Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn: Greil Mercenaries Defeated by the Dawn Brigade

So, a lot of you keep asking how to abuse for EXP, even on hard mode. Go watch this: • Fire Emblem Radiant Da...
Part 3, Chapter 13 "Blood Contract"
Special Thanks to Jaxl089 and his video for inspiring me to be crazy enough to do this...
His original video:
• FE Radiant Dawn: Ike's...
Who in turn was inspired by yuisin with this video:
• Fire Emblem : Daein ar...
EVERY SINGLE UNIT had EXP Abuse via Boss, dodge, and Enemy Healer Abuse, including the Greil Mercenaries...
(Dodge Abuse... my name for it, is have a prepromoted unit, like Tauroneo who's not able to be touched in the early chapters... constantly dodge, so not to break the enemy's weapon, for 1EXP per turn... yeah... it's a pain)
So you could say THIS WAS BEYOND HARD MODE... The Laguz don't stand a chance... basically it was a duel between the Mercs and the Dawn Brigade... lol "DBZ, Fire Emblem Style" XD
Here... if you want to attempt it yourself, here's my save file:
www.dropbox.co...
(Backup your own via SD card to your computer, then put the data.bin in the F:\private\wii\title\RFEE folder, with "F:\" being the drive letter of your SD card... then replace the save in your Wii by erasing the data in the Wii and transfering the save from the SD card)

[@thelegacyofgaming2928]

"These beorc look edgy." Nailah was ahead of her time.

[@RoyPlummer1995]

I like how when Ike is defeated by the Dawn Brigade, his reaction is basically " Oh, okay". As if he didn't actually lose.

[@RoyPlummer1995]

Ike Gawain That's awfully humble of you.

[@saffan.8185]

Ike: "I'm going to fucking murder you, Sothe." Sothe (smiling): "...Thank you, Commander."

[@JR384]

+Saffa Naser To quote Micaiah "Ah, Lord Ike, the father of Sothe's Children."

[@bigtimetimmyjim6486]

But Ike would never kill the mother of his children, I mean, that would be like his fath.......oh.

[@JlBUNROCK]

I ship them! Fuck Ike x Soren! (I also Ship Ike and Mia)

[@CarlosSouza-u]

Fuck You Ike

[@tigresita119]

@@bigtimetimmyjim6486 And no medallion to use as an excuse!

[@Quentonic]

This should be called Edward vs Greil Mercenaries, Ed was a Beast

[@16bullet]

But he NEEDED to use to sleep staff on ike, so it should instead be called edward+ laura vs greil mercenaries

[@terriblehits3157]

Laura isn't the only one that can use the sleep staff IIRC? If you have a promoted Archsage. So it's really just Edward + Sleep staff vs Greil Mercenaries

[@lisasemarron5413]

Terrible Hits I know Im late but um you don't have any archsage in this chapter

[@Jonas_TGCW]

lisa semarron yeah

[@lisasemarron5413]

Jonas :D so you need laura

[@96Thompson]

i really liked how this game was. You played as both enemy sides. Then with parts like this, you get to see all your favorite characters fight each other in a battle for their lives.

[@Jaekization]

This game was and still is my favorite Fire Emblem game.

[@dragonknightleader1]

It did what Fates was trying to do.

[@xxx_jim_the_reaper_xxx]

@@dragonknightleader1 Facepalm Fates*

[@lucifercon4868]

I wish they try it again. You raising two armies fighting each other.

[@Edgardo4415]

@@lucifercon4868 You almost got that in the new Fire Emblem game

[@MommyRexacuse]

Is no one gonna comment on the fact that once they beat the entire enemy army, suddenly they’re like “Oh noes, we’ve been breached! Everyone retreat!”

[@thelegacyofgaming2928]

It's Ike's way of saying "fuck you, I always win."

[@menph1096]

It was moe of the game saying Ike and the units weren't really being defeated but pushed back unitl the opprotunity arrived.

[@TheDisarminghinkle]

All according to keikaku.

[@KopperNeoman]

Yeah, if you beat Ike, the Gallians should have routed in panic as Daein repelled their assault: no change in story needed, just the context of Kurthnaga's intervention.

