What?  You mean Taguels and Manaketes?  I can agree.

I only use Lon'qu on my 3rd file, as a wife to Olivia.  They have a nice support dialouge (this is how I chose 90% of my couples), probably Olivia's best if not tied with Libra's.  It's ironic that he's so afriad of woman yet Indigo is so woman crazy.

Once he get's Amatsu (Ragnell just has too few uses to spend Hammerne on) he's pretty awesome, I run Myrmidon->Wyvern Rider/Griffon Knight->Swordmaster with him.  And for skills I go Astra/Swordfaire/Lancebreaker/Vantage/Deliverer.  That covers his Lance weakness  and he gets a bump in movement. His only fault is lack of self healing and low def of 31, which is semi fixed by dodging via his speed, tho his resistance is acceptable at 36.  But to hell with non magic males shitty res growths ;p.

I've only Hard/Classic on my third file, my 2nd is on Chapter 20 Lunatic so I should restart my third file soon for a Lunatic run and see how he does.

Yeah I mean Taguels and Manaketes. Just their weapons are too weak, and Nowi is too slow sadly. 

I may have to use Lon'qu more, but Owain was only slightly behind him when he joined, but like 13 levels lower, so I'm using him as my Swordmaster now.

Both will get Dragonstone+/Beaststone+ eventually.

Also who's your Owain's daddy?

My Unit, everyone else was pretty much already paired up and it seemed like a good coversation.

Mmm, makes sense: crappy weapons means crappy attacks. As for Chrom, it's like I told you: the pairing system seems balanced for Lunatic mode alone, especially when it approaches the S-rank.

Woot! Finally got my squad of twelve Falcon Knights with their ideal skills together! :D
There's still two more I can get from the spotpass maps, so now I'm working on completeing the game so I can play them. Gotta say, the starting formations when you begin a mission look pretty boss, especially how Chrom is the only non-flier and is in the middle of the formation, making him seem more like the leader. Naturally, I've been breezing through maps, as I'm capable of killing 25 guys in one turn and all my units have some of their stats capped, so this wont take very long. ;)
One thing I don't get is how in Chapter 18 the lava or w/e can hurt my Knights when they should be flying over it. Not that it was a big deal of course since they can just auto-heal themselves hehe.

You could get thru hard mode without pair-up.  On my very first hard/classic playthrough, it wasn't till Indigo's recruitment chapter before I actually was forced to use pair-up.

But too bad over grinding/sorcerers can break the game even on Lunatic+.

Yeah although HP in the long run doesn't matter, at the start its pretty important (esp Lunatic).

Generally Def/Res are good choices.  Def seems to be a must on Lunatic+.

I did Speed on my first Lunatic cause I kept getting doubled like a bitch early on but now I just use Chrom and Fredrick the first 4 chapters so I just go with Str/Magic depending on what I have MU go (1st File: Magic, 2nd and 3rd go Str).

The "where" will remain the same, but the "when" changes between difficulty levels. The harder the difficulty, the sooner the reinforcements appear.