MAD LAD! | Let's Play Fire Emblem Black Eagles w/ ShadyPenguinn [01]

You have the same birthday as Sothis because her heart was put into you at birth if I'm right which I might be right

Shady, you should listen to the Three Houses main theme (Edge of Dawn) and look up the japanese/original name for the song!!! :3

Hello, fellow Heathens!

Bernadetta is amazing as an archer, please do not make her into a dancer, it would be a waste.

Shady, for Bernadetta, I recommend you go into lancing with her, she gets a skill called Vengeance which when you use that combat art you deal extra damage based off her missing hp which I believe is exclusive to her and it's pretty strong

Also something cool about the opening cutscene, you can see the ten elites activate their crest stones (The red glows) This doesn't mean much in your first playthrough, but now you've played golden deer, it means that from the very beginning of the game, the truth about the 10 elites being against seiros was right in front of you.

In order to unlock the Edelgard route, you will need to talk to her everytime you explore the monastery each month. I can't wait to play through my first Maddening run right along side you.

don’t make a save file if you want to want to play the church route casually! that would be a cruel surprise when you come back to it....

Quick tips for the Mad Lad Shady iron bows are a good weapon to have for all physical units, gambits are a good way to gain some extra stats especially for the first battle, you will need to upgrade your leadership skills for units you have used and equip those before the first Battle. For all the axe users you should probably get them to master the Archer class since it gives them the +20 accuracy perk, on the note of classes have Edelgard and Petra both master the Pegasus knight as soon as possible as that will give +6 attack speed when attacking to get some cheeky doubles that you will eventually stop being able to do. Maddening should be quite the obstacle for you Mr Penguin but I believe in you and wish you good luck

Wooooooooooot!

Don't forget that you can use renown for class mastery abilities. There are a few that your Byleth should have access to that will help a lot in the early game. Also you will start getting more gold each month when you increase your professor level.

So would you be able to post the church route vod somewhere and then the fire emblem lore stream

Also you could have talked to the faculty in the second floor before going to Rhea. Jeralt mentions that a lot of the people at the Church are new and he doesn't remember seeing them before.

Notice how in the animated cutscene Edelgard is showing her crest if Seiros in her hand to her classmates

To add on to what has been said about maddening, don’t expect to double your enemies, most of the time you’re the one being doubled. That’s why combat arts such as hunters volley (sniper exclusive) and Swift Strikes (Lance level A for Ferdinand and Sylvain) are some of your best tools. Maddening is tough, you’ll die a lot, and you’ll really want to maximize the classes you use so you can’t do cute choices, you’ll also have to pay very close attention to the skills and stats your opponents have to have the best chance. If Hard mode is equivalent to a nuzlocke, then maddening is basically a shadylocke with randomized moves. The difficulty spike between normal and hard isn’t comparable to hard and maddening, so good luck! I’ll be looking forward to seeing how you do!

Some great recruits for this route, if you want to get the paralogues, would be Lysithea, Leonie, & Mercedes (for other reasons you will see later). Shamir could also provide some interesting supports with Hubert, Caspar, and Petra! As for a Dancer, you could do Dorothea again if you wanted to, but if you want to change it up, Constance is just as good of a choice! I hope you find Maddening on New Game+ a good challenge! If you run into difficulties, feel free to use your stat boosters that you get throughout the game, gardening, and the Holy Tomb (the Amiibo Gazebo). If you find it too hard, you can always change it back to Hard mode in the options. Excited to see this playthrough! :-)

You learn the most about Hanneman through his support with Edelgard so it is recommended to have him even as an adjutant. Bernadetta's crest of Indech comes in CLUTCH during battle! I would recommend, if you want someone new, make Linhardt your dancer. You might need to help his charm a bit but he is fine, if you recruit Constance she is also a fine dancer. People are mentioning Yuri and Bernadetta's support it is good but is more impactful if you save it for another playthrough, after you have seen Bernie interact with other units.

