I Solo Fire Emblem Engage with Alear on Maddening without using the DLC or doing Skirmishes. I hope you enjoyed watching. If you liked the video it would be great if you Subscribed and Shared with a friend.
You just have to use strong characters like kagetsu and walk into the enemies, the first wave of reinforcements didn't even reach my team. Idk maybe my squad was just good for that map
This is a pretty normal strategy for many fire emblem games to make one super unit. I'd say the hardest challenge would be a max deployment, no Emblem rings (other than in forced chapters), no bond rings, no DLC, no online features, no skill inheritance, everyone must survive, maddening run. I'm sure people will do it, but that doesn't sound like fun either.
I really was thinking the enemy stats would catch up to you eventually but I guess in this game the caps are ludicrous enough that you can just... literally outspeed the scaling.
This was a really nice run to watch unfold and pretty helpful/reassuring to know about all this! I played Hard using Dodge tanking for my main three (favorite) characters/units so I was planned to do something similar when playing Maddening, good to know it is entirely possible even if it would probably sound tedious. One of the most entertaining things for me in Fire Emblem is usually focusing on either 1 or a small group of units then just letting em destroy everything through the game, dodge tanking & crits are just satisfying.
It works well, especially with the MC. Same thing happened to me with Byleth as it did with Alear, halfway across the game they just became too powerful and could basically run ahead dealing with several enemies at once, despite doing my best to spread the XP around.
Holy shit, the chapter 4 strat to use moment from Sigurd was actually giga brain and I feel like an idiot - I was CONVINCED a true maddening solo (like what you're doing) was impossible, because when I tried i literally could not do damage to that boss - but I was using marth emblem for the extra avo + rapier vs armored knights however, I do see you have the feh weps and I wonder if that was a big contributing factor to help be able to deal damage? in my marth attempt I didn't have feh weps, either way tho the momentum tech is very smart -- the hardest part of soloing is the early chapters, but it easily snowballs from there with all the levels i think low-man challenges are hard, I did a lords-only maddening run and it had me sweating lmao
I figured out the sigurd tech on my own but damn was it tedious. It took all of my movement to do one damage and I had to wait for certain parts of the map with an avoid bonus or I would die enemy phase. If you don't have feh weapons you can still deal damage with the ridersbane while engaged
Folkvangr may have helped a bit at the start, since it has 10 mt(4 more than Liberation) and it also giver +3 atk if the unit starts the turn with 50% hp or less. It could have been the diference in those early chapters but as you said the Sigurd tech was the diferential
He couldn't have done this without the DLC sword (FEH). You see that one boss he can't damage unless he uses Momentum on Sigard? Well, without the stronger sword he also couldn't have damaged that boss. So that's true. Still impressive....
I did the same challenge yesterday and beat it. I must say it took so many turn for each map since the mobs didn't care to attack me at all. Hardest maps to me is chapter 15, Roy and Byleth paralogue.
I would have loved a deeper explanation on some of these maps, chapter 3 for example, I would like to know what strategy you used besides "bait enemies with unit"
Yes u can, i completed my run yesterday of Alear Solo Maddening with Thief class + Lyn Emblem + Micaiah Engravement 40 avoid and daggers 1-2 range +5 with avoid 30 skill and immune to freeze skill/pair up skill.
1st. Thanks for the video. I'm doing a similar challenge now. 2nd. Thanks for the info on the Fire Emblem Heroes bonus... I didn't know anything about that. Great to have some free stat boosts and extra weapons on every playthrough.
I thought about making a video like this, but then I got a girlfriend when Engage came out, glad to see you took on the challenge brother! Would you be interested in doing other solo runs based in other games? I've been crafting lots of three-houses theory for solo runs and your ruleset is similar to mine.
What are the colored rotating comet things on some tiles? I assume they're added by having online mode enabled, since I didn't see them when i played Also this is basically the optimal way to play with how OP Alear gets compared to everyone else. I used other units in my playthrough, and even then, if I did solo Alear, it usually made things go faster because everyone else is so much weaker that using them felt like a waste of time Also, I was really surprised to hear persona 5 strikers music in the background of this video. Good taste!
