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fire emblem: waifu roulette

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Total Members Voted: 12

[Twinwolf]

Anyone else with previous FE experience find themselves habitually ignoring characters that arrive as promoted classes, even though some of them are actually pretty decent? Because I do.

I...I'm sorry, Ryoma. It just can't work between us. I know you have a cool electrified katana, but you're already a Swordmaster. It just wasn't meant to be.

He has a kid, so you at least want to pair him up with one of your main female units until they hit S-rank.

[endlessblaze]

I'm playing conquest and....ahem....

CHAPTER 20! RAGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE........

I would rather have to do chapter 10 again....

[Cthulhu]

Does this have a bloodline thing where characters pair up and you play a later act with their kids?

I made my guy a Mercenary since it's a cool class and Gerik was donkey brolic in sacred stones.

I also bench premotes unless I really need them for a mission.  Until I had enough level 10s and promotes to fill a team I also benched them when they promoted.

[Twinwolf]

Once certain characters get to S-rank, you unlock a paralogue to get their kid.

Some of the pre-promotes have kids- specifically the male ones, although I don't know if it's all of them- so you might want to pair them up with a female unit you're actually using so you can get their kids.

[SOLDIER First]

Because there's less [time-travel and Grima] this time around, the excuse is [that babies are actually sent into parallel universes (because who the hell would raise a kid in this kind of environment?!) where they age up, like a heyperbolic time chamber.]

[Sirus]

Does this have a bloodline thing where characters pair up and you play a later act with their kids?

I made my guy a Mercenary since it's a cool class and Gerik was donkey brolic in sacred stones.

I also bench premotes unless I really need them for a mission.  Until I had enough level 10s and promotes to fill a team I also benched them when they promoted.

Once you start Conquest you'll want to keep promoted units around. Just FYI. They might not get much exp but the punch and utility they provide will save your skin fairly often.

[Tawa]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

In chapter 20, the wind is not random, it follows a set pattern that it cycles through. There's about 5 or 6 sets of wind that it goes through, then starts from the beginning and does it over again. It can be planned for, but obviously it takes some memorization

Yeah, I eventually figured out how to beat it after I learned the pattern of the wind and reduced the number of people on my team--I think I've gotten to the point where the levels get a little easier if you bring fewer people, which I usually seem to hit around the end of the game.

I love levels like this, though! Level gimmicks like this make you

...think outside the box, and approach things from a different angle!

I'm playing conquest and....ahem....

CHAPTER 20! RAGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE........

I would rather have to do chapter 10 again....

Spoiler: My advice to you: (click to show/hide)

Bring 10 people. Pair them all up and use the wind to defensively work your way to the boss's position, and attack backwards from there. By only bringing 10 people and pairing them all up, you can set them all up in a line and blow them forward with the entire 5-tile windstream.

Best of luck, you're getting close!

I also bench premotes unless I really need them for a mission.  Until I had enough level 10s and promotes to fill a team I also benched them when they promoted.

Don't do that with this game. Er, if you're doing Conquest, anyway. 3/4ths of the Nohr royal family is made of prepromotes, all of whom are Oifeys.

Because there's less [time-travel and Grima] this time around, the excuse is [that babies are actually sent into parallel universes (because who the hell would raise a kid in this kind of environment?!) where they age up, like a heyperbolic time chamber.]

Which reminds me that the kids thing is utterly ridiculous in this game and does nothing to add to the story. In Awakening the kids were a fun mechanic that made sense due to the plot; in this one, it's obviously shoehorned in for Waifu Emblem players' sake.

I like the S-Supports and A+ supports, though, there's something nice about A-supports not being marriage proposals half the time like in older games.

[Cthulhu]

I'm playing Birthright. 

Technically.  I'm still in the prologue.

So what do people do with 3d in this one?  On one hand 3d is awesome, on the other I'm having trouble getting positioned for it and it's not exactly a super visually flashy game.

The support and pairing seems to make it a little less of a problem to bring premotes along.  They can lend their strength without gobbling up all the XP on the map.

[JoshuaFH]

I'm playing Birthright. 

Technically.  I'm still in the prologue.

So what do people do with 3d in this one?  On one hand 3d is awesome, on the other I'm having trouble getting positioned for it and it's not exactly a super visually flashy game.

The support and pairing seems to make it a little less of a problem to bring premotes along.  They can lend their strength without gobbling up all the XP on the map.

I'm the type of person who can't handle 3D at all, so it always remains off. Touching that slider, even a little bit, is signaling to the 3DS "Hey, want to fuck my eyes?" to which it will happily oblige.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

In chapter 20, the wind is not random, it follows a set pattern that it cycles through. There's about 5 or 6 sets of wind that it goes through, then starts from the beginning and does it over again. It can be planned for, but obviously it takes some memorization

Yeah, I eventually figured out how to beat it after I learned the pattern of the wind and reduced the number of people on my team--I think I've gotten to the point where the levels get a little easier if you bring fewer people, which I usually seem to hit around the end of the game.

