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triplepostan

also I am aware imgur did some stupid shit or something lately where it deletes images uploaded without being associated with an account or whatever but catbox doesn't work half the time and is also blocked by a bunch of internet providers and the only other sites that do this image stuff are like ten years old and barely work so if all the images in these posts suddenly disappear then uhh oops

I have no clue what happened with ch0-6 since I did those like four months ago and also restarted the playthrough
I did it only a little bit later than the first time so I already knew what to do and there wasn't anything new but corn is now knight talent with +luk/-skill

now outside of changing to knight talent I also saw the first time you can actually buy infinite heart seals is ch20
outside of the ones you can buy you get a whopping two heart seals for the entire game so for the majority of the game I would be able to reclass a maximum of five units without friendship or marriage seals except half the units happen to be the fabled "corrinsexuals" who lack such supports to use those items
I also found a lot of the bonus items to be pretty cheap like enough statboosters to give +4 to all stats for any unit and what was it, two pairs of boots? and a bunch of killer weapons and whatever else
so I decided to sell all battle, rank, and path bonus items worth money save for some of those hoshidian 1-2 range staves, illusory yumi, the bolt naginata, and the fruit knife (yum yum)
and all that money went into buying heart seals from online mycastles
this totaled to around...32? heart seals
I won't start using them until around the time when I get access to more stuff so I aint playing this like it's fe11 or anything though if I want to reclass a unit past ch~13 or so I'm just gonna do it
note this does not apply to master seals only heart seals

with all that out of the way 
let us begin

ch7

oh yeah before I forget I put out some good quality cheese and trapped an anna who is now forced to work for free (also keeping her arms scroll)
she is around the level of niles so I won't be bringing her out until chapter nine though this one only lets you bring two anyway
dragonstone corn goes in range of enemies felicia stays barely out of range and then he kills and she heals 
then effie and arthur and silas deal with the bottom as the entire map starts moving at once
adjacent elise and 2 spaces away felicia is -5 damage for corn so this is pretty babby 

ch8

gave a little more trouble
and by that I mean there was no issues at all and I got to the boss and decided to gamble
corn was able to do two 79s where both was a kill but at least one needed to hit 
if only one hit then effie needed to hit an 80
and if she missed then niles needed to hit two 50s but if all of that didn't work out corn dies
guess what happened

anyway next attempt I remembered how the houses and dragon vein worked so I had everyone go to the left except for silas and effie who visited house
niles kills mages from around the middle area and felicia uses a very dangerous candle to ORKO the mages to the left
then freezes the lancer visiting those villages and the map is basically won
kinda like this one
this time corn had 90 hit for some reason I entirely forgot and so 90 hitx2=win




after this is...oh yeah I forgot mozu has a paralogue
yeah that's a thing that happens isn't it
so mozu's png mom gets crit sound effect'd and then anna joins because extra spot and I have everyone else paired up scooping up her exp 
it was just as easy as normal and actually I recall it being pretty much the same but it turns out apparently the enemies have 6 more attack and 2-3 more defense and 4-7 more hp 

anyway nobody cares about mozu she's a pairup bot for nina to inherit aptitude ch9 time

other than the enfeeble seal defense seven enemies in range spot in the middle this was also about the same azura avoids the guy recruit bench mage turn 2 and bait out the chumps near the entrance 
I actually realized you can go up top and break the wall but that's like how in binding blade chapter 3 you can go all the way around the entire thing as an alternate path and then break the thing and go in and break the other thing
it's there and it's kinda cool but I would be amazed to see anyone who does that because there happens to be a recruitable unit at the bottom no matter how useless
after baiting out the chumps I dumped mozu in enfeeble range to waste all of those then slowly killed the archers and dealt with the rest of the house

scooped up haitaka because you gotta do it at least once and that's ch9

I guess there's also invasion 1 that's stuff
I had effie deal with the stuff on the left then had the archers and azura and corn deal with the stuff on the right and got a free goddess icon and some exps

anyway that is the story so far of punished corn, a fallen hero

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lilith has gotten three blank levels in a row
time for ch10

after cool ass cutscene I take a look at the map and see effie with her +2 iron lance can OHKO almost every enemy on the map with silas pairup and strength tonic
some 33 attack I think

scooped up tonics and a defense meal because wynaut and this time I wanted to spice things up
usually I slap effie in the top right and have someone manning the two ballistas and the fire orb and then arthur or whoever holds one chokepoint while I try to have corn and silas get to takumi before he fucks shit up (and then that fails so I just have them go back to the left chokepoint) and then cowmilla shows up and demolishes the entire map with zero issue
but this time I wanted to kill takewmii and have effie with silas go there while the top right is held by...nobody at all
in hindsight there were very very very many things wrong with this whole strategy such as
1. he has wary fighter even though he's not a general so effie can't ORKO
2. choke points need to be held to hold chokepoints
3. enemies will not attack if they do 18 damage and effie has 25 defense
4. you shall not pass

so yeah after that one I decided hm maybe silas goes in the top right and then I promote effie to a great knight I did that the first time I played and it worked well until she got ridersbane'd for her entire hp bar fe11 style a few chapters later
and the exact same issue came up she has way too much defense and this game is slightly less juggernaut friendly than usual so the enemies are just gonna walk past her and kill everyone else

man that is some crust on there it looked better when it was an ms paint snip
anyway so past that point I thought hmmmm perhaps perchance I use some cheese and have effie and silas supportgrind to S in before awakening since they're already at A and then I can have her reclass to a cavalier
...then effie killed herself against the boss because he has counter



upon realizing I should not be reinventing the wheel and if it aint broke don't fit it and all those weird phrases nobody other than mgs1 meiling says anymore I just had unpromoted effie in the top right and promoted great knight 17 defense silas pair up with uhh
was it arthur
I think it was arthur
and go to the bottom left while haitaka and wet paper defenses corn try to prevent shit from getting fucked before camiller shows up
after trying that and realizing there is like zero way it wouldn't work all of the conquest normal mode ironman ch10 tension and risk of things going wrong was completely gone 
so I just scooped up all the shit and the enemies killed themselves against silas and effie took 0 damage from all the guys to the top right and the pegasussies fell to their natural predator, the superior malig knight
then mashed end turn and that's the end of ch10

ch11

is ass the only threat is the middle room which I have absolutely no idea how I'm supposed to deal with other than using freeze or something so I brought chamomile with a dual club and gave her an effie
then threw her at it and that shit exploded
oh yeah I think something bad almost happened around hinoka because a guy did like 10 damage more than I thought he was supposed to do but it was fine

ch12

was kinda weird since you can just ignore like 80% of the enemies and lose literally nothing for doing so
first time I got to ryoma and was one turn away from the kill until I left mozu one space too far to the left and some random guy walked up and hit her with the 20x2 
missed the flame shuriken that time but second time around I scooped it up over the wall and then did the same things except mozu is one space to the right so she doesn't get eviscerated by a light gust of wind

effie has like 36 attack with the big lance so ryoma perishes within a reasonable timespan and the map is won

missed the armorslayer because suddenly some bowguys with spendthrift started walking up but eh who needs it it only has what 27 might and greatly benefits making sure severa does damage to more than two types of enemies
(actually I have found those wary fighter 27 defense generals genuinely have me not giving a damn about the armorslayer I still haven't bought one)

and last ch13

takumi shows up again and apparently he either bought pass online or he spent the last three maps going through the adventurer classline for kicks and then second seal'd awakening style to get back to lv1 for the next skill grind
so effie can't just sit on that point and erase half the map
also like four wyvern armor pairs come from the bottom which is not very fun but niles and anna passing around that 12 might forged bow made it a tad bit better and benny sits on a throne or whatever it was called in this map to not perish
kaze cleans up the left and felicia with flame shuriken does surprisingly well against like every enemy on the map who doesn't have a name
effie gets another god level up

and corn gets another abysmal level up

then map is pretty much under control
two villages was kill but who cares about that stuff maybe they should have hired an armor knight to sit on the entrance so they don't immediately turn into a pile of rubble the moment some guy with a lockpick looks at them funny
then I guess hans the killy guy kills a bunch of people and then scarlet gets beheaded or tarred and feathered or whatever
I can appreciate the whole thing with corn trying to not have people die and spread peace and hope since I like that kinda stuff even if it's done in the most unbelievable and naive way (like big boss slamming ten year old children into a brick wall head-first for a "non-lethal takedown") but man I don't know what they are trying to achieve by having these cartoon villains that are comically evil and go around exploding heads and take being called filthmaggots or scumbumblers as a compliment is it supposed to be a contrast with corn or something because man I hope not 
maybe is it meant to show nohr's corruption and terrible acts except they bring it up way too many times like they think you forgot that happened four other times before 
I dunno man this is the fourth time I'm seeing this and still I don't get what half of the stuff in the story is even supposed to be especially when they drop the v*llabomb on you like it's the damn blood pact or something except at least the blood pact exists because the writers wrote themselves into a corner the crystal and v*lla stuff is just there like it happens all the time

anyway that is all for this time half my team is filler units for supports I am probably making it way harder for myself than I need to bringing mozu or early promoted silas or base stats steel sword lazlow 

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ch14



ehhh found out other phase comes after enemy phase and not before 
probably confused it with partner phase but yeah wheaton was kill 
next attempt wheaton was not kill and everything went fine no problems not too bad except I forgot to give benny vulneraries and he was taking on like half the map while everyone else went the top path 
so eventually he was at a point where he'd die next enemy phase 
had to get everyone on that shit since no physic and I managed to make benny not kill
that was until 3x2=6 pega spawned and there was zero way I'd be able to defeat the remaining enemies while also tackling all of those guys in time since they reach in like two turns and I'd have to basically OHKO three of them to be able to get the other three 
annoying as hell and half the units I was bringing are backpacks only to get child paralogues so even with niles and anna able to easily kill one each this was not happening
third attempt I gave benny his vulneraries and got anna a shining bow which immediately turned her into my second best damage dealer (leo the benchwarmer still does better) and had benny and felicia bait out the staves early on which made things way easier because now I can just have everyone rush in without being frozen and kill pegasussies with anna who does like 25 damage with a dual strike

promoted elise to maid because maybe she'll reach C rank to use the flame shuriken in a few chapters maybe she becomes debuffer and staffer (I was playing gba and radiant dawn so I forgot all fates weapons give 1wexp and you get 1wexp per combat and you need 50 rounds of combat to reach C she is never getting the flame shuriken she is getting benched) and then scooped up kumagera for kicks 







ch15

best chapter in gaem no need for introductions you know what we gonna do
...well before that I was very rudely interrupted by ninjas who I forgot have you know debuffing and poison and all that
but ok NOW here we go

