Fire Emblem discussion thread revived

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routsounmanman said:

Maybe I'm just unlucky. I tried killing a mounted mini-boss in chapter 1-3. Micaiah could only finish him of with Thani, and I'm reluctant to use it so early on. Edward missed twice and got himself killed, the emeny being equipped with a sword (Wind Sword).

Leonard cannot even scratch him as he's equipped with a simple Iron Bow, due to his low Bow level. Ilyana could drop him with Elthunder but she's also very much powerful. Me trying to strengthen Micaiah and Leonard led me to lose about 5 times until I had Soth deal with him.

Note, I haven't used the Save feature not even once, and I don't intent to do so. I think it's quite cheap.

@Words of Wisdom

Now that's a clever strategy! Thanks for the tip!

That is just, plain simply, silly. Now, I actually did that once (3rd playthrough), before I was good enough for hard. However, if it prevents you from actually playing the game, it's just plain simply stupid. 

You can do it on a later playthrough, but there's little reason to do it in the first one. While Part 1 is harder than Part 2 (and arguably 3) on normal, it is far easier than them on hard. If you play without the save feature, you're sort of playing semi-hard (although closer to normal than hard), and you'll drive yourself crazy halfway through the game.

Radiant Dawn is, even with battle saves, the hardest game in the series. Or well, FE5 may be harder.