Quick way to convert to christianity?

[easytarget]

If you don't mind the risk I suppose you could create a stack, stick'em on a ship, and head off. Basically relo'ing your home base to one of the nanban provinces.

The one catch of course with Oda, you'll have to get free of your master first or you won't be in a position to declare war, and therefore couldn't land your troops.

This isn't really so much an Oda campaign at this point if you pursue this strategy, but that's not to say I've not done it. When I get super annoyed with my location circumstances, often something that comes up when I'm somewhere in the middle of the map, I've been known to open up a 2nd front for insurance in case things really hit the fan.

[leonardo davinci]

the oda isn't the clan that starts of as a vassal, that's the tokugawa.
i did a migration campaign with them once, wich has gone really well so far. i created a full stack, 4 ash to keep my only province safe, got a nice fleet and set sail. when i reached kyushu, i declared war on imagawa, landed on kyushu and conquered 2 starting provinces. right when i conquered the second, the oda came and broke any bonds with the mainland by capturing my home province. it's not all that hard, just make sure you leave a few units behind to guard, and have a fleet that can fight some enemies of, or your men will die.

[easytarget]

ah, that's right, oda just start in a bad spot, i can't recall, been awhile since i play an S2 campaign, been playing ROTS, do the Oda get cheap ash?

btw, still like relo strat, I've done it and made it work, sounds like you have too, and it can be fairly daring and entertaining because of it

p.s. my solution on putting all my eggs in one basket, or in this case one ship, send flyers out on front for recon so the main ship carrying the troops encounters no surprises ;)

[frogbeastegg]

Yes, Oda have cheap ashigaru.

Total relocation is much more feasible than attempting to maintain a foothold on Kyushu as well as a presence on Honshu. It's best to start a campaign with migration in mind though - imagine how annoying it would be to get offered the Nanban trade event 1 turn before your expeditionary force is due to land.

[Prussian to the Iron]

Well I have an enormous military and am currently allied with the Hattori, and soon to be hopefully with the Takeda. The only serious threat I might face military-wise would be the Hojo, who don't seem to want to fight me.

But I did just send an invasion force to capture a region with a Nanban trade port. But there has been no option to convert? I checked the clan management screens, but there is no conversion button. What's wrong?

[frogbeastegg]

But I did just send an invasion force to capture a region with a Nanban trade port. But there has been no option to convert? I checked the clan management screens, but there is no conversion button. What's wrong?

Have you owned it for several turns? If not, wait and see. If so, the game must require the event to pop before conversion is possible, and that would make early conversion impossible.

No one seems to know for certain if this can be done, hence the "might" in my first post. Thanks to your efforts we should have an answer soon.

[Prussian to the Iron]

Have you owned it for several turns? If not, wait and see. If so, the game must require the event to pop before conversion is possible, and that would make early conversion impossible.

No one seems to know for certain if this can be done, hence the "might" in my first post. Thanks to your efforts we should have an answer soon.

I've now held it for over a year, and no option nor event has popped up. I can, luckily being the Oda, recruit the Imported Matchlock Ashigaru in only one turn though.

However I could not hold it without a relief force, and the only possible aid was over half a year out, with seemingly endless waves of enemy armies continuing to attack, and the only reprieve from their onslaught was a rebellion due to the christianity in the region, which after defeating I was in no shape to defend anymore. But I could not simply give up such an economical and militarily important port (Nanban Trade Ships and Matchlock Ashigaru), nor could I afford to lose my best general. So I ended up having to settle for a steeply one-sided peace; I lost 33000 koku to a clan I can easily crush in less than 3 years, a peace I paid dearly for that they will likely break anyway, and in return received only a temporary rest to deal with problems back home and building up my matchlock infantry.

I wish I had known that it wouldn't really help before. That was a tactically unsound blunder that has now cost me dearly. The only upside is that I now have access to matchlocks and galleons without having to spend 21 turns researching the technology for the matchlocks. Oh well, I guess now I have a foothold on Kyushu, with a christian clan to the north and 2 buddhist clans to the south and west. At least it's a good fall-back point if my campaign turns sour on the mainland.



I will post and say when I get the Nanban dilemma (If I can even get it, because I thought you could only have one Nanban trade port, correct?), but as of right now I have reason to believe that capturing a Christian region with a Nanban port/quarter will NOT allow you to convert faster or more easily.