Quote Originally Posted by Puzz3D
The hatamoto isn't a full cavalry unit, and isn't as effective as a full cavalry unit. The naginata cav is medium cav and is as slow as HC. I was proposing to drop the Japanese HC so the Japanese would be down to 3 cav units, and the MHC could fit in the spot vacated by the HC. If the HC is retained, the repationships could be something like:

Yuan Imperial Cav.....( Golden Horde HC ) = Japanese Heavy cav = 600 koku
Mongol Heavy Cav.... ( STW/MI MHC ) = Naginata cav + anti cav = 500 koku
Yuan Imperial HA ..... ( Golden Horde HA ) = Yari cav - anti cav = 450 koku
Mongol HA................. ( STW/MI MLC ) = Japanese HA = 400 koku

If the Yuan Imperial cav is made better than the Japanese Heavy cav, it will have to be more expensive and might get priced out of the game.
I found Hattamoto to be quite capable in the campaigns I have already fought and they tended to turn up in the enemy armies en masse.

All that clumsy Naginata armour should slow Naginata cav more so than Japanese HC and their kill rate should be greatly reduced, they should be more of a holding, defensive unit than a shock unit ( preferably it should be dropped completely since it never existed )

I cannot see why Yuan Imperial cav has to be same strength as JHC or higher in cost. The Japanese have stronger infantry, a greater choice of units and a unique unit in Nodachi Samurai as the Korean units have no sword choice. Yuan Imperial cav could be similar to JHC plus anti cav bonus and same price. This would at least make up for the limited choice of infantry and would reflect history somewhat. You cannot expect the Japanese cav to be equal to the Mongol cav as well or they will cancel out every Mongol unit.

I would not want to land in Japan with inferior infantry units only to find that my cav is not that good either

........Orda