[st.patrik]

If you have lots of gold and resources are your problem, you should definitely be recruiting some of the higher end troops. For example, instead of recruiting the regular katana-wielding Samurai, recruit Aka-oni Samurai for 5 more gold each (but the same resources) and get more attack and defence skill, greater strength, and more HPs. If you have any kind of bless you can also recruit the sacred troops, which again cost no more resources than regular samurai.

I have to disagree with KissBlade: If you're recruiting Samurai archers, personally I wouldn't bother - you can get 10% more Aka-oni Samurai than regular archer Samurai for the same resource cost, and they do much better in combat. Of course this would be different if you were short on gold rather than resources.