However, this will also give three troop recruitment slots, making training an army faster. These three building slots will require upgrading the town to a castle, at no inconsiderable cost. I would build a sword dojo first, as there are no katana ashigaru – yari ashigaru can defeat enemy cavalry well enough – and then an encampment, adding a spear dojo last. The troop producing town should have an encampment for a -10% recruitment cost bonus, probably upgraded to an armory for +2 armor (especially if a bow training camp – ie a crafts specialist - is not available). (3) Province with Iron (for -30% recruitment cost) (2) Province with a Holy Site speciality, dedicated to the Shrine tree (+5 morale bonus for Great Shrine). (1) Province with a smith (Satsuma, Bizen, Kaga, Sagami, Iwate) for either +3 armor or +4 melee attack. Most melee infantry should be trained here. Concentrating troop recruitment in a few provinces also removes the cost of constructing duplicate encampments and dojos – all of which should ultimately be fully upgraded. Ideally these would be provinces with specialities that provide relevant bonuses. It makes sense to specialise troop recruitment to only a few provinces. There's a beautiful and informative interactive map available at: To see which provinces have what bonuses, twcenter linked a very nice map: It ends with a checklist for use when overseeing the development of your lands. This guide outlines the various types of settlement to aim for, grouping them into three - those for troop recruitment, those for agent recruitment and others. This trend is reinforced by the tight limits on the building slots available in towns and the cost of increasing the number of such slots (both the direct cost of upgrading the castle and also indirectly the economic growth cost - across all provinces - of such upgrades via increased food consumption). The specialities encourage the dispersion of buildings around ones territory. This guide looks at what types of settlements should be developed to take advantage of the specialities. What to build where is a question complicated by the plethora of province specialities in STW2.

A beginner's guide to province specialisation

Fall of the samurai unique units