Kuroda Kanbee

I love them all, but I think stoic is right in that infantry isn't the most impressive out of all the units. Out of the infantry generals, Kanbee seems to do pretty well. His skill deals damage similar to Hanbei's and Motonari's skills which can always be useful, Plain Fighting is always welcome as long as you're a little conscious about terrain, Formation Mastery is good since we'll most likely only use Kanbee on infantry although in a pinch he can perform okay on teppo and archer. His command of ships is good for naval battles and he works actually pretty well as an admiral due to his skill dealing double damage there. And of course I think I made myself clear on what I think about Tactical Expert (I love it), but that only comes at rank 6 which I'm pretty sure no one has a rank 6 Kanbee. At least his less impressive skill Master Builder is far down the list, but arguably that skill is best on infantry who really should be the only unit defending a city.

He has a good bond with Hanbei who can serve as a good archer. I didn't get either until late though so both my Kanbee and Hanbei are pretty weak.

It's definitely hard to compare generals of other classes though and since most generals are determined by the gacha we're not too concerned over best generals, especially since GCS generally gives you an easier time comparatively to other EasyTech games. Thus, I think as long as their background is purple or gold they perform really well and even some blue generals can do okay (as I've mentioned before I used Ikeda Sen for my teppo general for most of the campaign) - so if you have Kanbee and like anything about him whether it be his skills, historical role, or just plain appearance, absolutely use him. I know there's a whole tier list and everything but they each perform good enough that often the one you use is the one you get first or just the one you like.

I like him for his double hit (even if its only 60%) and his rolling splash active. That is it though: he is not very impressive outside of his active and his last skill. I personally prefer shimazu yoshihiro and hashiba hideyoshi over this guy.

he and Nobutsuna are the only two infantry general in the purple tier that i consider decent and I use them all the time in conquest 

but speaking of infantry underperformance...I will say that rather blame the entire class of infantry, the quality of the general are really the true reason why are they underperform

Just FYI he and yoshihiro are the only Two general in the purple tier that have formation mastery at LV3 which really explains why many of the Infantry Gen can't really deal much damage except for a specific sword master 

And even with these two they also have one skills that really sucks, with kanbee is master builder and with yoshihiro is steadfast defense 

So I guess the dev really hate infantry this time round and makes the infantry general so weak in comparison the other class gen

(One more note...sakai tadatsugu in the blue tier also have Formation mastery at lv3 and his skill set and damage really outperform many purple tier gen)

One thing that is evident from these discussions is that.. We evaluate unit classes solely by how much damage they can deal, or how much offensive capability they have, because.. it is the only thing that matters Given the sheer abundance of Combat Rations and the importance of game modes like Conquest (which really is all about how fast you can kill your opponents) the importance of survivability is simply zero. I have like 500-600 of both combat rations and I even sold many for gold in the past, 20-30 of each coming in per successful challenge conquest. Literally all survivability my gen need is to not die in one round to burst damage, because in the next, he will be fully healed. Think of the old WC4 days (the first Easytech game I played), where every HP was golden and you would actually pay hundreds of medals for a 7% HP increase, this is a totally different story now.

Thats the reason why Infantry is perceived so low in a game like this. They are supposed to be cheap and tanky but those are properties that you dont really need. Well, except for the cheap part, I think thats the reason we do still use them in conquest.

I don't agree with the whole idea that infantry is bad offensively. I mean every single one of the units except two of them are, but those two are the only units you deploy your guys on in challenge conquests and they're everywhere.

Now regarding Kanbei, I don't think he really gets really really good until you get him to rank 6, which takes a huge amount of time. His two damage abilities are offset by him having a really poor valor base, a unit spec that isn't either Elite Samurai or Swordmaster (I've tested it, it does add damage), and an active that's significantly less effective than the other two big combat infantrymen (Nobutsuna, Yoshihiro). He's usually my 4th infantry deploy at this point. He might get to #2 or #3 later on depending on whether or not I can blitz the enemy with Hideyoshi.

Nobutsuna still does pretty good damage even not on sword master, although for sure Hideyoshi is the best infantry general just because of his marching expert which is easy to get to level 5, making him go long distances. Even better is that his horse when maxed doesn't get blocked by enemy units so he just zooms past everyone and cracks cities. It doesn't even matter that the rest of his skill set can be pretty mediocre, his speed and good stats alone makes him the go-to for infantry.

Kanbee I feel like works best during naval missions (Makijima, Kizugawaguchi, etc.) but he's absolutely competent even in the driest part of Japan. And like you said, it's fun to love them all and use them all.

Personally I have a liking towards Mochizuki Chiyo (Project Sekai Honami anyone?) and Akechi Mitsuhide, even though comparatively they're some of the weaker ones in their class. When equipped decently they handle themselves quite well.