For some reason, ever since I got my first Fire Emblem game (It was Fire Emblem for game boy advance, just incase you wanted to know) I've gotten into the habit of restarting a level whenever I lose some one. The reason is because I keep thinking that the character has some kind of connection to a side quest. And I feel really dissapointed that RD just thrusted you into the final battle with tough enemies, my peguses knights are all on a low level because they keep putting to many archers. And in Shadow Dragon I'm on the Sable Order. It's pretty tough, my trouble is the reinforcements that come in from the southeast forts once you get halfway across the bridge. And for some reason, my Marth is at level 30 (it just kinda happened). My problem for me in those games, is not being able to spread experience points evenly. There's always one character that is at a low level (for me it's the old Manakete, his fire stone got to the point of breaking so I had to keep him out of battle, I didn't get another one until the part where Marth takes back the castle, and there are a bunch of other characters that are low leveled.).