Fire Emblem Thracia 776: Part 14 - Nowell Valley

[@AlizardJaeF]

"Good job, Sigurd" seems to describe much of the poor man's life...

[@TheJaredPunch]

A man of failure, thankfully, he can also be a man that can help others learn from his failures (cough cough Alear)

[@BigKlingy]

It's still hilarious to me that most of his Bond conversations in Engage have his user calling him the pinnacle of fairy-tale knighthood and him having to go "NO NO PLEASE DON'T I'M NOT A ROLE MODEL!"

[@nessdbest8708]

@@BigKlingy 44:43 sorry to keep doing this, but the Master Axe is A Rank.

[@BigKlingy]

@@nessdbest8708 It's actually B rank.

[@nessdbest8708]

@@BigKlingy No way, all the others are A

[@leepearsonsimmons120]

“LADY OLWEN, THE VALLEY IS UNDER ATTACK!” Man. My best friend and I got the translation on a SNES cart from Etsy and did a “legit” play-through on my Raytron, and good ‘ol General Largo proc’ed his Move Star and murdered Brighton. We didn’t reset. RIP Brighton.

[@BigKlingy]

Poor Brighton, but also it can be funny when bosses do that.

[@HolyAlondite]

7:25 I'd personally argue that the class warfare argument of Thracia is a bit of a case of the fandom misunderstanding things. And, ironically enough, Reinhardt is a character that ties into that theme a lot, so I'll go into more detail for THAT chapter. But for now, I'll just say this. Thracia's message isn't 'the lower class rising up to take out the upper class', it's that 'ANYONE can fight for their beliefs, regardless of who they are.' Speaking of Reinhardt, it's OLWEN AND FRED!!!! Love these two, especially Fred. And we'll thankfully get to see more of them later.

[@BigKlingy]

Yeah I do feel that, for lack of a bitter word, a bit of "Threehousesism" and/or "Gameofthronesism" has infiltrated Thracia discussion and some are trying to read themes into this story that weren't really meant to be there. Though it's probably still better than Echoes trying to do an ACTUAL nobles vs commoners subplot while also giving Alm a sword he's literally only able to use because he's secretly royalty.

[@Digolgrin]

As an Ace Combat fan, I really do feel that pain with the fandom failing to understand the point of certain things. We've got a couple characters who are commonly interpreted as, like, the ultimate crusaders against war and suffering if only they were allowed to complete their very dangerous schemes--when that's not what they are at all. One actually says the real secret to ending war is to get people to trust one another rather than tear down the artificial lines dividing one nation's stuff from the others' stuff, and the other is straight-up just a killer hiding behind cult rhetoric, but they're both worshipped in our fandom for completely misinterpreted reasons.

[@bradleyharris774]

Bless you BK for having the patience of saint and showing unique dialogue from capturing certain bosses because I would not have the patience for 40 MINUTES of RNG resetting. I just have a Thief steal whatever's valuable from the boss and then atomize them with Asbel. 1:01:35. Yeah I'm sure that +1 STR to Callion really lifted your spirits huh? Seriously I don't remember Thracia Promotion Gains being so lackluster, except Leif's.

[@Flametix]

To be fair, the promo gains also only showed increases to stats post-halving.

[@BigKlingy]

Given all the swearing I cut out I don't think I had that kind of patience. But I'm glad people appreciated me showing the dialogue. Thankfully MOST other bosses I need to go out of my way to capture aren't this bad. 1:01:35 It's actually +2, this is showing his halved capturing stats. In general Thracia promo gains have a few +1s, some 2s, maybe a 3... OR THEY'RE SAGE.

[@ChillstoneBlakeBlast]

37:45 The game gives a small hint at unlocking the bridge with dew in a Village, where it states that a Theif could probably unlock the mechanism to the drawbridge very easily. It's not some uber secret event like the actual secret events in FE4

[@dryzalizer]

Yeah, you just need to get to and save that village from destruction, otherwise you get no hint about how to activate the bridge.

[@BigKlingy]

I had a feeling there was SOME hint. It's still funny that's the only time you need a thief to unlock something in FE4, though the way its structured doors and chests obviously aren't a thing. (I still like how they kept utility on Thieves by having them take gold from enemies and be the only units that can give gold to anyone they want)

[@SomeAsian]

"I cannot stand the sight of Reinhardt" - Kempf and most early meta Heroes players Also yay Olwen. I heard she's good.

[@BigKlingy]

Nobody expected Kempf to become relatable.

[@arthurgamonal2mb358]

Ah yes the "Third option": Warpskipping

[@BigKlingy]

As you hear me allude to here, that's the option I'll be taking with 12x.

[@Sean_Bird]

First map with ballistas, huh? I’m getting flashbacks to Leif’s Engage paralouge… 2:37 A flame sword armor? Funny, I had a character concept for an FE Boss that was a General who used a Flame Sword. 6:37 Reinhardt is so getting more importance in an FE5 remake, and it will be for very funny reasons. Olwen and Fred have the upgrade to Plot Armor, Plot Invincibility! The characters replacing their mounts on promotion is a neat idea, although that makes it a bit awkward for people like Karin who have named mounts. It also reminds me of Cherche just ditching Minerva if you make her a Griffon Knight. 38:27 Considering he’s right next to the boss, I like to think they’re just having a really pleasant chat. 46:03 Guess the chat was done. In other news, Switch 2! About time it showed up officially. Only major thing we got confirmed was a new Mario Kart finally, with a new art style it seems. Also, I’ve been running through Sonic Frontiers, and I’ve been enjoying it a quite a bit! I was a bit mixed on the first island, but Ares and Khaos Island are really fun to run around in. Only major gripe I’ve got is that there are way too many memory tokens on the open zone for how easy it is to get them, it can make going for 100% kinda annoying.

[@BigKlingy]

And you'll see why his is like that in Chapter 22. 2:37 That'd be cool. Maybe if they had decent Magic. I remember all those comics about Cherche ditching Minerva... 38:27 Largo's the only guy this guy will ever talk to. I'm looking forward to the next Direct, to see if we get more games revealed. Though weirdly I'm more interested in the new Sonic racing than Mario Kart. I do agree Frontiers gets more interesting once you're off the first island, though at least the first has those nice Amy interactions and SQUID. Also yeah going for 100% Memory Tokens is a pain, I'd recommend doing it while listening to a podcast or stream vod.

[@Miacisjaune]

Despite how much there is on this chapter, I believe most of it was covered by you or the comments section. Still, for good measure: Dvorak's AI is to attack whoever is in range. If no one is in range, he moves towards the closest unit that is within the movement range of 2 or less of their allies. If no such unit exists because you're doing a big ball of death strategy, he stays put. He is not the only user of this AI, either. Notably, a lot of pegasus enemies use it, as well rewarp mages (I think), and the wyvern squad in ch21. The leader of that squad even hints at this behavior. The thieves AI is to get towards the closest village. If it can't be reached, they'll go to the other one (hence why your guy backtracked). They also have a 30% chance to just skip their turn. Seems that other guy kept rolling under 30. And uh yeah, that botanist village was just "Wow, the Liberation Army! Take this staff." or whatever in JP. I do feel his dialogue is a bit long in the tooth, so whenever we do the script review, we'll probably abbreviate it a tad. It's fun, though, and gets referenced later. Also I'm glad my insights have been interesting! I love watching people playing Thracia with our patches (whether it's in English, French, Spanish...), and there's always so much weird or interesting things bout this game, I can't help but share.

