Wow! This is really terrible!

[swanchika]

 After (over)using him to make a Hard/Classic run completely trivial (up to and including the bonus boss), I had forgotten that Python actually kind of sucks. Or at least, it's hard to actually use him without a good dose of nurturing and favouritism. Even in a Normal run where there was no one else to fill the archer niche, what with both Tobin and Kliff being Mages. Speaking of, that's probably a questionable reclassing choice (at least, it made poor Luthier even more useless than usual), but Mage!Kliff never let me down, and Sage!Tobin has Excalibur and Physic in his bag of tricks. There is no such thing as too many Physic users. On the other hand, I also used them at Delthea's expense. Oh well, you can't have everything. And I suppose Physic was all the more useful to pull off the reckless tactics of a (relatively) quick run. Really, the 500 turn medal isn't hard to get in Normal, even when I still had enough honour to play in Classic mode, and even while doing everything to keep Python and Forsyth in the endgame team -- though even then, I didn't expect them to have the most kills of all the army once again.

And with that, until I muster the courage to do a Hard/Classic Blitzkrieg (which probably means dropping Forsyth and Python and doing all kinds of unorthodox stuff), I think I can count the game as thoroughly finished. Now I suppose I should go back to Fates, but while the battles are more varied, they're also much harder... and that game didn't really give me anyone to care about (on top of having so many characters I can't even get all the Nohrians' names straight).