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Hojo Fire Rockets

These men are armed with large arquebuses loaded with wooden rockets that are ignited and fired into enemy ranks to cause fires and panic.

Because they are launched from hand-held arquebuses, fire rockets are much more mobile than siege weapons. However, they are less powerful and accurate than cannons, and are not used to batter down the walls of a castle. Instead they fire over the top of walls: the rockets’ high arc and long range lets them rain down on the enemy below, setting buildings alight, sowing panic and destroying morale in the process.

During the Sengoku Jidai, the Japanese used incendiary weapons such as fire bombs and fire rockets in naval warfare. Kobayakawa Takakage of the Mori clan used rocket-loaded arquebuses to bombard enemy ships, and many vessels would carry a unit of fire bombers or a small catapult to launch flammable projectiles. Japanese vessels resembled large, floating wooden castles, and another tactic was to simply moor your ship next to your enemy, board it and fight to the death as if the ships were fortifications on land!

Hojo Fire Rockets

Unit Name

Hojo Fire Rockets

Unit Key

Art_Large_Shafted_Fire_Rockets_Hojo

Soldiers

40

Category

Ranged Infantry

Class

Siege Units

Multiplayer Cost

1900

└ Multiplayer Limit

0

Recruitment Cost

850

├ Recruitment Turns

2

└ Unit Limit

0

Upkeep Cost

125

Melee Attack

2

└ Melee Weapon

sword

Charge Bonus

5

Bonus vs Cavalry

0

Range

250

├ Missile Weapon

rocket

└ Projectile

shogun_rocket

Accuracy

35

Reloading Skill

20

Ammunition

5

Melee Defence

1

Armour

1

Morale

3

Abilities

No Ability

Strengths & Weaknesses

  • Fires large numbers of explosive rockets.
  • Shorter range than other siege weapons.
  • Shots hit over a very large area.
  • Very weak in melee.