He'd have to reclass into Thief to make use of Corrin's +avo smoke, which would result in him losing the Levin Sword, which is the only way to deal damage to high def targets.
@@skeletonwar4445 Fire and ice are honestly way more useful than fog- enemies can't hit you if they can't reach you, but yeah, that would also require using a different class. Though it might still be worth it for pair up and dreadful aura for crowd control.
Having tried a Solo Maddening run while trying to keep everyone alive I can say without a doubt that it's way harder, if not close to impossible compared to a "killing everyone off" run since after Alear's stats get too high, all the enemy AI does is bee-line straight to the low stat units in the early recruit missions. This gives you at most, 2-3 turns to rush to a boss to end a map, if the map objective is a boss, that is. Chapter 7 was the first one where this was pretty obvious since Alcryst and his gang would die almost immediately. Keeping Jean alive in his mission is close to impossible as well unless you get really really lucky with him dodging hits before you get overwhelmed. Chapter 8 is the furthers such a run comes since you cant get Ivy down quickly enough before either Amber or Diamant dies.
wait, so you don’t consider the Heroes’ Set as DLC? imo, I do, so I am curious what your reasoning is. would you have been able to defeat the 2 armor bosses in ch.3 & 4 without Folkvangr?
@@spongbobsquarepants3922 Its still DLC. You have to get a code and enter it into the eshop and download it to the game. Just because its free doesn't mean it ain't DLC, spongbob you nasty little underwater creep
For me, FE3H is actually easier with only Byleth and I love playing games like Pokemon or fire emblem with only one character so this vid was an instant click.
Cavalier class promos into it with daggers,and any of the three weapon types. but it's far easier to get the two proficiencies for the class u want to change too, master seal the units current class at lv10, then 2nd seal too the class you want after promotion. Easier, and faster, only difference however being the time investment and order the seals are used
Master Seal into Divine Dragon then Second Seal into it after getting Dagger proficiency from one of the emblems. Second Seal lets any advanced class reclass into any other advanced class.
I was able to kill the boss at the end of chapter 26 even after everyone but Alear died. And I wasn't even half way done. Though it took about 2 hours to do it, which sux. But I would call that easy. It was just hard casual tho.
I've been frustrated while playing engage because i can't develop evenly the whole cast of characters while progressing the story. In a way, I think your video show me why: engage is designed for small teams using your approach. Great video.
what is funny is you would probably die to normal skirmishes since they scale to your the highest level and if you dont get good stat boosts on level up, you will be fighting a ton of enemies that all bum rush you right away, alot of players hate how they made the level up system for weaker characters since the optional battles for training always scale to the highest level and enemies and just bum rush and attack the weakest characters first, making the whole training exp stupid especially on maddening where you cant just have Alear die and reset to keep exp gain from previous battle log.
I'm gonna be honest, I can't tell if you were joking or not saying people think Engage is the hardest in the series. I thought most acknowledge it is one of the easier Fire Emblems even on Maddening.
Wouldn't it be easier with a Thief? Most emblem weapons are effective against cavalry and Pass could have been useful to go through the swarms of enemies
It honestly really is easy, I told my friends how shocked I was hearing him exclaim it to be the hardest Fire Emblem and they all laughed. Hell, unrelated I was in a Fire Emblem Fates stream earlier and everyone- unprompted by me- were on the topic of joking about how easy Engage is on Maddening/Lunatic
@@majesticespeon3126 I've heard for some arbitrary reason that your attack with them is determined by the average between your strength and magic stat, which would explain why I almost never see people use them.
