Newbie ?: Harvest numbers are confusing...

[jskirwin@yahoo.com]

Ok, I've RTFM several times now and scanned through all the postings here, so I'm obviously stupid because everyone else must understand this.

What is the Harvest accounting figures about? It gives you last year's treasury. Huh? It never matches the amount of koku I have at the beginning of Autumn, so it's not my savings account. As for unit support, I get that, ditto building. But overall the numbers never seem to add up.

What happens is that I'm usually broke by Spring.

Would someone explain this to me?

Thanks
JK

[Catiline]

The amount shown is the amount you should have at the start of Winter, the harvest comes in in Autumn. As to being broke you might be trying to build too much in too many provinces. You need to specialise more early on, to save money, remember htat it prioritises building from West to East. so even if you tell it to build something much earlier, money gets spent from east to west. So don't queue up too many buildings and forget them, you will run out of cash. The same thing applies to troop production. Turn out Yari Ashi early on, they're cheaper and they bulk up armies, important to stop people invading you. Only upgrade high koku provinces, if you get high harvests use the surplus on mines and ports early, you can build dojos later with the income they generate. You can play with the taxes, but you tend to forget to taker them down one time, and then you've got rebels everywhere. Putting it up to punitive in autumn when the harvest is being collected and setting it nice and low the rest of the time is ussually safe.

THe trick in the end is to think about what you build, and consider if it's economic to build it at time x or in place y. Early care with spending can make or break the game 10 or 15 years in



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