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

[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..."

[Maltz]

Note: The faulty replay is a known issue when reinforcements are involved. So we will have to cover the battle with words. Please use your imagination.

Takakage: "Father, Ito's soldiers were killed off at the bottom of the wall. They failed."
Motonari: "Not surprising. But they did good works for us. Sagara's defenders are weakened, and they have much less arrows than us."

- Please imagine: Ito soldiers were defeated by Sagara defenders and were routing off the field. -

Takakge: "Look, the Sagara reinforcement have arrived."
Motonari: "And we are very well prepared for it. Let's finish them!"

- Please imagine: Sagara's weak reinforcement were slaughtered by Mori army. -

Takakge: "No more reinforcement. Now what do we do?"
Motonari: "If we want to minimize casualty, we can move up our Bow Ashigaru one by one and shoot their melee units. But that's very time consuming."
Takakage: "Yeah. This kind of micro-managing is only required in the beginning. Let's do the macro-managing."
Motonari: "So we storm the castle all together!"

- Please imagine: Mori's army split into three, one for each opened gate. -

Motonari: "Bow Ashigaru in loose formation - march forward and shoot!"
Takakage: "After Heaven and Earth we have so many arrows - certainly we can outlast them."

- Please imagine: Mori's Bow Ashigaru march forward and start firing at defenders inside the castle. -

Motonari: "The west gate bow units are under return fire, but the east gates are lightly defended. Yari Asghiaru on the east gate - charge into the castle!"
Takakage: "Sagara's melee units swarmed to east gate! Now left gate is undefended!"
Motonari: "Yari Asshigaru outside the south gate, charge!"

- Please imagine: Mori's Yari Ashigaru started to enter the castle. Some of them met heavy resistance. -

Takakage: "Sagara's Bow Ashigaru in west gate run out of arrows! No one is defending west gate!"
Motonari: "Yari Asshigaru outside the west gate, charge in and take the town center! Hold it at all cost!"

- Please imagine: Mori's Yari Ashigaru engaged in fierce fighting in east and south gate, while those entering from the west gate successfully occupied the undefended the town center. Some Sagara units returned to defended, but it was too late. The Count down clock goes... 3 - 2 - 1 - 0... injury time... Victory! -

[Maltz]

Takakage: "That was a good fight! Can't forget how silly those Ito soldiers when they rushed up the wall when the gate was wide open 20 steps from them."
Motonari: "Sigh. Their commander is not much better thatn that. They just sat there and did nothing after their men fled. Ito lost almost all of their men from gross incompetence."

[Maltz]

Yorinobu: "General Motoharu, be careful, the Hatakeyama clan just shipped a full stack army to this area."
Motoharu: "Yeah it scared me, too. But they landed in Miyoshi clan's Awaji island. The two clans are enemies."
Yorinobu: "That's good. Why don't Hatakeyama just build a Bow Kobaya in Settsu and ship a full stack from there? That's much faster than shipping all the way from the northeast."
Motoharu: "My father would say, would you prefer to fight a genius or a moron?"
Yorinobu: "...ok. Let's just keep our mouth shut."
Motoharu: "But once Hatakeyama or Chosokabe defeat Miyoshi, they would both run out of enemies. Maybe we need to do something so they do not turn onto Mori at the same time..."

[Maltz]

Takakage: "Father, it is checkmate for Ito. Rebels in range, and all their mobile armies and recruiting castles are sabotaged. They can only watch the rebels taking both their castles."
Motonari: "Good job. Our work in Kyushu is almost complete! But we have a lot of diplomatic work after this. The risky invasion on Imagawa, the manuever between Chosokabe and Hatakeyama, and the breaking up of the Takeda-Hojo super alliance... We have to plan carefully."
Takakage: "Certainly!"



This concludes chapter 6 of our story.

[Maltz]

Chapter 07. Closing the trap

Motoharu: "Admiral Kuchiba, good news for you!"
Yorinobu: "Yes?"
Motoharu: "OK this is top secret - so don't tell anybody. You have been assigned to lead a surprise assault on Imagawa's home province!"
Yorinobu: "Am... am I good enough?"
Motoharu: "You are the only naval general we have got. So it has to be you..."
Yorinobu: "Okay... that's... kinda encouraging."



Motoharu: "We are now working on a good army for you. Looks like that you will lead a mixture of Bow Ashigaru, Naginata Samurai, and eeewww... Wako Raiders. Not sure why they deserve to fight along with our samurais! (furious)"
Yorinobu: "Okay! I must train myself better to prepare for that day!"
Motoharu: "Indeed, there is a fleet of Wako pirates just south of Aki. That's yours!"
Yorinobu: "Right away!"

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Jaku Subalo: "Good to see you again, admiral Kuchiba!"
Yorinobu: "Let's kick some hairy wako butt!... if we can figure out a way to board ships efficiently."
Jaku: "Yes. And actually I have an idea!"
Yorinobu: "Let's hear it!"
Jaku: "If we use a ship, any ship, in the back of our Medium Bune line, and use them to block the advance of enemy ships once they enter the gaps of our Medium Bune..."
Yorinobu: "Good idea! Let's try it out. And I will issue the board command a little earlier."



Yorinobu: "Here comes a Wako Medium Bune!"
Jaku: "Now, block their exit!"
Yorinobu: "Initiate boarding sequence! Rope out! Gocha!"

[Maltz]

Jaku Subalo: "Nice! We caught their first ship in no time! And some of their following ships stepped onto our mines!"
Yorinobu: "Nice! So are they going to sink right away?"
Jaku: "They just suffer only minor crew damage and morale penalty. Strange, the ships are usually unaffected."
Yorinobu: "Doesn't sound much..."
Jaku: "We have to keep the pressure with arrows anyway, nice, this one immediately surrendered after stepping on the mine!"

[Maltz]

Norinobu: "Our trapping method worked! It would be great if we can lure more of their ships forward."
Jaku: "Unfortunatey, the rest of them just remain still and shoot."
Yorinobu: "How about let's try luring them with a small ship?"
Jaku: "Worth a try!"



Yorinobu: "OK! it... did not work."
Jaku: "It looks like that we have no choice but to sail forward and board them."
Yorinobu: "But our formation might fall into chaos again."
Jaku: "We do not want to break the formation in the fear that they will be divided and conquered. But if we still stay relatively close, we should be fine."
Yorinobu: "Indeed. Let the chaotic stage begin!"

[Maltz]

Norinobu: "Once our sailors jumped to their ship from the Sengoku Bune, that's the end for them!"
Jaku: "Indeed. But it seems to be a balanced match! Let's just add the warcry anyway."
Norinobu: "Sure! Walalalala~"



Jaku: "Admiral, I have been wondering for a long time..."
Yorinobu: "Yes?"
Jaku: "You are on that Sengoku Bune, right?"
Yorinobu: "Right."
Jaku: "So where were you when the boarding took place?"
Yorinobu: "I was... er, playing poker in the bottom deck. Somehow the land armies are kept away from naval battles. And let's not investigate why thousands of people can fit in the underdeck of a Bow Kobaya."

[Maltz]

Yorinobu: "Hm, strange. None of the Wako ships escaped that night, but we still let two escape..."
Jaku: "It seems that there are two kinds of surrender. If the ship is boarded and then surrounder, the ship is captured. If the ship is too damaged/morale broken and then surrounder, the ship actually will escape."



Yorinobu: "So that means we have to make sure every ship is boarded before they get too broken?"
Jaku: "Unfortunately, yes."
Yorinobu: "OK... so we just have to board them with better efficiency!"