Live Blogs Are Marth and Roy in this? Montago's Draft of Blazing Sword

montagohalcyon2011-07-12 22:45:19

Well, if you've been looking at the liveblog section recently, you've probably noticed a surplus of Fire Emblem blogging taking place. Presumably you chose this one to take a look at, or you're one of my friendly competitors. If you belong to the latter group, feel free to skip the rest of this section.

A major caveat: As the fifth person to make a liveblog of his exploits, and considering the limitations of a draft run, I'm not planning on going into any (well, maybe a little) detail on the storyline, characters, or mechanics of Fire Emblem in general or Blazing Sword in specific (despite how much I love this game), so here's some recommendations you might try:

If you've never played the series or this particular game, the LP I shamelessly stole the title of for this blog is pretty good: Tanto's Let's Play Fire Emblem! There's another completed one on the same forum of the previous game, Sword of Seals, which takes place in the same universe, and an in-progress one of the next, Sacred Stones, which is a standalone.

If you know the gist of what's going on in Elibe but haven't fully explored the story, Barrylocke, the guy who started this, is running through Hector Mode for the first time to kill two birds with one stone. Seven Characters? Amazing Axes? A First time for Everything?! Barrylocke Drafts Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword He's also got links to the rules we're using.

Finally, if you just want to know who's doing the best, that would currently be Jonnas N. Ein Draft von Feuer Emblem. Jonnas is also playing in German to brush up on his language skills, which obviously makes everything infinitely more cool.

Comments

Barrylocke Since: Dec, 1969

Aug 4th 2011 at 2:04:23 AM

Wait, why DID you use Legault? Or was it a mistake?

montagohalcyon Since: Dec, 1969

Aug 4th 2011 at 7:08:45 AM

Thieves have 100% chance to find treasure and I wanted the Light Brand, which is also near one of the shaman/wyvern spawn points. I figured it might speed things up if my thief killed them, since he was going to be there anyway. I'm not sure if it actually did...

If I were to redo this, the change I would make is probably to have Heath pick up Legault again and drop him in the south after he got the treasure; Pent could've handled the north and most of my wasted time was from taking forever to get to the southern enemies.

Barrylocke Since: Dec, 1969

Aug 5th 2011 at 1:03:01 AM

Alternatively, Legault could probably have taken the Shaman hit. That's what happened to me. Legault makes a pretty decent dodge shield at this stage of the game.