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To my knowledge there are no hacks for fates and awakening that change anything in terms of difficulty in any way, reinforcements included. the only ones that i have seen are same sex marriage mods. you might want to check around gbatemp as there are some utilities made for awakening. you could potentially just make such a hack yourself.

 

as a side note i would suggest moving away from gateway, there are better alternatives now that are easier to work with.

So if I were to shift away from hard back to normal I would see the same amount of reinforcements (just at easier levels)?  Also I'm very content with gateway.  What are the advantages to a different modding method?

 

And while reinforcements on bases aren't too bad, since they can be blocked with your own troops, reinforcements via sky troops are impossible to block (and therefore it seems there's less strategy involved, just a random attempt to make things more difficult for the user).

waiting til 20 to promote is always a good idea. if you use it at level 10(the earliest promotion possible) you're missing out on 10 levels of stat gains. the level 20 limit is there to prevent every character from maxing all stats, however awakening breaks this with the way reclassing works. you can definitely hack the games to remove that limit, and i believe there may be a way to do so in awakening as well, but you would need to hack your 3ds to be able to run such a hack. for the gba/snes/wii/gcn games you should be able to run the games on an emulator assuming you have something capable of doing so. i personally have never seen any romhack that specifically removes reinforcements, and i'm not sure anyone would make something like that as it would lower the difficulty by a massive amount. i wouldn't play something like that tbh. the difference between normal and hard mode is usually enemy stats. in awakening's late game this is pretty negligible because you can max out every character as long as you're willing to put the time in.
 
And now that i've answered all of your questions: it's good forum etiquette to introduce yourself on the new members board before just asking questions. in fact some forums include that in the rules(i don't think this particular forum does, but either way it's just good manners).

So the amount of reinforcements on hard mode is the same as on easy? And I have a gateway card for my 3ds. What hacks are available for the two 3ds games. Also I use emulators for the gba and ds games.

PS: sorry about not starting an Intro thread first. I've been part of a fair amount of forums and never knew that was proper conduct.