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FE4, Chapter 8, Continued
Jul. 26th, 2012 10:30 pmStill screwing around in the Manster District because the Second Gen boys keep getting slaughtered by Muhammad's crew. Admittedly I haven't played since my last update because I've been running on too little sleep to contemplate playing a strategy game, but today's sortie didn't go so well.
Lester just isn't that great. And he's the product of a conventional, bow-happy match (Aideen/Midayle), not one of my weirdo pairings. His strength is meh and he's pretty fragile, so who cares if he inherited the Hero Bow from his dad? He's not killing anything with it. Delmud I've already complained incessantly about. Skasaher doesn't die as readily as those two but he's also annoyingly fragile... but at least he can dodge enough. Two full chapters into Gen 2, and I feel like I've got a pretty crap army; Celice outshines his peer group by a massive margin, Fee remains impressive and reliable, and Aless and Shanan deliver the goods on the offense and not-dying front. Mostly, I'm feeling a lack of the front-line offense that characterized Gen 1. I have all these units who can creep about in the shrubbery and deliver stealth kills, but God help them if they're attacked by more than two enemies in one turn.
And seriously... whenever archetype fiends get pedantic and start saying things like, "Seth isn't a Jagen, he's an Oifaye," they are being extremely unkind to Seth. Oifaye's OK, and it's good to have a mounted unit who has a snowball's chance on the front lines, but he ain't Seth.
I've been playing a Seth-solo run of FE8 for laughs. I hear it's like an entirely different game, one you basically can't lose. I'm suspecting that will indeed be the case.
ETA: Blume continues to not impress me with his competence. He whines to Ishtar about losing Tinny. Dude... you're not 100% evil and on some level you seem to have given a damn about Tinny, but bringing up the whole part about her mother dying as a means of cementing her loyalty was a tactical error given the way her mother, well, died. I mean, c'mon, dude. I bet there's some current best-seller on the Jugdral Times booklist called, like, 50 Things to Not Say to the Holy-Blooded Superchild Who Is Not Really Your Daughter (and Can Potentially Kill You), and what you said to Tinny there is #37.
Lester just isn't that great. And he's the product of a conventional, bow-happy match (Aideen/Midayle), not one of my weirdo pairings. His strength is meh and he's pretty fragile, so who cares if he inherited the Hero Bow from his dad? He's not killing anything with it. Delmud I've already complained incessantly about. Skasaher doesn't die as readily as those two but he's also annoyingly fragile... but at least he can dodge enough. Two full chapters into Gen 2, and I feel like I've got a pretty crap army; Celice outshines his peer group by a massive margin, Fee remains impressive and reliable, and Aless and Shanan deliver the goods on the offense and not-dying front. Mostly, I'm feeling a lack of the front-line offense that characterized Gen 1. I have all these units who can creep about in the shrubbery and deliver stealth kills, but God help them if they're attacked by more than two enemies in one turn.
And seriously... whenever archetype fiends get pedantic and start saying things like, "Seth isn't a Jagen, he's an Oifaye," they are being extremely unkind to Seth. Oifaye's OK, and it's good to have a mounted unit who has a snowball's chance on the front lines, but he ain't Seth.
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I've been playing a Seth-solo run of FE8 for laughs. I hear it's like an entirely different game, one you basically can't lose. I'm suspecting that will indeed be the case.
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ETA: Blume continues to not impress me with his competence. He whines to Ishtar about losing Tinny. Dude... you're not 100% evil and on some level you seem to have given a damn about Tinny, but bringing up the whole part about her mother dying as a means of cementing her loyalty was a tactical error given the way her mother, well, died. I mean, c'mon, dude. I bet there's some current best-seller on the Jugdral Times booklist called, like, 50 Things to Not Say to the Holy-Blooded Superchild Who Is Not Really Your Daughter (and Can Potentially Kill You), and what you said to Tinny there is #37.
