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.