A beginner's guide to choosing which units to actually include in the next banner:

[Kysafen]

Step 1: Realize there are over 40 recruitable characters from your game to choose from. Because, come on. It's Heroes, where even the most obscure characters have a chance of making it in. Like, Raigh? Where the hell does he rank on the "overall series popularity list"? But he still got in, because Heroes. So remember: don't be afraid to use units that people don't recognize through some fucking moronic in-joke meme. 

Step 2: See the classes of the characters you're willing to put in. So say, if you're absolutely insistent on making it a mounted mage and a mounted sword user, look at all the classes you can recruit in the game! There are tons to choose from, and you've got at least one unit for each weapon type! No need to get repetitive and use the same characters over and over, because there's at least 2 other mage knights and 6 other mounted sword users.

Step 3: Choose which characters fit the classes you wish to put in. So if you had to put in a mounted mage, there is a temptation to lazily rely on overblown memetic recognition of character to do another iteration of them, but you're too professional for that. So instead, look at another choice, like Eyrios! He's got a cool character angle, like being a commoner but hates the lack of class mobility in the feudalist/royal class structure! Or how about Miranda! Her distrusting attitude from the empire hunting Leif creates a unique characterization, with the conflicting feelings between blaming Leif and blaming the Empire for the brutalization of Alster, caught in between impossibly brutal times and circumstances that allow no real satisfying resolution! Intriguing! And if you needed a mounted sword user, maybe you could give that to, I dunno, maybe Fred! He's actually recruitable in the game he's from, and even has a relationship to Olwen, a character you already put in and has absolutely no fucking need to have another version of. Or how about Fergus, or Diarmuid, mounted sword users who not only are actually recruitable, but have a personal weapon that actually existed in their game!

Cheers!

Edited April 11, 2018 by Kysafen

[Ice Dragon]

'Kay.

[Tybrosion]

Hmm......... No, sorry. The only thing I got from the OP was salt. A lot of salt, if I may add.

Though seriously, by step 2's logic Leif should've been the last of these four banner characters to be included given that there were only 35 other infantry sword units who came before him. I'll also leave the standard and obligatory "because money" reason here to explain why Step 1 wasn't really followed by IS.

Though really, I'm not sure why I'm even interjecting here at all when Ice Dragon's response was all that was needed here.

[bottlegnomes]

This is well in excess of my daily sodium intake.

[eclipse]

Step 4: Post this where it belongs.

[Ansem]

4 hours ago, eclipse said:

Step 4: Post this where it belongs.

OP was rekt 

Spoiler

like guunthra lolol

 

[SoulWeaver]

7 hours ago, Tybrosion said:

Though seriously, by step 2's logic Leif should've been the last of these four banner characters to be included given that there were only 35 other infantry sword units who came before him. I'll also leave the standard and obligatory "because money" reason here to explain why Step 1 wasn't really followed by IS.

Leif gets by because last-Lord-past-the-post, though. Now that they've exhausted that excuse, I will agree there's no reason for any more Infantry Sword until we get Idunn, Reina(Flying Bow anyone?), Yukimura(Mounted Dagger anyone?), or literally any Beaststone Unit.