Saga Frontier - Beat T260G's quest. GenocideHeart was pretty tough! Otherwise whatevs. Used 3 mecs + a monster + a swordsman (Emelia), worked decently. Mecs are pretty cool but they have some pretty big flaws (the main one being Repair Kits sucking); in general, 3 is certainly more than I'd like to use on a normal playthrough. Monsters... are what they are. Cotton had a pretty good stretch midgame but in order to be competitive endgame, you have to get some pretty darn rare absorbs. Bleh to that.
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn - Weakest Weapons Only playthrough. Got this idea from some madness in chat a few months back. Anyway, da rulez:
-Characters can only use their weakest available weapon (lowest might). If there's a tie, they can choose. For most of the game this means Bronze weapons, basic tomes, etc., though in early part 1/2/3 this means the weakest weapons available. For characters who join in the middle of a map (e.g. Tormod) they can use the weakest weapon they have (e.g. Fire instead of Thunder) but this must be remedied after the map ends.
-Since knives are the weakest weapon class, all knives are legal. Yesz, knife-user hype.
-The weakest laguz weapon is the raven beak (Nealuchi/Vika) so they are the only two laguz who can use their weapons. Other laguz must only be used for utility (shove, rescue, drawing indirect attacks, etc.).
-No forged weapons, except knives. No Master Crowns as they give early access to mastery skills, some of which undermine the challenge a little (Bronze Lance Luna still OHKOs, etc.).
-Normal Mode because FE10 HM is lamesauce.
Anyway I am up to 1-8. Hardest map so far is 1-7. The first three maps are barely different than normal, 1-3 is a bit notable because of a lack of Thani and the Steel weapons you're picking up. 1-4 is where physical non-Sothe offence really goes down the tubes, fortunately 1-4 is a bit of a joke, and I've somehow managed since then.
Leo is LVP, does like no damage. Ed isn't much better. Meg at least can kinda take a hit. All suck. Nolan is getting kinda RNG screwed, so Aran is probably the best non-prepromo physical unit. Or maybe Jill. Still using all three though, as well as all the prepromos and Laura. Volug is not LVP somehow just because of his tank/shove/rescue/move everywhere build which is still better than Leo and possibly Ed. Fiona shouldn't even have to be mentioned. Mages are improved since Thunder/Light isn't nearly as bad as a bronze weapon relatively (-2 instead of -6 from an optimum power non-forge), and Ilyana is actually kinda decent. Micaiah's even better despite the lack of Thani; she sorta plays her usual role as she still 2HKOs armours and nobody else comes close, except Tormod and of course Tauroneo. Sothe is overall MVP so far which is the least shocking thing ever.
