My experience is that even if you do skip to the middle of something interesting, the RP can end up freezing up and dying all the same. Better just go with introductions and hope for the best.
I remember playing the first Fire Emblem to come out in the West all those years ago. I had just finished up clearing out a map and had Hector confront the boss, because it was a knight and he could make short work of him. He had a 1% chance to crit me.
And he fukn critted me.
So if we're going to have promotable classes, does that mean we're going to have leveling and stats too? Are those stats going to be subject to the RNG?
In fact, are we going to have heavy RNG involvement in everything we do?
Oh man, I actually wanted to do something FMA for a while now.
One question; you said a large amount of the main cast is missing. Does that mean we will see a few characters from the series? If so, whom?