Kill ninjas?

[locked in chad fr]

Just bought this on the sale and I really like it. One thing that I havn't quite figured out yet is how to best deal with enemy ninjas? Can you kill them? My units can't atack them it seems.

[Teutonic Ritterin]

Catch them with police,Call 911!!
Wait there's no police in Feudal Japan...
Use Metsuke and other ninjas.Metsuke are much more effective.
you can recruit Metsukes from the Market Building.
and ninjas from Sake den.

[tiberiansun371alexw]

Even monks can convince them to reitre... if you can see them. Good luck with thet.

Yeah, go with the metsuke.

[Teutonic Ritterin]

Originally posted by tiberiansun371alexw:

Even monks can convince them to reitre... if you can see them. Good luck with thet.

Yeah, go with the metsuke.

good luck with that,out of 50 tries.
my monk only failed 42 times.

[Askindale]

You can assassinate with ninjas :D ironic

[Teutonic Ritterin]

Originally posted by S_Matty cases2x.com:

You can assassinate with ninjas :D ironic

I hope they change the cutscenes into anime ninja battles,with explosion directed by Michael Bay.
lol jk.

[acidko]

probability of killing ninja is almost equal of level ratio (metsuke/ninja, ninja/ninja, monk/ninja) but highest chance of killing ninja has metsuke due to his natural purpose, of course :)

[UrbanEagle7]

Originally posted by Sylveon:

Catch them with police,Call 911!!
Wait there's no police in Feudal Japan...
Use Metsuke and other ninjas.Metsuke are much more effective.
you can recruit Metsukes from the Market Building.
and ninjas from Sake den.

there is kyoto police in fots xd

[mans got drip✅]

Originally posted by kill all the gays:

Originally posted by Sylveon:

Catch them with police,Call 911!!
Wait there's no police in Feudal Japan...
Use Metsuke and other ninjas.Metsuke are much more effective.
you can recruit Metsukes from the Market Building.
and ninjas from Sake den.

there is kyoto police in fots xd

Yes but this is another time period mate

[Mile pro Libertate]

Several things worth knowing, for the new guys here ;)

1) Even if your metsuke doesn't apprehend a ninja, he can discover him in the act of a mission. When a ninja is discovered like this it makes it easier to kill him with your own ninja. The chance of success will display as the same when you hover for the action; bit in reality your chances have went up significantly by virtue of discovery.

Place metsuke inside your towns and they will have a passive effect of ninja deterrence. Sometimes they'll kill an enemy ninja caught in the act, but even if they don't and they simply disrupt his mission, your own ninja now has like 15% greater chance of killing him.

2) You can also place your ninja in towns for other passive, deterrence effects if you suspect enemy ninja will be operating in the area.

3) Since you can't kill or arrest ninja without seeing them, draw them out. Give them a target you can afford to lose, or don't care much for, like a few cheap units in a small "army" to sabotage, or a character you wouldn't mind seeing out of your family lol, and move them through a suspected traffic area. If you have a metsuke nearby, he will probably discover the enemy ninja, even if successful against your bait.

Making raids into enemy provinces to burn their farms, ports, lumber yards and such is also a good way to bait enemy ninja out.

4) To protect your daimyo and/or important army, you can merge your ninja and metsuke into the appropriate stack, and they will increase the security a lot.

5) As a longer term strategy, you can go after enemy infrastructure if they are harassing you with their ninja.

Just like you, the ai cannot recruit ninja or other agents if their infrastructure is disrupted.

So send your forces to destroy their ninja villages. The village on the campaign map gives big boosts to ninja abilities, but they are also isolated and vulnerable. You don't even need agents to hit them: just send a fast strike force of troops (light cav work great) into the province, right click on the village, and burn it down :)

Even if the enemy clan can still recruit ninja from another of its provinces, they won't be as buffed as from the villages.

Sake dens can also be targeted, though since they are inside towns, you'll need your own ninja to do this.

6) If you find an enemy ninja, you can block him in with your units, like ashigaru. Simply take like 5 or 6 ashigaru out of a stack, and order them individually to form a tight cordon around the ninja. At the worst, you'll lose one of these detachment's movement to sabotage.

[LuNi]

Use Metsuke's to deal with ninjas. To deal with Monks use ninjas and To deal with Metsukes use monks.

[Eat3n]

I guess "destroy enemy clan" as a means to get rid of ninjas hasn't been thought of...

[Mile pro Libertate]

Originally posted by -EAT3N-:

I guess "destroy enemy clan" as a means to get rid of ninjas hasn't been thought of...

Lol yeah that always works too, aka the "Nobunaga Approach"...kill everyone and burn everything = problem solved 🚬😎