A musing on experience: it's been awful short for two reasons, as I see it. One, that we're starting out with twelve people, so even with a larger number of enemies than normal for the first couple chapters we're still hard-pressed to get more than an average of one kill per person, and Two, that you haven't included a boss in either stage. It can just be a generic a level or two higher, but in classic FE that's usually another 50 exp on that kill or so, which makes a good chunk of difference. As is, bonus exp is a nice touch to balance it back out, but we're still rather weak for now, and with exp spread as thin as it is, we may have some problems for several chapters.