1).- ABOUT THE HEAVY CAVALRY.-
Well, as you said, the Japanese lacked medieval heavy cavalry, in the sense that they didn’t know how to use metal bard on their horses. Although there is a type of armor called Uma-yoroi, it is pure cloth and painted ropes. Mind you, the rider himself, who was a samurai, could normally wear very strong heavy armor. Also, during the Sengoku Wars they acquired the ability to carry out “cavalry charges”, although still without horse metal barding, so in theory japanese civ could have a heavy cavalry unit that can make cavalry charges. However the armor and HP of this unit is cuestionable, i personally would make it low of the level of the Sofa.
In fact, the “Mounted Samurai with Banner” is the optimal design that Japanese heavy cavalry should have, but apparently (although it is still a theory), it is a separate unit of the “Japanese Lancer” and the Japanese would have 2 heavy cavalry units and one light cavalry.
As there are no stats on these possible heavy cavalry units yet, we still can’t discuss if they have high armor or hit points or not, or if the barding in the image is pure cloth or not; So for now I leave it in dou
Mind you, the shield is QUESTIONABLE and INCORRECT, the Japanese generally didn’t use shields, except as infantry Paveses, and in the event that the cavalry did use them, they were “Squares and Rectangular”, and I will continue to support it.
Foto: A riveted iron plates Tate shield from the Kofun period
Foto: *On the far right, a mounted Samurai holding a sword and a tedate while riding; from the scroll Kangiten Reigen ki, "*
歓喜天霊験記" , around the 13th century.
Photo: A famous illustration of a Japanese hand held shield, from the same
武道藝術秘傳圖會.
2).- ABOUT THE ONNABUGEISHA.- or onna musha, “warrior women”. During the Sengoku era, (and even before, in the last Shogunates), the wives of the samurai were in charge of taking care of the Keeps while the husbands went to war. Sometimes they even formed units to fight, as arquebusiers or with Naginata, the female favorite weapon. I had the idea of including them in my model, but I hesitated because I couldn’t think of a bonus, and there was already a unit with naginata (El sohei). I’m not sure if the referred unit is a woman due to the resolution quality, but it’s an interesting bet. I doubt it’s a warrior monk, they usually shaved or had bandages to cover their heads.
Photo:
Tomoe Gozen (One Hundred Legends of Brave Heroíne Tomoe Gozen (Kuniyoshi Utagawa))
3).- ABOUT THE IMPERIAL TOWN CENTER.- Honestly, I don’t think it’s a normal Town Center. The door and the sheep make it seem so, but if you look closely there are bonsai and other effects that are not typical of the town center, as well as a practice dummy, an element typical of a barracks. I have the suspicion that it is a Buddhist monastery, but that it also works as a town center and creates warrior monks. It’s my theory, what it’s not is if it’s a Landmark, or its monastery substitute with some unknown mechanic. I suspect it because in one of my models I thought to include the Ikko Ikki as a clan to choose, and these had the particularity of living in a city-temple, and practically had monasteries as government centers. One of my ideas was for the monastery to function as an urban center, but since I discarded the ikko ikki, I no longer put it.
The other possibility, is that since in the Japan Middle Ages, the Buddhist began to grow in power, to the point that many officials converted to the same or made contributions to the temples to look good, it came to a point that even the Shogun he gave old summer houses to Buddhist monks. The golden palace was originally a mansion turned temple. Considering this, this could also be another mechanic. If not, I’m just complicating everything, and maybe it’s that the onna-musha can be created in the city center. Who knows.
Photo: *Japanese Monastery - Higashi Hongan-ji
4.- ABOUT THE SPEARMAN.- It is incorrect and in several ways. In the 2nd teaser they used a placeholder spear, so it gave the impression that they would create a new spear. However in the last images, it seems that they used the base model that all Civs have for the spear in Imperial, which is a Bill-Guisarme. We must be clear, the Japanese did not have that type of spear, they had the yari, and if they want to give it a variation, the best would be a trident, a jumonji yari, not a Bill. In general, since the game tends to improve, we hope that at some point the design of the Bill-Guisarme of the Elite Spearman will be considered and changed for Asian or Islamic civilizations, and they will be given a type of spear more in keeping with their culture. There is variation in the swords of the Men-at-arm of different civilizations, as well as the evolution of the bow of the ArchERS in its Elite stage, the same with the Heavy Cavalry Lances, I don’t see why there would be a problem in the case of the spearman.
