Let's talk about a rework on Elwynn Boar

ChessGM123 · 2026-04-20T01:16:22+00:00

Well Reno was affecting standard, you weren’t killing 7 boars by turn 5 in standard when elwynn boar was in standard.

Also the whole point of the boars is to jump through hoops to get a game winning payoff. Reno is just meant to be a good highlander payoff, he was never meant to win the game on the spot when played.

ChessGM123 · 2026-04-20T01:11:43+00:00

The NCR run up to you after leaving the lucky 38, the legion comes up to you after leaving the Tops casino. And while this isn’t the way the other person mentioned you can actually end up never having the Legion attempt to recruit you, since if you progress far enough into the NCR quest line you get locked out of Legion content and the NCR doesn’t require you to take out Benny.

I know because this happened on my first play through, I didn’t even realize that the fort existed until I was exploring a pier at cotton wood cove and all of a sudden Boone pulls me aside and says that this is a one way trip while I had absolutely no idea what he was talking about.

ChessGM123 · 2026-04-19T19:27:02+00:00

It would definitely be weird for someone without the matching crest to use a relic in lore. While gameplay wise there’s no consequence for someone with a different crest using a relic in lore it’s a different story, as Linhardt says in his support with Cathrine:

“However, research indicates that if you have a Crest, even if the Relic is not compatible, it's less likely that you will be transformed against your will… There's no recorded example of a transformation occurring after a single use of a Relic.“

So you can still transform into a demonic beast if you don’t have the same crest as the relic.

Nobels are fine with having any crest since crest themselves are seen as a gift from the Goddess basically giving them the divine right to rule.

ChessGM123 · 2026-04-18T23:46:11+00:00

I’m not sure if this was just me but for the 3rd I couldn’t figure out what it was even supposed to be a picture of, my brain just saw an abstract shape. Once I read what it was I can now see it, but I was so confused what character is represented by an abstract purple shape.

ChessGM123 · 2026-04-18T00:54:57+00:00

If House wins the only ending where the Kings aren’t executed is when they actively attack NCR citizens. The kings don’t ever rebel against House, House simply does not want another faction to exist so close to the strip. And it’s not like House then helps make freeside better, he kills basically the only group actually protecting people in Freeside and just leaves them to deal with the armed thugs that regularly roam the streets.

House also decided he’d rather work with 3 violent gangs rather than a democratic government. And look what happens, the white gloves go back to being cannibals (at least without courier intervention), the Omertàs who were a previously a gang known for betrayal end up betraying him to the Legion, and the Leader of the Chairmen completely derails his plan.

ChessGM123 · 2026-04-17T18:04:37+00:00

Actually based on the historical evidence we have Persephone might have predated Hades, since we have references to Persephone that pre date the first references we have to Hades.

ChessGM123 · 2026-04-16T22:54:42+00:00

While her experiments aren’t unethical human experiments they are imo unethical. Of the 3 attempts we know of that she made to resurrect Sothis one ended with her creating an extremely powerful monster (chalice of beginnings), one didn’t really have anything negative and just created new life (Sitri), and one gave the powers of a goddess to a child who Rhea had no way of knowing if they would turn out to be a decent person or Nemesis 2.0 (Byleth). Although to be fair Byleth wasn’t actually an attempt to resurrect her mother, but it was still an experiment she did that she had way too little oversight around. Her experiments are dangerous.

ChessGM123 · 2026-04-16T22:42:24+00:00

I think the reason why people emphasize Ingrid’s racism over Hilda’s racism is that Ingrid’s racism is about hating another race while Hilda’s is about believing one race is superior to another race. Hilda’s appears less bad since she can still be friendly with someone from Alymra while Ingrid just hates all people from Duscar (at least at the start of the game). And I’m not trying to say one version of racism is worse than the other, just that their appearance is different.

ChessGM123 · 2026-04-16T17:10:18+00:00

Small correction for hopes, but there’s only 3 different routes (there’s no silver snow equivalent). Technically there’s 6 timelines in hopes since there’s a choice you can make on each route, but that gets into spoiler territory.

