Ok. As repored by another player who ran into a valor 9 kensai taisho, the kensai turns into superman during the course of a campaign. I've also encounted a valor 8 kensai taisho quite early in my latest campaign. Since the kensai is a single man unit and very strong at valor 1 (att=15, def=7), he probably gets lots of battlefield upgrading. The thought occured to me to make the kensai substantially weaker and let the battlefield upgrades account for some of his initial cost. He's very likely to get these upgrades especially the first two which are easy to get. I'm going to try him at att=9, def=7 and see how a campaign goes. That would be equivalent to knocking off 3 battlefield upgrades.
Incidentally, the battlefield ninja looks like a good unit to counter a kensai. The effectiveness of its throwing star weapon is not reduced by target armor and the weapon's power=6 which means it's good for going after the taisho. The BN may also be in need of adjustment to its melee stats.
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