gunter isn't allowed to modify his inventory in battle preps so now we spend a bunch of turns funneling a heart seal and like five statboosters and a bunch of tonics into him for maximum gunter
also raider weapons and forges
corn friendship seals to ninja and then promotes to master ninja for +5 gunter speed
after getting defender he becomes a hero which I forgot to screenshot and stomps many more chumps but my pace is slow and things are looking shitty
top half was cleared out easily but the bottom half isn't babby games
on turn 19 enemy phase slapped corn with the ultimate pebble in boss range and hoped for the best
and it turns out with them debuffs and the pairup 

gunter saves the day at the very last moment

and the speedwing is mine

:)


after this point I see that I was trying to make like four pairs happen and none of that shit was happening
I don't fully get how the support things work but I thought it was something like six rounds of combat of any type results in the maximum amount of support points allowed per map at 3
and when you reach 15 it's an S support
most of my pairs were at C rank including peri and lazlow who I thought should almost be at A at the very least and ok I guess it's reasonable felicia and benny and uhhh kaze and elise didn't get far but man no more of this backpack shit whatever rank they're at after ch16 is what they'll have when I go have them poke a 99 defense xander in the face in an online mycastle for 90 minutes so I can finally toss em on the bench

ch16

didn't realize armorslayer began to move the previous turn until I saw benny exploded and had to restart
so this time I had xander and gunter stomp the left and everyone else deals with the right which is gonna be anna feed
gunter scooped up many a kill and gained many a skill and only four or five enemies remained on the map some mages some fighters I think a zerker
couldn't decide whether to wait for gunter and xander to arrive and everyone else to run away or just try to take them on with my current formation and I made the foolish decision to continue immediately
kaze was in range of a mage and I had him debuff a fighter since they have a lot of hp
and then found out seal res activates even if the enemy wasn't able to even attempt an attack
killed the guy and had kaze equip the candle for that 7% miracle chance in case he got hit by the 49


at the start of the third attempt wheaton paired up with xander as usual
...and then activated his luck% skill to find resources after ending his turn
he has 9 luck


played the map same way as last time except the issue didn't come up again for reasons I don't recall I think what happened was last time I tried dealing with the enemies from the bottom but this time I went from the top and used dual guards



got 6100 gold so big forge for shura

gunter prepares to bow knight

and now for babby paralogue

lair of midoriko destroyer of worlds and savior of runs
I think I played this one once before but man it's comically easy
also since these paralogues are entirely for gunter statboosters I'm gonna mainly try and just have this be gunter exp since he gets like 5exp per kill anyway (also benny exp since he needs luna for ignatius)

absurdly easy chapter with weak ass enemies and I actually surprised myself by finding out you can two turn this by activating the dragon vein so I had to kinda just ignore candace and kill everything else
until about 3/4 of the way through the map where I accidentally put gunter on a chokepoint so candace couldn't even progress through the map anymore and decided "eh fuck it" and ended the map

oh yeah reclassed gunter back to great knight after shurikenbreaker to scoop up armored blow

pretty gud huh



and benny and felicia have a touching moment 



the other three supports (jakob severa, elise kaze, peri lazlow) are uhh
well
in peri lazlow support lazlow actually kinda gets through to peri to show her no you should not be dismembering stray cats in the backyard that is not good
then suddenly he goes "ok marry me now"
in elise kaze support kaze sees elise as some dumb kid without object permanence or whatever who has no clue what she's doing
and then she says "ok marry me now" and he goes "ok yeah"
and in jakob severa support it's like
jakob: you're absolutely moronic
severa: I fucking hate you
S support: "ok let's get married"
at least in this one severa is tsun tsun >:( (but actually :)) so maybe that could be said for that
but from other jakob supports he kinda just seems like he genuinely does not like any of these people 
so eh I don't get it man I don't get it



lucky for me benny and felicia are the only pair that are actually gonna stick around jakob and lazlow and kaze (and also elise) are benchies

anyway that is the story of punished "venom(poison strike)" corn, a man denied his birthright

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sextuple posting (yeah it's sextuple I thought it was called hextuple but nah)

ch uhhhhhh some prologue somewhere
...soleil paralogue?
yeah that one

it's well
uhh
yeah
mmhmm

put gunter in malig knight to scoop up trample and whatever the other malig knight skill was and then I put elise like one space too low on accident and she perished 
next attempt I did not put elise one space too low and spent some 15-30 turns mashing end turn while using a vulnerary on player phase until everything was dead since rout the enemy
I know that one rev rubble mechanic was used again here so I could have figured out how it worked again and slapped one down in the bottom left and made it even less of an issue but I didn't bother since I need to choke those points right away for dracoshield
I rate rev/10 (not good)

gunter eats his shield and niles promotes and now it's time for dryer's paralogue

this one
well
ok it's immediately apparent this shit can be one-turned but benny need to get luna or else I have to delay ignatius paralogue and I have no idea when the enemies all start to promote but it's not something I wanna deal with so I gotta deal with this instead
first time I didn't bother to move elise and you know what happens there
second time everything was going just swimmingly and I was close to being able to feed benny the remainder of the map
and then dryer moves his entire damn movement range right in the middle of the map where that sniper who is the most dangerous enemy I've seen in the entire game is sitting
like excuse me is it really necessary to do like 20x2 damage to anyone in range (actually benny could have dealt with that pretty easily I don't remember why I didn't just do that but there was a reason maybe probably)
anyway so I try to have jakob recruit him while paired up with severa and then dance him and get him out of range but it turns out azura is one space in that range and peri isn't in range for shelter
so I end the turn and then realize wait severa could have lived with 2hp but now she's the fruit on the bottom and we're in for round 3
this time now that I know drwyer moves I have corn be the only one with damage and put him in a spot where he can be reached with a heal staff
and suddenly it's piss easy and that's the map
another child unit on the bench and another mildly useful gunterbooster and time for sophie paralogue

here's a third "green units make your life way harder than it has to be" map
since I already knew what they were gonna do a few turns in this didn't end up like dryer paralogue but when six villagers literally rush towards the boss and only one can die to get all the shit but they're all in a blob so they're all gonna die if they go into enemy range it sucks to be you
map is just having your good units kill all the enemies and your not good units pick off whoever remains so this only took one attempt but gunter probably missed out on a full level of exp for another skill that I'm gonna use once and realize isn't worth using in more than like two situations anyway
gunter gets his energy drop and all is gud
also captured the boss nichel or whatever he's going on the bench along with these kids

ignatius paralogue

ehhhhhh
I really don't get what you are meant to do here
it seems like you're supposed to cross this way

but then freeze troubador so no you are not allowed to do that you either fly over the mountain or go this way

which kinda ends up being the same issue as trying to go through freeze in that you won't reach on time before shit gets hairy
maybe I shoulda dunnit like this

a silly strategy
lucky for me ignatius has tomefaire and gunter can bop a mage every turn while everyone else deals with the enemies on the way there though so not too bad probably worse if no tomefaire but I don't really know 
ignatius is not bench and joins the team as the third worst unit or something in my team of what sixteen units when the deployment limit is some twelve units
and anna promotes into an adventurer with 22 mag and a 13 might bow
people say "omg engage anna good unit just feed her 15 levels and a second seal and master seal and give her micaiah and celica and then she matches up to citrinne at base!!!" or whatever 
but I present to you 22+13 attack hits res flyer effective very fast very speedy fire emblem fates for the nintendo 3ds anna

ok and last ch17

I don't think I really had any issues with this map in the past though I heard the lunatic version was some mega ballstomper 3000 due to something like ninjas stacking debuffs infinitely 
but nah they don't 
so it was pretty much the same as normal except units are a little squishier
niles and gunter and benny try their luck at the bottom right and everyone else goes up
and at one point when I was maybe halfway through some ten reinforcements suddenly spawned in around the north and I had absolutely no way to deal with that 
I dragon vein'd so niles could GTFO without realizing wait hold on a minute there's nobody to reopen the dragon vein so everyone else can not be locked in the top left or exposed to the enemies in the middle
so this became an exciting event to see who dies first
shura, in range of two mememasters and a master ninja and mechanist 
niles, in range of like three ninjas and a samurai
or ignatius, in range of those three ninjas and also like three more ninjas and two samurai
all are lethal, but who can be killed to death like a pro?
ignatius won the golden medal upon one poison strike taking off almost 40% of his max HP for whatever reason (these were unpromoted ninjas so it wasn't grisly wound stacking) and promptly being killed by the samurai
good show good show
anyway next attempt I did basically the same thing except faster and without the part where half my team is permanently trapped in the top left and all was fine and good until saizo decides he should be like the greenies in the past four paralogues in that they are very unpleasant and I'd prefer if they did not exist
and by that I mean immediately suicide into enemies
he just walks into a blob of like six guys with his 14 defense and 23+2 speed like he's hot shit (pyrotechnics) but uh no he's just shit and he's dead and attempt 3 activated
I can't exactly do anything about saizo's swagger as he confidently gets the stuffing beaten out of his empty head so you know

and he does and I say goodbye to gunter's speedwing
if it turns out I actually need that for endgame or whatever then I'll consider doing that one dlc where you can get a speedwing since he only has some 14 speed so even with all the rallies and buffs and tonics and whatever he still only gets up to around 31 and I think takewmee has like 30 or whatever so need four more speed (well that's assuming I can even reach him with my raggedy ass party of chumps) 
map is not made out of solid steel so I beat the shit out of it now that greenie's gone and done it again and severa promotes into an aggressively subpar and inadequate rallybot

I bring everyone over so shura can get justice for his exploded country and put niles in range for some chip to kill next turn
and uhh

ok thanks
maybe next time shura ol buddy ol pal don't let that 4% crit get to you next time your country gets wiped off the map I'll be sure to let you kill that guy alright

peri promotes 

sure that'll do

and that is all for now next time is the part where the maps make me say "zoinks!" because they are not very good 

