Besides isolated ones like the Chosokabe of course,which can turtle for half the game and not be disturbed.
I use Darthmod, so it may have something to do with it, but the Oda seem to me to be far easier than the other clans, for one main reason:
Cheap Ashigaru. You can spam the hell out of these guys, for like half price and upkeep. even though 1v1 they can't take on Samurai, you can have so many men that you can easily flank and just swarm the enemy with sheer numbers. Plus you can recruit 6 Ashigaru units in just 1 turn, per castle. That gives a potential full stack every 4 turns of cheap, yet very reliable and plentiful yari and bow ashigaru. With Generals using morale-boosters, they will rarely rout, and since the A.I. likes to send its own general crashing into your archers, smacking them across the face with a yari charge is a sure-fire way to take out the enemy general and crush enemy morale.
Plus the matchlock ashigaru's are still very cheap, and extremely useful as morale breakers and samurai killers. When deployed on the flanks while the enemy samurai is tied down with your yari ashigaru, the matchlocks tear apart their armor and send them running in maybe 3 volleys, 5 max. They can be spammed, as can bow ashigaru which results in a tactic of holding the enemy with the main, cheap yari line and whittling them down with arrows and guns. If you got ahold of cavalry and the money to support it, the Oda are unstoppable.
Enemy Cavalry (Takeda) is cannon fodder to an Oda player. yari's just chew em up in seconds.
The only problem I could see someone having would be maybe financial situation and surviving the first few years. However even this situation can be a positive.
Using the bridges to the north and west as the only ways into your home province, a nice bottle-neck is created, at which an entire army can be held down by 2 yari ashigaru, a general, and a few bow units. The Tokugawa in the south can attack you directly, but there are enough woods around that you can easily set up an ambush that they have no choice but to run into, and afterwards their capital will be vulnerable to a blitz.
I don't know about you guys, but I love the Oda. cheap, mass-produced, large, yet reliable spear, bow, and gun units make me very happy.
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