I love levels like this, though! Level gimmicks like this make you

I also bench premotes unless I really need them for a mission.  Until I had enough level 10s and promotes to fill a team I also benched them when they promoted.

Don't do that with this game. Er, if you're doing Conquest, anyway. 3/4ths of the Nohr royal family is made of prepromotes, all of whom are Oifeys.

Because there's less [time-travel and Grima] this time around, the excuse is [that babies are actually sent into parallel universes (because who the hell would raise a kid in this kind of environment?!) where they age up, like a heyperbolic time chamber.]

Which reminds me that the kids thing is utterly ridiculous in this game and does nothing to add to the story. In Awakening the kids were a fun mechanic that made sense due to the plot; in this one, it's obviously shoehorned in for Waifu Emblem players' sake.

You're right about the kids thing being shoehorned in, but "My Time Traveling Children come to visit me" is pretty much the definition of shoehorn, so they didn't fit in Awakening either. Even though they don't fit into the story here in Fates, the mechanic is executed so much better, I love it.

I mean, still not as good as 4, in either story or mechanics, but just because you're not the best doesn't mean you shouldn't try, eh?

Does this have a bloodline thing where characters pair up and you play a later act with their kids?

I made my guy a Mercenary since it's a cool class and Gerik was donkey brolic in sacred stones.

I also bench premotes unless I really need them for a mission.  Until I had enough level 10s and promotes to fill a team I also benched them when they promoted.

Once you start Conquest you'll want to keep promoted units around. Just FYI. They might not get much exp but the punch and utility they provide will save your skin fairly often.

Yeah, any scruples you hold onto about ignoring prepromotes are gonna melt away in the face of Hard Conquest. The difficulty is tuned around you having these strong characters helping you out, and ignoring them is simply voluntarily giving yourself a headache. You'll just have to swallow your pride and accept the fact that you still need a babysitter.

I'm playing conquest and....ahem....

CHAPTER 20! RAGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE........

I would rather have to do chapter 10 again....

Hue hue hue, wait til you get to 21

[endlessblaze]

speaking of.....I'm there now.

WHAT IS THIS!? THIS IS INSANE! WE ARE SO DEAD!

[Tawa]

Ah. Well, if and when you do side with Nohr, prepromotes are a godsend.

Haha, beat Chapter 21. That was a tough bastard of a level, you guys are gonna love it.

I'M HAVING A BAD TIME

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Why does EVERYBODY have Savage Blow?! Everything goes smoothly until you get to a chokepoint and run out of Dragon Veins to use. :v

You're right about the kids thing being shoehorned in, but "My Time Traveling Children come to visit me" is pretty much the definition of shoehorn, so they didn't fit in Awakening either. Even though they don't fit into the story here in Fates, the mechanic is executed so much better, I love it.

I mean, still not as good as 4, in either story or mechanics, but just because you're not the best doesn't mean you shouldn't try, eh?

Well, in Awakening it fit into the plot reasonably; [Lucina comes back to stop the Bad Future and her friends tag along.] It's not really as well-done as in Genealogy, no, but it at least fits into the story and is alluded to during the introduction of the one plot-mandatory kid.

In Fates, it's "You got married! Guess what, there's D&D-style demiplanes with Narnia-style time, and instead of carrying your children to war like a REAL childbearing Fire Emblem character, you're going to leave them THERE!"

Not to mention the fact that it's implied that the kids were carried to term outside of the demiplanes, which makes no sense in either plot path.

speaking of.....I'm there now.

WHAT IS THIS!? THIS IS INSANE! WE ARE SO DEAD!

you and me both, pal ;_;

I'm going to go fetch the mathematician-tallow candles and highly flammable statistics paperwork. It's time to pray to RNGsus.

[JoshuaFH]

I actually have a lot of tips, but typing them out right now is hard because I'm on my 3DS right now. So I'll just say I hope you picked up the Dragonstone+ in ch20. Things are gonna get real ugly if you didn't

[Tawa]

I didn't, but I picked Magic for my dump stat anyway. :/

Now that I think about it I should stop posting at 1 AM too. :v

I think I'm going to like Revelations the best in terms of difficulty TBH. With Conquest, I feel like I expected FE7 Normal and got RD Normal instead. :v

[JimboM12]

For those moments your jagen archetype cleans house:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkqSNS9va5k&index=20&list=PLxdJrDLIgUjKJ5U6K8O0tg7lbxVVe3RIg

Looking at you, Gunter.

[SOLDIER First]

Man, Chapter 9. I really hate this part (and the following 15 Chapters) of Awakening. ;-;