Great advice here, particularly Ii Naomasa’s to-do list.

One more thing you might want to consider: As the game drags out, and your armies are marching across Japan, you will eventually run into a horde camping in a bridge province. At this point you have to assume that you just may lose the battle. This is when you are going to want to plan for _two_ battles instead of just one. This requires having two armies in the same province that you are attacking from. The first army will be mostly infantry (YA, YS and WM if you got ‘em) with a mediocre Taisho. His job is to inflict as many casualties on the enemy as possible, while slugging it out over the bridge in a springtime battle (pray for rain). Attack, attack, attack. Your units will rout back across the bridge, but should regroup on your side. Send them back into the meat grinder once you’re out of fresh units. This is basically a throwaway force. The main army, led by one of your best generals, is a combined arms force. This is the second attack in the following summer.

Another part of this strategy is to surround the bridge province before attacking (if possible). This cuts off reinforcements to the province, and often results in the death of the enemy Daiymo, who tends to camp in such provinces.

Good luck, and high honor to all!


[This message has been edited by Jackson (edited 01-09-2001).]