Patch for STW gold?

[Papewaio]

"Super bad ass" = Naginata infantry + Supporting Archers + Defending a Bridge.

"Super suck ass" = Naginata infantry + Supporting Archers + Attacking a map with a double line of muskets + flanking cavalry.

[Drisos]

They're strong! But not always very useful. I rarely train them in campaigns, and in multiplayer I used them only a couple of times.
Point is, they are soooo slow, they're quite useless when you have to move, attack, etc. When you're playing stationary, defending a small territory, defending ranged units with them, then they are fine. (and more useful then ys)

Yet, I'd recommend not to use them too much right now. In a campaign, it's much safer just making ys. They are fine for such situations as well, and don't turn into useless when you have to move/attack. ;)

As well, is it just because I'm playing the computer or do yari samauri and bowmen absolutely rule the field? Backed up by some heavy cav and some cav archers (who are awesome!), I can tend to clean up any battlefield. I understand that stuff like warrior monks are wicked, but they take so long to get to and by that point, I'm just really hurting for troops to hold my newly conquered lands.

Hehe. Very good! No matter how far I get in a campaign, I keep using YS and SA. They're cheap, aren't shot down too fast, and can kill loads if used well. Of course, SA especially shoots down YA, ND and WM. Yari's kill especially cavalry. But good things are, these two never lose really hard against any other unit.

I always loved getting a few units of yari/naginata cavalry, to flank them, or chase them down afterwards. Warrior Monks are good, but are really expensive, have few armour, and they don't have much more benefit over YS besides being slightly stronger. I usually had a few of them as well, though. (wm or nd) I loved armies with like 6 SA, 4 YS, 2 WM and 4 cav. (something like that :P)

Btw, how are you using your Cavalry Archers? I always liked them because they were much more mobile then normal archers. I used them just like my normal archers, but evading incoming enemies was easier and I could use them to chase down enemies at the end of battle. They're pretty expensive though. I never used them for hit-and-run tactics, or whatever necessary to break the enemy formation.