Earn your units?

[EdmireDragonbane]

I bought and installed Shogun fall of the samurai today, it works fine accept a weird texture error, but nothing bad. But to my surprise when entering the Multiplayer world, i discovered I had to "earn" my units, by winning battles. Of course my first reaction was "Why?" than I just sighed and played the game because I found it to be fun. After winning like 2 battles out of 5-6 and really not earning anything except a new castle, and a beautiful pink skirt. Nothing really made me happy. I could not create and customize my own army and look into asking people if they could help me build an army up, but to an avail that I had basically not-so great units. I get my butt-whooped if I don't bring guns. It might be because I'm a new player, but I found it to be an uninviting thing. First, it kinda pulls people away from the multiplayer, especially if they aren't so great at any TW game, and they want to use a Marine army, but since they can't win anything they will never be able to get it. Also, why? Just why would they do this? I mean it gives you something to achieve, but really why?

I'm not trying to seem like a hater, I love the game so far, and plan to build up and become a super star, but all I ask is why did they do this?

[The Useless Member]

Why don't we just move this instead?

[eXistenZ]

1) only play battle list battles at the start, so you come up agianst people with the same number of stars (and units)
2) try to capture sea provinces first. they allow you to skip not needed regions. I got gatling guns when i was level 4

[Alkaline Earth]

What he said ^

EDIT:

oh and its easier to smart your enemy with melee units when you have 1 star general because you get to spend much less on the general to start. best to use a three prong assault on the enemies line, I like to have my left strongest, right weakest, and center between the two in strength. dont bother with cavalry just use units with spears and the enemy wont have a big cavalry advantage anymore

[Phillyphries]

^ Actually you should bother with cavalry, and you could bring some spears if you wanted as well. If the enemy brought gun cav or revolver cav, your spears are nothing at that point

[wolfbane751]

ever since i started doing MM battles again as a fots avatar i just bring plenty of my veteran yari kii that i used as a troll tactic to spam at their general then having a few line infantry units run in and hopefully with their general dead mop up the rest of the army my yari kii have been leveling up quickly due to this but they tend to die more often then not but meh i knew they would die but if i win the battle their sacrifice was not in vain