Fire Emblem is a difficult series, I don't know if you guys have heard

[Words Of Wisdom]

largedarryl said:

Words Of Wisdom said:

Khuutra said:

SmokedHostage said:
^^

I like prepromotes.. especially Karel. Karel >>> Guy.

You best check yourself before you wreck yourself

Yeah, that's a crazy position. 

Karel's strengths vs Guy:  STR, DEF, and RES.

Guy's strengths vs Karel:  HP, SKL, SPD, and LCK.

HP is funny.  Karel has like 40 HP when Guy has around 53.  Guy owns so much.

I must agree with you again.  I find the most important stats for the swordsmen being SKL, SPD and LCK with HP being an added bonus.  Guy does own in comparison.

Although, like most FE games, you can often choose your favorite character and still beat the game.

I really want to play up STR but since I use Killing Edges as much as possible, it's more a matter of getting the critical than it is the base damage being a point or two higher.  Usually your attacks fall into 2 categories:  Death and poke.  Enemies with low defense die, enemies with high defense get tickled.

As for the last part, in older Fire Emblems this is less true than newer ones.  I think the addition of BEXP to PoR and RD was excellent and gives you a change to let those under-leveled units shine.  Adding a 3rd tier in RD also allowed pre-promotes (2) to be useful instead of handicapped.