Shinobi, Geisha, and Border forts

[ReluctantSamurai]

Your lvl 6 geisha must have been very busy! When I raised them, it was only to kill other geisha! If I had no geisha, it was ninja spam time!

Yes...very busy! Rather a waste of koku and time to use geisha to assassinate other geisha, though. Better to have ninja, which take only one season to train, do the job. A lvl 5 or 6 ninja will rarely fail.

@ LittleGrizzly

The entire reason I got tired of geisha and now play without them. The game should be won on the battlefield not the bedroom. I play a lot of 1580 campaigns, and clan infrastructure is quite advanced, at the start, so you will see geisha quite early in a campaign especially from Imagawa and Hojo. Better to play without, IMHO.

[caravel]

Yes, Geisha can ruin the game unless you prepare and work around them. I remember reading a thread about changing the building influences to stop the AI building the Geisha House. This effectively eliminates the Geisha from the game if you don't build it yourself. I keep meaning to try this one, but still haven't.

[ReluctantSamurai]

Quite correct. IIRC (and I can look it up if you can't find the info), you edit the 15th entry of the building preferences text to 0. This puts the geisha house at the very bottom of the priority list for building. So long as you don't train any geisha of your own, neither does the AI.