Autumn 1534
I'll skip ahead a season or two because nothing interesting happened.


In the east, my vast empire is finally turning green. I might even be able to raise taxes soon.


Last season, I invaded bungo, and Shimazu retreated without a fight. It's time to finish the job.


Bungo


The enemy taisho was extremely tough and killed 7 of my men! This is the first battle with a kill ratio of less than 1:1. Sanada Banzan got rank 4 off this.


It's harvest time, and my economy is starting to make a difference.

Winter 1534

Hojo's lands are now green, which means no chance of a reemergence.
I invade Mikawa and Etchu. Etchu keeps getting invaded by monks from Kaga. I usually shoot them full of arrows and then retreat, then I have to take it back.


My shinobi are dong a fine job here as well. I'm sending small army to Satsuma.

Higo
Shimazu retreats.

Buzen
60 foot archers vs 60 of my horse archers. Once they go into loose formation, I charge. They fight for a bit then rout. Killed 60, lost 6.

Mikawa
I have 338 vs 137 defenders.
The rebels have mostly archers, some spearmen, and 4 monks.


Once again, running the CA up to the bridge lets me get some free shots in.


I aleady sent Takeda over the bridge and off to rhe right. Now the rest of the cavalry runs to the left.


I hit the smaller archer group.
This was not a great idea, as the spears in the centre are now going to hit my cavalry in the back.


The spears do a lot of damage, until I hit them in the back with the daimyo unit. The last of my forces arrive on the rebels' side of the river and hit the taisho unit. Once it routs, everything else goes with it.


One got away. Those CA took an avoidable beating.


Etchu
The cowardly monks retreat.

Spring 1535

Time to hit Satsuma.

In the east, a watch tower in Mikawa gives me some valuable intelligence: Oda has a huge stack of archers in Mino. The rebels in Owari have almost all spears.

Satsuma
I attack with 221 vs 180.


Shimazu defends with 2 archers and 1 Yari samurai. I'm winning the archery duel here.


I'd like to hit these guys in the back with my cavalry, but trees and enemy spears are a bit too close for comfort.


What do they think they're doing? The enemy army marches past mine and gets shot at. My CA are set to skirmish with the spears, so they'll be fine if the taisho decides to attack them.


...but they just walk off the map, getting shot in the back the whole time.


My army turns itself invisible and trashes Sarsuma.
I don't think Shimazu can recover from this.


Summer 1535


Rookies continue the siege in satsuma while ranked generals go after what's left of Shimazu's army.

In the east, I invade Owari with a big pile of archers.

Satsuma
Shimazu wastes everyone's time by sallying and then retreating before combat.

Hyuga
Mop-up continues. I invade with 79 vs 109. Enemy is all spears, I have cavalry archers. Killed 41, lost 0.

Buzen
I have 54 CA vs 60 archers.


Don't try this against a human player. The AI leaves its archers on skirmish, so I can safely approach through the trees.

They refuse to go into loose formation but I charge anyway.
The victory screen says I killed 59 and lost 12. There were definitely 60, so one must have shot one of his buddies in the back of the head.

Owari
I attack with 269 vs 429.


They have 26 archers. The other 403 are spears and monks. My foot archers can even get a shot at the enemy from my side of the river!


They just sit there and take it. I was enjoying myself tremendously here.


So many corpses. I run out of arrows before I run out of targets. It was probably possible to rout the remnants but I didn't want to risk it.

Position in Autumn 1535:

Lord Shimazu is feeling very lonely. I don't really want to attack him because his unit regenerates, and I'm not quite ready to kill him.

Summary
Killed 706, lost 83
Shimazu is badly messed up, but he has very large garrisons in Nagato and Iyo. I have no idea why he didn't use them to defend his home provinces. Mori is weak in the west and he's going to get a nasty surprise very soon.

The blitz is slowing down a bit as I run into large garrisons in the centre of the map. But I have built a few dojos with my large income.. a second wave is coming.
It looks like my main oppenent now is Oda. He has a large army, and that's just what I can see in Mino!