Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance

[Orphen]

NEVER USE YOUR BEGINNING PALADINS, THEY ARE ALL JEIGANS AND JEIGANS ARE VERY, VERY, VERY, BAD!......Unlike most other Jeigans Titania actually has very good stats later on in the game, but I never use her through Chapters 1-20 respectively. Jeigans are the paladins you start off with, since they're so strong, they suck all the experience from all the weaker units, they are horribly overpowered in the beginning of the game but turn out to have much weaker final stats because they come early and don't have a chance to make up the 10-20 levels they would have gotten had they not come promoted. NEVER USE YOUR JEIGAN!....If you want to use one, wait till later in the game.

I unfortuantely made this mistake the first time I played FE:7.......I was so unsespecting and Marcus was so cool. Much to my dismay many of the later units were very hard, and I ended the game by restarting that file. All I had were a level 20 Rath, Karl, and Marcus....Not the greatest team by far.

Chapter 8 was easy.....It was that damned chapter 11.....I had the mission going good until the BK walked out and slaughtered my Marcia....

You can always unequip your Jeigans so that they can take damage while the weaker units have a good time. Surprisingly the only satisfying Jeigan character was Seth in FE8, but once again, should not be used until your other characters have been upgraded respectively.

[Kitsadoodles]

oops...too bad, i use my Titania way too much! i can stop though, because i just beat that chapter and now i'm on chapter 12; "A Strange Land"...god, this level is so stupid! We are all crammed into a tiny spot, and the dumb birds only kill the people that they know i need, like Soren and Rolf and Mist. I'll figure it out somehow, because my characters are all pretty good at killing the enemies. my only problem is that the birds just peck all my good characters!

[Orphen]

oops...too bad, i use my Titania way too much! i can stop though, because i just beat that chapter and now i'm on chapter 12; "A Strange Land"...god, this level is so stupid! We are all crammed into a tiny spot, and the dumb birds only kill the people that they know i need, like Soren and Rolf and Mist. I'll figure it out somehow, because my characters are all pretty good at killing the enemies. my only problem is that the birds just peck all my good characters!

This is the fist chapter in which you will need to take a very keen eye and mind to defense. I suggest you make a nice square of characters inthe middle of the ship, and keep your mages/healers within the square to travel along and assist with healing and backup damage. In this case you'll really need to use the terrain to your advantage, lining three melee characters on the left and right sides of the ship, and being sure to keep two characters ALWAYS on the bottom of the squarem because birds CAN fly over the ship railings. Take a keen eye to defense as well, and keep the characters that need EXP, getting it. This is a chapter in which boyd and rolf are almost NEEDED, but you don't have Boyd!! ><

[Kitsadoodles]

Yeah, thanks for that....but please, do me a favor and let go of the fact that i don't have boyd! I already told you, he died in a painful skydiving accident! and guess what; YOU AREN'T IN HIS WILL! Anyway, thanks for the help!

[Orphen]

Well I guess I put you through enough of a guilt trip if you add last night also. Okay, I will drop it, but just remember not to let people die again.

[Kitsadoodles]

Ok.....but just know, you were actually in his will....i just used that against you so you'd feel bad! he entrusts all his scented candles to you! i've been sure to keep people from dying, but that was long ago that he died. thanks for the help!

[Teh EkwEE]

I had my Rolf and Soren the MVP's of that mission, both are necessities and with the basic wind tome Soren will usually double those birds, basically if you can kill the two birds that come from the left in two turns you'll be fine. Just make sure to check their ranges every turn and get anyone who can't take a hit out of the way. Mias good for this mission as she's so fast most things can't double her, and if you have a steel sword she'll do some decent damage, then have Nephenee bring up the rear. Keep Mist and Rhys (If you still use him.) In the extreme right side of the boat, kill those birds then move them to the left as you'll have some more birds coming from the right at turns three or four.

[Kitsadoodles]

thanks for all the help guys! i will use both Soren and Rolf the most because they do a lot of damage to the birds, and that was my original strategy. i guess using both your's and Orphen's strategies i can both kill the birds and keep my characters alive! i really appriciate all the help guys!

[Orphen]

I had my Rolf and Soren the MVP's of that mission, both are necessities and with the basic wind tome Soren will usually double those birds, basically if you can kill the two birds that come from the left in two turns you'll be fine. Just make sure to check their ranges every turn and get anyone who can't take a hit out of the way. Mias good for this mission as she's so fast most things can't double her, and if you have a steel sword she'll do some decent damage, then have Nephenee bring up the rear. Keep Mist and Rhys (If you still use him.) In the extreme right side of the boat, kill those birds then move them to the left as you'll have some more birds coming from the right at turns three or four.

That works as well. On that chapter I refrained from using Soren so much, because he was allready at a ridiculously high level. I decided to overlevel rolf anf get him to roughly level 15 by the end of that chapter. I used a different strategy and decided to make a nice 3x3 square of characters, using the environment of the ship to substitute for the top and bottom walls of that square, so that units were all well protected, and healers could move freely throughout the square. It worked absolutely great, but if you screwed up the formation it would be over.

Kiwi, you need to post more. If not, at least post here.

[Teh EkwEE]

I post here enough. PSO doesn't float my boat *as much* anymore, I'm currently going through ToS again.....So I've been revisiting my game collection more or less.

I've tried getting that formation around the pole, or at least I think that's what you're talking about, but I can never get my slower units around in time, and I don't like taking chances. Boyd's almost needed too for that mission too, forgot to add......

I forgot what Chapter I'm on, like I said the Tos revisitation.......