Talk:Combat Mechanism/@comment-26352945-20150501210632/@comment-26292999-20150501235242

While I agree mostly with you that level difference can be overcome to an extent by stat refining and troops, to make efficient use of this advantage you would need to put together a team of swords with some of the highest stats and give them the best troops, and for the majority of players who have just started and are still collecting swords or do not have the resources to craft troops, I wonder if it's really feasible.

Case in point, having acquired all the swords (with the exception of Akashi Kuniyuki), I started training a new team which I felt had the best balanced stats.

Urashima, Nagasone, Mikazuki, Ichigo, Kousetsu and Hotarumaru.

At levels 20-22, with all stats maxed and Urashima and Nagasone at Toku, given horses and gold troops, they could clear 4-3 and 4-4 without losing any troops. Compare this to the comment below where a team averaging almost 40 has trouble with 4-4.

Now at level 47 and all stats maxed, the same team cleared 5-4 without troop loss (sword damage sustained from 2 kebiishi battles) but it was a close call at the boss node (Result screen & Team composition).

tl;dr - It is indisputable that level plays an important scaling factor in the strength of your swords, so while there are ways to get around it, best do your own risk/benefit analysis before taking a low level team to a high level map.

/goes back to tantou leveling