One of my main draws to this mod over Darth was the inclusion of the pike and shot units in the game. It made me want to play as a faction which quickly modernized and brought on an early Meji restoration for Japan by adopting Western weapons an forgoing elite samurais in exchange for professional peasant armies.

However, obviously you do not start out like this and have to fight during a time where the samurai rain supreme. I decided to play as Oda, as their ashigaru are better than everyone else's but keep having trouble dealing with factions that use lots of samurai. So I have some questions.

1. What are the 13 other provinces I should take before preparing for the realm divide?
2. What units compliment an ashigaru centric force?
3. How can I best employ these units?