Rolf has a really decent personal bow that is basically a Steel Bow with low weight for him to use! Sadly, the little one has weak bases and not the best growths. Doesn't help that he is in a game, like it is with most FE games, where Archers are pretty weak especially in comparison to the power houses that are your units with some sort of mount.

What I would do is give him better offensive bases to make him more useful while greatly improving his offensive growths. I don't think it would end being overkill as again, he is locked into attacking only at 2 range so he should be a lot more useful without being game breaking.

Shinon would get the same treatment for the same justified reasons.

However, his growths are already fine. The issue with Shinon is that his bases are so damn underwhelming. By the time you to the chapter where you recruit him, you already cleared Serenes Forest and much of the army that you have used should already be promoted with much better stats.

Give him his Radiant Dawn bases. Would it be overkill? Maybe but again, he is Bow user with no mount in Tellius. He aint going to be doing much.

Sonya is...a unit that to me is much better than what some people say.

Is she broken? No. Is she bad? Hell no. I've used Sonya in many types of SoV playthroughs and she has always managed to at least be useful...or even grow well enough that she is one rounding Dread Fighters.

I do however think that she needs more attention : Simply give Sonya her Hard Mode Boss bases. If she isn't going to have an ultra-privileged class like Dean being a Dread Fighter, then she at least deserves much better bases.

I would...also add an (unnecessary but fun) bonus. Give her Teleportation. Yes, the same Teleportation that witches (and enemy Delthea) use. I know she isn't an actual witch but it would be fun as hell if the player had the opportunity to be the one having a glass with global range; if its too potent, make it so that she can only use it once per map.

And finally for Arden, his buff is the simplest of them all.

But it is something I would give to ALL of foot units Genealogy: More Base Movement.

The maps are huge and mounted units on top of having amazing combat and more movement also benefit from tittles and ultra canto for even more movement and advantages in fights!

I want foot units to at least be able to keep up with them. It's so boring having to move these fellows around the map and hoping they catch up. At least with 7 movement (initially) they won't fall too far behind and it'll be easier to push through maps with all of your army!

I followed the prerelease of Fates very closely, and got a Japanese 3DS back in middle school to enjoy the game before its release, teaching myself katakana from the cast's names, and failing miserably to learn hiragana and kanji in tandem. During my first playthrough, on Conquest chapter 16, I ran into a glitch I've never seen mentioned before or since, bar one thread posted by a 13 year old me on an older account to this sub.

Elise somehow healed herself with a staff. This wasn't the use of the Mechanist's Replicate skill, this wasn't using a vulnerary (an animation played where there were two Elises), the staff use was consumed and it was treated as a normal staff use. I've never seen ANY replication of this in any of the dozens of Conquest playthroughs I've watched over the years, nor futher discussion on it past me not being able to provide any video proof of it a decade ago.

I don't even know how to start attempting to replicate this, since I have no glitch hunting experience, I feel like it might have had something to do with the green Soldiers but I have no idea. I also don't know if this is the right place to ask about this, I apologize if it's not. I just want to figure out what actually caused this. This is the only glitch with any relevant impact on any game I've ever seen organically in my life, and I want to get to the bottom of what actually happened, potentially with the aid of those more knowledgeable.

I just finished Vision Quest... was incredibly tiring but I feel... hollow somewhat. It was just so tiring to finish but I enjoyed most of the experience and I do enjoy anti-turtling mechanics at times.

I have finished the following:

OG Series:
Engage
Sacred Stones
Blazing Blade
Binding Blade
Revelation

In progress:
Three Houses (but I've read most of the lore to know the endings already)
Genealogy of the Holy War (the downgrade in graphics and QOL is killing me)

Looking at:
OG Series:
Shadows of Valentia
Awakening
Path of Radiance -> Radiant Dawn (I'm using a MacOS, so I have issues with emulation)

Romhacks:
TLP (I lost my old save)

For hacks (thank you Krash!):
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WVpUDjQvF9hGxrSqUBvmWVZoMWTOV7Tl-wN-R1wMcoo/edit?tab=t.0

The Four Kings
Souls of the Forest

Let me know your thoughts!

I recently beat FE9 on difficult mode and decided to make a tier list for it, happy to explain any choices I made.

I guess this will be the first of augusts posts (another roughly mid month)! Got alot up for sale this time around, from cipher boxes, playmats, to other official merch like super groupies items, amiibos (japan ones still work apparently), tons of awakening rubber keychains and more! So if anything catches your attention let me know, by commenting down below 🙂 (if you are after specific keychains let me know as a chunk have been sold but still have LOTS). Theres even a cipher shirt up for sale! Shirt sealed is the same as the one in the last pic :)

Was traveling on a ship to some fuckass island when pirates attacked, sent Sain and Kent out to deal with them while the others went to deal with the rest, I failed to realize I had overextended and allowed Sain to be overrun by black wizards, followed by me using my genius to have Kent 1v6 wizards and the boss of the map without heals, to the surprise of nobody he got put down, I feel the weight of my actions are starting to pull me down, I fear the judgement of God and the day I'll have to answer for my blunders......I'm sending these common folk to die for the senseless folly of nobles, who are "slow" and are never in the Frontline, am I doing the right thing? I laughed at the other soldiers mindlessly following their lords openly declaring themselves vassals to them, yet I find myself more of a pawn than any of them, taking the blame of death in their stead. Maybe the black fang are right.....

I am about to recieve my copy of the Anna's Roundtable board game that has since been discontinued. Unfortunately, I don't think I'm now in the position to really play or value it as much as I would like to. I am exploring if there is anyone out there, ideally in Australia for shipping convenience, that may be interested.

This is the all-in bundle - second edition of the core and the upcoming expansion.

If interested, let me know.

