combat with Eubans, 1 AS short of doubling the bastard. This forced me to alter my strategy, but I'll come back to that later. Everyone else did a valiant job of holding off the initial offensive, especially Erk. That fucker is growing speed at an inhuman rate, and has morphed into some un-durable myrmidon of magic. Mmmmmm.... Anyway, Lowen bathed in pure water and killed magical fuckers, Eliwood was able to recruit Heath, and Prissy ran around and healed. Kent sucks. His offensive statistics are downright terrible, and I plan on feeding any stat boosters I have to that bum so that he stops sucking. WHAT A FART. The allied units were hella useful, soaking many enemy attacks that would've otherwise caused me serious issues.

Anyway, on to my Marcus strategy. Javelin equipped, I had Marcus wait on the edge of Eubans' range at the end of turn 3, which was the earliest I could get him there. Eubans attacks Marcus. I retreat Marcus back up the right flank, again having him wait on the edge of Eubans' range. This time, when Eubans chases Marcus, I had Hector waiting nearby. What's the best way to mitigate a shitty Marcus? A FACE FULL OF FUCKING WOLF BEIL.

Unfortunately, the Brave Axe and gold were not acquired. I don't give a fuck.

NAME    LEVEL     HP  POW  SKL  SPD  LCK  DEF  RES  WEP
Hector  15.63     32   15   12   11   8    16   6   A Axe
Marcus  11.75     38   15   20   13  12    13  12   S Lance A Sword A Axe
Lowen   14.83     35   12   10   13   9    11   1   C Sword B Lance
Erk     13.96     24   10   10   15   7     4   6   B Anima
Prissy  08.10     19    9    9   11   9     4  11   B Staves
Kent    13.50     29   10   12   11   4     8   3   D Sword C Lance

[chococoke]

Chapter 23 (9/97)

This could've been done faster, but fucking Erk decided to be a few Magic short of ORKOing Shamans with Thunder, so there were 1-2 enemies remaining on turn 6, 7, and 8. Anyway, Erk is what made this manageable to begin with. He ORKOs Wyverns with Thunder, so he killed some Wyverns before heading West to take on the reinforcements. Kent and Lowen worked on the sandy area, killing bitches, while Hawkeye, Marcus, and Hector worked on the two bosses and enemies with them. Hawkeye killed both bosses. I'm glad to have added another member of my team. Now just Farina and Karel.

NAME    LEVEL     HP  POW  SKL  SPD  LCK  DEF  RES  WEP
Hector  16.00     33   16   12   12   8    17   6   A Axe
Marcus  12.17     39   15   20   14  13    13  12   S Lance A Sword A Axe
Lowen   14.83     35   12   10   13   9    11   1   C Sword B Lance
Erk     15.39     33   10   10   16   8     5   7   A Anima
Prissy  08.57     19    9    9   11   9     4  11   B Staves
Kent    14.30     30   10   12   11   4     8   3   D Sword B Lance
Hawkeye 05.74     51   19   14   11  14    14  10   A Axe

Chapter 24 (2/99)

Marcus runs north with the short spear equipped. Hawkeye heads east with Kent. Marcus counters Lloyd on turn 1 EP, then whacks him with the silver lance (which now has 4 uses left) down to a handful of HP. Hawkeye shops turn 1 for reavers (though makes sure not to spend too much money, since the next member of my team is rather expensive.) He also kills the bishop on turn 2, gaining another level. HP. Cool. After everyone else takes random potshots for exp, Lowen finishes Lloyd at around 68 displayed with the iron lance.

Edited April 1, 2011 by Chococoke

[chococoke]

Chapter 25 (8+4/111)

Castle breakdown:

Northeast: Heath (penalty) rescue-drops Marcus into position to murder the bishop on turn 2, leading to a subsequent seize. He held out on the castle for the rest of the chapter.

Northwest: Lowen and Hawkeye, backed by Erk, took on the majority of the cavaliers. I'm so glad I drafted Hawkeye, he's an absolute monster. Hawkeye killer axe'd what'shisface the paladin, and seized the castle.

Southwest: Kent soloed the whole thing with a few swords. Gained so much-needed levels as well.

Hector remained at the start with Prissy (who, no joke, did NOTHING this chapter thanks to the ballistae.) He recruited Farina ASAP.

Overall, quality levels were gained by everyone. However, taking 8 turns with the massive amount of reinforcements = many weapons being broken. This, coupled with Farina's asking price, could cause me issues in the future. Time will tell.

NAME    LEVEL     HP  POW  SKL  SPD  LCK  DEF  RES  WEP
Hector  16.57     33   16   12   12   8    17   6   A Axe
Marcus  13.47     40   15   20   14  13    13  13   S Lance A Sword A Axe
Lowen   18.50     38   13   11   16  10    14   3   B Sword B Lance
Erk     16.00     34   11   10   17   8     5   8   A Anima
Prissy  08.72     19    9    9   11   9     4  11   B Staves
Kent    17.00     33   12   13   12   5     8   3   C Sword B Lance
Hawkeye 07.94     52   19   14   12  14    14  10   A Axe
Farina  12.47     24   10   13   14  10    10  12   A Lance

Kent's offensive stats have improved somewhat. Lowen is dirty as SHIT. Not sure whether to promote him now so he can get that axe rank up, or to let him reach level 20. I'll probably just promote him. Erk is definitely going to be maxed out before I promote, count on that. I got him 2 new Thunder tomes, so it'll be rape time for him. Afa's Drops went to Farina. I'm honestly not sure when to promote her.

Does anyone have any good ideas when to promote who? Should I also take advantage of Hawkeye to peakwalk and visit the armory?

[General Horace]

Well...

Do you think units like Lowen/Erk/Kent will hit 20/20?

