In current campaign I'm playing as Mori with Warrior Monks aplenty. Defending Owari against the hordes, first Oda and then Takeda in different battles.
From my experience it is better not to defend on the bridges but on the hill right towards the back right of the map. This nullifies the hordes numereous archers becuase they have to get really close to be effective. Whereas defending the bridge gives the archers easy targets.
It also allows for you to engage the correct troops. i.e. The AI has alot of Yari Cavalry which you need to engage with YS, saving your WM for the AI YS & YA.
On the bridge you have to fight multiple troop types in one big melee and so can't use your troops to their best effectiveness.
To give a numbers example I took out 641 to approx 140 by defending on the hill. AI total force was 3900ish against my 1030ish.
Using the bridge defense it was about 350 to 240 and a case of waiting for the timer to run out or the Ai to give up.
So consider bridge defense carefully.
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