Panthera posted...
From: SuorGenoveffa | #042
Depends on what lots of enemies you are facing. Still I don't like relying on single units alone, but Oswin takes on melee units easily for example.
Oswin has terrible mobility and pretty mediocre offense, you're not actually going to have him at a usable level after the first third of the game or so unless you're moving at a slow enough pace that unit quality is completely irrelevant to discuss since you just grind down everything and eventually your reinforcement kills will add up enough extra XP that you can blindly auto-win most maps. It's really only Hawkeye that has the right mix of durability and offense to realistically tank his way through a wide variety of situations (and he likes to use weird terrain, which can make clean up duty a bit hard)
He usually chips enough damage away that the other units can finish them off.
That said, I usually use Oswin as a "back door" so mobility and experience is not usually a problem. I don't remember many situations in which I needed to have an extreme single tank, I don't know what pace you're playing the game on, I'm simply not taking too many risks.
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