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ch18

always thought this chapter was kinda weird since it's kill boss but the main difficulty of the map is overcoming the ten enemies that immediately attack you once you move into range
feels like the type of map designed to possibly be played multiple ways (combine armies on one side and deathball, have one group deal with the top side and the other deal with the bottom side) though I always just slap someone on that middle right chokepoint and have the left side deal with the bottom half of the map
this time I thought let's get weird with it and reclassed peri to a great knight then sent her down to scoop up some kills on the horses bottom right outside of the beastkiller and armorslayer range
but then she took approximately 16 more damage than expected (and I am pretty sure I accounted for elbow room) so uh alright 
next try
shura can wipe the top half of the map ez though a strangely large number of those guys just do not move at all
the entire left side of the top half of the map did not move
bottom half easy as well if I just ignore the paladins and felicia allllmost can finish off zola

yes he became felicia feed

alright now for the maps that are not good
I recall people saying "everything is better on lunatic!" or "maps are better when you understand the mechanics!" and thought alright I guess next time I play these they'll be good
nah man
nah

ch19


he may not eat mountains but he'll eat everything that lives on em

gunter after last chapter's energy drop has exactly enough strength to OHKO all of the lv20 unpromoted kitsune so he'll be swooping in to fuck em up for that juicy 2exp 
and ignatius is almost lv20 so may as well give him a few kills
benny reclasses to general and I believe also scoops up wary fighter in this chapter because he has like 9 speed
slapping on some tonics because I aint looking for precision here I'm looking for gaiden-level "yeah that probably works and he'll take some amount of damage between 1/4th and 3/4ths of his total hp after fighting seven enemies in a row"

after mashing end turn many a time gunter finally gets trample and can become a wyvern like all jeigans are destined to

finally gunter is in his end class and everyone is promoted 
he made it he's the real fire emblem fates conquest
peak of playthrough is near (not in the next like two maps and paralogue though and also not that one after the two pretty decent ones and also not the one after that one)

not unfair not cheap people do this shit with xander all the time and he's 200% more effective this is a LEGIT run gunter game he's gonna stop being a god pretty soon anyway with that 14 speed so it's fiiine it's gud

seriously though good lord I never really paid attention to xander's stats since he's just the guy who stomps the right half of ch16 and then maybe chokes the point in ch17 if I don't have anyone better (also lel it seems they nerf his stats compared to this in birthright 26 and only on lunatic do you fight him with these bases)
but if I gave him all the statboosters I gave to gunter he'd genuinely be radiant dawn haar levels of utterly fucked up his stats at base are almost equivalent to gunter's after all the statboosters
shit I'm gonna go see what his stats look like as a wyvern lord reclass

alright I forgot he loses siegfried which is pretty major so he should be staying a paladin or some other sword using class 
also str and skill are I think +1 from a meal I don't remember if there was a defense meal but I'm too lazy to check
1 less hp same str same mag 13 less skill (so skill activations are much lower chance) same speed 9 less luk I think 3 more defense because the boost might be due to siegfried and 8 less res
pretty similar performance where it matters excluding the lack of skills xander has access to comparatively though with all the statboosters I shudder to imagine the feats a favoritism juggernaut xander could achieve


anyway gunter turns kaden into a rug and chapter over






ignatius promotes

grim
though at this point I have accepted he will always be filler

I tried to do invasion 2 for that master seal
and well
yeah I dunno what the hell kinda statwall they expect me to have to achieve that but that's not happening I struggled with that far more than I did basically any chapter in this game up to this point
six attempts
but I'm not paying for another damn master seal
so we're gonna cheat

that's right
my master seal



effie promotes with said master seal since I am stupid enough to think I'll actually have enough deployment slots to use my ever growing team of like 19 units

ok now nina paralogue

another thoroughly no thanks chapter
nina does that whole "steal from the rich and give to the poor!!!!" shit that probably at least five or six other characters in fire emblem alone have already done and now we gotta catch up to her and beat her to death for not staying in her eternal hell dimension 
gunter reclasses to paladin and lunges to the left camilla is taken off the bench to reclass to dark knight and lunge to the right when paired up with shura and then I find out the stairs are not actually an escape point and the outlaws escape through the six space long thingy to the right and the two space wide thingy to the left
anyway died because of two things:
1. nina is an outlaw who is here to steal shit and GTFO according to the chapter intro but ignores the goddess icon to the top making her around four turns closer to the exit than expected
2. there are fates reinforcements so instead of one enemy coming out of one stairs it's two very bulky nearly impossible to ORKO enemies paired up with two more enemies coming out of one stairs 
next attempt I tried going faster and have flora freeze nina because she escapes on turn 7 or whatever it was and it's very difficult to reach the stairs to block the reinforcements to make that easier
and yeah not fast enough
next attempt even faster but apparently daggers lose to axes
I know sword<lance<axe<sword is already only barely justifiable and has to specifically be in fire emblem context (sword is shorter than lance and fire emblem lance is made of cheap wood so it gets chopped by those comically large fire emblem axes and those comically large fire emblem axes are too heavy so they lose to a sword which is much easier to wield)
but then how does a thin piece of metal thrown lose to a bigass axe in a way where a thin piece of wood with metal on the end shot at the axe user wouldn't
if there was two separate weapon triangles then maybe
maybe
but man I bet 50% of the things I don't understand in this game is due to six weapons combined weapon triangle and its weird rank bonuses and weapons that manipulate it 
at least it aint axes in genealogy weapon triangle though lel
anyway next attempt I give flora and anna a magic tonic and suddenly they reach the ORKO thresholds on anything without wary fighter and this becomes babby chapter and I'm even able to straight up block the stairs with how quickly the bottom left enemies got killt

niles sends nina to purgatorio and all the enemies suddenly start running away
so I think to myself "free exp"
yes
and then...

??????????
absolutely no clue how or why this happened because I am pretty sure his health was near full and that's the first enemy to have attacked this turn
he has 29 luk so it wasn't a crit
26 def so that couldn't be the issue
19 res which is his weaker defensive stat but a shining bow has 13 might 
and 39 hp
I'm gonna assume gunter had around 30hp
so that adventurer would have needed to have 21 mag to be able to make that happen
...according to a video of this chapter they DO indeed have that much mag
(also in that video nina goes for the goddess icon what)
well that is thoroughly unpleasant but I understand why now I have learned greed is not good just play the game


(actually wait a minute how did I get that far up on like turn 4 what the hell
oh yeah lunge and 8 mov)
gunter beats the shit out of her and sends her to detroit where she's gonna have to live in the eternal hell walls peeling off roach infested detroit apartment for being an enormous pain in my ass
then I just barely manage to get the goddess icon with niles

and it's finally over


fujo promotes

I tried to pick the better class for shining bow since I had planned for her to be a second shining bow user but honestly these are such dogshit stats and I have so little room for units anyway she got used in ch20 for maybe two kills and got benched
anna has over twice that mag and niles has like 1.5x that str and he actually reaches doubling thresholds
but nina just hits like she's supposed to double and has the type of speed stat people call "defensive speed" aka not good enough to double but good enough to not get doubled
I think for endgame cheese shenanigans recruiting nina at lv15 is a thing so at least she could have done that but eh not anymore I guess




ok now fuga's wild ride

I was honestly hoping this would be better this time I really was
neither the first nor the last gimmick in the series to fuck with unit placement but I wanted to see one that was not just very bad to play

nah man
first death was niles
everything was pretty slow and dull because I can't just ride the wind everywhere like a pro uhhh
wind rider
and then I moved everyone down and entirely forgot niles was blown up by the wind
one hour lost
second was when everyone was blown up except I forgot if you're at the bottom of a four tile long platform that means you get blown onto the next walkable space
so flora dies and another hour lost
third time I actually got all the shit but was in a position where I really really needed fuga dead in one turn and one turn only

it was like this you see
those guys to the left would fuck shit up
well in hindsight no they wouldn't have but similar to most other times I had to restart in this game instead of playing defensively I tried to play offensively
this time it actually probably would have worked
needed shura to double for the stat debuffs and poison strike then gunter needs to land two hits
yeah you can probably already see where this is going
for no reason whatsoever I decide "eh let's use the adamant club it has a good hitrate and gives defense" when the berzerker axe is right there with 10 more hit

gunter misses
in fates RN 

that is a 1.73% chance to happen
and so I dance him to get the berzerker axe hit in and that has 100 accuracy so he hits
but he does not get luna which would have probably been a kill
he has 37 skill so quite high chances to get it but nah

so someone needs to do 11 damage
now fates is a very generous game
fates treat you nice you have >50 hit you get a little extra hit on there
and if you have <50 hit then don't worry about it we'll get rid of that second RN so what you see is what you get
thanks us later you'll notice it when your 48% hitrate is a 48% chance and not a 46.5% chance






and so shura dies and 90 more minutes are lost

alright
new plan
gunter
berserker axe
speed meal
speed tonic
rally speed
azura dance
corn pairup
+17 speed
no problems taking fuga down like this

on the way to fuga felicia who is a tomefaire general using a lance (beats magic) gets hit by not one but TWO 13s from hayato
she lives but yeah I have a feeling the game does not fancy me 
but severa dies because of a funny mage who happens to have counter tee hee

finally though it is done
shura and niles are in range to scoop up the dragonstone+

and gunter is prepped to take fuga's head



and thus ends the tale of fuga's wild ride, the four hour long tale of "gitgud scrub" of not checking skills and not knowing the weapon triangle, of tonics, meals, and rallies, the rise of gunter the great and the fall of the wind tribe who should have just said "yeah sure bro you can pass"

I know I said earlier this one does not get better and yeah I spent four hours getting 10k gold because you can just stay on the right and the wind blows you up to fuga on turn 3 and send a flier to get the west chest but I have gained a new appreciation for this chapter since it's the first one to really really really be a humongous pain in my ass and actually have me thinking at the end of it "man that was hard" and test my skills and patience and ability to do the same shit like five times for the first 2/3 of the map 

I beat all of awakening in less time than it took to clear this map
every other time I played conquest I knocked out 3-4 chapters in the amount of time it took for this one
you could probably juggernaut half the games in the series in the amount of time it took me to do this one map
good shit
good map
lel should tell people this map is trivial and a child should be able to do it

that's enough of that take a look at my biraku who got almost nothing but weapon level for 15 levels

(don't mind the 37 use knight crest game don't give enough of em for my armors)

anyway that is the story so far of punished "venom" corn, a legend exiled from his homeland(s)

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octuplepostan

ch21

do they really expect me to bring a full team here and deal with savage blow spam and getting hit by big rock for 57 damage
come on now

funnily enough this actually had one failed attempt I tried to get the arms scroll from the boss for extra dosh and gunter got fucked up when all the faceless nearby immediately began to beat the shit out of him since he dared end turn anywhere other than a ledge


lel here is the part where corn yells like liquid
I don't have an example of what liquid yelling sounds like and aint gonna go through all of mgs1 just to find one but man yeah not only is corn a punished snake he is also a liquid snake (and a traitorous snake and a reptile (dragon(almost a snake)))




flora performs the humorous action and then I look at these stats and compare to literally anyone else on the team and realize "wait this is not gba" and yeah she gets I think like three kills as a general before just reclassing back to maid
bolt axe does absolutely nothing here since this also isn't archanea and arm scrolls were promptly wasted
that strength stat is actually ehh alright but I captured some guy tobias and he is a general who already has wary fighter and also some other skills he shouldn't be able to legitimately obtain but he's an enemy so he has them
and he also has stats like twice as good as these
tobias may not be on the team but next time I do this I should get tobias on there I get to make him uhhhh one of those recruitable card guys yeah

oh yeah I forgot to say the reason flora is able to be a general is because I had her support grind corn and also I support grinded camilla and wheaton because I thought "eh may as well take velouria for a spin since I didn't last time" and leo and azura not for forrest but for gazak I had heard of gazak and wanted to see what's the big deal I know in fe11 h5 he filters half the playerbase because when he goes up against silver lance jeigan it looks like this

but in fates no clue we shall see


oh dear
I used cheese units 99 def to cheese this map just to see what forrest's stats look like after offspring seal since I've seen basically every other kid at this point aint using him but considering every single stat is variable may as well get a general idea
don't even remember what I ended up doing with the money I know I opened the chest but otherwise who knows did I use it on a hand axe did I use it on humorous hijinks absolutely no clue

