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Canas and Louise for us.

Edit: since my counterpart was under heavy stress when he was picking ans failed to review who all had been taken, I apologize and hereby say instead of Canas, we choose Karel instead.

I know I'll win with Oswin! heart

I'll be taking Hawkeye and Vaida.

My last pick will be Nino, our lovely guild Captain!

That leaves Shinon with Geitz/Wallace. So now it's time to ahve fun on playing FE7 with these characters, Have fun everyone. smile

Oujay's log of the FE7 Draft Tournament

Drafted Units: Kent, Erk, Fiora, Ninian/Nils, Pent, Bartre, Jaffar
Units Free to Use: Eliwood, Serra, Marcus, Merlinus, Athos

Meet My Tactician!

Yes this probably has been done before, but who cares. I’m going to make everyone sound ungrateful.

Prologue: A Girl from the Plains
xxx Pretty easy chapters, nothing much to say. Lyn solo’d the whole map (no really) I wanted to try to cut turns even more but that would require for Lyn to get crits and I just didn’t want to bother with such a low chance. So yeah easy chapter killing bandits and begins ze journey.

Jeez Lyn, we only just met. Being so ungrateful already. Wow.

Turns: 5
Total Turn Count: 5

Chapter 1: Footsteps of Fate
xxx I wanted to try to just solo this chapter with Kent, but I realized that would’ve taken too long. What I ended up doing was having Lyn widdle down a couple of the bandits and allowing Kent to take the final blows so get gets the extra kill blow exp. Eventually I just rushed the boss and took down bandits along with way.

Look what you did Sain, getting on Lyn’s bad side already.

Turns: 7
Total Turn Count: 12

Chapter 2: Sword of Spirits
xxx I pretty much used the same tactic and had Lyn widdle down some enemies while Kent took all the kills. I also had Lyn take down the breakable wall while Kent attacked the enemies to cut down my turns. Man if I had to walk all the way around that would’ve taken so much more effort. I skipped one bandit in the process however but I think the opportunity cost of giving up that bandit exp for faster turn count was well worth the sacrifice. Plus Kent is already rocking hard and being awesome.

Whatever they are looking at much be pretty disgusting.

Turns: 7
Total Turn Count: 19

Chapter 3: Band of Mercenaries
xxx At this point of the game Kent has leveled up enough to solo beautifully. Kent actually doubled everything on the map on this chapter including the mercenaries which I was pretty surprised about due to their usual higher speed. The top village was kind of tricky though for me at first since I can’t use Florina to visit the village to stop bandits from charging at it. In the end I had to make sure all my other units were away and while a bandit was going for the villages, I had Kent wipe the rest of the map and then the bandit ransacked the village and then charged at Kent. I was hoping for a faster turn out if I was able to utilize Lyn, but she can’t cross mountains like brigands can. So Lame.

Lyn really is hating where this is going aparently.
Turns: 5
Total Turn Count: 24

Chapter 4: In Occupation’s Shadow
xxx I really wished I could just rush the boss and finish this chapter early, but no the game has to be lame and I have to wait out all 7 turns. I wasn’t planning on recruiting Dorcas, but I kind of had to in order to make my life easier since he had a range weapon lol. Lyn recruited Dorcas, moved Dorcas out of the way and then had Lyn fight on the side a little while Kent solo’d the front gate like the boss he is.

Look at that once again she is ungrateful of your amazing tactician mind.

Turns: 7
Total Turn Count: 31

Chapter 5: Beyond the Borders
xxx Woo finally get myself a healer and a mage. Kent just wrecked the top side while Erk and Serra slowly made it towards the boss. I had Erk take the final kill for the boss so he can get some levels. Kent’s level is pretty high by now so I’m going to try to feed some levels into Erk in Lyn mode so he can get nice and beefy by the time I re-recruit him in Eliwood mode. I’ve been seeing armory’s but I haz no money which sucks, I wanted some javelin’s to make Kent’s life even better but I just can’t have nice things. Oh wells, ONWARD.

Lyn REALLY hates meeting new people apparently, no wonder she was against her own mercenary group at first.

Turns: 6
Total Turn Count: 37

Chapter 6: Blood of Pride
xxx This chapter took a bit longer than I thought because we had to go around unlocking doors to get to dem switches. I was surprised that I actually got matthew because I was just going to ignore his house and focus on the goal. Surprisingly enough matthew actually comes out of the house he was hiding in and he forces himself to join Lyn’s group. Didn’t expect that, but it was pretty cool. I had to restart the chapter once because I opened the wrong door which means the only way to progress was to use Matthew to lockpick the doors and that meant penalties lol. Erk and Kent cleaned up easily on this map and thank you Rath for giving me 5k gold at the end of the chapter.

Turns: 8
Total Turn Count: 45

Chapter 7: Siblings Abroad
xxx Hooray I finally get Nils as a unit onto my team. Woot Woot. This probably would’ve taken longer if it wasn’t for Nils, but I ended up doing two different runs for this chapter. I did one attempt to just take the long way around towards the objective. My second run, I used Florina to rescue Kent and had Nils to allow her to move again and drop him off on the same turn for him to just take out the Shaman across the mountain. This caused me to get a 4 turn penalty, but it actually still cut my turns compared to the run if I had to walk all the way around the map just because all the enemy units and terrain that was in the way.