[@BigKlingy]

I find it really interesting that certain enemies have "target people who are mostly alone" AI, which is kinda smart (when that person isn't Asbel and the ally near him is his support...), I wish more FE games would do that. (Maybe later ones do, though iirc looking through the GBA games' debug mode the AI behaviors are just things like "ignore attacking", "move to doors/chests", "go into retreat mode at X amount of health") Looking at the wiki there's a decent number of enemies with a chance to skip their turn, Salem in 12 is one of them and I really hope he does. (Mainly because capturing him before he breaks his Sleep staff can be tricky) I had a feeling that village line was like that. Also I appreciate the mention of French and Spanish patches, a lot of the time non-English patches don't get talked about.

[@ultimateshadow7522]

1:02 I didn't notice the crown on the map until the boss's head appeared under it, and I thought for a second we're fighting the King of Aurelis's ancestor! 2:33 This is just like Chapter 26 in Path of Radiance (Status Staves, Siege Tomes, Elixirs, and a Spear from the Boss to name a few goodies), except everyone can steal the enemies' items. 5:40 Well, we know how this Largo loses an arm... 6:20 "Nice" hair. 8:17 He let slip something he shouldn't? 17:24 That's pretty cool! 22:06 I guess that's also to keep you from getting Dire Thunder. 24:39 Hoo boy... 26:36 Thracia... why? 28:17 That works, considering there's no Supports or named horses in this game. 33:37 That's actually amazing that they can grow Barrier staves! 44:52 Good for you, game. You denounce perverted numbers! 47:31 I approve of this one! 47:39 One of my college teachers used this acronym when describing the rest of the class to me in private! He was a nice guy. 48:09 Goddammit. Stop making me laugh! 49:42 That's a good way of putting it. 50:04 He does seem pretty honorable. 53:47 "RUN! ...but it won't save you." Is now my favorite line ever! 54:58 I don't see why. 58:58 He really did let that slip earlier. 1:00:24 That's how my luck works. 1:01:05 "The moral of this story is mercy is overrated and always finish what you started." --Agatha Harkness 1:02:15 That sucks. I would have just held on to him, even if it didn't change anything. 1:03:09 I do like worldbuilding. And it's interesting to hear about Leif's parents.

[@Blazecap]

Switch 2 is real baby!

[@gamerzorro3508]

FINALLY!!!!!! Also 24 four player Mario Kart it seems, how interesting.

[@starmaker75]

Nintendo literal did "final! Switch 2" and "if the switch is so good, then what is there no switch 2?"

[@stfilo1948]

Finally i can play for real xenoblade when it will came out (backwards compatability is a blessing)

[@gamerzorro3508]

@@stfilo1948 I really hope we get performance patches for switch 1 games, because I want the xenoblade games at 60 fps so bad.

[@BigKlingy]

It was inevitable but I'm glad Nintendo is finally shutting up the leaks and speculation by just dropping the reveal. Is it weird that I'm more interested in the new Sonic Racing than Mario Kart though? Well given me this past year, maybe not. (Since it's called "Cross Worlds" and its logo looks similar to some stuff in Prime, I'm assuming some of the alt dimension cast from Prime will be playable, though I hope the roster isn't entirely AU variants of everyone.)

[@tuojiangoman3228]

49:59 Fergus: Oh my God, they killed Lifis! Machua: You dastard!

[@BigKlingy]

And unlike Shigen from TeamRing Saga, Lifis doesn't have a sword that resurrects him.

[@kl4969]

33:40 Ahhh yes, Encorcel. The thing I funnel into a certain character in 12x together with Hammerne to completely deplete the enemy of their resources. Pretty much mandatory (or Pure Water) for late-game status staff shenanigans as well. 38:27 I swear the wyvern boss does something different every time. I've seen him not move for 5 turns, while other times he gets a vigor proc turn 3, crosses half the map, and captures Safy out of nowhere XD 45:22 I remember reading in a speedrun or SSS rank run or something that some enemies in FE5 have a fixed percentage chance to simply not act during their turn (they might still always attack if you're in range, not sure). I know this chapter's wyvern boss and the 2 thieves follow this behavior. Sometimes you can luck out with the top house, but if the thief moves every turn you have to book it there by turn 3. 49:39 The Lifis crit death! Every playthrough HAS to have one of this, with his 0 dodge and all. I remember him getting crit and dying to a javelin soldier in chapter 4 on my first playthrough. I think I just left him dead :D

[@BigKlingy]

38:27 According to another comment, he only moves towards people who have less than 2 other allies near them. This is pretty unique behaviour for an FE enemy. 49:39 Yeah I guess his Luck is a problem like this sometimes.

[@kl4969]

@@BigKlingy 38:27 FE5 is peak Kaga-ness, that's for sure.

[@vicentemorua4517]

I’m excited! Leif in my game got a movement increase!

[@BigKlingy]

YAY! It's always nice when that happens.

[@vicentemorua4517]

@ First, Ronan, then Dalsin, and finally Leif! I screamed with each movement level up!

[@BigKlingy]

@@vicentemorua4517 And yet I've only got one so far, while I got like 5 in my test run. Move Levels are still one of my favourite parts of this game though.

[@wolfherojohnson2766]

47:31 Cue the scene from the Seamen AVGN review of him saying “IT SAYS FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!”

[@Cyberspace318]

0:15 As opposed to Yesunwell Mountain, I suppose. 1:22 Oh boy, these things. 5:10 Boo, no Marty Party! 6:16 Damn, poor Ishtore. 6:47 Yep! "I now use the Reinhardt" indeed. 8:01 Agreed, Guy's awesome! 11:41 Huh. Interesting how that works despite the lack of a movement arrow. 12:08 Movement Star Count: 44 17:35 ...Wow, that is some weirdass AI. 24:39 Oh hey, our first enemy Movement Star. Movement Star Count: 45 26:08 Movement Star Count: 46 26:36 Son of a b*tch! 26:38 Never mind, we good! 27:15 Movement Star Count: 47 30:15 As sad as that is, this is Asbel we're talking about, it's not like he needs the Leif support to perform well. 35:46 Kind of like Rickard, I guess. He even has yellow clothes. 43:27 Movement Star Count: 48 43:58 Movement Star Count: 49 44:50 I am disappointed that the power of 69 failed us not once, but twice. 46:30 *sigh* I love Thracia RNG... 47:17 Yeah, because Arden has an exclusive skill named after the Follow-Up Ring. 47:32 Yeah, that's... quite the acronym. Still not as bad (in my opinion) as BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend, which happens to have the very "interesting" abbreviation of BBCSEX. 48:00 I suppose. Though, there is one later recruit in this game where FUCC is a strangely appropriate term for him (for when the time comes, permission to make jokes about that character involving his FUCC?). 48:18 ...Yeah, I can kind of see it too. 48:28 Maybe that's why Finn won: he gives off daddy vibes. 49:23 Yay! 53:11 Damn, that goes hard! 53:52 Heh, true. Though, in Rainbow Dash's case, she's more like a dragon in the body of a pegasus. 59:08 Movement Star Count: 50 1:00:17 Yeah, the RNG be like that sometimes. 1:02:14 Wow, this guy's a douche. 1:02:27 Spoilers, I guess, but considering that I'm guessing most people know that Olwen is playable in this game, it'd make sense if her subordinate was also playable.