I regret watching this video. Not because it's bad or dumb. But because I feel even more crappy for /STILL/ not being able to beat this final battle on Hard. I'm not a novice at the FE franchise so I refuse to drop to Normal. But I honestly don't get what I'm doing wrong. Even my best units just cannot deal more than like 30 damage to Sombron in 1 turn. And too many of my units are tied up keeping the infinite reinforcements in check. I haven't played the game in a month or so now because taking a break. But each attempt I try turns into a 2 hour grind slog where I make it to the 3rd round of Dark Emblems but finally fall to the battle of attrition. I don't understand what tactic I'm not thinking of, but all this cool 1 turn kill stuff is so far beyond my skill cap I can't even. And when I ask for help, people just laugh and are shocked that it's too hard for me. sigh
I have never heard anyone say it's one of the hardest in the series. Even if you factor in post-Awakening/Three Houses, the latter is much harder, albeit in an unfair way that most people just cheese cause of that. The best I've heard is it's as good and hard as Conquest Lunatic.
I think it's harder, but only because this game requires me to completely rewire my brain on how the whole system works. But these games fall under the "It's difficult until it's really not" category. They're nearly impossible until you find out a solution that breaks it in half and then it's no longer hard, there's no in-between.
@@JobyPlays That's moreso with Awakening. You can literally just get Robin to max level and they'll solo the second half of the game. Even on Lunatic it doesn't take much more effort, especially if you just Nostank.
@@AkameGaKillfan777 That... is what I implied. It's hard until it's not. Once you figure out the gimmick and what the machine WANTS you to do from an optimum standpoint, it ceases to be insurmountable, and instead is just a really embellished math problem. Until then you're using incorrect plugins for the equation. Many numbers will work, but the higher up the difficulty slider you go, less and less "numbers" will work out. Once you figure it out, the mystery and challenge is gone, so to speak.
i thing that beaten the Game in madness difficult without lossing a unit is more harddest than do what You did in this video... I mean at the end if You Will use your all resource only in one character You can broken him... I stopped the video in the chapter 18 map, because i don't want spoilers xD
That's because Lunatic+ Conquest is _another_ one of the hardest FE experiences, next to shit like Thracia and Engage. And by that, I mean *fun* hard experiences. Not Awakening's Lunatic+ bullshit lmao.
@@AkameGaKillfan777 I'm just so baffled though because the difference in how easy it is to break Engage and to break Conquest or literally any other game feels so gigantic. Calling Engage the hardest in the series is just... no... You can easily make ALL your units broken if you know what you're doing in Engage.
I fucking despise the chain attack mechanic. It removes all skill and is so cheap, I understand why they did it so you couldn't blow through maps with or a few super strong units, which I hate a ton because that is how I like to play Fire Emblem. I like to think and strategize on the earlier chapters and be smart and careful then be rewarded with OP arse mofo's that can just shrek shit through the rest of the game. Its disgusting fighting enemies that do 0 damage at 31% hit rate then they suddenly get the fuckin' 4 damage at 80% hit chains going. Freaking' idiots! Having to have Corrin's Pair Up or have her as a ring is annoying AF too since I like to run the EXP boost from Edelgard/Byleth and the Tiki stat growth skill. Love this game but its so tedious how slow you level up and how punishing it is for all the wrong reasons.
Chain Attacks really are not that bad. Just pay attention to where back up units are and then approach as needed. The game rewards you for not just camping out a map with the actually decent armor knights. Unless you position poorly it's very difficult to get truly ganked to death.
A maddening+ difficulty would be nice. Less like lunatic+ hawkeye+ and vantage+, (no absurdly inflated stats pls) and more like they should give bosses extra skills and better weapons or smarter AIs... Chapter 17 is actually incredibly easy because only Griss moves at you, then the lizard and sniper after a couple turns. Marni and Mauv move once you get into her range. The rest only move when you get to the far west lizard. Maddening+ should have them all just rush you at once 😂 Fliers are broken as usual and should've been nerfed. 4-5 movement would probably be acceptable. I am glad at least they're going to add new classes in the DLC, although that's probably gonna be a bow wyvern, 1 other useful class, and then the rest that no one uses.
