What is the Highest honor a Taisho can reach?

[Haji]

Hi everybody!
I have never seen a taisho with honor higher than 6. How about you guys?

[Dark Phoenix]

I think someone has got honour 8 or around that but you need a lot of wins about 30 odd more wins than losses.

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[theforce]

Higher honour l got was a honour 6 daimyo.

[Matsudaira Motoyasu]

Playing in normal, I managed to get Tokugawa Ieyasu (heir of the Imagawa) to rank 8. However, to reach that rank I fought almost every battle using him. To reach rank 7 you must have a difference of 64 victories over defeats. To reach rank 8, the difference must be of 128. By the way, does anyone know if it is possible to reach rank 9?
I only managed 8 with 131 victories and 0 defeats but he was already 59 years old (he had already become daymio).

[johnmcd]

What bonus was he giving his troops by that point? I could imagine an army raised in Yashimiro with him at the front would be pretty effective….

[Matsudaira Motoyasu]

At rank 8, the honor bonus to the troops is 4. Even managed to get the daymio unit to honor 8 in combat.

[The Black Ship]

Level 8 is very doable, I believe I had them at under 100 wins too. 65 comes to mind, but whatever http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/smile.gif

I asked this same question way back on the community forum (back in September!) and was told that a honor 9 taisho would be nearly impossible, requiring several hundred victories. Something about a Boolean expression or somesuch, like some giant And-gate.

[Matsudaira Motoyasu]

A taisho progresses like this:
The honor increases as the difference of victories over defeats increases (X). So, it goes like this:
X - Rank
1 - 1
2 - 2
4 - 3
8 - 4
16 - 5
32 - 6
64 - 7
128 - 8
256? - 9?

The last numbers (indicated by ?) I can't be sure because haven't done it. It's just a supposition based on the other numbers. Actually, if they're correct, rank 9 could never be achieved by a daymio or an heir, as they would likely die before it happened.

Example:
a taisho with 65 victories and 3 defeats has a rank of 6 since the difference is 62;
a taisho with 134 victories and 5 defeats has a rank of 8 since the difference is 129;

[This message has been edited by Matsudaira Motoyasu (edited 01-04-2001).]

[Anssi Hakkinen]

By what I've deduced, Motoyasu-san is correct. Rank 9 would require 256 victories, but the win counter can only reach a maximum of 255 (8 bit string or something like that - "it's a programming thing" http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/smile.gif). Rank 8 is the practical maximum.

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