Talk:Hidden Demon Extermination in the Capital/@comment-32886675-20180204002310

Here's my current strategy to try and get the letter set with minimum bean throwers loss, that I honed combining comments here and my own "experiments".

My main asset is Iwatooshi. He was around 80 when I started using him and he's well up to be maxed out. I keep him with 2 light infantry to have the +10 mobility bonus. He hits 2nd or 3rd depending of the rest of the team and takes out all the ennemies in 1 hit.

For the rest of the team, I use swords with 3 armory slots, either R4/5 Tachi or K.Uchi; depending on their level and speed, I equip them with 1 or 2 bean throwers each, so as to take out as many oni-troops at the boss fight. I currently run with 8 gold bean throwers in my team.

With that, I go for the easy route and defeat the boss, which is performed with 0 bean thrower loss. I end up always with 11 to 17 beans per run (so between 6 to 12 oni-troops defeated per run), taking into account that I have quite frequently 4 gray nodes in my run (so minus 4 fights) and I have never taken out all 6 oni-troops at the boss fight, so this is a fairly interesting result for me.

I have tried the hard route, but even though you can defeat more oni-troops on the way before the boss, the boss node is always with bean throwers losses, as even with my quickest R5/R4 Tachi with the +10 bonus of 2 light cavalries (ie Hizamaru 90+, Higekiri 99), all 6 ennemies at the boss fight are quicker than you. And before that I tried with my K.Waki (Namazuo being L39 and Nikkari L41) hoping for them to block the attacks during the boss fight, but it was not frequently enough.

I also tried to go the hard route without the boss fight, as recommended here, but this strategy barely gets me 10 oni-troops defeated per run.

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Of note, I started including lower level R5/R4 Tachis and now 1 uchi in the team, to level them up or setting them in SF, and the result in oni-troops defeats is fine :)