Class Mayhem! Let's Hack Fire Emblem + Sword of Seals!

Nah, the Support system in FE6-8 is honestly just terrible. Standing around for 50 turns doing nothing is just the epitome of not fun.

FE9 handled it beautifully though. There you just have to have two compatible units enter the same chapter together. FE10 and FE11 did something like that too, but they removed detailed Support Conversations in favor of one liners/removed Support Conversations all together.

Didn't FE5 have some kind of support system or is it just more one liners? Anyways, while the GBA FE games did have kinda meh implemented score systems, especially in FE7 where they kept track of turn counts and the like for your rankings, it did kinda work in FE8 because it had an "end game" where you had nothing better to do than get all of the supports and secret characters (and there weren't many dual character endings at all). I'd rather have poorly implemented supports than none at all (or FE9 supports)

I don't care the particulars but make somebody a Cavalier this time. I got a hankering for cavaliering.

If I recall correctly, Fire Emblem 6 has a glut of really big maps. Anyways, strategy here is to advance forward, leaving a few guys behind to deal with the enemy reinforcements. Meanwhile, Roy, Clarine, and Rutger are going to be traveling around unlocking things.



Oh, and now Saul is a Mamkute. This means he can’t promote (!), but it also means he gets crazy bonuses. Unfortunately, unlike Flametongue, Flame Stone only has a one panel range.



why do you all have such terrible growths

Seriously, the FE7 guys took like maybe three resets on average to get a decent level up, and it wasn’t very hard to get a boost to a low growth. These guys? These guys are taking more than ten resets, and most times I never even see a single boost to their weak stats. This is ridiculous.

At least, that’s what I’d say if I didn’t know how level ups worked. Now I’m just amazed at just how much the RNG is rebelling against me.



Clarine got a critical hit, so I guess I have to accept this.







Barely made it in time.

I don’t think Marcus has to worry about Roy being surrounded by Pheraeans. He’s already got a Sacaen, Ostian and an Ilian girlfriend.



You know what? I’m just going to give Clarine infinite turns. This is going to take too long otherwise.



Saul’s floating dragon head isn’t as impressive as Nils’, but it’s more powerful. Too bad he gets almost no experience from fighting.

This looks like a nice Lockpick. I think I’ll take it.




(HP: 75%, Str: 25%, Skl: 20%, Spd: 20%, Lck: 15%, Def: 30%, Res: 15%)

Zealot. The only unit so bad, he dragged down his wife’s stats just by marrying her. Oh well, at least he’s a pretty nice guy.



(HP: 85%, Str: 40%, Skl: 30%, Spd: 35%, Lck: 50%, Def: 30%, Res: 5%)

I have never used this guy in a battle, but his Supports are pretty funny.



(HP: 75%, Str: 30%, Skl: 45%, Spd: 30%, Lck: 40%, Def: 30%, Res: 10%)

I usually try to use Noah, but he always proves to be inferior to Alan or Lance.

Zealot- Hero, which makes sense storyline wise

Treck- Priest, just because I couldn't think of anything better

Noah- Myrmidon

Zealot: Hmm... don't care.

Treck: Knight. He's got the stats for a pretty good one, truth be told.

Noah: I really wish Noah had better stats and growths, because he's got some of the best supports in the game. Ah well, I think he'd make a decent Mercenary at least.

Zealot should be a Hero or a Paladin.

Who names a kid Zealot?

That's just the translators trying to make sense of

(To get my formation, replace Marcus with Thany and Thany with Dorothy)

Ah, Ostia. This is the game’s wake-up call chapter; the map is huge, there are tons of enemies, there are three stupid units you have to save and recruit, a bunch of houses to visit, and if you’re like me you’ll have to do all of this



With weapons that are nearly broken because time spent at the previous chapters’ armories is time wasted.



Anyways, priority one is to get Roy over to this area as fast as possible.

Ah, classic Fire Emblem romance. Two people don’t like each other, and then BAM! Love.



Recruitment chain!



Zealot’s poll was a decisive victory for Hero, but Treck and Noah are still undecided. I’ll be extending their poll until the next chapter.



I really need to make a checklist of what Support Conversations I’ve posted. I’m really not sure if I’ve already posted this one.



I don’t know why Ostia has so many trees, but I’m going to be taking advantage of it.



Too bad it doesn‘t help at all. *loads state*





God damn it Noah.

I’d rather not use Zealot, but desperate times call for desperate meas-



only ten damage are you kidding me





what the hell are you doing noah

Saul is the best.



For some reason, Treck can’t recruit Noah. Oh well, Zealot was in the area.



Ffffffffffff- (A nearby house gives up a free Physic staff)



MINE.





Turn 7 and the map is pretty much clear. Now to visit all of the remaining houses, pick those chests, and buy some new weapons.



wait what



Well crap.

SHIT.



Oh wait, I’m already done collecting stuff.

Someone needs to make a photoshop of “Please teach me, Lady Clarine!”.



