Warrior Monks (STW unit)
| Category: Infantry |
| Class: Melee |
| Soldiers: 60 |
| Weapon Type: Pole-arm |
| Main Stats | ||
| Honour / Morale | 13 | |
| Melee Attack | 11 | |
| Melee Defence | 8 | |
| Charge Bonus | 10 | |
| Armour | 1 | |
| Extra Stats | ||
| Marching Speed | 5 | |
| Running Speed | 10 | |
| Charging Speed | 12 |
Requires: Buddhist Temple
These Buddhist Samurai fanatics are the most
powerful foot soldiers on the battlefield. They
carry a portable shrine as their unit standard,
which makes enemy Buddhist troops most
reluctant to engage them. Christians don't
suffer from this problem.
Extra info:
Religious certainty and samurai training are a
potent combination. The sohei — Buddhist
warrior monks — had a tradition of getting
involved in wars that didn’t necessarily concern
them. Many monasteries also had a tradition of
producing brave and fanatical warriors, men who
were certain that death on a battlefield would not
mean defeat, disgrace and failure but a certain
place in paradise.
A unit of warrior monks is a powerful fighting force,
motivated as it is by religious devotion. It also uses
a “portable shrine” in place of a battle flag as its
standard. The presence of this shrine makes other
troops reluctant to attack them, if only because of
the potential sacrilege. However, Christian samurai
units (that may existent after the arrival of the
Portuguese in 1542 and the subsequent appearance
of the Jesuits) don’t suffer any penalties when
attacking warrior monks.