Re: Guiding Jomon
 

What I want to know is how to use karasu tengu efficiently as thugs. I have this feeling that them and small groups of konoha tengu could be made into decent raiding squads. The problem is all of the above units are incredibly fragile and somewhat hard to use. They're pretty cheap, though!

Re: Guiding Jomon
 

I think that they are better as anti-thugs with small Tengu squads. High attack value + stormflying. Just replace the weapon with something nasty and you are pretty much good to go.

Re: Guiding Jomon
 

How do the new Monks figure into the Jomon Strategy? They make good researchers and Fear Not gives many troops to needed boost against arrows. Meditation/Teaching with a Crystal Matrix, makes them great additions to a reverse communion. The last two signs are only for specific situation.

Also, would the new Water Units be considered thugs or SC?

Re: Guiding Jomon
 

The new monks are nice as researchers, but you also lose the chance to get sweet random combos on your Onmyo-ji or Master Shugenja. They're still good, but I find that I need ~50 of my other casters just to get the path combos I want, so I don't get so many.

Ryujin are definitely thugs--they work fine against PD, but they simply don't have the chops to be full SCs. They don't have the hitpoints for it, don't get a second misc slot, and they're absolutely shut down encumbrance-wise if it's cold out.