I promoted Lucius at level 14, but he is kind of an exception because I did it to raise his staff rank/ensure he isn't 0HKO'd.

AND DONE CHAPTER 27

13/108 Turns

Marcus critted Jerme like a boss. It stopped reinforcements coming.

Also, Harken.

Lucius soloed the north after the wyverns got killed (badly) by Dorcas, Fiora, and Rath, while Pent, Louise, and Canas took out the southeast, thanks to the unlock staff. Marcus killed everything on the path to Jerme's room.

UNIT      LEVEL      HP  POW  SKL  SPD  LCK  DEF  RES  WEP  
Hector    20.00      36   17  20*   12   5    12   5   A Axe
Marcus ??/16.78      38   22  23    20  12    12  14   S Lance A Sword A Axe
Sacrod 16/02.18      44   19  16    10  12     8   4   A Axe E Bow
Lucius 14/04.55      30   20  13    17   4     5  17   A Light B Staff
Canas  16/01.94      32   15  12    13   8     9  15   A Dark E Staff
Fiora     18.12      34   14  17    20   8     9   9   A Lance
Rath      14.67      32   12  12    13   6     9   3   A Bow
Louise ??/07.30      29   13  14    18  17    10  12   S Bow
Pent   ??/09.32      34   18  21    17  15    12  18   S Anima A Staff
Harken ??/08.74      Base

Edited April 2, 2011 by General_Horace

[chococoke]

Chapter 26 (11/122)

Lowen promotes at level 18. Hector heads east onto the forts and kills shit, he's nearing the level cap. Farina does what she can to avoid dying, which she does rather easily, unfortunately. Kent headed south with Erk. Erk is a superstar, and fucked up a ton of wyverns. Kent, on the other hand... well, let's just say he needs a lot of help. It kinda sucks that I have to baby him AND Farina now. I just know if I promote him now, he'll be utterly useless. Hawkeye killed many Wyverns, and even tanked 2 round of Vaida action. Lowen got very lucky with the devil axe, and wasn't injured even once by it. He's almost to C axes. I can't wait until he can use the silver axe, much fun will be had. Much indeed.

NAME    LEVEL     HP  POW  SKL  SPD  LCK  DEF  RES  WEP
Hector  17.93     34   17   12   12   8    17   7   A Axe
Marcus  13.80     40   15   20   14  13    13  13   S Lance A Sword A Axe
Lowen 18/1.62     40   14   12   17  10    16   4   B Sword A Lance D Axe
Erk     17.92     35   11   10   17   8     5   9   A Anima
Prissy  09.38     20    9   10   11  10     4  11   A Staves
Kent    17.92     33   12   13   12   5     8   3   C Sword B Lance
Hawkeye 07.94     52   19   14   12  15    14  10   S Axe
Farina  14.68     26   12   14   15  12    10  12   A Lance

I was going to promote Erk, then I realized I don't have a guiding ring... so I'll have to snag one on PFoD Kenneth, which is next. Shit, I almost forgot that I get to recruit Karel in this chapter... I hope I don't forget when I actually run through it.

[chococoke]

Chapter 27 (11/133)

Very happy with what I was able to do here. Lowen and Kent stayed back and held off the wyverns and killed the general and his buddies at the beginning of the map. Everyone else headed north. Lowen had a few run-ins with lady luck, and dodged many, MANY killing blows thanks to getting himself in trouble with the devil axe. Erk and Hawkeye were my primary wyvern murderers.

Hawkeye is so useful that it kind of makes me laugh. He is destroying everything. I recall, during my last HHM draft run, I had to wait outside of the throne room for Kenneth to waste all of his Purge shots, because nobody could take a hit of Purge and also survive a round of combat from the silver sword wielding swordmaster. Well, I sent Hawkeye in there with a Swordreaver. Kenneth hits him with Purge, the silver sword guy attacks him and is critted DED. Next turn, Hawkeye critkills Kenneth with the killer axe. Game, set, match. Much self betterment was done, and even Marcus level STRENGTH for the first time this run!

Funny note. Lowen started the chapter at D rank axes. He is now halfway to S rank thanks to insane devil axe usage. Silver axe with no AS loss? LETS GO BABY

NAME    LEVEL     HP  POW  SKL  SPD  LCK  DEF  RES  WEP
Hector  18.39     35   18   12   12   8    17   8   A Axe
Marcus  14.14     41   16   20   15  13    13  14   S Lance A Sword A Axe
Lowen 18/3.13     41   14   12   19  10    17   5   B Sword A Lance A Axe
Erk     19.77     35   13   11   18   8     5  10   A Anima
Prissy  10.61     21    9   11   11  10     4  12   A Staves
Kent    18.18     34   13   13   12   5     8   3   C Sword B Lance
Hawkeye 10.37     53   20   15   13  16    15  10   S Axe
Farina  16.09     27   14   15   15  13    10  14   A Lance
Karel   08.05     31   16   23   20  25    13  12   A Sword

My team is now complete. I'm probably going to promote Erk and Kent before NoF, in preparation for Cog of Destiny. I'm really nervous for Cog of Destiny, to be honest, since that's where my run absolutely faltered last time. Though, to say I'm a little more prepared than last time is an understatement. Farina is going to be promoted after NoF no matter what, so that she can kill some magical bastards.

I also have a speedwing. Any ideas on who should get it? Also, should I promote Erk or kill bitches this chapter and promote him afterward? I'd like to know what other people think.

[General Horace]

Give Erk a promotion item to carry around during the chapter (and a heal staff, maybe) and when he hits level 20 (and has nothing to do) promote him. Hawkeye the speedwing.

[chococoke]

Night of Farewells is so fucking luck based, it's really frustrating.