The most useful stat booster is the Talisman, which increases Resistance by 2. The majority of units in Awakening have slower Resistance growth, so it's always nice to have a couple of Talismans on hand.

Yall crazy wanting Pair Up to be removed from future games.

I admit, it can be toned down, like removing the invincible dual guards (unless it is a skill) or reducing the frequency or even just giving enemies the chance to do it or whatever, but it makes battles better. This first game showed its wonders, the next game they should try to fine tone things if not master it

Although I can't see them reusing the whole second generation/playable children mechanic short of them remaking FE4... which actually would be pretty dope if they reused the Awakening engine.

That's why I said that it depends on how early in the game you do the mission, didn't I?.

In my map,  I had 4 warriors with Counter. And no, I'm not using my overleveled characters during missions (with the exception of Chrom, because you can't not pick him). My "main" team consists of Henry, Say'ri, Anna, Pr. Marth, Serra, Florina, Marisa, Eirika, Titania, Mia, Karel, Matthew and the forced Chrom.

Yeah, I often have a couple Talismans spare, namely because I'm too scared of using them...same with Naga's Tear.

I agree with Talisman being a very useful stat booster. Unfortunately it's also pretty rare, I've only had 4 or 5 during the entire time I've played the game and at least 2 or 3 came from mission bosses and 1 from the renown award.

In addition, do sibling characters always have the same support conversations? Because I really like Lucina and Cynthia's...

What were their support conversations about? Lucina and Inigo support convos were about Inigo trying out Falchion to see if he could pick up should Lucina ever die.

Yes, same as the fathers.

Oh, that's a bit...disappointing. It's just Cynthia's personality fitted so well...

Yeah minus a few changes in diaglouge by the father its pretty much copy and paste.