[@atld1414]

48:14 wait I think the poll was on tumblr not twitter. I actually participated and I’m pretty sure the main reason Finn won is because of how much of a good dad he is and his dedication to Leif (also he is pretty attractive). Honestly I’m not too surprised Kain managed to make it to second place cause most people were voting for him mostly as a joke (although Kain’s official art does make him look pretty attractive). The fact he managed beat salem AND SELIPH was insane. Also for those who were wondering there was a women’s division and Eyvel won it.

[@BigKlingy]

That's a wholesome reason, at least.

[@absoul112]

It's so funny that Reinhardt became so popular thanks to feh. If Thracia ever gets a remake, it'll make that line even better. I'll admit I have a very immature sense of humor, so FUCC and the 69 meme are funny to me. Seeing you try to capture the boss reminded me of a twist on an old saying, "If at first you don't succeed, for the love of God, let it go! It's just not worth it." In case you're wondering what the context was, a youtuber was commenting on a wrestling match where someone was supposed to be suplexed through a sheet of sugar glass, but it was actually Plexi glass. The guy got dropped on his head, and for some reason they decided to try again.

[@Level6neo]

Anytime a map throws ballistas at you it stresses me out, i think one map of sacred stones nearly gave me a heart attack with them Side note been playing trails in the sky lately and very much enjoying it!

[@BigKlingy]

Thracia REALLY likes Ballistas, though I personally appreciate it because it makes fliers less abusable. Glad you're liking Trails, I hope the remake goes well.

[@silverstar6589]

Something something Magic is Everything.

[@jet_set8648]

*MAGIC IS EVERYTHING* 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔊🔊🔥🔥🔥🔥‼️

[@BigKlingy]

That meme will be very relevant in Chapter 22...

[@TheJaredPunch]

The Switch 2 has been announced! And Tales of Graces remastered is soon to be out too. And of course, Olwen, the thunder mage.

[@Flametix]

"Surely you could figure it out if I've told you the first two. I shouldn't need to tell you, should I?" -Dorias FE5 Not the best intro to a new tactician when they don't tell you what to do. I personally think the third option is just to stall out the ballista ammo (or warpskip I guess but Dorias can't suggest that if you don't have it). I think Paragon Sword is actually pretty helpful for tanking that matter as you saw. Meteor Asvel is also kind of a meme to set up for this chapter too if you dedicate him to Fire duty. Nice to see more combat units promote, and Machyua kind of appeared too but I don't think she ended up doing anything. And I see you're making up time on A staff rank, Safy's misses may have been a blessing in disguise. 11:33 I believe you actually have to move the unit to burn an RN in this, but just opening the battle preview screen will also move RNs much more quickly as it simulates the fight. Opening a unit's status screen also resets the RNG to position 0 which speedruns take advantage of as there are only 64 potential seeds in the game and some positions have useful values across all seeds. 18:45 The wiki has general AI notes on each chapter page for the units, for Dvorak it says he moves towards units with fewer than three allies within eight tiles of them, which is a really big area so he might have been going for Karin. 47:14 Heroes did imply the Pursuit Ring became the Follow-Up Ring, but follow-up as a term for double attacks officially started in Fates descriptions and the skill and the mechanic share the same name in Japanese. 1:03:49 I do like how they use August and Dorias as contrasting dialogue splits for various other actions later on like getting/missing gaidens in terms of honor/pragmatism. It does kind of reward you for the emergent gameplay if you really go out of your way for it, at least. I like how this chapter kind of shows how you need to adapt on the fly and take precautions, definitely a lot of movement stars going around. --- Leif: "So the way I see it you have three means of attack, warpskipping or turtling." Alear: "What's the third option?" Leif: "Abuse the broken emblem mechanics of this world like Bonded Shield."

[@BigKlingy]

lol Meteor Asbel would be really fun here. Bolting Olwen vs Ballistas is also fun and easier to pull off. 11:33 Huh, maybe that's why I kept missing Largo. 18:45 Ah, that'd explain why he goes north if only Leif and Asbel are there. Also THANK YOU for pointing that out. (Apparently the Thieves randomly either go towards houses or do nothing) 47:14 Ah right, Fates did it first. 1:03:49 I looked up the August dialogue afterwards and was a little disappointed that it wasn't an ideological contrast to Dorias', it was more "hey that Mage Knight probably went to get reinforcements, Fort Dumdum will be ready for us now."

[@thel-iteralone4592]

"Nowell" sure as heck accurately describes the experience of trying to capture this chapter's boss and seeing what he has to say when released...I'd be swearing up a storm too if I was in your position. I was around in the Reinhardt days of Feh, and the reasons why he became as oppressive as he was amounted to having a good base Atk stat at 32, being a magic brave weapon user to target the lower res stat of many units, him being demoted to 4 star rarity, skill inheritance being introduced which not only let him get the skill Death Blow 3 for +12 damage and the Moonbow special, but also let other cavaliers inherit Hone Cavalry to give him an easy +6 Atk buff, and the Quickened Pulse seal, which would let him trigger Moonbow on his second hit. Olwen remained a 5 star exclusive unit despite having 6 less base Atk than her brother, so oof. Lifis getting whacked twice on the fail channel is lol.

[@BigKlingy]

How long did he star meta before falling off? Did it just take powercreep?

[@starmaker75]

Welcome back. Storms sucks. Had an something with a with a blizzard. 53:45 the original quteo is "it better for a lion leading a bunch of donkies, then a donkey leading lions" sadly military history does the latter. Also I feel that an quteo/saying that sums up the commander arctype in metaphor. That and "time to tip the scales"

[@jSilvuh22]

Ahhh the first ballista map in the game. This was a rough one for me to puzzle through because of all the overlapping ballista ranges. I think I ended up taking it bit slow and have Accost Dagdar soak up a few of the ballistae's shots while the rest of my guys inched forward a little at a time. I did leave the top right ballista around for a bit so Lifis could get some exp and hopefully get con on levelup for steals. No such luck there... 6:45 *MAGIC IS EVERYTHING* 21:27 Oh look, it's the bond ring I never ended up getting in Engage! So much luck and/or resources... 27:39 I'd have to look through my old save file to confirm, but I think this was what I ended up doing once I became more confident in dealing with ballistae in this game. I also managed to build up a high enough sword rank on her to use the fire sword, and some of the ballista users rolled low magic/res so Karin could easily swoop in and go for a dismounted attack. And because she'd be dismounted, any overlapping ballistae would not get their damage boost 46:27 Riveting gameplay XD

[@radiantherooftellius1138]

OLWEENNNN!!! AND FREEEDD!!! Yay i love this intro chapter to them!! Their dynamic r so cool!!! The chapters music also gives those hopeful feeling as well!! This is one of my fav chapters!! Also here starts ballistae electric boogaloo😅 next chapter rlly shows that

[@BigKlingy]

Fred is an underrated character and does a lot for Olwen's development, it's a shame he's not in Heroes.

[@MudFan]

44:40 Ah yes, classic early FE, there's a ton of different swords to choose from but you can count the amount of axes on one hand.

[@BigKlingy]

Thracia was probably the first game where axes weren't a total joke, sadly. Back in FE4 you had Lex's Brave Axe and that was about it.