Maps taking 60-90 turns
"I genuinely think this is the easiest way to beat the game on Maddening"
It may be the "easiest" way to do it but my god it would be the most soul sucking and unfun way to do it.
and? it's still easy
Just because it takes longer doesnt mean its harder
I mean, it becomes a "pass turn" game
I mean sure, but you're skipping all of those turns.
Excelblem: "Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary!"
It's funny seeing Alear being surrounded by an absolute moshpit of enemies at the end of the later levels
You glossed over chapter 15 waaay too much. Keeping Seadall alive while being pincered can be a nightmare.
You just have to use strong characters like kagetsu and walk into the enemies, the first wave of reinforcements didn't even reach my team. Idk maybe my squad was just good for that map
@@MegaScytheman Ah yes, use all the strong characters in your Alear only run such as
1. Alear
@@MegaScytheman are you stupid?
@@destroyerofranch8008 I think Sam forgot what video he was watching
@@MegaScytheman Humble brag backfiring
This is a pretty normal strategy for many fire emblem games to make one super unit. I'd say the hardest challenge would be a max deployment, no Emblem rings (other than in forced chapters), no bond rings, no DLC, no online features, no skill inheritance, everyone must survive, maddening run. I'm sure people will do it, but that doesn't sound like fun either.
You forgot 0% growth and no second or master seals
I wouldn’t say many, it’s pretty much just Sacred Stones and Awakening, though even in Awakening you’re gonna need Frederick earlygame
Still too easy. Should add in blindfolded, controls randomized, while someone sings dated pop songs from the mid 90s badly into your ear.
Funny thing is elsurge would have totally ruined the run, but the devs forgor
Wait what?
@@skeletonwar4445 They probably mean that giving Elsurge to some of the enemies would have made it harder, since the tome always hits.
@@adamblumhardt9821 Oh, I thought they meant some kinda glitch or dev oversight.
Yeah I guess very little magic enemies have surge/elsurge tomes, huh.
I really was thinking the enemy stats would catch up to you eventually but I guess in this game the caps are ludicrous enough that you can just... literally outspeed the scaling.
This was a really nice run to watch unfold and pretty helpful/reassuring to know about all this!
I played Hard using Dodge tanking for my main three (favorite) characters/units so I was planned to do something similar when playing Maddening, good to know it is entirely possible even if it would probably sound tedious.
One of the most entertaining things for me in Fire Emblem is usually focusing on either 1 or a small group of units then just letting em destroy everything through the game, dodge tanking & crits are just satisfying.
It works well, especially with the MC. Same thing happened to me with Byleth as it did with Alear, halfway across the game they just became too powerful and could basically run ahead dealing with several enemies at once, despite doing my best to spread the XP around.
Holy shit, the chapter 4 strat to use moment from Sigurd was actually giga brain and I feel like an idiot - I was CONVINCED a true maddening solo (like what you're doing) was impossible, because when I tried i literally could not do damage to that boss - but I was using marth emblem for the extra avo + rapier vs armored knights
however, I do see you have the feh weps and I wonder if that was a big contributing factor to help be able to deal damage? in my marth attempt I didn't have feh weps, either way tho the momentum tech is very smart -- the hardest part of soloing is the early chapters, but it easily snowballs from there with all the levels
i think low-man challenges are hard, I did a lords-only maddening run and it had me sweating lmao
I figured out the sigurd tech on my own but damn was it tedious. It took all of my movement to do one damage and I had to wait for certain parts of the map with an avoid bonus or I would die enemy phase. If you don't have feh weapons you can still deal damage with the ridersbane while engaged
Folkvangr may have helped a bit at the start, since it has 10 mt(4 more than Liberation) and it also giver +3 atk if the unit starts the turn with 50% hp or less. It could have been the diference in those early chapters but as you said the Sigurd tech was the diferential
He couldn't have done this without the DLC sword (FEH). You see that one boss he can't damage unless he uses Momentum on Sigard? Well, without the stronger sword he also couldn't have damaged that boss. So that's true. Still impressive....
