Castle Killers

[Teng Fuh]

I need a way to kill the huge Hojo $%(#)@*?! hordes. I am playing on Expert as the Mori. I thought that if a castle was in a provice then the beaten army would retreat, en masse, to the castle with the excess evaporating. However, that does not seem to be working. I hit an army of about 1500 with a force of 600 (I use 60 man units), win, and then most of the rest of the army retreats out of the province instead of to the castle where I can kill them.
Assassination with Geishas is not a bad idea, but I need to build all the buildings first...

I need help!

The Fun

[Catiline]

Nope the excess retereats out of thew province. The only way to make the horde evaporate is to try and take ALL the provinces arpound it, leave no line of retreat and then go beat it. Rout them off the field quickly and stop any reinforcement coming on, and a victory will destroy the horde. Otherwise do it the hard way, province by province. Remember the AI isn't always too bright with orders of baattle so the troop seelction it has might not be hte best the horde has to offer to start with, though it will be the highest honour general, so try to assassinate him then attack htat season. If it's got guns attack in Autumn or Spring and hope it rains

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It's not a bug, it's a feature

[ShaiHulud]

Unless the Horde is just smarter than me, that is.... Last nite I surrounded a horde, took all the adjacent provinces. Then, I attacked into the horde-held province. All I need to do is win now, right? Wrong.

The clever Taisho of the Horde, with ALL his troops, attacked one of MY provinces in the cordon, lost, and retreated to a Horde-held province outside the cordon I'd created!
And, wouldn't you know, it's a bridge province! lol

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Wind fells blossoms, rain
fells steel,yet bamboo bends and drinks

[Laertes]

Now *that's* counterintuitive; they lost, so they broke through.... Attackers perhaps should be restricted to retreating to provinces that they came from.


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He is justly served; It is a poison temper'd by himself.