Yee-Yee-Oh!: Mori (Legendary, Domination)

[Maltz]

Takakage: "Father, we now have Bungo. Like Buzen it has a huge Catholic population..."
Motonari: "That's why we brought 3 monks here. One for Buzen, one for Bungo, and one extra for incite rebels."
Takakage: "So what do we do with the Nanban Trade Port here?"
Motonari: "This thing spreads the Nanban religion and increases our upkeep cost. What's the benefit of the port?"



Takakage: "Imported Matchlock Ashigaru. There is also a little town growth bonus. But ce can't make use of its trading function as our base Aki is not connected via land route. Plus we are pretty much trading with every costal clan anyway."
Motonari: "Bah. We will recruit much better ranged units than Matchlock Ashigaru. Let's burn it!"
Takakage: "Yeah, burn it!"

[Maltz]

Takakage: "Father, you gotta hear this. The Imagawa clan again asks for peace, if we pay..."
Motonari: "Wait, let me guess. Last time they want us to pay 2700 koku. This time... 5000 koku?"
Takakage: "More."
Motonari: "Hm, they seem to be more stupid than I thought. 8000 koku?"
Takakage: "More."
Motonari: "So they are both stupid and crazy. 10000 koku?"
Takakage: "More."
Motonari: "No way! 12000 koku?"



Motonari: "Wahahaha! Oh I am going to choke on my tea! This is... I don't have any word to describe this!"
Takakage: "Let's show them the reality!"
Motonari: "Yeah. Once Hoki and Bizen gets all their good upgrades, we are going to use our best fleet to ship our best stack to Imagawa and kick their ass! And then we see how much they want to pay us!"
Takakage: "Yes! I will tell admiral Kuchiba to gain some more experience on navy."

[Maltz]

Takakage: "Admiral Kuchiba, an Imagawa fleet is coming your way!"
Yurinobu: "Backed to a shore? So they would not even attempt to escape!"



Note: After controlling the nearby straits with Bow Kobaya, the Imagawa fleet, which was probably tasked to blockade our ports, got stuck in the shore outside Settsu (probably waiting for our Bow Kobaya to sail away).

[Maltz]

Yorinobu: "Just four trade ships? That's easy... can I use a stunt double?"
Takakage: "Please take this as a practice to find good tactics to master naval battle!"
Yorinobu: "Ok!"

[Maltz]

Captain Jaku Subalo: "Admiral Yorinobu! From now on I will be your second-in-command in naval battles. My name is Jaku Subalo."
Yorinobu: "I like your pirate name!"
Jaku: "(In style) You forget one very important thing mate, I am captain Jaku Subalo."
Yorinobu: "... Nice. So Jaku, what can you teach me about piracy, I mean naval battles?"
Jaku: "First, we need to know that the enemy will always come to us under any circumstance."
Yorinobu: "That's silly."
Jaku: "A little. But they tend to find the gaps in our formation and sails behind us, probably in an attempt to surround us."
Yorinobu: "I see."
Jaku: "So that gives us lots of potential ideas we can experiment one by one."
Yorinobu: "Good. So what's our ultimate goal in naval battles?"
Jaku: "Capture or sink every single ship, letting none escape."
Yorinobu: "Great! OK here is an idea. If I line up my Medium Bune in a flat line, but leave spaces in between, wouldn't Imagawa's trade ship inevitably travel through the gaps between our ships... then we can start boarding them?"
Jaku: "Let's try it out!"



Yorinobu: "They get close! Board now! Go go go! Darn, Why are you not going?"
Jaku: "Admiral, I am afraid your method failed. The Imagawa fleet passed through your gap and is now at our back."
Yorinobu: "So what should we do?"
Jaku: "Just break up from the formation and capture it!"

[Maltz]

Yorinobu: "Darn, what a chaos. The Imagawa fleet were everywhere, and we broke up our formation to board random targets..."
Jaku: "But since they are so weak and slow... we still managed to capture all of them! We won!"
Sailors: "Yee-Yee-Oh!"

[Maltz]

Yorinobu: "My trap idea did not pan out. Any suggestions, Jaku?"



Jaku: "I actually like your idea. All we want is to capture enemy ships, so they do not get to flee. So any tactics that focuses on "capture them as soon as possible" is a good one. But Imagawa's fleet was a little too fast, and you issued the board command a little too slow..."
Yorinobu: "I can issue the board command sooner next time, but Imagawa's fleet was already the slowest possible - they are trade ships!"
Jaku: "So we need some thing to really slow them down..."

[Maltz]

Takakage: "Father, Sagara and Ito have finally started to fight. Ito foolishly kept bumping its one full stack into Sagara's two stacks - inside Sagara's territory. It looks like Sagara is going to win this one."
Motonari: "Hm... is Sagara smart enough to counterattack? Maybe not."
Takakage: "If they are stuck, we are stuck, too."
Motonari: "Indeed. Now our monks have arrived to preach in Bungo - our army can move out! Let's interfere and break this stupid stalemate!"



Takakage: "So which side are we on?"
Motonari: "Sagara is winning, so we have to help Ito. They will certainly pay us to fight Sagara."
Takakage: "And just before that, Sagara would pay us for infinite military access. Wow, 5080 koku! And we already sold 5 turns for almost 1000 koku last season."
Motonari: "That's so mean, but I like it!"

[Maltz]

Takakage: "And Ito pays 1970 koku for declaring war on Sagara!"
Motonari: "Good! Let's fight a good one!"

[Maltz]

Takakage: "Father, Ito's damaged full-stack joined the battle as expected."
Motonari: "Good. You don't get this kind of help very often. Let's see how the battle plays out!"
Takakage: "It is going to be an easy victory. No nap?"
Motonari: "We want to deplete Ito's army in this battle as well. Better see it ourselves."
Takakage: "Sure!"

[Maltz]

Takakage: "Father, Ito's daimyo and his son are chickens. They sat in the back and let their soldiers attack the castle..."
Motonari: "That's only slightly better than throwing themselves to the spears. Is there anyway to take a closer look?"

[Maltz]

Takakage: "Our ninja already opened the gates for them, and they still chose to climb the walls!"
Motonari: "I don't get it..."

[Maltz]

Takakage: "Everything is going well... hey wait a second, father, there is some Sagara Light Cavalry coming your way!"
Motonari: "Nope. I don't see anything."
Takakage: "They are coming! At least the replay shows they are coming..."



Takakage: "Watch out! Our general is in grave danger, my lord! Your bodyguards are dying!"
Motonari: "Nope. Nothing came. We finished the battle without losing a single bodyguard."
Takakage: "What the... is this the wrong replay?"
maltz: "This is the right replay."
Motonari: "... so... hm..."
Takakage: "Er..."