How to beat Fire Emblem 11 in the worst way possible

The definitive version of the my FE11 H5 Ironman! With some small video and audio fixes.
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This is an Ironman challenge run of Fire Emblem 11: Shadow Dragon on Hard 5 Difficulty. In Ironman runs, I am not allowed to reset the game, use savepoints, or save states. Each action or occurrence is as a result, permanent. Any characters that die will remain dead for the rest of the run, and if I lose the game, the run is over.
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[@1111-e4p]

I’d like to point out that according to the credits, any dead unit in this game “vanishes from the pages of history”. So I like to think that not only is Marth sending all these people to their deaths, he’s also unpersoning them and stealing the credit for anything they may have achieved during the war.

[@iambread2914]

History book be looking like a pamphlet

[@just_a_tarnished4269]

I can't believe this entire gruesome run started because of a 1% crit

[@alexanderharrison7421]

Imagine how many lives could've avoided the slaughter if Jagen had lived to murder everything

[@JLW2490]

@@alexanderharrison7421 Turns out Jaigen was the shaky pillar holding up Marth's sanity.

[@karasu__tenshi]

@@JLW2490 The fact that Marth saw the most powerful knight at his command die against some random pirate surely broke him.

[@alexanderharrison7421]

@@karasu__tenshi No wonder he went on a murdering spree of everyone and everything he could see

[@swank8508]

@@alexanderharrison7421 im not too familiar with hard 5 fe11, does no jagen somehow make it so cycling through half your army per map is optimal? i thought he was just doing it for comedy

[@lucasm.3864]

Medeus was trying to protect the world from Marth.

[@Nefaliss]

Excel Emblem's DS Emblem IronMan Runs are both some of the most cursed and brilliantly-amazing things in the FE Community.

[@vagrant2863]

Jagen's death really took a toll on Marth's psyche.

[@nessmarsh]

Love how this playthrough has essentially become the journey of anti-marth, an evil prince who takes joy in mass-killing his people

[@sigurdtheblue]

*Nega-Marth

[@mitchellmartin4580]

That's just FE11 Marth in general.

[@n0dash18]

Htram.

[@UzucivuxIhc9fickv9]

No that's Canon marth😊

[@waterworks5276]

You purposely killing all the ballisticians to spite the people who told you they were necessary to complete the game was the best part of this run.

[@Teinve]

Why are they even necessary

[@demonking41-l8j]

​@@Teinve Cuz they're overpowered, pretty much. Ridiculous range? Effective weaponry? Succulent damage? Ballisticians are simply just amazing in this game, they'll make your life way easier.

[@Koppu1doragon]

You can really see the shift from. Okay, I'm trying. To Okay so how many can I throw into the wood chipper before the game becomes unplayable. The answer is, all but one.

[@nameplease8811]

Nah all but 2 Gordin was required

[@Fedra3443]

This is pretty much the "you can question my methods, but not my results" saga

[@brunop.8745]

Given how minimal the gains were in proportion to the amount of dead bodies, yes I very much CAN question the results

[@QueenAleenaFan]

​@@brunop.8745 He didn't even lose 1000 troops on this whole campaign, Marth is very good as as far as a medieval Lord goes

[@DarthFhenix55]

​@@QueenAleenaFanNamed units are better than your average levy recruit tho. This is like like Charles XII losing all his caroleans but managing to win the Great Northern War.

[@KhristianBolano]

Jagen: *fucking dies* Marth: *becomes a war criminal psycho*

[@cluesagi]

Just as Kaga would have wanted

[@maltheopia]

Kaga: 7/10, gets slave dancer and magical girl with tragic backstory killed, would meme again.

[@kyokonull]

Mangs: I lost Jagen so I'm going to reset Excel: I lost Jagen so I'm going to commit genocide

[@karasu__tenshi]

He did? Lol, I’ve only watched his Ironmans.

[@kyokonull]

@@karasu__tenshi yeah, in egg's first fe11 ironman run he loses jagen exactly like excel does, to a low crit chance he decides that it's not worth it to keep the run and starts over since it's chapter 1 anyways on the other hand, well, you've seen what marth has done

[@unr3markabl393]

@@kyokonull well mangs wasnt tenacious enough to waste countless hours to grind for minimal gain.

