War Story 6 (Hojo)

**Maltz** · 07-10-2001, 12:04

Hi everyone:

The first chapter of War Story 6 has been made. I tried some new format and effects. Hope you like it

http://www.totalwar.org/maltz

**Karhu** · 07-10-2001, 14:41

Nice one, Maltz!

Labelling the units on the screenshots is a very good idea - it was sometimes difficult to work out what was going on before.

**CeltiberoSkullXIII** · 07-10-2001, 19:22

NICE ONE MALTZ very nice!

**Anssi Hakkinen** · 07-10-2001, 21:08

These jes' keep getting better and better, though I'm lagging slightly behind because of my vacation.

07-10-2001, 23:51

My God this is getting out of hand.

Great!

Im waiting for Shimazu...im trying to make it at exp...didnt succeed yet.

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**Maltz** · 07-11-2001, 02:27

Thanks. In order to make the text barely readable, I made the .jpg files 80% larger (hope it doesn't matter too much).

Yes Shimazu is indeed harder than most others. I've got the screenshots ready (over 500 in total) - but still trying to decide what new features to feed in.

Now I just hope I can get Hojo done (including finish the game) before the expansion

**Asakura Lord** · 07-11-2001, 02:42

I tell you Maltz, it's like a wine getting better age. These are getting better and better, they are awesome! Good Job!

**dagger** · 07-11-2001, 04:08

Yea this is the best one yet ...

**candidgamera** · 07-11-2001, 04:17

Am slowly catching up, you write this stuff faster than a guy can read it.

Good Job.

The side-by-side and the labelling really help.

**CaptMac** · 07-11-2001, 04:42

Great Job Maltz!
I wish I could keep up with you! I'm beginning to feel like a Naginata climbing a steep hill during an ice storm.....and no snow shoes.
Did I read you have over 500 screen shots? Once I got used to the side-by-side story/ screenshots I really like it.

Excellent effort! Great stories, campaigns and Tactics!

**edRonin** · 07-11-2001, 04:49

Great stories Maltz. Keep them coming.

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**Maltz** · 07-11-2001, 10:54

Thank you very much.

Chapter 2 is out! (the links in 3 and 4 won't work - I haven't started yet

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**radan** · 07-11-2001, 13:17

Great stories! This Hojo campaign should
be my favorite since a story finally feature
my precious Ashigarus

My problem is.. I can't seem to implement
Maltz blitzkrieg strategy. With no save/load
on expert TAKEDA and IMAGAWA, I finished the campaign 10 or more years than the war story.

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--RADAN(RONIN ashigaru)--

**Conquistador** · 07-11-2001, 20:29

Great. But can we vote for the decision in your coming campaign?

**Maltz** · 07-11-2001, 20:34

Radan please don't get frustrated.
SP campaign has a large factor of luck!
Like I said, a very poor harvest year usually completely stall us for one year while the enemy prospers a lot - and sometimes enemy ninja just get super lucky.

**CeltiberoSkullXIII** · 07-11-2001, 20:34

NICE very NICE

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"It's better to let the enemy alive as to kill it ... To TORTURE it!"

**Conquistador** · 07-11-2001, 20:52

btw, I think i'll be able to finish the takeda campaign earlier, and i'm still playing it without repetitive use of save load. of coz i did that before but that bothered me too much.

Maybe i was with luck, becoz i saved
aki with a peasant revolt. and yet defeated usegi in a decisive battle having geographical and numerical disadvantage 2xx to 3xx. And most importantly, the first war declared on musashi, i lost 21 in the battle, with 10 recovered from the daimyo's bodyguard, but didn't gain the swordmenship event though until i attack shimoma right afterwards. Now I have crashed hojo and usegi in 2 years. i'm continuing in the 3rd year.

**Maltz** · 07-11-2001, 21:20

Quote Originally posted by Conquistador:
Great. But can we vote for the decision in your coming campaign?[/QUOTE]

sure. but seems there are only 2 choices.

I know somebody is currently doing Uesugi and I am sure it is going to be a wonerful story. Also we already have a good Shimazu story.
Actually I am even not sure whether I can finish the Hojo story.. hehe

good luck with your campaign

**Maltz** · 07-12-2001, 08:18

Chapter 3 is up!

**Maltz** · 07-12-2001, 09:43

chapter 4 is up!
I put up some full-size 800x600 pics for clarity - hope the effect was good

**Conquistador** · 07-12-2001, 14:46

Hmmm.... was i misunderstood?
What I mean is, after each chapter, you may raise some questions like " now should we go west or south?" or like" are we going to take the risk or play safe or half of both?", or even "should we take aki or musashi first?" then the final decision will be depended on the votes we made.

