The next step in Japan's mercenary like, Bow Ashigaru are the upgrade of Ronin Archers, having lightly better stats, but still losing out to normal Dark Age archers as a proper archery unit. Their main draw is that they are easily trained; like all mercenaries they have a speedy training time, but they mostly cost food, and a minimal amount of wealth. Although this seems rather odd at first, you will then realise that there is an advantage is this: a large archery component can be amassed fairly easily. As food is a fairly easy resource to obtain in the mid-game period, there should be no problems in creating a well-balanced army to take out whatever enemies may be facing you. Although the English have good bowmen and the Muslims often train hardened Heavy Archers, none of them will be cap