Quote Originally Posted by stilgar View Post
Ok thanks a lot !

But I have one question : how can we do with a basic army, because we can't know before we start that the guy will rush us ?
So what kind of behaviour would you recommand with an "normal" army, because with a normal army with have not much horse cavalery and matchlock ?

Thanks !
I personal play always with a balanced army, it depends a bit on the map. My balanced army include 2 monk-guns upgraded with rapid shot and range, that units costs 1035 (with 5% retainer) or 2-3 ashi-guns, also with rapidshot. The first 4 skillpoints are reload and accuracy.

In 22k games I sometimes go with 3 monk-guns, but in 10/14k i use 2. To give you some impression, these guns usually kill around 100-130 each and that in a very short time. You can do the maths, base reload 50, 70 from rapid shot and 50 from inspire. This units have a 170 reload, this means, that those guns can pump out around 8-10 shots on melee in the 150 range until the units arrive the guns, with some help of cheap ashi block units.

In many of my games, this 2 units and my 2 ashi are all i need to win.

It depends all on the fund you play, with 10k my setup looks like this:

2 Yari cav
2 ashi spears (one is 569 with inspire)
3 loan swoards (5 lvl upgraded)
2-3 cheap ashi archer
2 monk guns (1035 each)
1 Monk (depends on the other units, but if possible my inspire monk for 1159)

I play almost only 2v2, my ally bring 1 monk bow at least and we use bow-gens both, else I would get me a monk bow myself.

Also note, that I use up to 3 inspire!