[Fire Emblem] The Gathering Storm

[Menarker]

Reading up to see if I'm interested any more than I already am. :3

EDIT: Is there a period of delay or a time frame when a player can choose which weapon they have equipped (if someone has more than one weapon of different types)?

And I could use further explanation on growth rate while leveling...

And is there any value to staying unpromoted if one gains an promotion item after level 9 but before level 20 aside from getting 10 extra levels to attempt to level one's stats?

Can an enemy counterattack you for every hit you make? (Such as when you succeed in doing a Double Attack or when you use a weapon with "Two Consectutive Hits" ability for a maximum of 4 hits.) Or do they only counterattack the first hit?

Can thieves actually fail in stealing items or unlocking doors? There is practically no guide to it. For that matter, can all foes be looted when dead? It's not like items disappear from their corpses if they are killed if the item was not stolen beforehand...

How many characters are we actually making? There seems to be a sub-section on support characters and that seems to be the only purpose for a character's element affinity.

And finally. What does Critical hit actually DO? It is not stated anywhere what it actually does. Does it double damage? Triple? Ignore Defense/Resistance? The closest to an explanation is that certain promotion classes get Improved Crit which increases the damage further by 15% or the assassin style instant kill crit, but that doesn't explain what a normal crit is entitled to!