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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen
Ninjas were exclusively used as assasin units,
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Let me guess, as a fairly unsuccessfull assassins ?
Unfortunately no game that deals with the mediaval japan can get this aspect nowhere nearly right.
This aspect is always reduced to assassination that are mostly unsuccessful gambling. In truth, being exceptionally competent, Ninjas were involved into pretty much everything and who didn't had any was doomed to loose. There was a plethora of ryu-ha specialiced in all relevant fields like all sort of special operations, covert actions, guerilla warfare, intelligence gathering/espionage, counter-intelligence, reconnaissance and security services, body guarding, advisory, training of troops, battlefield tactics, fortifications, sciance and so forth. And of course they weren't missing even in conventional engagements.
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unless we refer to the battlefield ninjas of the expansions. Espionage units used the shinobi moniker, and functioned like spies in later Total War installments.
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What was the deal with the battle field Ninjas ?
Are you talking about official expansions or community mods ?
Anyway i always wanted an epic japan simulator. I loved Lords of the Rising Sun, back then on the amiga
