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Ideal Team Composition?
#1
Posted 17 February 2013 - 05:28 PM
-At least two promoted healers (one focused on staves, with the other focused on magic but still decent at healing) with potentially one other mage to contrast the magic-focused one (A Druid as opposed to a Bishop, etc)
-One or two units focused into a single weapon for each weapon of the triangle (Swordmasters, Berzerkers, etc; the lords/theives count for one if they're good)
-One promoted archer
-A tanky unit (General/Great Knight usually; they tend to be one of the lance-focused units)
-Two or three mounted units (The tank can count if they're a Great Knight, as can the archer if they're a Ranger with ok sword rank)
-A misc unit, if the game has them (Laguz, that mimicking guy from FE11, etc)
My teams tend to be lacking on fliers, unless said flier is Sword/Lance focused. Even then, I'll occasionally use one and only rarely more than one. I really hate the bonus archer damage.
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#2
Posted 17 February 2013 - 11:32 PM
-Units that can use melee weapons and bows
-Generals
-Healers that are focused in magic (at most i'd want B rank in staves but that's not necessary most of the time)
-Swordmasters (despite how they don't end up too useful for me most of the time, I still include them for their cool factor)
-Wyvern mounted units (Pegasi? Who needs em?)
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#4
Posted 18 February 2013 - 12:31 AM
- ~10% Lords
- 30-40% foot soldiers "Blink" tanks, units which can wall up an area with abuse of the broken speed stat and fight back for good damage. Because of this, the units tend to be massively powerful offensively and defensively.
- 20-30% mages. Utility is key and mages are utility personified in this game. 1-2 range, healing and offence...and horseback if they are Valkyrie.
- 10-20% flying units. These provide fluidity and can capitalize on openings in the lines of the enemy. If an exposed archer or healer is available, then they can cash in and knock out some key enemies. They also provide excellent saviour mechanics and can bring allies from harm when no one else can.
- Remainder horseback cavalry and strong tiered units.
My game is pretty heavily formation based and similar to a Greek formation, where I place my best meat shields up front. They are supported an support them with additional firepower from behind. Calvary and auxiliary (mages) come in to protect the flanks when needed. Mages also act as archers, dealing serious damage forward, which is heavily derived from my favouritism to Napoleonic tactics of artillery use
Generally, this doesn't change unless horseback (Path of Radiance) or flyers (Awakening) are the flavour of the month.
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#5
Posted 18 February 2013 - 12:56 AM
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#6
Posted 18 February 2013 - 02:27 AM
QUOTE (kirant @ Feb 17 2013, 07:31 PM) |
My game is pretty heavily formation based and similar to a Greek formation, where I place my best meat shields up front. They are supported an support them with additional firepower from behind. Calvary and auxiliary (mages) come in to protect the flanks when needed. Mages also act as archers, dealing serious damage forward, which is heavily derived from my favouritism to Napoleonic tactics of artillery use Generally, this doesn't change unless horseback (Path of Radiance) or flyers (Awakening) are the flavour of the month. |
In more open maps, I tend to have a main wall of tanks and pseudotanks (units with a weapon advantage, and thus dodge advantage, over the majority of the enemy) supported by my ranged units, with the mages acting primarily as healers who happen to be able to counterattack. From this, I'll send 2-3 man squadrons (usually comprised of two units who support eachother and a healer/glass cannon mage) to accomplish side tasks, such as dispatching reinforcements or retrieving the contents of chests.
For more linear maps (think Eirika chapter 12 or quite a few indoor maps), I use an advancing guard sort of strategy. I have squishies come in to nuke all enemies in range, then send units who can survive a turn forward to hold the ground that is cleared up. Mages are especially useful here, being able to heal or damage as needed. These sorts of maps are less common, but they generally go faster, which is nice.
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#7
Posted 19 February 2013 - 02:25 AM
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3-5 flying units. Everybody else offers ground support. A few healers. ZERG RUSH. |
Yep this definitely sounds like you XD
@kirant oh wow that's pretty organized and well thought-out XD
As for me, I like to get a nice variety of units. While it really does depend on stuff like the game (e.g. in FE9 I hardly use any fliers because I think all the Pegasus Knights suck leaving only Jill or Haar), I generally have the main character leading ahead level-wise because I want them to be able to defend themselves if necessary, along with either a defensive mounted unit or a knight. I may actually use multiple mounted units to start with, but I usually drop one or the other (e.g. start off with Sain and Kent but just use Sain).
I like at LEAST one mage and definitely one healer, though I might make my mage double as a healer upon promotion. I prefer troubadours over umounted healers because of their extended range and in some case, canto, as well as the fact that IMO they became great units once they get offensive magic while mounted (or perhaps swords if you're like Mist). I'll generally have no more than 2 fliers, maybe one Pegasus and one Wyvern, because even though I like their general offensive power (whether it's strength/def based or speed based) and movement ability, they're too susceptible to arrows and in some cases magic, and with limited unit slots I feel like I can't risk it on chapters with ballistae and the such.
