Fourteen: Bow Ashigaru Draws out Melee Samurai
"Hm... now Shimazu Yoshihisa insists to park at the very edge of his army. I wonder what we should call this formation..."
"There is actually a drawing in the Appendix!"
"Can't believe Mao-tzu even included the variants of each formation! But where is the missing Yari Samurai on the first line?"
"It has been drawn out by our bait. They started charging when our range almost cover their unit. This is almost as easy as drawing out Yari Ashigaru."
Note: I am not sure whether the "paranoid general" is a must for the hyper-alert melee samurai. My experience tells me it is very difficult to draw out melee samurai with bow ashigaru. But I have never attempted it when AI adapts the "Marginalized Bows" formation, which is induced by our cavalry parked at the flank of its army.
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