alright kana map

I was gonna make a joke this is the only blue kana you can get in conquest without incest but then I realized oh yeah beruka exists 
AND also apparently peri doesn't pass down the cotton candy hair which is immensely disappointing news for me
well whatever
babby map wiped it out by like turn 6 or 7 and sat around waiting for lloyd and llewelyn who I promptly scooped up
I also brought wheaton here to get one (1) kill so he gets hp+5 to pass down at least something to velouria
and in the process of feeding him approximately six enemies spawned and then I tried to deal with those and another three spawned then another three and finally six more and they all spawn from different directions and my team is not 100% composed of paladins and fliers with 10 mov who can be everywhere at once so a sniper walks on one water tile and shura dies 
I never noticed but it's always shura who dies when I fuck up isn't it

knowing shit spawns around turn 10 or so makes this much easier because you can just finish the map first and suddenly it is done

recruiting these fuckers immediately gazak is not allowed but lloyd and llewelyn immediately getting armed with killers and 'zerker axes


their stats are actually pretty sweet but their hitrates make me feel like I'm playing fe6 and their luck stats make me feel like I'm playing prepromotes only fe1
gazak has noticeably better stats and is 4 levels lower with good enough growths and many illegal skills that are legal because he's gazak and gets +40 hit on everything

also an emotional support kana who I thought was just gonna be chip+debuff -2 damage support unit but she turned out to be easily top 5 units until magic becomes dogshit unless your name happens to be ophelia dusk

velouria paralogue called "nutty family"
that's nuts

alright I see all these enemies here
guess it'll just be waiting for them to come out slowly

...they don't move do they
they don't


maybe I gotta make them use fire orb and then they get pissed?
no?
alright
ok let's put gunter
ok gunter is dead

and it turns out hoo boy there is a dragon vein right there you know those dragon vein things where you put an important guy on it and mash A and then stuff happens and all that
yeah there's that do that

and so I do that and all is well until velouria spawns
in the TOP LEFT of the map
not anywhere accessible
not anywhere near where I'd actually be at the point that she spawns
she just decides yeah sure I'm gonna go in range of like six enemies and a fire orb where if I move from my spot then I die immediately

so she promotes takes a seat and dies

wipe out the enemies by turn 5 send everyone in alright that'll do
until like five mages come out of one fort and make her explode 
she talks like she retreated so ok maybe she retreats maybe they don't expect me to keep the unit that spawned in the top left corner when I'm in the middle of the map alive
so I finish the map and she shows up in the end cutscene and I think yeah ok sure this looks fine
she's talking about how she isn't gonna stay behind and she's joining us ok come on in
she doesn't join in

ok I guess now we're gonna send in a rescue falcon
promote and kill the snipers so they don't shoot down her only method of escape and then GTFO

nice

and then it is finished



ok now sakura map
 
still don't know what the gimmick is still don't care
pair up everyone on the left then do the map
but before that kana sees corn crushing some shit with a rusty pebble and snorting it up with a rolled up gold bar so she snorts two lines of fundip and gets +4 mag

anyway so in normal mode I remember thinking "ok these enemies are a bit fucked up but yeah sure this is definitely doable"
but in this one those stats are inflated to hell and most of my units are doing what like 6 damage and dying in two maaaaaybe three hits like it's fe11 h5 earlygame or some shit
probably it'd be better if I wasn't trying to bring like four generals and a glorified mage and gunter but eh
anyway left side is 100% not happening on lunatic with this team especially because hana can probably ORKO anyone with rngesus on her side and you know he is not on mine so that alone makes that a no go
reinforcements up the ass with infinite ammo debuff shuriken launchers does not work out when the reinforcements all require not being debuffed to have any chance to deal with
I made one more attempt and kana misses two 93s in a row at a part where I really needed to kill all the reinforcements and everyone needed to hit 
so we're going to the right side

suddenly this is the absolute easiest shit
it's all mages and those weak puppet things
and subaki is so laughably weak and conveniently placed that I actually devised a strategy to bait him down to the bottom of the map and deploy camilla to pair up with corn and lunge over to the right side
that didn't happen because baiting him down takes way too long and there's barely any reason to do it other than when reinforcements show up late in the map but still would have been funny
so then I leave niles in range of a guy who can attack over the wall and I didn't see

yeah that's what I said


velouria on the other hand can take the over the wall hit and also eat this chump for breakfast or toss his corpse in her weird pile of rotten fruit and shiny objects

anyway turns out the reinforcements on this side aren't just mages they're also puppets and falcons and mechanists so anna can't just equip the illusory bow and lol@4dmg
and the reinforcements from the left side are also coming over
so I gotta get right up to otacon (I don't remember his name) and kill him right away and seize 

sadly could not get some crack for my kana to inhale and get another 2 mag for bigger damage
gonna be annoying when she relapses and smashes up ghost lilith's temple again


I guess this time you are spared

now here's the thing I forgot about this too
but I actually went and had odin dank support grind uhhh
wait he supported azura I don't know who leo supported then
oh nyx

and I brought my cheese units and had them cheese ophelia paralogue for that spirit dust since I was wayyyyyyy too lazy to redo ch22 for this 
and then I used the stuff I got in that paralogue to sell to get a discount on the speedwing in the shop since I realized gunter actually did need that speedwing from ch17 for takumi and I was too lazy to do that back then

yes cheating I know I am aware but eh don't wanna spend an hour redoing a chapter when I can have odin miss a 99 def xander 40 times and get my spirit dust in 30 minutes

and last ch23

on normal this gave me a loooooot of trouble and is pretty much the reason I always felt this game has a reverse difficulty curve in that it's babby game until you reach fuga's wild ride and then suddenly it's like how earlygame fe6 makes you reset if you miss one poleaxe swing but then by ch16 miledy can eat entire maps by herself
and yeah this time even more trouble


ok very first attempt I mess it up turn 1 I tried to capture rallyman with niles and anna kills whoever else goes nearby and I forget tee hee weapon triangle affects bows so I gotta str tonic
then next attempt I see there is full lunge formation and go "eh sure let's put kana and see what happens"
death is what happens
only after doing straight up the exact same thing again and kana dying again do I think hmm maybe the top part is better where they can't do much
and yeah it is better
the reinforcements spawn in two waves but by doing both of these things and blocking the nearby forts as kaga intended the reinforcements block themselves from coming out so I only gotta deal with half as many of them
suddenly though it becomes a game of how do I kill the reinforcements without getting in range of the other ones since they still got high ass stats
but I figure it out and now time for the hinata bridge
they do not move
if you put someone at the end of the bridge they won't move
if you put someone one space above that they won't move
put them one space above THAT and everyone loses their shit
this is just a statcheck and I aint got any so we're gonna fly everyone over the gap like every other time

send everyone over attack the one lunge guy freeze the other one kill as many of the guys on the wall as possible
and then it turns out oboro actually starts moving immediately unlike hinata where you gotta get close
since I do not learn from past mistakes I do the exact same thing that makes me lose literally every time and try to fight and defeat most/all of the enemies instead of running away even when the stairs are right there and enemies don't understand the concept of elevation and devastation
and yeah shura dies


can't afford entrap so we feezing and izana once again makes it back onto the team
somehow every time this guy makes it on I never plan to have him and he always turns out vital for this map and important in the next however many
and rally mag very tastey :)
somehow managed to make kana die fighting the initial reinforcements twice due to lack of intellect and then back to the bridge
do it properly and it works

finally I managed to get a run where I didn't miss any freezes and got things in a position where I could afford one attack to miss so I was able to get to the end and have kana kill takumi
I didn't pay much attention but it turns out he had rend heaven even though he's a sniper so that almost killed kana but she had the dual guard thing so all is well 

this map was kinda like ch20 in that man that fucked me up though unlike ch20 I always had some level of respect for this one since it seems intentionally designed to be playable instead of something made to piss people off in a comedic way
though I have absolutely zero clue how I'm meant to do the wall without multiple freezes or hopped up xander or statwalls or a juggernaut or whatever but still who cares they give izana here he's reliable enough he gets the job done he may not match up to those S rank stave maids you can capture and bribe into joining you for two paperclips and a werther's original but it's fiiiine it's gud

ok that is all for now next time is a skip and a not notable chapter and hell on earth and half babbychapter half cheese

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nonuplepostan

ch24


ok now this one
I already played this normally the first time on normal mode where I lost what nine units
then the second time I honestly don't recall but I believe I just took benny and paired him up with tonics and meals and shit and had him take all the heat
third time around I won't bother
the gimmick is abysmal and you get azama with two hexing rods right in the middle of the map who I absolutely can't ORKO with anyone other than maybe meal+tonic+rally+pairup+dance zerker axe gunter but I also don't have anyone who can take that without being fucked up and I have no idea how stave targeting works in this game (I've even heard it's just not consistent at all) and I aint figuring it out for one map
so we is gonna skip this 

gunter eats the boots I think that matters 
and see back in uhhhh
chapter twelve...? thirteen?
I captured this guy bernd

this guy
dracogunter took him under his wing
and throughout the entire playthrough every time I went and mycastle support grinded bernd would always have to wait sitting on the seize point while whoever benchie and whoever other benchie would pair up and throw spears with 6 hit for those child paralogues
I don't know how many fliers is necessary for this but you see bernd only has 7 move

and he needs one more
so we are gonna promote him

that's right bernd our buddy our man is in the big leagues now he got 8 move and shit
also beruka sucks so she doesn't get a master seal instead camilla is going back into malig knight

first thing I did was figure out how to actually get up to hinoka and this took like thirty minutes to figure out but it's fine because once you know how to do it you're spending maybe two minutes doing it
I was thinking velouria would be the one to do it I went and checked and with her high ass attack and an effective 36 might beaststone she should 100% be able to do it yes

she can't

I have NO idea why 
but velouria with beastbane does not 3x but 2x effective damage...
the game calls beastbane "bonus damage against beast units" the very same as the ridersbane
and the next time I went and tested this the ridersbane does indeed do 3x damage against hinoka
there is absolutely no information on this anywhere unless you specifically go searching for "fe fates beastbane/golembane effective damage" and velouria already does so much damage I never questioned it until just now
but yeah because of that we're gonna have to rely on a gunter luna with ridersbane
gunter has some 40 skill and I think 66 hit
in high school our probability unit was cut so I cannot tell you what the odds for both of those happening are
but it took 3 attempts 

anna kills the guy underneath and then




bernd seizes for the final time

manly tears were shed as bernd passed his final test with flying colors and joined the ranks of legends
after the war he retired and lived in peace, his dreams of seizing fulfilled
many a wandering bard would sing the tale of bernd, the scrub that could, who soared far beyond the enemy forces in our time of need, seizing the throne and seizing our hearts
we will always remember you, bernd!!!

ch25

apparently this is the beginning of the inevitable end ninjaspam
before doing any of this I thought ninjas always worked the way here in lunatic and that people complained about ch17 despite xander and shura because of that
but no it's just here and on
and good god I can absolutely see why that's the case

ok first of all

...yeah I dunno why this is excused but marth vs mediuth and julia vs julius and roy vs idunn and ike vs ashnard and burger and marth vs mediuth again aren't (for this one you CAN get other units involved but as you will see shortly that is not something to easily rely on)

lucky enough for me though oh ho ho general correnz is here (there's even armor running sound effect in mycastle got dang!!!)

