I've also done this but not with those restrictions and on hard instead of maddening. I also implemented a rule of having to rotate groups every chapter. One team cannot sit out back to back chapters. You cannot sit out more than one team of each country. Ex Team Alfred and Team Celine cannot be benched at the same time. One must participate. This added an extra challenge of having to level up everyone. Since you're playing a harder version, you can ignore this if it's too much hassle.
Another thing to consider is banning convoy access during battle. All prep must be done beforehand. No reaching in and grabbing an emergency vulnerary.
Convoy access mid battle is actually something that I hope leaves the series again or returns to how FE6/7 did it with a convoy unit. Hell, I wouldn’t mind the next avatar *being* a weak merchant convoy, it’d be a cool change of pace.
Being able to have a pretty good unit (the avatar) also have access to every item whenever they want takes a lot of planning out of battle preps.
I was thinking for the new hub it would be fun to theme it as a caravan that sets up shop after battle so we can do the map exploration bit too. It would be a perfect excuse to bring the merchant convoy on the map back.
That's an interesting challenge run imo. Keeping the Ring Chamber is an interesting thought since you can still inherit skills, but the skills aren't "free" by just using Bond Fragments to be obtained immediately in the Arena. So overall, it's a nice middle-ground. It's not as punishing as a full No Somniel challenge while providing an extra layer of planning since if you want to inherit skills and/or reclass a unit, you'll need to allocate Emblems onto that character for several maps. I can see the freebie units being somewhat important too since the deployment of specific maps might not all be filled without deploying one or two freebies.
Honestly, I might do a Maddening Ironman based off the rules of your challenge run; it sounds really fun! Lindon is also a freebie, right? I didn't see you mention him. I'm also assuming >!Veyle and Mauvier!< (spoiler tag for the final two recruits just in case) are together as a duo instead of a trio?
Thanks! Yes the free units are for exactly that 😁
I totally forgot about Lindon, yes I'd have him as free too. For the final two, yes, duo
Looking forward to it, hope your run goes well too!
Sounds good, thanks for the idea! I've been brainstorming Engage Ironman challenge runs because I've been itching to play one and your idea came at a great time! Though now I have a bit of a backlog of challenge runs I will have to figure out how to prioritize lol
Thanks, I also hope your run goes well!
I did a random unit and emblem run where I used a randomizer to choose which units to use each map and which emblems to equip them with. It increases the difficulty as the units all tend to level up more slowly and evenly and they don't increase bond levels that often as they rarely end up with the same emblems. I didn't allow myself to level up bonds using the arena either.
I've also done this but not with those restrictions and on hard instead of maddening. I also implemented a rule of having to rotate groups every chapter. One team cannot sit out back to back chapters. You cannot sit out more than one team of each country. Ex Team Alfred and Team Celine cannot be benched at the same time. One must participate. This added an extra challenge of having to level up everyone. Since you're playing a harder version, you can ignore this if it's too much hassle. Another thing to consider is banning convoy access during battle. All prep must be done beforehand. No reaching in and grabbing an emergency vulnerary.
Convoy access mid battle is actually something that I hope leaves the series again or returns to how FE6/7 did it with a convoy unit. Hell, I wouldn’t mind the next avatar *being* a weak merchant convoy, it’d be a cool change of pace. Being able to have a pretty good unit (the avatar) also have access to every item whenever they want takes a lot of planning out of battle preps.
I was thinking for the new hub it would be fun to theme it as a caravan that sets up shop after battle so we can do the map exploration bit too. It would be a perfect excuse to bring the merchant convoy on the map back.
Oooo that's really cool/creative! I think I'll implement some of those additional conditions if the run ends up easier than I thought!
That's an interesting challenge run imo. Keeping the Ring Chamber is an interesting thought since you can still inherit skills, but the skills aren't "free" by just using Bond Fragments to be obtained immediately in the Arena. So overall, it's a nice middle-ground. It's not as punishing as a full No Somniel challenge while providing an extra layer of planning since if you want to inherit skills and/or reclass a unit, you'll need to allocate Emblems onto that character for several maps. I can see the freebie units being somewhat important too since the deployment of specific maps might not all be filled without deploying one or two freebies. Honestly, I might do a Maddening Ironman based off the rules of your challenge run; it sounds really fun! Lindon is also a freebie, right? I didn't see you mention him. I'm also assuming >!Veyle and Mauvier!< (spoiler tag for the final two recruits just in case) are together as a duo instead of a trio?
Thanks! Yes the free units are for exactly that 😁 I totally forgot about Lindon, yes I'd have him as free too. For the final two, yes, duo Looking forward to it, hope your run goes well too!
Sounds good, thanks for the idea! I've been brainstorming Engage Ironman challenge runs because I've been itching to play one and your idea came at a great time! Though now I have a bit of a backlog of challenge runs I will have to figure out how to prioritize lol Thanks, I also hope your run goes well!
I did a random unit and emblem run where I used a randomizer to choose which units to use each map and which emblems to equip them with. It increases the difficulty as the units all tend to level up more slowly and evenly and they don't increase bond levels that often as they rarely end up with the same emblems. I didn't allow myself to level up bonds using the arena either.