Joyswag: Strategic double pack [update]

Update: Our contest has come to an end. Be sure to keep an eye on your email to see if you won!

For our DS fans, we've got two strategy games up for grabs in our latest Joyswag giveaway: Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon (ARV $30) and Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift (ARV $30). It's a pretty sweet combo, if we may say so ourselves, and should provide you with hours upon hours of distraction. So, check out the rules below to enter and best of luck to you!

Leave a comment telling us what your favorite tactic is (examples: stealth, guns blazing, hang in the back and hope your team doesn't die, etc)
You must be 18 years or older and a resident of the US or Canada (excluding Quebec)
Limit 1 entry per person per calendar day
This entry period ends at 11:59 am ET on Monday, May 25

At that time, we'll randomly select one winner to receive Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon ($30) and Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift ($30)
For a list of complete rules, click here

Reader Comments (530)

lEEEEEEROY jenkins

I usually try to let my favorite characters do everything.

Seconded.

Surround and crush!

I tend to play pretty sacrificially in every sort of strategic game.

Definitely to attack by numbers... just overwhelm the enemy :)

Wait... The entry period ends on Thursday, May 14th? Today's the 19th.

Anyway, my favorite tactic is button mashing. Sixty percent of the time, it works all the time.

I'm glad someone noticed that, I was rather confused.

Stealth is my favorite, games like Splinter Cell :D

I like just slashing dudes in the face

manaburn ftw

Kill them before they kill me.

My preferred tactic is to hang out in the back and set up an ambush. Of course it doesn't work when the enemy is also waiting around for me... with an ambush.

Sniper rifle from secured location.

It'd have to be stealth. Killing the enemy w/o them ever realizing their doom is near is so satisfying.

Donkey Punch

May 14th? My favorite tactic is copy/paste, too!

Ranged attacks

stealth

stealth.

My plan is: Don't Die.

I prefer to run around wailing, and then catch my enemy off guard!

may 14th already happened.... but i want this.

Just do random stuff, the AI sucks anyway so I win in the end

My favorite tactic is usually to research the silliest upgrades in the game...then someone kills me.

hmmmm.... probably stealth

Save...
Battle - Die - Reload;
Battle - Die - Reload;
Battle - Die - Reload;
Battle - LIVE - SAVE! :-)

Works well in age of empires. :-)

(also, good catch on the date there Spencer! )

charge in, guns blazin' and destroy the enemy before they know what happened.

My favorite tactic is "The old switcheroo".

I tend to use Blitzkrieg Tactics. Shock and Awe them!

I like fighting a mini battle on one front while flanking with my larger army

Flanking. Always flanking.

i like constant harassment. don't give the enemy a chance to focus on anything

I usually try to exploit the enemies' weaknesses and kill them off one by one. But I definitely try to keep my team levels and equipment about equal so I don't have to rely on one if my strongest is unusable.
Also, I turned 18 today. So this is the first Joyswag I've ever entered.

Killing everything with Chrono Trigger time-twisting.

"This entry period ends at 2:59 pm ET on Thursday, May 14"

wut?

Just keep trying the same terrible strategy until it works one lucky time.

Camping

Kein mitleid fuer die mehrheit!

I am all about waiting to find an opening. Let my enemy make a mistake and then pounce.

I play possum, lead in my prey, then destroy them!

My tactic involves strategery

Pincer attack, surround and destroy!

In Final Fantasy I like to get confused by the rules. In Fire Emblem I like to die a lot and lose all my characters.

I usually try to flank enemies or if I have a really strong unit, place him/her as a solo force that goes after the enemy while the others back each other up

Tank + heal + haste (if available).

rush out and gang up on one guy before moving on to the next

In the original FFT, I liked to summon the biggest, most explody thing I had.

Good old backstabbing for me

Whittle them down as they approach a bottleneck, where the area of effect spells hit em hard and they meet my fighters.

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