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

Well I'm going to give this to the Yeoman. The Ashigaru's armor can't deflect the arrows extremely well, and frankly bow&arrows are superior to black powder weaponry man to man. The reason black powder weapons replaced bow&arrows is because they take much less training and do more damage. However when it's a squad of highly skilled archers against a squad of not so skilled black powder gunmen (especially when this is at a range) the archers will have a significant advantage given the lack of accuracy of black powder.

I'm also going to point out that it takes an entire freaking minute to reload a black powder weapon, and they're heavy.

Even at close range the archers still dominate, they'll have that bow locked up and ready to be released before the Ashigaru's can even pull the trigger, it will also be difficult to hit a moving Yeoman with a black powder weapon if he decides to zig zag or something.

So, yeah, Yeoman wins!