While they retain their functions from Total War: Shogun 2, however, the battlefield in Fall of the Samurai is drastically different. Kisho Ninja function much in the same way as their predecessors, using their high stealth to infiltrate and attack enemy positions from unexpected locations. During the wars of the 20th Century, Imperial Japanese Special Forces employed many skills that would have been instantly recognisable to medieval ninja. The arrival of new weapons and technology in Japan in the 1850s and later would merely have given the ninja new killing devices to use. Indeed, there is every reason to suppose that ninja remained in use throughout the period to keep order. They should not be hurled into an attack just because they are at hand!ĭespite more than two centuries of relative peace and calm under the Tokugawa Shogunate, there are few reasons to think that the ninja ceased to exist. However, the small number of men in a kisho ninja unit means that they can be overwhelmed by numbers in close combat if badly handled. They can throw fire bombs at close range, and fight in melee with deadly skill. They are best employed to stealthily approach high-value enemy units, and then suddenly strike. These men are shadows, able to move across the battlefield without being seen.

Kisho Ninja are a type of special infantry in Fall of the Samurai.

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