Turns: 2 + 4 turn penalty
Total Turn Count: 51

Chapter 7x: The Black Shadow
xxx Not much to say about this chapter either except for the fact Nils is awesome for allowing extra moves a turn. Along with Nils doing da music, Kent and Erk once again basically cleaned up the mess here. I felt like I might have been able to cut my turn count by one less, but it was way too much effort to attempt it so I’m pretty satisfied with how it turned out. Loving the fact I have Nils now because of the same reasons I already stated. It’s just so great to have Erk attack two units in one turn making life easier for me.

Turns: 6
Total Turn Count: 57

Chapter 8: Vortex of Strategy
xxx I just realized something for once this chapter and that’s the fact that Erk does not have a spare tome to use and he’s starting to run out. Whooops. This chapter was pretty easy though, I had to use Lyn a bit more to help take down units but Kent basically rushed the front as fast as he can and Erk took out the mages on the side. Once again having Nils does help alot. This is the first draft I’ve had them and it’s really helped me appreciate how awesome they are as units.

Turns: 6
Total Turn Count: 63

Chapter 9: A Grim Reunion
xxx This chapter took me a while cause Nils, and Serra were tough to protect. Plus Erk was running out of fire tomes so he was very limited. Eventually I have an epiphany and just removed everyone except for Kent and Lyn (since I needed to her to seize the chapter). I also had Florina rescue Wallace too keep him out of harm’s way. Kent luckily owned Eagler in the face with the lance reaver obtained from the village in the previous chapter.

Turns: 5
Total Turn Count: 68

Chapter 10: The Distant Plains
xxx This chapter took longer than I thought, but man luckily Nils helped counter the lack of movement from rain a little bit with his dancing music bardic skills. Also thank god that this chapter had a shop where I can buy tomes for Erk that helped a bunch. Florina was used in this chapter since undrafted units are allowed to buy and trade so she got Erk’s magic tomes and a heavy spear for Kent against Lungdren without getting penalties. Woot Woot. This chapter was pretty straight forward. Plow through towards Lungdren and Thank you Kent for hitting him twice with the heavy spear for 30 damage when you had a mere 67% chance. RNG was on my side this chapter for once. Erk then nicely got the final blow for some more exps before he reappears in Eliwood Mode. BOOM Chapter End, Lyn Mode ends. Yay Lyn meets her grandfather and happy days. Onward to Eliwood Mode after this

Shh, Shh it’s okay Tactician. She’s only jealous of your amazing brain, don’t let it get to you
Turns: 12
Total Turn Count: 80

Next Time! Eliwood Mode Begins.

The chapter was essentially spent keeping Dorcas, Bartre, and Rebecca corralled in the corner. I knew that the chapter would be slower if I gave Eliwood experience points, but it was going to be necessary if I wanted Eliwood to be at all useful during the playthrough. So Eliwood followed behind Marcus with Lowen while Marcus tried to push through in order to get to the boss. Hoping future chapters go better or as well.







Eliwood went off to the right while Marcus forged his way up with Lowen, generally-speaking, in order to take out all of the enemies. Oswin traded his weapons to Hector and then Rescued him and parked his butt right there so enemies could just attack him and he wouldn't be able to fight back. Worked decently well, though I still wish I hadn't missed the boss last swing and added another turn to the count. >:T Oh well...







Sent Serra, Eliwood, and Lowen down and around while Marcus went up and around the top to grab Merlinus. I ended up having to kill Guy along the way, unfortunately, but that's just what happens when you're an enemy unit in an LTC draft! Get on my level, man.







The process was mostly to use Dorcas and Bartre in tandem to defend the left side for a couple of turns while Oswin defended to the south the entire time. Eliwood eventually pulled around to that side to go through those enemies for valuable EXP (with Serra pulling healing duty). Lowen moved up with Marcus, picking through enemies while Marcus pushed through, went to the village, and then came back around to help kill enemies. Just disappointed I couldn't complete it in under 7 turns.







Eliwood took out the soldiers that popped up on the right side of the map, and then basically I just... pushed left as hard as I could. The only thing that really screwed me over was having to go back in order to attack the Pirates, but at the same time, I'm not entirely sure how better to handle those reinforcements, since they don't easily move, unless I missed something. Hhhhuh. I need to start playing more carefully.





Aw, <******** this chapter.



Florina basically bazooka'd forward and handled about 70% of the enemies on her own. Lowen ensured that Merlinus didn't get his a** killed, Marcus moved around and grabbed the village before swinging back up, and Eliwood steadily forged his way right to the gate. I probably could have given him more EXP, at least when I got to the boss, but seizing the gate a turn earlier was way more valuable. I'm so grateful to Florina, man.







The process here was to ferry Eliwood up and along while the mounted units moved with him. At this rate, I'm going to be using Marcus as a taxi service in order to get him to gates faster, since he's getting higher in levels. Matthew, meanwhile, hitched a ride with Priscilla in order to get the Knight Crest in the upper room for Lowen later. Also, fun fact: when I seized the gate, the soldiers within the room had only had ONE turn in order to leave their cell. It also meant I didn't recruit Lucius or Raven, but sacrifices must be made. Forget your stupid older brother, Priscilla! He's smelly, anyway.