I'll also have one offensive powerhouse, which usually comes down to an axe-user, and then a few sword-users, meaning Swordmasters, Heroes, and Assassins, which are some of my (and many people's) favorite classes. As the game continues though, if I'm using two of a certain class, I may have to retire one of them, due to limited space and the fact that I like to have a nice variety of classes.
Lastly, if it's not FE13, I tend to have one epic Sniper who can literally snipe the crap out of stuff from behind walls (<3 arrows, especially ones that fly through walls). As for why not FE13, you only get Virion, who I don't like/dies too easily for me and I haven't had a chance to reclass anyone into a Sniper because well first playthrough I just didn't feel like it and ATM I'm on my lunatic playthrough so I don't have the ability to really baby anyone... XD
That's about it, yeah...
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#8
Posted 19 February 2013 - 03:05 AM
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#9
Posted 19 February 2013 - 03:08 AM
I tend to like having a single peg/wyvern, 2 pallies/GKs, one of each magic unit, maybe a 2nd sage, the lords, and then a mix of the ground units, normally Heroes/SMs/zerker, and possibly a mounted bowman.
#10
Posted 19 February 2013 - 03:11 AM
@Hatless aye yeah which is why I usually have a unit like the Sage as a back-up healer, or if it's FE8 since Bishops are like OP I might have one extra Bishop... though like ATM in my FE13 run I have 3 healers so that way if I split up into groups I have one healer in each and a main healer with physic/fortify/rescue for when any of that is needed
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#11
Posted 19 February 2013 - 03:41 AM
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#12
Posted 19 February 2013 - 03:49 AM
if the game has Halberdiers
**** yeah Halberdiers I'll likely trash one of my extra sword or anima magic users lol
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#13
Posted 19 February 2013 - 04:02 AM
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#14
Posted 19 February 2013 - 03:01 PM
QUOTE (Blazer @ Feb 19 2013, 03:49 AM) |
oh yeah I forgot to mention if the game has Halberdiers **** yeah Halberdiers I'll likely trash one of my extra sword or anima magic users lol |
I'll throw a Hally in instead of another ground fighter (lolzerkers in 9/10).
#15
Posted 19 February 2013 - 04:11 PM
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#16
Posted 19 February 2013 - 04:29 PM
Otherwise yes, they're lance-locked when promoted.
#17
Posted 19 February 2013 - 07:13 PM
Or at least, they did in RD. Which I remember better.
Their class name weirds me out though (since, y'know, a halberd is an axe and at best most related by how it is a spear-axe >_>)
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#18
Posted 19 February 2013 - 07:29 PM
I usually like to have a lot of different units on my teams-- never the same class twice if I can help it. It's more for aesthetics, I suppose, seeing all those different kinds of units out there. This is pretty easy to do in games like Sacred Stones and Awakening (branched promotions). My teams are game dependent too-- like Kirant said about the mounted units destroying everything in Fe9.
I also tend to use classes with high caps and I like seeing shiny green max stats . So that means I don't tend to use non-Fe9 paladins. Clearly I'm a casual player and don't play for turns
That being said...
-I usually use the main lord. In the case where there are multiple lords, I tend to pick one and roll with it. (Ex in Fe7 I hardly ever use Eliwood, Lyn and Hector in one playthrough.)
-One or two horseback units...usually just one.
-LOTS OF AXES. Berserkers, heroes, etc. Axes are sweet, especially as a secondary weapon as most games allow hand axes at E weapon level. It's fun having Raven S axes, too.
-Maybe 1 swordmaster/primary sword-user (swordmaster is totally overrated in every game that isn't Fe12 lunatic and FE4)
-One flyer, two max, game depending. I tend to blitz, so earlygame pegasus knights don't cut it for me
-Variety of mages, one or two able to use staffs/different kinds of magic. Magic units tend to be good in every game that isn't Fe10.
-DANCER! I usually roll with small teams, so I can afford to deploy a dancer/filler unit like this. Whether they'll actually be put to use is game dependent, but they're out there for the ohshit moments
-No archers. Sorry, but **** bows. They were only good in Fe10 because of crossbows. Their use is very situational, as well, such as lunatic/harder modes and even in early chapters where chip damage is actually useful. Lategame, though? See ya.
I cover all my bases, I think...
#19
Posted 19 February 2013 - 09:43 PM
#20
Posted 20 February 2013 - 04:27 AM
QUOTE (Bobryk @ Feb 19 2013, 12:29 PM) |
-No archers. Sorry, but **** bows. They were only good in Fe10 because of crossbows. Their use is very situational, as well, such as lunatic/harder modes and even in early chapters where chip damage is actually useful. Lategame, though? See ya. |
This. This, this, this...this is key for me. (Sorry. This was a bet with my friend that 5 starting words would be "This" in a post)
Bows are by far the most useless weapon in Fire Emblem and seem to only exist as an annoyance for your strategy. 2 only range is useless unless archers have a massive stat advantage. They need to act like magic and have a 1-2 range, while having really poor stats overall (and they actually do in my mod...which is going the speed of dirt)
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