[@dryzalizer]

-This map is a pain, the enemy picked a really good location to set up ballista defenses. -You can also just put Karin within 3 tiles of Fergus at the start to give him that sweet +10 hit, avoid, and crit bonus but if you want her elsewhere that's fine too. -RNG manips are very possible in this game, the top speedrunners even manipulate vigor star procs and at least one Luna proc iirc. There's also an easy manip that can guarantee you will never miss with a healing staff, but I never bothered to learn it. I roll with the RNG as-is, and just try to improve my odds with supports and such. There's also a way to manipulate that flame sword armor knight to step off the fort and capture someone, but your first turn savescum is fine too. -Hmmm, I hope Dagdar has a scroll to block ballista crits...I see he does not, I may have to predict a Dagdar death this chapter from them...well, turns out Lifis was the unlucky one from your fail clips :( -Mia has amazing insight into this game, and was the main person behind the Lil' Munster patch after the fallout from Project Exile. -Dvorak is not part of the enemy army, I swear the devs forgot to write a reason why he's here! Whether Dvorak moves at all on a given turn is just RNG as I understand it, maybe Mia knows the % chance each turn. I also don't know how he decides where he will move, I'd say you handled him well with how random he is. -Staves can indeed cast twice with only 1 use left, in fact....it's been a long time but I think they have a much higher chance to do exactly that! All weapons with even 1 use also never break until combat with an enemy is over, so that can be useful as well to get extra uses out of them. -Plan 3 isn't warp and kill the boss? Hehe, I enjoy the southern strategy too. -I love botanist guy's dialogue, I'm fairly sure the original is so generic that it really needed something new added there. -I wonder if Karin could have captured that weakened thief, she could have cantered back to her starting position afterwards. -Thank you for showing why you should NOT try to capture the boss! I do appreciate your dedication to getting unique dialogue.

[@BigKlingy]

I'd normally do that, but it requires dismounting her due to the ballistas and that slows down her getting to the houses. Manipulating vigor star procs is lol. Ballistas almost never crit me. I shouldn't say that, but it's true. Ah, they can doublecast at 1 use, I had a feeling that was true.

[@tomasgarcia7499]

The Ballistae Bonanza BEGINS!!! Those things can be SO annoying esp. later down the line lol. Ok, you trying to capture at the end. SO RELATABLE!!! I don’t remember if I captured this boss or not…I remember TRYING, but I can’t remember if I was successful or not. I might’ve just stolen his Master Seal and called it a day. It’s been like 2 years since I played Thracia so some things are a bit hazy lol. You know speaking of the special dialogue you get when capturing Largo, idk if you’re like this, but sometimes I can hyper-fixate about certain bonuses or self made objectives in FE games (think like special convos, hidden items, pairings, etc.), and I’m kinda glad I didn’t know about a lot of the hidden stuff in Thracia bc I was already pretty crazy with getting things ☠️. I understand fully when you said “I feel physically sick over this (regarding the capturing lol).” The Tahra defense map and Xavier’s map was me at my most hyper obsessive ☠️. I’m very stubborn, so when I’m like “I WILL get this item,” I do everything in my power to get it…even if I have to restart the map what feels like a million times ☠️. I’m trying to think of other times I get that way…ah, Conquest is a good example. So, it wasn’t necessarily about an item or a convo, but I told myself I wanted to clear as much of the map in Ch. 10 as possible and get to Takumi before he activates the Dragon vein. I started that map OVER and OVER and OVER till I made it happen. Mind you, I was playing on Lunatic ☠️. Did I have to do that? NO, but I’m stubborn and wanted to, so I just kept trying for days till I made it happen ☠️. Another example is pairings. Like in Three Houses, I would always be SOOO particular about who ended up with who. If I wanted Dimitri with Marianne or Ferdie with Constance, come hell or high water I would make it HAPPEN. The DLC fortune teller helps a lot with that lol. 😭 The Switch 2 got revealed today. I hope a new FE game gets announced soon. I’m very much eager for the next game, especially if it’s a remake since it won’t get cannibalized by a new console like Echoes did with the 3DS and Switch 🤗. #FE4RemakeTruther lol.

[@BigKlingy]

Normally I suggest stealing the Master Seal and nuking him with magic. Oh boy Xavier is going to be a thing... but yeah, certain bonus objectives are annoying. For example, I vastly prefer taking the "Linus Route" in FE7, but I recently found out that if you fight Lloyd first, on Hector's story, then Hector gets special dialogue post Cog of Destiny if he lands the killing blow on Linus. If I ever LP FE7 I'm going to have to show that. Also props to you for actually pulling that off with Conquest Chapter 10.

[@tomasgarcia7499]

@ Yeah, that sounds like a solid plan! It’s kinda funny because nobody is telling me I HAVE to do the bonus objectives…there’s just this innate want to do them that I can’t shake off lol. I wish you the best of luck with Xavier 🫡. I spent like a day restarting that map to recruit him. And thanks, it was tough, but it felt so worth it once I finally did it. Conquest is really fun! I remember I changed Elise to a Wyvern Rider during that map. Ah…memories lol.

[@BigKlingy]

@@tomasgarcia7499 I also have the "I beat a game 100% or not at all" mentality. Though Sonic Advance 1 is really testing that, boy do its special stages SUCK.

[@tomasgarcia7499]

@ LOL, you get it!!!! Ahaha nice to talk to a kindred spirit. Omg Sonic Advance! I haven’t played that game in AGES. I have it for the GBA, and as a kid, I could never beat it. I hope it goes well for you! I wish I played Sonic Advance 2 and 3…those looked really cool.

[@jSilvuh22]

@@BigKlingy Ooof Advance 1's special stages... The depth perception is pretty bad from what I remember -_-

[@jaredfayette2567]

