LogFAQs > #968365222

Yeah, there's a ton of largely pointless units in Shadow Dragon. If you want to get the "less than 15 units" gaiden chapters you have to deliberately march dozens of people into a meat grinder.

IIRC Barst is pretty good. Bord and Cord, less so. This also applies to their personalities, what little there is at least.

You can turn Cord into a passable Dark Mage, at least. Draug is another interesting unit to reclass; his personal Spd is amazing and his personal Def nonexistent, so he develops into a glass cannon outside of Knight. (Well, I guess you do need to make him a Fighter/Pirate or Dark Mage in order to get the damage part of "glass cannon".)