Originally Posted by
al Roumi
I've only ever tried fully modern, so I don't know for sure whether you can still recruit shinobi -but i guess you ought to be.
I'd not actually faced a high level traditional army until recently and it has left me suitably impressed with the charge/melee prowess of Katana Kachi. Without a defence in depth or an incline/hill to deploy on for overlapping fire zones, a modern army can be vulnerable. I did kill alot of them though and was facing 2 full stacks with only 1, deployed on a plain (in fog).