Tsukuyomi: New Moon and military production — Retold
By Ajax (compiled) · retold
Choose New Moon’s building deliberately, then turn the technology window into supported Shinobi, cavalry, or the response the map requires.
Tsukuyomi: inspect the building before New Moon
Tsukuyomi emphasizes technology, Shinobi, and cavalry. New Moon grants the currently available technologies at a selected building and briefly accelerates military training. Prepare the building, resources, and population room so the technology gain leads directly into useful production.
Before casting, open the intended building and inspect what is available now. Technologies locked behind later prerequisites are different from currently researchable ones. Do not buy the intended upgrades immediately before using the power and then expect the same economic return. Decide which saved resources will fund the troops, support, or expansion that follows.
The best target depends on the position. An attractive bundle of technologies may be less useful than the upgrades and production that answer an immediate threat. Likewise, a training-speed window needs resources, population room, and a practical rally route. An accelerated empty queue contributes nothing.
Use Shinobi or cavalry for a named role supported by scouting. A raid should find exposed income or pull defenders from another useful location; it should not strand the group inside concentrated anti-cavalry or defensive fire. Maintain a main force and relevant anti-myth heroes while pressure moves elsewhere.
Review the first cycle after the cast. Did the technologies affect troops that reached a meaningful fight? Did production run during the window? If not, prepare resources before the next cast and choose the building whose technologies and training directly support the fight.
Two systems, one army plan
Heavenly Spear’s Japanese civilization connects military development to Bushidō and resource-sensitive divine income to Shrines tended by Miko. Keep those systems supporting the same army plan: losing workers and support while chasing battle progress can leave you unable to exploit the upgrades you earned.
Prepare the resources and population room for the next troop batch before committing to a power or Bushidō transition. Check the current unit costs, experience requirements, and power restrictions when deciding which investment the position can support.
Place Shrines for usable income
Evaluate the resources around a potential Shrine, then evaluate whether you can protect the position. The richest theoretical location may be a poor investment if enemy units can repeatedly force the Miko away or destroy the infrastructure. Begin with an area close enough to defend while your first army develops.
Keep an eye on how gathering changes the location over time. Resources that support a good early position may become depleted, and the front line may shift. Reassess whether a support unit should remain, move, or receive protection. Shrine management belongs in the normal economy cycle alongside worker production and scouting.
Do not allow favor planning to starve the ordinary resources needed for soldiers. A large divine stockpile is not a complete army. Keep enough food, wood, and gold income for the troops and supporting structures your chosen strategy actually needs.
Treat Bushidō as a reward for useful battles
Choose fights because they offer a good trade or a lasting objective. Experience or progression can make an already worthwhile engagement more rewarding; it does not make the destruction of your whole army efficient. Preserve damaged troops when a retreat is possible, and regroup before enemy reinforcements arrive.
Dojo units have powerful abilities and a distinctive progression. Add them to a composition that protects their approach and supports their target selection. An elite unit surrounded by the wrong opponents can still be lost inefficiently. Learn one ability interaction at a time, then add more simultaneous control tasks as your attention allows.
When an upgrade becomes available through Bushidō, check which existing units benefit and whether production should change. A transition is most effective when it uses the army and income you already have, rather than abandoning both for a newly attractive unit icon.
Bring the hero that can reach the problem
The Japanese have heroes associated with different human production buildings. Choose support for the enemy myth threat’s range and movement. A melee specialist and a ranged specialist do not provide the same access to a flying or screened target. Keep ordinary counter troops available to deal with the human escort while your hero performs its anti-myth role.
Avoid assuming that the first myth unit you see defines the entire opposing composition. Continue scouting reinforcements and production. If enemy heroes are concentrated on your own monsters, shift those monsters away from the worst contact while your human troops punish the response where possible.
A focused practice session
Choose Tsukuyomi and keep economic production running while preparing one New Moon cast. Before using it, inspect the available technologies and decide which saved resources will fund the next troop batch or expansion. In the replay, check whether that follow-up reached the battlefield before the opponent could respond. Repeat the opening with the same economic priorities before adding a more complicated attack.