Nobunaga's Ambition
Oda's Ambition
Might as well join in the fun, right? Campaign name taken from an early mod to Shogun by Lon Chaney Jr.
Oda---1580---Warlord Ed. v1.02---no geisha---expert.
The Emporer has backed my claim to the Shogunate, and the gaijin have brought new weapons to Japan. The power of these weapons will prove decisive in subduing all of Japan to my rule. And so it begins.
The Tokugawa will be the first to learn.........
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..........and the lesson is bloody......
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The treacherous Takeda have allied themselves with the Tokugawa and they too will learn their lessons hard......
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Others are beginning to see value in these weapons, as well.
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The gods of fertility have blessed us with a good harvest, this year. Our warriors will become stronger for it.
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The Takeda are weak and they come to me with words of truce..........
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.......but they are not to be trusted.
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They pay the price of treachery with the lives of many of their best warriors.
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We are surrounded by enemies on all sides, but this will change when our warriors bring home victory after victory................
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Our position continues to improve and the gods smile upon us with bountiful harvests once again........
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The Tokugawa have returned once more with their lackey dogs, the Takeda.....
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Our warriors take many heads and the cowards flee from our lands........
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The Oda clan has proven itself on the battlefield, and our armies grow stronger with each coming season................
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The other clans have begun bickering amongst themselves......so much the better for us..............................
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The time has come to strike back at the hated Takeda................
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More clans come to ask alliance with us...............
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War has broken out between two of our allies and we must choose between them...............
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The last of the ikko-ikki are put to the sword, and the Mori clan has begun to learn the way of gunpowder.................
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We have driven off the cowardly Takeda, and dealt such crushing blows to the Tokugawa that they can only sit idly by and watch our strength grow season by season. Now has come the time to mobilize and put an end to them once and for all..........
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Well, the start of this was hairy, as expected, but the guns have proven their worth. After beating off the early attempts by the Imagawa/Takeda alliance to take Mino, the situation has stabilized, somewhat. I retreated immediately from Hida to better defend Mino. Hida I could afford to lose, Mino guards my soft interior........
I picked up several units from 3 successive years of loyalist revolts in Hida, and did as much damage to Takeda cavalry as I could before retreating my battered units to Mino. After proper refit they were ready to go. The winter battle of 1584 was fought in a blinding snowstorm and nearly every single unit was in a state of exhaustion. And who says Ashi are good for nothing but running from the battlefield?!? Check out the kills of Hosokawa Fujitaka!
When Takeda began to attack Uesugi in Echigo, I decided to get opportunistic and launch an attack on Shinano. He left only a single Cav Archer to defend, which was quickly dispatched, and I razed the facilities to the ground. I needed the koku to speed up development of my other provinces, and didn't want to be so exposed defending the place.
After Shimazu mangled himself several times trying to take Kawachi, I stepped in to snatch it. Mori had the same idea, and we skirmished a bit across the river before he withdrew.
I tend to tech up a bit and go with smaller, more advanced armies than my rivals, and my internal infrastructure is nearly complete. I intend to bring more farmland into production and remove the Imagawa from Mikawa. This will give me an advanced river province to shield Owari, and provide another defensive line against Hojo, who has profited greatly from my trashing of Takeda.
My long-range plan is to hold off the Hojo if/when they finish off Takeda and Imagawa, but I will be agressive if they try an end-around attacking Uesugi who they are also at war with. When Shimazu finishes off Mori, I plan to expand at his expense via Harima/Tamba/Awa, and eventually push onto Shikoku.
But plans always have a way of going wrong, don't they?
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