LogFAQs > #969504655

That's one of the stellar defend maps I mentioned. It's both well-designed and hard, and it represents a pivotal story point.

I would appreciate Chapter 8 more if it didn't come so quickly on the heels of Chapter 5. Conceptually, I can appreciate "let's do that again without Gatrie (and Shinon)" as a way of showing how their departure has hurt the Greil Mercenaries, but gameplaywise I simply do not find it enjoyable.

It's too bad that Mist and Rolf don't join until Ch9. It'd make sense for them to force-deploy in Ch8 instead; just move Mist's portion of the end of chapter cutscene to the start, and give Rolf a line. They'd both be more useful there than they are in Ch9. And, between them and Mia/Ilyana, you would actually get to use more characters in Chapter 8 than you did in Chapter 5.

I knew about Mia, and if I'm remembering correctly Nephenee, being not great in this game because they're really popular characters who are also bad, but people use them anyways.

Nephenee has shaky start and develops into a competent, if unexciting, infantry combatant. Of course, FE9 has full Canto and lots of snowball-capable, so "generic infantry" is not a valuable niche.

Mia is a swordlocked character in an enemy-phase-heavy game, 'nuff said.

What's the money situation in this game?

Forging extra Might onto items with very low base Might (such as Light tomes) can be absurdly expensive. Other than that, money should not be a concern.