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How many people can be fielded on the final chapter? Feel free to spoiler-ize the forced people. I'd like to have a general idea of the size of my party.

Battle Monk, of course! Can't wait to turn Spotpass Moulder into one.

Classic, because I've been playing this series for nearly a decade. Hard, because I've been playing this series for nearly a decade.

My bundle is being delivered from Future Shop. I may or may not have my car to go pick it up, so I went with delivery. Hopefully it'll arrive on the 4th, but the 5th or 6th seems more likely.

When reinforcements arrive do they get the chance to immediately attack (ala FE6) or do they arrive at the start of the Player phase? How do saves work in the game? GBA-style suspends, DS-style save points, or FE10-style free saving?

Realistically, what kind of end game level are we talking about for Hard? Like would taking Chrom Lord->(Level x)->Cavalier->(Level 10)->GK->(Level 10)->Great Lord be feasible? (I'm picky about what class I want my characters to be by the final, so I'd like to know in advance whether or not I should be Change Sealing guys I want to finish in their original classes Tier 2.)

+SPD -STR on the first run, going Magic-y. They actually balanced the options really well, with none of the Flaws being "good choices" (though -STR is great for magic people) since most of them will hit Speed or both offensive stats in addition to their main subtraction. (-LCK affects STR/MAG, -MAG and -RES affects SPD, etc.)

Bundle. I've wanted that FE 3DS since it came out in Japan and since I don't have a 3DS, it is perfect. No real desire to purchase a cart, I'm good with digital distribution, it is the future. I don't have any interest in having an XL either. While a 90% larger screen is tempting, I prefer a tighter pixel density and smaller form factor.

These days games barely come with manuals anyway.

If there were to be another rogue DLC character like Eltoshen, I would hope for Shanan. While having another FE4 guy seems a bit wrong, it's also a bit odd that he's been entirely left out. His sword is in the game, and he was a fairly major character in Gen 2. I believe that just about every other character with canonical major blood is available in Spotpass in one way or another. Spoilering it for wall of text Certainly leaves him the odd one out.

Considering it was apparently being deliberately withheld from the conference and press materials, it seems that there will either be a decent delay before the release. (Probably late this year, it's not a flagship title so that's a "long time" probably) OR, they were saving up for a special announcement, perhaps one that mentions the special edition bundle? We can dream. Edit: Early 2013 would be most likely though, and probably most logical since they seemed to only cover 2012 games. On the other hand, missing the Christmas rush would be a shame.