I did the same challenge yesterday and beat it. I must say it took so many turn for each map since the mobs didn't care to attack me at all. Hardest maps to me is chapter 15, Roy and Byleth paralogue.
I would have loved a deeper explanation on some of these maps, chapter 3 for example, I would like to know what strategy you used besides "bait enemies with unit"
yeah i'm trying chapter 3 right now and i'm getting totally crushed
Yes u can, i completed my run yesterday of Alear Solo Maddening with Thief class + Lyn Emblem + Micaiah Engravement 40 avoid and daggers 1-2 range +5 with avoid 30 skill and immune to freeze skill/pair up skill.
Great and interesting vid hope you post more Engage challenge runs. Subscribed
Very nice clear, this was fun to watch!
1st. Thanks for the video. I'm doing a similar challenge now.
2nd. Thanks for the info on the Fire Emblem Heroes bonus... I didn't know anything about that. Great to have some free stat boosts and extra weapons on every playthrough.
Your wolf was your only other ally ❤ what a good boy
I thought when I'd try doing this that maddening would be too hard, but you've shown that I would've been wasting my time on normal mode.
That unit selection screen was so depressing lmao 😭
I thought about making a video like this, but then I got a girlfriend when Engage came out, glad to see you took on the challenge brother! Would you be interested in doing other solo runs based in other games? I've been crafting lots of three-houses theory for solo runs and your ruleset is similar to mine.
I like how you used the valedictory elegy song in your cideo
wow here I thought it would be impossible
I love how every fire emblem can be soloed in some way
What are the colored rotating comet things on some tiles? I assume they're added by having online mode enabled, since I didn't see them when i played
Also this is basically the optimal way to play with how OP Alear gets compared to everyone else. I used other units in my playthrough, and even then, if I did solo Alear, it usually made things go faster because everyone else is so much weaker that using them felt like a waste of time
Also, I was really surprised to hear persona 5 strikers music in the background of this video. Good taste!
Wow, that’s crazy! Which Engrave was most helpful to you?
Short answer: yes. But a select few classes are good for the final battle in solo runs
Nice reference to and then playing the theme of Sonic.
hah that was fun to watch. Dodge tanks make this game very easy.
Until you get chain attacked to death
@@horneaus8362 Also they brought back Conquest A.I. on the hardest difficulty.
I'm surprised you didn't take speedtaker as a skill and use corrin for permanent terrain and pair up.
Lyn's clones seem vital for bating, enemy emblem attacks.
Also speedtaker plus gives more speed than base speedtaker
@@ryanmontoya433 there is no speed taker plus it’s just because emblem Lyn gives more speed then emblem Corrin does
He'd have to reclass into Thief to make use of Corrin's +avo smoke, which would result in him losing the Levin Sword, which is the only way to deal damage to high def targets.
@@skeletonwar4445 Fire and ice are honestly way more useful than fog- enemies can't hit you if they can't reach you, but yeah, that would also require using a different class. Though it might still be worth it for pair up and dreadful aura for crowd control.
90+ turns in chapter 4!! What a ride indeed 😮
Now, do it again, but keep everyone alive
Isn’t using the fire emblem heroes weapons classed as using dlc since you have to actively download those?
Considering they're counted in the game as such, yep. Was surprised he was using em.
Great video
I also jsut invested all status items into my secondary Hard Mode Playthrough Alear, and it genuinely feels like a cheat code.
Having tried a Solo Maddening run while trying to keep everyone alive I can say without a doubt that it's way harder, if not close to impossible compared to a "killing everyone off" run since after Alear's stats get too high, all the enemy AI does is bee-line straight to the low stat units in the early recruit missions. This gives you at most, 2-3 turns to rush to a boss to end a map, if the map objective is a boss, that is. Chapter 7 was the first one where this was pretty obvious since Alcryst and his gang would die almost immediately. Keeping Jean alive in his mission is close to impossible as well unless you get really really lucky with him dodging hits before you get overwhelmed. Chapter 8 is the furthers such a run comes since you cant get Ivy down quickly enough before either Amber or Diamant dies.
