Nippon
Light missile infantry · T1 · basic ranged troops
Bow Ashigaru
弓足轻
Country folk handed the bow, darkening the sky above the front line with an unbroken rain of arrows.
Background
Common foot soldiers in lacquered iron jingasa and plain loaned armour, they lack the hereditary sword and bow craft of their samurai lords and the heavy harness that goes with it, yet their sheer numbers and ordered ranks form the backbone of any great army. Under the drill and commands of their ashigaru captains they press across the open field in step, making up in close-packed files what each man lacks alone. No lofty samurai oath of a martyr's death stirs in an ashigaru's heart; his courage rests only on his trust in the man beside him. So long as the ranks hold and the jingasa stand shoulder to shoulder, the gathered nerve of common folk lends them a fighting will of startling stubbornness.
Unit type
- Class
- Infantry · missile
- Equipment
- Japanese bow / sidearm short sword
- Armour and shield
- Light armour 30 (jingasa and loaned armour); no shield
- Training
- Untrained
Recruitment
- Recruited from
- Ashigaru Longhouse (the start of the Samurai Hall chain) and every building after it / Row I of the flagship's Warrior's Manor chain, also called Ashigaru Longhouse
- Unlocked by
- Building the Ashigaru Longhouse is enough
- Recruitment time
- 1 turn
- Unit cap
- None
Stats
- Melee attack
- 10
- Very weak in a close fight
- Melee defence
- 13
- 16 with Jingasa Brotherhood
- Weapon strength (base / AP)
- 19／3
- Sidearm short sword, 22 in total
- Charge bonus
- 3
- Missile strength (base / AP)
- 14／1
- 15 in total
- Range
- 140
- Ammunition
- 22
- Reload time
- 11.5 seconds
- About 10.35 seconds with Jingasa Brotherhood
- Armour
- 30
- Jingasa and loaned armour
- Leadership
- 36
- 46 with Jingasa Brotherhood
- Speed
- 33
- Health per model
- 54
- 6480 across 120 men
- Unit size
- 120
Unit traits
Expendable
Its rout or death does not lower the leadership of other, non-expendable allies
Abilities
Jingasa BrotherhoodThis mod
The people of Nippon put their faith in their comrades. Once the losses mount too high, that faith turns against them.
Active while health is above 50%: leadership +10, melee defence +3 and reload speed +10%; lost once health falls to 50% or below
Unit attributes
ExpendableVanilla
Witnessing friendly expendable units rout does not reduce other units' leadership, unless they are themselves expendable.
Hide (forest)Vanilla
This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.