This guide is amazing. Before I read this guide I was always a bankrupt Daimyo, unloved by all the other clans and with no idea what to build in my provinces. Now I have so much koku I don't know what to do with it, but actually I do know what to do with it, because I have a clear sense of direction when developing my provinces, and I usually maintain 2 or 3 allies right up until the latter stages of realm divide where I have essentially won anyway.
This guide turned me from someone who struggles on hard to someone who does pretty damn fine on very hard and is beginning to consider legendary.
Also I would never have used Naginata without having read this guide.

So thank you so very much Frogbeastegg, your guide is not only an indispensable tool for anyone new to Shogun 2, but also very well written. And 53,000 words? I'm sure I have read books shorter than this guide. This guide is amazing.