How to beat
Zhu Xi's Legacyas Japanese
Matchup tips
In theory, Japanese can go for a bannerman and then your horsemen will get a lot of additional attack damage, and then the horsemen actually do phenomenally up against the early palace guards.
Yumi Ashigaru can deal relatively well with early palace guards thanks to their movement speed.
Plus three ranged armor is effectively tripled against Zhuge Nu because their burst damage hits three times, so armor reduces each hit.
Don't make the Atakebune. It's costwise and performance-wise much worse than a normal cannon ship, especially when up against a Zhu Xi with potential Nest of Bees Imperial placement.
The mounted samurai are a decent answer into the spear and lancer composition. That deflective armor charge makes them trade okay against spearmen in low numbers when things are going well.
Man-at-arms (or early infantry) is always nice against Zhu Xi's Legacy because you decide where your opponent puts the Meditation Gardens, or rather you deny the outer parts of a Meditation Garden.
Open up with barracks, couple of dark age spearmen, and try to delay the pro scout a little bit, force the Zhu Xi player into an archery range and get some Zhuge Nu out on their side. Then afterwards, while they're busy pro scouting with the Zhuge Nu, Japan will just try and fast castle up behind that, and then we see some knights there at knight raids coming in.
One benefit of dark age rushing the Zhu Xi player is they can't move out to get the Meditation Garden in a better spot.
You're not going to be able to take down mass Zhuge Nu in any capacity with mounted samurai.
Once you get the Yumi Ashigaru veteran upgrade, they can deal with small groups of Zhuge Nu and crossbows, but against mass Lancers from the Zhu Xi player, it's hard to keep up.
Target the Imperial Official. They are expensive units, and forcing your opponent to replace them means they spend resources that could have gone to villagers.
When you see Spears and crossbowmen up against all those mounted Samurai, you get a bunch of barracks and start pumping out Onna-Bugeisha to slice and dice your way through those spears, through those crossbowmen, and they are very effective at doing so.
Zhu Xi's Legacy Unique Units
Zhu Xi's Legacy Landmarks
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