In Fire Emblems with stadiums, I generally will only use the stadiums to a certain point or only for weaker characters.  After a playthrough where I heavily abused the stadium, I came to realize that going through the game crushing everything wasn't really fun.  Take the strategy out of the game and it becomes just a boring walk from one side of the map to the other.

More power to you if that's what you enjoy though.

I completely understand that. I wouldn't say I abused them that bad, but after I lost my general I had no problem making a new one out of a low level knight the very next turn.

Huh.  I reset if I lose someone.

It depends on how much I like them. I intentionally kill Fiona and Meg

I keep everyone alive to see their scenes at the end.

I reset most times as well (even when I lose someone like Meg in RD)

my brother who borrowed Path of Radiance from me kept going no matter who died. He had so few people left he couldn't beat the game I told him afterward that he needs to grow his weak characters and restart if someone dies.

Hah! You know that guy in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (and Radiant Dawn) who makes feral ones (Izuka)). Well, the 2D animator is called Izuka :D 

Just finished Path of Radiance. It was actually rather dissapointing.

Even on Difficult mode it was pretty easy. Killing Ashnard was peace of cake. You bloody get a character who can solo him! (Tibarn) in the same chapter. As long as you have 2 physics (and you get 1 in the chapter) you'll have no problem at all soloing the boss with just him.

Even in berserk  mode he is easily soloable by the guy you get. Oh, and Ike could do it too of couse. 

I only lost a character once, which was to a crit balista (I restarted).

The music is also sub-par compared to the other Fire Emblems. Well, there's one fantastic song (the one right before you go in to the black knight  , but it is only played 3 times in the entire game. 

The story is brilliant though (and backstory).

It wasn't nearly as good as I remembered (I still love it though. In my top 5 on GC, without a doubt).

Gonna play Radiant Dawn now. Then I'll have played 11, 8, 7, 6, 9 and 10 within 2 months :O

Path of Radiance is by far the easiest Fire Emblem game.

Edit: Nordlead, Iron does provide better defence. It's + 10 avoid in the GBA games (compared to Silver). Late in the game, that drops the enemy's from like 40% to 30% (hit chance). That's a 15% truehit drop, or taking off ~ 1/6th of the total damage.

I thought we were talking about FE11, not 7&8

Hmm. We're calling SD FE11 now? Thought it was too much the same.

IMO the overview music in PoR and RD was great... the music that played while you are selecting units on the battlefield. I don't even remember the battle music.... I turned off fight scenes right away.