Ultimately you lose a lot of tempo if you give that over that first mounted samurai. And yeah, you ultimately scale a little better due to those villager kills, but losing that early tempo, especially against a civilization like Macedonia, it can definitely bite you back later on once that silver starts really rolling in, and the radari will eventually exceed those mounted samurai in strength.

Considering we already have committed to the Oda clan and the Takeda clan for the cavalry, I think we just go for the Hand Gunners. They're going to definitely do a good job against these redarii. You can keep the fluidity of your ranged cavalry composition. They're not nearly as fast as the Yumi, but it's going to make kiting easy. You don't have to worry so much about adding new infrastructure.