>Nchad
>Fun vid
>Actual skill
Based
wait, so you don’t consider the Heroes’ Set as DLC? imo, I do, so I am curious what your reasoning is. would you have been able to defeat the 2 armor bosses in ch.3 & 4 without Folkvangr?
You don't have to pay money for it.
@@spongbobsquarepants3922 Its still DLC. You have to get a code and enter it into the eshop and download it to the game. Just because its free doesn't mean it ain't DLC, spongbob you nasty little underwater creep
@@spongbobsquarepants3922 it’s literally downloadable content that’s not available in the base game regardless of whether it’s paid or not
@@spongbobsquarepants3922 it's not base game and they're arguably very strong for early game
@@spongbobsquarepants3922 you need to own feh to even get the stuff, and I don't like gacha games
For me, FE3H is actually easier with only Byleth and I love playing games like Pokemon or fire emblem with only one character so this vid was an instant click.
How do you get Alear to wolf knight? Do you need to change him to a class that uses daggers first?
build bond with leif, he gives dagger proficiency
Cavalier class promos into it with daggers,and any of the three weapon types. but it's far easier to get the two proficiencies for the class u want to change too, master seal the units current class at lv10, then 2nd seal too the class you want after promotion. Easier, and faster, only difference however being the time investment and order the seals are used
Master Seal into Divine Dragon then Second Seal into it after getting Dagger proficiency from one of the emblems. Second Seal lets any advanced class reclass into any other advanced class.
Isn't Folkvangr a DLC item?
I wish we can play as Past Alear .
1:35 I know this is old, but I believe Lumera is scripted to attack him due to her cavalry effective Ridersbane.
nice job
I thought about a run with alear, vander, framme and clanne only. dragon and the stewards, seems fun
Yeah that's called a lythos only run 😅
brilliant.
I was able to kill the boss at the end of chapter 26 even after everyone but Alear died. And I wasn't even half way done. Though it took about 2 hours to do it, which sux. But I would call that easy. It was just hard casual tho.
I've been frustrated while playing engage because i can't develop evenly the whole cast of characters while progressing the story. In a way, I think your video show me why: engage is designed for small teams using your approach. Great video.
what is funny is you would probably die to normal skirmishes since they scale to your the highest level and if you dont get good stat boosts on level up, you will be fighting a ton of enemies that all bum rush you right away, alot of players hate how they made the level up system for weaker characters since the optional battles for training always scale to the highest level and enemies and just bum rush and attack the weakest characters first, making the whole training exp stupid especially on maddening where you cant just have Alear die and reset to keep exp gain from previous battle log.
Was this with fixed growth rates or without
"anti-juggernaut"
armor knights:
Allow us to introduce ourselves
Armors are good, but not because they can juggernaut.
Looking at all these low % hit rates remembering that they literally had a tome with infinite hit and gave it to like...3 enemies early game
Can you share what music you used?
Also did you know that griss spawns at the bottom right on turn 1 in chapter 20 lol
Can someone explain to me the ending about everyone being dead I can't find anything about it
Get a Game Over on the final map
The commentaries on killing your units are very funny
I clearly shouldn't have kept Alear in his own private class.
Impressive. Now try with just vander
Chapter 2 lunatic plus awakening be like
I need help, do you guys know how to use again the teammates defeated in battle in classic mode ??😅
reload a save before they died or start a new run lol
I'm gonna be honest, I can't tell if you were joking or not saying people think Engage is the hardest in the series. I thought most acknowledge it is one of the easier Fire Emblems even on Maddening.
Wild af that the game that purposefully tried to stop juggernauting in many many ways ended up being one of the easier ones to solo 💀
11:26
Nice
I like how broken and easy it is to make an avoid build.
