voodoo,

shhhh! yer givin away all my secrets. remember, we hope to eventually have a multiplayer campaign game at some point ;)

anyone who ever played risk as a kid knows that the best way to win is getting others to fight others and then you walk in and take over. you shld try europa universalis. it has a much deeper diplomacy engine than just about any other game i've seen. it's fun to stir up rancor between two of your rivals and get them to fight each other, then just walk in and take what's left.

also sorta reminds me of an old board game called 'lie, cheat and steal'. it was hilarious and would have made a great multiplayer computer game ;)

one nice thing about shogun is that the shinobi, ninja and geishas often report someone else as being suspected, or at least doesnt report you as being suspected...if yer good ;)

shadow or 'black' tactics can undermine an enemy in a hurry, with little or no consequences to oneself. and the ai especially is a poor defender to such attacks.

K.