Current FE Awakening status:

Final boss battle.

Bwunga-FUCK...?

All right, who put all those reinforcements there?! D:

(yes, yes, I KNOW how to beat them... Technically. ...I just need several more levels on certain people for Galeforce purposes. *sigh* Wish I had thirteen more Donnells...)

Heheheheh.

Exercise: You need to kill a final boss ASAP because of a flood of reinforcements. Your main character is not competent to do so with his Legendary Weapon because you're pretty sure he got Str-screwed. (I seem to remember him having below 20 Str AFTER his first promotion. What?!) You have the following items:

A superpowered hellbeast who's capped almost all his stats;
A dancer;
An unused pair of Boots.

How do you beat this level? ;)

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So, anyway, now I'm starting a new run! This time it's Female!Avatar, and I'm going for Chrom/Olivia. Haven't decided who marries this Avatar yet. Lord Eliwood of Pherae is not an option, alas. She will have to find true love elsewhere. And Nils approves.
Third run will have Avatar/Chrom, so I'll have to figure out another female character I want to emulate. ;) But I'm getting ahead of myself...

Holy crud.

Who thought it was a funny idea to have the reinforcements come from BEHIND you in Ch. 7?! Are you really supposed to charge right into the swarm of units in front of you?!

...You are? And this isn't a suicide gambit?

I... um. I. Well, GEE.

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Second run of FE Awakening continues...

I have to say... Awakening is really over the top with the 'Let's pile as many units onto one target as possible! :D' layouts. Was FE always this way? O_O

As a note for Brill, who I know wants to get this game eventually: Place your Avatar's Asset in Magic (and please don't place the Flaw in Defense! D:) for a very entertaining early game. Apparently people would recommend otherwise, but for a casual player, this gives you a potent magic-user with reasonable defenses. Your other choices for magic-users tend to curl into the fetal position and start sobbing when enemies start waving pointy objects in their faces, whereas the Avatar can take a few hits and stay upright.

Also, you want to concentrate on high-DEF units, due to the aforementioned dogpile and pointy-objects issues. Chrom starts to lag on the DEF front after a while, but he tends to kill enemies too quickly for them to ask "Hey, what's your Defense?" Incidentally, that's how one often has to deal with magic users, as there are in fact anti-flyer tomes in this game. Say farewell to being able to lean on your Res alone!

Speed is also a very important stat in this game. Without Speed, you tend to get doubled by New!Bandits, which are called Barbarians and carry unusually interesting Speed stats for axe-wielders. So be careful with Knight-like units!

(Hint: Your Cavaliers are good in this game. VERY good. ...That's not a spoiler, right? :D;;)