[@joshuabonesteel2303]

The same thing happens in the mission Galiea in PoR. You can kill all the enemies, and the cut scenes still have you losing.

[@nekyokusai6400]

Micaiah : Our defenses have been broken... we did everything we could... Shadowofchaos725 : Am I a joke to you ?

[@stephenqs5374]

I'm sorry, but did Meg just do something useful? That's the craziest part of this video

[@TheJayeagle]

+Stephen QS well, technically meg isnt to bad... if she's trained correctly and the RNG gods love you. her high growth in speed prevents her from being doubled mostly, and her resistance makes her a decent mage buster. fill in her lacking stats by giving her bonus exp level ups and then monster created. though i'm pretty sure that this tactic works with pretty much every character, making meg uh... not special lol

[@tlsan1672]

I think so that imposible

[@philmartin7928]

The fact you got Meg AND Fiona to third-tier promotions is astounding. Those units are woeful!

[@aidanhendricksen4832]

I wanted to se shinon destroy leo

[@lisasemarron5413]

Wtf

[@PlainOlJoe]

This is an incredible achievement. I thought the Greil Mercenaries so greatly outclassed the Dawn Brigade that this would be impossible.

[@claytonhilliard925]

All of his units are somehow tier 3 so that helped a great deal. My Dawn Brigade units are never tier 3 when I reach this chapter.

[@jwil4286]

Clayton Hilliard I’m betting that he transferred data over from Path of Radiance, which can help big time.

[@Jaekization]

JWil42 It’s actually pretty easy. You just farm EXP mainly in Part 1, I believe it’s chapter 7 with the armored boss on the healing tile. Give everyone a bunch of bronze weapons and farm away.

[@Erowax]

@@claytonhilliard925 BEXP exists

[@connorstanton2567]

@@Erowax not on hard mode lmao

[@NekoKitsuneOfChaos]

65% of comments thinking Rey hacked to get his character to high levels and high tiers 23% of comments talk about how much Rey's Fiona sucks

[@shadowofchaos725]

blastoiserush FE10 fanbase in a nutshell.

[@NekoKitsuneOfChaos]

yup

[@catman9222]

+blastoiserush To be fair Rey's Fiona sucks ass.

[@shadowofchaos725]

To be fair, everyone's Fiona sucks ass.

[@catman9222]

shadowofchaos725 She has the growths to be good, yours just sucks ass.

[@Inocuchino]

6:22 I love her death quote: "Oww hey that hurts..." Like yeah, just got a fatal wound here, man it sure stings tho. XD

[@JlBUNROCK]

Inocuchino That isn't her death quote (Her death quote is one of the saddest)

[@xxx_jim_the_reaper_xxx]

@@JlBUNROCK The Greil Mercenaries doesn't die here but if you let them kill your units, so be it

[@JlBUNROCK]

XxxJim_ the_ ReaperxxX Ik, this chapter is ture hell

[@xxx_jim_the_reaper_xxx]

@@JlBUNROCK That is why the Tellius Legends are phenomenal.

[@Fenriswolfer77]

I love how everyone else is like: "I am gravely wounded, guess I'll die here." and Ike is like: "No you're to valuable to die, get out of here." and Mist is like: "Well this sucks, I'm just gonna leave. Toodles."

[@Fenric1000]

Ike, the man who defeated Ashnard, wielder of the Holy blade Ragnell, that can withstand almost anything, worth 13 exp to kill

[@NekoKitsuneOfChaos]

Damn not very many people read the description before accusing Rey of hacking

[@jacobdavis5771]

Bruh I like how Ike takes 6 hits plus a critical from Edward without even having full health and still doesn't die 😂

[@thelegacyofgaming2928]

The Guts of Fire Emblem.

[@fennekin.]

The sad part was.. I adore Wayu (Mia) with a passion. She's my all time favorite Fire Emblem character, so I made sure she was maxed on everything. Level, Stats.. and really early too.. So she was worst than the final boss, fighting her here LOL. She never got hit once, and would 1shot crit, or ASTRA all my Units. ..I was so happy and scared I created a monster..

