I don't even care about the horrible turn counts cause I finally finished a draft!!
[spoiler=Part 4]Part 4 Prologue: (5/234)
Micaiah gets BEXP to level 20 as well as resolve and Sanaki gets a forged firetome that she can double with. Naesala leads the way north, with Sanaki following, while Micaiah heads east. Eventually all the two range forces Naesala to leave and help Micaiah while Sanaki takes his place. Leanne helps where she can but basically just stays out of the way. Sothe just keeps his weak ass out of the way.
4-1: (10/243)
Ike goes south, Soren goes east, and Volug goes west. I officially hate: sandbags, fog of war, and reinforcements showing up out of no where.
4-2: (8/251)
Lucia goes west, Astrid and Fiona go south, and Haar goes southwest-ish. After killing the enemies in the south, Astrid heads west to help Haar while Fiona stays to deal with any reinforcements (still hate the popping up out of no where!). Tibarn rescues Pellas and flies with Elincia to the northern thicket clump to wait the battle out.
4-3: (11/262)
Micaiah went east and then south, thanks to resolve and thani she was able to ORKO almost everything. Naesala went southeast, but he had to be placed carefully because of all the bows and crossbows; luckily the BK arrived to help him. Sanaki (with resolve) went south and then east, taking out everything in her path. Leanne and Sothe both stayed behind due to fragile-ness and weakness respectively.
4-4: (19+9/290)
Maurim penalty because I couldn't get him out of the way, so I figured I might as well use him... then he ended up dying on me. He went east with Soren, then up the ledges. Ike climbed the middle ledge and takes the stairs directly towards Oliver; Volug follows him after clearing out the area directly above the starting point. Needless to say, turns caught up with me and before I knew it it is turn 10 and reinforcements started flooding in, which led to the demise of Vika and Tormod. My main problems were that Volug had to worry about 2-range and his gauge, Soren couldn't double to save his life, and Ike couldn't be everywhere.
4-5: (2/292)
Haar flew up and hand-axed Izuka in the face while Astrid, Fiona, and Lucia killed some of the feral ones to protect Tibarn and Elincia.
Part 4 Endgame: (14/307)
Part 1: (5/297)
Leanne helps Haar and Fiona (with pass) kill the sleep stave dudes are turn one. Then Ike, Sanaki, Micaiah, and Lucia head north. Soren and Volug clean up the east side with no problems thanks to a little help from Fiona. Astrid and Naesala take the west but because of Naesala's lack of two range Astrid has to handle most of it; she was joined by Fiona (who was running everywhere thanks to pass) who killed the last unit. Haar had the hammer, so he made quick work of the generals on the cover tiles.
Part 2: (1/298)
Ike attacked the Black Knight with a Hammer, killing him on the enemy phase. Micaiah, Naesala, Haar, Soren, and Fiona worked together to get the wishblade while everyone else tried to get as much exp as possible before the chapter ended.
Part 3: (2/301)
On turn one everyone rushes forward; thanks to Leanne, Sanaki ends in front and with resolve gets everything out of the way for turn two. Ike, Naesala and Sanaki work together to bring the dragon king down while everyone else just tried to get exp again (or in Micaiah's case: heals Ike, or in Leanne's case: sings for Ike)
Part 4: (2/303)
Pretty much the same turn one as last time, everyone runs forward. On turn two the fire spirits get out of the way and Naesala, Haar, and Volug bring down Sephrian.
Part 5: (4/307)
Attacked the Auras. Killed Ashera. Gareth died.
[spoiler=Thoughts on Characters]
Ike
Level HP STR MAG SKL SPD LCK DEF RES | Support
--/20/20 65 37 8 40 35 21 32 16 | Soren-A
Kills: 131+204=335
Awesome. I probably overused him because he had more kills than Haar... but still. His durability and two-ranged Ragnell definitely made me dependent on him and his ability to completely clear out an area.
Soren
Level HP STR MAG SKL SPD LCK DEF RES | Support
--/16/17 48 22 40 34 28 21 19 35 | Ike-A
Kills: 107+120=227
He was very helpful when he was able to dodge attacks and occasionally he could double, but I kept comparing him to Sanaki and Micaiah (who both had resolve) so that affected my thoughts on him during the playthrough. He was pretty good support for Ike and they worked well together.
