That's why I don't always want unit fragments combined - I sometimes use 120's, but I'll leave the fragments to use as small, maneuverable units for flanking, etc. Hide about 40 no-dachi in a forest - it doesn't matter as much if you lose them, but there's enough of them to make a nasty flank-rush. I also had a "unit" of cavalry archers with only five guys. I used them for scouting mostly, and a distraction - the AI would often send a full 120 spearmen all over the landscape after five guys on horses set to "skirmish." The DISadvantage is that you're a hundred men short of a standard 16 unit army.

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