Decisions...

**caravel** · 01-08-2009, 18:14

Etchigo is exactly the next move I had planned patdj

This will drive a wedge between Uesugi's forces and allow me to concentrate on taking all of the north eastern provinces. It will also leave the rest of Uesugi's forces to continue fighting it out with Oda as my Kyushu based forces slowly move towards them at their leisure...

-Edit: Nothing more to report so far, I've been busy yesterday so haven't been able to continue as yet.

**caravel** · 01-10-2009, 02:44

The situation so far. Several battles later and the situation is very different. Uesugi is now isolated in Hida with Oda attacking nearly every season but losing. It is perhaps now time from me to rejoin my old ally and wipe Oda from the map...

**patdj** · 01-10-2009, 13:38

Wow! You really acquired some land.

Yay, I would ally to Uesugi and approach Oda from the West. Can you buy rebels in STW? Can't remember

... If yes, I would just buy the rebel army that is in your way and let them run into the Oda forces, doing as much damage as possible. This will speed things up a bit. Meantime, with some luck, Oda and Uesugi bite each others head off. Or run into some expensive defense battles with your garrisons.

**caravel** · 01-10-2009, 17:55

Yes patdj, buying the rebels is a great idea, I really hadn't even thought about it.

I also think approaching from the west is the best idea. This will leave the eastern border as it is, which is quite strong, and strengthen western border also giving me the opportunity to bribe the rebels. The only province I might take in the eastern side is Kaga.

**caravel** · 01-10-2009, 19:11

And so that's it. The last few provinces fell quite easily. Uesugi was defeated in the next two seasons by Oda, I was too late to break the siege. Then as I closed the net on Oda he began sending many more Ninjas my way, killing one of my heirs and that Geisha I had hanging around. I autresolved a bit towards the end as it was pretty obvious what the outcome would be, but I did fight most of the battles including Owari, where I somehow turned up to a bridge assault with no YS or Naginta units. It went well however, partly due to the fact that it was a dual bridge map, but then I didn't take much advantage of this except for sending two units of Cavarly Archers across the second bridge with the main force assaulting the first.

So on to the next campaign.

**Mystic** · 01-10-2009, 20:05

nice. man i miss doing campaigns. time to fire up the old total war machine :)

**Sasaki Kojiro** · 01-10-2009, 20:55

So much koku!

Funny, I never ended up fighting on both ends with the takeda or imagawa.

**caravel** · 01-10-2009, 21:32

Originally Posted by Mystic

nice. man i miss doing campaigns. time to fire up the old total war machine :)

Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro

So much koku!

The Churches + Cathedral and all of the ports bring in a stupid amount of income. I didn't really need it all and had the taxes on normal from about 1585 onwards.

Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro

Funny, I never ended up fighting on both ends with the takeda or imagawa.

Neither do I usually, but in this case gaining Imagawa's lands made a big difference. I did end up losing Aki to the persistent Ronin but then I began developing and expanding from Hizen.