Defending border provinces with Yari Ashigaru

[vaginata :D]

Hi guys!

I hope this in not a stupid/already answered question but:

Can I leave an army made of YA defending my border provinces and use the more capable units for the "export market"?

Does the A.I. know the difference between a well balanced army and one made exclusively of YA when it chooses the next province to atack?

Thanks.

[solypsist]

there's nothing wrong with using an all ashi army to keep a province appearing fortified, but then again in the event the AI does invade, I would think you'd want something more substantial. also, there may be risks of rebellions, even in a province with a large ashi army, and if it's a buddhist uprising, those monks are gonna shred your ashis
your stretegy sounds okay, just as long as you don't allow your *good* armies to get too far ahead of your filler, that way you can always re-take a province if you have to abandon it because your ashis are outclassed.
AFAIK, the AI isn't able to use the contents of your banners to it's advantage (ie. the AI on't attack with a cavalry-heavy army if your banner happens to be made of mostly archers)



[This message has been edited by solypsist (edited 11-02-2001).]

[vaginata :D]

From my, still very limited experience, the A.I. doesn't attack unless they have a numerical advantage of at least 2:1.
I've once read that there were many Sun Tzu rules included in the code, this must be one of them.

So anyhow going back to the all YA defending armies, surely I'm not the first one to think of such a tactic?

[Zone]

You're not indeed and it is useful for the first few years while you build up oon upgrades and better dojo's. However, you get the better battles when you have just a few highly upgraded units against an enourmous army of units that hope to run you down with force.

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[SlackerXS]

eh... I try this and not very good in feedback...

for some reason comp likes to attack my prov w/ Ashis... maybe I need to max this cheap troops in number to scare them off... http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/tongue.gif

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