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*[[Ignatius]] - A [[Valmese]] commander and boss of [[Dancing Flames over the Blue Seas|Chapter 14]].
 
*[[Ignatius]] - A [[Valmese]] commander and boss of [[Dancing Flames over the Blue Seas|Chapter 14]].
 
*[[Cervantes]] - One of [[Walhart]]'s officers and boss of [[The Divine Dragon Priestess|Chapter 16]] and [[The True King|20]].
 
*[[Cervantes]] - One of [[Walhart]]'s officers and boss of [[The Divine Dragon Priestess|Chapter 16]] and [[The True King|20]].
*[[Mus]] - Boss of Chapter 22 and one of the [[Deadlords]].
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*[[Mus]] - Enemy from Chapter 22 and one of the [[Deadlords]]. Boss of Infinite Regalia.
 
*Possible promotion for: [[Kellam]] and [[Kjelle]]
 
*Possible promotion for: [[Kellam]] and [[Kjelle]]
   

Revision as of 03:56, 18 May 2013

Generals are the promoted versions of Knights. They have excellent defense, good attack, surprising evasive ability for their size and low resistance. They are quite slow, but what they lack in maneuverability they make up for with defensive and offensive ability. Many of the bosses in several games are generals (or their lesser form earlier in the game)

Combat

Generals can be used like "walls" to block enemy forces and are quite useful in survival and defense objective battles. They can be used to block small entrances to prevent opposing units from getting past them, this is very useful if you wish to stop thieves from escaping. A General's weaknesses are magic and anti-armor weapons, as well as fast moving durable and powerful characters like Heroes, experienced Paladins and Warriors. In many newer games such as Radiant Dawn and Awakening, Generals have higher magic stats, thus making speedy units and anti armor weapons their prime weakness.

The rarity of a general ever being out matched on the field through sheer brute force is high, which means they are very valuable to any team and their durability is very helpful to weaker units as they can hide behind them. Another thing that helps Generals is that in some games they gain the ability to use bows which can deal with Mages slightly but you shouldn't risk using a bow to completely destroy one (Unless you are using something like a Killer Bow or Parthia, neither of which are very likely due to their high weapon level)

In Radiant Dawn, Generals can Promote to Marshall, greatly improving most stats.

In WiFi battle, Generals suffer greatly for their low speed cap. Although their high defense means they can survive even four hits from a swordmaster, they cannot survive being doubled by a Berserker or Sage. They lack high movement, and are affected by weapons like Armorslayers. Individually, these flaws can be addressed by cards, but combined they cannot. Generals have high attack, and can use bows. Using a General often means leaving the fate of a battle in the opponent's choice of squad. If a General is placed up against a Swordmaster, and the Swordmaster does not have an Armorslayer, the battle can be quite even (especially using cards like Fleet Feet). However, due to the relative ease of counter-picking teams to beat Generals, it is difficult to use them reliably on WiFi.

Weapon Usage

Generals have been in every Fire Emblem game to date, (Except Gaiden, where they were renamed to Barons) and have had varying weapons available for them. This chart shows the differences.

Game Available Weapons
Fire Emblem: Ankoku Ryū to Hikari no Tsurugi Lances, Swords
Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem Lances
Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War Axes, Bows, Lances, Swords
Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 Axes, Bows, Lances, Swords
Fire Emblem: Binding Blade Axes, Lances
TearRing Saga: Utna Heroes Saga Swords
Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken Axes, Lances
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones Axes, Swords, Lances
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance Swords, Lances
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn Swords and Lances, or Lances and Axes, or Axes and Swords or Lances, Axes, and Swords (SP Class version)
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon Lances, Bows
Fire Emblem: Shin Monshō no Nazo ~Hikari to Kage no Eiyū~ Lances, Bows
Fire Emblem: Awakening Axes, Lances

Maximum Stats

Genealogy of the Holy War

Path of Radiance

Radiant Dawn (as Lance General)

Shadow Dragon

Fire Emblem : Awakening

Skills

In Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, Fire Emblem: Thracia 776, and Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, Generals have the skill Great Shield.

In Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, generals can learn Luna as their Occult skill, while in Radiant Dawn they learn it automatically when they promote to Marshalls.

Notable Generals

Ankoku Ryū to Hikari no Tsurugi/Shadow Dragon

Possible promotion for: Draug, Macellan, Dolph, and Roger (such promotions are only possible in Shadow Dragon)

Mystery of the Emblem

  • Sheema - Daughter of King Jiol and later the ruler of Gra
  • Lang - General of Akaneia and leader of the Grust Occupational Army
  • Possible promotion for: Draug

Genealogy of the Holy War

Possible promotion for: Arden

Thracia 776

Binding Blade

Possible promotion for: Bors, Wendy, and Bath

Rekka no Ken

Possible promotion for: Wallace, Oswin

The Sacred Stones

Possible promotion for: Gilliam and Amelia

Path of Radiance

Possible promotion for: Gatrie and Brom

Radiant Dawn

Possible promotion for: Meg

Shin Monshō no Nazo

Awakening

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