Who Wants A Tournament?

[Togakure]

Interesting indeed . These demonstrate the wide variety in ratio between ysams and shock troops between players. I am very surprised to see h3 ysams. Perhaps the player was using them strictly to protect flanks against cav? h7w1 No Dachi!!! Sheesh! First time I've ever seen those used. That last army is an interesting one ... very interesting. Reminds me a little of one of Wolf Kansuke's tournament armies, except this one emphasizes strong ysams instead of a balance between both strong ysams and strong ND for infantry. Might have to play with that one a bit. The first one reminds me of an AggonyBetou army, though his armies are quite varied. I seem to remember being rushed by him with an army like this one.

I'm surprised given that 1.03 was used, that Nag Inf and Monks weren't used more. They are so much better in 1.03 than 1.02. Interesting too, that 4 musks are still used despite it being 1.03. Old habits die hard I guess.

These are quite different from the 1.03 armies I saw in Kas' tourney. But his tourney had a 7000 koku limit, so that must be why. If I remember correctly Puzz3D wrote that 1.03 was designed to be best-balanced at 7-8K. But whatever the players like, I say. I like 10K for 1.02, 8K for 1.03, and 9-10K for Mongol 1.05 battles.

[R'as al Ghul]

Toga,

now that you say it, I'm not sure anymore if we used 1.03.
The games were either played friendly or in the 7Bear7-Tournament.
Players included Shingaijin, Kansuke, Heavysword, Mimesaka and some Aggonys.
The monk army was Kansukes if irc.
Perhaps someone sees this and could clarify.
If our moderator (Mimesaka aka Sasaki) shows up, he could probably tell.

R'as

P.S.: I was instructed by the guys to not use Naginata at all.
It went something like this:
"Itto, you're new, mind if i tell you what to buy?"
"Sure, go ahead"
Then followed a long list of cryptic (to me at the time) combinations of "H", numbers and abbreviations for the units. But I got used to it quite fast.

[Togakure]

... P.S.: I was instructed by the guys to not use Naginata at all.
It went something like this:
"Itto, you're new, mind if i tell you what to bye?"
"Sure, go ahead"
Then followed a long list of cryptic (to me at the time) combinations of "H", numbers and abbreviations for the units. But I got used to it quite fast.

ROFLMAO! Brings back memories of the private conversations I had with the guys back in the day. Kans would coach me a lot, and I appreciated it because he is a great player. Betou also. He was actually my first trainer, and thanks to him my days as a hapless greenie were shorter than those of most. Now it's my turn to pass on the kindnesses ... . Mimesaka had a different approach to instruction--he just pounded me into the dust again, and again, and again ... GAH!

I am of the school that never uses nag inf also. In my previous post, I tried not to let my personal bias affect my descriptions of what I had observed. Nag inf are just too slow, tire too quickly, and because of their low morale at typical 10K honor levels, will run if even moderately flanked. If you were openly coached not to used them at all however, that would lead me to believe that 1.02 was being used. 1.02 was used for Yogi's Fight Club league.