He says because he's never learned how to utilize them and incorporate them in his tactics...!

Damn you all.

Now i want to play Radiant Dawn again. When i'm 1/4 way through Galaxy 2 and waist-deep in Monster Hunter.

Radiant Dawn will wait.

Peach needs to be rescued right the Hell now.

This thread made me play Radiant Dawn yet again. I think I'll be going for a strictly light unit run this time, and no pre-leveled units. Part 1 will be tricky with no Sothe, Tauroneo and no Zihark. Also no Nailiah/Black Knight. Also no Nolan.

I'm considering whether or not I should allow myself to use Jill. She'll kind of kill the point of having no enemy that can take many hits. Volug is a bit of an issue too, but I think I'll stick with him.

I'm having troubles on chapter 1 (first after the prologue) already. I can't seem to do it without Nolan.

This is boding well. 5 straight failures.

...Nolan is pretty important. Have you considered that this may be a bad idea?

It's bloody hard. I finished chapter 1 by using Nolan as a meatshield, and I barely finished chapter 2 too. Chapter 3 is being a pain, though. I think I'll have to use Kurth as a meatshield somehow.

The lancers are mighty annoying. None of my damage units can take more than one hit from them.

Great now I want to play Radiant Dawn again.

I think I've gone in over my head here. At Chapter 4 (the one with the Laguz in the ruins), Edward was the only character I had that could take a hit from the Tiger Laguz enemies.

I had to run around in circles, waiting for my opponents to shift out of Laguz form so that I could kill them. Leo and Eddy just deal 5-9 damage to enemies too, so they're really quite useless.

I'm essentially at the point where the only characters I have that deal damage are Micaiah and Illyana.

Well, I get Volug now. I'll have to use both him and Jill, I guess.

Pineapple, how many times have you played through to have the confidence to even try this insanity?

It depends on how you count. I think this is my Radiant Dawn history.

1:  Normal. I got to chapter 2 or 3, then gave up. This was my first Fire Emblem, so I was rather clueless. I was about to give up on the game, but went to easy instead.

2: Easy. I played the game through to somewhere in part 3, and then realised that the game was now far too easy for me. Part 3 had been a breeze so far, and part 4 would be so easy it would lose its fun.

3. Normal. I played the game to 4-Endgame 1. I had been playing together with a friend of mine, and she wasn't exactly interested in resetting if something went wrong. So, a load of characters died, and we ended up being unable to finish 4-Endgame 1. (Or another part 4 chapter, not after 4-endgame 1, at least).

4.  Hard. Normal was a tad too hard for me, so the only logical choice was to up the difficulty to hard, eh? Well, I ended up getting stuck at a Dawn Brigade chapter in part 3. I had put Jill over to the other side, and I had been royally RNG cursed with every single of my other characters. None of my characters had had a proper def growth, but they had been blessed with STR. As a result, I killed the enemies, but was unable to stand taking many attacks. In defence levels, that's the worst possible combo.

5.  Normal, but not using all of the available stuff. That means no battle save, no checking how far the opponents can move and that stuff you have in normal, but not hard. I played up until 4-Endgame 1 this time, and then realised that the game was now a complete breeze again. Nothing was really a challenge. That lead to

6. Continuing the hard from 4. I finished the game continuing from that save.  I lost no characters up until the final boss, but on her I lost a few, as my entire crew had been royally underleveled due to me using too many characters. First time I actually finished the game. I later tried the boss again (with the same crew) and managed to do it flawlessly.

7. Hard. I had a competition with 2 other friends of mine. No resets, no prepromotes until they were on-par with the rest of the team. If you failed a level 3 times in a row, you had to sacrifice a unit. In the end, I was the only one of us who actually managed to finish the game, and that was barely. I only had 3 living people (I think) that I didn't bring into the tower, and of the characters I brought into the tower, I believe only Ike, Micaiah, Tibarn and Rolf surived. In total, I finished the game with less than 10 people left in total.

8. Hard. Lords and light units only.

I think that should be it.

Edit: Ooh, I forgot one, I don't know where it fits in. It's another competition with my friends. Essentially, we played blindfolded. The competition was to be whoever could do it with the fewest peeks at how the map was looking now. We were allowed to use pen and paper to draw the map and guess how opponents would move to what we did. In the end, none of us got past the Black Knight & Micaiah chapter in part 1.