I was gonna try and use poison strike to finish ryoma off by turn 7 or 8 or whatever
poison strike does 20% per attack right?
in this situation the game doesn't say anything about it but no
no it doesn't
it does """"""""""up to"""""""""" 20% of the opponent's hp after battle
here it does 5dmg to ryoma who proceeds to recover 3hp from the floor
do 5/55 and you will find this number does not equal 0.2 and so that isn't happening I'm gonna have to wade through this debuff stack mess the entire way through

once I realized poison strike wasn't happening and I would indeed have to deal with those ninjas I brought over effie put her in range of 3 ninjas who do 38 attack and she had 38 defense (or something like that I don't entirely remember)
and she died

so yeah that's why nobody has that skill until now
it almost feels like a parody of itself it's like when people complain about ballistas or STRs in thracia and then the game slaps down like four STR ballistas and you think man I wonder if this is an extreme case of self awareness or an extreme case of lacking self awareness

also when I started the game up on that day I won a thunder from the lottery
then after that effie thing I had zero desire to attempt this chapter so I put the game down for a few days and then I picked it back up and I won a thunder from the lottery
I think the game wants me to give kana tuesday+4

anyway so I think up how to do this I know whoever goes up against those first ninjas is 100% fucked for the majority of the chapter and since many of them have seal skills gunter shouldn't be relying on shurikenbreaker with his whopping like 20 inherent avoid
also niles is not shurikenbreaker level since I didn't promote him early enough
so what we's gonna do is put niles in range of one ninja so they go for him with his lower defense and then effie gets attacked by the other two with a javelin and 50% hit so in other words I do it for her to miss twice but get 2wexp
this works and I clear out the first two groups of enemies (oh yeah I'm going the left path by the way) and then I see all the lungespammers with spy's yumis
ok 
none of these enemies move unless you're in range of lunge and that skill works regardless of whether the attack hits 
so I realize hm maybe perchance perhaps I should not have brought only one stave user who lacks any staves other than the classics such as "heal" and "physic" and today we're a little daring and bringing "bloom festal" too

and so I put benny just to see what happens and you can guess what happened
just for the sake of trying it out I try to go on the right side and the grisly would poison strike spy's shuriken spam over there is what I like to call displeasing so we are not doing that


scooping up some staves and entrap and bringing many stave users later I can entrap one of those puppets freeze the other and also I found out there's a breakable wall which I thought wasn't breakable so we do that too and everything goes fine and well
and I get to saizo and he says something like "I side with lord ryoma I protect ryoma!!!" then velouria immediately crits him and he doesn't even get to use his flame shuriken for like 10 damage 
and I think "ok finally no more of this shit ass chapter now open up them fuckin things"
but the things do not open
so uhh ok well uhh perhaps you must sit on the pillow thing and then they'll open
they do not
ok maybe you stand in front of the thing and it'll open?
no?
so this is when I try and move my entire army over to the right side very quickly very speedily but that shit takes too long and corn aint got enough healing and can't take that shit and dies
so I wonder "why no open"
upon actually reading the words you have to defeat BOTH of them in 20 turns
not just one
BOTH of them
on normal you just go for one and I thought on lunatic the difficulty upgrade of this map was supposed to be they essentially inflated enemy stats without actually doing it through broken skills
but turns out reading the words is important because no they want you to deal with that AND go both routes as well as doing it 5 turns faster 
I was a fool and there's also clearly no way I'm gonna get both hallways down since I don't have any megajuggernauts or high avoid shurikenbreaker users or some weird ass vantage OHKO build planned from the very beginning or anything

so my new plan was to bring xander since at base he'll perform pretty similarly to gunter who is one of the best I have right now
reclass him to great knight and use him in place of like 15/6 peri who has 70 hit on everything and gets ORKOd by half the enemies
and then now you got three units that can take a good amount of hits
with this I managed to kill saizo around turn 11 but it takes so long to actually get to the other side especially since they aren't nice enough to at least open the top two things to reach kagero easily
so that's not happening
not at all there isn't a ton I can do with this
once ryoma starts moving it's basically an RNGfest and I don't think I want to spend 90 minutes playing a chapter hoping each turn after 20 that he never gets astra or rend heaven or anything

so there are pretty much three options here
a. buy savage blow online since I remember in one ltc of this chapter they just cheesed it with that+dual club+swordbreaker
b. supportgrind corn with someone that gives malig knight then play shigure's paralogue and scoop that up
or c. have corn in shigure's paralogue and if he gets enough points of defense and wary fighter he should be able to survive for however long it takes to play the map

we're going with c

shigure paralogue

this map is ass
let's get two boats
put magic enemies on one and physical ones on the other
then have some but not all of them start moving so it's a pain in the ass to feed corn with his 80 hit and 6 damage while getting ORKOd back
things were going well the first time until reinforcements up the ass and they're part of that group that moves unprovoked so we all know how that went
second time I know they're there and it's easy and corn gets a bunch of levels and wary fighter and should take 0 damage from ryoma now since he did like 6 before or whatever (also free shigure who I'll allow)

I was gonna capture an adventurer for entrap so flora can stay a general but they're not real 
anyway back to ch25 and it turns out corn still takes 4 damage anyway...? 
but the damage is so low that even with astra he can heal to full hp with one vulnerary no matter what ryoma does and man do I have vulnerary
also shigure is here instead of xander to make anna's job easier she doesn't have to be on mend duty anymore

I go to the left clear it out and spent 40 minutes doing that go to the right spend another 10 getting things how I want them and then miss a 68 hit entrap and it breaks
I try to use freezes and then have anna kill the master of arms but it turns out that guy has countermagic which looks very very similar to counter and shining bow counts as magic so she dies
I feel like I already fell for the countermagic thing multiple times before but still I always just see the general shape of counter and assume yeah it's counter attack at range

going to the right makes it way easier since I know if entraps or freezes or whatever will miss immediately and all the offensive debuffs from this side will wear off by the time I go back to the left
still not babby easy but with corn who can actually live and knowing if the entrap will miss five minutes into the map this is far more doable
something like 35 turns later saizo is dead and everyone storms ryoma's room until realizing wait almost nobody can actually do anything my units are weak as shit
so benny the god chucks javelins at ryoma until he's low enough and emotional support kana takes a support role by debuffing the shit out of ryoma and shura gets some hits in 
and finally it's time

I knew by taking this screenshot there was a chance the game would soft reset since it's done that before
but did I really win if I fear the chapter and leave behind my screenshot believing I couldn't repeat my success
glory of the gunter


oh yeah this post-chapter cutscene stuff
I think this is one of the only times in the series I've seen them do a camus that wasn't shit (is he even a camus actually I dunno)
story actually presented quite well here too

ch26

ok before we even get into this
I wanted to get benny +2str +2def because too lazy to actually check if his defense is adequate so I went to mess hall
velouria cooked a meal so utterly shit that everyone's stats went down which is something I didn't know was even possible

I can't undo it and I didn't save before going to the meal place because usually I just take what I get
but this turned into like four runs of before awakening with 80 in all stats midori because suddenly every single cook is utter shite and can at the very most provide like +1 str +1 def and I want benny to have large defense not large-1 defense

eventually I saw he had something to say so I just went up to him
and he said he was feeling "ok today" and got a surge in def and str
he was so tired of this he just did it himself and better than anyone else could

anyway I forgot iago's whole thing was he uses these staves so gunter immediately gets souped after getting enfeeble'd and I realize I forgot to give him last chapter's dracoshield

after THAT it's very easy just put benny and gunter turn 1 silence the maid then kill everything (and scoop up maid) turn 2 whoever gets entrapped just needs to take one magical hit then everyone kills the two sorcerers (and scoop up maid) then slap anna/shura in the sorcerer room and have everyone kill them next turn (and scoop up maid) and dump units on those stairs and the other ones
during the doing of this I realized the spot I left rallyman on was actually colored pink which means oops and so this sorcerer walks up with his mjolnr and like 30 crit and he crits and rallyman dies
at this point I'm thinking maybe I can just buy someone else's rallyman online they're all rallyman mine may be dead but his positive spirit lives on
so I keep going and entrap hans and gunter beats his ass (no dialogue?)


then finally there's only one room left and well
there are 19 enemies in there and probably at least half of them have wary fighter and countermagic and many of them have a bunch of effective weapons
so I open the door and run the fuck away
every single enemy starts sprinting in my general direction and everyone's running the hell away because half of these enemies are zerkers who can 2hko anyone and the other half are generals that take like five hits to kill
gunter quickly reclasses back to wyvern lord (I actually don't remember why he wasn't one here oh yeah wyrmslayers) and he chokes the point here along with kana

these two are the only ones not weak to any of that shit but kana can only take two hits before having to fuck back off
and she gets a 2% crit on a general and that general dies
and so she takes three hits and she dies
I don't know if this would have been doable if that didn't happen but well that definitely happened
I was thinking about putting corn back into big lord or dragon man or whatever and having him use the dragonstone+ with his big ass defenses but eh nah he stays ninja (since I forgot he was supposed to go butler)


the chapter is piss easy up until that final room and I pretty clearly have no good way to deal with it since they're doing their best impression of a genealogy map after sigurd seizes a castle but the only way I know to get around it is to spam mounts since there is a whopping two fire emblems where mounts aren't the best units 
I aint got all those mounts
so you know what we're gonna cheating in the fire emblem fates I aint dealing with that I've slapped high stat units in groups of enemies and came out victorious all the time just look at elincia's gambit (also the cheese I found is too funny not to do anyway)
I went and looked for information on this chapter

found this

when playing this normally you can see the enemies don't attack over the wall and that's meant for you to have to deal with each room basically all at once upon opening the door
this game does not have warp and lunge would only be possible if enemies were right at the wall which they are not and the one 3-range weapon you get is halfway through this chapter if you even bother getting it but you already have to be dealing with a room to get that and the final one clearly prevents it with enemy placements
they tried very hard to prevent you from being able to do anything cheesy 
but they made one fatal mistake and that's adding in entrap aka reverse warp for people you don't like very much
and then tying reinforcements that move unprovoked to hans who can easily be entrapped
now I can wipe out generals with hand axe gunter dual striking with hammer lloyd and take care of a zerker then lunge the other one over
and bam the only enemies in the room that move are whichever ones you attack that turn

