Talk:War Training Expansion 3/@comment-26581911-20160503155347/@comment-118.96.169.165-20160504132949

In my opinion tantous do OK--I bring my lv30 (now lv40ish) Shinano to battle a couple times and he could survive multiple battles with medium damage. I think there's only...less than five? occassions when I had to go back to the Citadel when grinding E3/E4 bc my tantous got damaged so badly, but I almost always have 1-2 tantous with me when grinding both maps because I'm stingy and tantous are fast to repair (no need for help tokens) and repairing them cost so little resources. Granted, except for Shinano my tantous are all lv60+.

The key is, in my opinion, to equip your tantou/waki/uchi with long-ranged troops--they help a lot (almost guaranteed to eliminate all your enemy's troops along with 1-2 enemies; on some nodes they could eliminate 3-4 enemies in the long-ranged attack phase alone).

Lv50 tachis will do okay, I think! If you want to conserve resources, I suggest not using oodachi. They're a pain in the ass to repair. Since basically the only issue in both maps are the pesky R5 yaris, which will always attack first, I suggest sticking to tachi/uchi/waki (+ maybe tantou?) instead and equip your uchi/waki with long-ranged troops. Also remember to do Expeditions!