Shugun TW Sucks

This is a game critique.

=Online Issues

~Prestige option:
Stolen from COD & thus unoriginal! Way to sell out CA! What was wrong with the ranking system in Napoleon, which is skill based?

~Shoguns Retainers
They make up for a players inability to achieve victory with their tiny, underdevoloped, unused, obtuse mind. The point of online play is to pit yourself against another players most creative thinking, not his retainers. This could be fixed easly, if they were fairly given to all players & they did nothing to the attacks of the units +or- but effected things a retainer/subordinates would do for a gen like, moral, hiding, stamina, armor, discilpline, ect. These could be an area effect/army/ unit specific.

~Unit Types/selection
+Units must be unlocked=bad idea
+Unit selection is poor & uncreative
-With few unit types to choose from the types of battles you will fight is limited. The ranking system doesnt help this. A 2*v6* the 6* will win due to his vet units or by killing 2* gen.
+Inf: Light/Heavy
+Cav: Light/Heavy/Bow
+Missile: light/heavy
+Gunpowder: light/heavy
-Imgination in battles is crushed because:
*Heros way over priced/useless
*light units are arrow fodder & rarely serve their real roles as axillary units; they should be more sutainable
*Yari are useful only against Cav or as fodder
*Bowmen: over powered, over priced & unless you buy Monks
*Muskets are incredible moral breakers but useless unless your enemy is a foolish ham fisted monkey
*All units move like a German tank through Poland
*Naginata Cav is OP:How on earth could a Naginata be better on horse back than a sword? Naginata/Halberd is a defensive weapon only so what is the point of it on horse back?
*Archer Cav can only shoot at what is in front of them; the circle formation is beyond worthless.
*Sega has for the first time limited the number of units you can have (not all unit types). Never been done before, besides special units i.e. guards. Yes some units are over powered & spamming can be an issue but its a balance issue that CA hasnt worked out. Its unjust for them to have done that we should have the right to decide for our selves the rules & money always limits the spam.

~Maps
Formation gliches on some maps

-It's 99% bad; but:
units can move through forests hidden, a very cool upgrade from Nap

=Campaign

The same units problems plague this part of the game as well thus not worth your while

~Generals
The custom Gen is a good upgrade from Nap but again it could be more in depth. It seems there is little focus on how the people veiw any Gen & they have little influence on economy

~Cities/Regions
You should be able to train most of your units from one building. Case in point; If i want Katana inf & Monk Naginata inf, I shouldnt have to build a Katana dojo & a Monestary & a Yari dojo to get two units