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

[Maltz]

Atsuyori: "Woo... after some hard works, we finally routed the rebels' two Light Cavarlry units. But we also lost 1/3 of our men."
Motonari: "We can relax now - the Light Cavalry is the only enemy unit that runs faster than us. From now on we are not going to lose any more if we do not want to."
Atsuyori: "Great! So I will live to become a good naval general for the clan!"
Motonari: "Speaking of navy... there is some Wako threatening us, but this time they prefer to talk. If we pay them 2000 koku, they actually will reduce the raids of our foreign supplies. What do you think?"
Atsuyori: "I say we kill the pirates!"
Motonari: "Hm... there is still much for you to learn, Atsuyori. Look at that bonus of foreign trade goods - 25%! How much do we gain from each trade node?"
Atsuyori: "Hm... let me see... we get 103 units of cotton and silk, and 138 units of incense."
Motonari: "The average price of Cotton is 33. The average price of silk is 40. The average price of incense is 47. So how much does 25% of the above profit us?"
Atsuyori: "Let me take a brush and paper..."



Atsuyori: "103/4 x (33+40) + 138/4 x 47 = 3500!"
[B]Motonari[/B}: "We profit 3500 koku for 8 season! 28000 koku of profit! Of course in reality we cannot sell all of those. For domestic market we only get half of that. But that's still far more than the investment of 2000 koku."
Atsuyori: "Wow! Definitely deal with the Wako! Can we sign a permenant deal with them?"
Motonari: "I like your thinking, but unfortunately we have to maintain our image in front of the samurais..."

[Maltz]

Yorinobu: "Haha! We have arrived at the coast of Imagawa's home land, and their navy is nowhere to be found! Let's land!"
Jaku: "If you land now, your army will suffer from winter attrition. Better stay on the boat and eat canned Tuna."



Yorinobu: "Ok... so I will delay the attack for a season. It seems that Imagawa has gathered all its two stacks of army in Totomi to defend its Fortress."
Jaku: "Do you think you can beat them?"
Yorinobu: "The headquarter already sent some monks and Ninjas to help. So there are lots of flexibility of what we can do. We will start with turning their defenceless provinces to rebel."
Jaku: "Nice!"

[Maltz]

Takakage: "Ha, Chosokabe has two stacks of army, that means they can only defend at most two provinces."
Monk: "So we will work on the third!"



Ninja: "Don't get over-confident. Their remaining two armies are still very powerful."
Takakage: "I actually want them to declare war so I get more chances to train our soldiers. I remembered that I once received a Threat of Attack message from our source... wait, that's you."
Ninja: "Strange, I don't remember sending that warning."
Takakage: "Huh? But who else can be the source?"
Ninja: "Not me... but now you mentioned it, I did have some vague memory of sending a warning of Threat of Attack."
maltz: "It is from a parallel universe! Too bad we never got it back once we jumped to this universe."
Takakage: "What are you talking about?"

[Maltz]

Atsuyori: "My lord! Imagawa asks us for peace again!"
Motonari: "A few seasons ago they bumped the threat to 24000 koku! After a while that's not even funny anymore. "
Atsuyori: "Yeah... too much idiocy brings more frustration than humor. So what did we do?"
Motonari: "We castrated that emissary and sent him back."
Atsuyori: "... I am glad I picked the military career path. Anyway, here is their new price!"



Motonari: "Haha. Now our army is right in front of them, they start to get scared, huh?"
Atsuyori: "Let's beat them up and see what's their new offer!"
Motonari: "I have a feeling that they will sell their sons and daughters for it. Wahahahah..."

[Maltz]

Yorinobu: "Landed! Come and fight me! Crazy Imagawa dogs!"



Yorinobu: "... Hm strange, nobody comes to fight me. I thought this is a perfect example of a "landing attack"?"
Jaku: "Yeah. When a general's skills advance to the "pirate" line, he will eventually gain +4 command for a landing attack."
Yorinobu: "But how do we make that happen?"
Jaku: "Maybe the Imagawa armies receive the order to focus on defence, so they are prohibited to make any offensive action."
Yorinobu: "Does that mean that the pirate line skills are therefore useless? There are lots of pre-requisites for them."
Jaku: "Possibly. Anyway, You may as well just become a better land battle commander. It will come in handy in more situations."
Yorinobu: "Sounds like the plan. Let's assault the castle next season!"

