Should i restart? (no spoilers please)

[Sminky]

I'm around act 6 and my characters seem woofully underspected (especially the archers). I spent a lot of Reknown on leveling characters who just ended up buggering off and the battles are a real slog where i'm genrally outmatched spec wise.

Damn my archers are useless (and their abilitys awfull).

So is it worth a restart, or are the choices you make not varied enough that this would be tedious.

I wish they explained the armour break stat better

Thanks.

[Aleonymous]

It's never too late to invest on Armor-Break (promotions, items). You'll need that near the end...

Also, having rank-1 Alette & Oddleif isn't a good idea, especially if your other dudes perished. Getting them girls to rank-3, even now, shouldn't be so difficult (its 5 kills + 15 Renown each), and its strongly advised. Their passive ability (Puncture) is ultra-useful against the high-Armor Dredge: An enemy that has lost 10ARM will suffer a +5 damage from a standing-still-archer attack. So, the strategy is: Break enemies, keep your archers' strength intact and bring them in-range for the next turn's shot-to-kill!

Replaying from start might be too long, so I say keep going. Loading from the start of Chapter 5 should be enough to correct any mistakes.

Skal!

[Sminky]

Thanks for the advice. I ended up replaying the whole thing (i didnt realise i could load an old chapter). Have to say i'm very impressed at how much choices matter in this game. I have a slew or new playable warriors i never found/ recruited the first time around. Actually it only took a few hours to replay and fairing much better now ;)

[Aleonymous]

Godspeed then! :)

An "experienced" level advice is this: Don't buy any items from market, except, maybe, that +2Break item (called "Worldhook"). Why? If you spend your Renown on promoting Heroes, and be careful to locate items (most are related to Godstone events), then you'll have a huge store of high-rank items by Chapter 6, when things start getting hairy....

For some spoilers-on-items, check this wiki-article: http://bannersaga.gamepedia.com/Items