Finally a morale occurance I LIKE!!!

[BSM_Skkzarg]

There I was, as Hojo - with a treaty with Takeda and Imagawa on the run. Started building up my defense in Shinano (as the AI thinks that Shinano is the MUST HAVE province - to which I agree LOL) and send my best general there. Rank 4 heir commanding Yari Sams... Oda decides to invade - roughly even numbers. No contest I think - and proceed to thrash the Oda taisho about the head and neck. Battle ends and I recieve - to my horror - a note from Takeda saying our alliance is over - he has chosen Oda over me. My problem - he has a massive army just south of me - commanded by a Level 6 (W-33, L-0)general! Sure enough, Takeda hits me ASAP. Now I am outnumbered 2:1, not counting the extra 1500 men Oda sent to help - and they all get a bonus of 3 honor points cuz of the tiasho!

Battle begins and I am sweating - I have great position but my worry is fatigue and those darned reinforcements... Then I notice something - that Level 6 general is leading a half strength yari Ashigaru unit! I can't believe it! It cost me a 2/3 of my maxed out H4 Yari Cav - but I was able to run the tiasho thru! Suddenly - not even counting the initial penalty to morale for losing the general - all the troops I was facing lost 3 honor points in the piercing of one torso! While I still had alot of men to fight off - they really DID take a LARGE hit due to that loss. Those that fought were very few - and they did not fight long. Even Oda seem to have lost the desire for combat - as in the end the result was a loss of 66 men of mine - and 2348 of the allied invaders. Never before have I seen the loss of a general (or diamyo for that matter) create such difference. That is more like it! Now - if it only happened when the general was Honor 2!!! LOL.


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BSM_Skkzarg
"A mind is a terrible thing to taste."

[kagemushashingen]

Gad, it must have given you an adrenalin rush! Shinano has always been my favourite province, especially when it comes to defence. I usually have 5 archers and a couple of monks hidden in the jungles, plus some yari cavalry and ashigaru/samurai in the middle. If you use the terrain to your benefit, your archers can simply wreak havoc on the troops below, even when your are outnumbered.

I encountered the same situation (re morale) as yours while playing yesteday. I rushed my daimyo (mori motonari) across the bridge because the enemy cavalry archers refused to budge within range of my samurai archers...He probably hacked 15 of 'em down before I lead him to the edge of the river. The fools tried to follow him (but at this time they' d alreadyt stopped firing) and came within range of my own archers. All in all, 10 died (his hotomachis). He was a level 6 general - Can't believed he made the river crossing by himself! And never once did he waver....what a thrill..

Oh yeah..the computer is pretty smart when it comes to choosing/breaking alliances with you. They will choose whatever that is beneficial to them (kudos to the AI for making it more human). Once I declared war on the shimazu (while playing mori)..the shimazu sent me a message saying they'd broken their alliance with the IMAGAWA...and helped me attack their provinces. Ain't that a shot in the arm?

I repaid them by invading their provinces couple of seasons later..hehe

[kagemushashingen]

Oops typo. read, 'Once I dclared war on the Imagawa'