How to use the Yari Ashigaru

a in depth guide of using the Console Peasants.

Introduction

Do you hate wasting money on Dojos.
are High Upkeep Samurais to hard to Keep.
Did you come from Samurai Warriors.
the Fear Not,The Peasants is for you.

History

First,let's get over the history of the Peasants.
The Peasants or Ashigaru(light foot) was Developed in Around 10th Century Feudal Japan.
They're mostly are just Cheap Mercenaries any 15 Year old Daimyo can use,just for the fun of it.
but during the Ashigaka Shogunate to Muromachi Period,the Ashigaru became a backbone of most warring states armies.
During the Warring states Ashigaru are mostly Freshly conscripted from the nearest Rice fields.

Statistic

Now let's move on to the statistic of the Unit.
The Yari Ashigaru Cost 250 Koku and 75 Upkeep.
The Oda Yari Ashigaru Cost less to 200 Koku and 50 Upkeep.
The Hattori Yari Ashigaru Cost the same,but more Upkeep at 100 Upkeep.
The Yari Ashigaru holds 200 Men of 99,5% Peasants,and 0,5% Ashigarugashira(Ashigaru Captain[The Ashigarugashira,is actually a Samurai,but at a Higher rank than Ordinary Foot Samurai])or 240 Men of 99,58% Peasants,and 0,41% Ashigarugashira(Ashigaru Captain)for the Ikko Ikki.
the move speed is at 2.01(Walk),4.25(Run),1(Crawl)and 6(Charge)
the Morale of Ashigaru is mostly 5,but the Oda,Ikko Ikki,and the Hattori has 6 Morale.
The Attack is fairly Decent with 4 Base Attack for standard,and Hattori Ashigarus,5 Base Attack for Oda Ashigaru,and 3 Base Attack for Ikko Ikki Ashigaru.
The Defense of this unit is Pathetic having 3 at standard(including Hattori),2 for the Ikko Ikki,and 4 for the Oda.
Don't even ask about their Charge,it's only 1#
Their armor was Munition Quality(Mass Produced) Made,not like those Anime Samurai Protagonist with their Plot Armor,but Plot armor is more effective at deflecting hits,and Arrows,so the ashigaru only has 2 Base armor.
The Cavalry bonus was nice,having 23-25 Attack against those My Little Ponies fans is great.
they have just 1 Trait that was common,they can hide in woods,but the Hattori Ashigaru can actually hide in Scrubs,if the 200 Peasants can fit in.
Their ability is the only thing that makes them useful,The Poke Wall,Gonna Impale them all,makes the ashigaru has tighter formation,Higher attack value(since 2 or more ashigaru is trying to attack the enemy),and giving them Small Morale Bonus,but at the cost of a small amount of Fatigue is made.

Campaign Tactics

Now let's move on to the Campaign Tactics of the Unit.
The Ashigaru has 3 kinds of Campaign tactics:
1. Communist Tactic
The Communist Tactic is simple,just keep training them,and hope that those samurai has Fatigue.
2. Normal Tactic
The Normal Tactic is like normal tactic,use them in early game,and keep using them as a Repression force,or backup units
3. Hideyoshi Tactic

Freaking upgrade them until they're not Clasified as Rice Fields Peasants anymore,there's 3 kinds of Hideyoshi Ashigarus:
-Attack
With Blacksmith,Juijutsu Camp,and General Skills alone you can have your ashigaru having 12 Base Attack,and can be further increased through Experience.
-Armor
With Armorer,and Armory,your Ashigaru can have 7 Armor.
-Morale
With the Shrine,Bushido Tech,and General Skills, your Ashigaru can have 15 Morale,and can be further increased through Experience.

Battle Tactics

Now let's move on to the Battle Tactics of the Unit.
The Ashigaru has 3 kinds of Battle tactics:
1. Communist Tactic
at the start of the battle,attack the enemy head on.
2. Greek Tactic
at the start of the battle,move slowly foward with Yari wall.
3. Rice Field Tactic
in early game,where you can't field samurai,put them in the middle,and Flanks.
in late game,where you can field samurai,put them in the flanks to guard against cavalry,and hold infantry with their yari wall.

Ending

So that's all there is to using the Console Peasants.
Tune in next time as I show you how to use the Disbanded when my master has no wars(Yari Samurai).
and remember,Everyone is a Console Peasant in their Child Years.

Next Guide (Yari Samurai)
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=957891085

[Mr. Grunt]

The Ashigaru, simple, cheap, effective. I did use some premium archers to weaken the enemy, but the slow, menacing advance of the spear wall put the enmy to flight. I had 1.5k army against a 2.5k army. I killed more and lost less. True, it was againtst AI, but that only gave me xp and cemented on Ashigaru superiority. Why get a samurai unit, when I can get two Ashigaru, one holds them with yari wall, the other fold them with anotehr yari wall. Glorius!

[Economic Terrorist]

Shogun 2:

Why bother creating Samurai at all when you can spam endless waves of Ashigaru?

[kesa822000]

here ya go ;

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198007910011/images/

[kesa822000]

You can't give Ashigaru too much love.

But this guide leaves out one important detail.

With Samurai , you need only kiss their butts , and grossly over - pay them.

With Ashigaru , though , you need to up your game a bit.

You could just conscript them.

But that would suck.

" Garbage in , garbage out " , " If they pretend to care about us , then we will pretend to give a #### " and that sort of thing.

You need .... like .....recruiting posters !

Here ya go ;

[Captain Pentium]

Oh yeah, it's Oda time.

[Teutonic Ritterin]

if I remembered correctly.
Ikko Ikki Generals have the earliest tree for the Inspiring Skill, which increases morale, and replenishment, while also reducing his army's upkeep.
So Basically they could go for Ronin and Monks for their main Army, while having Captain Led Ashigaru Armies.

Ikko Ikki Yari Ashigaru with experience is much much more dangerous, due to that 240 men getting a stat increase.

[Catious]

THROW ALL THE YARI

[Cardboard Lord]

Step 1: Be Ikko Ikki

Step 2: Laugh at Oda because you have superior #'s, therefore superior Yari Wall

Step 3: Profit

[Joe]

Simplified version: Play Oda.

[Marsk]

Communist tactic lol.