I accidentally leave gunter in range of hexing rod which sucks so I do emergency velouria reclass into malig knight and she lunges over with shura and concoctions and all is well
velouria with 8 mag and an 8 might forged disrobing gale does 12x2 damage to this one zerker in here lel sweet
then after killing everything outside of entrap range I open the doors and our explorers are finally freed from the dungeon after half of them have been crippled and shura has 11hp left

that's right mother fuck year



RRRNG! MY ACHING BLOOD!

anyway rallyman is not kill and now we got some new guys

lotte and stella and freyja and ilse maybe gonna help in endgame since I think you gotta have these rescue guys yeah

and this guy tobias 
huge pain in my ass last chapter but we got him and now he's cool also high ass stats
thanks tobias I'll go get the blue paint


loads 'a money but I already got the speedwing so it's not super useful I don't think
gunter still tinks ganon or garon or whatever I don't know why I forgot his name but the our dad is an evil slime?!?!? guy whose romhack I should play



anyway that is the story so far of punished "venom" corn, a lord denied his hp growth
next time is the finale of fire emblem fates: conquest game and probably I won't make any real attempt to keep units alive if it turns out takumi doesn't attack first on enemy phase

[spongelevator]

dectuplepostan

final post

ch27


ok before I did this at all I checked things for takumi once more
gunter has 18 speed 6 more from pairup 4 from rally 3 from dance 2 from tonic
33
I think I made that plan while doing some mystery but yeah that is most certainly not doubling in this game

so then I thought "ok I just need one more speed so where am I gonna get that"
and proceeded to buy gunter an eternal seal and reclass him into a hero for that juicy 20% speed growth
then I realized later 4 is also not the doubling threshold it's 5 and you need two points of speed
so I used the hero brand thing to turn gunter into mart for that +3 speed skill

and no matter what I wouldn't have a problem that's 36 no reason for that not to work and gunter has what 57 attack with rally pairup tonic str+2 elbow room trample and brave axe so 31 after attacking that's 16 with dragonskin and so it should be 16x3player phase=48 then after draconic hex it's 12x2 but strong riposte for enemy phase so 15x2=30+48=78>75 yes 

you may wonder why I even bothered putting all that there because it has barely anything to do with this chapter and that's because this is not particularly interesting
shrine maidens entrap your guys you kill the singular guy in the room then walk in the upwards direction taking care not to die and that's the chapter

this was a massive issue on normal mode but here the only issue I had was making 100% sure that I can kill garon with the majority of my units in one turn because benny got seal defense'd and was holding off half the map after they all moved to the bottom at the same time

he dies and that's the chapter

endgame


alright now this one actually gave me trouble
because you see I had tried to plan everything out 
I heard that takumi does indeed attack first on enemy phase if he thinks he'll kill so keep gunter in wyvern and he lives with something like 2-3hp without vengeance and gets a dual guard so everything works out 
but I entirely forgot this is fates so brave weapons suck and are only brave on player phase and now I'm out of a bosskill 
and I also forgot azura does not ever actually dance gunter so he is still one speed from doubling and I aint playing that one awful dlc for a speedwing 
suppose it doesn't feel as bad missing saizo speedwing here since it wouldn't have been a kill anyway though

when it comes to actually getting there I didn't bother I heard this guy is the guy who knows stuff so I did this 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkfk9_Cu_yc
and yeah it works gud even only need one maid reclassed to strategist so I picked the one with the most stella performance

and gave her some coke from the shop since I sold all the weapons other than the brave axe (oh yeah this is second attempt on the first one I forgot to pair corn up with gunter and didn't realize it until I saw gunter got dual striked by takumi so I stomped ch27 with farmers castle friends instead of replaying it legit to make things quicker)

but yeah no gunter bosskill and I saw when gunter activated luna on garon it added a whopping three damage so nah that is not happening

but you know if gunter wants his kill I'm gonna get him his kill
so we're gonna play this fire emblem fates conquest normal mode ironman style




that's right
gunter kill



oh NOW you get speed huh





and thus ends the tale of punished "venom" corn from fire emblem fates conquest lunatic for the nintendo 3ds gaming system
runs such as these may no longer be possible when online is kill in a few more months and you can't gather up 30k gold to convert into heart seals before even stepping foot in the first map
sad days

well uhh that is not much is it half the post is just talking about how I failed to set up a bosskill I had half the game to set up due to failure to note mechanical changes across the series (rip vantage beastfoe brave sword meg strats)
 
time for some fire emblem torakia 776 released on the snes like a year before the gamecube came out and apparently IS didn't learn that lesson when making new mystery 

no idea how long this has been untouched for but time for xavier chapter
ch18

ok so it turns out with the amount of shit the game gives you this is much less a pain than it probably looks
you gotta bring the greens on the left to the armors in the middle except only the ones with portraits
also there's a body ring to the left in that chest and some of those dancers and thieves are holding pretty decent shit
and there's two useless chests near the middle at the bottom but who cares lockpick aint gonna see any other uses
but unlock staff scoops up the one valuable item on turn 1 before the thieves can get to it so the entire right side of the chapter is just for entertainment 
also those soldiers you have to keep them all alive to get the member card which is in the third to last chapter in the game and you can't use statboosters in battle preps and also your bargain card is a B route exclusive meme unit who has to be warped and use a door key if you really want those statboosters
this is also the game where you can scroll abuse units to cap all their stats piss easy if you care enough to do it so I dunno why kaga fell so far from the days of letting us buy infinite boots in fe1
but anyway yeah no thanks
fireemblemwiki.org/wiki/Gra%27s_Sun_Sets
gra's setting sun or gra's sun sets or whatever does this except the soldiers DON'T block your path and move around randomly like roaches in the dumpster so it's actually worth doing it there I don't know why this gimmick was done again but worse and for an arguably worse reward too 
oh also I forgot deployment is ass in this game but it's just based on the actual order deployed units are in so it takes only one reset to get it right
and finally tina has like 50 fatigue but I also have like 17 stamina drinks or whatever so literally does not matter

(I don't have 25 but the scrolling makes it hard to show how many)
enemies get wiped out easy and then some funny rewarp loptyr mages start showing up but ronan has this thing called a brave bow so nothing to worry about there
steal them hammers and killer lances open the door and the villagers start movin
this one thief tried to steal sleuf's mend and that is a no no so we capture him and perne is gonna move all the way over to the bottom middle chests where dagdar bludgeoned a bunch of weak soldiers while holding on to that thief






ok now here's the big problem with this map you see
right here
the villager AI is to talk to the knight they know
and the knight AI is to not attack any villagers whatsoever

so you get this and they don't rearrange themselves they just sit there and wait
(hi wayu fire emblem 5)
seriously they just sit there 
we are gonna savestating every turn from this point on because these knights try to kill each other when they turn green and the others are still red
you have to rescue the villagers so they don't walk into the spot you want 
like you try to rescue uhhhhhh
mia out of the way 
and then uhhhhhh
daphenee moves into that spot where uhhh
sean is
so now uhhhh stella can't
more like daftnee fucks sake go away

there's soldier moving towards perne

he wants to free his buddy thief
a one on one showdown a duel to the death where the best lackluster combat unit wins
soldier vs half stats iron sword perne

shufflin them around
fuck you chris for moving right back into the spot I moved you from
and finally sean is green
...and now frank tried to attack him and died from the hammer counter
ok
well I have time manipulation powers so you aint gonna stop me from having uhhh
edward (thracia 776)
talk to edgar

soldier went in the opposite direction and proceeded to suicide on ronan for whatever reason so perne wins by default

almost there

this would be much less terrible if the knights didn't go killing each other the second they change colors and especially if they didn't have TWO MOVEMENT STARS to try and kill each other some more if they both live the first time

one space away come on now
ok now I finally have silver sword and door key haha yes


these buffoons are finally all green and now is time for xavier

sup brah

send him against the boss to see what he says (nothing at all) and xavier immediately dies
don't worry buddy load slot 1

this boss sucks but now he's dead

and apparently there are only two more screenshots across the next six chapters (yes six but staves exist so they're the length of three) so enjoy those images thoroughly 


alright you'll get a kick out of this one

ch19



units I like: 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18
units I don't like: 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19

japes aside this chapter really is only for story purposes (though in that respect it is definitely good) because there is zero reason not to just go pick from your unused and worst units and just leave them behind you get them back two chapters later and anyone who didn't ditch half their team back in ch9 probably won't even get access to 21x without leaving at least one guy behind here
you just deploy a staffer to warp whoever recruits whichever paladin
paladin rescues then use another staffer/dance the first one and rescue
second turn leave
you can still send speedring to convoy and every other item is terrible and the master seal is also barely of note since it's ch19 
but yeah that's ch19

ch20

it's another one of these defense chapters where the enemies have like 30 hit and do 5 damage
except the boss has only one weapon which you can just pluck out of his hands and once you do that the rest of the enemies literally cannot reach the throne in time 
for some reason 90% of the map went near deployment slot 1 and started going up that way
and they just cannot even reach the seize point quickly enough for it to matter and that's if you choose not to just put one (1) competent unit on the chokepoint to kill all of them in like two enemy phases
shiva and freshly promoted paragon sword machuya wipe out the initial armors and tina misses a chest with unlock four times
and shiva activates sol on the boss then crits then activates sol again and gets a movement star which is why nobody do memedon better than judgral 
then some funny STR ballistas show up and almost kill finn 
I realize dagdar's hammer broke three turns ago (I was wondering why he was missing like three times in a row but he got the job done so I suspected nothing) yet he still managed to kill like four armors per enemy phase
and after that it's just waiting for all those guys that went right->up->left to reach the throne instead of... up
to reach dalsin so he can get some dalshin kills

and he does and the map is almost entirely wiped clean

babby chapter cool stuff happening with story I dunno what's going on though
seliph gonna show up soon they sayin

ch21

ballistas
count with me
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
11 ballistas
yeah I'm not playing this


next

ch21x

pretty neat
deployments still a pain in my ass until I remembered oh yeah I can just deploy like six staffers 
immediately I see six warp staves and that is very good and I also see three siege tomes but I also happen to have three silences so that will not be a problem
was gonna have lifis on the left perne on the right warp in shiva with flame sword to get those warps from the bishops and just get everyone out and gtfo
but then I realized wait lifis is in a damn cell right now and also perne has the same mag as shiva so may as well warp him in and have him steal all the warps instead
after forgetting to bring a door key I ended up having sleuf rewarp all around the map warping everyone to the escape point and honestly those rewarps have been rotting away in the convoy for so long that I'm glad my introduction to them was something this cool
got my six warps got my guys and got out of there 


also sara got some fucked up stats man look at that I know that's how it's supposed to be but man