*Sees thumbnail* Well to capture him anyway. Character wise I actually like him, but we'll get into that a bit more later. 1:46- Yeah never underestimate a ballistae in Thracia. They hit rather hard, hit more often compared to their weaker counterparts from other games, parked in ideal sniping positions, AND those overlapping ranges can cause many issues. 3:51- Which is fine. For how Chapter 11 plays out, it makes for a good rest chapter for him. 6:17- I'll give Ishtor credit since out of Ishtar's family who doesn't join our side, he was like the only other person in it that wasn't an awful person and him getting upset with us killing his finance just before him always stood out to me. Plus him and bolting made him a more stand out boss as well. 6:43- I'll talk more about it when we get to 11 and 11x, but him also being a pathetic person in contrast to some of the more level headed people like Largo here also gives more depth to the minor villain cast of Thracia as well. 7:08- I love how Kempf's lines in FEH also include stuff to the effect of, "I hate immesely how despite the fact that I've been dragged into entire other world, Reinhardt, not only got here first, but is STILL getting all of the attention that should be mine." lmao 7:35- Aside from some mentions of Leif unifying all the different groups in Thracia and stuff like 8x, I didn't really think people gave much attention to that as I never really read Thracia like that and more as a revolution story against evil, not class or that sort. 11:13- Even, so, keep an eye out for that lone Wyvern Knight as he is another source of resets on this map. 14:23- And I'm also assuming Chapter 12 to make that chapter less of a headache and to capture a certain staff user ASAP. 18:35- "... I am very much looking forward to dissecting this thief's AI..." - BigKlingy 2025 23:25- Yep, Warp and Rescue are the back bone of the crazy stuff you can do in Thracia. However in other games I would hate this, but something about how Thracia's designed makes them feel like neat tools that do more than warp skip maps (you could still do that, but the fact that isn't the only good way to use them is a massive plus in my book). 23:40- While you still could very much do that, I honestly find using Rescue as a rescue tool actually a lot more viable and fun using it as intended in this game. 28:21- Which is interesting. Even more so when you factor in Berwick Saga where, going off the little I do know about the game, is how horses can actually be killed and you would need to buy new ones if that happened. Not sure how it works in practice as it does sound like it could be annoying, but I like how in theory that gives you a reason to dismount more often to keep your cavs' horses safe. So interesting with that interview and I wonder if what Kaga said there lead to him doing that in Berwick. 32:34- Though I have seen people RNG abuse the thieves to get absurd Con to steal Fred and Olwen's weapons, which is hilarious. 33:35- Which on that note, I would like to apologize for some the stuff I said during Chapter 7; Still stand by my general stance, but it was horribly, horribly misplaced given all of those issues were hold overs from other translations like Exile and not the work that Lil Munster did, so I'd like to apologize for lumping the latter in with the former. If any of the team is reading this, I truly am sorry for lumping you up there like that. 33:57- And not only that, but once you get enough staff users than can use them, it makes one turn strategies of neutralizing certain foes with status staffs go online and the ability for those strategies are REALLY good as well. Ensorcel's great and actually use it wisely and not as a free grinding source of EXP. 37:56- No it is; One of the villages you can save does explain that maybe a thief could lower the bridge, though I do feel bad for anyone who was unable to save that village and never got that hint... 40:22- And if you get desperate with her hitting A Rank, you can always promote her if need be since she should get a staff rank out of it. I never did since I made sure to spam her healing when I could and save a Master Seal for someone else, but honestly I'm more open to the idea of promoting her for free staff rank after hearing others advocate for it. 40:49- And more speed on him is absurd. 42:33- What the heck was that background noise? 44:42- What about the Master A- *Sees it's only B Rank* Really? That's... A surprise. Always assumed it was locked to A Rank. Huh... 47:43- Also known as F^^^! 53:53- So do I even what to ask about that alt timeline or is that a rabbit hole too deep to explain? 55:12- Really? I've seen enemy bishops miss a ton with physic. Hell, the one in Chapters 6 feel like they miss half the time with them. 59:15- Too late, I've already have. lol 59:58- Wouldn't a Brave Sword crit work better or no? In other news, a lot since last time. Played through and beat AW1 in Reboot Camp. Last mission I did was the final Battle. Took me two attempts to S Rank it, but I finally got the S Rank I was cheated out of when I played OG AW1. Now however, time to do all of the alternative route missions so I can face off against Rivals once more before I move into the AW2 half. We also got the reveal of the Switch 2, which is neat, though I was hoping for more information today. April 2nd will be a long wait. Hope we at least get the price of it soon as I know what I can spend on it. And finally, how did my recent addiction to Battle Brothers go. Good, though not as I planned. Mainly because I somehow botch picking the right end game crisis, so instead of having the Lost Sons get their revenge during the Nobles' War crisis... We ended up doing the the only End Game Crisis I've yet to talk about here; The Holy War End Game Crisis. Basically the Northern Houses (or at least the ones bordering the South) versus the Southern City States for control of holy land to each side. Like the Nobles' War, you can choose which side you want to serve and since I don't value sanity as much apparently, I sided with the North for my first run of this crisis. In general, don't unless you're really confidant as the Southern Armies are a lot deadlier, or at least harder to deal with than Northern armies. They throw a lot of different tactics at you, from having poorly armed slaves rush you down and try to wear you down before their conscripts, especially the annoying ones with Pole Maces and Sword Lances, break through, lone assassins throwing basically primitive flash bangs and fire pots at your lines before going in for the kill, and of course, the South has F^^^ING Guns. They hurt a good bit and they love doing the Overwhelm plus Handgonne strats to both damage a lot of units and make their hit rates suck. They were not an easy foe to face, but the Lost Sons pushed through. First fight had us defend the Fallen Star Holy Site, go help from knights to lure away enemy forces so we could defend the place better and won. Next mission and the hardest was defending a town from enemy raids. Why? Besides it being three waves, but before that could even happen, got jumped by the House that wants me dead and weaken me a good bit. F^^^ing pricks; On the same side since I'm sure they had a stake in the War too and they still tried jumping me. Survived, but it put me in a bad spot against the raids, even had to load an earlier save to redo a fight so I was better prepared for the second wave of raids, which gave me what I needed. Third wave would have killed me were it not for a well timed supply convey by the house that hired me for all of these missions as they acted as reinforcements. Some of them died, but their brave sacrifices meant I won the battle without losses on my own end and they really helped in securing that fight. After retreating north to heal some wounds, got another round of the same jobs. Defended the Fallen Star a second time, though my men caught the first wave of Southerners unaware and wiped them off as the second wave came in (which I did accidentally discover a way to cheat by spamming the menu button before the wave two pop up comes in if you reload the auto save, which helped in getting fresh men and gear in tow). And then another defend the settlement mission where the second fight of it I goofed and lost my banner man... Is what I would say had not another supply convoy also was in range to join the fight and one of the ally Pikemen swapped with my Banner Bearer to keep him safe and saved his life. And that guy even got to live too, just barely and would have died had not a buddy of his dealt the finishing blow. After all of that though... The North sucked in that War and the South won by controlling all the holy sites (including the Fallen Star, which fell not even a minute after I got paid for defending it the second time). Despite that, the Lost Sons since gained fame for their part in the war, or infamy for the Southerns who had their historians tell us "No, we're going to be interviewing our heroes, not you villainous vermin." After that, crisis resolved, you'd think I go on my revenge arc, but as it turns out, the Holy War resolving resets any hostile factions to Cold on the relations chart, meaning the house that tried to kill us during the war tolerates us for now. For the time being, the Lost Sons are doing their mercenary work, even for the lands of that house (though not before poaching a mighty hedge knight for our company from their capital). But whether the Lost Sons shall move or go seek their revenge shall be seen for another day as the next crisis shall determine it given how I do want to get the best ending a run can get. For now, that's all for the Lost Sons.

[@BigKlingy]

I liked him until his release quote.

[@jaredfayette2567]

@@BigKlingy After your trauma, fair; Won't take that away from you. Admittedly still like him since he actually gives Olwen respite and calls Kempf out for his BS even though he isn't there. And while it did cause some mental damage, I do like how the game was willing to present him in both good light (what I just talked about) and bad light (his hatred towards the rebel and that release quote).

[@BerserkerRohan]

