Quote Originally Posted by BigTex
As for the peasant problem. They have always been rather good, but in this build their morale seems a bit too high. Maybe changing that so it is lower should make things a little more balanced.
No they haven't...

In STW the Ashis were connonfodder (unless you count MP in where the Honour 8 Ashis were unbeatable), and they weren't even peasants per se, but well armed infantry of another social class than samurai.

In MTW Peasants were terrible. So bad that if you modded them out of the training the enemy factions got a whole lot harder to defeat (more than in RTW). They had one single thing going for them, a good charge. But since teh chragebonus is just that, and you have to add it to the attack value, Peasants weren't really good at that either. At best they could be used to bolster the numbers of a weak army.

RTW Peasants were ther to be killed. They lasted fairly long, but hardly killed anything aside from archers and other weak melee troops.

Now however, Peasants can fight professional troops head on and expect to win half the time. Professional troops vs a bunch of downtrodden, half starved, untrained, unarmed and unarmoured peasants... Result is 50/50.
Hardly in key with the other games at all, where even the lowest troops above Peasants (Spearmen and Urban Militia comes to mind, but also Woodsmen) could cream them.