How to beat
Order of the Dragonas Japanese
Matchup tips
You always have to be really really careful there with how you take these fights and that's definitely something that you are going to have to just take into account that you just can't go for these straight one-on-one engagements or even two-on-one engagements. can be quite tricky as the reinforcements come in and especially since it is much simpler for Order of the Dragon to just pull a Gilded Knight back and heal those ones back to full as well with the Prelates potentially coming in
These crossbows with eight should pretty much be about able to oneshot these mounted samurai.
I guess he's got some passive food from the Kura Storehouse, but the Aachen Chapel for the dragon just feels like it's going to pay way better dividends.
Shinobi could have been interesting if your opponent goes super heavy into infantry with the Meinwerk because Shinobi do get bonus damage against melee units.
Onna-Bugeisha don't really fare well against tanky Order of the Dragon troops, but they do stack really well once you have a flood of them: you can use two layers and still do a lot of damage to OTD troops.
Onna-Bugeisha are fairly fragile and don't have a lot of base damage, so against tanky Gilded Men-at-Arms and Spearmen with melee defense upgrades, it might be difficult to really do a lot of damage.
Mounted Samurai get obliterated by Gilded Knights or Gilded Spearmen, and sure you get one freebie with your deflective armor but that might actually be an arrow from a Gilded Archer and not the actual Spearman poke; so if they get a couple more Spearmen those Mounted Samurai aren't going to be any useful.
If Gilded Spearmen ever close the distance, they almost one-shot the Onna-Musha.
200 population vs 200 population is not a good matchup for the Japanese against Order of the Dragon — the population efficiency of Gilded units becomes much more important once you reach Imperial.
In low unit count engagements, it's Order of the Dragon all over — the Japanese need their mass.
Gilded Horsemen are not a good matchup against Mounted Samurai, but they will absolutely obliterate Onna-Musha.
The deflective armor is immensely valuable against Order of the Dragon Spears. Those guys get something like +46 bonus damage against cavalry; one hit and you lose half your HP. Having that first hit negated is just so, so valuable.
Order of the Dragon Unique Units
Order of the Dragon Landmarks
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