[@neoonewingedren1836]

@@kyokonull The loss of Jagen drove Marth into insanity which made him the sadic of this run however he tried to teach for his descendants the same (Chrom and Lucina) but they commited so much little sacrifices that he moved to Fateslandia and made Corrin deadly cripple half of Nohr and ended up dying

[@Aisubun]

why do I still see this fucking name ugghhhh

[@CarDaMax1770]

This is what happens when you apply Advance Wars strategies to FE. I love it.

[@michael_betts]

See, I actually try to get good ranks in advance wars, and so have much lower death counts in aw than this atrocity.

[@davidtowers1863]

He also tried advance wars as if it was fire emblem

[@maltheopia]

@@michael_betts All the Advance Wars besides Days of Ruin don't award you points by how many units you got killed, but by what final proportion of units you get killed. Note that I said final proportion, so building new units for no good raisin will boost your rank. Hence if you cleared the map quickly, you can spend a few days churning out infantry and get full marks.

[@michael_betts]

@@maltheopia Which I do do, but getting 300s requires 10% deaths max, and with the 50 unit cap that means a losing a few infantry needlessly kills you attempt at a perfect.

[@maltheopia]

@@michael_betts 10% losses is for War Room, 20% is for campaign.

[@DylanVA]

It's insane to believe that this started out as a legitimate attempt, but then Jagen lost a bet to the RNG gods.

[@darthrevan4748]

Jagen wagered Marth’s soul in exchange for eternal youth. Or eternal oldness. He lost

[@ninjagaro.]

wagered nothing of value, thats why he lost

[@cheryl9809]

This is how WE punish the rng gods

[@TheSolBlader]

@@darthrevan4748 to be fair you don't get any older once you're dead

[@dutczar5436]

What do you mean, "legitimate"? Is this not how you're supposed to play Shadow Dragon?

[@Faerghast]

this is the funniest fe video i seen in a long time ggs

[@spark9656]

This run kept getting more scuffed with every chapter but despite going off the rails immediately and just swerving in random directions for a while it somehow got exactly where it was supposed to go and all it took was a mountain of generic soldiers that probably didn't have hopes or dreams anyway

[@leaffinite2001]

I think my favorite line is "the fact he died for a purpose, is in it self, notable, for its rarity" 14:52

[@NightFore]

Dignity never broke because it was already dead from the start

[@OgreManGaming]

Every hero and every villain have some form of origin story. To think that Excelblem’s had a 99% chance of just not happening… well, it’s as if fate itself wanted history to run the course it has.

[@GerudoKing_]

Excelblem’s sadistic approach to warfare was caused by a 1% crit rate from a random pirate. It’s understandable, but still…

[@bryanisraeltorres7643]

This man is a legend. I cannot even stand one of my characters dying even if I don't use them.

[@theleftfootedsultan]

Looking back on this run, we really slept on Castor until really late. Nobody was making jokes about him for the longest time.

[@DanRamirez]

When he said "as a friend you are replaceable" i felt that.

[@TheAxeLord47911]

Gordin? Five points. Lena? Coked up. Jagen? 1% crit. Almost everyone else? Dead. Oh yeah, it's Marth "genocide's a crime only if you're caught" Lowell time.

[@ericd1022]

Most recruitable characters: “Marth you’re a nice leader. I know you’ll support me. Let me join you.” Marth: “SEND THEM TO THEIR DEATH”

[@Following1000]

Most people make a playlist for their LP's, Excelblem makes 1 video with all the episodes. Also the viewer count slowly rising throughout is so satisfying to watch.

[@ryanprjgamingchannel9437]

Alternative title: WHY Gordin is the BEST unit in Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon (FE11). This is basically the entire Excelblem FE11 H5 Ironman abridged

[@maltheopia]

And to think we all laughed at KidzWorld for their insight.

[@Raindrop_2401]

The Legend of Marth: The Mad Lord

[@mathieubach6851]

Why mad ? Who said that ? All I see is only a pile a corpses that weirdly look his friends

[@funkymon1251]

This is why Gordin referred to him as the God of War Mars.

[@dandragon01]

@@funkymon1251 and this is why that one guy called him Marth the Tyrant

[@openinginawe5518]

Marth war crimes simulator. He watches this before night I love how this is basically a it gets worse

[@theapprovr]

Now who caught Marth's war -crimes- strategy and recorded them all?! This is heresy to the entirety of the Archanean alliance! Off to the replacement units with them!

