Basic Unit Statistics (can be modified by difficulty level, arts, skills, traits and retainers)
| Recruitment Cost | 1100 | |
| Upkeep Cost | 150 | |
| Melee Attack | 6 | 17% |
| Charge Bonus | 6 | 12% |
| Bonus vs Cavalry | 0 | 0% |
| Range | 175 | 26% |
| Accuracy | 55 | 55% |
| Reloading Skill | 35 | 35% |
| Ammunition | 25 | 31% |
| Melee Defence | 3 | 8% |
| Armour | 4 | 26% |
| Morale | 8 | 16% |
Strengths & Weaknesses
- Very long range.
- Very accurate and greater damage.
- Slow reload speed.
- Vulnerable to cavalry.
- Weak melee attack.
Abilities
- Flaming Arrows - This unit can fire flaming arrows for a short period of time. Flaming arrows have a greater damage effect and can set fire to flammable objects. Flaming arrows don't function in wet weather.
Description
When archer and bow are as one, anything is possible.
Armed with the powerful daikyu, these samurai are capable of breathtaking feats of archery. The sheer size of their weapon dramatically increases their range and their accuracy is the envy of many. Due to its size the daikyu takes longer to nock than other bows giving these warriors slower reload times, but the damage it causes on impact more than compensates. Like most archers Chosokabe daikyu samurai are weak in melee and vulnerable to attack from enemy cavalry. The bow has always played an important role in the myths and legends of warrior societies. In The Tale of the Heike the Emperor Konoe fell ill after being plagued night after night by terrible nightmares. His loyal samurai, Minamoto no Yorimasa, realised that a dark cloud had appeared above the palace shortly before the Emperor fell ill. Determined to get to the bottom of this phenomenon, he spent all night on the palace roof and in the early hours of the morning fired an arrow into the centre of the dark cloud. From the midst of the cloud fell the body of a nue, a legendary creature with the head of a monkey, the body of a tanuki, the legs of a tiger and a snake for a tail. A bringer of misfortune and illness, it was the nue that had caused the Emperor's illness, and with its death he was cured.