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Hi! We're a fairly diverse plural system with various origins and interests! ADHD, autism, likely BPD. Uhm... Yeah, gonna work on this a bit more soon?



computerkatto
@computerkatto

I'm specifically talking about the thing Fates(?) started and Engage continued where it's like. It seems like the writers are adamant about "We Must Have Royals that are Evenly Spread across the relevant kingdoms, and Each Royal must have TWO RETAINERS. TWO and ONLY TWO."
Like.
Come on.
That's never how things work.
I want more characters like Guy FE7, who are just. "I happened to get hired by the guys that are your enemy, but there's this guy Matthew I technically owe a life debt to because he gave me food one time."
I don't care if it's the same backstory that leads to the recruitment
I want more of things like. Grunk wanders into a castle while there happens to be a battle going on, and you can recruit Grunk on turn 1 with Johnathan because they happen to know each other from when Grunk approached Johnathan begging for food.
Is it so hard to ask for more random guys that had no bearing on the plot until they just showed up?
There's literally Two characters in Engage that are random guys from the main story and it's Yunaka and Seadall. No, Lindon and Saphir don't count - they were former retainers-or-whatever to their respective royal houses.


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Honestly it’s a big reason why Thracia & Binding Blade’s casts feel really well rounded. Your lord characters aren’t the centerpiece & you have a wider net that gets cast over who is playable. You get groups like the Magi Squad/Illian Mercenaries in each game who aren’t just loyal to the lord, but have a separate cause for fighting. Similarly you have weird recruits like Dalshin & Hicks that only join you if you save their family or in Binding Blade there’s Douglas who you have to maneuver around the map without killing to recruit him. FE has absolutely gotten too comfortable with the easy recruitments & places in the story for nobles to bring their own retinue for free.

Yeah! I also wanted to mention the thing where the retainers (all of them in engage, except hortensia's) join literally at the exact same time as the royals. At least in Fates you got some retainers super early compared to their lord. Or some retainers a few maps after their lord.
With Engage, oops! We didn't actually establish these characters' motivations other than wanting to be literally inseparable with their lord! Well at least you weren't using those three entire deployment slots, right?? What, you were? You wanted to TRAIN your earlygame units? Nonsense - these new ones are factually better anyways!