[@lunarfloure]

Chancellor Gordon will whip this traitor into shape

[@maltheopia]

Walhart: How dare you call my compilation heresy, you insect! This is supposed to be INSPIRATIONAL!

[@maltheopia]

@@lunarfloure Considering what happened to him and Castor in the FE12 Iron Man, Gordin's monster clearly slipped free of the leash.

[@emblemblade9245]

They vanished from the pages of history

[@theleftfootedsultan]

Mom, can we get Mad King Ashnard? No, we have Mad King Ashnard at home. Mad King Ashnard at home:

[@joaquinriosrodriguez7316]

Mad King Marth

[@celerity910]

Blue hair, legendary sword… checks out.

[@misterbadguy7325]

No, you got it wrong, that meme implies the "at home" is inferior to the other one.

[@theleftfootedsultan]

@@misterbadguy7325 Fair enough.

[@SabrinaSaysStuff]

The journey is now all in one place. Glorious

[@atinygoldendeer2045]

aaaand this is how the next Fallen Heroes banner is created

[@celerity910]

Our valiant heroes: Marth, Caeda, Gordin, Castor, Lena, Wendell (rip), Elice, Gotoh, Jiminez, Pinkley, Rejek, and a large pile of corpses. Now it would suck if everybody I just mentioned besides Marth died in three years, but what's the odds of that?

[@cattonorio]

Gotoh didn’t die He knew what was going to happen and sent nagi on his stead

[@xxx_jim_the_reaper_xxx]

@@cattonorio Gotoh didn't die because he was useful. Nagi didn't die because she never joined the Mad King's cause.

[@BlazerT48]

I haven't played this FE but I'm gonna assume Marth's character as megalomaniac psychopathic ruler with no regard of human lives is canon.

[@paperluigi6132]

Little trivia for you all: in the original plans for FE1, Jagen was gonna be killed off to provide a tragic coming-of-age moment for Marth. This was scrapped due to either time constraints, technical limitations, or the inconvenience of taking away a unit from the player (which is funny, because Kaga later did that with FE4 and FE5). I guess this is what might’ve happened.

[@bladerdj3503]

The best thing about this run is that it accidentally discovered a way to preform a 0-Turn run.

[@EdwardoFE]

step 1: gordin step 25: gordin

[@JLW2490]

You mean beating Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon as the Blood Goddess intended.

[@xuanathan]

This is why Shadow Dragon is the truest fire emblem game in spirit. Its like Kaga snuck back in and was like "TEARRINH WASNT CHAOTIC ENOUUUUGGHH"

[@maltheopia]

Kaga's going soft in his retirement. We'd never be getting monsters like Merida and Troy back in his heyday.

[@SwitheKun]

So this is how the villain arc began...

[@freetoplayking7362]

History: this was very much a pyrrhic victory Marth: a victory is a victory, no matter what made up word you add to it Shout out to @Aaron for inspiring this

[@slowbowz6383]

This was so damn kino that it makes me wanna play fe12 genocide route

[@doomjazz420]

Finally a fire emblem run with a realistic death count

[@Wizzkidwas]

Holy crap coming back to thos today makes me realise how much your commentary has improved

[@huntersnyder4358]

“After a mere number of deaths that is greater than any 5 Fire Emblem Games’ entire rosters put together”

[@AzureGreatheart]

“Most of you will die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.”

[@Sean_Bird]

War Crimes, the movie!

[@router7772]

It's incredible seeing how their first vids start off with only 40~ viewers to then slowly but surely gain more and more viewers, Excelemblem deserves it 100% they are such a creative and funny person

[@Hiya8partyz]

What a run…it was fun even if I wasn’t there for the livestreams

[@fat_jesus9668]

Mass genocide: the definitive edition

[@adamkampen]

I remeber Wymp being the mvp of disposed generics, he dodged thee fatal blows or something before he died

[@GeoSage1137]

The moment Marth lost the only person with more authority than himself, Jagen, he just went on a war crime spree

[@estepeadr12345]

The Geosphere was used in the most satisfying way possible

[@robertcajucom3203]

3:48 well, on the bright side, mystery of the emblem won’t happen now that hardin’s dead

[@0rganic0live0il2]

I do not know what you are talking about. This is the BEST way possible to play fire emblem

[@theflashgordon193]

5:03 "I recrut athena". me who have finished the game 3 times: wait who is athena ? wtf

[@ebicbarton]

Ah the mystery of gaiden chapters

[@yuki9612]

13:11 If I saw a notification of Coco streaming I would leave in a heartbeat as well T^T

[@Smellbringer]

Okay Gharnef.

