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

[Maltz]

Takamoto: "Father, the Ashikaga Shogunate has joined our enemies!... a season after they declared ourselves the enemies of the Shogun."
Motonari: "Yeah. This is like pulling down their pants before farting - unecessary. Anyway, is your reinforcement ready to go?"
Takamoto: "Yes!"

[Maltz]

Fisherman Yoshi: "Hey Nobu! How are you?"
Peasant Nobu: "Hey Yoshi! Not bad. Any catch today?"
Fisherman Yoshi: "Nope, there is something wrong with the world... the sea level has dropped for at least 10 meters! Now all of our ships are stranded on the beach."
Peasant Nobu: "Hm... maybe we need to start cutting down more trees to accelerate global warming."

[Maltz]

Takamoto: "Father, here I am! Let's do this!"
Motonari: "OK! Let's start the siege!"
Takamoto: "Wait, father! I have a question. Since you already have a full stack army, why do you still want me as reinforcement?"
Motonari: "Have you not heard the news, Takamoto? We can now field up to 40 units on the battlefield!"
Takamoto: "That means I can join the fight, too? Great!"

[Maltz]

Takamoto: "Ha, nice. I am on the battleifled, too!"
Motonari: "Takamoto, here is your assignment - find a weakness of the Citadel!"
Takamoto: "What do you mean by weakness?"
Motonari: "Find somewhere that your Bow Ashigaru can fire at the defenders without being shot by arrow towers."
Takamoto: "But wouldn't the defenders shoot at me?"
Motonari: "I will come up with a distraction. Good luck!"
Takamoto: "The ditraction better works..."



Takamoto: "Ha, here is a good spot!"
Bow Ashigaru Captain: "General Takamoto, are you sure we can shoot fire arrows while standing in waist-high water?"
Takamoto: "Yeah, just hold the arrow bag with your mouth!"

Note: This problem exists before the latest patch: our Bow units have a tendency to take a small step forward every time they are ordered to fire at a target. So we will need to manually pull them back a bit after every 4 shooting orders or so.

[Maltz]

Takamoto: "Father, we are in position! How about your distraction?"
Motonari: "Done."
Takamoto: "But you are marching everything to my side. Wouldn't this attract the enemy over?"
Motonari: "As long as we leave at least 1 unit on the same side of their original deployement, they will not move."
Takamoto: "So... one Light cavalry grabbing the attention of 2/3 of the defenders?"
Motonari: "Yep. Now keep shooting from that weakness spot!"



Note: The Citadel is in the shape of:

w = water
c = citadel
b = blind spot

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The blind spots are quite small, holding one unit max. Here our Bow unit can fire safely without being shot at arrow towers. The defenders tend to parade inside the Citadel just like any castle. From time to time, we will have one defending unit stopping right in front of our Bow Ashigaru. 3 volleys! Fire arrows' power seems to have been increased by the 5346 patch, too.

[Maltz]

Motonari: "Look, another unit marches into our range!"
Takamoto: "But there are under the trees."
Motonari: "We have 12 Bow Ashigaru units! Just fire!"



Note: Apparently the trees inside the castles are just for the aesthetic look. They don't hide units like a forest does, and they do not provide any noticable coverage for arrow fires."

[Maltz]

Takamoto: "The enemies are routing... and they are fleeing OUT of the Citadel!"
Motonari: "Ha, just like what Yorinobu reported from Totomi. Our Yari Cavalry will run them down."

[Maltz]

Takamoto: "The enemy Daimyo's bodyguards have been killed off by our arrows! The Shogun is fleeing - out of the castle!"
Motonari: "Wow... let's run him down!"
Takamoto: "He is too fast! He is... running directly toward us!"
Motonari: "Tell the infantry to charge him!"
Takamoto: "He ran into our thick infantry line!"
Motonari: "What a bizarre death for the Shogun... he fled right into death...""

[Maltz]

Takamoto: "Hm, father, there are no more defenders parading inside the castle. Most of them fled out of the Citadel and got mowed down. But some of them is hiding in alleys between buildings."
Motonari: "Hm... their arrow towers prevent us from finding good angles to shoot at them. It looks like that we will have to storm in..."
Pirate Captain Yoshi: "Wait, my lord!"
Motonari: "Huh? What do you want to say?"
Pirate Captain Yoshi: "We can hide anywhere on the battlefield as long as we remain walking. Please let us try! We can destroy the arrow towers for you!"
Takamoto: "Hm... these Wako Raiders do have Kisho training. Maybe they can escape the detection of arrow towers?"
Motonari: "Worth a try. Good luck!"



Pirate Captain Yoshi: "No problem! We remain undetected by the arrow towers! Hahaha! Burn! Burn!"
Motonari: "Ha... if we knew about this, there is no need to find any weakness spot!"

[Maltz]

Pirate Captain Yoshi: "Arrow Tower destroyed! We only lost 2 men!"
Takamoto: "These guys are like professional thiefs! Well, they actually are. Why are we fighting with thieves..."
Motonari: "Now the arrow tower has been destroyed, we can freely shoot at the cowards hiding in the alley. Go go go!"

[Maltz]

Takamoto: "Father, we have routed all the units hiding in the alley! Now again we run out of targets."
Motonari: "Hm... if we charge in, the defenders might rush to defence. We will suffer greatly if this happens. But maybe the defenders will not rush to defence because they are so distracted by our Light Cavalry."
Pirate captain Yoshi: "Lord Motonari, please let my men test them!"
Takamoto: "You mean you will walk inside the Citadel alone?"
Pirate captain Yoshi: "Exactly! If undetected, we will burn down more gates and towers for you!"
Motonari: "Sure, but just run when they are coming at you, OK?"
Pirate captain Yoshi: "You bet!"



Pirate captain Yoshi: "It worked! We have occupied all gates and towers on the north side!"
Takamoto: "This is too easy! Maybe we will just let them sneak into the town center and win..."
Motonari: "Ha, Stepping on the town center will certainly trigger an alarm. But maybe we will do just that. Let's move our second pirate unit there and wait for the signal. All other units, prepare to storm in the Citadel!"

[Maltz]

Takamoto: "Father, why do we need two pirate units there?"
Motonari: "One unit occupies the town center, while the other locks the gate, so the defenders have to take the longer route in. This should buy us the time. We only need to hold the town center for one minute. But we will rush in all of our units as a huge distraction for the defenders."
Takamoto: "Got it!"



Pirate Captain Yoshi: "The gate is ours! The defenders are locked outside of their own gate!"
Motonari: "Naginata Samurai, charge their Bow Samurai!"
Takamoto: "Hm... how come the Bow Ashigaru is not firing... ops I forgot to tell them to fire at will!"
Motonari: "Just 9 more seconds!"

[Jacobin]

Fascinating - just about to embark on my own Mori legendary domination campaign.

And in multiple campaigns I've never actually played out the assault on Kyoto on the battle map as its almost always safer and you get a vastly better casualty ratio using autoresolve for castle attacks (often I suffer no casualties at all) - but these pictures have inspired me to try it.

[Jacobin]

And I have defended citadels but IIRC have never seen those extra buildings - is that a mod that allows multiplayer maps or is it a patch feature I've not see yet?