while playing around with the army builder, I stumbled upon a question:
1.) In the online Rulebook it says, regarding ranged weapons units: "Up to a maximum of 50% of ap, of which only up to half of them can have firearms. (For 200 ap: up to 100 points may have ranged weapons. If all 100 points are spent on ranged weapon troops, up to 50 points can have firearms.)" (p.125)
Now, that seems to imply, that if I have only 80 ap in ranged weapons, I can only field 40 ap worth of firearms, right?
However, that would not work with some of the example 200 ap armies...
Kuge: 50 ap in ranged weapons, all of them firearms (Ashigaru Teppo).
Otokodate: (40% instead of 25% max allowed) 50 ap in ranged weapons, all of them firearms (Ashigaru Ozutsu).
Since the army builder does not seem to care, I guess it doesn't actually matter? So the table on p.126 (25% firearms/40% for Otokodate) aplies regardless of the total amount of ranged weapons?
In that case I would recommend rephrasing the example on p.125: "Up to a maximum of 50% of ap, of which only up to half of them can have firearms. (For 200 ap: up to 100 points may have ranged weapons. Up to 50 points of those can have firearms.)"
2.) Also... the army builder does seem to count the cost for leaders with firearms into this limit... though on p.124 it says "This general and the rest of the leaders of your army do not count towards any limitations such as type of weapon, equipment or troop."
So it should be possible to field 3 Monk Teppo (45 points) and an Ashigaru Kumigashira (15 points) as leader in a 200 ap Army as a Sohei Player, right? Army builder indicates that it is over the 50 points max for Raged fireweapons units.
Sorry for the wall of text, since I don't have any figures yet, to occupy myself with, I can only read and play with the army builder.
Greetings,
Cara