I can’t wait to see Shadys reaction to Rhea in this route

You’ll get a lot of info on rhea in this route, don’t worry :)

I recommend Mercedes as your dancer, since you already have magic users and you'll be recruiting her anyway. Bernadetta is much more suited to being an archer.

There's an item you should have from the DLC that increases movement. I recommend giving it to Linhardt. He's a fantastic healer and that movement comes in clutch.

highly recommend you use hubert or mercedes as your dancer. also, to prevent what happened at the end of the last playthrough, you can look at a unit's details to see who they are the most close with. this will tell you who they will most likely end up with and you can check it to make sure the people you ship together, end up together <3

You should recruit Yuri for his support with Bernadetta

make doorthean a dance becuase she is good with mage pluse trin her in sword too and make berndaea and archer becuase her chram is low

Also, allow me to run down who you should recruit (Skipping students you'd recruit solely for support with Blakc Eagles Students that aren't Edelgard or Hubert) For support with Edelgard/Hubert - Lysithea - Hanneman - Mannuela - Constance For Paralogues - Leonie - Lysithea (Again) And also get Mercedes. Anyone else likely has support with another Black Eagle student but there are many of those. You'd end up with everyone.

So, as you'll learn: Bernadetta is not a magic user! She's the resident Bow user of the Black Eagles. Hubert and Dorothea are reason users, and Lindhardt and Dorothea make great healers. Edelgard is Axe and Heavy Armor, with Caspar Axe and Brawling. Petra is good at swords, axe, bow, and flying. Ferdinand would be your knight, good at sword, lance, axe, and riding! Also good tank with heavy armor. You'll see soon, but I suggest you dancer is not one of the Black Eagles.

Shady, since you're playing on maddening, i strongly recommend recruiting felix and lysithea asap (use mission assistance from them, build supports/buy their B-support - black eagles have the hardest time earlygame on maddening, imo). I *strongly* recommend Mercedes and Leonie as well: Mercedes is very good for Edelgard's route for timeskip reasons, and Leonie is good for her timeskip dialogue + the paralogue you missed in GD AND she's also great as a usable unit (I'd recommend Bow or Falcon Knight for her in edelgard's route specifically). I'd also recommend recruiting all the ashen wolves: all except balthus have supports with BE students, and balthus also has interesting things to say in the timeskip portion of edelgard's route. hanneman and manuela should be recruited for supports with edelgard/hubert, and shamir should be recruited for hubert's support. you should really consider making edelgard into a wyvern lord, it's by and far her best class and is WAY better than her "personal class" in the timeskip. You should *definitely* get death blow on her from Brigand, and then make her into a Wyvern Rider for her advanced class. petra does her best work in wyvern lord too as you already know. You should also strongly consider making Dorothea your dancer, if you want one - she's basically built to be it. She's otherwise your second offensive mage (she has a REALLY nice black magic spell list!) aside from Hubert, who you should class as either Dark Bishop or Dark Knight. Linhardt is the resident healer; Bishop is a good class for him. Bernadetta is the BE's resident archer/sniper, and it probably wouldn't be the best idea to take her away from that role here, especially since she gets a very nice combat art a A-level bows. Same with Ferdinand, except lances: he should either be put in a cavalry class (specifically, Paladin) to make use of his A-level lance combat art (swift strikes, plus he excels in riding), as those classes have Lancefaire as an innate ability; or wyvern lord (which he has a relatively easy time getting into due to his strengths in axes and lances). Caspar should gear towards being a War Master, fed through Brigand -> Warrior.

Please don't make Bernadetta a dancer, she's such a good archer it would be a waste. Make Dorothea your dancer or recruit someone else for it. That said, super excited for this playthrough regardless of what you do!

