So Cuan _can_ survive without cheating...

[DarkTwilkitri]

See the new 'research' article they've got up on fireemblem.net.
www.fireemblem.net/fe/fe4/fe4--research/fe4-alvin-killdking.htm

Using Fury, a Leg Ring, and Sylvia. Presumably a Wing Clipper as well...

Not sure what that bug with Ethrin being a follower of Vylon has to do with anything. Maybe you need to keep Vylon away from Sigurd?

Of course, it probably still crashes/annoys the game...

[gamersara]

it takes way too much time........
and they disappear after the chapter anyway

[TerranigmaFreak (admin)]

Well I did it by cheating and I couldn't conquer the castle in the middle of the desert.

[SpyroDi]

Once you conquer the castle,Cuan and Ethrin disappear and that guy with the Gungnir appears as if by the Valkyrie itself...

[Yuritu]

i prefer them dissapearing anyday... it makes me happy to hear they dun have to die.. hahaha their so cool.. maybe ill try it out. if i could ever read the item names in that scrambled translation..

[DarkTwilkitri]

Ray(Wednesday (2/4) 1:19:24)
From winds.westhost.com/cgi-bin/bbshut.cgi?head=febbs
Well, just for your reference (and others who can't read Chinese), this is what it's saying in a nutshell:

1. Have Byron KILLED by enemy before talking to Sigurd. So that Cuan's knights will be officially under the command of Byron not Sigurd (bug?) and they will be actively attacking Travant dragoons. (instead of passively going north)

2. Since Cuan's knights won't be advancing north as quickly, our reinforcement Fury will need to go the extra mile, get leg ring, and also move twice:
a. Have Rachesis equip Rescue Staff and move down first.
b. Use Rescue to bring Silvia to her.
c. Fury flys as far as Silvia can reach.
d. Silvia dance to Fury.
e. Fury fly down a second time.
Eventually Fury will reach 3 cells above Ethrin (in another turn?)

3. Ethrin's priority is to heal wounded units, so if Fury was 'properly' wounded, Ethrin will go to her aid instead of into the enemy dragoons.

4. Beforehand, raise their stats as high as possible, especially Luck and Speed.

5. Make it so that Dragoon leader is killed by Cuan first, so there's no commander effect.

6. Then comes Travant... his HP recovers to full every turn, but he can be easily killed whenever Cuan's Consecutive skill activates.

Something like that...
I think step 1 is the biggest killer.

[sindy6lazy]

hum...a while ago we were playing and cuan COULD hit trabarant ..thabarant hit first but cuan evade..then cuan hit but trabaran evade...then trabarant hit cuan and cuan hit trabarant ...trabarant was with 5 of hp (my brother says that was 1 but...I don't remember) and is the only time we could see the ring of trabarant works...oh well..and we were playing normaly...is was just luck

[Starwolf]

That is a good bug.
I'm downloading the save and savestate.
I can get the trick to work (from the saves) as far as Cuans units taking the initive but thats all.
*Reads the 3 spaces above Ethlin but*
*Tries to Heal Ethlin rather than stand there!*
Its annoying Ethlin likes to move into Suicide positions.
Still its taken people 8 years to notice this. Geuss nobodies seen Byron die in all that time. A cool and hard to pull off Glitch.

This is as good as the easy victory against Yurious. For People who don't know its getting Zehn (or was it Neun) to attack Yurious leaving you to hit Yurious to end it all... A very cool to pull off glitch which has its difficulty being having to get subsitutes and carefully arm people.

[The dark prince]

see bryon die hmm yeah if you don't rush he will die easyily and the dark prince well you don't need to beat him you could go after isthar.who amzes me to the oint of your brother father adn mother are all crap looking and she looks like that.

[DarkTwilkitri]

I believe that he's talking about the final chapter, not Ch. 10.

Well, there is always her aunts... is there a picture of Ethnia in the Treasure?