I've done a few chapters of Maddening in a GD run. It's hard, but I enjoy it. I'm not a fan of ambush reinforcements (reinforcements which move on the same turn they spawn), but at least you can rewind time. I like most other aspects of the mode. It really requires you to take everything you know ab...

Southeast Asia: Past and Present by D R SarDesai. Mostly was reading about post-constitutional monarchy Thailand.

I personally don't think so, as the E3 trailer and the song in it seemed to hint at Edelgard's route being an early decision. But I do feel that it is less fleshed out than the others, and I kind of blame that on them splitting the route into two. From what I've heard, the Church route is actually a...

I did a Fire Emblem sorter to rank my favorite characters from Three Houses. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/602536526701920257/616185058583379979/three_houses_sorter.png I just made it to part 2 of my Blue Lions run. I'm shocked how much better the transition from part 1 to part 2 was handle...

I'm probably taking a break from the game for awhile as I am taking classes again and have a heavy work load. In all honesty, I was starting to get worn out with the game. I picked up Black Eagles for my new game+ playthrough, but mid-way through I started to regret it. I like Claude too much as a c...

Good point. Cyril sounds like a pretty good dancer actually. I overlooked that myself. Sylvain works out fine if you're sticking with the base Blue Lions roster. I'm going to be using Cyril when I eventually do another Golden Deer run or continue my original playthrough. Golden Deer was the first fa...

Cyril is actually pretty bad. His aptitude is deceptive as his base growth rates are abysmal, and basically equivalent to a Jeigan type of character in previous games. With aptitude, he becomes equivalent to the other characters in the game, but lacking any real personal skill. He has high dex and s...

The funny thing about making Ferdinand a dancer is that aside from making him useful because he can dance, it actually made him more useful in actual battle too. He can dodge tank pretty well thanks to his innate ability which boosts his avoid at full HP. When stacked with dancer's sword avoid abili...

I'm at Chapter 9 or so. Ferdinand continued his descent into uselessness, so I decided I'm going to make him my dancer. He actually really wanted to do it too, which I found comical. Bernadetta and Dorothea also ended up with low stat totals in comparison to my other characters. Edelgard and Hubert ...

As far as I can tell, the classes outside of mastery bonuses and special skills mainly affect growths. It could theoretically be viable to stay in an advanced class. Swordmasters, for instance, have a mastery bonus that is only available in the swordmaster class, making mastering the class somewhat ...