The Great Way of the Warrior Draft Race

[Marcus]

A while back my brothers and I were looking for fun new ways to play video games and we stumbled upon the interesting concept known as Fire Emblem draft races. What it essentially boils down to is that you and the people playing with you each take turns drafting a team of characters from the chosen Fire Emblem game. You each then play through the game with your selected team, with the objective being to complete the game in as few turns as possible. (You can read the complete rules here.)

After trying this with my brothers, I talked to Zach about it and he and I decided we should do a Sacred Stones draft race. The only problem is that we're two players short. If you're interested in joining us, let me know in the thread. First come, first serve. When we've got enough players, we'll conduct the draft through PM's.

[Marcus]

Well, after a bit of consideration, we've decided to switch the game to Shadow Dragon, because more people seem to own it. Participating in this race are myself, Zach, Edrick, and Gabe. We'll be updating on our progress in this thread as we each play through the game. Below, you'll find the rules for this race, as well as our individual teams.

Drafting:
1. This draft is for 4 players.
2. Marth, Jagen and Nagi/Gotoh are free for all to use.
3. The game will be played on (Normal).

Rules:
1. Undrafted units may recruit characters, visit houses, trade, meatshield, and shop.
2. Undrafted units may not do anything not listed above, including but not limited to opening chests/doors.
3. Gaiden (and prologue, if NM) chapters do not count towards the total turncount up to 20 turns taken.
4. You may not reclass your drafted units.
5. You are free to reclass undrafted units to whatever you want.
6. Marth may not Seize the throne in Chapter 19 before Turn 5.

Other:
1. Forging, Wi-Fi Shop, and usage of the Warp staff are strictly prohibited.
2. You may not use loaner units.

Penalties:
1. Undrafted units have a 4 turn penalty, per unit per chapter.

Teams:

Marcus:

Ogma
Cain
Bord
Wrys
Minerva
Castor
Macellan
Beck
Arran
Xane
Lorenz

Edrick:

Barst
Merric
Caeda
Julian
Athena
Sedgar
Wolf
Navarre
Boah
Horace
Vyland

Zach:

Lena
Frey
Linde
Roger
Hardin
Catria
Caesar
Cord
Maria
Midia
Astram

Gabe:

Abel
Draug
Darros
Wendel
Norne
Roshe
Matthis
Dolph
Palla
Jeorge
Etzel

[Gabe]

I never knew how hard hyman was to kill until i wasnt allowed to use ogma or navarre. I'm lucky no one died.

[Gabe]

rest in piece matthis you were worse then i thought. You died to minerva in ch 10 so i shot her in the face woth jeorge. Hope you become a good unit in your next life.


Update. Palla and etzel died to i hope i can keep it together for the rest of the run

[Gabe]

Total turns 491

[Zacharia]

Update: I'm on Chapter 11. No idea what my turn count is, but I'm averaging tens most levels. Maria sacrificed her body in Chapter to let Caesar live. Since that leaves me one less healer and Caesar's not so great this time around, I'm not sure how I feel about that.

oyeah and Frey's also based god

[Kyle]

Update: I just beat chapter 12x and got the last of my units. Time to see how things go. Also Navarre is sucking, Julian has the same str and speed at a lower level.

[Marcus]

Well, I've just cleared Chapter 7 and things are going decently. I lost Castor, but he wasn't doing so hot anyways, so I guess he's not much of a loss. My total turn count so far is 84 turns, and my units' stats look a little something like this

          HP STR MAG SKL SPD LCK DEF RES
Marth  28 12    0     10  18    16   10   1
Jagan  23 7      1     11  8      1     9    6
Cain    29 10    0     11  11    8     10   0
Wrys   25 0      5     6    8      4     3    7
Ogma  29 10    0     15  13    5     8    0
Bord    26 11    0     8    7      3    6     0
Castor DECEASED

[Marcus]

Well, Chapter 13 is done and, while I took the Wooden Cavalry done quickly, they took Jeigan and Macellan with them. I honestly wasn't too upset losing either of them, seeing as Macellan would have taken a lot of babysitting and Jeigan is... well, Jeigan. Ogma and Wrys both promoted at the end of the chapter.

[Zacharia]

It's been a long time coming, but I finished Shadow Dragon. It was a little draining to see so many good units die like that.

(Prologue 1 = 8 turns)
(Prologue 2 = 7 turns)
(Prologue 3 = 10 turns)
(Prologue 4 = 14 turns)
Prologue not counted, no Gaiden chapters were used

Ch. 1 = 10 turns
Ch. 2 = 6 turns
Ch. 3 = 8 turns
Ch. 4 = 10 turns
Ch. 5 = 7 turns
Ch. 6 = 14 turns
Ch. 7 = 9 turns
Ch. 8 = 9 turns
Ch. 9 = 9 turns
Ch. 10 = 16 turns
Ch. 11 = 14 turns
Ch. 12 = 15 turns
Ch. 13 = 8 turns
Ch. 14 = 13 turns
Ch. 15 = 6 turns
Ch. 16 = 6 turns
Ch. 17 = 22 turns
Ch. 18 = 13 turns
Ch. 19 = 14 turns
Ch. 20 = 14 turns
Ch. 21 = 20 turns
Ch. 22 = 11 turns
Ch. 23 = 14 turns
Ch. 24 = 6 turns
Ch. 25(ENDGAME) = 9 turns

Unit sacrificed in Prologue: Gordin

Units fallen: Maria (Ch. 12), Astram (Ch. 13, Unrecruited), Linde (Ch. 18), Hardin (Ch. 22), Cord (Ch. 23)

Units in final chapter/Endgame: Marth(capped level), Frey, Catria, Lena, Caesar, and Gotoh
Would've used the other units I had available, but they just weren't up to snuff to fight the promotes and manaketes in the later chapters. Especially Roger, my god. I still love you in my heart, Jeigan :'^(

Total turns, excluding all Prologue and Gaiden Chapters cleared in <20 turns: 283

[Marcus]

Welp, I didn't want it to come to this, but it seems that I just didn't play well in this race. I made it all the way to chapter 24, but by then everyone except for Marth had died. I'm sure there's some way for me to beat the game with just Marth, but frankly I don't want to struggle that much. Additionally, I really don't want to start the game over. So, I'm throwing in the towel and forfeiting the race. Maybe I'll do better in the next one.

[Zacharia]

Now to wait for Edrick's results.

[Kyle]

Totally not late in this and forgot about it My total turns ended up being 303. I lost a lot of turns early on because of no healer, which was kinda fun to do. Not going to lie, it made the game much more intense.

[Marcus]

The final standings for this race are as follows:

1.) Zach- 283 Turns
2.) Edrick- 303 Turns
3.) Gabe- 491 Turns
4.) Marcus- FORFEITED

Congrats Zach! You win this moldy pie crust!

[Zacharia]

ᕙ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ᕗ VICTORY ᕙ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ᕗ


Shadow Dragon was a lot more fun with the added challenge, as opposed to the first time I played it. But god willing, let's never do this one again.