Yashima Taira

I'll cut straight to the chase, this is more a complaint/observation than anything else.

The victory provinces for this clan for this campaign are stupid, very stupid. There are too many of them, and they are scattered all over the map. Literally.

Worst of all, the ones located to the east of your starting position, necessarily presume that you will what? Immediately turn on your sister clan ally, because they physically stand between you and a number of the provinces the campaign win conditions insist you meet. And while you could merrily traipse through their provinces to start picking off these randomly selected choices, it would then prove problematic from a logistics and support structure standpoint.

It's like someone at CA took a couple hits, then threw darts at a board till they hit a couple blues and a couple greens (and why would they insist on this, got me, I guess cause you're red, and in this simplistic version of victory, blue/green bad, red good).

Don't believe me, look up the victory provinces yourself, there's freaking 11 of them.

Btw, one follow up on my rant, I did in fact win this campaign on VH, despite the fact that I played it against the grain and took over just about everything west of my starting position before heading east. At the point of realm divide everyone in the game turned on me, just as you expect, I do find it a bit disappointing that even the clans of your own allegiance turn on you. I got completely decimated on the ocean, lost all trade nodes (good job AI actually attacking and taking all of those out) and I was then forced under the gun to march east and conquer all the victory provinces I complained about above all on land, on foot. And I started this march in 1201. With about 150k, and I was bleeding 3-4k per turn. I left vassals in my wake and burned every star off my daiymo looting high value provinces along the way and took the last province for the victory in 1209.

Didn't want anyone reading the above rant and think it was just a crank who is complaining because he can't win. ;) But instead someone merely pointing out the illogical random select process that appears to of gone into deciding which provinces you needed to carry the day.