How to win as Oda?

[ReluctantSamurai]

I prefer to await the Dutch. I hate those Catholics and I like using Ninja's on any Priests!

I couldn't care any less about the religious preference of the gaijin. They bring me guns and an offer to trade. Both give me an edge over my opponents. If that edge gets me to the Shogunate before anyone else, then I will take it. By taking the Portuguese offer, I have muskets at least 10 years before anyone else.

Oda would have your head on a pike to hear such talk!

Just kidding, of course

Sometimes a bad or worse harvest will leave me without funds, but that's life.

Maybe so, but string 5 or 6, or even 7 (I had 7 on one occasion) consecutive poor harvests and you will not even have enough koku for replacements, let alone for new units or construction. I prefer the certainty of getting 200 koku from each trading post, and 200 from each church when I have a cathedral.