Fue divertido
Wouldn't it be easier with a Thief? Most emblem weapons are effective against cavalry and Pass could have been useful to go through the swarms of enemies
Then he'd lose Levin sword
@@JakeMXZero he can just use the levin shank weapon then
@@bearzdlc2172 But... there is not a levin equivalent for daggers that Alear can wield
FELLOW APRIL 2nd GANG
I don’t believe he beat chapter 3 with only alear, had 30+ attempts myself, never got close
Alear becoming Zero Emblem:
9:38 doesn’t use tiki for some reason
He said no dlc so thats his reason for not using Tiki.
@@FellMaria but he used the feh weapons
@@cryguy0000 They're dlc on paper but we all know he meant not using paid dlc, jfc...
Why kill off the cast tho? Can’t you just deploy 1 unit? 😅
I'm guessing because Engage has among the weakest characters in the whole series
I failed doing this twice on maddening.
I ended up doing it on hard instead.
I managed to complete one of the Alear solo, maddening by DLC abuse but I don't count that...
I can't believe I was worried this game was going to be easy lol
It honestly really is easy, I told my friends how shocked I was hearing him exclaim it to be the hardest Fire Emblem and they all laughed.
Hell, unrelated I was in a Fire Emblem Fates stream earlier and everyone- unprompted by me- were on the topic of joking about how easy Engage is on Maddening/Lunatic
I can’t watch this video cuz I haven’t beaten the game on hard mode
not the copied excelblem editing style💀 gj on the solo though
how the hell did this end up being the easiest way to beat the game
Do this with arts only
Brawling only in 3H was really fun
@@AkameGaKillfan777 I’m actually thinking about just doing it with Alear and arts
@@majesticespeon3126 I've heard for some arbitrary reason that your attack with them is determined by the average between your strength and magic stat, which would explain why I almost never see people use them.
Bruh. I can't beat Chapter 5 at all on maddening with no restrictions whatsoever AND DLC :(. I'm trash at this game apparently.
I regret watching this video.
Not because it's bad or dumb. But because I feel even more crappy for /STILL/ not being able to beat this final battle on Hard. I'm not a novice at the FE franchise so I refuse to drop to Normal. But I honestly don't get what I'm doing wrong.
Even my best units just cannot deal more than like 30 damage to Sombron in 1 turn. And too many of my units are tied up keeping the infinite reinforcements in check.
I haven't played the game in a month or so now because taking a break. But each attempt I try turns into a 2 hour grind slog where I make it to the 3rd round of Dark Emblems but finally fall to the battle of attrition.
I don't understand what tactic I'm not thinking of, but all this cool 1 turn kill stuff is so far beyond my skill cap I can't even.
And when I ask for help, people just laugh and are shocked that it's too hard for me. sigh
there are so many reinforcements i can see why someone would want to play like this.
Yes……you 100% can.
I dunno, he seems awful proud of killing EVERY. LAST. ONE. OF. THEM!
Pretty rude, if you ask me.
What are the glowing circles I’ve never seen them
I would have made Alear a thief with Corrin's ring.
That works until you go against a high def enemy unit and suddenly find yourself unable to damage them.
Looks like we found the Zero Emblem
Excelblem take notes
not that it's a competition but rather it seems like this dude took notes from Excelblem
🤨🤔
now do it again without losing any units
I have never heard anyone say it's one of the hardest in the series. Even if you factor in post-Awakening/Three Houses, the latter is much harder, albeit in an unfair way that most people just cheese cause of that. The best I've heard is it's as good and hard as Conquest Lunatic.
I think it's harder, but only because this game requires me to completely rewire my brain on how the whole system works. But these games fall under the "It's difficult until it's really not" category. They're nearly impossible until you find out a solution that breaks it in half and then it's no longer hard, there's no in-between.
