Castle Girls

For information on the menu go to Castle Girl Menu.

Castle Girls, or *Shiromusu* (城娘), are athropomorphized castles that serve you, the Lord, and protect you during missions. They are based on actual historical Japanese castles in their current or previous forms.

## Stats

### Rarity レアリティ

A Castle Girl's rarity level determines her "quality", higher rarity Castle Girls have better stats, skills and stratagems, essentially the higher the rarity level the better. The rarity level also affects other things such as gigantfiication.

### Level レベル

A Castle Girl's level, leveling up a Castle Girl increases her stats as well. Castle Girls have a initial level cap and an max level that depend on their rarity level, level limits can be increased by merging a Castle Girl with a duplicate.

### Endurance 耐久

The amount of damage a Castle Girl can take before taking major damage and is forced to retreat, essentially the Castle Girl's health.

### Attack 攻撃

Per hit damage done by a Castle Girl, displayed numbers are directly affected by equipment so be sure to keep that in mind when comparing Castle Girls' stats.

### Range 範囲

Attack range, also doubles as area of effect if a Castle Girl has area of effect skills.

### Basic Ki Cost 基本消費気

Initial cost of deploying the Castle Girl into the field.

### Gigantification Count 巨大化回数

Increase 20% **Endurance** 16% **Attack** 20% **Defense** 16% **Range** 10% **Recovery**

Amount of times the Castle Girl can gigantify, this depends on the Castle Girl's rarity level:

 ★★
 ★★★
 ★★★★
 ★★★★★
 ★★★★★★
 ★★★★★★★

### Skill 特技

A passive skill that activates when a Castle Girl reaches maximum gigantification, they typically affect attack, defense, endurance or range, and can affect only themselves, have an area of effect, or the entire battlefield.

For a full list of existing skills, go here.

### Stratagem 計略

Manually activated skills that help turn the tide of a battle, they can increase Castle Girl stats, attack enemies directly or summon extra units to help with combat. Stratagems can only be activated if the Castle Girl is active in the field, the skill goes through a cooldown period immediately after the Castle Girl in deployed. All stratagems have only a limited time effect and cooldown restarts right after the stratagem is used.

For the full list of stratagems, go here.

## Classes

Castle Girls each can only use the weapon type assigned to their class and can only be deployed to limited positions; positions available will be highlighted when you drag the Castle Girls onto the map. The two main classes are denoted by different colors, red for melee and blue for range.

### Melee

Denoted by red icons, melee units in general have higher defense and short range, however they can attack multiple enemies at once.

* Spear - Long range, low damage, low defense; hits 2 enemies in the same line per attack.
* Katana - Medium range, medium damage, medium defense; hits 2 enemies per attack.
* Hammer - Short range, high damage, high defense; creates a shockwave that hits multiple enemies.

### Range

    Denoted by blue icons, range units have high range and low defense and can only hit single targets. Unlike melee, range units consist of attackers and healers.

* Attackers
	+ Template:Spell Magic - Short range, slows targets.
	+ Bow
	+ Crossbow - Medium range.
	+ Gun - Long range, high damage, knocks targets back slightly.
* Healers
	+ Performer - Long range, heals Castle Girls and Tono.