Shiro Mirumoto

[Brian Poole]

This is just my 2 cents, i jsut felt like voicing my opinion on the 
stronghold.

It sucks, It's alot better than Iron Mountain but after 3 terrible 
strongholds i hoped but did not expect something really good. I don't know 
what would be so wrong with us having a stronghold on par with akodo halls, 
kosaten shiro or yogo towers. I guess we one of the best personality bases 
in the game, at least stat wise and the greatest amount of playable and 
worthwhile boxable peeps(i don't consider oni no osenseru or wutho 
worthwhile). It all really depends on who the last dragon guy in the set 
is(so far we've seen akaui, hariko, remata, and tsuge). These are my reasons 
for being disappointed.

A. We still have a very difficult time dealing with honor requirements on 
some of are best guys for dueling and the strongholds ability(Remata and 
Ukira).

B. Attaching two weapons is a joke since rosanjin already does that himself, 
it it turns out to be very effective it will only be because of cost 
reduction on masamue wakizashi. How many weapons will you play with? And how 
many of your games will you lose because of it? I'll bet more than now if 
someone decides to make a weapon heavy fate deck.

The things i like about it are:

A. Yay, we can draw alot of cards!!!  Between the stronghold, the new 
tattooed samurai, chieko and hariko i see a return to the fate manipulation 
of old where at the end of the game we have no more fate deck. The only 
difference will be we will have used those cards instead of discarded them 
with gennai. When they took away gennai in gold i knew i was in trouble. His 
fate manipulation won me every one of my games, it allowed me to be flexible 
enough to deal with just about everything(then i got "Walled" at the atlanta 
kotei, the shame! :P)I remember fondly now in hindsight attempting to flip 
my top card for Yoshi then realizing i was out of deck.. or being immune to 
test of honors. *stares off into the distance* I have to start playing open 
more, it's where it's at. But anyways.....

B. We will have really good guys with strong abilities to work with this 
large amount of potential card drawing we can do. Between Tsuge, Hariko, 
Remata(assuming he's playable), and our 3 shugenja i think we will be doing 
really good. I already do really well with Iron Mountain, i can't see why i 
wouldn't do better with a box that does something. I'll be glad to be free 
of campsites once and for all too.

So all in all i'm really happy about it but if it ever comes time to give 
out a round of 5th strongholds, i expect a Bad Ass Box. You hear me AEG?!?! 
: P

My fears have been soothed,
Togashi Shinkaze

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