Editing Crab Clan (section)

===Tactics===
As the very wall which protects the Emerald Empire from the Shadowlands, it's no surprise that the Crab Clan has a strong military culture that is influenced by their demanding duty. They field the second largest army in Rokugan at around 300,000 troops, but three quarters of that number are stationed along the Kaiu Wall. Most of the Crab military is dedicated to holding the line or launching counteroffensives into the Shadowlands, with those stationed within the Empire mostly defending their territory instead of waging wars.

War against the remorseless horrors of the Shadowlands has massively shaped Crab tactics. Because the tides of monstrosities never truly end, only wax and wane with the seasons, the Crab Clan has become the Empire's foremost experts on defensive warfare and fortifications. Their most obvious assets are their durable troops who are among the toughest baseline soldiers of the Empire, and siege engineers who can set up a fortified position at a moment's notice that only gets tougher to crack the more time they have to prepare it. However, they're more than just big walls of meat, steel, and stone. Knowing they cannot simply wait for Fu Leng's hordes to come to them, Crabs make sure to pair their defenses with a thorough support network: scouts provide thorough information of enemy movements, courtiers and smugglers keep them well-supplied, and shugenja and scholars address and dissect mystical threats. And of course, everyone is trained in countermeasures to deal with the Taint, from simple disinfection procedures to using jade fingers for security.

These fundamental strategies and advantages are also put to good use whenever the Crab enter disputes with the other Great Clans. The game plan largely remains the same: Knowing they lack mobility and numbers, Crab leaders will carefully scout out the battle ahead, fortify key positions, and methodically crush enemies between the shell of their defenses and the claws of their units. It's common knowledge among the Empire's fighters that while storming a fortified position is foolish, doing so against one held by the Crab is ''suicidal''. However, against their cousins, there's one major difference: the Crabs hold back. Their traps, war machines, and tactics go from "completely dismember and incinerate" to "injure and take them out of the fight" if they can afford it...though there's hardly anything gentle about a Crab fort's ballistae and catapults ripping into conventional troops like a bolter round through a grot.