Oh yeah, I complete forgot about that. Yeah, I'll probably do that. Start Classic and if I've going terribly and can't handle the deaths, I'll just switch to Newcomer.I did my Birthright playthrough on Hard Casual (I'm assuming Newcomer is the EU version of casual?) and had a lot of fun with it. Fates does have an option to lower the difficulty (although you can't change it back). Starting on Hard Classic would allow you to play through and see if you liked it, then if you ever get really frustrated when someone dies you can switch it to casual (or newcomer, I guess). In fact, if you switch the game to Newcomer from Classic, then all your units that have died will automatically come back even though they "died" in Classic.
In any case, I hope you enjoy the game!
Thanks. I just wasn't sure what to do since I want a challenge and get used to the permadeath especially if I play the older games later but for the moment I don't seem to handle Classic mode very well.
Again, thanks for the advice