[@percymacdonald6657]

This is the greatest fire emblem run of all time.

[@GPhipps]

This is the new way to play Fire Emblem, and I'm more than okay with that

[@Vsolid]

These shorts are great and I’m glad they’re all in one video now for this run. I hope you continue doing this sort of thing for your other shorts.

[@hefancy6921]

Weird content style change from Excelblem, uploading a full documentary of the Archanea massacre

[@Princetopher_]

Valkyrie Profile Covenant vibes

[@dyuute8839]

“Pathetic.. a life spent for nothing…”

[@Princetopher_]

@@dyuute8839 "For you... f a t h e r"

[@emblemblade9245]

Hahaha I wondered if anyone would bring that up

[@elementaryabuse-chan5763]

Sometimes I think I’d like to get into FE but then I see how people actually play it

[@disgraceddairy1282]

Fallen Marth origin story

[@auraguard0212]

You didn't kill Nagi? Can you even say you beat the game if you didn't do that?

[@gimlichan1391]

This is literally the greatest piece of Shadow Dragon content I have ever seen

[@edfmed1080]

mfs when no Jeigan

[@retrogamer2407]

Nice, the super cut version

[@chungus1149]

Man the DS fe games really were like Nintendo asked "how do we take all that beautiful GBA sprite work, and transfer it into fugly as hell 3d models?"

[@Hone_mor2525]

Now THlS is a death compilation!

[@Taol127]

Lol this video is really funny. I am new to FE but you got a new subscriber

[@DouglasStewart99]

All I have to say is "Hellfire" from Guilty Gear Strive's OST describes this entire IronMan run down to a *T.* To save time for both Excelblem and anyone else curious as to what I mean, here you go: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5u1qK2VqNSBirc

[@hornetsilksong]

This is what Corrin's Conquest route would have looked like if the writers for Fates actually knew how to write

[@Prince_Leif]

17:45 I like to imagine he backfliped on his neck

[@lunarp056]

this was the most distubring fire emblem content i have ever watched and it makes me wanna die, great job it's a amazing video lmao 👍

[@dustin202]

You doing ok pal?

[@Juniperjungby]

this might be the single greatest playthrough of a FE game of all time and easily the best ironman of all time

[@llamaboioflusatia]

Alternate title: how to beat FE11 Ironman as a WW1 general

[@lanceknightmare]

You say half your army were slayed, I say half of your army were taken out of the way resulting in a Time Save.

[@Tit0Matic]

i'm in tears and stitches watching this. I'm on chapter 11 in my h5 run. got a skeleton crew and some faceless replacements lmao

[@renren47618]

The fact that they made this canon is still hilarious

[@yuumijungle548]

the most unique playthrough ive ever seen xD

[@karlrudd8914]

Hold up. I just noticed cleric Navarre. I feel sick

[@Zerobasssoul]

This has made me deathly ill, thank you forever

[@daosxion776]

gordin gaining 15 levels only for +2 str not that bad considering his awful str growth

[@BellsOfDrake]

Undoubtedly a masterclass in storytelling

[@0complete10]

Marth woke up and turned Archanea into a soup, with only one ingredient... ...that's right the blood of his "friends".

[@nickkelley9139]

*Gordon only gains two strength from 15 levels* And that's why I do RNG Manipulation.

[@cattonorio]

the gord in the in

[@noahbrown292]

I think you misspelled "best".

[@Realmidboss]

13:10 Gharnef has based taste.

[@the_real_c14yt0n]

When you send a Pegasus Knight Cruise Missile at the enemy to no effect: DAMNIT

[@I.HEAR.A.SOUND.]

Why is this video in square resolution

[@timmythesuperstarwarrior]

"As a friend you are replaceable" Gun noises

[@ParadigmZwei]

Excel is the reason FE12 didn't get localized.

[@electricsathome]

The worst way? nah this is the best way to play fe11 😎

[@erberor8007]

I mean, if you really think about it, 200 casualties is pretty low as wars go

[@sagacious03]

Nice run video! Thanks for uploading!

[@silversword404]

I’m playing through shadow dragon like this and it’s great. It’s like training up a super strong squad without training anyone

[@FlappyCat-ef6oq]

Marth hasn't been the same since Jagen left us...