ch22

saw the five ballistas two boltings and wasn't sure about it
this map has a vendor with infinite door keys and master seals so I thought eh I have like 80k gold may as well promote my chumps and stave users but it's also a pain to get there
started the map and saw saias join and give every enemy +60hit/avoid and was almost certain I would just warpskip this
then I captured the boss and thought eh kinda want to do the reindhart berserk thing anyway
so I rescue deen take berserk reinhart berserk and suddenly on enemy phase they immediately close the bridge and right after that saias just fucks right back off so I guess killing the boss turn 1 and not immediately seizing is definitely not something the game is expecting (though a guy gives you a warp and tells you to warp behind them so maybe it's two different things happening at the same time)
reinhart has vantage dire thunder and so he wipes out a third of the map before an unfortunate ballisa has him undone
after that I just have dalshin the giant tank like 40 arrows of which probably 30 missed and then I have perne snatch all them killer lances and stuff off the soldiers
then they all start running away except for one curious soldier who...visits the armory and buys another killer lance?
and so perne steals it
and he buys another
and this keeps going on and on and on
for the entire remainder of the map that keeps happening and by the end of it the ~60k gold I spent in the vendor is right back in my pocket and so everyone's getting killer axes and killing edges have a treat have an axe enjoy yourself 
ferry over wreck it ralph he sits on a fort with his fancy new skills from all the skill books I never used and like six scrolls and slays the remaining third of the map
then it has been done and I am glad I didn't warpskip this one because other than those initial awful ballistas it's pretty gud

and finally ch23

this is not really any good I know ced shows up in this chapter both because I heard you have to pick between saias and ced and also because I looked at the recruitable characters on the wiki
now I dunno where the hell he is so I rescue saias he has a conversation with leaf so I do it and he gets the bragi sword blaggi sword which for some reason is literally the only plot sword I have never heard of in the series yet
I even heard of sword of the creator and I didn't even know byleth was supposed to be some super important guy I thought he was just the self insert everyone sucks up to
and now I am wondering why engage gave leaf the killer axe which he is not able to use in fe4 or 5 instead of the blaggi sword which would have been cool as hell 
actually wait I already played ch22 in engage too didn't I
way better here than there at least

anyway so I rescue saias then suddenly that bigass group of enemies decides to go after the civilians which I 100% should have expected yet somehow didn't
so I rescue drop finn (gotta conserve those 33 remaining warp uses only have 3 chapters left!) and for the first time since earlygame I actually have a unit get overwhelmed by enemies and die
so we reset I have saias just silence the guy with sleep
and then ced shows up and demolishes the entire group of enemies and breaks half his forseti
???
also altina or altena or however it's spelled doesn't show up
so I guess the chapter just plays itself
get blaggi sword take saias inventory warp leaf get ced finish chapter find out the only purpose of keeping the civilians alive is if you pick saias over ced which probably only a no full recruitment LTC player would ever do (why pick saias when have ced forseti ced forcedi) or moral reasons :) and that's ch23




anyway post been going on long enough that's end of lunatic conquest was good game I probably should not have tried to use like 69420 units and general felicia and flora saw use in like two maps max because my team was almost 22 units large with a deployment limit of 15 or whatever (and actually I realized I forgot to take final screenshots of my team I do that later) but yeah game is nice 
sad that 3ds wifi is going down though probably it'll end up like with ds/wii where fans bring it back up and things are all good again except 7/8 of the playerbase moves on :((( rip mario kart 7

[TSUN]

POST STREAK OVER

I've been skimming all your conquest lunatic threads, but not really reading much because it's mostly incomprehensible. But I spotted Thracia here, so now it's time to an annoying informed replier and actually know what I'm talking about.

CH18

Yeah, I gave up on Xavier's recruitment pretty quick. It was conveyed surprisingly well, though I hear that's only because of the new English patch-- something like in the original, the armorknights that turn green don't have portraits or even names, so it's literally all guesswork. Kinda made a stab at it because it was The Nice Thing To Do, but after a couple turns, one of the armors got killed after turning green. Because of that, I remember putting much more focus and brainpower into the right side of the map than the left side. Most of my memories of it involve 8-Mov-on-foot Karin rushing to the chests and destroying everything in her path with the Flame Sword.

Either way though, the fact the enemy armors can just sit there and do literally nothing because there's villagers in the way is hilarious.

Looking at those stamina drinks and the levels on certain units... wow. You're playing this game like it's your third time with it. Am I just bad at Fire Emblem?

(yes)

The more I hear about this game, the more it seems like it's only difficult if you try to Manganeseman it on your first playthrough like how Kaga intended. Which I did, and I don't regret it at all, but it is quite funny how someone with a lot of experience in FE (and/or someone who looks up a guide) can easily break it.

CH19

Amazing in story, but damn. DAMN.

This chapter took like an hour and a half for me. 1/3 of that was just rearranging my units into a position that wasn't godawful (i.e. mounted units on the bottom so they wouldn't instantly die to the 11 MOV enemy cavalry), and 1/3 of that was watching the Green Unit + Red Unit combat that happened after recruiting Conomore, while the chapter was already over gameplaywise. Ridiculous chapter. I didn't bother with the village stuff, since anyone there was guaranteed to die anyways.

CH20

Uhhh, yeah I can't comment on how it was meant to be played. I saw the objective (Survive for 15 turns + Kill Boss) and assumed the worst, which is that I'd get an automatic GAME OVER if the boss died, so I basically rushed everyone to the bottom of the map kill the boss as fast as I could and then get back to the castle before the ambush spawning ballistas started showing up. It was really fun and felt really difficult and unpredictable, but only because I needlessly made it harder for myself. One of my favorite moments in the entire run was when my Dancer died to an ambush spawning 15 range ballista.

Now much of value to say here honestly, but it's pretty funny how playing a map in basically the opposite way from how it's intended, therefore making it a lot harder than it's supposed to be, actually made it a much more fun and interesting experience. Are there any other maps like that? I think it's cool.

CH21

Evil map. Painful map. BORING map. This took like 4 hours.

Maybe I've told you on Discord already, but the only good thing that came out of this map was when I parked Karin onto the fort and had her dismount with the Kingmaker and a scroll, and the gazillions of enemies n reinforcements all fell to her. She must've killed like 20 people. Mostly, I was just frustrated at Lara dying to an ambush spawning 15 range ballista, and was willing to really endanger my favorite unit/character as a way to express it. I kinda imagined the in-story reason was Karin going mad with grief secretly sneaking out of camp to take revenge for her friend or something. Definitely a bad tactical decision, particularly when it could make me lose her forever, but it just... felt right. She lived to the end of the game, so I must've been doing something right with her.

Anyways, about 45 minutes of my playtime here was watching every single unit lose like 3 points of health from poison one by one at the beginning of every turn. Awful.

CH21x

One thing I always appreciated about the map is how you can just... leave immediately. You can "beat" the map on turn 1 by just deciding the prisoners to rescue aren't worth it. I guess chapter 19 does the same thing, but that's something only an insane weirdo who knows a bunch of obscure Thracia 776 game mechanics and is willing to potentially sacrifice like 7 units would do. The 21x thing is like... intentional, I think. Or maybe it's not, but it just seemed intentional to me because Hicks was the only captured unit I had at that point, and I was seriously considering just leaving him there so I wouldn't have to potentially get more guys killed. If it was like, Lithis or Shannam I probably would, but Hicks is a cool dude. Gotta make sure he gets home. Oh, also the enemies had a buncha Warp staffs.

CH22

6 hours. 4 hours spent making the 5 ballistas and 2 seige tomes run out of ammo. Then Warped in Olwen to talk to Reinhardt, then Rescue Staff'd her outta there. Then 2 hours spent doing Wacky Flier Strats where Karin took out the ballistas on her own because her MOV is higher than the Ballista's range at this point, onerounded Reinhardt, and rescuedropped Mareeta and Leaf to take out the boss. All to save on one or two Warp uses. This chapter was pain, but I kinda love it.

CH23

And then Ced shows up and demolishes the entire group of enemies and breaks half his Forseti.

Not much else to say, huh?
Oh yeah, Blaggy Blade. I think nobody hears about it because it's BORING.

What does it do, uh, it makes you able to attack Raydrick? Gives you Miracle? Bonus damage against Armors? Whoop-dee-doo. We've fallen so far from the Falchion where you are literally immune to all 1 Range physical attacks while wielding it. There's literally 5 other PRF swords in Thracia 776 alone that are all cooler than it. And, you know, getting it feels a bit underwhelming when you're watching the absolute carnage of FORSETI unfolding before you.

So yeah uh

This post is mostly so you don't feel like you're shouting into the void where nobody can hear you.

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Though uh, sorry if you wanted to keep the post streak up.

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But more Thracia talk is always good.

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Even if the resident Thracia 776 fan doesn't actually know enough about Thracia 776 to bring anything new or interesting to the table.

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[spongelevator]

yeah I have no idea what the intended method for xavier recruitment even is considering the only thing I could think of is either using like 12 thief uses or having a buff perne steal all the hammers and killer lances to prevent them from killing each other or something
I thought the villagers would start moving the moment their cell is open and then they'd all just stand around and once the knights come out they would all be intelligent enough to make it happen without an eight year old girl having to watch her dad smash in the armor of some other kid's dad with a hammer like it's a shitty neighborhood barbeque after everyone had 9 beers

I think the issue with stamina drinks is you can get 11 without even having to buy any and ten of those are very easy to get
but also there's very little worth buying in thracia armories so that's even more money going to stamina drinks the handful of times they show up "just in case"
fatigue is also wiped out by just not bringing someone with fatigue so I just deploy who is absolutely necessary and take care to be like 2 fatigue less than the limit on stave users and everyone else sits back and relaxes

thracia difficulty seems weird I have no idea how it was received in japan (by all 30 people who bought it in the year 2000) but apparently they got something like an 80 page guide that comes with the game explaining all the mechanics in detail except for fucc which is mysteriously not present because kaga is a shannam hater
archive.org/details/p66-67/
ok looking at it people seem to have been exaggerating because I am like 65% sure fe1 and fe3 had similarly long and detailed manuals though the absence of this information did seem to be important
www.nintendo.co.jp/n02/shvc/bfej/index.html
also there's the website which seems to be more in-depth except it translates the worst out of any website I have ever used and I haven't done my reps in like eight years or whatever so all I can read is "rom casette" and yes it certainly is rom casette
and the US also got some shitty crusty translation from a high schooler or whatever who wanted to put his funnies in there and made it incomprehensible
the main thing seems to be that half of the chapters in the game will spawn some shit that immediately kills lifis and then I reset but if you don't reset then next time it's staffy or it's an unfortunate carrion who just happens to have been close to all the enemies with an empty inventory or whatever
thracia plays like experimental 6-10 it's almost like with new mystery how it added a ton of stuff in the games that came after it but nobody played it so they attribute it to fe6/awakening respectively
and because of that it's probably much easier if you don't play in numbered order since all the new stuff ends up being old stuff 
also yeah guide can snap this one in two I usually just check recruits and items (and if I am lazy their locations) but even that makes it much easier to just ignore 90% of the villages that have some old guy giving you a pure water for the 12th time when you got barrier like four chapters ago (and even barrier is only situationally useful)
knowing reinforcements would make this akin to fe7 normal in difficulty

