It was a FUE. I'm over 40 with what seemed like good donor area, plus i wasn't getting a massive amount of graphs, so strip didn't even cross my mind.
When the Dr started the extraction, i heard him and the techs talking about how the area wasn't great and a straight forward HT ended up taking 1 1/2 days and about 12 hrs. He didn't go into specifics, but after that length of time i was too tired to push him. There was talk of maybe using beard hair midway through the surgery but eventually they found enough hair for the HT.