Talk:Five Star Difficulty Ironman/@comment-84.248.168.242-20181019230257/@comment-36038855-20200524150937

Monks for sillfag are not strictly needed. BUT

I found out (the hard way) that there are certain setups on enemies in the monster phase that recur. Against those, particularly lightning users back row, the winning strategy (i thought later found out it is) it is, to, drop the backrow guard and hit the lightning user with direct damage like a high troop tac, or a high troop ninja, or.. yea these are better: Maria (godly goddess) or Kanami (sub-goddess).

You be the judge. I took from what I had from my surroundings, and did it.

Monks are underrated substance in a well balanced army. Have (I think) two in your army, that is good. Always balance and rething your strategy after scouting, but do factor in the big (BIG) advantage of being able to drop enemy guard. Remember if you drop the enemy guard, I think ( I think?) the enemy foots also use more actions on guarding. This might be important if enemy foots have ridiculously high troops stacks (which often happens on high difficulties and high speed of clearing the map).

--Muri