I see what you're doing here.
EDIT: So I finished Fire Emblem last week. It was great. I really enjoyed the game. It's in my top five GameCube games. I highly recommend it to anyone not strategy RPG-adverse (i.e. KDR shouldn't play this game).
The story, while a bit cliche, managed to be pretty interesting through the entire game. It was a tad slow at the beginning, but it really picked up after the first few chapters.
My only complaint is that it was too easy. The first half of the game was a pretty good difficulty, but by the end it managed to be almost pathetically easy. I think it's because since I restart if I let a character die my core team was more powerful than they had anticipated. I'm sure if I had pressed forward after someone died and was forced to start using a weaker character it would have been more difficult.
In short, it's an awesome game, but if you've played a Fire Emblem game before I recommend playing on hard mode.