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Because they need a melee weapon to use after their lances break and swords are pretty much banned for Samurai in this setting. The hint is in the title ;]

I've said twice already in the thread that they'll be an added nation rather than a replacement in a later version. So I agree :]

Although thematically they are a replacement (Jomon under the samurai fails and is replaced by this one) people like more options and it's a lot less messy if I just make them seperate and call them New Jomon. I did the same with Ulm Reborn for the CBM version and I'll probably go back and do it for the vanilla version too.