If you think Maniac is restrictive then don't touch Lunatic with a 10 meter footpole, where they actually take tools away from you, like replacing the silver card you get from saving the bishops in the Arlen chapter with a vulneary or changing the warp staff with a fortify staff, locking you out from getting the alternate dragonstones for tiki, or the aum and 2nd hammerne staff.
That's why I chose Maniac in the first place. Most of the hardest diffuculties in FE are poorly designed trash that either removes mechanics or just inflates enemy stats for the sake of a "challenge" . Look at RD's and how it removes weapon triangle and disables seeing enemy ranges. And how the game before that just spammed a bunch of enemies at you with very high stats. Or how Awakening's Lunatic+ gives all enemies overpowered skills, and if you're unlucky with skill combinations, they're literally unkillable (combined with the grossely inflated stats from base Lunatic). I've also heard Maddening mode is pretty bullshit, but I don't know much about Three Houses and don't have much interest in it.
Each enemy class has an family of skills as compensation for them being mostly absent in Hard.
Ouch. How strong are the enemies and bosses?
From what I remember with my own experience, the enemies are really buffed compared to Hard, especially in speed: mooks you could double before might now double you, and there are the aforementioned new skills for each class. Sword, Lance, and Axe enemies now have the associated breaker skills, essentially bringing back the weapon triangle but only when it's in the foe's favor.
Sara's a very good choice to train given she has high ranking in Staves, make sure to save Warp, Rewarp and Rescue for the end game since you will need them a lot.
For curiosity's sake, what patch are you using? I've heard project exile despite fixing the game breaking bug the old patch added and not being a mess of text, it strays somewhat from the original source, and makes up a lot of stuff, as well as adding some fates localization tier humor and changing some things randomly like NPC sprites or Safy's name. And Lil' manster while it does fix some of the issues exile had, still kept some of them just so the exile team wouldn't have their feelings hurt. I played Thracia on the old crappy patch many years ago so i want to know just how good or bad exile/lil are.
My dude, I've just typed fire emblem thracia 776 rom in google and download first link. To my joy, it was in English already. Although looking at those screens I'm pretty sure I have Lil' Manster patch. So far I can recall only one instance of pretty cringe dialogue. It is when you recruit Ilios.
Have you known that if you silence Ilios, you can't recruit him? Yeah, me neither.
But Lindhart has the potential to deal nice damage if you actually manage to train him enough to use both the Blessed Bow and the Magic Bow.
Very true. Magic bow users don't get much support in Three Houses, and Lindhart isn't a bad choice. Though, even intended magic bow users like Mercedes don't really justify the sink cost.
We got a port of the first game as some limited edition deal...And that's it, aside from Advance Wars, but I'm not sure if IS is working on that one.
Yeah no more triangle except breaker skills. The fist are great early game but still good late game
It's mostly irrelevant . The only good thing is that it doesn't promote hoarding you can use your warps safely
Yeah just hit b support and they will end up joining you randomly
Yeah exploring is the best option in the early/mid game
Yeah it kinda like a save state
Yeah mainly you would want to master brigant for deadly (?) blow,mage for fiendish blow and peg for darting blow maybe sniper for +20 hit
I remember my Hanneman being deadly imo he's better as a sniper than as a mage