@jaredfayette2567 When learning how to play Thracia, one of the main things you need to learn is how to deal with ballista but at least there are many ways to approach doing that which I hope I did a good job showcasing in my playthrough. Ishtore will cause you problems if you aren't using Seliph or Shannan. It doesn't help that if you are unlucky, he can Bolting twice since you can do that in FE4 but not FE5. Kempf is a fun character to analyse. Kempf comes with Aegis in Heroes which is a skill that somewhat counters Reinhardt which goes to show how petty Kempf is. I think people think that way just because class warfare is somewhat common in the series nowadays because of Three Houses. Always good to have a plan in place for that Wyvern, wherever he decides to go. Warp and Rescue do feel very satisfying to take advantage in this game. I do see a good amount of scenarios where using Rescue to rescue an unit from danger is actually effective but you don't get that many Rescue staff units so they must be used wisely. That does sound like a Berwick Saga mechanic to me as well. I have done that before but it requires both thief abuse and RNG abuse with save states because of the low con growth of the thieves. Ensorcel is very important in this game for boosting staff units. Most other units are probably just fine by drinking Pure Water which is probably something I should have utilised more. I remember that village in FE4 as well. Even without Paragon mode, I would go the promotion path just because she can get to Level 10 by healing poisoned units over and over and you have more than enough heal staves to do that with considering the Munster escape throws heal staves at you. We take any stat ups we get with Dagdar considering how good his bases are. It does mean the axe units have a quite easy time since only getting to B rank matters. There is a reason why I stick to calling it PCC. I have seen them miss a good amount too. I tried and even though my Fergus was stronger, it was still a struggle and eventually, he double crit the Rapier and killed him but it was whatever since I already got the Master Seal. I felt bad about going for the capture for different reasons since it did take a while and Fergus got like three free levels up from his capture attempts. I also wasn't using save states for this either. You wouldn't get the PCC with the Brave Sword so generally weakening him and then going for the Armourslayer is the way to go but you want him to equip the bow since he can't counter you when capturing him and you get more hit since he loses weapon triangle advantage. I dubbed my playthrough of this map one of the most stupidest clears of this map mainly because of Lifis since as it turns out, he gains a lot of exp if you give him the Paragon Sword and you let him waste the ballista. Good going clearing most of AW1 and defeating Sturm. Good luck with Rivals in the future and I will be excited to hear about AW2. Today was strange since it was after the FF7 remake play session for today, which was earlier in the day as well, that we learnt about the Switch 2 so me and my brother discussed some things and I spread the news on the Discord server. My brother is predicting a release in the summer with his exact date prediction being July 25th. Mario Kart does look pretty cool and it will probably be a launch title. Fingers crossed it won't be too expensive considering how rough the PS5 is in terms of price. Holy War end game crisis. That name sounds familiar. It would be funny if the Switch 2 gets a FE4 remake now. Things did sound rough due to siding with the North but you managed to pull through which was good and those supply convoys deserve my respect as well. I wonder how things will go now that the tension has died down and what your next run will be like. As for myself, not much Eternal Punishment as I was really focusing on my research of the Ultimate Personas in my Innocent Sin playthrough but that is behind me now so hopefully both playthroughs will be making good progress to come. Other things in my head are Tokyo Xtreme Racer since the new game will be hitting early access January 23rd and set for a full release 4 months down the line. The stuff I have seen of it looks really promising so I am very excited. So much so that I am thinking of doing another playthrough of Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3 especially since there was a patch released that makes the Wanderer Whirlwind Fanfare appear without having to cheat money which I did in my first playthrough. We will see if I do this due to my focus on Persona 2. My brother made a lot of progress with the FF7 remake due to some really long play sessions since he seems to be enjoying himself quite a lot. We are past the Wall Market section which went quite well and now it will be traversing the Train Graveyard.

[@jaredfayette2567]

@@BerserkerRohan Which you do, both the serious and silly ways of doing so. (Midway through 17B, which certainly has been an amusing experience; Need to get back to watching that soon.) Yeah, even if you are using the best guys against him, won't matter as much if he snipes you first. Kempf taking what's considered one of the worst specials in FEH just to spite Reinhardt is perfectly in character for him. lol Another comment addressed it, but I would agree with them and Klingy that kind of discussion has randomly invaded talks about Thracia even though that's not what the game is about. That they are. And yeah, you have to play wisely with Rescue since you get less of it. I namely use it in conjunction with Warp for in and out maneuvers, like in Chapter 14 and 16A. It's certainly an odd eye, but interesting. Also like Berwick's idea of some characters being mercenaries you need to hire for each mission, but join permanently if you do their paralouge, which honestly sounds really cool. It's certainly looking more tempting now given how close I've cut it to the Chapter 12 deadline. Plus seeing the pressure it took off when you recommended and doing that has me want to test it myself and see how that Master Seal uses impacts later stuff. As funny as it is, I also prefer calling it PCC. It's all good, especially if you weren't using save states. Given what happened to Klingy's sanity, it was probably for the better. Plus, since you were afraid of things being too similar, it means your own LP has something that Klingy's didn't show off, so we have your's in case others wanted to see what happens if you just kill him. Ah, right. Forgot that it's after the first two hits that Brave Weapons get that PCC multiplier. At least I remembered the bow trick though. Yeah, Lifis' ordeals in that chapter were amusing, but hey, he deserves the extra trials to make up for what he did. At least it opened up the way to promote him later. Many thanks. Yeah, I'll need the luck to, especially given how rough it went for the OG. Hope FFVIIR went well. A summer prediction makes sense, though might I ask why July 25th specifically? The new Mario Kart looks neat. Already love the track it showed off and the Yoshi Dinner looking like one of those old highway diners. And keeping my fingers crossed as well, specially for a $400-450 price since that makes it easier for my limited hobby spending cash to save up for reasonably. Yeah, that occasionally crossed my mind as well, though the holy war here is more so inspired off the Christian Crusades and not a tragedy. Though yeah, really hoping we get that remake soon too (ideally it'd be on Switch 2 so it sells well, though people joking about a FE remake releasing on a console out the door again worries me a tad given the precedent). It is. Many people recommend siding with the Southern City States so you have less scarier opponents to face. And keep in mind I didn't even come across their deadliest unit as well; Their frikin mortars. Those things are scary to face. Despite that, still managed to survive it all and make a fair bit of coin (especially since repaired handgonnes sell for a ton; Have two or three drop after a fight, fix them up and then you get the equivalent of a lesser paying Noble's contract). Plus as the game said "Love or hate us, they know our names now," so we still benefitted greatly from the crisis. As for how the tensions shall go, like I said, really depends on the next end game crisis as we have a 1/3 shot of the revenge arc happening. As for the next different run... Might go back to finish up with the Green Units or Poacher Run or start something entirely different up instead. Hope the Ultimate Persona Research for IS goes well and that both LPs will continue to go smoothly. That's a nice sign of it coming out soon if we got the early access stuff starting to pop up. If you do go back to TXR3, hope you have fun with it. Also yeah that issue; Glad there's a patch to fix it. Though speaking of that glitch, watched a video a month or two back, maybe a bit longer, talking about impossible to beat/100% complete game due to some oversight and the issue with Whirlwind Fanfare was brought up, which made me go "Oh I know this because of Rohan." Been meaning to share that story, but kept forgetting; Figured it'd be at least a tad amusing for you. Well done with his progress in FFVIIR. *Looks up those names as a refresher for where he is* Ah, right those sections. Yeah, he's certainly made progress since given this game's extreme stretching out of the source material, your brother's practically around the 80% mark of the game since I know those bits come fairly late into the Midgar section of OG FFVII. Best of luck to him as he continues to make progress.

[@BerserkerRohan]

@@jaredfayette2567 17B was certainly a thing in my playthrough. I don't feel safe against Ishtore unless I am using my best units. That is Kempf for you. I do think there must be some outside influence that causes people to think about the class warfare. I did remember the how the mercs worked and it does make Berwick sound very unique and interesting. You can see why people like to rig Hammerne misses to get Safy to A rank quick and without the Master Seal. One less Master Seal will probably mean one less unit from the early group gets to promote like your Osians, Callions and Finns. Fergus needs to be insanely strong for that capture to be comfortable considering my one had 16 strength and as much support as possible. To be fair, I didn't realise you get different dialogue at the end for capturing Largo but I like the dialogue for killing him too since they comment on Olwen and where she was headed. That also means that captures where you can actually double the enemy become a lot easier especially with Fergus. Too bad a lot of Generals like Largo avoiding getting doubled since they don't get weighed down by their weapons. Lifis promoting was not in my plans but with 2 con levels up beforehand, it was hard to refuse. Rivals is no joke especially if you are on Hard with the fog of war. He said July 25th was a Friday which he thinks is a good day to release a new console and the late July is probably because it is in the thick of summer. Mario Kart will be fun to talk about once I learn more info, most likely in that direct. Hope that is the case. My brother is planning on help us get the Switch 2 on our end. That would mean it would be ideal if the next Direct was the one in April since there is less chance of the FE4 remake on the original Switch. Mortars sound like ballista but worse so good thing you didn't come across them. I bet one day I will learn from you why they are so dangerous. Lots of options for the next run so that will be fun to listen to. They were very fun to research so I will be looking forward to doing the same in Eternal Punishment. Maybe I will watch some gameplay of the early access version too. Still not sure how I will play the new TXR since I either get my own PC or wait for a console release if it does well. I have some ideas if I go through with another TXR3 playthrough, mainly a R32 GTR run or GC8 Impreza run. We can thank Kinglink for making the patch a year ago at this point since he released it for January 1st 2024. Igor who is working on the Racing Battle C1 Grand Prix translation patch also made a patch that fixes a cutscene that would crash the game that was caused by the localizers making a muck up with code for that cutscene. I watched that video too since I looked at the thumbnail and knew he was talking about TXR3 at some point. The more you look into TXR3, the more you realise that Crave really dropped the ball for the localization and something innocent like Arc Rise Fantasia's voice acting seems a lot more reasonable by comparison. I can see a lot more being added between now and the end, mainly sidequest stuff. Will continue to be fun to watch.