[@darth_diminishthewolf8945]

+Fennekin so you like the Scottish jedi huh alright and swordmasters are beasts if they have lots o speed and crit rate

[@chadachi3970]

Speed and Luck* Luck helps too because that is your what your main avoid comes from. Speed gives dodge, Luck gives avoid. Not sure what the calcs for it are.

[@darth_diminishthewolf8945]

Ruby Rose you got that mixed up avoid which comes from speed that minus hit luck gives dodge which negates crit but anyway i dont really use mia i use zihark altho i do like mia's look more but anyway even tho luck does give a little avoid i dont find it very useful so id say speed, skill, and strength. that isnt a fact thats just a personal preference

[@chadachi3970]

Darth_Diminish The Wolf Well most people don't have low luck, most units will end up with either a decent or high luck stat with the occasional one unit that has 4-10 luck lmao. And my mistake

[@darth_diminishthewolf8945]

Ruby Rose then again you can just slap fortune on the low luck unit

[@shadowofchaos725]

And my Aran has speed. Outliers happen.

[@thelegacyofgaming2928]

Still my favorite game in the series. Never gets old.

[@NightCoyoteGaming]

Seriously. I think I’ve replayed this game more than any other game from any series.

[@thelegacyofgaming2928]

The fact that Soren, a magic user, almost soloes Edward while Edward is holding a brave sword. Greil Mercenaries too OP.

[@ryanc5572]

Love Soren

[@pagan-ni-ni]

eddy has

[@KuroganeFan44]

I can't believe how lucky you were for some of these parts lol. Is it weird that a laughed a couple of times in the video? xD Like when Meg attacked Shinon "I was about to give up here" lol Meg sucks so much >_

[@Jaekization]

Meg should have been at least level 10 when you got her with better stats. Ugh. Lol

[@KuroganeFan44]

Jaekization Right? :p

[@227someguy]

Man, meg and fiona suck. All fiona has going for is savior and imbue w/o costing skill points

[@Jaekization]

227someguy When you baby both Meg or Fiona, they can actually be pretty good. But most people don't like them to begin with to even think about babying them.

[@227someguy]

Jaekization i babied fiona, but it was too late. i was already at endgame and didn't bring her there

[@ryanc5572]

The way Soren flops onto the ground like a fish out of water is absolutely hilarious.

[@passwordsFTW]

I'm both excited and scared for this level when I get to it

[@WinterKnight95]

Its insane to me that you got so many of the dawn brigade to Tier 3. I don't think I've ever leveled more than one of them besides Micaiah to Tier 3.

[@joetri10]

The arches were always the op ones in this. Shinnon was a BEAST

[@TheNorilla]

+joetri10 But my Shinnon in Path of Radiance, he was the most garbage sniper ever... and that made me sad.

[@golfer435]

Eh, I prefer Rolf. So much better. Gets more Defense.

[@golfer435]

Shinon is no oifey. He has the problem of being a pre-promote with stats that are equal to an unpromoted unit.

[@Edgeperor]

@@golfer435 Shinon is still a pretty good unit, especially compared to Rolf, who takes way too much investment to just become an alright unit. Shinon’s early utility before he leaves is a lot better than anything most Rolfs will ever do. Shinon’s bases might be equal to a well-trained unpromoted unit, but Rolf’s bases are about as good as a walking trash can

[@KuroganeFan44]

I love how pro Edward is, but don't worry xD Every time I've played I abused Edward's power lol

[@KuroganeFan44]

orionzeden I agree completely :p

[@heartofthefluft8541]

I am very proud of this. This is the full power of Micaiah´s team!!!

[@JlBUNROCK]

Hell yeah!

[@zant2146]

Well if you consider Zikark in Micaiah's team, which is really not that good characterwise

[@birdsrule8608]

Lol 1:45 even with astra and a crit Edward couldn’t kill Ike. Ike is by far my favorite character in fire emblem.

[@shadowofchaos725]

I mean from what I remember the reason I DIDN'T kill Ike is because that would end the chapter immediately, killing the entire point of the entire video. So... I don't know what you're trying to prove.

