Expert: gameusurper - 4/16/2008

Question
Wow! What a long intro on your profile! Anyways, i'm back again to ask some questions about Fire Emblem. Wow, this game is strategy-based game... And i'm Average about strategy games... Can you help me? Can you give me tactics to have a tactician rating of S? Because I have only one star when i enter Chapter 16 in Eliwood's story... So now i'm starting again from the Prologue... But i don't why... There are 5 Categories in the tactician rank... I have 3 stars in the first category, 5 in the other category and only 1 on the EXP rating... I am confused... I have 5 stars in the 3 categories  but my star on tactician rating is only one... Help! Give me some FAQs that can give me a S rank... Please give me the one that i can understand the procedures... And what about the Support system? What can it do? Thankzzz in advance... Adios Amigo!

Answer
Sorry it took so long. I have not had a lot of free time and was having trouble finding info on the ranking system for this game as well. To start with, this is where I got most of the info I gathered:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/gbadvance/data/468480.html

Now, I have not personally played this game or any of the Fire Emblems, so I cannot speak from experience for what you asked me. That being the case, my knowledge is limited to what I have read about the game. And as to how the faqs are listed, they start with a description of the relevant content and search codes and then a link to the FAQ itself.

Since I was able to find more clear cut info on the support system, I will start with it.

In section [1090] of this FAQ there is a short explanation of the bonuses that can be had with the support system. Also in section [1500] of this FAQ there is a list of all characters and how many rounds it takes to gain their support bonuses with each of their support characters.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/gbadvance/file/468480/40524

In section IX of this FAQ there is a list of characters and support combinations:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/gbadvance/file/468480/23458

There is a short explanation of support bonuses given in section 8.4) of this FAQ. This can also be used in conjunction with the character evaluation in section 5) to determine who can support who:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/gbadvance/file/468480/30497

This specialized FAQ has a complete breakdown of the number of turns necessary to gain support bonuses for all possible character combinations:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/gbadvance/file/468480/26844

This FAQ provides a rundown of all the support conversations(!) in the game as well as a chart with the rates at which each characters combination gets points toward their support levels. (This is not as useful as knowing the exact number of rounds as in the previous faq, since you still have to crunch numbers to get a total.) This is a very detailed faq if you want to know what is said, but otherwise not much info on the actual system itself:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/gbadvance/file/468480/26803

Now that we have the support system covered, I will list what I have found for the ranking system. In section [1800] of this FAQ you can find info about the general nature of the ranking system:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/gbadvance/file/468480/40524

...And that's it. I have googled fire emblem gba player ranking system and many other combinations of those words, but I cannot find any detailed info concerning this system in the game. I even tried searching on youtube for a possible explanation that those hardcore people sometimes do, but to no avail.

My recommendation would be to sign up on gamefaqs.com and go to the board for this game and search 'rank' or 'tactician' or some other similar terms and look through the posts. I'm sorry, but I just don't have the time to do that for you. Then if you can still not find anything, make a topic on the board yourself and see if anyone can help you. This way you can get responses from a wider variety of players who actually have experience with this game and might be able to assist you better. You might also send a letter to the Nintendo gameplay counselors and ask about it there. You know, like they did it back in the day. I will post an update to this answer if I happen to find something about this in the future, but I wouldn't count on it.

I hope you have been helped by my assistance and again I apologize for taking so long. Life just gets in the way of gaming sometimes. Good Luck.