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

[nordlead]

Words Of Wisdom said:

nordlead said:

All you can buy at your base is Iron, you can't buy steel/silver at your base.

Iron doesn't provide any defense over Steel/Silver. If your unit is underpowered and looses speed points due to the item being to heavy, then yes switching to Steel/Silver hurts you.

All I use in FE11 is Steel any more due to the fact that it is cheap and most my units have strength of 10 or greater which is more than enough to weild any weapon.

However, I am also Dracoknight heavy since I am running 5 of them right now.

Iron is arguably the best type of weapon to use because it deals low damage, has a ton of uses, and is dirt cheap.

I always carry iron on my units.  If the enemy isn't going to die from one attack or I don't want it to die in one hit, iron is the best choice.

IMO, Silver is the most worthless choice.  Killing XYZ is almost always better and Steel is nicely powerful without being as costly.

I would agree if it wasn't for the fact that I also abuse the stadiums in FE11 In Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn I almost exclusivly used Iron to make sure my weaker units got experience. But with the stadiums, I have no reason to make sure experience is equally distributed, and when a unit falls behind I just camp them on the stadium to catch back up so everyone is even. Some may consider this cheap and abusing the game, but I really don't care.