Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-110.20.96.87-20160524103331/@comment-28290173-20160526064616

If you take a look at the sword stat list, it can give you a good idea of which uchigatana are more worthwhile to train

e.g. R3 tachi (kane-san, ookurikara and tanuki) were tachi before getting reclassifying as uchigatana, and therefore have higher leadership and impact than the rest. However those 3 are noticably slower, take longer and more resources to repair, same as you'd expect from a tachi. Off the top of my head, Nagasone/Hachisuka/Hasebe are the next best choices without the loss in mobility and take less to repair.

Uchigatana are overall balanced - you can use them both in day and night battles when you get to Ikedaya. I'd say the same for wakizashi but they do have lower leadership and lose troops more easily. They can also equip at least one long-range troop - something waki and tantou can do but not tachi and above. So think of them as somewhere in between all the sword

Can't say as much for yari, since they take a long time before being useful. That being said, like the event going on right now where there's a R5 yari with high leadership running around, one's best bet is to have a slow yari come in at the end and deal damage to it directly. Since they always deal damage to your enemy, they're useful in taking out enemies with very high leadership. They're useful, just slightly harder/frustrating to train.