Well I ended up playing Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones next. It’d actually been given to me as a gift a while back, and set aside when I couldn’t get past the second map.
Turned out I was treating my strongest character for that map as my weakest. Realizing that got me a while through. Still a very tough game on the toughest setting, though. Of course I reset if anyone gets killed…
All in all, it seems so far to be like Final Fantasy Tactics, only good.