Re: Mod vs Mod - TWS2 multiplayer campaign deatchmatch
Still waiting for the AI to start kicking butt and taking numbers. BTW who initiated the trade agreement between the Zimazu and Chosomonkey?
04-18-2011, 02:54
phonicsmonkey
Re: Mod vs Mod - TWS2 multiplayer campaign deatchmatch
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Originally Posted by Gregoshi
Still waiting for the AI to start kicking butt and taking numbers. BTW who initiated the trade agreement between the Zimazu and Chosomonkey?
Lol, I think it was me. We both needed the cash! and it was in our truce phase so what the heck, right?
I will have another update up later today or tomorrow. We've started fighting now but there's still a bunch more to update you on before we get to that...
04-18-2011, 03:12
phonicsmonkey
Re: Mod vs Mod - TWS2 multiplayer campaign deatchmatch
Chosomonkey Update #3, part 1
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The Daimyo's grieving wife takes over the running of the clan. Hopefully she is a better leader than the dear departed husband, although I note she doesn't come with a free unit of heavy cavalry..
The Chosokabe still have some troops and plenty of cash to recruit more, so a recruitment drive is underway and everyone in the field is ordered back to Tosa for a last stand defence.
Some hippies arrive at Tosa in a floating bathtub bearing trinkets, beads and string. They smell like patchouli oil and the Daimyo's wife is not impressed with their beards and grubby sandals.
This battle is long and hard fought. Zim does well with his light cav and butchers many of my archers. The arrival of my reinforcements settles the day but I suffer heavy losses.
Re: Mod vs Mod - TWS2 multiplayer campaign deatchmatch
And I added some photos to Zim's second update - only in the Throne Room thread (see link in first post)
06-18-2011, 13:36
Zim
Re: Mod vs Mod - TWS2 multiplayer campaign deatchmatch
Ugh, way too long with no update.
Update 3
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The mighty Daimyo of the Shimazu is bored. Many seasons have passed by without a battle. His land is ringed in by a greedy ally who swooped in and took land he had been eyeing (quite unlike the glorious expansion of his own territory in the meantime). Even worse, they had joined a foreign religion and made enemies of all of Japan. Surely it was a matter of time before someone else conquered them. Perhaps we ought to relieve them of their territory, so that it would fall to a friend and not an enemy that would misuse their land and people?
Having recently opened trade relations with the barbaric Chosokabe, the Daimyo has heard they rely on archers to win their battles. Perhaps that could work here?
Once the opposing forces have been whittled to nearly nothing, spear ashigaru burn and storm one of the gates. While their willingness to run through a burning gate does not speak well of his troops' intelligence, at least it does of their enthusiasm.
The few remaining defenders are quckly overrun.
Reclining in the main hall of his new castle, the Daimyo receives shocking news. One of his sons, on a scouting mission, ran into a huge Sagara army. He did not survive the ensuing battle.
Knowing he could not face down this army but unwilling to relinquish a chance for vengeance, he sends his other son Yoshisasa to come in on the Sagara capital from the north and bait their main force away so it can be taken. He is successful in this, but perhaps too much. The Sagara leader persues him relentlessly and catches up to his large but ill equipped army. It does not go well.
Yoshisasa sets his men up on a wooded hill in hopes of taking advantage of his archer superiority. The Sagara general will have none of this and shortly orders a charge. The Shimazu peasant army is massacred and another Shimazu heir falls.
Re: Mod vs Mod - TWS2 multiplayer campaign deatchmatch
With the actual war between us being the most interesting point and with so much ground to cover reaching it, I'm going to do a shortened history of the Shimazu up to the current conflict.
An abridged history of the Shimazu:
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Both tragedy and success would follow the Shimazu over the next few years. The Daimyo Shimazu Takahisa would fall taking his vengeance on the now rebels who killed his son, but his successor Hirotsune would lead the clan to new victories and recognition by the royal court.
Daimyo Takahisa would war with the Shoni for control of the island they both called home. After a string of victories the Shoni were pushed back to the coast, holding only the city of Buzen. However, Takahisa and his new appointed heir Mitsuaki had overstretched their territories, and knew they would not be able to hold up against a counteroffensive. So the Daimyo sued for peace, allowing the Shoni their outpost in exchange for recognition of his rule over the rest of the island.
For a time the Shimazu would be mostly inwardly focused. Their one aggressive act in this period was to relieve the failing state of the Miyoshi of their trade node, bringing Koku much needed for development.
Otherwise, they studied new technologies, and a monastic center was built in Hyuga for the enlightenment of the Shimazu people and to counteract the preaching of the unwashed foreigners that were bringing such wealth to the lands of the Daimyo.
Of course, military technologies were not ignored. The foreigners brought with them weapons using gunpowder that showed promise, and larger ships were built to protect the Daimyo's trade interests.
