User blog comment:Ekreture/Ashigaru vs Yeoman Archer/@comment-4098900-20140722173431/@comment-4098900-20140726173121

I'm sure they were trained well, EA. The fundemental problem here is just that their weapons are inheriently inaccurate, take a minute to reload, and have far inferior range. It's very unlikely that this fight will come down to a melee, in a squad on squad battle the Yeoman should have the entire Ashigaru team dead before they even get into melee range. If this was an army on army battle, you might have a point but here I just don't think the Ashigaru stands a chance really.