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Quote[/b] (Zen_Blade @ Mar. 14 2003,08:32)]A couple things...
1) "l" vs "r".... They don't have either, what they have is something in between. However, if you are going to pronounce a word in Japanese you should make it more "l" than "r"... This is what I have always been told.
The actual way to pronounce it is like saying an "l", but the tongue is further "up" on the roof of your mouth.
Now, if you are japanese, and you are saying english words, anything with an "l" will sound somewhat "r"-ish. the classic is "rike" me rike you.
In most classes the hiragana is romanized with "r", although when speaking japanese, pronouncing a regular American "r" is a very ACCENTED pronunciation of a japanese sound.
2) STW2....
Well, they should stick in the Sengoku Jidai. That's what I really like. They shouldn't expand beyond Korea though.
Eastern Asia was not like Europe... you didn't have all these farflung conquests/wars. The japanese almost never went outside of Japan. The chinese were content to rule "china" and a few other places because china was so huge... The barbarians from the North (mongols for example) might cause some havoc and pillaging, but that was very one-sided.
As for the Phillipines and Koreas... neither was ever a "super-power" in east Asia.
The best sequel would be to do the whole map, as in STW, but also some smaller, blown up maps... the Kansai region for example between 1555-1575 was very battle-oriented.
Similarly, a blown up map of Shinano while Takeda Shingen was consolidating that area would be great.
I think any sequel in the STW2 area should focus more on the fact that there were many smaller forts/castles that had to be pacified through diplomacy/bribery/sieges and there really wasn't just the "one battle per fief", which is how they presented it... Also, more clans of course.
Best clans for an early 1500's start: Takeda, Uesugi, Hojo, Oda, Imagawa, Hosokawa/Miyoshi, Ouchi, Otomo, and a few others...
for mid 1500's: Takeda, Uesugi, Hojo, Oda, Imagawa, Miyoshi, Shimazu, Mori, Otomo... maybe Ikko Ikki (they had a lot of power), maybe Chosokabe, maybe Tokugawa in a limited fashion.
for 1570: Takeda, Uesugi, Hojo, Oda, Tokugawa, Ikko Ikki, Shimazu, Mori, Chosokabe, AND THEN... you have to recognize the quasi-organized Oda Nobunaga resistance which focuses on the Asai/Asakura, Miyoshi, Rokkaku, and the Ikko Ikki. Additionally, in Kyushu there were a few clans that fought with the Shimazu that you would want to recognize.
For 1583: post Nobunaga: This could be really interesting... a "what if" if you would... There are a number of "claimants" but which can gather the most support? You have a bunch of Nobunaga generals/heirs, plus clans like the Mori, Hojo, Uesugi, Date, Shimazu, Chosokabe.
And 1600, Sekigahara... west vs east... This would be great because you have the two obvious factions... but who can secure the undecided daimyo. --I like this sort of idea... the "what if" born out of factional occurrances.
-Zen Blade [they took away my image... NM, they gave me a different one...]