When trained by the Date Clan, Kisho Ninja have +2 charge bonus. Their high stealth and the rapidity with which they can scale walls means that they can attack defenders from behind or capture a castle if defenders sally forth from it to fight the rest of the army. 
Kisho Ninjas are excellent for infiltrating castles. If they are spotted, they are highly vulnerable to arrow fire due to their weak armor. However, they suffer in a frontal engagement with dedicated melee troops due to their inferior numbers.
They come with a highly powerful and demoralizing grenade attack, and their melee stats are also excellent. With their Stealth ability, they temporarily become nearly undetectable by the enemy-even when running, and gain +14 charge bonus as well as +5 melee attack.
Kisho Ninja are specialized troops, with nearly unparalleled stealth on the battlefield.
Devastating range attack but very limited ammunition. During sieges, ninja would infiltrate an enemy’s castle in disguise, gather intelligence and cause confusion by, for example, setting fires - leading the enemy to assume he had turncoats within his walls. The ninja’s role was to carry out tasks that others could not honourably accomplish, as they were not constrained by bushido, the code that governed samurai behaviour. Instead, a daimyo would hire them to undertake espionage missions or assassinate rivals. Historically, ninja were rarely used on the battlefield itself, although their fighting prowess was certainly equal to the challenge. To remain as stealthy as possible kisho ninja operate in small numbers, so must avoid prolonged close combat because they cannot afford to take many casualties. In addition to a small number of deadly fire bombs, they are armed with blinding grenades to disorientate an enemy for a short time, reducing their fighting ability. The ability to move about largely unseen on the battlefield means they appear from nowhere, launch an assault on an enemy general and then vanish before they are caught or killed. Kisho ninja have mastered the art of invisibility, making them highly effective assassins who possess terrifying supernatural powers! In fact, their skills are actually the product of a lifetime of intensive training, cunning and the clever use of misdirection. These ninja are virtually undetectable in battle, capable of carrying out deadly surprise attacks. Kishi Ninja are a type of special infantry in Total War: Shogun 2.
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