Sword Armor

Sword Armor Artwork of the Sword Armor from the Fire Emblem Trading Card Game. Heavily armored knights who dominate battlefields with their powerful swords.

Unit type(s) Armored Weapon(s) Sword Skill(s) Shove (Radiant Dawn)

The Sword Armor or Armored Sword (Japanese: ソードアーマー Sword Armor) is a basic armored class debuting in Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War. It is one of four weapon-specific variations of the Knight, specialising in the use of swords, and appears only in Genealogy of the Holy War, Thracia 776 and Radiant Dawn. It is statistically near-identical to its counterparts, the Lance Armor, Axe Armor and Bow Armor.

In Genealogy of the Holy War it promotes to General, and in Radiant Dawn it promotes to Sword General, itself a sword-focused variant of the traditional armored class. As it is not playable in Thracia 776, it does not appear to have a defined class change option.

Stats

Base stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Genealogy of the Holy War	40	9	0	5	3	0	10	0	5	--	B
Thracia 776	20	4	0	0	0	0	8	--	5	9	E
Radiant Dawn	22/20	8/6	0	5/7	6/3	0	12/9	4	5	12/6	D
Engage	25	8	0	6	1	2	12	0	4	7	B

Max stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Genealogy of the Holy War	80	24	15	20	18	30	25	15	5	--	B
Thracia 776	80	20	20	20	20	20	20	--	10	20	A
Radiant Dawn	40	20	10	20	20	30	20	10	20	99	A
Engage	75	42	16	39	17	25	51	16	20	20	B

Miscellaneous stats

Game	Experience	CRP	Gold	Weight mod.	Capacity	Vision
Genealogy of the Holy War	--	--	2,000	--	--	--
Thracia 776	--	3	--	--	--	--
Radiant Dawn (Male)	--	--	--	+8	15	2
Radiant Dawn (Female)	--	--	--	+8	15	2

Class growth rates

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Charm	Constitution*	Movement*	Weapon level
Genealogy of the Holy War	100%	30%	10%	30%	30%	0%	30%	10%	--	--	--	--
Radiant Dawn	85/80%	60/50%	25/15%	50/55%	50/45%	25/60%	35%	20/30%	--	--	--	--
Engage	20%	15%	0%	10%	0%	0%	30%	0%	--	5%	--	--

See class growth rate for more details on the mechanics of class growths in each game.

Class skills

Game	Skill	Learning conditions
Radiant Dawn	Shove	Innate.

Class change

Genealogy of the Holy War

The class a unit changes into in Genealogy of the Holy War is determined by the unit and not the class; however, all units in the Sword Armor class have the following class change option:

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Sword Armor	Choosing the option "Class change" in the home castle after reaching Level 20.	General

Thracia 776

The class a unit changes into in Thracia 776 is determined by the unit and not the class; however, no units change into or out of the Sword Armor class.

Base class
Sword Armor

Radiant Dawn

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Armored Sword	Using a Master Seal after reaching Level 10, or reaching Level 21.	Sword General	Using a Master Crown after reaching Level 10, or reaching Level 21.	Marshall
Armored Lance		Lance General
Armored Axe		Axe General

• Note: Armored Lances and Armored Axes only appear as enemy units, and while they do have the ability to promote programmed in, it does not happen in an unmodified game.

Engage

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Sword Armor	Using a Master Seal after reaching Level 10. Using a Master Seal after reaching Level 10 and having or proficiencies.	General or Great Knight
Promotion choice criteria: The player can freely choose.

Playable Sword Armors

Playable Characters
Name	Game
Arden	Genealogy of the Holy War
Meg	Radiant Dawn
Playable Sword Armor units in the Fire Emblem series.

Notable enemy Sword Armors

Enemy Units
Name	Game
Weissmann	Thracia 776
Djur	Radiant Dawn
Enemy Sword Armor units in the Fire Emblem series.

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Radiant Dawn (class roll)	Heavily armored knights who wield swords. Some may wield lances or axes instead.	分厚い鎧に身を固めた兵士 剣を専門に扱って戦う 他に槍重装兵・斧重装兵がいる
Radiant Dawn (help)	Heavily armored knights who dominate battlefields with their powerful swords.	分厚い鎧に身を固めた兵士 剣を専門に扱って戦う 他に槍重装兵・斧重装兵がいる
Engage	Heavily armored sword fighters clad in tough armor. They have high defense, but magic is their bane.	堅い鎧に守られた重装の剣歩兵。 守備は高いが、魔法に弱い。

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Armored Sword Sword Armor	In gameplay, for space restrictions the name is shortened to "Armr Sword". Used in Radiant Dawn. Used in Engage.
English (unofficial)	Sword Armor	Used in the Genealogy of the Holy War and Thracia 776 fan translations.
Japanese	• ソードアーマー • 剣重装兵ソードアーマー	• Sword Armor; used in every title except Radiant Dawn. • Officially romanized as Sword Armor; literally "sword heavy knight". In Radiant Dawn, all Japanese class names are spelled primarily in kanji (i.e. 槍重装兵), with a foreign-language name in katakana applied as furigana (i.e. ランスアーマー) and used as the basis for the romanized name in the class roll.
Spanish	• Espada acorazado • Caballero espada	• Armored sword; used in Radiant Dawn. • Sword knight; used in Engage.
French	• Chevalier épée • Cuirassier (épée)	• Sword knight; used in Radiant Dawn. Abbreviated to Chev. épée due to space restrictions. • Cuirassier (sword); used in Engage.
German	• Schwertkämpfer • Schwertritter	• Swordfighter; used in Radiant Dawn. This does not match the pattern with the German names of the other armored classes, Lanzenmeister and Axtmeister, because the name "Schwertmeister" had already been taken by the Swordmaster class. • Sword Knight; used in Engage.
Italian	• Armigero spada • Corazziere spada	• Sword armiger; used in Radiant Dawn. • Sword cuirassier; used in Engage.

Gallery

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  Artwork of the Sword Armor from the Fire Emblem Trading Card Game.

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  Concept artwork of the four Armor variants from Genealogy of the Holy War.

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  The generic Sword Armor portrait in Genealogy of the Holy War.

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  The generic Sword Armor portrait in Thracia 776.

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  An enemy Sword Armor in Radiant Dawn.

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  Meg as an Sword Armor in Radiant Dawn.

See also

• Axe Armor
• Lance Armor
• Knight
• Bow Armor

This article is part of Project Classes, a project focused in writing articles for every class present in the Fire Emblem series.