Ow

I just put one spear man on each of the side boats and spammed the rest of the villagers as archers. Maxed out said classes. Felt like easiest map so far that way.

Edit: Using Soh's archer ability with explosive arrows also helped. You can basically one shot those demons with it before they arrive even.

I just had a lot of archers, with 1 melee guy (either spear or axemen) on each boat. Then you just run around like a madman, shoot the cannons everytime one of those demoncarrying-demons are close enough. Just focus on killing them first, they very rarely hit at the same time and you can kill them really fast as long as you just start hitting them the moment they board the ship.

For me once I realized they die instantly the moment all other seethe on top are killed I started spamming only ranged villagers.
My combination was 4 marksmen on 4 corners then the rest are bowmen spread throughout all directions.

One trick to help save precious time when there are multiple: the ones that has a suicide explosion seethe on board you can just one shot them to set them off and they'll kill the whole hinafugai "boat" on their own, allowing you to move on quickly from one to the other.

A loadout that's very helpful is damage boost talismans + quicker arrow shots talisman, spamming arrows like shooting a gun lets you clear entire hinafugai boats all by yourself if villagers are busy or unreliable with their aim.

Originally posted by Niko. :3c:

Edit: Using Soh's archer ability with explosive arrows also helped. You can basically one shot those demons with it before they arrive even.

Seconded. Oxalis Shot is your friend.