Personal Record for Fastest Game???

[Hiroshi-O'Duff]

My fastest game completion was 1546 -- I'm sure some of you out there have beat that. What's your fastest ever?

1546 - as RONIN (.conan.) - on Hard

Obviously, Ronin can be much easier -- after I realized how things worked a bit, I could probably shave five years off that score using Ronin.

Duff

Fastest SP game would be when I was playing Takeda and Mori attacked him in the first turn. I lost and gave up. http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

Fastest MP game? My enemy dropped just after we hit began battle and I won. http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

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[kaltes]

Fastest game for me was 1540 (yes 10 years, 39 turns) with Takeda on Expert. I have the save-game file still.

Takeda, Imagawa, and Oda are the only clans that I think you have a good chance of winning within 10 years with. The other clans have such a long march across the map that even with no opposition crossing the map is hard.

[irish_kh]

I was wondering if there is a limit to how long you can play. The longest campaign I've played lasted until 1609. What happens if you keep going until 1900's?

[Toranaga sama]

America takes you over of course, exploits you, and makes you think you got a good deal.

You had doubt?

[Kraellin]

irish,

in 1944 you get nukes and enter a cold war.
in 2044 you get mech samurai and blow up most of japan.
in 2144 godzilla wrecks your mech samurai and you have to use your old nukes on him and irradiate all of japan.
in 2244 your teenage mutant ninja turtles come to save the day initially but end up dieing in the attempt.
in 2344 yer back to feudal japan and continue to play normally. ;)

K.

[Maltz]

For me it was Imagawa 1542 (happened to be the war story series no 2), expert, no save and load.

The time requirement varies a lot with luck (if playing no save and load). An extremely poor harvest will completely stop us for one year, and in the meantime the AI grows a bit and makes your future harder. Also, if the newbie enemy ninja becomes lucky then they can knock out our rank 2 and 3 generals...!

I think when I used save-loads I ever beat an expert level game in 7 or 8 years - but I am sure re-fighting a battle 10 times till I kill the enemy daimyo, or assassinate 20 times till my ally donates their territory to me are the least honorable things to go into. http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/tongue.gif

I guess the point is to have fun - it is a single-player game anyways.

I heard somebody united Japan in 1534 with ronin - that's the fastest I have heard! http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/biggrin.gif


[This message has been edited by Maltz (edited 07-01-2001).]

[Maltz]

I just tried to reproduce this 1534 ronin thing. (expert, no save-load).

Indeed, Japan was "liberated" in 16 seasons. The new year of 1534 turns into a celebration party of ronins!

I've taken all the screenshots as I have done previously http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/biggrin.gif I will find a time to put it on the .org page.

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[Vanya]

I'd have to say the fastest was around 0.0000000000001 nano-seconds (or less)... because the bastid opponent dropped!

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[Tenchimuyo]

The fastest SP game I played was when the damn imagawa ninja assasinated my Takeda daimyo after just two turns from the start of the game. http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/mad.gif I think it was because it was in the expert mode.

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[Shuko]

Online = victory in 1min 31sec.
Online = loss in 2min 16sec.
SP = victory in ? 14 years (expert).
SP = loss in four turns, killed in battle.

[ReturnOfTheJordi]

As I posted elsewhere, my quickest was Spring 1530 without a single arrow fired or spear held in anger. There must have been a bug and I've never recreated this but the map opened up on the new game completely empty with no units at all. The loyalty in all provinces was negative. Wierd.
BTW how do you play as Ronin - I didn't think this choice was availabe in SP?

[ShadowKill]

I only play online and my fastest win there was 34 seconds

I have had a few close to that as well...

Opps forgot to add it was a 5000 koku game with 16 units each.

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[Sengoku]

My best is 1545. Past about 1600, your Daimyo start dying of disease. Is it ever possible to play as Ronin? A good idea for quickly winning the game would be to make alliances with everyone and then using Geisha to kill all other Daimyo (you get half their forces).