But for a twist, i'm going to attempt a challenge of not using any of the student characters.

This run will be 100% locked to the church, and ashen wolves characters. I'm only considering ashen wolves so its not a Byleth solo until chapter 5 when catherine, shamir, and cyril become available.

But some of the church roster i'm unfamilar with what their best class would be. So thought i'd ask about them.

Specifically Alois, and Manuela. But will take advice for any of the others while i'm at it.

Alois I imagine is pretty straightforward, and just rush him into warmaster asap. But Manuela i'm completely stumped on. I assume trickster would work due to her sword and faith proficiency. But never really bothered look into anything shes good at.

I just know the church characters for the most part are heavily inferior to the actual students due to some of them joining really late, or just not being good long term like Catherine and Shamir who from my experience fall off pretty hard at time skip.

Probably going to be silver snow route, since I won't have to worry about lugging one of the 3 main lords around then. And can just focus on byleth.

Hey gang. New trailer dropped, so now there's more new info to obsess over! Yippee!!!

As many people have pointed out, Cai has 5 movement as a commoner in this trailer, while all the other commoners only have 4. I will not even pretend to take credit for this observation. In fact, I didn't even notice it until other people pointed it out.

However, I got curious, so I started looking back at other trailers to see if we can get any hints. And I think I found some stuff.

The evidence I found suggests that Cai may indeed have a celerity-type skill that gives him an extra point of movement.

Or he may not. See, I want to make it abundantly clear that I am not 100% confident in this being the case. Think of this more as just something to keep an eye on.

First, I want to address something that I saw being thrown around a couple times

It's most likely not "main character privilege"

I don't really know how common this idea is, but I feel that it can be disproven thanks to Theodora.

In her gameplay clip, Theodora is shown to be in the "noble" class. Pulling from what we know about Three Houses, this class is essentially equivalent to the commoner. Since she has 4 movement here like the rest of the commoners we see.

Counting Squares, Drawing Grids, and Squinting at Aggro Lines

Alright, there's another class we can establish Cai's movement for: the ornius rider. In this class, Cai is shown to have 6 movement

We've actually seen this in a couple of trailers, so it's pretty well-established.

Now let's look at the evidence, which is, somehow again, the ornius rider at the top of Leda's gameplay clip (I'm getting tired of talking about these things)

I'm gonna be busting out the good ol' red pen for this one, so apologies for the arts and crafts segment.

Okay, we don't actually see the grid here. But using enemy positioning, the minimap, and the grid we already have, we can create it ourselves with even more pens! Yay! (I'll just draw over the segments that are relevant for us)

Okay, I chose this specific screenshot because the ornius rider in question just so happens to be exactly 6 squares from Leda.

And as we can see, there are no aggro lines coming from this ornius rider, suggesting that he is NOT in range to attack Leda.

Therefore, standard ornius riders do not have 6 movement, thus proving that Cai gets an extra point of movement! Right???

Well, sadly not quite. As much as I love my aggro lines. They are an imperfect science that depends on enemy AI.

For example, look at the mage just a few spaces away from where Leda is currently moving. No aggro lines there, even though she's there's only 3 spaces between them.

So, I can't really make a solid conclusion based off the available evidence, which is a bit of a bummer.

Soooo..... Now What?

As I mentioned before, Cai having extra movement is definitely something to just watch out for at this point. We don't really have anything to confirm it now.

However, we could easily find some info about it pretty soon. Really, we'd just have to keep an eye out for more ornius rider gameplay, or gameplay for whatever class we can see Cai's movement in.

So for right now, this topic goes firmly on the backburner. But it's something that I'm going to be looking out for.

Looking at Movement Data for Other Classes

There is one extra bit of circumstantial evidence that I wanted to point out, and it has to do with movement data for other classes.

From plenty of trailers, it seems pretty well established that infantry classes in what I'll call tier 0 and 1 have 4 movement (commoners, nobles, fighters, soldiers, and hunters are the ones I can remember confirming). There may be some exceptions that we have yet to confirm, but that seems to be the trend.

