Akechi Mitsuhide

Since you have Yoshihisa already, and can get Suzuki whenever you want, I'd probably go deep vs. wide on this choice. Akechi may also be totally owned by Date Masamune, who could even possibly be f2p.

Among the Musketeers, Suzuki and Takigawa's passive skills seem to be better, and Shimazu Ihishisa's active skill is top (+ legend).
I'm confused by two of Akechi's flanking skills. What does it mean?

I thought so too, but how does this work with a ranged attack?

I really don’t like that we’re comparing people to each other rather than just to what we’re facing in the game. Unlike in every single other ET game, we’ve got really limited control over what we get. And that rerolling thing doesn’t always work. I tried it when I got him and that didn’t work. There is no guarantee that you actually get any of those purples that are better than him. I mean, I haven’t rolled Shigehide myself.

Later on, sure he’ll probably not be as good because chances are that you’ll have everyone in the long run and there’s several good teppo generals coming up. But the fact that you have him NOW doesn’t hurt at all and he’s probably good enough to be fielded a good amount, that is, unless you actually reroll him for something better. And what is that? The only hugely valuable golds are Motonari and Ujiyasu for their HLs and you have them.

Alright, so that’s you having two great archers, not everyone has that in the short term. I had the exact opposite situation. I was relying on Nene as an archer (and she’s out and out terrible at the job) and had a huge amount of teppo already. Sure, how useful someone is depends on what else you have, so Saito Dosan is less useful if you’ve got Motochika + Motonari, but everyone has a completely different lineup. So I just don’t think it’s fair to compare SPECIFIC generals that way.

That’s less of a problem when it comes Cav/Inf though. Since those unit types have the only two 100% guaranteed generals that everyone has, and they’re both REALLY good.

kanue posted something about how a lot of generals are good on the main thread. And it’s true. You can work with almost anything the game throws at you because most golds and purples are just good.

Also, blue flames are really deceptive in how much control they actually afford you. You are STILL pretty much hinging on rolling because you need 150 for a purple from scratch. That’s 15 guaranteed purple rolls and probably about 8 more on average. And purple rolls are like 25-29 frags. You should either:

1. spend it fast if you’ve rolled a purple with a HL and you don’t have many already

2. Save it for Mori Motonari/Hojo Ujiyasu if you don’t have them. This is because their sweeps are more valuable than purple sweeps and there’s no telling how long it’ll take otherwise to get them.

3. Use it on a very critical purple, Otomo Sorin is pretty much the only one I can think of.

4. Spend it to upgrade a good purple that you have that doesn’t have a HL. This is because it’s hard otherwise to rank up a specific purple. There’s 26 purple generals (and there will be more) and any roll can be any of them and you can’t rig the RNG.

So no, the flames don’t really «open up more» choices. It’s still the gacha RNG that’s responisble for 99% of what your lineup should look like.

Tbh, (top tier) purples and golds are pretty interchangable in the game in actual performance. What’s different is how much their frags are worth. So golds are best farmed with the special mission or libraries and purples should be upgraded with the flames.

I think we should be looking at generals in tiers, and Mitsuhide is still a pretty high tier teppo (and teppo are awesome in general) so it’s likely that he’ll still be pretty useful, he’s certainly for me even with very little invested.