Vanilla FE or a hack
Or even another SRPG series all together?
What’s the hardest strategy game you’ve managed to beat?
For me it’s probably FE12 on Lunatic. I had FEWOD open for like the last 6/8 maps and counted map tiles so far in advance.
Got an awesome final boss kill though 
Like legit? Without cheating? That’d be FE3H Verdant Wind on Hard.
My own hacks
RD hardmode.
I always seem to give up halfway through lunatic type difficulties. I don’t find them very fun.
I can barely play the fe12 on easiest difficulty ..
Like what are we quantifying as hard here? How hard I felt it was or how hard the general consensus is or… something? Do we consider Conquest Lunatic over say, Awakening Lunatic+? Do we count self-imposed challenges like solo runs?
Wildermyth is kind of hard to quantify… Unicorn Overlord True Zenoiran Bad Ending% is probably the hardest by consensus? But to me it wasn’t that bad because a certain loadout trivialises the earlygame regardless of difficulty, and the only nuisance was level grinding for several hours.
I guess if it’s on my personal feelings I really didn’t like beating RD Hard Mode. You forget how much seeing enemy ranges and weapon triangles factor in until they’re gone.
Chess
I’m not sure you’ll believe me, but after countless resets and tears, I am actually one of the select few who have managed to beat FE: The Sacred Stones on hard.
fe6 hard mode, thracia with guides
You mean that shitty ship chapter ?
no, not just that. I managed to clear the entirety of fe8 with Eirika on hard mode, believe it or not
nah it’s not possible you’re lying
Magnus Carlson alt account
Super Robot Wars A Portable.
okay it MIGHT have been pokemon conquest(twice) but that was a very long time ago and IDR if it was harder than FE3h VW Hard
Probably early, pre-nerf builds of Drums of War.
In terms of actual things you can play in 2025, I’d probably give the title to Shackled Power HM.
I did also beat a chapter of Dondon’s never-to-be-finished hack well over a decade ago, which… well, I’m positive I savestate abused, but I still remember concrete aspects of it after all these years.
Souls of the forest lunatic
Verdant Wind on Lunatic, with killing the Death Knight every time he appeared.
Pray to the Lysithea gods.
… doesn’t FE3h only have Maddening, not Lunatic?
An old flash game called World’s End, and I highly recommend people to play it. The skill trees on each character is unique and allows for a lot of subclassing. The enemies 9/10 times outgun you in every encounter, so you have to be very pragmatic with your actions in combat, including but not limited to seducing key targets with your gunner, having your ranger taunt every enemy on the map to target him indiscriminately, and even having your spearman smoke in the faces of the enemy to lower their accuracy just to have a shot at escaping alive, which is also pretty fitting considering the dreary setting the games take place in. It’s getting a steam port soon too, so I recommend you guys to check it out. It plays less like Fire Emblem and more like FF Tactics/Triangle Strategy, just to keep in mind.