[@lomc3233]

5:50 Fred spotted, cant wait for him to get all the move levels and force himself into your army.

[@BigKlingy]

We'll... see. But it might happen. He's not bad either.

[@nachohangover5104]

Man I love Fred. Just a guy with a good class, perfect weapon ranks and solid bases.

[@BigKlingy]

@@nachohangover5104 I'm generally not into units like that except as filler deploys, but I still use him sometimes. I prefer Fergus, who has all that but joins earlier, grows well and had that Munster arc carry to really establish himself.

[@lomc3233]

@nachohangover5104 Yhe most memorable thing about Fred to me is when I sacrificed him on ch 19 as a capture to unlock 21x.

[@Yacovo]

Welcome to "The Enemy shells the Rebels with Artillery" part of the game. The game will not be letting up on it, so get used to it. Thanks for the video.

[@matts5747]

6:44 And the first mention of this guy! 7:53 Odd none of the Pokémon rivals have ever fit into that. Although that might be a bit harder to do considering the protag is the player... 23:18 Excuse me what 28:22 That's gotta be odd for riders who have a connection to their mounds. I know Wyvern Riders and I think Pegasus Knights do this, but outside of Sophie in Fates, is there any cavaliers that does 33:35 What was the og Japanese dialouge here? 34:47 Lifis: (On the floor raising his arm) "What doesn't kill you...". Only makes you stronger...". 55:41 Arthur's luck showing through

[@BigKlingy]

7:53 Yeah dynamics like that would work better in the Pokemon anime, though I'm not sure if it's ever been done. 33:35 I tried to look up the old script on Serenes Forest but it doesn't have village dialogue. 55:41 Basically, yeah.

[@megamanzero29]

So first and foremost, THE SWITCH 2 HAS BEEN REVEALED! Anyway, the first chapter to introduce Thracia’s favorite kind of unit: Ballistas. Get used to seeing these as they are in the majority of chapters going forward. Fred and Olwen cannot be captured but, you CAN steal their weapons provided your thieves have enough build but if you do this be warned those two can still go to the shop and obtain new weapons. I mentioned this in a previous story earlier in the playthough but I'll leave it here as well for reference: .....there’s a part where Olwen and Alfred show up. I have Lithis and Lara with enough build to steal both their weapons, but I also accidentally blocked off their escape route (they’re programmed to exit the map after a certain number of turns or if the boss is dead) but I did not block off the opposite way they could flee to and in that chapter there is a shop. So imagine my surprise when they both went to a shop Olwen bought a thunder tome and Alfred bought an iron sword. Thankfully there were no casualties but still that’s a good example of Thracia AI. Next time, the most American chapter in all of Fire Emblem.

[@BigKlingy]

I kinda like the ballista spam because it means fliers aren't combat juggernauts. Well, except one. Also LOL, I'm sure I've heard other stories of Olwen and Fred doing that. Getting to steal Dire Thunder here is pretty funny.

[@gamerzorro3508]

So we get a mention of Reinhardt huh (unless he was mentioned earlier and I missed it), can’t wait to finally see him in action. Also hello Olwen, heard she was a massive fan favourite, so I can’t wait to see more of her

[@deathcon6261]

I think a villager does mention him earlier in passing.

[@BigKlingy]

Olwen is going to be interesting. Though there's a WEIRD thing the game does with her: if you take a certain branch of the route split later, there's a recruit who only joins if she's not recruited or dead, for no real reason.

[@gamerzorro3508]

@@BigKlingy Oh, I’ve heard about that. I wonder what Kaga was thinking with that decision….

[@BigKlingy]

@ People speculate that it's a weird gameplay compensation thing, to make Chapter 17A easier for people without Olwen.

[@danielm.5078]

17:19 The sprites overlapping right here is so goofy. 21:30 For some reason I've seen people call it "dime thunder" with some frequency. I do wonder what made Kaga decide Thracia was the time to start overdosing on ballista placement.

[@BigKlingy]

21:30 That's what it's called in Japanese.

[@FlyingShogi]

I looked up the Japanese script. Can’t blame the translators for not knowing. Dorias just doesn’t tell you and plays coy so I can only assume it’s done on purpose

[@BigKlingy]

The "patch notes" have the Japanese script side-by-side and said as much. It's super vague but it's probably something to do with ignoring the ballistas. (Though like I said here, Plan 1 is impossible to pull off because most of the enemies guarding the ballistas don't move)

[@nessdbest8708]

Thats not how you say Friege, Reinhardt says it in Heroes. 22:11 this is false, they just can't be captured because they're mounted & you have no sleep.

[@Miacisjaune]

Oh no, it's true. They do have the hidden skill that prevents their capture. It's overkill for this point in the game as you point out, but they do have it.

[@nessdbest8708]

@@Miacisjaune Woah Dev reply! Thank you for all your work on Lil Munster! Also yeah that is completely redundant why would they do that?

[@blizzardforonline1954]

35:43 ProJared, is that you?!

[@andresalasthemessenger]

Hahaha... Uh... Ouch.. Ballista.. Oof Lifis.. (That's unexpected to go back.) & many retries to Largo boss at the castle the most... Unfair.. (Bad Note aside of Bigklingy's understandably to agree GAMEPLAY wise, the story tho. Well done Leif. Course.) Also, thumbnail of Largo. Lol. Olwen & Fred? Fortunate to take their leave to be important later on. After that ch 10, meme? Hmm.. Next Chapter to be likely.

[@B_A-tr]

Now i see where all the ballistas in leifs paralogue in engage are from. 5:59 the strongest general of the american armed forces.

[@BigKlingy]

Actually no, once we get to Chapter 22, THEN you'll see it. (Imagine these ballistas, but instead of 3 leadership stars, they get 10 or more.)

[@mewfangirl1052]

I heard the word "Balista", and got trauma flashbacks to Lief's paralogue in Engage. XD Missing a balista is a real Mushoo moment. "You missed! How could you miss? He was three feet in front of you!" Not the best euphemism based off religion/history I've seen in a video game. That belongs to FF14. "Thal's balls". It later got turned into an actual fight mechanic, which just made it even better. XD (It's really annoying to dodge though..... >.> ) Callion really do just be like, "Nah, I don't wanna be a strong boi. I wanna be a SPEEDY boi!" Personally, after all that trouble you went through to capture the boss, I woulda just held onto him as a trophy. Not let him go and "give him mercy" since he clearly didn't appreciate it. Instead just have been like, "Screw you for all this trouble you put me through, you're coming with me!" XD

[@BigKlingy]

You'll see why it used so many... the chapter that Paralogue recreates is so much worse than this. I literally referenced that line in a failed take of this chapter. Oh no, Callion ALSO has Sonic brainrot! I wish I'd done that. I just had to see his retreat quote.

