Fire Emblem - Page 22

You have a really powerful unit early game that kind of carries the first half of your run on his back (Avatar = Rutger). You get a bunch of units in the meantime that range from above average to terrible. About halfway through the run, you get your overpowered Wyvern (Camilla = Miledy) who gives you a big boost to your team's power until you start getting your OP lategame prepromotes (Ryoma/Xander = Perceval), which fill out your team for the rest of the run.

The game also trolls you by giving you mediocre mages that are horribly underleveled and totally worthless for no reason (Nyx/Odin = Sophia).

I actually went with a paladin Jakob this time again so I had no staff user for 2 chapters when you only have 3-4 characters. It worked out until I got to mid/late game because he got no defense gains (He beat Xander in str/skill/spd by 2 or 3 each, but Xander had 14 more defense, yeah, 14!).

I also went Archer Mozu but when I picked up Ryoma and Xander I basically ditched her because while she had very minor stats better than Takumi (like 1 str and 2 skill over him at same levels), Fujin Yumi gives Takumi stats and Takumi takes no move penalty. Mozu might have been better if I kept up with her, but Takumi just fit better when I needed to drop someone out of my group.

Biggest downside I see so far is basically the Royals just dominate everything so unless you want to use lesser units, you stick with them. All my pair ups include a royal (offensive or defensive). Ryoma and Xander just solo entire swathes of enemies like its nothing.

Was good introductory spot for new players. I didn't really abuse reclasses or any children on this path and did minimal grinding. Most chapters were good. Ran into issues on the first Ninja chapter in 11 I think. Took a few retries. Overall good pacing until the Endgame chapter which was just really dumb. I eventually just ran up and aced the dragon in a few rounds because you can't stop the stuff on the ground? Negative part of Kaze dying because of non A support which I had to go back and fix. I hope they dont do that in future games.

I liked Conquest. It gives you the same part of no grinding like older games. Once you got a small core of units though this was pretty straight forward in terms of difficulty. I don't think I ran into any trouble in the maps except the Ninja's again in chapter 14 I think? A few resets for this but once I got it down the only other problem chapter was Endgame. I think if I went back and did some more reclassing and had a better unit composition this would have been easier. I had too few front line units compared to support ones and it showed in the lack of damage I did.

I liked the closure in this game. I really liked the early game where you had no units almost to speak of until like chapter 10. The first Valla map here I really enjoyed with the shadow areas and going through the valley. I did reclasses a lot here and took care of supporting my core roster much cleaner around so I did not have any chapter cause me issues at all. I definitely disliked some of the later maps just because they terrain movement was not engaging, but more just time sinks in the map. Also once your past chapter 16 when you pick up all of the royals, you just obliterate every map because they are insane.

This was the first time I did a Str Avatar too (Birthright/Conquest I did Magic boon), so I had Avatar (reclassed 20/2 to Swordmaster), Ryoma, Xander, Takumi (Sniper) basically do all my fighting in the last 5 chapters. I used Camilla/Kaze pair up to have high mobility/anti caster as needed, but they just werent needed after some point when the enemies just kill themselves on the other 4.

So I would have just cleared straight to the end of that map, but apparently Revelations likes to throw insane amounts of items at you instead of gold so it behooves you to clear entire maps, which makes that one painstakingly slow. In a later map, literally more than half the map's units will drop an item when they die.