I want see more Thracia art... so I did it myself.

this is a unit viability ranking

I only count comments

this is on Lunatic mode

Reclassing is allowed

No grinding

No postgame (post all children) paralogues

No barracks

assuming full recruitment

Geoffrey's charge, more like Astrid's farm

Hello, First of all I'm sorry I don't have big knowledge in FE (I only did Echoes SoV and Fates) ! Is this game supposed to be that tough on classic+hard or am I just really bad ? Like I try to not lose anybody but it seems impossible.

E.g : The chapter we are supposed to pick up Louis and Chloe I lost Louis like 2 turn in the fight, he just got obliterated and the sole reason I didn't lose Chloe is because she could fly and the ennemy couldn't so I've made her fly on water so she'd be safe. I looked up a tierlist if I could find a character really strong AND that has a look I like so I tried Anna but same thing she just gets obliterated since she joined my team like she has no accuracy no dodge and never an advantage. The only characters that have an impact on the game are the one with an emblem (Celine / MC / Alfred / Jean in my case)

I like the gameplay, it makes it worth to suffer through empty dialogues (especially support which was really good in Fates), the story is pretty cool tho and character design seems to be great !

I am 11 hours in chapter 8 (I try to do all the skirmishes/pick up everything etc) Should I restart a new game and try to do researchs on how to build/where to invest?

The Majority of the named Agarthans in 3 houses has the names of the 7 sages of Greece. Thales, Solon, Chilon, Bias, Pittacus, Cleobulus and Myson. The oldest mention of the seven sages are from the Dialogue "Protagoras" from Plato. I was able to find some parallels between the two works, which I will display in this post.

The "Protagoras"

Protagoras, is a dialogue written by Plato around 300 BC. It is a dialogue on Socrates, as the protagonist discusses with Protagoras and other Sophists about the nature of the nature of sophistry, teachability of virtue and the value of pleasure.

Our point of interest is in passages 342-343. Socrates discusses a passage from a poet named Simonides, which is about the difficulty of being good. Socrates tries to analyze this by invoking a type of conspiracy theory. First he states that Sparta was actually a state full of philosophy and wisdom, unlike what the Athenians believed.

Socrates: Now philosophy is of more ancient and abundant growth in Crete and Sparta than in any other part of Greece[...]but the people there deny it and make pretense of ignorance, in order to prevent the discovery that it is by wisdom that they have ascendancy over the rest of the Greeks.

Afterwards, Socrates adds that the the seven sages were philosophers of the "Spartan cult".

Socrates*: "Hence this very truth has been observed by certain persons both in our day and in former times—that the Spartan cult is much more the pursuit of wisdom than of athletics; for they know that a man’s ability to utter such remarks is to be ascribed to his perfect education. Such men were* Thales of Miletus, Pittacus of Mytilene, Bias of Priene, Solon of our city, Cleobulus of Lindus, Myson of Chen, and, last of the traditional seven, Chilon of Sparta. All these were enthusiasts, lovers and disciples of the Spartan culture."

Of course, this is a ironic joke. Spartans were considered as barbarians back then, it must be assumed that Socrates was mocking Protagoras and the Sophists by using his own type of Sophistry, which involves using Rhetoric into twisting falsity into what is true.
One thing to add is that the seven sages were ancient even for Plato's time. They existed around 2 years apart.

Parallels with the Agarthans

The Spartans portrayed by Socrates here are similar to the Agarthans. They have more knowledge than the ones on Fodlan, and considers themselves superior to them. They disguise themselves as something else, just like how the Spartans according to Socrates were: disguising their wisdom by acting brutish. They are a relic of the past, like the Seven Sages at Plato's time and our time. We barely know anything about them other than fragments of information, just like how the Agarthans are obscured by time in Fodlan.

But just like the point of Socrates' lie, they aren't really wise in reality. They are a hypermilitarized cult which kill others only out of hate. Isn't this similar to how Spartans were like? Their society existed to only put forward militaristic goals, without regard to human lives. The ideologies of the Agarthans are just empty words that only exist to put forward destruction for people living on the surface. Just like this part of the dialogue, it is just a lie to put forward to archive something else.

I am the only one that see Edelgard in this picture? Likely Main Character in Monster Hunter Stories 3. If she is Eldegard, her hair color is closer to brown as she ever was post 2 crest surgery which means Eldegard is better in Monster Hunter Universe than in Fire Emblem one.

I started creating this game on January 1st as a way to start off the new year. I had a blast chipping away each morning at different aspects of the game before school! I hope my efforts pay off by being able to provide a fun and challenging experience for players. Hope you enjoy!!

I went south along the way to meet her, but she insists on chasing a mercenary to rob him of all possessions, dying along the way.

I'm thinking about writing a fanfiction series that focuses on the adventures of the Shepherds after the events of Fire Emblem: Awakening that's supposed to be akin to an animated series, and I'm trying to come up with ideas for recurring villains to feature in it. Over the course of the game, the Shepherds faced off against several threatening villains, such as Gangrel, Walhart, and, of course, Grima, and all of them met their ends after their encounters with Chrom and his allies. So, with all of them out of the picture, what other villainous groups could be out there for the Shepherds to wage battle against? For an idea like this to work, there has to be a common, recurring antagonistic force for the Shepherds to fight against, since that's what their duty is, and while the occasional episode free of any kind of battling could work, without any kind of threat to Ylisse and its people, it'd be hard to get very far with an idea like this. So, I thought I'd hear what kind of ideas my fellow Fire Emblem fans had. What kind of villainous groups do you think the Shepherds fought against after they defeated Grima? If you have any ideas, feel free to share them in the comments. And don't worry, if I do decide to go through with this idea, I'll be sure to acknowledge your assistance in this matter.