The first dedicated building of the Mustering chain, the Muster Field gives additional recruitment slots and replenishment rate to the province containing it. It has two possible chains that it can be upgraded into. It provides repression to the province and adds the ability to recruitment slots and the ability to recruit levy. The Tadokoro is the basic garrison building for the settlement. Be careful however, as the towers can be captured by the attackers and turned against the defenders! Forts also allow the construction of another building chain in the province. Forts also add defensive archery towers, who will pelt the attacking forces with arrows while they are in range. Defenders will only fight to the death in the inner courtyard, while in the outer courtyard they will still rout, although they will rout to the central keep rather than offmap, where they will reform for the final defence. Forts are an upgrade to the Stronghold and improve on it by having an outer courtyard and a further raised inner courtyard, requiring attackers to scale two sets of walls as well as allowing the defenders to fall back when one set of walls is breached. Defending troops inside this fort will fight to the death instead of retreating. We have already seen the Town fortifications (A knee high wall), Stronghold fortifications are a wooden walled fort on a raised dirt pad.

Additionally, the Stronghold chain increases the level of fortifications in the province. The Stronghold chain increases the size of the city, allowing additional building chains to be constructed in the province (an additional building chain per upgrade level) and also consumes a food for each upgrade level. The provided garrison is small and of low quality. The first tier, Town, has only a small barricade and unlike all other tiers, troops engaged in a siege defence can rout. The town building chain increases the number of buildings allowed in a province as well as the size/number of walls. Know yourself and know your enemy and you will be undefeated in one thousand battles.' 'One can not advise great men to glorious victory without knowledge of all their tools. Part 2: Buildings, Units and Arts encountered The advisors guide to Japan

Fall of the samurai unique units