@@JobyPlays That's moreso with Awakening. You can literally just get Robin to max level and they'll solo the second half of the game. Even on Lunatic it doesn't take much more effort, especially if you just Nostank.
@@AkameGaKillfan777 That... is what I implied. It's hard until it's not. Once you figure out the gimmick and what the machine WANTS you to do from an optimum standpoint, it ceases to be insurmountable, and instead is just a really embellished math problem. Until then you're using incorrect plugins for the equation. Many numbers will work, but the higher up the difficulty slider you go, less and less "numbers" will work out. Once you figure it out, the mystery and challenge is gone, so to speak.
@@JobyPlays I was just stating Awakening was more like that, not necessarily 3 Houses.
@@AkameGaKillfan777 Every Fire Emblem game is like that.
You saying them and their when taking about one, not a group. 2:41 4:07 7:09
Should have abused micaiah for jean paralogue for free xp farm with heal staves
I am saddened that trying to play Maddening 'legit' is infinitely way more difficult than just cheesing the entire game. Flashbacks to Fates...
If you can solo the game, then it is pretty far from being the hardest by a long shot with a long bow.
"Without using the DLC" Uses FE Heroes DLC weapons/Rings
Not a true solo until you remove your emblems.
i thing that beaten the Game in madness difficult without lossing a unit is more harddest than do what You did in this video... I mean at the end if You Will use your all resource only in one character You can broken him... I stopped the video in the chapter 18 map, because i don't want spoilers xD
I've only played the Switch games, but 3H is far harder. I highly doubt Engage is seen as one of the hardest overall.
Even fates is harder... what kind of intro is that?
That's because Lunatic+ Conquest is _another_ one of the hardest FE experiences, next to shit like Thracia and Engage.
And by that, I mean *fun* hard experiences. Not Awakening's Lunatic+ bullshit lmao.
@@skeletonwar4445 Conquest can be broken too, I've done it multiple times.
@@AkameGaKillfan777 Yeah. I know. Every single FE can be broken if you know what you're doing.
@@AkameGaKillfan777 I'm just so baffled though because the difference in how easy it is to break Engage and to break Conquest or literally any other game feels so gigantic. Calling Engage the hardest in the series is just... no... You can easily make ALL your units broken if you know what you're doing in Engage.
No
I fucking despise the chain attack mechanic. It removes all skill and is so cheap, I understand why they did it so you couldn't blow through maps with or a few super strong units, which I hate a ton because that is how I like to play Fire Emblem. I like to think and strategize on the earlier chapters and be smart and careful then be rewarded with OP arse mofo's that can just shrek shit through the rest of the game.
Its disgusting fighting enemies that do 0 damage at 31% hit rate then they suddenly get the fuckin' 4 damage at 80% hit chains going. Freaking' idiots!
Having to have Corrin's Pair Up or have her as a ring is annoying AF too since I like to run the EXP boost from Edelgard/Byleth and the Tiki stat growth skill.
Love this game but its so tedious how slow you level up and how punishing it is for all the wrong reasons.
It ain't that serious lil' bro
Chain Attacks really are not that bad.
Just pay attention to where back up units are and then approach as needed. The game rewards you for not just camping out a map with the actually decent armor knights.
Unless you position poorly it's very difficult to get truly ganked to death.
Skill issue.
"I like to think and strategize"
You sure about that?
A maddening+ difficulty would be nice. Less like lunatic+ hawkeye+ and vantage+, (no absurdly inflated stats pls) and more like they should give bosses extra skills and better weapons or smarter AIs...
Chapter 17 is actually incredibly easy because only Griss moves at you, then the lizard and sniper after a couple turns.
Marni and Mauv move once you get into her range.
The rest only move when you get to the far west lizard.
Maddening+ should have them all just rush you at once 😂
Fliers are broken as usual and should've been nerfed. 4-5 movement would probably be acceptable.
I am glad at least they're going to add new classes in the DLC, although that's probably gonna be a bow wyvern, 1 other useful class, and then the rest that no one uses.