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Fire Emblem Engage is a Tactics-like JRPG with a lot of complex interactions on the battlefield. It can be difficult to keep track of all the different things that units can do, the damage chart, weaknesses, Engages, and more. But there are some shorthand ways to figure out what a unit can do without click on them.
Each Fire Emblem unit on the screen will have icons over its head, denoting something about the unit. One of these icons is a yellow exclamation mark, but Fire Emblem Engage's tutorial doesn't seem to have anything about what this icon means.
The Yellow Exclamation Mark in Fire Emblem Engage
The yellow exclamation mark can appear over unit's head during battle. Don't underrate these Fire Emblem units; this means that the enemy has a weapon with a high critical chance. The reason these are pointed out is how dangerous these can be; a critical hit will do triple damage, which can one-shot almost any unit on either side of the field. While this is good thing if it's one of the allied units doing it, enemies having this effect can really mess up a run.
If players come across a unit with a yellow exclamation mark, they will need to be extra careful when engaging. Take a unit that can alpha strike them, a 3-range attacker like a long bow user or someone with a Thunder Tome, a unit that can break them, or a unit that has high defense like Louis. Thankfully, triple damage doesn't matter much when a unit is only going to be taking 0-2 damage in the first place, and players no long have to worry about weapon durability in this Fire Emblem.
The Purple-Pink Exclamation Mark in Fire Emblem Engage
There is yet another exclamation mark that units can have in Fire Emblem Engage. This one is kind of a purple-pink color and will appear when an enemy is looking to engage with a player's unit. This means that the weapon the enemy has is excellent against that particular allied unit. Usually, this means that the unit has one of the allied unit's weaknesses, like bow against flying units.
Players will need to keep in mind the Fire Emblem Engage's weapon triangle when engaging enemies, and try to avoid putting friendly units too close to anything that is opposite them on the Triangle. These will do a massive amount of damage and can take out a friendly unit in a single hit.
Fire Emblem Engage is available now for Nintendo Switch.
