Beginner's Guide to Shinuyama MA

[MaxWilson]

Feeblemind is evil. You lose all magic paths and take -5 to MR. It's as good as a kill on most mages, plus they still cost maintenance until the owner can kill it off because there's no "disband" command. (Although most of the time the lack of a disband is a distinct ).

-Max

[Kristoffer O]

We at Illwinter are thouroughly socialist and believe in health insurances . If your old granpa becomes old, crippled and addled in his brains he should still get enough public funding to be able to live as comfortably as when he was actively researching for the good of the nation. Imagine how few mages you would get to work for you if your neighbouring nation had a better pension system than you. After all most mages are old to begin with. Brain drain

[MaxWilson]

Well, Grandpa can still die gloriously on the front lines as soon as he hobbles over there.

-Max

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

Here's an expansion strategy I've had some success with on neutral scales. I haven't finetuned it, but its a lot better than my earlier Bakemono dying by the hundreds strategy.

I recruit two O-Bakemono and two Dai Bakemonos (sword only) each turn. At first, remaining gold and resources efforts go to unarmored Bakemono-sho/Archers, with a priority on melee. And an Uba, or Mujina, of course. Later, I may throw in a little armor, or recruit more archers.

The O-Bakemono and Dai Bakemono get mixed in with the melee chaff into one mixed squad. These two units are last to die, and have a nice upward effect on morale. So I end up routing from a lot, lot less battles. They'll also provide some nice killing punch.

Depending on how it goes, I start forming a second squad when I have 10 each of O-Bakemono and Dai Bakemono. I had some success splitting that in half to 5/5 but that depends on your indies.