[quote=@Letter Bee]
Still pondering it, but I think that if you do succeed, it'll be in a few posting rounds, and you can only field a few hundred.

[@Zendrelax], actually, there's one other restriction; you can have Ansei, but you can't have them be near the power of the Ancient Yokudan sword-singers.
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Yeah.  Too many would make things so easy as to not be fun anymore.  Besides, given the mastery required in becoming one, and the general attrition involved in warfare, a few hundred is probably a generous maximum.

Same with the sword-singers of old.  I mean, when a group of four (even if they were the four strongest to have ever existed) regularly mowing down fortresses on their own?  That would be boring for me, and infuriating for everyone else.