Fire Emblem

[weeblord]

You’re missing out imo, the strong chara writing is the biggest improvement over recent games but it only shows its worth in the not-Byleth x not-Byleth supports.

[Lily Emilio]

I already saw a lot of those from watching multiple LPs prior to buying the Switch so no rush. Eventually as I replay the game for hundreds of hours I'll get all of those unlocked cuz I have completionist mentality. I aim to abuse NG+ benefits for those anyways so first round is mostly to set the ground work for the NG+.

So I started the DLC and the maps are real slog. I'm on chapter 3 atm and fuck that map.

[LegalLoliLover]

This is probably the last time, so it might be a moot point, but while free DLC was installed automatically, I had to redownload each time that I needed to install paid DLC.

[Lily Emilio]

Finished the DLC. That is some TM plot right there.

[Aozaki-desu]

Hilda crits DK for 162 damage without any outside help
Marianne flies around skewering half the map worth of innocent villagers on her lance

I may have done something i shouldnt have

[LegalLoliLover]

Finished the DLC. That is some TM plot right there.

How many battles is it?

[Lily Emilio]

How many battles is it?

7 chapters. Maps are not that hard, just annoying.

[Aozaki-desu]

Hapi / Balthus paralogue is the gayest shit ever holy fuck

[Aozaki-desu]

yfw when you realise that Marianne's paralogue is nothing but a farming grounds to get your last 2 team members of Dark Flier Squad up to speed

P.S. I liked the escape map in DLC, other than that its pretty meh, gameplay-wise

[LegalLoliLover]

Yuri reminds me of GBF's Yuisis, and the side story's final boss reminds me Dies Irae's Trifa.

[Aozaki-desu]

Verdant Wind Lunatic done

i've minmaxed too much and not enough at the same time
could make use of the borked dlc batallions but nah
flying 5 range thermonuclear weapon Lysithea is absurd

too lazy to sort pics, here's the album

Bonkers Lysithea, crazy good Marianne (she fell off later somewhat but her first half of the game was extremely good, Frozen Lance OP)
Special middle finger to Leonie though! and her STR growth, it wasnt even funny, useless shit
Hilda and Claude we're ok

I've tried cooking Mage Lorenz properly but he surprisingly sucked. I mean poison strike is good and all but he cant really kill shit at any point of the game, i was dissapointed kinda.
Not sure how to build him, he seems to suck no matter what i do

Raph is okay in armor with a killing bow but honestly slow units deserve to be guard adjutants

I guess i'm dont with 3H for a while
I kinda want to try Ironman Lunatic SS with even more minmaxed builds
Ignatz is kinda useless

[asterism42]

Armours suck in 3H; should've made him a War Master.

[Aozaki-desu]

They arent bad though, but you need to make a right unit into armour class
Raphael is just a bad unit because he has no speed

[Bloble]

Gauntlet users don't need speed. WM bases and maybe a stat booster or two should let Raph quad monsters and armours all the way to endgame.

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That base defense boost from going armour/fortress knight suddenly doesn't look so bad when you're already guaranteed to get doubled by every enemy no matter what. With the plentiful movement boosting options in 3H, armored low move doesn't even matter much either.

[Aozaki-desu]

He is never gonna quad any monsters lol, monsters are fast when not disabled (and literally everyone can murder disabled monsters)
Armours are killed by every mage in the game without retaliation from 3 range
Even assuming Raph quads armours he is still probably eating retaliation strike and he is tanky but not that tanky
also getting doubled is death unless your def/res is really fucking high
i liked my GK Sylvain even though he wasnt perfect but he had good stats and i used boost def/res items on him

I only like armours who have decent spd/res in spide of their class
Also Raph is generally a pain to deal with early on because no speed and not many options

[LegalLoliLover]

While she is not physically my type, I like Constance, personality-wise, given that she is a fallen noble wanting to regain her status, which IMO makes her superior to nobles, who never lost their better lives, sitting on their laurels and commoners, who never had a better life, content with their lot in life. To put it another way, craving is beautiful, as Dies Irae taught me that craving leads to hegemony, and hegemony leads to growth. Edelgard's Empire allows for such class mobility (or at the very least, lessens the barriers of entry), while Dimitri's Kingdom just makes everyone satisfied where they currently are.

[Twi]

Edelgard's Empire would remove class entirely and base it on merit... except the people who would be best suited would be the ones better educated, which are nobles who can afford that (barring exceptional cases and prodigies). It'd just change things to where instead of Crests determining everything, you have the rich doing it. Ferdinand had to explicitly point that out and propose a public school system to her in order to give it a chance. Not to mention there are a number of ways that system can be compromised and what would happen to those who can't measure up to a merit based society that makes it little better to me than the crappy Feudalism system. The Crests really only affect the nobles in the first place, so it just pushes it from all nobles being on top to the nobles with crests being on top of the nobles without it.

That being said, Constance is a decent character. Though her sullen form reminds me a little too much of Marianne and a little of Bernie, which leads me to wonder if Ferdinand has a type...

[LegalLoliLover]

But that's just it. Ferdinand's views contribute to Edelgard's. Even Edelgard herself says that she is open to other opinions to better her base system. As for being compromised... That's literally all systems. I don't know a system that can't be cheated.

[LegalLoliLover]

Hot damn, Lysithea. During the Battle of Tailtean, I was planning to have Edie finish Dimitri off, but first, I had Felix weaken him. However, Lysithea, as Felix's adjutant, stole Edie's kill. Power of sweets for ya. In other news, I really feel like juxtaposing these 2:

[Lily Emilio]

Except that the 2 characters and the themes are not even similar.

Rhea is Kingu and Sothis would be Tiamat in term of equivalence, minus the fact that non of them seek to destroy humanity.

Basically in Rhea's case what you did was just killing Kingu.