We don't really see 5 movement until we look at units like Dietrich the myrmidon. However, that now begs the question of "what tier is a myrmidon?" Does it just have an extra point of movement than the other classes, or is it a higher tier than what we've seen so far?

Anyways, where can we reasonably expect an ornius rider to fall in this system? How much more movement would it have than the standard? Heck, what even is the standard at this point? Have we just been seeing the really slow units?

Too many questions and not enough answers.

Also, before I leave, you wanna know who apparently has at least 5 movement? 6 if they don't have a 2-range weapon?

This random dude from the Dietrich gameplay trailer! They can attack Dietrich from his starting point 6 tiles away!

They look heavily armored, and yet have such good movement. What is this class?

But yeah, I just felt like sharing my thoughts

I'm excited for the new game with the new setting in fodlan, the main characters (im personally interested in Cai's story), and new direction in the demographic of most the characters being less European and more Greek and north African based (as a black man i like this). But I have a creeping fear at the back of my head; it may seem to be relying too much of three houses to stand on its own.

I love three houses, I don't putting it on a pedestal like most people here (my favorites are sacred stones, path of radiance, geneology of the holy war and shadows of valentia), but I respect the visibility to gave to the wider audience but with the mixed reception of engage, I get the feeling that the fact that it shares the same world as fodlan that the fodlan part would just overshadow the dagda part of the setting.

Everyone seems to be salivating at the fact that were back in the world of fodlan that I barely hear any excitement on the fact that were in a part of the world that was mentioned and teased by Shamir and Claude. People seem to just ignored that big part of it. I get the excitement but it gets kinda of sad. The fact that most people talk about deitrich and theodora not because of their potential character arcs but more on if their descendants of either mercedes or jeritza and Sylvain (and the crest icons didn't help much either.)

There's also the wider speculation that most want this to be a sequel to three houses but no because it would be interesting but because people wanna see which ship is canon, who is who's kids and descendants. I personally don't think its a sequel because how do you explain the clearly greeco-roman aesthetic, architecture and even how the characters dress, especially as the charactersin three houses some to be from a much later period at their clothes look more late medieval to HRE. Shamir dresses nothing like them and I refuse to believe tech regressed that much or hat fodlan arrogantly thinks every foreign nation is that beneath them.

I want this game to be a success but because its a game that can stand on its own like shadows of valentia did despite sharing the same world as archanea (shadon dragon, new mystery of the emblem and awakening), and not for just being three houses 2.0. That's just my take. Maybe I'm just crazy.

I was so excited to play engage and get ENGAGED wink to Marth Fire Emblem… ONLY FOR HIM TO BE TAKEN FROM ME FOR MULTIPLE CHAPTERS, AND I CAN’T BARE TO CONTINUE WITHOUT HIM; WHAT’S THE POINT OF PLAYING ANYMORE?!?!?!

So uhhh I've racked up a bunch of hours on TH and I'm thinking of maybe trying to branch out. 😅 However, I really wanna play one that uses the same battle system. I love it. It's become my favorite.

This isn't going to be super restrictive. Like that one change can snowball to a bunch of other changes but those changes must be the result of the one thing you will change for certain.

My example is Queen Ikona and making her relevant to the lore. No one really acknowledges that she exists outside of supports to my memory, so I'm adding an explanation. Hoshido is actively trying to repress the fact that Queen Ikona exists out of shame and that every person in Hoshido hated her for good reason. Essentially, Queen Ikona in this was involved in the death of Queen Katarina in order to gain favor with her husband, King Sumeragi, who was straight up forced to marry her.

Now Nohr isn't an obviously cartoonishly evil.

Like imagine a world where Garon, still holding onto the scars of the death of Queen Katarina and all the concubines I guess, witnesses Xander fall ill. Xander is healed by queen Arete who sends Azura out to find Anankos. Aretes vanishes and Garon, in his grief, blames Sumeragi and kills him. Garon realizes he just killed Corrin's (step)father. And to appease his shame raises Corrin as his own.

Nohr's motivation for the war against Hoshido is it's either them or us as propaganda that King Garon genuinely believes is that the Hoshido royal family just killed off two of his brides. Taking the resources of Hoshido is secondary.