I made Hubert my dancer in my most recent playthrough of black eagles. It's hilarious everytime he dances

i will said pratra a assian or a wiever rider like nlue lion and you need yuiar for some black elga

Shady, I recommend trying to avoid skipping dialogue and cutscenes because as you saw at the beginning you will start to notice and make sense of things you didn't notice before. Bernadetta is an Archer by nature and her crest makes her a monster with it so maybe don't make her a dancer if you wanna survive maddening. Not to mention that Dorothea is arguably the best dancer in the game. Also as long as you're watching the comments carefully you can just go about recruiting whoever you need to and don't split save files until right before the split timelines to avoid having to do the first half all over again.

you need yaiur too for bedreine sppout

Shady the reason it says “Claude’s smile doesn’t reach his eyes” is because he’s not very genuine and doesn’t trust people

You shouldn’t just recruit Coco in this play through, you should also marry her 😉

Lystheia is a must in this play through she makes playing on maddening doable and she has some good supports

Oh and also get Mercedes!

This is what I've been waiting for since you started the Blue Lions playthrough all those months ago. This is literally the most excited I've been for someones LP in years. I'm so ready.

Shady I would heavily recommend frequent use of combat arts. Accuracy is so low in maddening that the boosted accuracy of some combat arts like wrath strike, smash, and curved shot are clutch in so many situations. Also experience gained is half in maddening mode, and regular auxiliary battles give basically no experience. Also keep in mind that bows become less accurate with distance. So curved shot is more accurate at 2 range than 3 range, for example

You are playing on Maddening, so you honestly can't throw away Bernie as a dancer. Dorothea is programmed to be a dancer and you have to take advantage of that

Maddening will break you Shady, good luck! EDIT: Also Jeralt is lying to Seteth and Rhea about Byleth's origin as well, even though Rhea knows; he's suspicious of her ivolvement with Byleth.

Here is a list of classes for your units that will give you a much easier time. If you don't want to do these you can still pick whatever classes you want. Edelgard as a Wyvern Lord since it makes her relic even more broken. Hubert as a Dark Knight. Ferdinand as a Wyvern Lord. Bernadetta as a Sniper since Hunters Volley is very important. Linhardt as a Bishop for extra strength in healing and double uses of White Magic. Dorothea as a Dancer or Dark Flier. Petra as a Wyvern Lord or Sword Master. Caspar as a Wyvern Lord or Grappler for Fierce Iron Fist.

Also, Hard Mode is average difficulty and Maddening is unbelievably difficult and frustrating. Good luck and remember there's always an option to change difficulty!

Leonie, Lysithea, and Constance. Yuri and Hapi also have some supports with the Black Eagles (Bernie, Dorothea, Linhardt), and I would recruit Balthus for the extra Abyssian Seal anyway.

Maddening mode hype! Awesome! I'd recommend only recruiting leonie and lysithea to get some lore and knowledge and otherwise keep it pure for the best experience but do whatever you want it's your playthrough I'm just excited to watch One thing to look out for is enemy skills, that is super important!

I would suggest doing this playthrough without New Game + because is you clear Maddening without it you get a special reward.

The difficulty gap between hard and maddening is huge so lets see if you are up for it. Here are a few things that will help you out this run. Make sure you always pay attention to enemy skills because each enemy class will have certain skills. For example Thieves will always have Pass and Snipers will always have Vantage. Hopefully you plan to recruit some people because certain units make Maddening much more manageable. Felix is great to recruit because he is incredibly strong as a War Master plus he has 4 different unique battle quotes with enemies. Lorenz is good to get the Thyrsus so your mages have more range. Sylvain is great to have and had you chosen Female Byleth he would have joined you without any requirements. If you want to use all of your students then do that but I would suggest using Caspar as a Guard Adjutant for someone and using Felix instead since Caspar isn't that great.

The sword Seiros was using is the same one that Edelgard has in the end cut scene of the Blue Lion Route. I dont know if it has any importance, I just finished playing the Blue Lions Route yesterday so its fresh on the mind

rember to get a c+ witj edelgard by chappter 11 to talk to her affter you done to unlock something to do her route and to get yiuar for berred amd dorthea spoort

Omg Shady going on maddening with Black lions 😱😂😂

No paper Mario then?

Black Lions 😂 YAY THOUGH so excited for this

YES Edelgard time:’)

Black Lions?? 🤔🤔