Talk:Memory of Enkyou/@comment-202.92.146.136-20180117002608/@comment-2607:FEA8:4E20:711:CCCE:B028:2EF2:824B-20180117101931

Unfortunately, due to the way that 7-3 is designed you're always going to have to be prepared to lose tons of troops per run, especially at the boss node, until you can drop Kikkou. To save yourself some pain though, I would recommend retreating whenever the initial dice roll takes you west and retrying again until it goes north instead as that is the shortest path to the boss node, while the long way should generally be avoided since there is an extremely dangerous F node where kunai x6 or chuu wakizashi x6 enemy patterns have a chance of appearing and can easily wreck your troops/swords.

7-3 has hidden branching rules that will cause any team with more than three kiwame tantous to hit the resource nodes far more often than the boss node, so don't put any more than three of them in your party. They should also have at least 50 survival each so they can take yari hits somewhat better and raising their levels up to 50 will let them perform better here. Make sure that any sword you bring that can equip ranged troops does so to make it easier to A rank the boss node and the enemy nodes along the way. As long as you can reach the boss node and A rank it every time, you should hopefully be able to get him to drop sooner or later with a bit of luck and persistence. I hope this helps.