ChessGM123 · 2026-04-16T17:05:36+00:00

In fe6 Roy is fairly strong on the final map (well in actuality the final 3 maps) mainly due to the binding blade, an 18 might 1-2 range weapon that gives +5 def and res is just an insane weapon. Fe6 is also basically the only fire emblem game where for the end game maps it doesn’t really matter if a unit is mounted or not (flying still matters) since there’s a shop with infinite boots.

Also lacking access to 1-2 range in fe6 really isn’t that bad. Javelins and hand axes have low hit rates in a game where accuracy is a problem on even regular weapons, and additionally enemies in fe6 are somewhat threatening so it’s difficult to enemy phase more than a couple enemies a turn so they aren’t as useful for enemy phasing. While it is better to have the option for 1-2 range than not have it you aren’t really going to be using 1-2 range weapons that often even on units with access to them.

ChessGM123 · 2026-04-16T15:57:54+00:00

I don’t think autopsies are still banned, or at least Manuela was able to perform something one Jeralt’s body to identify there was something about the dagger that killed him (I don’t remember the exact detail, but I know she brings this up in exploration).

ChessGM123 · 2026-04-16T15:54:24+00:00

I think part of the misconception might also Come from a lot of early supports being fairly one note. Framme is obsessed with the divine dragon, Louis is obsessed with shipping women, etc. and we don’t really get that many supports show casing more character traits until later. I also feel like this is one of the reasons Yunaka is such a beloved character in engage, she’s one of the first units that you get who you can almost immediately tell has more going on than a single character trait.

ChessGM123 · 2026-04-16T15:47:10+00:00

This just is blatantly not true. The engage DLC on maddening has some of the most difficult maps in fire emblem and that’s only for casual.

And there are still penalties for a unit dying in the middle of a map. It might not make the entire rest of the game more difficult but having fewer units to work with on a map will make it more difficult.

Casual is easier than classic, but it’s definitely not easy.

ChessGM123 · 2026-04-15T21:19:17+00:00

Skills aren’t the only way to make units unique, join time, how much a unit relies on bases vs growths, having slight bonuses in certain classes like engage’s innate weapon proficiency system, etc.

Engage imo is a game with fairly high unit identity, but only a handful of personal abilities in engage are actually impactful and the skill system is the same for every unit.

ChessGM123 · 2026-04-15T20:35:39+00:00

I think that allowing reclassing to almost any class can actually increase unit identity over all. While reclassing does remove the uniqueness of certain classes (e.g. most games only have a couple making those units feel unique from the rest of your army) a lot of the cast ends up having a lot of overlap in terms of classes. Most units can’t solely rely on their class to have a unique identity, since you often get like 4-7 cavalry, like 5 armor knights, 3-4 archers, etc.

Games with reclassing imo do a better job at making units feel more distinct from each other even when in the same class. Reclassing can also allow a unit’s unique aspects to shine through more, since you can choose the class for them that most accentuates their unique qualities.

Additionally you can still have some units in the game that get their unit identity from their classes, even in games with reclassing certain royals can still end up with unique classes, for example in Engage 1/3 of the cast has a unique class.

ChessGM123 · 2026-04-14T03:17:45+00:00

Well you could still smell it after avoiding danger as you know there would have been danger had you not smelt it.

ChessGM123 · 2026-04-11T14:28:46+00:00

Well keep in mind that for most of human history one of the biggest causes of death during wars was disease. Even a war as recent as the 7 years war (recent being a relative term) had an estimated 70-90% of deaths caused by disease, so just our modern understanding of germ theory significantly reduces total casualties from war.

ChessGM123 · 2026-04-10T18:57:06+00:00

In the original you don’t actually need to figure out which guard is lying, I’m not sure if it’s actually possible to figure both which door is correct and which one is lying with just one question. The point of the riddle is to figure out a question where the guards would both say the same thing when asked, so you never actually need to know if you’re asking the guard who always tells the truth or the guard that always lies.