It is likely this peaceful age could have continued for many more years were it not for the treachery of the foul Chosokabe. An agent, one of the assassins known as ninjas, was landed right in front of the Shimazu clan's biggest port, no doubt seeking to blend in before making his way to the Daimyo to assassinate him. For the preservation of their honor the Daimyo would have to make war upon these honorless dogs!
His tales of bearded stinking hippy-types with crosses and an encounter with a strange old man in a large hat convinced the Daimyo that a declaration of war by these strange and degenerate Zimazu would soon follow.
And so like all good Chosomonkey Daimyos, he threw caution to the wind....
Almost as if they had been planning to strike all along, the Shimazu landed an invasion fleet! On the hallowed shores of Iyo! The dastardly, ungodly, dishonourable, hippy-loving, beatnik so-and-sos...
By the time they sort things out, the remainder of the Chosomonkey fleet is well on its way to the magical red lines beyond which they cannot be chased.
Never mind. Koku aren't useful for anything anyway, right?
Right?
08-31-2011, 15:17
Vladimir
Re: Mod vs Mod - TWS2 multiplayer campaign deatchmatch
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Originally Posted by Gregoshi
You should see me play. That's even funnier.
Oh, we have (thanks TC!).
08-31-2011, 16:03
frogbeastegg
Re: Mod vs Mod - TWS2 multiplayer campaign deatchmatch
:laugh4: That's some very funny reading, well done, both of you.
Be interesting to see how the battle goes. There's a little bit of a power skew - sure the Zimasu have more land, wealth and soldiers, but the Chosomonkies are in touch with their inner simian. Historically, the monkey won.
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For why change your style of battle simply because it results in crushing defeat?
Damn! It's too late for me to include that in the guide. Maybe I can edit ...
08-31-2011, 18:32
Hamata
Re: Mod vs Mod - TWS2 multiplayer campaign deatchmatch
This is intresting
08-31-2011, 20:38
Zim
Re: Mod vs Mod - TWS2 multiplayer campaign deatchmatch
The Zimasu would just like to preemptively state that they have no idea why the good and noble Kikkawa might attack the filthy and treacherous Chosomonkeys. Perhaps the latter's baseness and lack of honor have made them a target?
Re: Mod vs Mod - TWS2 multiplayer campaign deatchmatch
A very good read !
And wisdom to aid us in our daily lives is in it, too.
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For why change your style of battle simply because it results in crushing defeat?
09-02-2011, 05:03
Zim
Re: Mod vs Mod - TWS2 multiplayer campaign deatchmatch
A mini update for the first big battle between our factions.
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In response to the Chosokabe's landing of an assassin on Shizamu soil the trade agreement with them was ended. Generous terms were offered for its renewal, but for some reason they not only did they refuse, they declared war.
So the Zimazu prepared for war with the Chosomonkey dogs. Our port towns filled with the sound of industry as two mighty fleets were put together. The stories of their victories as they drove the Chosokabe from their trade nodes is chronicled elsewhere, but not yet told is the fate of the invasion of Shikoku that followed. A mighty force was put together under the heir Mitsuaki and landed near Iyo.
Shortly after, its leader was found dead in his tent. Clearly the Chosomonkey knew that if Mitsuaki lived their cowardly troops would lack the courage to attack the army of such a stalwart general, or so the new commander Hongo Nobunori told himself. Then again, he also told himself things couldn't get any worse...
Undaunted by the greater numbers, he arrayed his troops on a hill preparing to meet the charge of the ill disciplined rabble that made up the Chosomonkey army.
After exchanging volleys of fire the Chosomonkeys came on in a great horde. Norunobi's archers spread out seeking better firing points to take as many of the enemy with them as possible, while his cavalry went hunting after the enemy general.
The Zimasu cavalry were successful in their hunt, ambushing an enemy general that came to reinforce the enemy. Knowing that the battle was over, Norunobi ordered the retreat. Against superior numbers and with their leader so recently assassinated, the Zimasu had still injured their enemy greatly and inflicted far more losses than they took. For now that was the only victory that could be had.
And wisdom to aid us in our daily lives is in it, too.
If only he kept following that wise saying. :clown:
09-02-2011, 05:15
phonicsmonkey
Re: Mod vs Mod - TWS2 multiplayer campaign deatchmatch
Chosomonkey update #6: Mopping Up
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With the Zimazu invasion force roundly defeated it just remained to mop up the survivors before they could board ship and flee.
The Daimyo, growing in influence and stature all the time, ordered his ninjas to stop the enemy army from leaving while he could make up ground on them and wipe them out.
And so the Daimyo ordered his troops in without him and on the military advisors' advice stayed back in order to preserve the family line and the leadership of the mighty Chosomonkey clan.
At least that's what they thought. Unbeknownst to his wise military advisors the brave and somewhat hotheaded Chosomonkey Daimyo slipped out the back of his tent and rode off to join the battle...alone...arriving just in time and just on the wrong side of the battlefield to be caught and killed by the honourless dog Zimazus, to the stunned disbelief of his army.