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A statement that’s been echoed by many who’ve played FE7 is that Eliwood would be a better unit if he had Lances at bases. With how often this statement’s been made, I think it’s right that a version of the game exists that puts just this to the test. This is a patch of FE7 that only makes the following changes:
- Eliwood starts with a lance rank instead of swords
- Eliwood’s Rapier is changed to the Eligor Spear (wonder what that’s a reference to) with stats better than an Iron Lance by the amount the Rapier is better than an Iron Sword
- Eliwood gets +1 con in Tier 1 so he doesn’t get weighed down by an Iron Lance
- Durandal is replaced by Maltet, having its FE6 stats with +4 weight similar to how the Durandal was in vanilla
Also all difficulties are available from the start. Besides that it’s just FE7.
Screenshots
Credits:
-Spud for the Eliwood Lance animation
-ArcaneEli for the Eliwood Lance map sprites
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Missed opportunity for fe7 to not have 3 lords mirror the weapon triangle. This is brilliant!
Also the link that you shared needs permission
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Oh, thanks for letting me know! It should work now.
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I’m going to try it, anyway, in that case Lyn would be the one who uses Durandal?
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No, she still gets the Sol Katti. I guess in that sense it’s the Blazing Blade without the Blazing Blade, which is kinda funny. But yeah, I only changed stuff directly relating to Eliwood.
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Aaa, ok, i espect eliwood to perform better later since he now has 1-2 range always
I love the idea of this mod, but somehow I’d be really curious to see how Hector using swords at base and Lyn using bows would look like.
The latter would definitely struggle to be used more than she already is 
Lyn with bows wouldn’t face as much weapon triangle disadvantage, which in turn would make her more reliable at dodgetanking against lance users. Plus, she could put some actual work against Wyvern Riders with a Steel Bow which isn’t that heavy or a Killer Bow with her high skill
That’s some really good points. Kinda feels like she’d have more staying power after all than Will or Rebecca since Snipers don’t have a crit bonus anyways.
Hector with swords feels like he’d struggle in his starting chapter, and the one fighting Erik but would have a bit of a unique niche since there aren’t any “sword knights” on GBA. He’s arguably also be able to wield a wider variety of weapons the whole blade line of weapons. No access to 1-2 range would hinder his usefulness though until 3/5 into his mode.
Still i think more that just lances, eliwoid just need it to start with his horse, but that a hole other deal
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Yeah but then she is just a slightly better Rebecca who is worse than default Lyn, since she is even more limitaded in enemy phase
I think lyn just need it to not have lv1 stats in hector/eliwood mode if you skip lyn mode and some sorf of benefit in his promo to be ok
While I have my own opinions about Lyn, that’s entire off the topic of this thread lol