*Spends a surprisingly short amount of time manipulating the RNG for a critical hit*



Not the most ideal level up, but I got a critical hit so I’ll have to live with it.



Hooray.


There’s a lot of new characters next time.



(HP: 90%, Str: 35%, Skl: 40%, Spd: 50%, Lck: 15%, Def: 20%, Res: 20%)

First up is Astol, who is probably only going to be used for this chapter.



(HP: 45%, Str: 75%, Skl: 20%, Spd: 35%, Lck: 50%, Def: 10%, Res: 35%)

Second up is Lilina. Note how I’ve already given her stats a boost. (If you guys want, I could hack a Door Key into her inventory and have her try to reclaim her castle herself).



(HP: 85%, Str: 40%, Skl: 40%, Spd: 40%, Lck: 45%, Def: 30%, Res: 10%)

I don’t care what you people say, Wendy (and Generals by proxy) is terrible in my opinion. FE6 just has too many large maps.



(HP: 100%, Str: 60%, Skl: 25%, Spd: 20%, Lck: 20%, Def: 40%, Res: 2%)

Barth’s Resistance growth is hilarious.



(HP: 85%, Str: 40%, Skl: 30%, Spd: 45%, Lck: 55%, Def: 20%, Res: 15%)

Oujay’s a pretty cool guy.

(By the way, we still have all of those spare FE7 stat boosts.)

...For the record, I'm reading your supports.

Whoops, fixed.

(I had my word processor replace all uses of "Lou" with "Lugh".)

Ah, and here I was thinking it was a bad joke. ^^;

At least I know what happened to Lucius now. I honestly never bothered with supports in FE6 that didn't involve Lugh and a certain someone else.

Edit: Scratch that, I went for Lilina and Roy's support too. Because honestly, why wouldn't you?

Astohl. Meh. Meh.

Lilina: Make her a Divine Dragon so she can raze the castle to the ground with her might!

Wendy: Yay, Wendy! It's a shame her supports don't go more into her personality, but the fact that she's one of the few (but proud) female Knights makes it difficult for me to begrudge her because of it. I'm tempted to request leaving her as a Knight, but making her a female Mercenary (which, oddly enough, actually exists in the game's coding even though it doesn't have a sprite) sounds like it'd be aces.

Barth: Ehh... don't really care much about this guy, truth be told. That mohawk of his is awful and he's got a weird chin, bluh. No sense in letting those growths go to waste, however: let's make him a Cleric so we'll have a really sturdy healer on our team.

Oujay: This guy, meanwhile, would make a great Soldier - he's got great growths all-around and is one of the few characters in the game that's not decidedly awful. Also, I request we get to see the entirety of his support with Lilina, as it's one of the few really involving conversations and it really helps flesh his character out.

Female Mercenary (along with Female Cavalier and Female Paladin) seem to just be placeholders.

As for Lilina, if I make her a Divine Dragon, she won't be able to promote, and will be restricted to a 20 use weapon. You realize that, right?

...Why on earth would you change Lilina's class? She needs that 30 Magic Cap to take full advantage of her 75% growth there. I say leave her as is.

Right, but the bonuses from the Divine Stone should even out the lack of a promotion (especially the Def+15 and Res+20, which will make her basically indestructible). Her Str will actually be higher as a Manakete, since she can hit a max of 32 Str after the stone's bonuses. Seems like a win-win scenario to me.

As for the uses, why not just hack five stones into her/Merlinus's inventory and use that over the course of the game?

Because that would just be plain old cheating. It's one thing to change classes and hack a few promotion items in. It's an entirely different thing to hack in a super class and remove its balancing factor.

Fiiine. If that's too much, then let's make her a Myrmidon.

An acceptable choice, but...

(Swordmaster (F) Stat Caps: 22 Str, 29 Skl, 30 Spd, 30 Lck, 22 Def, 25 Res)

It doesn't exactly fit Lilina's growths. Honestly, Lilina is probably better off as a Sage. Still, I'll count that vote.

the hell are you talking about general is the best class

Thank you, Blitz. You might be my new favourite tyrant, or at least up there with Chu and Sky.

Like I said, I just feel that they're too slow. Low movement in exchange for high stats isn't a bad thing, but it's a total pain in the ass if you want things done fast.

Man, since when has something being a best fit ever mattered :P

Anyway, the low cap can be made up for by the fact that Swordmasters get a 30% boost to their critical rate in this game - that plus the Wo Dao's 40% Crit means she'll be death on two feet the very moment she promotes.

To a person like me, that's all that matters. ^^ I may have already said this, but I think LPs should be about breaking the game within its limits, not crippling the person playing.

I dunno, we already turned Guy into a General, and Chad into a Pirate/Berserker It feels like we're already through the looking glass, here.

Besides:



PONYTAIL SWORDSPIN

Boots! Giving them to a General(or Hector in FE7's case) is the best thing.

Yeah, but you only get like one a game, and they're better off on already high movement characters so they can get across the screen even faster.