FE7 HNM Draft: Here Goes Nothing

[General Horace]

Yeah, confirming i'm cool with Jaffar for my last pick.  

If you think the Lowen is good, his level 8 Bartre has 8 speed.  

Edited September 4, 2018 by General Horace

[rohanx17]

yeah that's pretty good no doubt. but +1+1+1+3+1+0+2 isn't as crazy a swing

[lapismaid]

Chapter 17 (8/46): I could almost pull off a 7 turn, but Lowen is a few HP short of ORKOing the boss with the Heavy Spear, wouldn’t even matter if he leveled Strength. Rip. That said, I don’t think I could get the Knight Crest in 7 turns with this team anyways, so it’s probably fine. Matthew gets ferried by Marcus to obtain said Knight Crest, the AI never attacks him thanks to being either dead before he’s in range or Bartre being a juicier target. So, Lowen ferries Hector to the throne, and Bartre kills some enemies near the start and then goes and gets his own Hero Crest and the Unlock staff. Also brought Priscilla, ferried by Kent, along so she could recruit Raven, to keep him from causing problems with Marcus escorting Matthew untouched.

At first, I thought I wouldn’t be able to bait Raven into attacking Hector over Marcus, but then I had the galaxy brain strat of having Hector throw away the only axe in his inventory at the time (a 20something use Iron Axe) so he’d be weaponless and Raven would attack him instead. It worked and thus Marcus+Matthew get through the chapter untouched.

Chapter 17x (3/49): Promoted Lowen at Lv 18 or 19, I forget exactly. Think it was 18. Lowen aggroed everything on Turn 1 with a Steel Sword. Bartre recruited Canas, who waited directly behind Lowen. He killed a few enemies and the boss after Hector weakened him. Lowen talked to Fargus Turn 3.

Chapter 18 (3/52): Canas killed a couple dudes and Lowen went to kill the boss.

Chapter 19 (4/56): Promoted Bartre here at Lv 11, because he had survival issues in testing and he's starting to become less and less relevant with Lowen mowing down everything and Canas training up. He broke down the snags so Lowen could rush to Uhai, killing him between Turn 4 PP and EP with the Horseslayer. No Torch staff here unfortunately, will probably try to visit the Secret Shop in Kinship’s Bond for that.

Chapter 19x (4/60): Gold Knight Lowen has no issues taking on the Knight and Mage swarm on Turn 2 EP. Lowen first picks up Hector, then moves to position so Bartre can fullmove and Take Hector from him, this lets Lowen be at full power for dealing with the enemies Turn 2 (forts could cause issues). Turn 3 Bartre gives Hector to Lowen and kills the Knight in his way, and Lowen moves to drop Hector in seize range. Canas just kills what he can, and Lowen ORKOs the boss with an Iron Axe.

Chapter 20 (6/66): Hector walks to the throne with Lowen clearing the path. Bartre goes and gets the Brave Bow, then I tradechain the Chest Key to Canas to get the Luna tome. Lyn got pulled along to recruit Legault on the last turn, who then steals the Member’s Card.

Chapter 21 (1/67): Promoted Canas at Lv 17. Went shopping for a bunch of Fluxes. Lowen rescuedropped Canas in range of Oleg and he critblicked him with Luna. It should be fine not getting the Elysian Whip, Heath probably wouldn’t be promotion ready until after Crazed Beast anyways.

Chapter 22 (3/70): Team suddenly got a lot bigger, with Rath and Heath joining the crew. After Heath was recruited, Legault traded him a Chest Key and killed the Thief that just opened the treasure room door, and Heath got the Brave Axe. Guess we’ll see if this thing ends up useful. Also went shopping at the Secret Shop to grab a couple Torch staves. Canas only got one Heal in here, but he’ll get there.

Chapter 23 (4/74): Canas stormed his way across the desert, killing both the Berserker bosses. Heath picked up a handful of kills, and Rath killed most of the enemies on the right with help from Lowen, Bartre, and Legault. Got the Eclipse and Filia’s Might, as well as enough EXP to go to Genesis.

Chapter 23x (Genesis/74): Yep. Heath and Rath took the majority of the kills here. Canas hit D-and-change staff rank. Gave the Angelic Robe to Heath, I doubt anyone else has much use for it besides *maybe* Canas. 

Chapter 24 (1/75): Afa’s Drops on Heath. Gave both Secret Books to Rath. Heath used the Arena. Rath got Filia’s Might’d and Brave Bow’d Lloyd. Canas Torch staff’d. Shame I couldn't go shopping.

Promoted Rath for next chapter.

Hector: 14.21, 30 HP, 11 Str, 7 Skl, 10 Spd, 7 Luk, 18 Def, 5 Res, A Axe
Lowen: 18/10.13, 46 HP, 18 Str, 12 Skl, 20 Spd, 16 Luk, 22 Def, 8 Res, C Swd | A Lnc | C Axe
Bartre: 11/2.43, 42 HP, 16 Str, 10 Skl, 10 Spd, 5 Luk, 9 Def, 8 Res, B Axe | E Bow
Canas: 17/6.51, 36 HP, 18 Mag, 15 Skl, 18 Spd, 10 Luk, 11 Def, 17 Res, S Dark | D Stf
Legault: 14.17, 27 HP, 9 Str, 12 Skl, 17 Spd, 12 Luk, 9 Def, 4 Res, C Swd
Heath: 13.32, 41 HP, 15 Str, 12 Skl, 9 Spd, 8 Luk, 11 Def, 2 Res, B Lnc
Rath: 19/1.00, 38 HP, 15 Str, 20 Skl, 17 Spd, 9 Luk, 11 Def, 8 Res, A Bow | E Swd
Ninian: yeah

Hector is weirdly Str screwed, it's hilarious. He's taken Def lessons from Lowen at least.

