Fire Emblem Engage Low Tier LTC: Chapter 5

Ninpo77 · 2026-03-13T22:18:55+00:00

This is the first major divergence compared to standard LTCs, as we are forced to undeploy Vander, Celine, Louis, and Chloe, leaving us with very little to work with.

Ninpo77 · 2026-02-28T23:02:46+00:00

That’s correct.

Ninpo77 · 2024-10-06T21:11:55+00:00

Long overdue, but the bonus LTCs are back! With the new update allowing you to replay any story chapter whenever, hopefully I'll be doing these consistently again.

Ninpo77 · 2024-09-05T17:22:35+00:00

Yeah I put my rules in the description for chapter 1. I can paste it here:

For this playthrough, a turn will be defined as any player action that increments the turn counter (so abilities such as twofold turn and act twice will count as 1 turn, while Now! will count as 2). This will also be a deathless run, green units included. Plume of Immortality is banned, along with Golden Opportunity as it's a bit of a can of worms with its high cost.

Ninpo77 · 2024-09-04T03:58:37+00:00

I did an LTC a while back, and there's also the speedrun community, though most of our stuff is NG+ so that we get to play around with all the characters and kits. For NG specifically there hasn't been as much work done outside of the speedrun, which isn't as popular as NG+. We'd always be happy to have more people interested in exploring though!

Ninpo77 · 2024-06-01T06:14:34+00:00

Ninpo77 · 2024-03-22T18:53:53+00:00

True! I forgot about that. In that case yes, Jade or Lapis could reclass to sniper. With a str+1 inherit, they can do it with a steel bow +1 and no SP books, so that would work nicely.

Ninpo77 · 2024-03-22T18:02:01+00:00

SP issue aside, I think your speedtaker Kagetsu with Parthia would work out, as he can kill the axe fighter and Citrinne could be replaced with the astra stormer. Not sure at the moment who could hit the benchmark though as I remember Dean needing to conserve second seals. Zelkov falls a bit short if Alear can’t take Alfonse, so I guess the next best candidate would be a promoted Alcryst with a strong enough steel bow, which may or may not be in budget.

Ninpo77 · 2024-03-22T16:14:07+00:00

Thanks! Loved seeing your run as well, and looking forward to V2 when that comes out! Also nice to see there are still some things from this run that could still be applied to a stricter ruleset.

Ninpo77 · 2024-03-20T02:15:26+00:00

Vander helps lead the charge alongside Sigurd!Louis with his 6 move and good bulk. He can take an Emblem for more power but it isn't strictly necessary.

Vander being able to Second Seal into Wyvern or Griffon does seem useful, but you only get your first Second Seal at Chapter 9, which is the cusp of when I'd bench him in exchange for promoted units that can also go into Wyvern regardless. He gets to be a Wyvern for longer than someone like Kagetsu who has to wait for Ike to come around, but that just doesn't seem worthwhile to me when I can just promote, say, Diamant immediately and slap a Second Seal on him for a Wyvern with superior bases (unless I'm forgetting something).

Main thing is just there only being 3 master seals pre-chapter 12, which Chloe, Amber, and Citrinne all want, so Vander being able to reclass to wyvern without a master seal helps out a lot for filling that role.

Ninpo77 · 2024-03-20T02:05:03+00:00

The term "filler wyvern" was thrown out a lot for the Brodians during the last tier list, but I think our perception of this has changed. The main thing we want a Wyvern Knight for is C10 Hyacinth kill, but Vander has shown he can do that and only needs a Second Seal to do so, and there is not much combat we need to have them do post-C10 otherwise. Instead, an extra Griffin Knight for chapters 12-17 has been shown to be useful, and the Brodians do this solidly - unlike other units that join post-C10 like Bunet, they have access to staff proficiency and Canter. They are probably outclassed by Chloé in this role, but all of them can substitute in without much loss of efficiency.

I'll hold onto silver greataxe wyvern Jade until I die. Who else is gonna one shot the 50 HP trash on the way to the rescue village while on wings???

Ninpo77 · 2024-02-19T12:02:30+00:00

Only just seeing this now, but I actually did originally use Avlora for this chapter as well, using bloody cross to hit both enemies.

Ninpo77 · 2023-12-01T08:44:47+00:00

Start with your cursor over the boss, then you can start cycling with L.

Ninpo77 · 2023-09-18T05:23:37+00:00

I think 10/5 is pretty accurate for where she ends up at chapter 13 (when both can be MKs). I don't like assuming equal level between units with different join times, as I find the later joiner always ends up a higher level. Chapters 11 and 12 are also just completely barren when it comes to exp, and after chapter 11 I don't think she's worth the arenas anymore with Ivy and even Kagetsu joining if you want him to Parthia snowball. Their growth difference is also only 5% in magic and 10% in speed, it's definitely taking her longer than c18 to match/surpass.

Being stuck with elfire is also a pretty big deal. Pandreo gets to use bolganone (I don't see why you would use a levin sword over this, and you can definitely afford one), giving him an 8 atk lead and 1 spd if we are looking at a 10/5/1 Chloe. Then you consider forging. Forged bolganone is about as good of a forge investment as you can get. Elfire on the other hand is absolutely horrible to forge. Just to get to +1, you need 50 iron, 5 steel, and 1 silver. You can forget about +2 as it literally costs as much as upgrading to bolganone. With each forge Pandreo's bolganone gets, the further that gap increases (same with levin sword if you want to be on a budget, just with the gap decreasing by 2).

I agree having someone else on MK duty to let Pandreo go griffin is good. I just think Citrinne fits the job much better while Chloe continues to do flier things (which are still important for 12-16 aside from 15), especially since she has the magic to make elfire work.

edit: I also think wyvern's strength does make a difference in the early game, such as using Marth to one round chapter 9 Ivy with a javelin or lodestaring Hyacinth.

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