Seing as conversion was going quite slow in my capital and I had empty building slots ready for chapels, i decided to speed things up by converting. From what I've read of the Jesuits in Japan, they did focus on the elites first so it's quitre conveivable that my Daimyo and his family would lead their people with their own conversions.

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Oh how charming, cannons and cheaper matchlock muskets you say?

I then had small battle with the Hojo where I tried out some matchlock tactics for the first time. My tactic was to alternate matchlocks and Yai ashigaru in a long line, with ashigaru archers deployed in front of the yari units.
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This is how I set my units up -using the deployable defences for my archers and matchlocks.



This is the Hojo force I faced, mostly samurai -arcehrs, yari, swordsmen and 3 generals + a few ashigaru
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And my overlapping fields of fire:
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My deployment had mixed results. I won a heroic victory but lost more men that i would have done normaly -had i been using archers. I had a lot more men than the enemy, but theirs were mostly melee Samurai and most of my troops were ranged, with only 4 Samurai units.

Meanwhile, conversion of my population continues at pace.
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I'm keeping a close eye on happiness, my millitary budget is running a little hot with so many Ashigaru garrisons but I'm now able to start reducing them as the proportion of christians in my population gets nearer 50% and religious dicontent reduces. The worst period is between 100 and 50% opposite religion to your daimyo.