Chapter 25 (4/79): Rath took the pirate fort, Heath the monk fort, and Lowen+Hector the horse fort. Everyone else stuck to the center and helped Canas grind staff rank. Heath actually had it kinda rough since I didn't get the Pure Water back on the boat map, but he's a champ.

Chapter 26 (11/90): Sleepy time. Canas ground out a ton of staff rank and Heath got swole and promoted. 

Chapter 27 (6/96): Canas took the top archer room, Rath the eastern Hero room, Legault the starting Brigand/Warrior room, Heath the General room, and Lowen Jerme’s room. Actually went way better than expected, I'd rather play this than Kenneth's version any day.

Edited September 6, 2018 by Finalinsanity

[General Horace]

CHAPTER 11 - 6/6 TURNS
 

CHAPTER 12 - 4/10 TURNS

CHAPTER 13 - 4/14 TURNS

CHAPTER 13x - 7/21 TURNS

Not recording defence maps because they're boring af.  Dorcas solo'd the bottom with vulnerary healing, Marcus got the village, and Hector, Rebecca and Eliwood took out enemies up north.

CHAPTER 14 - 4/25 TURNS

CHAPTER 15 - 7/32 TURNS

Marcus trapped the boss so reinforcements would keep spawning.  Rebecca and Hector mostly stayed up north, and Erk, Eliwood and Dorcas went south, with Erk getting the boss exp.  Didn't get either chest.  

CHAPTER 16 - 3/35 TURNS
 

Rebecca is totally ridiculous, I wish any other unit got her level ups :(

[Epoch5]

I haven't been recording my individual chapter turn counts, but I'll give my unit stats as of the start of Chapter 17.

Hector: 8.02, 25 HP, 11 Str, 7 Skl, 6 Spd, 5 Luck, 10 Def, 1 Res

Guy: 9.12, 25 HP, 7 Str, 13 Skl, 15 Spd, 6 Luck, 6 Def, 2 Res

Matthew: 8.30, 21 HP, 4 Str, 8 Skl, 15 Spd, 6 Luck, 5 Def, 1 Res

Kent: 6.00, 24 HP, 8 Str, 8 Skl, 9 Spd, 5 Luck, 6 Def, 2 Res

Priscilla: 3.96, (hasn't quite leveled up yet, so she just has her bases)

Hector and Guy are both slightly below average, Matthew's gotten strength Screwed (but that isn't overly surprising), and Kent's one level up was pretty solid.

I'm going to be transparent: I haven't done much LTC before, so this is really hard, stressful, and fun! I'm looking forward to the later chapters!

[DarthR0xas]

1 hour ago, Epoch5 said:

Priscilla: 3.96, (hasn't quite leveled up yet, so she just has her bases)

Enjoy slowly leveling up Priscilla. As a guy who got 2 healers in a draft, they are an absolute nightmare to train up before barrier. Abuse any Barrier or Torch staffs that you can, and use her to heal any damage another unit takes, no matter how insignificant. You don't need to worry about heal/mend staff durability, it's FE7, you'll have enough gold to buy her another staff if you run out. Also promote her as soon as humanly possible. 

[General Horace]

CHAPTER 17 - 10/45 TURNS

CHAPTER 17X - 3/48 TURNS

 

CHAPTER 18 - 3/51 TURNS
 

CHAPTER 19 - 5/56 TURNS
 

Man Dorcas is terrible.  

[Epoch5]

Didn't watch videos: What happened to Dorcas?

 

Spoiler

Did someone put poison in his mutton?

 

[General Horace]

He's really really strength screwed.  

[Epoch5]

Unit Update as of Chapter 27:

Guy: 15/5.55, 39 HP, 14 Str, 20 Skl, 22 Spd, 10 Luck, 11 Def, 6 Res (no statboosters), S Swords

Priscilla: 10/10.10, 39 HP, 16 Mag, 13 Skl, 14 Spd, 14 Luck, 6 Def, 14 Res (used angelic robe and speedwings), C Tomes, A Staves

Kent: 18/12.92, 46 HP, 19 Str, 23 Skl, 19 Spd, 12 Luck, 14 Def, 9 Res (used goddess icon), C Swords, S Lances, E Axes

Hawkeye: ??/11.20, 54 HP, 20 Str, 18 Skl, 14 Spd, 17 Luck, 15 Def, 12 Res (no statboosters), S Axes

Hector: 20, 37 HP, 17 Str, 13 Skl, 12 Spd, 7 Luck, 18 Def, 3 Res (no statboosters), A Axes

Matthew: 13.53, 25 HP, 4 Str, 8 Skl, 18 Spd, 9 Luck, 6 Def, 3 Res (no statboosters), B Swords

Ninian: (exists, I suppose)

I, again, don't have turn counts by chapter, but I can safely say I'm losing this one. Choosing Matthew was a big mistake since he got strength screwed (-3!) and couldn't damage anything. My other units are all fairly serviceable (Priscilla got screwed in some stats but fe7 enemies are weak so it's fine), and Hawkeye and Kent carried most chapters on their very capable shoulders. For my first competitive draft, it's going great, though!