In my opinion 'the fear factor' works quite well if used properly.

Anyway, here is an idea.

If you are going to place some battlefield ninjas looking like ordinary ashigaru/samurai units and with the same name as these ( very good idea I believe) it is advisible to use the fear to enhance their battlefield performance.

Why ?

Because when the outfits and the name of the unit can deceive someone he can keep the mouse for more time learning that this weird ashigaru have excellent attack - or something similar - in general they aren't the ordinary ashigaru, somehow. So it is better to conceal their combat power more by lowering their stats and adding only the fear effect for the unit.


Fortunatelly MTW allows making certain units fear certain enemies only ( not like in the RTW infantry/cavalry/etc in general) which is a blessing, although it should be used well.

Regards Cegorach