to kill the eastern empire capital fast and easy:
get the best troops possible (shoguns work perfectly if u can get them). dont worry about ranged units too much since they can barely hit the ghost shoguns u fight in the 2nd battle. wear no armor! yeah thats right, no armor cause thats how the guillotine special works. but keep lots of health potions and the best weapon against them would be a two handed ax/mace (cause of the third special) or the greek fire
the best possible weapon combo is crossbow and holy reincarnation. the cross bow covers long range more than the more powerful greek fire and has a super powerful attack to take out 3 guys in a row. the 3rd special on the holy reincarnation give a powerful blast that hits multiple dudes and has a long range glitch
i think it would be cool if u were able to hire rougues as mercenaries to make things easier when it comes to troops. u could hire the rogues for fodder and hire ur best troops to finish the job
thrue werdna5, but if u notice it is very hard to hit east empire units cause of their dexterity. so the best way to beat black shoguns is to use regular shoguns and daggers (for critical hit special).
hmmm. i think the hardest to start out as is the black horde cause they hav the worst troops. their bows r the only thing they got and the forest people's are better
honestly, there is no "best person" because this game is all about customizing. so eventually ur character might be entirely different than wat u think he/she should be. for example, i turned edgar into a mace weilding, infernal armor wearing, shuriken throwing S.O.B. and u know that i had to start from 0 all the way to 100 in his far east weapons stats to hav him to do amazing damage with the shuriken
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