Oh, about the assassin thing, sorry about that. I'm just kidding, I thought every Daimyo of the age used assassins.

Of course I know Nobunaga is the first to use guns "effectively" though the Shimazu clan used them first in some battle I couldn't remember the name. How else could he conquer so much in his lifetime?

So, Kenshin is like a vassal of the Uesuki clan similar to Ieyasu to the Imagawa and the Oda, except they're a little more cooperative that once the poor. Uesuki's got killed Kenshin assume leadership, right?

Pyrrhus was a great general, yes. After the Roman showdown he left Tarentum to Sicily where he busted Carthaginian asses until the Greeks on the island became suspicious and stopped supporting him. That's when he made his famous quote predicting the Punic Wars. After he got back to Epirus he built a new army and fought against Antigonus II (sp?) and drove Antigonus out of Macedon, he headed south for Greece where Antigonus still hold some territories but, as you know, after some successes the poor lad got himself killed at Argos. His youth, however, was spent being hostages to several men until once he really assumes power in Epirus he still faced crisis after crisis (Like Demetrius's arrival in Macedon, or Demetrius's defeat which means Pyrrhus had to become a hostage of Ptolemy Soter.) At last after Ptolemy Soter sent Pyrrhus back to Greece as an "agent" to ensure Egypt's influences in the bloody affairs of the age could Pyrrhus realized his ambitions.

So sad about this would-be great general. Oh! And he was known as "the eagle."