New to the game

**rattenfleisch** · 01-15-2010, 23:41

Hello everybody!

I am a long time lurker and finally decided to join this nice forum.
My first total war game was Medieval, which I unfortunately lost years ago - years I spent kicking the incredible stupid ass of the Rome and Medieval2 AI. As I heard that the Shogun AI is very good I decided to give it a go.

After days of waiting my copy finally arrived. And I immediately stumbled into the first problem.
I have installed the ShogunWv1.02_Euro patch, but in the game options it still says 1.00.
Is it because I use the ShogunM.exe to start the game? Unfortunately the ShogunW.exe doesn't work, telling me that the disc is not in the drive. Does anyone else have this problem? I am afraid it has something to do with my version of Shogun from Sold Out Software.
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This is the only reason I can think of, as I had something similar with my copy of Daikatana, which was also a budget version rereleased by some third company.

Any ideas?

Oh, and sorry for my English. Maybe it is hard to understand sometimes, as I am not a native speaker. Feel free to play the grammar nazi and correct me if you want, I would appreciate it. I can only learn from my mistakes if I know that they are mistakes.

**Sasaki Kojiro** · 01-16-2010, 00:46

Go to "custom battles" and see if the map "ironing board" is available for selection. If it is then the patch has installed correctly.

Is your username "rat flesh"??

**rattenfleisch** · 01-16-2010, 01:11

The ironing board is indeed available. Thank you for your help.
I hope that the patch also fixed the reinforcement bug I heard about correctly.

And yes, "rattenfleisch" means "rat flesh" in English. Did you figure it out because of the similarity or do you have some knowledge of German?
That name goes back to my Soldier of Fortune 2 multiplayer days, years ago. It was the first name that came to my mind as I was not a member of any multiplayer community or forum since then. Guess I'm not the most sociable person ever.

But who knows, maybe the .org is a place where I will stay for a while...

I think I will start my Shimazu campaign soon. Expect to see a little noob AAR (I think it may be interesting to see how someone who easily beats the Rome and Medieval2 AI on "Very Hard" while asleep gets eaten alive by Shogun on "normal") and lots of questions appearing in this thread soon.

**Sasaki Kojiro** · 01-16-2010, 01:21

Ich habe ein bisschen Deutsch...very little.

Shimazu on normal should not be too hard, maybe trie Mori on expert

**rattenfleisch** · 01-16-2010, 01:41

The battle AI will be though enough for me from what I've read here anyway. So I decided to try an easy faction first. Shimazu is recommended in one of the stickied threads, so it may be a good idea to start with them. Hojo and Uesugi are also mentioned, so maybe I should consider them as well...

In Rome and Medieval 2 I rely on a lot of archers, not only to kill but to force the AI to react. As the AI in those games isn't able to do that properly, I can tear the enemy units apart with ease.
I don't know if this will work that well in Shogun. So the Uesugi archer bonus is maybe not as good as I thought.
Speaking of archers: Archers are not very effective in this game, right? The performance of my archers in the third tutorial mission was terrible. I ran around the whole map, shooting at the enemy as often as I could and wasn't able to kill a lot of his men. Well, maybe they were just heavy armored elite units or something like that...

Hojo starts with enemies on every border, so maybe that is not a very good idea for the first game.
Probably a position in the corner like Shimazu has is better.
On the other hand I am quite a blitzer in the other TW games and usually expand rapidly in every direction possible. But I am not sure how well this will work in Shogun...