Requires
- Buildings:
- Arts:
Enables
- Units:
Spawned Garrisons
- Units:
Basic Building Statistics (can be modified by difficulty level, arts, skills, traits and retainers)
- Cost: 4200
- +7 to repression in this province
- Recruitment capacity (units in training): +1
Description
Desperate men are the land's courage given flesh.
The kondeidokoro fulfils two functions. Firstly, it acts as a military post, a rallying point for the many local militia who can be called into service to defend their home province. Secondly, it is a clear sign to all that the local lord and his agents are watching, all the time, and it significantly increases repression in a province. It also boosts the experience of any junsatsushi trained there. The need for people to behave themselves was always paramount in Japan: there simply wasn't the room for troublemakers, or the opportunity to send them abroad to cause trouble for someone else. This had been the European solution: open up new lands, or invade someone. At the time of the Gempei War neither plan was an option for the Japanese, as almost every usable bit of land in Japan was already being used for something, and the nearest neighbours were China and Korea. A rigid social system was therefore a practical solution to having so many people needing to live together.