[Maltz]

Yorinobu: "Eh? What is this? We caught the... the BLACK SHIP?!"
Jaku: "Jakupot! We are famous!"
Yorinobu: "Let the parade begin! Yeah...."



maltz: "Nap time is up! admiral Kuchiba, you have to keep an eye on the Imagawa army."
Yorinobu: "I just had a dream that we caught the Black Ship!"
maltz: "That unfortunately belongs to another parallel universe, and we actually used auto-resolve. That's not going to happen here! We will capture the Black Ship like real samurai!"
Yorinobu: "Sure!"

[Maltz]

Yorinobu: "We surrounded Imagawa's Hamamatsu castle! But they have two stacks... what should we do?"
Jaku: "I don't know, I am only a navy captain..."
Ninja: "You know, I can sabotage the reinforcement so you only have to fight one..."
Monk: "There is no need for that. I have seen how our daimyo and his sons fight. Just follow my suggestions!"
Yorinobu: "OK... let's start the assault!"

[Maltz]

Yorinobu: "Hm... that's a fortress we are trying to break in. So master, what's your suggestion for that?"
Monk: "There are two arrow towers, on opposite ends of the castle. The gates to get to the first level, though, are on the other two sides."
Yorinobu: "So if we attack the gates and rush in from there, we can avoid some arrow damage?"
Monk: "We only charge in in the last moment to finish them off - for now, we stand outside the gate and shoot them. Oh and our ninja already opened the gates for us."
Yorinobu: "That's... very efficient!"
Ninja: "And I don't charge you a penny for it!"

[Maltz]

Yorinobu: "Okay... so where do we deploy?"
Monk: "We want to use the two gates to attack safey, so we want to deploy on the side that does NOT have a gate, but have a tower. This way, the enemy's ranged units are drawn to the same side as the tower, and when we attack from the gate's side, all the dangers are far away."
Yorinobu: "I see! Then... what's next?"
Monk: "Do you want to do the easy way or the hard way?"
Yorinobu: "...The easy way?"
Monk: "The hard way is to carefully dodge all of the opponents' arrow fires all the time. The easy way is to draw out their arrows with... yourself. Once they are out of arrows, they are just another ordinary target practice."
Yorinobu: "Isn't that put myself in... grave danger?"
Monk: "Don't worry, as long as you run backward as soon as they release the arrows, you will be safe!"
Yorinobu: "Are you sure it is the EASY way?"

[Maltz]

Yorinobu: "I lost a bodyguard from that easy way!"
Monk: "Well, even Lord Motonari lost a bodyguard. You did very well."
Yorinobu: "Oh really? Nice! So... I went on to draw fires from more Bow Ashigaru units... but there is still one unit defending the inner level, and I could not get close enough as the arrow tower would be activated."
Monk: "We might be able to draw them away if we move the entire army to pretend that we are going to attack from another side of the fortress. But let's save the trouble and proceed."
Yorinobu: "Sure. The easy way, right?"
Monk: "Easy or not, they are all good and safe ways!"



Yorinobu: "Ok, so I marched one Bow Ashigaru unit and myself to close to the gate and hold their fire."
Monk: "Wow... those are some fine Bow Ashigaru you have got here."
Yorinobu: "Yeah, General Kobayakawa passed the Martian training seeds to Harima just before we departed."
Monk: "Nice! Now what do you see inside the gate?"
Yorinobu: "I see defenders patrolling the lower level like an endless parade."
Monk: "Do they sometimes stop right in front of you for a brief moment?"
Yorinobu: "Yes. Like they are taunting me!"
Monk: "Three volleys right in their face as soon as they stop! Don't forget to use Fire Arrows if you can!"
Yorinobu: "Got it! Fire!"