FFT is an easy game as well... if your a begginer all you need to do is "Level grind" your characters by walking back and forth over green territories. You'll end up fighting random encounters that you can use to level up past your opposition till you get the strategy down.
You say that like fighting random encounters is easy in FFT. That's just not true in the original, as random encounters take your party's levels into account, and some are the hardest battles of all the game (chocobos raids or dragons raids). So no, you just don't have only to grind. And the firstbattles can be quite hard. I remember one where you fight on roofs at the start of the game, which was the hardest I ever had to play in this game (well, I'm always trying to get everything, so perhaps that was why).
SRPGs have some pretty basic rules though. Basically, gang up on one guy at a time and make sure you can pull back low HP guys.
If you do that in Fire Emblem, you're toast. Often, you can't even succeed in a mission with this basic flawed rules. Actually, you'd be dead quick with this stupid tactic in FE. It works better in FFT, and even then it doesn't always work: it's a sure way to make you destroyed by spellcasters and invokers. You do that when you cornered one last enemy, to gain experience or skills.
In regards to Turn based strategy RPGs, start with Advance Wars. It's weak storywise, but it has the easiest learning curve and by far the most balanced gameplay. Fire Emblem is just too wishy washy with it's rock/paper/scissor approach to SRPGing. Advance Wars offers more in depth strategy in my opinion and will help ease you into games that are much more difficult, like Nippon Ichi games and FF Tactics.
Advance Wars is not a SRPG. That's just a pure strategy game. There are no RPG elements in Advance Wars. That's why it's weak story wise, like in most strategy games. FE has no rock/paper/scissor approach to SRPGing, you should learn how they are played instead of saying nonsense. That's not the first time I hear this BS. Lances being stronger than swords doesn't mean that Lances always win against swords for example, that just means they have an advantage, which can be reduced or even destroyed completely if you have a good strategy (and tactics in the latest one).
