Takeda campaign

[zyxophoj]

heh, the AI and their love of ashigaru/archer armies never gets old.

Just like their love of ashigaru generals. I've been lucky to see some extreme AI stupidity recently.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Once again demonstrating how useful mastery of the cavalry archer is, well done. Have fun with kaga, those battles are always my favorite.

[zyxophoj]

Autumn 1537

Shingen will go after Mori while the daimyo deals with Oda.
The invasion to the west continues, and it's feeling like mop-up. Mori is mostly retreating without a fight

A ninja kills my emissary! I'm surprised he lasted this long - one of the advantages of killing Imagawa off on the second turn, I suppose.



Yamashiro
I had 298 vs 154, so I thought this was going to be easy.


Oda has mostly archers.


My cavalry goes for the front. This is dumb, I should have waited to get the yaris into position.


The yari cavalry took heavy losses when they tried to fight uphill. I bring the daimyo round the back of the enemy.
Yaris arrive and give the archers a hard time.


Oda charges himself into Takeda's back. Hey, that's my trick! It's very effective: the bodyguards are almost all down and a tiny enemy force is holding off my yaris.


Eventually the yaris hack their way through to Oda.


Takeda extricates himself and Oda is mobbed. I should probably put my archers on "hold fire".
Eventually, Oda falls but there is no victory screen.


I lose on time limit. Oda denies me a victory by hiding 9 ashigaru in some trees. He wins the battle but loses the war, as he has no heir.

Tamba
Mori retreats to Kawachi. He is rapidly running out of provinces to retreat to.

Winter 1537

A ninja tries to asassinate Takeda Shingen. Guess what happened next.

This time we will take the emperor's province for sure! Sure enough, they retreat without a fight and the emperor backs the Takeda clan!



Spring 1538

Attackers pour into Kawachi. I can fit all the action into one picture now.


Kawachi


If I were smart, I'd have grabbed this first to avoid having to deal with Mori in a river province.


Yari cavalry goes across first. It is chased by the daimyo and some spears.


A second cavalry unit gets across. The first one loops back, and it is just visible in the background.


With the archers... distracted, infantry runs across the bridge. A tiny yari unit is giving me some trouble.


Mori tries to block the bridge, but his yaris rout. The cavalry behind them might have had something to do with that.


Not bad at all for a bridge attack.

Kii

60 vs 240? Sure, why not?


1 archer group, and 3 ashigaru. I shoot at the nearest ashi, hoping to rout it.


Eventually, it goes.


I let it go and take aim at the next group.


Once all 3 groups are running, I get behind them and chase.


A few of them escape off the edge of the map. there's no castle so they will disappear anyway.
All that remains is the archers... Pretty soon, they go into loose formation. I charge, they die.




Autumn 1538

Mori retreated to Sanuki. He has nowhere else to run.

[patdj]

By Masamune's Swords! You are really finishing this off before 1540!

[Sasaki Kojiro]

236:6 eh

I wonder if crippling the Shimazu actually helped you out. Ideally you would have hurt them just enough that they would have been equal strength to the mori...made for an interesting campaign though.

[zyxophoj]

By Masamune's Swords! You are really finishing this off before 1540!

It's looking that way. I took a lot of risks at the beginning and it seems to have paid off. There are two big rebel armies that could still act as major speedbumps.