Samurai - Kashin Daikyu | Chosokabe

Samurai - Kashin Daikyu | Chosokabe Image

Basic Unit Statistics (can be modified by difficulty level, arts, skills, traits and retainers)

Recruitment Cost 80
Upkeep Cost 16
Unit Limit 1
Unit Size 80 (on ultra unit size)
Morale 30 60%
Melee Attack 6 17%
Melee Defence 6 17%
Charge Bonus 5 10%
Bonus vs Cavalry 0 0%
Armour 14 93%
Range 0%
Reloading Skill 54 54%
Accuracy 65 65%
Ammunition 3 3%

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Description

When archer and bow are as one, anything is possible.

Armed with the powerful daikyu, these samurai are capable of breathtaking feats of archery. The sheer size of their weapon dramatically increases their range and their accuracy is the envy of many. Due to its size the daikyu takes longer to nock than other bows giving these warriors slower reload times, but the damage it causes on impact more than compensates. Like most archers Chosokabe daikyu samurai are weak in melee and vulnerable to attack from enemy cavalry. The bow has always played an important role in the myths and legends of warrior societies. In The Tale of the Heike the Emperor Konoe fell ill after being plagued night after night by terrible nightmares. His loyal samurai, Minamoto no Yorimasa, realised that a dark cloud had appeared above the palace shortly before the Emperor fell ill. Determined to get to the bottom of this phenomenon, he spent all night on the palace roof and in the early hours of the morning fired an arrow into the centre of the dark cloud. From the midst of the cloud fell the body of a nue, a legendary creature with the head of a monkey, the body of a tanuki, the legs of a tiger and a snake for a tail. A bringer of misfortune and illness, it was the nue that had caused the emperor's illness, and with its death he was cured.