Fire Emblem

[The Former DMiller]

I've lost units plenty of times in this Fire Emblem, but generally it's been close to the beginning of the missions so I have no qualms about restarting. I tend to use the heavy units a lot. I've maxed out Oscar and Boyd from using them so much. I used Ike way too much in the beginning since I got him to level 20 waaay before the mission where he gets promoted so he was pretty much useless for a long time. I pretty much use the heavy units and the mages. I'll always bring two healers, although Soren is my emergency third healer since he carries a heal staff with him. Rolf is really the only archer I use, and I don't use the flying units all that much besides Tanith, but I only use her because she is already incredibly powerful when you get her. I've always hated the fact that the flying units are incredibly vulnerable at the low levels and need to be babied.

Anyway, I love the fact that you can use bonus experience points outside of battle to upgrade units. I actually prefer this to the GBA versions method of leveling up in which you would have to go out and fight like a normal RPG. It was just a time-waster, in my opinion. This way you can keep weak characters you want to level-up out of battle until you have used enough bonus EP on them to bring them in.