Rothe,

My approach to the battle was exactly as you have stated. However I think short of having at least four light cavalry units along for the ride the situation purely hopeless. This was fairly early in the campaign and my 2 armies consisted of 6 yari ashigaru, 4 bow ashigaru, 2 katana samurai and 1 yari samurai.

I'm not complaining about the difficulty persay. More just that the focus of the various mods in building balanced armies w/ more samurai make sense. Additionally I'm touching on the opinion floating around that archers are a little too effective.

I'm satisfied with play at normal although it's a little disappointing that in most cases victory is assured.