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Preparations
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The preparations menu is a pre-battle management system that allows players to prepare for an upcoming battle. Before starting a chapter, players can use the preparations menu to manage unit inventories, view the map, change unit starting positions, as well as several other options. The preparations menu appears in every game except for Fire Emblem Gaiden and Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War; in the former's case, most of its options are available on the world map, while for the latter, they are available from castles.
Access
The preparations menu typically becomes available early on in the game, though it is only given after a few chapters. After become available, it remains available for the rest of the game, except for certain cases, mainly when the game's final chapter has multiple maps.
The preparations menu becomes available at the start of the following chapters:
- Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light: Chapter 4 onward
- Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem
- Fire Emblem: Thracia 776: Chapter 8 onward
- Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade: Chapter 6 through Chapter 24
- Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade
- Lyn's tale: Chapter 7 onward
- Eliwood's and Hector's tales: Chapter 14 through part 1 of the Final Chapter
- Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones: Chapter 4 onward, except for part 2 of the Final Chapter
- Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance: Chapter 3 onward
- Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn: Part 1, Chapter 4 onward
- Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon: Chapter 4 onward
- Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem: Prologue 6 onward
- Fire Emblem Awakening: Chapter 3 onward
- Fire Emblem Fates: Chapter 7 of each route onward
- Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia: Act I map 4 onward
Features
Pick Units
Before the battle begins, players can select which units to deploy for the following battle, as many as the chapter allows. In all games, almost all chapters require the player to deploy the main lord, and is not given the option to undeploy them. Certain chapters may also force other units to be deployed for plot reasons, or similarly force them to be undeployed. Worth noting is that, while all chapters typically have a maximum number of units that can be deployed, very few have a minimum other than forced units mentioned previously; therefore, if the player has exactly enough units to meet the maximum, but feels certain units may not survive, they can often choose to simply not deploy them at all to save them the risk of death.
Inventory
The Inventory option, called Items in older games, allows the player to change each unit's equipped items, access the supply convoy, and have units trade between each other. As well, it allows unit to use certain consumable items such as stat boosters or class change items. It can also be used to view a list of all items currently in the convoy or possessed by a unit.
In Thracia 776, The Binding Blade, The Blazing Blade, The Sacred Stones, Shadow Dragon, and New Mystery of the Emblem, the inventory option also includes an armory that provides basic weapons (i.e. Iron Swords, Fire, etc.) and staves. This armory can also be used to sell unwanted items, just like with any shop.
Support
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Support
In The Binding Blade, The Blazing Blade, and The Sacred Stones, this option presents a list of all units, their affinities, and each of their available support partners. It additionally displays which of the supports the unit has achieved, as well as how many more supports the unit can achieve for the rest of the game.
In Awakening and Fates, on top of the aforementioned features, the support option also allows players to view new support conversations in full, as opposed to in previous games, where they were instead viewed during the battle.
View Map
Before the battle begins, the entire map can be viewed, along with each enemy unit and their stats. Examining the map beforehand is key to forming a viable strategy, as foreknowledge of factors such as terrain and how far units can move will much better allow players to plan out each turn.
By selecting "Formation", the position of each playable unit can also be selected based on a set of given starting positions. In most cases, the main lord's position cannot be changed. Some games, such as The Blazing Blade, The Sacred Stones, and Fates allow forced units other than the main lord to change their position, while others such as Radiant Dawn force them to a certain starting position that cannot be changed.
In very rare cases, reinforcements may appear on the map just after preparations are concluded, though later games this is handled by showing them on the map during preparations, then making them appear to arrive on the map through a scripted sequence after preparations are concluded.
Options
The player can adjust game speed, battle animations, among other things. These options are also available during battle, or on the world map or base if the game includes either.
Save
Players can save their game progress in the preparations menu; doing so will also save any changes to unit inventories or starting positions made beforehand. This can be used to avoid re-doing all preparation work from the beginning if the chapter is failed or restarted.
Reclass
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Reclass
Available in Shadow Dragon and New Mystery of the Emblem only, units can change their classes to any other class available to them, so long as the army has not reached the maximum number of that class's class group.
Equip Skills
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Skills
In Awakening and Fates only, units can change their currently equipped skills just before battle, as well as reorder them.
Guide
Available only in Awakening, Fates, and Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, previous tutorial slide guides can be viewed at the player's leisure. If the chapter has additional guides to explain map-specific features, such as the pots in Conquest Chapter 12, those can be viewed as well.
Trivia
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