Dom Pedro II said:
Jeez.... it's going to be the Marx Brothers and the Tropico gang vs. the Dark Lord...
Well, I've got the Arashi Commando as my UU:
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^The Seiryu Kingdom builds [Arashi Commandos] instead of TOW infantry. The unit has the same stats as standard TOW infantry, but treats all terrain as roads and has the ability to $LINK<stealth attack=GCON_Stealth_Attack> enemy units. A Seiryu city must have $LINK<iron=GOOD_Iron> available to build Arashi Commandos.
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^The Elite Arashi (storm) Commando unit of the Seiryu Kingdom traces its roots back to a pre-revolution ninja clan of the same name. At the time of the revolution against King Takashima, the clan's leader was a 17 year old girl named Sakura Tanaka. Sakura posessed amazing combat prowess and stealth skills, in part due to unusual circumstances surrounding her childhood. The daughter of the Daimyo of a small province, Sakura was raised from the age of 5 by one of the clans of Oukami yokai (mystical giant wolves that have two tails and can talk. A good example of these traditional Japanese mythological creatures are the wolves in the movie
Princess Mononoke) living in the region after her parents were assasinated by one of King Takashima's elite Royal Guard units. Stumbling accross the secret village of the Arashi ninja clan at the age of 9, the village headmaster/clan leader saw great potential in the girl, and invited her and the wolf clan to stay and train at the village. When the Clan leader retired from active service 7 years later, he appointed Sakura to succede him. None of the other ninjas in the clan argued with his decision, since the semi-feral girl had bested all of them in nearly every test that the village put ninja candidates through.
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^A year later, she was hired by lord Eiji Minamoto to ensure that the ronin, Hikaro Takayama, successfuly stole the document proving King Takashima's treachery. When Takayama was recovering at a Nestorian Monastary from a near fatal encounter with the King's Royal Guards, She joined with him and the rest of his Ronin group, and together they brought the evidence to Minamoto's castle, giving the proof needed to convince all other good daimyo to rebel against Takashima. In the final battle of the revolution, when the armies of Minamoto, the Arashi clan, the Rokunin-Zoku (Takayama's Ronin group), lord Goda's Army, and the armies of the other daimyo made a massive assault on the Royal Palace in Shokai, she and Takayama managed to get to the king's chambers, where Sakura was able to finally avenge the death of her family by killing the king in an impressive sword duel.
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^After the Revolution, Hikaro Takayama and Sakura, who'd fallen madly in love with each other, were married. At the insistance of the people, Hikaro was crowned king, and Sakura crowned as the queen. Sakura still maintained leadership of the Arashi ninja clan, which was incorporated into the military as an elite special operations unit that, unlike most official military units in its day and age, was open to both men and women who could prove their worthiness through combat and stealth skills. Some historians also cite the strength of Queen Sakura as well as the egalitarian tendencies of King Hikaro as the reason that reforms granting equal rights to both genders as well as the formation of the first elected council to check the king's power were passed.
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^To this day, the men and women of the Arashi Commando unit are called upon to stop terrorist and otherworldly threats to the Kingdom, a job they do most excellently.
For a picture, see my "Unit concept art/request: Modern Samurai" thread.