[@shadowofchaos725]

"Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn: Basic Guide to Enemy Healer Abusing"

[@makusuwerusan7390]

The captions with the video is perfect XD Zihark pulling out astra with low hit rate ;)

[@shadowofchaos725]

Your opponents were the units YOU raised that also had Mastery Skills that could kill you in one shot. Mia was an especially big concern.

[@shadowofchaos725]

@CanadianBaconEater09 It was just really stretched from the Dazzle. So yeah, it's not really 1080p. The most I can record in is 480p from the Wii using the Hauppauge HD PVR. 1080i is the most I can get when recording on the PS3, but usually it's 720p.

[@samconner2619]

I believe he did a technique that abuses enemy healers. What you basically do is weaken healers, but dont kill them. They can almost never harm you and they will regenerate hp at the end of the turn

[@JohnSmith-ns8si]

"Why would you seek me out?" LOL I love that line from Ike! It's been nearly a decade since I killed Ike with Saint Laura (no cheating, just grinding with healing staves against Laguz) Ripped him apart with Laura! XD

[@shadowofchaos725]

@TheSilvershadow91 Read the description. The save is there to play it yourself if you want.

[@pocketwatched]

HHhhmm, when I played this level, I had two battleworthy units (Zihark and Nolan), on hard mode, I must have restarted 40 times, at least. Pretty much I blocked the two entry points without ledges and placed useless units on the other ledges in order to hold my ballistae positions to take out the fliers, it took me the first 20 tries to develope that strategy. Would you say that this is the most valid strategy, cause when i play through again, I'd like to not waste so much time. And judging by your apparent extreme experience on such matters, how would you deal with the mercenaries with my limited resources?

[@mrtakeiteasy]

I hella respect you doing away this episode with like, no problems at all. I could probably never take that much time out to grind my units even with abuse to that strong. This is also one of the hardest maps asides from Ellincia's Gambit.

[@MageKnight404]

Wow, talk about pedantic. Ever heard of doing something just for fun regardless of any amount of difficulty required? Just because it's pointless and easy doesn't mean it can't be fun for other people to watch.

[@xxlaguzslayerxx9223]

Thanks now I wanna play this again

[@darth8156]

I don't know why, but this video is so interesting to watch. I personally watched it 5 times now and it is still cool how you play this challange.

[@shadowofchaos725]

The game is played in Parts, with different perspectives of each team. At one point and the end of part 3, you end up playing as each side during the war. This was the chapter where you are to defend for 12 turns with Micaiah's Army (Daein). In the next chapter you get to fight as Ike's team.

[@DTDPS]

EPIC VIDEO! I WAS LAUGHING SO HARD WITH THE COMMENTARY :P

[@DreamChaser2464]

Amazing job raising your units! Did you grind the dawn brigade somewhere specifically? Also Meg prompting Luna against Shinon was epic

[@Vexen18]

Much respect indeed for pulling off such a feat! I just can't comprehend what just went down but you sir deserve a thumbs up...and a cookie...:D

[@gachalibra9243]

This video is still one of the best videos of this game

[@Freezeblow]

the power of XP abuse my friend. Its how ppl have full tier 3 teams during part 3 of the game.

[@Marcus43004]

Wow nice job I bow to your dedication and to your Fire Emblem Powers.

[@shadowofchaos725]

@ManectricZap77 It's under options, the "unit circle" that you have on untis and enemy units have to signify that they are still able to move, like the same if they're colored and when they're grey. It's just a little graphical feature. Or are you talking about the "Target" command from Micaiah?

[@camdude7234]

This is extremely late but I finally used the sleep staff on Ike and killed him with every one’s favorite character Edward and yes I got it on a wrath crit and brave sword on hard mode without save states on actual control

[@shadowofchaos725]

Yes. I already knew what he said when I responded to him. For one thing, I've had people already accuse me of cheating on Fire Emblem: Awakening. And there's not even any ways of memory hacking on a 3DS right now.

