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Really good hack. I think I actually prefer it to the GBA FEs (or at least FE6 and FE8). The difficulty is about right for a hack; easier than HHM for most chapters and definitely easier than FE5. I also like how the hack introduces a whole assortment of interesting or powerful weaponry on both sides without breaking the game.

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I'd say healers dont need to have high stats, so I'd promote a fighter like Erk

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Amend that to "second generation does not have any races" with the exception of getting Tyrfing for the second time, but I don't see this as being of enough significance to make a difference in Arthur vs Shanan since you can easily get it without Arthur Arthur w/o Holsety has much worse survivability than Shanan w/o Balmung. And I feel confident in saying that it is by no means the case that people who argue against Levin!Arthur do so solely on the basis of offensive power, which everyone agrees he has enough of for practical purposes.

After reading through the thread I fail to fully understand arguments for Arthur being being better than Shanan First of all Shanans stats are quite good plus he starts with a considerable level advantage, so Shanan w/o Balmung > Arthur w/o Holsety by a long shot Second Arthur going into Wrath range is not exactly a good thing, that necessitates that he has lost 50% of his HP and therefore if anything you should get him out of Wrath range soon before he dies. You cannot say that Wrath compensates for offense issues with Arthur because it is rarely a good idea to walk around at <50% hp, that only works for special situations like one shotting Ishtar Third, when there are many ranged enemies, one would usually think that you do not solo them with Arthur (although that is possible with Holsety, it would be expensive) nor with Shanan (since it would take too long), but rather you throw your own army at them and since both Shanan w/ Balmung and Arthur w/ Holsety are unlikely to be attacked on the enemy phase, the difference in range between them is of minimal importance. However if the holy weapons are not in play then you must be much more careful with Arthur's positioning since he is defensively more vulnerable compared to Shanan Fourth, Arthur doesn't get a horse until he hits 20, and you can take more liberties with letting Shanan use his full move each turn, since he is again stronger defensively than Arthur (unless holy weapons are in play once again, but you cannot use Holsety 100% of the time from the very first chapter without money issues). Also, FE4 is not a race, there are no chapters where you are under time pressure, therefore it is entirely reasonable to take your time moving your full army around. Finally, the number of mounted units in the 2nd generation is not as high as their number in the first generation, therefore if you rush around with your mounted troops and leave foot soldiers like Shanan behind, you will not have enough people with you to fight enemy armies; therefore, having a mount is not as big of a deal since you will have to wait for the slower moving people anyway So I say that Shanan w/o Balmung > Arthur w/o Holsety, and there are situations where Shanan w/o Balmung can bail you out, Arthur w/o Holsety cannot, and there are no immediately obvious characters who can do the same thing; and that Arthur w/ Holsety > Shanan w/ Balmung, but all situations that can be handled with Arthur w/ Holsety can also be handled by Shanan w/ Balmung, at the cost of some time and turns which is not of significance in FE4, or overall Shanan can do anything Arthur can do, with or without holy weapons.

Even Shanan doesn't dodge Julius consistently enough, how is Lakche going to do anything other than get Wrath crit to death if assumign his HP ever dips that low which is highly unlikely

best: FE5 chapter 13 worst: FE4 chapter 4 (half your turns are spent just moving people)

I'd say Cyas is more of a 9, that kind of Magic stat, A rank in staves, and 3 leadership stars makes him a unit you will always want to take no matter what. At least the characters at 8.5 are all inferior to him for sure. FE5 Sety is the best character in the entire series despite not being invulnerable like FE4 Sety w/ Holsety.

The Azel section shall settle years of debate.

Sety killing Beldo in 2 hits with some 99% probability is enough for me ;0

Sorry about that. I searched for many years for good FE4 fanfiction, but my powers were lacking. So it was difficult to believe that there was truly good fanfiction out there :) Thanks for the links, I'll read through them when I can.

Good FE4 fanfiction? Links or they don't exist.

Ooh, sorry. I misread that as FE5 instead for some reason.

There is a run here at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D1775AF8C2291864 but it is not clear to me whether the player is Japanese. He does borrow very liberally though from the ChinaFE videos, which are pretty much impossible to find, but do contain a FE5 SSS run (which kind of requires much resetting until the RNG comes out in your favor).