Shinuyama – the ants go marching two by two…

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did you read my guide!?!?

I suggest Celestial General for same reason, and was the first to insist (despite that others laughed for it) that people recruit Shuten-doji and use them interspersed with skelli-spam and/or chaff troops.
"recruit Shuten-doji? no wai you should be recruiting sorcerers every turn" they said. I can already see Squirelloid setting that counter-up with his point that using stealth as Shinuyama requires that you use castle-time to recruit stealth commanders. For the record, I agree with you Baalz, Shinuyama has many great commanders other than Sorcerers, and since Sorcerers are recruit everywhere, there is no reason to not use castle-time recruiting something else occasionally.

You make many good points on Bakemono-sho vs Dai Bakemono.

Also, I think that Shinuyama's ability to pull bait and switch is unmatched because you really don't mind the enemy chasing after the bait, and don't care if the commander being gaurded gets involved in the melee (because that commander is probably a Dai Bakemono capable of holding its own).