**Conquistador** · 07-12-2001, 14:56

Hmm...it looks like my post was gone...hmm..let me say that again.

hey Maltz, I was enjoying your entire story series, especially impressed by the Imagawa's one. however, for the line i made, i felt you misunderstood my meaning, and also i mispresented it.
What I mean is, you may consider giving the story some interactivity.
Let say there's a decision question after each chapter, like " should we take shinano from the ronins, attack imagawa base first, do both of them or none of them?" or " should we strengthen our defense than take the risk to challenge oda right away",
so we can vote to make the final decision.

**radan** · 07-12-2001, 17:17

Maltz, you're very lucky on your Hojo
campaign since Takeda went Ronin.
In my present hojo campaign, he was very active until the sixth year before I got him.
He is constantly invading Mushasi (probably
he gave up his lands on Mori's area and
concentrated on me.

The peasant revolts on conquered lands
are sometimes annoying if they revolted
against you

I got one in Etchu, which
was a large revolt with some Warrior monks.
I guess I have to create hoards of shinobis
instead of yari ashigarus.

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A member of CLAN..what no CLAN??

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**Maltz** · 07-12-2001, 17:20

Conquistador, sorry about the misunderstanding!

Yes your idea is very good, but to tell the truth I am usually impatient enough to play the game about 2 or 3 chapters ahead! So by the time you see chapter 3, I've probably played to chapter 5, and so on

But I should be able to hold myself from doing that.

Maybe we can set up a rule of voting - what is the minimum valid vote for a decision, how long is the voting period, etc. However, I am a little afraid I might receive no vote, if the story becomes truly boring.

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**Maltz** · 07-12-2001, 17:25

Quote Originally posted by radan:
Maltz, you're very lucky on your Hojo
campaign since Takeda went Ronin.
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Yes Radan, the central factor about SP no save-load is luck!

I was afraid Miyoshi Tadayoshi might be gone this way, too.

**Conquistador** · 07-12-2001, 18:39

Maltz, I'm sure there's a lot of people who check your story almost every day. If it's going to be a voting system, you can make a link to a voting poll website. Talk to the org and they'll create another post, Maltz's Interactive War Story.

If you are still afraid of having voting problem, then set the time limit of a decision to 24 hours, or 36; so it wouldn't cause too much problem for the flow of the story.

**Maltz** · 07-13-2001, 03:23

Yeah what Conquistador suggests sounds pretty feasible and fun.

Now maybe we need to figure out what is to be voted.

I guess it can go as simple as "What should we do in the coming year":
we can simply hold the vote once per year, just like real samurai clans.
Then everybody creates/supports an opinion on the voting website.

If there are significant changes in the game that requires an emergency "meeting",
then I might just stop the chapter there.

Once a question is out, I will announce it here (in this very thread):
"The vote for 1536 is out, please go check it out and the vote closes at GMT xx:xx July xx"
The default voting time will be 24 hours.

Does Conquistador or anybody has a good suggestion of voting site?

Hopefully we can get some non-anonymous voting sites to avoid flooding of repetitive
joking opinions. (must be the spies from Oda!)

I guess we can start it as soon as the voting website is settled.

I will also now make the information on the meeting page even more detailed,
who has how many army at where... etc.

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**Maltz** · 07-13-2001, 04:09

Just 2 points to add:

1. Instead of stuffing 100 lines of details onto a king-size screenshot, I will just upload the save game file (will be a link on the title page). The size is about 1 MB - once you download it and put it in the right place, you can see all the info in STW. Yet as the campaign is no save-load in nature, we hope we can contribute our opinions without simulating the strategy on STW using the save game file.

2. To make the voting simple, every valid opinion should be signed with a forum name, such as:

Vote [ ] [Maltz] I think we just sleep and do nothing this year.
Vote [ ] [Conquistador] I think we should attack Shimazu's Bungo and advance further south if possible.

So you also knows whose opinion you are supporting.

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Extra stuff on the vote:

The opnion that gets the most vote will be carried out! It is as simple as that

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**shokaku76** · 07-13-2001, 04:15

Hmmmm.... voting on the next phase of action... Count me out, cause I'd probably vote for all-out assault on heavily fortified Shinano with Ashi army. Martz's story'd probably end up as Shimazu...

Seriously though, I think that is a cool idea. We would become the advisor to the Lord Hojo. ALthought that probably is historically incorrect, I mean, shoot it was a Dictatorship, not democracy.