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    Mediæval Auctoriso Member Member TheSilverKnight's Avatar
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    Hey all, I just reinstalled STW (after only playing it a few times since I bought it a few years ago), and I'm curious...what year does the game end? I'm confused, and I wish to know how long I have until the game ends. (I'm currently in 1630, by the way, allied with the Dutch traders, at war with Hojo, Takeda, Mori, and Shimazu)
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    No ending date...eventually all your heirs will die and you will lose.

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    So there's no year that the game ends...at all??
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    Nope. Generally you just finish by conquering all the provinces...after all the point of the game is that you are supposed to unite Japan and become shogun...different from Medieval on this aspect.

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    K...so I could still be fighting to unify Japan in Spring 2004?!
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheSilverKnight
    Hey all, I just reinstalled STW (after only playing it a few times since I bought it a few years ago), and I'm curious...what year does the game end? I'm confused, and I wish to know how long I have until the game ends. (I'm currently in 1630, by the way, allied with the Dutch traders, at war with Hojo, Takeda, Mori, and Shimazu)
    Hi SK,

    sounds like you're playing as the Oda clan?

    In terms of campaigns I've started, they're the one I've chosen the most times. I'd like to say that it's "for the challenge" but really it's a side effect of them also being the ones I've ended up abandoning as a hopeless cause the most times too (Hojo horde on one front, Mori/Shimazu tying up troops at the other, not enough income to cope with either, let alone both).

    Anyway, you've asked a question which I've often wondered about myself, so it's encouraging to note that you've got as far as 1630 without being rudely cut off by some hitherto unstated time limit.

    To date, I have only managed to take a campaign to completetion at the 'easy' level and, in their case, it was all over by the mid 1570s. I do recall one taking a lot longer (probably Shimazu, who lack income at first and grow very slowly) and getting nervous as the date crept past 1600 but I don't think it went much beyond 1605. When the opposition was down to its last province, I was half-tempted to just keep the clock ticking, to search for this supposed cutoff but then didn't bother. Couldn't wait for that one last battle...

    EYG

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