Talk:Village of Treasures - Instrument Gathering Stage 5/@comment-2600:100C:B211:720D:4C31:CB48:88BB:93EC-20170821181426/@comment-61.203.132.34-20170825121101

Your team set-up looks good actually! The only factor is definetly the annoying RNG combined with bombs and enemies (actually, it's the bombs that are more annoying as they sometimes will take out ALL of the armor on your sword boys, which is what happened with me putting Ishikirimaru and Tomoe as leader once...).

I would totally switch out Midare for Doudanuki and stick him with double catapults if you can get them! Un-kiwamed tantous having one armor-holding capacity are vulnerable to those pesky bombs, and are pretty delicate if hit by enemies in Expert Mode, which is why a lot of players use Kiwame tantous since they are slightly more hardier and faster (and can hold at least 2 armors like musketeers, for example). With Doudanuki, unless hit by those annoying silver (and rare instances of gold) Yari, he can at least take a few hits and survive while taking out some enemies with his projectiles.

Also, since you are using Kiyomitsu, maybe also try putting catapaults on him too since Nikkari, Doudanuki, and Kiyomitsu combined can all take out a few enemies. Musketeers can only be equiped by tantos sadly, so... if say, you don't reach the Kotegiri Goal, at least aim for the 2nd Kiwame set and consider investing in a few favorite maxed-out tantos to send off to Kiwame as an investment in preparation for future events AND to equip double musketeers on them.

Sorry for the long post, and you are free to disregard this... Though, I do hope you do reach the last goal at least, so good luck! (I'm on my last stretch as I type this and honestly I'm just slooowly dying here watching the bead count...)