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    Boy's Guard Senior Member LeftEyeNine's Avatar
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    Default Re: First impressions thread

    Moar input expected from Monk.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LeftEyeNine View Post
    Moar input expected from Monk.
    What that wasn't good enough?

    Played a little more this morning. AI is hit or miss to be honest. Sometimes it sees through my attempts to be gamey, other times it charges its general in for no reason. Sometimes it's completely conservative with its cavalry, other times it throws it away for no reason. Obviously there's something going on in the AI's 'brain' that makes it think charging a general in some instances is a good thing. And in some it is, but not in the situations it's choosing. Still - the battles are tough enough on their own. Had a knock-down drag out fight with the Takeda over south Shinano and almost won, but the AI bested me yet again.

    It's okay I got my revenge a bit later, but I still couldn't turn the tide. The Takeda had vassalized or otherwised conquered much of eastern Honshu, so when their alliance declared war on me, much of my neighbors saw it as the time to strike. Even though I turned back the Takeda alliance (with much bloodshed) I ended up falling to the Hattori, who used the chance to strike at my weakened capital.

    As a side note on something a bit random (general speeches). My top guy was a four-star, when he first clashed with Shingen he mocked the Takeda in his speech, making jokes and laughing at their expense. I lost that battle, the second time he faced the Takeda (again, led by Shingen) he wasn't joking around so much. Again, i lost. By the third battle he displayed true respect for the Takeda and warned his men not to take them lightly. This time i finally won. It was an interesting change to see from the general of my army, like the two losses humbled him.

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    well after the weekend of ignoring my wife , not eating properly and smoking a lot more than usual i'm really enjoying TW2. i agree with previous posters that diffrentiating units is hard, very hard but the run speed is really not an issue for me anyway. re AI i have not seen any crazy behaviour yet but i'm sure i will come up against it on the future.

    the drop in battles system would be great if it works properly. it only worked for me twice. once in my campaign game and once when i serached for a drop in. and this is the first time i ever used muntiplayer in any TW game. i think i ahve 50% win ratio from 8 battles.
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    been playing on very hard/ hard (you can change battle difficulty seperately). started with chokosabe because im a turtle and their position is so good on shikoku for that. played 8 battles on land one on the sea. won all of them though i didnt play the naval one it was 3v1 and the enemy only had a trade ship. i have one south indonesian trade node. i have my starting position and my former ovelrords province. im unfortunately allied with the sogo and miyawi ?sp? meaning without stabbing i dont know how to conquer my island. im thinking sogo since they arent married to my daughter.

    to be able to play i put all of the settings on the lowest possible and it really doesnt look that bad tbh.

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    Sent a to-be-replenished army of Yari Samurai into Hyuga territory for scouting, got ambushed by, I guess, 210 men which were Ito Yari Ashigaru and Bow Ashigaru. I played the conflict -hard to name this a battle- myself. Bow Ashigaru was climbing a steepness on top of which my men were standing ready in the woods. As I saw them coming, I "rapid-advanced" my men towards them, slaying most and routing the left 40~. Then Yari Ashigaru were left and I charged them as well, killing until only 1 of them could escape the battlefield despite my men being ordered to chase to the last one.

    Tactical absurdity of AI or Yari Samurai were too good despite being outnumbered 1 to 3 ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by LeftEyeNine View Post
    Sent a to-be-replenished army of Yari Samurai into Hyuga territory for scouting, got ambushed by, I guess, 210 men which were Ito Yari Ashigaru and Bow Ashigaru. I played the conflict -hard to name this a battle- myself. Bow Ashigaru was climbing a steepness on top of which my men were standing ready in the woods. As I saw them coming, I "rapid-advanced" my men towards them, slaying most and routing the left 40~. Then Yari Ashigaru were left and I charged them as well, killing until only 1 of them could escape the battlefield despite my men being ordered to chase to the last one.

    Tactical absurdity of AI or Yari Samurai were too good despite being outnumbered 1 to 3 ?
    Ambushes are double edged IMO. The attacker sets up very close to the defender, potentially losing the benefit of causing ranged damage. Sounds like you were able to focus your forces on parts of the enemy, bit by bit. Also I find that ambushes aren't as murderous as you might think unless the defenders are actually surrounded and overpowered.

    I'd say it was a glorious victory to you, but a tactical catastrophe on the behalf of the AI.

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    Hrlm let's attribute this to those troops not having a general then.

    Fine by me.

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