Yoritomo

Yoritomo is a character and AI opponent in Stronghold Warlords.
==Overview==
Yoritomo hails from the Minamoto clan, who established the samurai caste and brought a new era to Japan. Growing up in exile and fighting wars against rival clans, Yoritomo has outstanding experience fighting out in the open. Preferring fast strike units to slower, sturdier ones, Yoritomo can control the battlefield to his advantage.
==Information==
===Strategies===
Yoritomo builds a rectangular castle with main gatehouses on two sides and slightly protruding corners. He places lookout towers and hoardings at regular intervals among the walls, along with a few mangonel platforms. He tends to place most of his food production inside his castle. Yoritomo provides rice, tea and meat for his citizens.
Yoritomo's groups consist of fast and comparably light troops. Warrior monks are the backbone of his army, kept as reactionary and raiding groups. Auxiliary archers are the sole ranged unit of Yoritomo, providing covering fire and the main defense of the walls. Being a swift opponent, Yoritomo also employs light cavalry in his main force to crush any army unfortunate enough to lack the proper numbers or bulk. For proper sieges, Yoritomo deploys numerous catapults and mantlets.
yoritomo_castle.png|Yoritomo's castle
=== Counters ===
Yoritomo's armies tend to be somewhat numerous, but they lack durability. On the open field, a heavy frontline supported by imperial crossbowmen and fire arrow carts can make short work of Yoritomo's unarmored units. Warrior monks can be countered by armored cavalry, who are immune to their crowd controlling cleaving ability.
Yoritomo's castle is comparably lightly fortified, considering he uses no traps and mangonel platforms tend to be added really late into the game. Should he despite succeed, trebuchets under the guard of a few units can safely demolish towers and other vital buildings in the vicinity. Watch out for Yoritomo's counterattack attempts, as he tends to sally forth with a mixture of cavalry and warrior monks, should one step be taken on his estate.
==Quotes==
*Stronghold Warlords
== Trivia ==
* Despite being a samurai himself and wearing full samurai armor, Yoritomo makes use of no samurai in his armies.
ru:Ёритомо
Category:Characters