I'd like some advice on the Aizu please. I play H/VH. I always get panned playing Aizu. I can never afford more than one medium sized stack, which means expanding always leaves your provinces vulnerable to enemy attacks - which they invariably do. Distances are so great that its not possible to intercept attacking armies, and invariably the Jozai and Sendai stab you in the back (it seems to be scripted - even if you're allied). TBH, the same thing seems to happen to me playing Nagaoka too - invariably even if I can ally half my neighbours, the rest declare war and the allies inevitably follow suit. This is in sharp contrast to a campaign with Shimazu on H/VH which was a total cake-walk - all the Imperialist factions allied with me and then we collectively took the Shogunate clans apart before amphibious assaulting Musashi. With the infighting, back-stabbing, degenerate Shogunate clans I can't even get started!