Soooooo...about the number of units...

[jdb1984]

What is an ideal number of units to have? Right now, I'm thinking of maybe having 10 active units, excluding Chrom (sinceyou have to take him) and non-combat healers (since they don't take exp from your fighting units). But what do you think?

[Vascela]

Depends on the player. I find 2 to be extremely simple/straightforward. Others like Chrom + Spouse, Avatar + Spouse, Kids (and perhaps on additional 1st gen pair). There's nothing inherently wrong with fielding 10; it's unreasonable to want to use more units than you can field in chapters. That's the number 1 cut off.

[jdb1984]

Yes, but the number you can field increases. And I'm trying to get a core team together, and only use them, so the EXP isn't spread out too far. I must have made a mistake somewhere in my initial playthrough, since I used EXPodental Growth countless times.

I'm trying to do some pre-planning this time around, so it doesn't happen again.

[Water Mage]

You could always use the remaing units as pair up fodder, that way you can use a core team of 10 units, and the rest don't need to figh or be in danger, even if they are low-leveled.

[ShadowSlayer]

You could always use the remaing units as pair up fodder, that way you can use a core team of 10 units, and the rest don't need to figh or be in danger, even if they are low-leveled.

I agree.