Overestimation

[Drisos]

Lol! :)

I reinstalled Shogun last week and tried some campaigns. Made some errors in battles etc, but in general it went pretty well. I ran over the enemies like I did before. So, Drisos, did you win 'em? Ehmmm no, actually. I only won 1 out of 5 campaigns. (1 of them I didn't complete because of a CTD - I didn't have a recent savegame and didn't feel like going though it again.) 5-1-1=3... So how did I lose those three campaigns, in all of which I was having the upper hand? :S

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here's the story

My families were killed off. I seem to be uncautious with my daimyo's unit, (and with units containing heirs)... In a Mori 1530 campaign I lost him in conquering Kawachi from Oda. I sent him across the bridge, which ruined the enemy's formation, chasing him etc. I focused on getting the rest of my army across the bridge properly, and my daimyo got caught up in a fight. Then still, I didn't focus on him... after a while of fighting, he had died and still I didn't really care. I realised that I had no heirs only when I got the defeat screen.
In a Imagawa 1530 campaign I had something similar, not paying too much attention to the daimyo, then suddenly realising it was all over.
In a Uesugi 1550 campaign I was well aware of having only the daimyo as a family member. And I paid some more attention to him. However, with a good dose of overestimation I managed to have him killed as well. I sent the daimyo unit to storm a castle on it's own. The enemy had something like 32 yari samurai. I thought the 11 hc would win, but no, not by far.

I think I've lost my protectiveness for family members due to many many campaigns where staying alive wasn't hard at all. Now that I think of it, the 1530 and 1550 campaigns I chose now maybe feature less heirs in total? Not sure, but I'm inclined to think that.

Anyway, this topic might not be too intresting, sorry for that! :P I just felt like sharing my stupidity, and wonder if others have made the same dumb mistakes?