Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword

- Save often and especially between every battle. You never know when you're lose someone to the dreaded permadeath.

- Playing on hard mode can sometimes be easier since you have more xp to gain from more enemies.

- In the end it's all up to your luck. Every character has a chance to increase each stat on level up, based on their personal stat growths. This means that no character is guaranteed to be great. So you might as well just use the units that fit your play style, and give them the stat boosting items to make up for their deficiencies.

- In general don't bother with units you receive that have already been promoted. IE: Paladins, Generals, Sages, etc. When you get them, they'll out class your current units, but they get little experience per kill, which could be better used by one of your weaker units. Also their stats are usually no where near what a character you've leveled up to promotion are like.

- Speaking of promotion wait until a unit hits level 20. Unless they've maxed out an important stat (STR/DEF).

- Don't be afraid to let your heroes fight. They've got to be in every battle. If they don't level up they're screwed in a couple of later battles. Hector will be a Beast in the late game.

- Personally I prefer faster units. Anything that's likely to do 2 hits, is also likely to dodge a lot. So we're talking Myrmidons/Swordmasters, Mercenaries/Heroes, etc.