Haar
Level HP STR MAG SKL SPD LCK DEF RES | Support
--/20/20 60 38 9 38 32 30 38 19 | Astrid-A
Kills: 39+179=218
So we all know that Haar is amazing in RD, and even though I probably didn't use him to his full potential he didn't disappoint. Flying and 11 range (because he had celerity for most of the game) was invaluable to finishing chapters like 2-E.
Astrid
Level HP STR MAG SKL SPD LCK DEF RES | Support
15/20/20 50 28 18 30 32 35 22 30 | Haar-A
Kills: 136+54=190
I expected her to be not as good as in PoR, but not this bad... She was a liability most of the time and Fiona quickly became better than her.
Sothe
Level HP STR MAG SKL SPD LCK DEF RES | Support
--/14/3 44 25 12 30 28 25 18 19 | Micaiah-A
Kills: 114
Great in Part 1, Okay in Part 3, the biggest disappointment of Part 4. He got me through part 1, but after than he was just a waste of time because of low strength.
Volug
Level HP STR MAG SKL SPD LCK DEF RES | Support
35 69 17 2 23 18 33 11 7 | Fiona-A
Kills: 98
Even through laquz gauge pisses me off like none other and he didn't have two range, he was awesome. I could depend on him to take down nearly everything I set in his path and might have even been better than Sothe in part one.
Micaiah
Level HP STR MAG SKL SPD LCK DEF RES | Support
20/20/6 46 18 37 28 25 40 22 36 | Sothe-A
Kills: 86
She was hard to use before I could give her resolve, and then getting her into resolve was hard sometimes too. Once she did get it though she was able to clear out areas relatively easy, although she wasn't that useful in the last few battles of part 4 endgame.
Lucia
Level HP STR MAG SKL SPD LCK DEF RES | Support
--/14/13 50 28 19 40 40 25 20 26 | Leanne-C
Kills: 37+23=60
If I had had the BEXP, then she could have been better, but she wasn't available that often and when she was other people needed it. She was able to be some help in part 4 endgame because of a blessed wyrmslayer and alondite.
Naesala
Level HP STR MAG SKL SPD LCK DEF RES | Support
35 68 20 7 22 24 26 15 18 | Sanaki-A
Kills: 0+56=56
As a laquz royal, I knew he would be good, and he din't really let me down, except in situations that involved bows. His support with Sanaki allowed her to live with 1-HP and deal with dragons, so he definitely had multiple uses.
Sanaki
Level HP STR MAG SKL SPD LCK DEF RES | Support
20 45 10 46 33 32 40 13 40 | Naesala-A
Kills:54
I was pleasantly surprised at how good she was! With Resolve she was able to kill everything in her path and she quickly got enough strength to use both Cymbeline and Arcthunder. She was one of my favorite units, right until the end.
Fiona
Level HP STR MAG SKL SPD LCK DEF RES | Support
19/17/20 55 32 19 33 34 35 28 27 | Volug-A
Kills: 37
She was awful through most of the game, but in part 4 she started to get better. While she wasn't my best unit, with a blessed Wishblade she was able to help kill dragons and auras. With pass she was able to get nearly anywhere on a map and help with anything that was needed.
Gareth
Level HP STR MAG SKL SPD LCK DEF RES | Support
31 82 22 5 10 7 20 21 9 | None
Kills: 1
Blood tide help for what little time I had it, but his bad resistance had no chance against Ashera's magic-based attacks.
Leanne
Level HP STR MAG SKL SPD LCK DEF RES | Support
16 33 0 6 6 9 33 3 16 | Lucia-C
Kills: 0
Singing was useful throughout the entire game, especially during part 4 endgame, when I did't have to worry about Leanne dying.
Lehran
Level HP STR MAG SKL SPD LCK DEF RES | Support
20 50 11 40 40 40 40 23 40 | None
Kills: 0
The Ashera Staff = Beyond Useful. I also gave him Micaiah's blessed light tome (cause she wasn't doing much with it) but he never got the chance to use it.
PoR= 213
RD= 307
Total=520
