Shinuyama – the ants go marching two by two…

[Baalz]

Hehe, actually I wrote this guide based on a duel that I'm doing right now with WingedDog (he's Pangaea FWIW), with some extrapolations into late game. Got a second fort up and never put a lab in it as (with neutral production scales) I never had enough gold to get a Sorcerer from my cap and even max out the production queues in those two forts, never seemed worthwhile to slow the flow of troops with how fast they tore up Pangaean troops. I don't think anything else can compare to the income you get from order-3/luck-3 scales....having a good income then on top of that landing an extra 800 or more gold in an event translates into crapping out a couple hundred bakemono warriors...which is really just quite overwhelming.

He did start fielding minotaurs which prompted me to rotate in the Dai Bokemono, but otherwise those little warriors absolutely dominated the battlefield - centaurs, satyrs, harpies (I think he guessed I'd be massing low protection archers) everything just evaporates. Anyway, I found that having just 2 shuten-doji along with as few as 15-20 bakemono warriors is a ridiculously cost effective raiding squad. Sure, you're not conquering anything with substantial defenses, but you have the option to do some fun unexpected splintering of your armies for quick land grabs. The shuten-doji really do pretty well attacking on the front line (the aoe on the fatigue attack is substantial), give you lots of flexibility in moving/splitting your forces, and at 35 gold a pop are completely expendable.