Frogbeastegg's Guide to Total War: Shogun II

[SalmonSoil]

This guide is amazing. Before I read this guide I was always a bankrupt Daimyo, unloved by all the other clans and with no idea what to build in my provinces. Now I have so much koku I don't know what to do with it, but actually I do know what to do with it, because I have a clear sense of direction when developing my provinces, and I usually maintain 2 or 3 allies right up until the latter stages of realm divide where I have essentially won anyway.
This guide turned me from someone who struggles on hard to someone who does pretty damn fine on very hard and is beginning to consider legendary.
Also I would never have used Naginata without having read this guide.

So thank you so very much Frogbeastegg, your guide is not only an indispensable tool for anyone new to Shogun 2, but also very well written. And 53,000 words? I'm sure I have read books shorter than this guide. This guide is amazing.

[frogbeastegg]

That's some serious improvement! Well done, and good luck if you attempt legendary.

[wealthmonger]

Sorry to be a stick in the mud but how about those edits?

ex. Page #3 "If your Daimyo has low honour it will cause a happiness penalty. If he has 2 honour then there is a -1 penalty, if he has 1 honour then it's -2, and 0 honour gives a nasty -3 penalty."
I purposely ruined Oda Nobuhide's Honour to see the outcome and although his honour was technically -2 it was actually showing as 1, being the minimum Honour your Daimyo can have. So the -3 penalty can't happen because the game won't allow it.

I hope to implement the few corrections people have brought forward this weekend.

It's a great guide. It's just been bugging me that a guide with so much time and effort put into it wasn't tweaked after release.

[frogbeastegg]

The unhappy fact is, making changes is not a quick and easy job thanks to the size of the work and the unfriendly nature of the manuscript behind it. That minor update would take me half an afternoon to edit into place and make public, including replacing the PDF version. I couldn't find chance then, and I can't manage it now without stealing time from two projects which cannot be delayed. I could only give the guide priority in my life for so long and, after well over 100 hours work, it's had more than its share.

[Leviro2005]

Thanks for this amaizing guide!

Before I read it I thought I had a pretty good idea of how to run an empire, but I didnt know how to use agents or the best way to upgrade technology. In the Rise of the Sammurai I went from earning 2000 to earning 4500 in under 5 turns, and then on to earning up to 15000 within maybe 30 turns! Now I've had the Divide event and I'm still earning 10000 per turn, even with two massive armies.

[frogbeastegg]

Well done, Leviro2005! That's some serious economic growth. You'll be able to pay your samurai a performance bonus: for every five heads they bring you they get 1 koku.

[Jacobin]

A great guide and if I'd had it earlier I would have saved many hours of botched and abandoned legendary difficulty campaigns - Sega/CA should pay you to do one of these with each new release.