[@AProfessionalHumanBeing]

KZbin ate my initial comment for this one. That's a little annoying, but mostly it was just "Callion doesn't gain strength, itemized", so not much of value was lost. I do want to provide my condolences for that, though. It always sucks when a character you want to use just doesn't do well. (Though him getting Magic that one time and Safy getting Strength were admittedly pretty funny.) Thanks for going to the effort to show the capture dialogue, it was really interesting. Major props for going above and beyond for that. The only thing I know about the next chapter is that it might be the "if bring door keys, then chapter: if else, get softlocked" chapter, but I'm not sure. That and I'm pretty sure it's the Kempf chapter, but, uh, we'll get there when we get there.

[@BigKlingy]

Sadly Strength doesn't offset weight for tomes like in PoR so there's no point to Safy gaining it. At least Callion won't need too much Str to be decent... hopefully. And yeah, I definitely wanted to show this because it's relevant foreshadowing for a LOT of Reinhardt analysis online. You can skip the gimmick of the next chapter with Rescue, but you'll miss the sidequest map and two recruitments for doing so.

[@DiegoG2004]

Fascinating ballista gameplay. For the first time of way too many. 0:42 Got name dropped too early. 2:38 We did it, we found the armored mage. 3:19 Leif is finally better than Yukimura at giving global hit. 5:45 Emblem Olwen, known from the hit videogame Fire Emblem Engage for letting you double with Thunder. 6:42 Yeah, when your competition is Reinhardt, it's fair to be insecure. 8:37 And Mage Fighters, but that class didn't escape Genealogy. 10:10 The third option is to stall them out of uses with a forest/mountain and a healer. 10:57 Uh... who's that guy? 11:32 But unlike in GBA, we don't have an arrow wiggle to see the rng change. 13:09 Osian has obtained shoulder pads! 14:17 Oh way, Accost with ballistae. 17:24 Bigger shield! Now a Duke Knight! 17:38 The fact the comment takes half the screen by itself shows just how special those wyverns are. 20:26 Dagdar! Closer! (also nice 1 out of 4 on a 56% hit rate) 21:25 She has the thing. 21:37 The Levin Sword, except it forgot to be called that. 22:08 Miracle++? Though they're also on horses so it's not like you can try to capture them anyway. 23:04 The walking stick that lets you summon an ally to be your bodyguard. 26:36 Thank you Safy. You didn't need to scare us like that. 27:54 Make Lord go fast. 30:08 And uh, let's not deal with Dire Thunder yet, yes? 32:18 The +10 Luck is surely helping a bit in there. 33:24 Pure Water tree staff! 33:41 Mel called, she wants her prf staff back. Oh wait, this game came earlier. 34:44 He may have lost a few bones but nothing a staff can't fix. 40:26 So far, he's saying hi to Largo. And having quite a long conversation. 44:44 Certainly a Thracia combat, it just had to happen on the death hour. 46:07 This guy... is a literal who. 47:31 And they rolled with it until someone didn't spell it. 49:23 Fail channel jumpscare! 50:18 If only we had a horse unit that used magic at 1-2 range. 51:12 Cyn, kindly don't hiyack the Klingy, thank you (mini props to whoever gets the reference) 53:09 Uhhh, that sounds like more Kaga sexism to be honest. Like the female can't lead but the male can lead plenty. 54:00 It is now hammer time. 54:17 Look, Callion is a Great Knight! Trust! 57:38 Hey, the sprite actually is a hammer. That's more than what the GBA era can say. 59:12 Capturing shanenigans: Largo 1:02:13 Well, we wanted your very great weapons.

[@BigKlingy]

5:45 lol. I do think Engage's Dire Thunder is a bit overrated.

[@thrasher698]

47:45 I mean... is it really a coincidence that more "conventionally attractive" characters tend to have higher values in this stat?

[@BigKlingy]

Meanwhile Lifis has 0, and one of the others with 0 is established to be a complete failure with women if he and the unnamed Shannan impersonator in FE4 are the same person...

[@Alnix2]

With the Siege weapon layout and all here with a pretty horizontal based map,I honestly think of this map as a sorta precursor to the great bridge map to the Tellius games (More specifically the FE9 version where you dance around Ballistas a lot more on that version and even has a blizzard tome a siege magic there). I think weirdly my luck on this map was pretty abysmal early on with its reset load and I think my Largo capture while still met with retakes had a lucky not kill crit from someone. While yes capturing Largo sucks I think the main appeal in his capture is having first (or if not close to) access towards great weapons and the ridersbane to try out for yourself.

[@FlyingShogi]

If you only played Heroes like me, I’d believe it if someone told me Reinhardt was the lord and not Leif given their reception

[@BigKlingy]

He was one of the first Heroes to have a personal Brave weapon I think, so he made a pretty big impression.

[@cameronmclean6804]

I’m currently watching your fates play though just finished watching the hisame paraloque on Birthright and fuga chapter on conquest

[@BigKlingy]

Man that was a long time ago. Sorry I was so salty there at times.

[@cameronmclean6804]

@ don’t worry about it

[@Kwang_Ko]

I remember someone actively disliking Accost in this game just because there are way too many Balistas and honestly, while I don't think it's "bad" I can see why some people not liking it. Ah yes, Dire Thunder, something that I never use in Engage, haha. Me when people look at Warp and Rescue in this game: Thracian staves, ladies and gentlemen.

[@BigKlingy]

It's good on Dagdar at least because he can take their hits. It's really bad for Sephina vs Ballistas though. Dire Thunder in Engage is one of the few things I'd call "overrated".

[@GaeaRage0798]

7:55 I think a more accurate comparison would be Bugs Bunny (Reinhardt) and Daffy Duck (Kempf).

[@BigKlingy]

I didn't know those two had that kind of dynamic. Though the only thing I ever saw them both in (besides Duck Amok, where Bugs only had a cameo) was Back in Action.

[@corpussakahagi2116]

Say, would it be better or worse if capturing used 100% of a player unit's stats and only enemies and allied NPCs had halved stats except for HP and Luck when attacking for a capture, BigKlingy?

[@AzureDrag0nKnight]

It was a true showing of how WEIRD this game really is with it’s maps. The more I look at them, a lot of them aren’t exactly hard. Just either tedious or annoying to deal with. Also, how many attacks missed here?! On just your side (and only what we saw) was probably like about 50 or so. Good lord! x_X

[@BigKlingy]

The only times I'd say Thracia is genuinely as hard as people say are Chapters 22 and 24x.

[@Houndog4America]

The only problem is how much the Nintendo switch 2 is gonna cost compared to its brother.

[@BigKlingy]

I'm weird in that unless it's og PS3 levels of insanity, I don't care about price on consoles.

[@frankieseward8667]

Ah Basilltas. Remember Feena and FE12 chapter 19. I certainly do. And ooh boy can't wait [[Redacted]] later in the game

[@BigKlingy]

I've... forgotten than. Was that my playthrough? I'll have to go back and check.

[@frankieseward8667]

@BigKlingy oh it was. Part of your fail channel included Sedgar getting mobbed and Catria getting swarmed by mages. Feena and thst balissta was probably the most painful yet funny