Tadakatsu Honda

Tadakatsu Honda is a one of Ieyasu Tokugawa's retainers who attended to his lord in several campaigns. He is Ina's father. After his death, Tadakatsu has been heralded as a mighty and intelligent warrior, said to have returned from all of his battles unscathed. People in the Edo period have lauded him with several honorary titles, one of which includes the Four Guardian Kings of Tokugawa.

Before his playable debut in the Samurai Warriors series, he served as the model character for generic generals in Samurai Warriors. He acts as the figurative Dynasty Warriors Lu Bu of the series. Fans voted him to twenty-ninth place in Gamecity's Sengoku Musou 3: Empires character popularity poll. For the Samurai Warriors 4 poll, he placed forty-ninth.

His Nobunaga's Ambition counterpart is sixteenth place in Gamecity's character popularity ranking for 2015. The Nobunaga no Yabou 201X poll for 4-star officers puts him in eighteenth place. He placed twenty-sixth in the Nobunaga no Yabou Taishi poll for most favorite father.

In Saihai no Yukue, his height is 201 cm and he is 45 years old. He reads and trains as a hobby and his favorite food is rice.

In When the Cold Breeze Blows Away, he was returned along with his lord and their retainers when their modern era shogunate was founded.

He never conquer all Japanese mainlands due to his allied shogun's new policies that he,his lord and their retainers still keep their relationships to the Imperial House of Japan until the frameup assassination.

After this assassination,he will be hostile to all of his enemies and even Japanese enemies after his lord survived. For some reasons, he will be advanced into the advanced mighty guardian that he will wore the advanced modern version of his original armor,which he also use the Type 36 Tonbo-giri and various weapons that he truly have his honor and loyalism

He will became the mightiest guardian of the Coalition of the Red Phoenix though he is the mighty guardian of Ieyasu Tokugawa after his being advanced which strengthed the honors and mighty powers since Lu Bu also being advanced later.