Editing Fire Emblem (section)

=== (Armor) Knight>General ===
Heavily-armored but slow-moving foot knight, classically promotes to General. They are excellent defensive units and can hold down choke points with their heavy defense and good attack, but tend to suffer from bigger maps where their reduced movement speed becomes a bigger weakness, and their generally-low resistance makes them easy prey for enemy mages, on top of taking bonus damage from anti-armor weapons.  Typically get skills that reduce or negate weapon damage, and associated with lance weapons.

Often Knights tend to struggle between their low speed, low movement and poor resistance, the movement being a particular issue in games with huge maps that lack chokepoints. Like archers, they do better in indoor/dungeon maps where narrow corridors play to their strengths, and the Rescue/Pair Up/Defense Formation mechanic was a godsend for them, since it meant they could partner with and tag in and out with a mobile unit to deploy them where they needed to go. If you're wondering why random armored guys become generals despite not holding that rank, the armor knight class couldn't promote in the original game but a late joining character, who was a general in story, got the class as "armor knight but better". Future games linked the two classes and didn't bother renaming general.

In ''Cipher'' they get bonuses when under attack by non-magic units.