Shinuyama – the ants go marching two by two…

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yeah but look:

your not recruiting just shuten-doji, but shamans (stealth) and maybe Uba and Mujina as well.

an on building forts: you _might_ not build an extra fort in the early game, but by mid-game you are building extra forts just to have them closer to the frontline, if your not capturing them from your opponent.

It is inevitable you will have more forts than you can recruit a 300 gold Sorcerer from every turn; so exclaiming "these units consume castle time and are thus worthless" is pointless, because you will inevitably have more castle-time than you can use to recruit nothing but Sorcerers. If this is not the case, then you are probably not in a winning position.

EDIT: obviously, blitz play may change these dynamics, but then I don't think Baalz wrote the guide with respect to blitzes.