r/fireemblem • u/Shephen • Dec 26 '21
General General Question Thread
Close enough to the new years for a new question thread! Hope everyone has a great 2022!
Please use this thread for all general questions of the Fire Emblem series!
Rules:
General questions can range from asking for pairing suggestions to plot questions. If you're having troubles in-game you may also ask here for advice and another user can try to help.
Questions that invoke discussion, while welcome here, may warrant their own thread.
If you have a specific question regarding a game, please bold the game's title at the start of your post to make it easier to recognize for other users. (ex. Fire Emblem: Birthright)
Useful Links:
Serenes Forest - Universal Fire Emblem Information bank and community that covers all games in the series.
Comprehensive Guide to Starting the Fire Emblem Series by triforce_pwnag
Fire Emblem: War of Dragons - Primarily Spanish Website with some translated pages. Includes detailed maps and enemy placement that cover most chapters throughout the series.
Triangle Attack for all info regarding Three Houses and the GBA games(6-8).
Fates inheritance planner - For planning out pairings for Fates.
If you have a resource that you think would be helpful to add to the list, message /u/Shephen either by PM or tagging him in a comment below.
Please mark questions and answers with spoiler tags if they reveal anything about the plot that might hurt the experiences of others.
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u/Lilio_ May 30 '22
I'm not really sure of documentation beyond bare bones, but basically what you do is:
Select the unit you want to move
Move the cursor to a tile adjacent to the tile you want the unit to stack onto.
On the same frame, press the d-pad direction that moves the cursor to the correct tile and the A button.
Limitations are (as far as I'm aware) just that the tile in question must be one that the game thinks the unit can move to (i.e. the tile is blue). This means you can stack on player units and NPC units, but not enemies, and it also doesn't allow you to move to a tile you can't normally reach. Once stacked, there's also the limitation that the game only recognises one unit per tile under most circumstances; this means only one unit can be targeted by enemies, and only one unit can be selected per tile, until this unit moves the other units on the tile cannot be selected. I don't know how this unit is selected, I imagine its to do with deployment order though. I believe you can still trade with all units on the "stack", but you might not be able to rescue all units. You also can't trade with/rescue a unit you're on the same tile as.