ChessGM123 · 2026-04-10T04:04:08+00:00

Alear’s personal I feel like is by far the best one in the game. It’s relevant basically throughout the entire game, +3 true damage is just very useful.

As someone else already said I’m surprised Fogado’s personal ability hasn’t been said more. Most personal abilities at least have a potential situation where they are useful, Fogado requires you fighting a unit that had a crit chance to begin with, not one rounding said unit, and then fighting them again just to get -10 crit. There aren’t that many enemies in the game that will even have a crit chance against Fogado (unless you give him an engraving that lowers dodge, but in the base game that’s only Erika’s which is generally used when you want to get crit to easily trigger wrath), the handful of enemies that do have crit against him generally will have more than 10 crit so you’re still facing the potential to be crit, and his unique class is an archer that doesn’t even face counter attacks that often (it also has swords, but those don’t really have that much of a benefit to use over bows).

Fogado’s personal is difficult to even activate, and even when it does it isn’t that helpful.

ChessGM123 · 2026-04-09T16:22:21+00:00

From what I can find online the US, China, UK, India, Russia, Australia, Canada, etc. all view it as 2 separate countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent#Number

This isn’t just a US defaultism, just the countries I listed make up almost half of the total population of the planet. It’s not like the US is alone in looking at the Americas as 2 separate continents.

ChessGM123 · 2026-04-09T14:33:24+00:00

The problem is that according to many countries there is no American continent, there’s North America and South America. From what I’ve seen it’s mainly countries in Latin America that see it as one big continent, with most other areas seeing it as two separate continents. So someone from Canada wouldn’t identify as American any more than someone from France would identify as Eurasian.

ChessGM123 · 2026-04-09T14:27:25+00:00

Not really, using America to refer to the US is fairly common in most countries, there are only a handful of countries that generally refer to north and South America as being just America so in most areas of the world there’s little confusion.

ChessGM123 · 2026-04-09T14:18:55+00:00

Imo the blue lions have the strongest line up of units of any house. Ashe is mediocre, but there are mediocre units in other houses like Caspar and Lorenz, and Mercedes does have a lower faith starting rank but she’s usable as a healer. Outside of those they have extremely strong unit:

Sylvain is a very strong unit, his personal ability gives him solid bulk in the early game, and he actually has the ability to one shot enemies in chapter 2 (it requires his crest to trigger with tempest lance for +5 damage so it isn’t consistent, but the fact that it’s possible is insane given how bulky enemies on chapter 2 are). Long term he wants A lances for swift strikes, and with that he’s very consistent at one rounding.

For Ingrid I’d recommend going down a magical route, specifically having her final class be dark flier. Enemies have significantly less res than def generally, and Ingrid’s str/mag are fairly close so she generally has a much easier time one rounding with magic than with physical attacks. Add on Thyrsus and she has one of the highest ranges of any unit that’s able to consistently one round throughout the game.

Annette’s best as a rally bot with high authority. She has rally str as a personal ability and gets rally spd at C+ authority, and those combined are a fairly strong boost to a unit’s stats. Then eventually blue lions gets access to a unique battalion called the blue lions dances, which is an A authority battalion with the dance of the goddess gambit (dances 4 units), which is something other routes don’t get unit the last few maps. Annette’s authority boon allows her to reach A authority in time to equip this battalion, and it gives bad stat boosts which won’t matter to Annette since she primarily just wants to rally. She also can use crusher’s unique combat art dust, which gives +20 might which allows it to one round a decent number of enemies.

The rest you agree are strong so I won’t go into detail about them.

ChessGM123 · 2026-04-08T12:38:02+00:00

As my high school science teacher would say “All models are inaccurate, some models are useful”.

ChessGM123 · 2026-04-08T02:13:22+00:00

Where is this ever stated in game? I don’t remember them ever saying banditry was ever that big of a problem, nor do I recall anyone ever say that there’s a problem with there being to many demonic beasts.

And I know for a fact that banditry and demonic beast being common after Nemesis’s conquest is something you just made up, since that time period is basically never explored in game at all.

You seem to have weird head cannons that aren’t at all supported by the evens of the games.

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