I'm thinking about giving Special Fighter to someone to make an actual armor team. I have a lot of armored units but I've never had a go at actually building a good team out of them.
I'm considering H.Jakob mostly. I could either make an enemy phase Jakob with Guard Bow + DD3 + QR3 seal, which would make him especially hard to kill because he only gets seriously hurt by specials anyway, or I could do a player phase build with a Brave Bow for 2-charge specials every attack. Enemy phase W.Tharja might work too, but she'll need the QR3 seal to get those doubles.
I'm not sure who else would really benefit from it, because I don't have any really speedy armors besides a -atk Amelia who I'm not exactly dying to invest in for obvious reasons.
So in my attempt to get dc from valentine hector, I get a Minerva, and then a valentine lilina.
I hope they're good, cause damn.
Minerva is good but I feel shes' become a little outclassed by recent units. She does a lot of things well at once though, which makes her a great generalist. She's one of the faster axe users, has very good bulk, and can do very respectable damage with her refined weapon.
It's just that her more balanced stats means that she doesn't specialize quite as well as the less balanced units - she's not as nukey as Cherche, and not as tanky as Beruka. But she's a better mixed phase unit than either of them.
I wanted to do more with her, but these days I find I mostly use her as a drop-in flier team core in AA because I gave her Hone Fliers. She can support any team of fliers and can often cover any weaknesses from the other units.