[@aquaticasmr184]

I love the double bass drums in the music when you battle ike

[@savannajacquay203]

My favorite part, "Aran was bait" xD

[@Vividproductions1]

this is still really beast and dont think any less, only 7 tries and look at the results of it. you should do some commentary i mean your vids are great and that would make them even better

[@dreamadept]

Waaaaagh! I'm envious...! I'm playing my third playthrough of the game with the aim to get Edward and Leonardo to Endgame, but they were only level 15-17 second tier in this map. Kudos to you and your amazing Edward.

[@niggeling5741]

same here, i don't think i've ever played a game that enthralled me nearly as much as PoR. it will always be THE game for me.

[@scarletwolf9910]

Given that I made my Oscar a literal monster, I was terrified when he showed up during this chapter.

[@MageKnight404]

Sorry, Ike. Even you can't win 'em all. XD Good job, Rey. Leave it to Meg to save the day!

[@gyppygirl2021]

You win on so many levels for this video.

[@MoonfallMidnight]

Titania be like "they got me, gal!"

[@shadowofchaos725]

@VideoGamesEpic I didn't have the self-confidence to put my voice up on KZbin up at the time. I also made hacking patches for the GBA FE games at the time and my main thing was putting text on the screen to explain stuff. Ha ha, this is KZbin. You're smart, so you actually read the description. If you look at my Double Final Smash Video with the 600k views, you can see in the comments how many freaking times I said "description" for many idiots.

[@BaufenBeast]

On my playthrough, Edward was super pimped. I ran up and double astra'd him to death in one round, if I remember.

[@shadowofchaos725]

That's called wasting BEXP and effort.

[@shadowofchaos725]

@GeniusIncarnate0 They just retreat... It's the same if you kill Dawn Brigade members with Ike's team in the Part 3 Endgame (Chapter/Level after this one)

[@AdmiralStickney]

Ike, Great Hero of the Greil Mercenaries . . . . is worth about 13 EXP

[@shadowofchaos725]

It's called reading the description.

[@ardain984]

Wait, is this map the one used for the Vanguard Dawn DLC in Fates

[@satchelsguitarshop]

No, that's the map in 2-E "Elincia's Gambit".

[@Foreborn]

No. His sword was Alondite, its sister sword. The Black Knight did carry Ragnell for a brief period of time as he intended for Greil to use it in their duel. He offers it to Greil (but Greil can't hold a sword anymore if you remember, he cut his tendons because of what he did), but Greil takes up his axe Urvan instead.

[@postman6553]

1:54 DAB

[@huslerk]

Geez you're good! I can't even do this on normal mode let alone hard. You even got Fiona to third tier. With all those close calls (Zihark in particular) you must've been on edge like crazy. Throughout the video I kept thinking "why won't they battle save?". I had to keep reminding myself that this was hard mode lol. Plus, dodge abuse? I never thought of trying that before. Sounds real tedious. Sorry for the rambling but this was just really impressive. You did a great job!

[@KairosTho]

Yeah, I'll put it this way, the rest of the dawn brigade excluding Nolan, Sucked, and leonardo was dead so..yeah. most of the experience went to Edward, and he was a High level Swordmaster at the end of Part 1, A Trueblade before this chapter in part 3.

[@somethingelse334]

Boyd: (gets chopped in half) Also Boyd: "Ugh, they got me good" lol

[@Jotari]

Copying a suspended save file to an sd card, that's a great idea. Would be really awkward to do but if you get that one perfect level up it'd totally be worth it.

[@CanadianBaconEater09]

@VGMaster17 Oh, and you can just do the thing where you battle save right before Fiona levels up. If she gets a crappy stat raise, then reset until she gets good growths.

[@Marcus43004]

Ok I went back and tried that and you are right about Meg becoming a beast, but that still leaves Fiona who still sucks.

[@Maxmagnus20019]

Oh dear. This IS on Hard mode. Should've figured that one out from lack of Battle saves, but only realised it when I saw the save was red-colored... very impressive indeed! And curse the lack of enemy range indicator >=( Great video!

[@DamianSabre]

Mia is so waifu.

[@Light48]

Love your narrations :D Just Subscribed ^-^

[@mycatnameislucifer]

Such a beautiful play !

