Bow Samurai Vs Bow Ashigaru
A late game investment would be to start bow warrior monks as they out range all other bow units 175 range vs 150 default.
Bow samurai vs bow ashigaru. While they have superior numbers compared to their later game counterparts the bow samurai and the bow warrior monks bow ashigaru inflict fewer casualties over time due to their inferior accuracy and reload skill. Cavalry is a very vital part of good armies allowing you to take out their generals and high priority targets like bows or nodachi samurai. I prefer bow sam. The yumi was shot at two dummies from 45 feet accurately.
Bow ashigaru are the cheapest and earliest bow infantry available. Fewer arrows in the air but they seem to do just as much damage as a larger ashigaru force and the whistling and fire arrows really help aswel. For both yari and bows they need to have friendly troops in numbers nearby to keep morale up. For long range weapons the viking s spear was tested against the samurai s yumi bow.
Shogun 2 multiplayer retainer list and discussion. For bow ashigaru you need to make sure that they are always near friendly melee troops that they can shelter behind if they have to. As hattori don t use your unique ninja and bow unit the ninja is bugged and is actually worse than the regular ninjas and the bow unit loses in 1v1 to even bow ashigaru. For yari ashigaru you want to ensure they are in spearwall whenever they have to fight.
3 bow ashigaru or 2 bow samurais.