Eimi7

Ah I didn't know that mages can crit spells. That sounds rather nasty. Do the crits make up for the lack of getting evoker traits though? My Sov (custom mage) usually ends up with at least +75% spell damage. Though at least this gives me a reason to give her some crit gear. As for melee I guess what you're saying is that Assassins end up the best for damage at the late game, whenever everyone is geared out and such? And I'll try an assassin archer, though I&

While playing I have gotten plenty of mileage from the Mage, Defender, and Warrior upgrade paths for champions, but Assassin has always ended up disappointing me. (Governor is odd too, in that I have to take them into combat to level them, but I want to leave them in my cities.) Compared to Warrior Assassin is much flimsier and they have less damage. Is there a specific set of traits or gear I should give them? Or should I just make anyone I want on the frontlines a warrior or defender?

While playing I have gotten plenty of mileage from the Mage, Defender, and Warrior upgrade paths for champions, but Assassin has always ended up disappointing me. (Governor is odd too, in that I have to take them into combat to level them, but I want to leave them in my cities.) Compared to Warrior Assassin is much flimsier and they have less damage. Is there a specific set of traits or gear I should give them? Or should I just make anyone I want on the frontlines a warrior or defender?

I am very new to both turn based 4x games, and FE in general, so this might just be a newbies perspective, but I want to talk about expanding. I have played Civ V and one feature I liked about that game is that I do not have to expand, that I could have a powerful empire with four cities. Taking that strategy in FE though, has led to me getting destroyed by the AI. My current game I have adopted a mass expansion, basically having one city only making pioneers, and this time the AI is cowed, e