[@StanDaMan4487]

I swear everytime i look at the bland textures i think its on a emulator

[@niggeling5741]

ok, the black knight reveal could have been more exciting, but all the other revelations blew my mind. like sephiran being lehran, soren being the son of ashnard and so on.

[@GalaxyRoyal]

This song also plays on the Fire Emblem Fates DLC I can't believe it ! :O

[@kitsaad]

Bearer of Hope :)

[@coffee2282]

you must be new to fire emblem.

[@GalaxyRoyal]

victor aledia No because I've been playing Fire Emblem since the Game Boy Advance era and I'm still playing them but this time on the Wii U eshop. :)

[@stevenarevalo3132]

Yeah and the map desigin are the same

[@SecondSackSox]

Not if it wasn't revealed until the endgame helm-takeoff... which is how I found out after only playing PoR. I was mindblown. I guess they messed up along the way, but you have to give the foreshadowing and finishing credit in both PoR and Radiant Dawn.

[@CanadianBaconEater09]

WOAH how did you record in 1080 HD format? Did you use Dolphin to play and record or do you have a super-special-awesome capture card that costs more than my house?

[@shadowofchaos725]

@NumaNuma006 I don't really know... since Shinon is a douche, yet Meg is so sucky without abuse... It was so shocking that even I don't know :P

[@GamingtheOtter]

Damn................. Crushed them!

[@shadowofchaos725]

@Felover3 If you looked at their inventory (via the save file), they have the best weapons they could have... As for Boyd, if he didn't have ranged weapon, I could have just used Eddie... And you can't really say it would have made a difference for the group on the left... Shinon got owned by Meg's Luna before he could even counter (and he wouldn't have countered if he didn't have a crossbow type weapon)

[@Eo22I005]

You seriously used fiona and meg bro? MAD FUCKIN RESPECT!!!!! 👌👌👌

[@shadowofchaos725]

@Crash2340 I think I had a video on it. "Basic Guide to Enemy Healer Abusing".

[@SecondSackSox]

I honestly haven't played Radiant Dawn, but when I found out who the Black Knight was, I thought it was the awesomest thing ever. Especially when I saw the flashbacks.

[@tehmaimed]

Honestly Edward is the only saving grace of the DB now that I look back at RD

[@Hieru1]

Your Aran HAD 30 SPEED????

[@shadowofchaos725]

For one, you can probably hack the memory to do it as well. Second, unless you can't read, I did it via boss abuse.

[@shadowofchaos725]

@xXPKMNkidXx Description says "Boss abuse, dodge abuse, enemy healer staff abuse" type grinding.

[@shadowofchaos725]

@Redfarl21 He moves on the last turn or 2. Really hard to get him in range of the tome if he goes for your units that went close to kill the other GM members.

[@psychochiken4111]

How the hell did you get them all so high a level?! I can never get them that strong by this part!

[@MrShadowmario666]

Description

[@barcster2003]

You got to focus on it. I was able to do it all you need is knowledge this is coming and grind like crazy.

[@stickystevie9047]

I just unleashed the meg masheen with Beastfoe and called it a day.

[@omega197]

am i the only one who want to make myself game over for greil's sake?

[@lichcoin6144]

I just beated this chapter again today and gained a new personal record! Lvl 20 Ike defeated in turn 5!!!!! Woohooo!!! Looks like all that grinding and planning finally payed off! So giddy ☺

[@Hard_x_Way]

You don't mess with Aran!

[@Epona5]

ahh I never have the patience to train up the dawn brigade like u did... this is insane lol

[@Erowax]

Train the Dawn Brigade? I just B EXP them to their tier 3 classes in one go from the very moment I got to play with them again (most of them were already promoted to tier 2 by the end of part 1) so they were pretty much over leveled in that chapter... with the exception of Sothe and Micahia whose promotions were still locked at the time.

[@Fireshrine]

wow I watched the whole vid that made FE10 actually seem like a cool game, nice job Rey

[@shadowofchaos725]

And then you have enemies that pretty much raise a middle finger to you with skills that only they can use.