How to beat
Japaneseas Ayyubid
Matchup tips
We saw an exchange where the Mounted Samurai tried to kill a villager, but because of the camel unease, he just left that villager on one HP.
The Desert Raider can out-heal the outpost damage because of the Dervish healing.
Yumi Ashigaru can just get shattered with a couple of Manjaniq volleys.
Mounted Samurai can be answered by Camel Lancers; Desert Raiders aren't terrible at trading into them either.
Camel Lancers don't mind taking a few shots from Yumi.
Horseman, Yumi both counter desert raiders together.
Camel Lancers have a 20% debuff but 20 less health, lower base damage, and the charge is weak unless charging. So camels can never really be outnumbered. If you're outnumbered, you get chased and exchange poorly. Combined with the deflective armor on the Mount Samurai, that's why Mounted Samurai can beat them.
You can fight Mounted Samurai against Camel Lancers because the Bannerman offsets the camel debuff, and you have more health by default and deflective armor. So going cavalry into camels is not weird for Japan.
With some of these desert Raiders coming out it's a good idea to use that range that the desert Raiders have because you are able to kite some of the Shinobi but they do have five melee armor so they can blunt a little bit of those shobi swords, and just being faster helps you so much as well because it means that the Shinobi they're not going to be able to run away from you you can hunt them down
Desert Raiders do bonus damage against Mounted Samurai. Going military wing in Castle Age gives three free Desert Raiders.
Serpentine Powder gives hand cannons extra bonus damage to melee infantry, which makes quick work of Japanese Samurai.
Japanese Unique Units
Japanese Landmarks
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