How to beat
Japaneseas Malians
Matchup tips
A later castle age isn't ideal against Japanese because they can grab relics with Shinto priests.
Imported armor is a critical tech, but less so against Yumi who have slightly less damage.
The challenge using Javelins versus Yumi Ashigaru is that you will overkill a lot of Yumi.
With Sofas you deal with those Yumis pretty well if you can survive and get their armor upgrades as well eventually.
Once imported armor comes in, Yumi archers won't do any damage against sofas anymore. Imported armor gives sofas plus two melee and ranged armor, so they take significantly less damage from Yumi archers and TC fire.
Japan recently more often than not will open up with a dark age barracks, whether to razz a little bit on those pit mines or just luring deer early on. You have a lot of use for those spearmen and the barracks you'll want eventually anyway because you're Japan.
Javelin throwers don't do any bonus damage to the Onna-bugeisha.
Japanese Unique Units
Japanese Landmarks
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