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Alfric2011-07-11 10:28:48

This is the start of my part of the TV Tropes Fire Emblem Draft competition! This little game consists of six people consecutively choosing characters to use in a file. After a character is chosen, they cannot be used by anyone else. The six people (Barrylocke, Hnd 03, Jonnas N, Xiphonii, Montagohalcyon, and myself) each chose our six units to use in Hector Normal Mode, and now we all play through the game, putting little reviews of the chapters either into personal liveblogs, such as this one, or into reviews on the Fire Emblem Draft topic. The characters I've drafted are:

Hector (usable by everyone)

Rebecca

Lowen

Dorcas

Raven

Jaffar

Renault

Athos (usable by everyone)

Matthew can be used by everyone for thief based purposes, but can't fight, and Legault is allowed to steal one certain item in the map he joins on. Otherwise, there is a +4 turn penalty if you use an undrafted character to fight. Marcus can be used by everyone up until chapter 15.

We then go through the game and compete to see who can get the lowest total turn count in all of the chapters. We will all go through all of the Gaiden chapters except for 23x and 19xx, and while 28x is necessary to do, it does not count towards our turn count.

I've made my tactician, named simply Alfric, and with a Fire affinity. I will get the first episode up shortly.

Comments

montagohalcyon Since: Dec, 1969

Aug 10th 2011 at 8:47:04 AM

Great description of Raven vs. Linus! Glad to see he's gotten over his revenge idea. That Raven/Rebecca/Lowen trio is really working out well for you, isn't it?

I hadn't known before that Linus/Lloyd address the one who defeated their brother differently, interesting.

So what about Vaida and her wyverns? Hector dealt with them all? I haven't played it yet, but I remember last time he didn't have enough strength to beat them quickly. ...Or is it not a rout chapter like I thought? That would certainly change my strategy...

Alfric Since: Dec, 1969

Aug 10th 2011 at 11:50:27 AM

Raven/Lowen/Rebecca is really awesome, since Raven gets the evade boost he needs to help makeup for his crap res and luck, and Lowen and Rebecca geta little boost to strength and crit chance to help them kill stuff.

As for Linus, he doesn't actually say anything different to the person who killed their brother, Linus just makes that accusation to anyone. It's only kinda true anyways, since technically, Limstella kills the brother.

I can't remember the actual win condition, though I think it was rout, but I just left Hector there since Vaida doesn't show up if you kill her previously. Killing them quickly wasn't an issue, since my Hector capped strength in first tier, and was fast enough to double them with an Iron axe.