A few seasons later. The Mori army keeps growing and their daimyo has taken kii. However I am spending all my money on troops + farmland in owari, leaving kyushu in stasis for now. The oda attacked owari but had their minds blown by the existence of not one but two bridges and couldn't choose which one to cross, oh well it gave me a two star general for free. I assaulted the castle in yamashiro to save it and to get a win for my daimyo, killed 78 lost 74. Now attacking Iga.



Not good, the Mori outnumber me badly in Nagato. I'll have to pull my troops out of rebellion squashing duty.



This is why you always assault the castle in Iga, it's not really on much of a hill and your archers can shoot over the side easily.



Recent victories have brought lord imagawa to rank 5. Leveling up generals is one of my favorite things in shogun, I'd like to get him to rank 6 and the two guys on kyushu to rank 4. My massive troop recruitment has paid off and I now have decent size armies...



Big enough to wipe out the oda for good. This should secure my border, mino and mikawa are both easy to defend and I'll send my daimyo west. Should be interesting to try and crush the Mori from both sides at once.



As usual, I rush to gain the high ground and the AI ends up attacking me uphill. Why they didn't deploy there in the first place I don't know. I suspect the programmer wasn't that good of a tactician.



A rain of arrows falls upon the oda as the charge up the hill. Many ashigaru die.



They rout before even reaching my line, how disappointing.



Killed 396 lost 48. Lord Oda commits seppuku. Mikawa is an easy victory as well. Eastern border secure!



Sort of...

Apparently taking out the Oda, the Shimazu, and the yamashiro monks creates super-mori. They haven't shown me any aggression yet but their in my way. The Uesugi army in Shinano is also one that could give me trouble. Much more difficult than the ashigaru and archer armies, especially since I don't have any cavalry. Luckily I just finished the horse dojo in yamashiro.