Rise of the Samurai - Viable Builds

[Condottiere 40K]

I've been letting my RotS fetish dominate this past week, but, no surprise, keep getting beaten.

Fourteen thousand points is too cumbersome, because I ended up with sixty percent Foot Samurai in the line up.

So I was wondering if there are combinations that will work at five and ten thousand points.

[Chris lol]

I personally used to play with an attendant style army. Attendants are RoTS units right?

I used to mix nagi monks with sword attendants, which worked quite well.

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Few examples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CQByFK3C_g&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiQux7HxSQ0&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srzU4zuSmIY&feature=plcp

Just get some sword attendant veterans with melee attack veteran upgrades, blademaster and honourable attendant. If you plan on using foot samurai definately get whistling arrows on them.

[Condottiere 40K]

So vanilla builds are definitely out?

In multiplayer, available are Onna Bushi Heroine, Tetsubo Monk Hero, Mounted Samurai Hero, Mounted Naginata, Mounted Samurai, Foot Samurai, Naginata Attendaants and Sword Attendants.

While a cost benefit analysis was actually quite favourable, in RL these units just tend to get overwhelmed.

[Cinnamon the Hun]

I think you should be allowed monks with that sort of build since monks are in the rots unit roster.

But I just hosted a battle list game for a classic battle with rise of the samurai factions and actually got a game. CA might have actually made classic mode battles visible in the list.