The Shinobi is automatically upgraded in every Age starting from the Fortress Age. The Shinobi-No-Mono (Consulate Shinobis) have +10% hit points and attack than regular Shinobi.
An odd characteristic of the Shinobi is that they seem to fire some sort of explosive arrow against buildings, rather than a grenade or a torch. In the Industrial Age and onwards, they can be massed by Shogun Tokugawa, and have the advantage over Yumi Archers of not having a wood cost. Shinobi can be difficult to mass early on, as they can only be obtained through the Consulate with an export cost. The primary disadvantage of Shinobi is their short range, although this can be negated by both their speed and stealth ability. The Shinobi can beat nearly all Skirmisher-type units in a one on one fight. Their high base damage and hitpoints gives them a strong advantage against other ranged infantry. It makes them very resistant to defensive structures, such as Outposts, Forts or War Huts (taking only half damage, which is further negated by their range resistance), but making them more vulnerable to Militiamen or their equivalent units.
Shinobis are classified as Siege units, which comes with both advantages and disadvantages. It can go into stealth mode to avoid enemy contact, but must avoid units and buildings that can uncloak stealthed units, such as hero units and Town Centers. However, the siege animation is much slower than that of other ranged infantry, making Shinobis better than most archers at sieging, but worse than most heavy infantry, such as Musketeers. Additionally, they have exceptional siege damage for an archer unit.
As a general rule Shinobi are strong against ranged units and very weak in melee combat. It has the hit points of a Musketeer, resistance of a Crossbowman, speed that is slightly lesser than a Pikeman, a high base damage and no multipliers.
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