ch19 seems a pain in the ass to deal with since those horses didn't get the memo that archanea ended two games ago and walk in here with their 10 move and shit
though I checked all the gaiden requirements before playing the game and heard a lot of people talking about 21x so knowing it exists makes it real easy to just burn a warp and rescue and gtfo with new recruit since I didn't unlock it yet
oh yeah I forgot to mention but I actually spent three turns to get that juicy heal staff from one village oh boy 1000 gold
and there was this one troubadour that dodged some four or five attacks and crit and killed I think four enemy cavaliers before going down by a ballista and that showed me the power of miracle killing edge

ch20 is pretty weird like that because in thracia you usually want to just hold on the chokepoints and mash end turn on defense maps
but in pretty much every game after thracia you actually want to try and rout the entire map and/or aim to take out the boss as fast as possible if we're talking radiant dawn 2-endgame or 3-13 or conquest 10 because in those games it makes it easier to play the map
in this chapter though if you do that you get funny 15 range ballista so maybe kaga came from the future to punish the players who foolishly thought that would work again here lel
in other games it just makes the map dull if you rout tellius defense maps you just have to mash end turn for the rest of the map especially like that one awful 17-3 in PoR where you have to survive for 10 turns but most players rout by turn 6 or 7 and have nothing to do for half the map (and in 2-e and 3-13 bosskill ends the map right away) and in conquest 10 you pretty much know if you beat the map or not by turn 4 or 5 and it becomes pretty not of note
I don't entirely know which maps being played the opposite of how they are intended makes them better (I do not rembember) but defense maps outside of this game actually end up easier almost every time when doing so for whatever reason

kallen on a fort
what she doin doe
also man I just looked and that boss has 14 luck and miracle and also nihil that means a 42% chance he is just not going to die any time he's attacked what the hell
absolutely vile chapter

I remember you telling me about hicks being picked up and taken away while you couldn't do anything about it
I can imagine he's just slung on the back of a horse as the guy moves towards the escape point and hicks yelling "guys you forgot about me
come on his stats are halved just go take him out I gotta family back home
...guys?"
my hicks got buff as shit but there are so many indoor chapters that he didn't get to see much action which is a shame

should have used epic dalshin an arrow to him is like a papercut to us mortals

(ok actually he has like 2def more than hicks and brighton but still he epic)
that karin thing reminds me that I could have just given boots to eda and she could have taken out the ballistas that weren't to the bottom left but instead I gave boots to leaf which is the ultimate scrub strat

blaggi sword is probably lame in comparison to fe1 falchion and holy weapons and all those thracia PRFs which are "14 might brave weapon with 70 hit and gives a skill" though unless I'm forgetting something it's the only armor-effective lategame lord sword in the series since every other one is just rapier/some variant of the rapier
would be better if there was more than one single armor from that point on
engage armorslayer and hammer are absolute ass so it would be good there but I am also remembering it buffed thani to 11 might for whatever reason and also gave ike an 18 might hammer (burger king hammer canon) so I guess yeah it'd be useless there
though man fe3 falchion and especially fe11 falchion are such ass in fe3 book 1 my marth looked like this


and he does 16 damage after doubling with falchion
remember in fe1 where falchion tears through medeus like butter and mart immune to all 1-range
and now it's just like 3 more damage than gradivus doga
and in fe11 falchion isn't necessarily the issue it's more that marth caps at 25 speed and medeus has 30 speed (yeah he went from 0AS to doubling everything but mememasters) so falchion is 100% useless there too
fe11 is a fine game but did they truly have to make it so only on normal mode can capped speed marth fight medeus and double him for almost an ORKO (unless he capped strength) and any hard mode past h1 having him doing a maximum of 35 damage then getting doubled and dying
shit I think the only actually noteworthy PRF lord swords past fe1 and holy weapons are the binding blade and ragnell things really have fallen that far 
hell in engage the big sword
is a 12 might 10 weight 70 hit 1-2 range meme sword you get in ch25 (one before endgame)
it isn't effective against anything
it provides no stat bonuses
it doesn't give any skills or negate anything
has very little to do with the plot and almost feels like it was just given to the player because they modeled the weapon already
it's just a 12 might 70 hit sword that weighs alear down and alear is already one of those lords that is offensively subpar without heavy investment so that thing is gonna see absolutely zero use
need more weapons like forseti instead of unusable S rank 18 might weapon that halves your mag after use

decapost was to be the last one do not worry
though when I get around to ch24+24x+25 I will make post of that since I hear ch25 has some stuff that fe7 and awakening blatantly ripped off and 24x is the funny warp tiles kia chapter

also if you plan to conquest ever you should do it before nintendo cuts the servers because those earlygame online heart seals make it way more entertaining and also forging+meals are basically useless without online mycastle
never been able to get the ds/wii fanservers to work so all that stuff may become unavailable though maybe I just didn't figure out how to do it right and there's no issue I dunno

[spongelevator]

double


I was gonna the endgame of fe7 since I was almost done with it the last time I played like six months ago I think I was on ch32 or 32x or something
but it's been over two weeks and I haven't cared enough to even consider bothering to do that and there's no gba screenshots on 3ds anyway if something good happens so I'll just slap the remaining chapters in at the end for comparison
finished thracia endgame two days after the last post aint gonna let no fe7 endgame hold this up any longer

alright ch24

most difficult part of the chapter would probably just be either taking pictures of where everyone is then figuring out their order in deployments and getting everyone in the right spot again
or just going "nah" and looking at this image instead of spending ten minutes matching units to slot numbers like it's a terrible high school US history homework assignment the teacher very clearly pulled off the first page of google images
once everyone is in the right spots warp over lv4 mareeta and have an adequate enough number of combat units in the middle and that's all that matters but when I first pressed start the middle group consisted of like three stave users and lara and halvan
bishops on the right get silenced bishops on the left set themselves up to be slain with ease 


these kids move literally two spaces for whatever reason and I don't want to sit around for like 25 turns for them to all reach so we rescue (command) then rescue(staff) and we are going to 24x


in the meantime raydrik gets crit and dies and becomes muf



ch24x

man it has been a long time since I was greeted with entirely black screen


and this is the real chapter 

I have heard of the warp tiles and the wrath zerkers and I think I only had two rescue staves left with 1 and 2 uses so I thought nah whatever 
eyvel has a sight range for whatever reason maybe she's a glowing three letter agent and so sara rewarps in there 
then kia and leaf is warped in to talk
after that the final rescues are used up taking care of those dark mages at the bottom with their same turn reinforcement warping as well as that guy in the middle of the +10 mag terrain room that has a siege tome and either OHKOs or ORKOs half my units
then everyone starts getting warped into there killing those dark mages and the new ones rewarping in and they all GTFO and yeah I think whether you're warping or going around the entire thing getting hit by warp tiles and shit then rewarping in there and warping the unit out this chapter is just ass no matter what especially because the mages don't attack if they won't do damage




and finally endgame

I thought the deadlords were supposed to be important characters you fought before but it turns out it's raydrik+any of eyvel, lifis, dagdar, sara, and galzus who died
and since none of them died it's just raydrik+5 nobodies
cool in concept but I thought kaga talked about in an interview after fe1's release that he noticed a lot of people were resetting on character deaths and that's why gaiden has all those revival fountains and whatever so it feels strange for the deadlords to be that way even with the way this game is designed
anyway we kill dark mages over the doors silence/sleep most of the deadlords over the course of a few turns (the 20+10+7 mag from capped mag+terrain+barrier puts sara at 1 mag lower than the mag cap for an archsage in radiant dawn lamo) and then they all die
also I berzerk some of the berzerkers because it's funny to see how they miss half the time and all have hammers because kaga really hates dalshin
leaf gets move on the final map instead of any map prior to the final map

and then the door opens and possibly the weakest final boss in the series is revealed

like really now is that all


despite all odds dalshin saves the day (I forgot if he ORKO'd or 2RKO'd)

and gets the final level of the game


after is the credits 
as the final cutscene ends I am greeted with a sepia-colored shot of thracia which plays some music and does absolutely nothing for about four minutes and I think "ok that's nice but I don't know what this is"
it turns out that all the turn counts and rankings and whatever were supposed to show up there and for whatever reason they did not
so I looked that up and apparently the image you see in the credits determines your ranking
I saw quan and ethlyn and babby leaf and altina which means my ranking is E for eyeah

and eyeah that is game good but just like conquest (and honestly probably every game in the series other than archanea/elibe/tellius) lategame is no thanks
also the dismounting thing in this game is not good at all fe3 and fe10 nerfed horses enough so that they aren't just 100% the dominant unit type to use at all times and both even managed to make them mediocre overall which is a rare thing to say when fe1/4/6/7/8/9/11/14BRCQREV are all horse and flier emblem (fe3 and fe10 forgot to balance their fliers too)
but in thracia it's like you use carrion because you want to use carrion but then you get slapped in the face with 99999 indoor maps in a row and by the time he can finally come back out he's lv8 unpromoted and you get another 5 mounted prepromotes who work out of the box but will also share the same fate in another few chapters in which they get replaced and so on and so on
probably like a fourth of the game's units are mounted and instead of getting nerfed for indoor maps they just become borderline unusable unless their weapon type is the same when mounted and dismounted
fe3's weapon level and stat debuffs and fe10's ledges and move debuffs indoors (as well as mounts having worse stats overall) are much better though I see both of those only work because they had weapon level/ledges available while thracia and all the other games don't
next time I play I probably won't use hicks because it is too sad to see him become an E rank iron sword chump for a third of the chapters instead I will use marty

entertaining up to lategame and other than the mounts thing though when on the third chapter you're having a pitch black fog of war with hidden torches and a boss only recruitable via a new mechanic it is pretty good lel

ok now for those fe7 comparisons
oh before that I found out the deadlord thing from awakening was apparently a reference to genealogy and not thracia and apparently genealogy had deadlords
I have zero memory of that and upon searching it seems they all showed up during endgame which was a seliph solo and that's probably why

ch32x

this is the hard mode version (and I didn't unlock HHM yet so wouldn't have mattered if I played it now anyway) and yeah see they got them zerkers with devil axes and it's a pretty similar general path
though the guy in the middle actually seals magic up to around 10 range while in 24x the +10 mag tiles acts to prevent using staves on anyone inside (unless you're sara) and to kill whatever unit dared walk forwards and use a torch with a siege tome

then endgame

you gotta kill the deadlords based off prior important bosses and then kill the dark mage whose door opens after you do all that
basically the same map idea except without the door key thing since the doors open automatically and also without the part where your units get spread around the entire big ass map and you don't get to pick who goes where
also if we're talking final final bosses (as in dragon) then in both cases you can have your overpowered sage use an overpowered tome and ORKO the final boss with at least one crit

also for laughs here's the awakening deadlord map



anyway yeah that is game very nice can't believe there's finally an actually viable (and seemingly quite good) lategame prepromoted pegasus knight somehow every game other than this one thought "oh this one flies so let's give the stats of a lv10->1 hero with the weapon ranks of a freshly promoted player unit in ch20"