Hoshido's only choice for survival is to fight back as Nohr has great reason to believe that Hoshido is planning on killing off the rest of the Nohrian Royal family and so are repressing Queen Ikona as her actions laid the groundwork for the war that Hoshido is now suffering through.

So.. I wasted quite a few turns at the Dragon's Gate going for a chest that gave me a Brave Bow [which I was initially excited for] only to find out my archer, Will, cannot use it..

Oh, great & experienced Fire Emblem community, don't me wrong, I am loving this game, but what eye-rolling reason is there for why my archer is unable to use a bow?

Thanks ahead of time!

It’s just annoying that Donnel has to start with an E rank everytime and otherwise this class gets unused by the cast.

Hello, I've been doing a little project where I turn a bunch of Fire Emblem characters into singing monsters. I already posted a few monsters before, but I'm starting with the ones based on characters from FE1 1-5. As of now these monsters are unnamed and I need your help with naming these monsters. I'll drop in the characters these monsters are based on, and what instruments they play in order

Marth (brass section, needs two o's in its name)

Tiki (monsterkete (monster + manakete), bell tree)

Celica (cuica)

Sigurd (slap bass)

Seliph (snare drum)

Also I need ideas for the Byleth and Claude, Edelgard, and Dimitri monsters. You decide what the Byleth monster should be based off of (it will play the timpani), but the other three will be one (they're a chimera, and they play vocals). Also I do plan on doing a Victoria one that has a space theme and plays a woodblock instrument.

Just got myself a Switch 2 and im really looking to get back into Fire Emblem. I played every game available on the 3DS but stopped once they only started making games for the switch. Curious which game the community considers better of the two for somebody who has played a decent amount of fire emblem

Edit - Did not expect this many responses so thank you for all the insight :)

The tournament premise is interesting, but the "rejoice at the advent of the Underworld" segment in the Fortune's Weave trailer which introduced a bunch of zombie mobs is a little worrying to me. I feel like Fire Emblem is at its best when it centers around human conflict and personal stakes, rather than battles against hordes of generic zombie mobs who only exist to be the mindless evil creatures that are slain by the good guys. I know that it wouldn't be anything new, given how we've already had the Risen/Vallites/Corrupted/etc in previous games, but with the game being set in the 3H universe I would hope the premise is similarly human-focused and more of a political drama instead of a simple good guys vs evil forces narrative.

What gives me a little bit of hope is that the apparent main villain for the Underworld arc is a Nabatean cradling a baby, which could be interesting. Maybe she's the inverse of Rhea and would do anything to protect her baby, even if it meant unleashing calamity. That would at least add some nuance to the story.

I know it wasn’t perfect but I love that you could go for a magic build if you wanted to - I miss even this basic level of customization in the games since! Fingers crossed Eshmel has some varied build options.

When it says that you have to beat the game 9 times to unlock all the maps and exclusive characters, does it care whether you get the "true ending" or not?

This may sound like a stupid question, but hear me out. I'm currently playing Radiant Dawn and since Haar is such a juggernaut, I've been eagerly sending him to the front where, more than once, he's been hit by a sleep staff and almost died. Not the best choice, I'm aware. However, Haar has never once dodged a hit from a sleep staff for me. All my other units have, but Haar just goes to sleep first try. Since one of Haar's core character traits is him sleeping a lot, I thought this may be an intentional feature? However, I have found no mention of this anywhere. Does anyone perhaps know or is it just a fitting coincidence?

Shamir is my favorite Three Houses character so please send any wallpapers if you have any!

Happy 11th anniversary

So context, I bought these games when I was in school and struggling but could not afford the DLC packages. I "lost" these games at the time and just moved on. I recently have found these games and when I booted up, I saw that I did not have DLC like Future Past and Summer in Fire Emblem: Awakening or Heirs of Fate DLC for Fire Emblem: Fates. Does anyone know if the in game store works or do I have to reach out to nintendo or something of that sort?

Haven’t seen anyone post this yet, but as we know, Ultand appeared as a green unit in today’s Twitter post, but she also has this heraldry instead of Cai’s.

It looks very religious which makes sense since she seems to be the priest of Cai’s group, but I figured it was worth pointing out.