>>163578
After giving some thought I remembered again what my new player fire emblem gameplay looked like.

If you came from Jrpg's like final fantasy, then the game can be difficult. See in a game like Final fantasy 7, each character has stats, Strength, Intelligence, Agility, etc... These stats pretty much mean nothing to the player and are a rough ballpark of how good the character is at something. If Cloud's STR is 5 points higher than Tifa's then he will do more basic attack damage. The game obfuscates the formula and the player is not meant to know what 5 points more even means.

What a lot of new players don't realize when playing Fire Emblem (and other games of that ilk) is that the stats are perfectly readable and meant to be. So if Alm has 10 Strength and a sword that ads 2 damage. His attack will be 12 damage minus the bandits defence. Then bandit health subtracted by damage. Same works for magic and resistance. Than you'll just need to figure out speed. In FE Echoes: SoV, if a unit has 1 more point of speed over another unit then they 'outspeed' them and will double their attack. In most FE games I think its 3 points more is a double.

Also I didn't think FE as a hard game but then I remembered my brother's save file of FE: Shadow dragon and how he really screwed his playthrough. He played with classic rules and left his save on a tricky level with very little resources and most named units are dead because he threw every character at the wall and which ever ones didn't die got to continue. (Honestly pretty badass, I always reset for character deaths). So because he played so un-optimally it made his save file way harder to beat on normal difficulty than it was for me to beat my save file on hard.

https://serenesforest.net/
This site is a great resource for Fire Emblem. For example knowing the crafting recipe for a specific weapon in SoV. It certainly isn't necessary to look up anything to beat the game. I started only ever look up stuff after I've beaten a game naturally. SO one can beat any Fire emblem game without it, just gotta read tooltips and pay attention to stats.