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Originally Posted by Pablomatic
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Originally Posted by Squirrelloid
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Originally Posted by Pablomatic
In CBM Jomon is much easier to play, and should probably take the Celestial General (with auto-spawn shield bearing troops to complement the samurai archers, and mounted archers to complement samurai cavalry).
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Samurai archers? Ew. Do not buy. Useless, and more dangerous to you than your opponent.
Go-Hatamoto, Aka-Oni, cavalry, and Yamabushi basically cover all your truly worthwhile units. Samurai with naginata are an ok replacement for Yamabushi away from your capital. Everything else is crap.
I like pure scales play with Jomon. Although you can also bless your yamabushi - 7 W9 yamabushi expand just fine. I've certainly never had a real problem expanding with them. |
Well, there are different ways to play them. I agree Go-Hatamotos are good. Never tried a major bless with them, doesn't seem right, and I am surprised 7 yamabushi can do anything even with a bless. What if the enemy has archers?
Samurai archers are OK, and useful for many situations, just be careful with placement of your un-shielded infantry, or better yet use all archer or all infantry armies in the early going.
How are you summoning your Aka-Onis with no death mages and they're conj 3 I think in vanilla? I suppose you could have your pretender start summoning them, but 3 for 10 fire gems? |
Pretty sure Aka-Oni is the unit you can buy with red armor.
Samurai archers are not OK. They cost too many resources for a weapon that is crap against 85% of the units other players will be fielding, because armor is heavier in LA. Longbows don't cut it anymore. And as with all archers, massing is key, and at 20+ resources each, you just can't mass them acceptably. I'd take shortbows at 3-4 resources apiece over those, because they'll be much more effective with flaming arrows since they're far more massable.
Regarding yamabushi vs. archers
I might have archer pulled in the games i tested them with using a couple ashigaru.
It may also be the case that they were simply fast enough to not notice/care about archers. Indie archers are shortbows after all.
I'm not saying i would normally take a major bless for Jomon, I like pure scales. But it can work for a smaller game.