Units who've won you over?

**A Nerd** · 04-09-2011, 18:27

I have formed a fondness for Katana Samurai. Excellent melee, readily available, (they look nice), and I always liked the sword infantry of other TW titles. Also, I installed a mod that unlocks all the units that are available in custom battle and mp, you can produce them in your castles for use in the campaign. There is one unit, you can only have one of them in all your armies, ie. just one unit, no more, that are women with naginata. I can't remember what they are called, but they are tough. I have come across a few in AI armies and they destroyed a unit of Naginata I had fighting them. Another time, I had a unit of these ladies surrounded an all sides and they fought to the very last man, er, woman! I have one in an army, but have yet to use them on the field. That army was tied up in a siege of Kyoto. Now that I have the city, they are on thier way to the front! :D

**Monk** · 04-09-2011, 18:36

Originally Posted by JuJuBee

I have formed a fondness for Katana Samurai. Excellent melee, readily available, (they look nice), and I always liked the sword infantry of other TW titles. Also, I installed a mod that unlocks all the units that are available in custom battle and mp, you can produce them in your castles for use in the campaign. There is one unit, you can only have one of them in all your armies, ie. just one unit, no more, that are women with naginata. I can't remember what they are called, but they are tough. I have come across a few in AI armies and they destroyed a unit of Naginata I had fighting them. Another time, I had a unit of these ladies surrounded an all sides and they fought to the very last man, er, woman! I have one in an army, but have yet to use them on the field. That army was tied up in a siege of Kyoto. Now that I have the city, they are on thier way to the front! :D

Onna Bushi is the name you're looking for. In fact, they are one of the avatars from Shogun 2 soon to be added to the .org for selection *tease tease*

**A Nerd** · 04-09-2011, 18:41

Those are the lovely ladies! :)

**Monk** · 04-09-2011, 18:53

I'll second the Nagitana Monks as well. I like to keep at least 2 units of monks in each army, who help form the solid core for the stack. Toward the end of my chokosabe they really proved to be the difference, weak defense nor not, they pack one heck of a punch

I've only fought against the Onna Bushi once and that was when i stormed Kyoto.. but wow, you're not kidding. If i had the ability to recruit them they'd be in my main stack for sure.

**Zim** · 04-10-2011, 05:36

I ended up with a unit of those in a defensive siege battle. They really impressed me.

Originally Posted by Monk

Onna Bushi is the name you're looking for. In fact, they are one of the avatars from Shogun 2 soon to be added to the .org for selection *tease tease*

**Gregoshi** · 04-10-2011, 07:18

I can't say yet. I've only scratched the surface of the available units and so far I've been able to send them all into the meat grinder.

**Dead Guy** · 04-10-2011, 08:35

All this talk of Naginata Samurai, it just occured to me that I'm quite certain I've never seen the AI field a single unit of Naginatas...

**Monk** · 04-10-2011, 14:44

Originally Posted by Dead Guy

All this talk of Naginata Samurai, it just occured to me that I'm quite certain I've never seen the AI field a single unit of Naginatas...

The AI seems much more fond of Katana and Yari samurai than anything else, i've found. Also matchlock samurai in the very late game.

**antisocialmunky** · 04-10-2011, 22:16

I've seen it. They are pretty good at murdering everyone during castle defense.

**Rothe** · 04-11-2011, 07:10

I also like the Naginata monks. They actually don't have a poor defense. Their melee defense is one of the highest in the game, but their armor sucks. That means they are actually really good at frontal melee, but you have to avoid them getting flanked or reared and most of all you have to avoid archer fire. In forest fights the monks kick serious ass because archery is crappy. If I have a monk heavy stack, I try to make my assaults in rainy weather also, any conditions that are bad for archery are great for naginata monks.