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

JonnasN Since: Dec, 1969

Jul 15th 2011 at 6:10:46 PM

You know, neither Erk or Serra need to be rescued, only that soldier needs to be killed, and Erk stays put while waiting for Serra. I don't know if this would've helped in saving you turns, I'm just saying.

Either way, nice turn count. I suppose Marcus helped Hector, right? Nice going, didn't think frail units like Guy and Bartre could be that useful :)

Also, if I understand correctly, if Matthew wasn't there to divert attentions, Guy could've killed the pirates+cavalier earlier, no?

montagohalcyon Since: Dec, 1969

Jul 15th 2011 at 6:45:09 PM

Well, all the enemies Marcus would've killed if he wasn't rescuing went after Hector and got handaxed or Wolf Beil'd on their phase, so I know that didn't change anything.

Thanks! :) The forests and triangle advantage helped Guy a lot; I was surprised he got hit at all. Bartre's not bad if you keep him out of trouble; so far he's never really been close to the main front.

You're right, Matthew might've slowed me down...I knew the pirates would pick an unarmed unit over a village, but wasn't sure if they'd attack Guy the same, so I sent both. After that they kind of had to stick together to survive, since all my other units were occupied.

I didn't know about Erk and Priscilla being automatically recruited at the end until several people mentioned it; might've changed my strategy. Ah well.