I for my part am done with FE10. I've been emulating it, and I made it to part 3 epilogue before it finally gave up the ghost. Corrupted data or something, I always get a crash when I try to load the level. Welp. It was a pretty decent game while it lasted, but that's the end.
I definitely found it easier than the GBA games, even ignoring battle saves. Sire grunts take more oomph to bring down, but they don't hit much harder, and there's less nasty surprises - no enemies with multiple weapons to mess you up, less flyers to do surprise picks on someone squishy you put 1 square too close, less fog of war, less dying to 10 attacks because you kept killing everything with counters, more ways to null a boss's crit chance, etc.
Nolan and Aran carried the DB, Elincia and Geoff carried the CRKs (surprise), Haar and Nephenee carried the GMs. Final group would have most certainly been picked from them + royals.
I was also kind of looking forward to see the story play out, and there's a lot synopses won't tell you.