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[Integrity]

Marcus/10There, its been done.

Marcus/10

You rolled the dice, and you lost. Tsk tsk, no revisions. Try again next rating.

[Bee]

9.5/10

He is an essential unit for HM who helps a lot in NM. He loses importance after about 10 chapters (basically when Rutger, Lance, Dieck, Alan are beginning to be promoted) and always loses his spot to Percy.

[Elieson]

You rolled the dice, and you lost. Tsk tsk, no revisions. Try again next rating.

So I don't get the opportunity to actually argue Marcus now?

Or am I just not cool enough.

[Toothache]

FE6 Marcus is the quintessential Jeigan character, perhaps even more so than Jeigan himself. At the outset, he weakens all the enemies to feed your low level units quite happily, otherwise you are 3-4HKOing. 8 move across these large maps is always nice to have, and WTC means he can be thrown into combat safely. By the time he stops being useful as a combat unit, the scrubs he's been feeding kills to should be self-sufficient enough to manage without him.

Low growths of course mean Marcus won't last forever. He can be replaced as early as chapter 7 as a combat unit, but ideally you'd use him and Zealot together, at the very least for ferry duty as well as leaving plenty of kills for the other units. By the time you get to Chapter 13, Marcus is almost obsolete. You can have Alan or Lance as a much more potent combatant. Marcus isn't entirely worthless at this point though, his huge move still being a great boon for speeding up the chapters as well as providing a somewhat durable meatshield.

Percival is the best bet for replacing Marcus for good, since he's RNG proof and amazing. Other than allowing for more rescue dropping, Marcus is probably starting to hurt your combat potential. Still, he's a solid character that can last through a good portion of the game, providing different roles at different points and aiding in keeping slower units along for the ride.

9/10

[CT075]

[acronym=9.9+0.6]Marcus[/acronym]/10

He's... like Sigurd, except in a game where maps are smaller and he's not the lord. And... well, he's kind of a boss.

his purple spikes make him better

Edited by Camtech, 05 March 2012 - 02:29 PM.

[Peekayell]

Dude, integ, i havent even played FE6 so my votes dont count anyway and it doesnt bother me in the least if my joke vote doesnt count :p.

[The Big Kazam]

Marcus/Marcus

Or... 9/10

He's that guy who saves your ass even when you don't want him to because he's just that nice.

[ShinRPGamer]

Well I know for a fact that i'm not one of the previleged so...

8.5/10

This game made me remember what Jeigan characters are for.

Edited by Gmls710, 05 March 2012 - 03:19 PM.

[Recondite]

Admittedly, Marcus is a Jeigan, he's a god when he joins, and in HM is just about literally necessary for quite a while. That said, as has been pointed out, he is not an especially good Jeigan and becomes bad pretty quickly, and using him long-term just isn't an option. Tempted to exercise a point of bias... but I won't.

9/10.

[Florina Stark]

Marcus. That guy who raped all the things in the prequel.

Pros:
REALLY handy in early game shenanigans.
Horsie.
Good for utility.
Manly old guy.

Cons:
Unlike his younger self, he kinda peters out after a while.
Other guys do it better later in the game. (YO PERCIVAL!)
Growths are ehh.

Marcus in this game is not as good as Marcus in the other game. Hes still pretty handy to have early on though. Before you promote your cavs or before guys like Percy show up. Zealot also does pretty much the same thing. So like, when hes around and junk, hes alright.

7.5/10.

[Furetchen]

Marcus/10

...Honestly he's a 9.5 but this is too good an opportunity to miss and besides he gets a full bias point

OH RIGHT HE'S NOT FE7 MARCUS SO I SHOULD ACTUALLY JUSTIFY THIS

He runs around the game KILLING the FUCK out of everyone, but this eventually runs out. Still, for the time that he IS KILLING the FUCK out of everyone, nobody else does so nearly as well.

Plus, pony and ranks. It's the little things that make the difference.

Edited by Furetchen, 05 March 2012 - 04:40 PM.

[Liquid Snake]

I WILL GIVE THIS A TRY

Marcus/10

[Integrity]

I'm going to stop confirming or denying Marcus/10 votes and just say who got it and who didn't at the end of the day~

[Elieson]

So...since you already confirmed mine, can I rejustify?

[Balcerzak]

Basically want to echo everything that Toothache said, but also mention that robed 10/1 Thany is very comparable to where Marcus is likely to be at the start of Western Isles (weapon ranks excluded), so in addition to Zealot he also faces some additional competition from her.

However, I still feel Marcus is a solid utility, for promoted move alone, up until ch16 gives you as many promotion items as you could possibly need, at which point he's definitely retiring.

I think he gets 8.5/10, when all is said and done.

[Liquid Snake]

I'm going to stop confirming or denying Marcus/10 votes and just say who got it and who didn't at the end of the day~

Okay that doesn't actually change my vote because I likely wasn't going to vote in the first place.

[Orange Crush]

Marcus is great for his earlygame, but he simply isn't comparable to units that can actually stay good for the entire game.

7.5/10

Edited by OrangeCrush, 05 March 2012 - 09:56 PM.

[Hamlet]

Unlike his FE7 incarnation, there are two units that join, promoted, that can arguably do Marcus' job better than he can. One of those gets HM bonuses, so...

He is still invaluable for earlygame until Alan and Lance promote.

8.9/10

[CT075]

i'm going to cross my fingers and pray

just like whenever I do when I play without marcus

oh snap

[tiff]

Doesn't exist past midgame but Marcus is still Marcus.

8/10