Shogun 2 Total War - Spear Wall defense

I love Yari Spear walls. They are so good at defense that I almost feel like I'm cheating when I use them.

I made a video of a battle during the Oda campaign (on hard) that demonstrates how effective a spear wall can be.

Sorry about the lag and poor resolution. This is my first vid so I've got some learning to do. (For some reason my computer plays battles beautifully with very little lag while I'm playing the battle but plays awful during replay. If someone knows why this is I would love to know).

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Total War
• Shogun 2
• Yari Ashigaru
• spear wall
• commentary
• defense

[TheMeshHeads]

i love huge black bars ;)

[NoNiceNamesLeft]

especially with general lol



[NoNiceNamesLeft]

stupid ai, charging yaris head on like that.

[ubermonkey37]

I used my yari ashigaru outside of my wall after watching this. It actually worked amazingly well even though they didn't have any cavalry (aside from general). It allows the archers to fire a lot more arrows and so even though the ashigaru outside of the wall died, the enemy army routed as soon as the scaled the walls. Also, the few that survive are in the perfect position to charge the archers after their melee line is defeated!

[Nsan]

Nice video! Placing the Yari Ashigaru outside the wall like that is something I should try. I only have one castle of that size at present. I am about to start a war with the Takeda (I am Date), and I will be depending on my Ashigaru units to support the Samurai and protect the home front.

I use the spear wall often also. =)

[RiskyChilled]

I love to see the spear wall vs the charge btw nice vid ;)