Takeda Campaign

[Drisos]

Spring 1531
159 Koku left
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The Uesugi lord has accepted my alliance, I send my emissary to Shinano to spy and see if I should attack it.
Hojo has trained men again and has a pretty large army now, he has become a real thread. I hope he get's in war with Uesugi, when he's weakened once, he can forget ever possessing sagami again.
The Imagawa lord asked me for an alliance, and I accepted it. It can never hurt to have friends, and I want to concentrate on Shinano and Sagami now.
I train 60 ashi's in Kai again, hehe, don't have money left after that.
I looked at the map when I was in the throneroom, I'm the only one who has conquered a region already, going well. :)

I haven't played further, I will do now, C yall later!

[Thoros of Myr]

Looks like your off to a good start.

I dusted off my STW and started a campaign too.

[Drisos]

Nice to hear I got someone to playing STW again!

I've played another year, here it comes:

[Drisos]

Summer 1531
59 Koku left
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The mine in Aki is finished now, it'll start paying off in two seasons.
I decide to attack the rebels in Bingo, which are 60 men. I attack with 60 cav. archers and 60 yari sam, both honour 1.

I don't have money for new units or buildings.
I don't know who I will attack in the east, my heart sais: Hojo, but if I take a more strategic look, I should attack the Imagawa. I decide to send my emissary to the hojo to spy on them. If their men aren't too strong, Sagami will be my first great target.

I forgot to tell about my Daimyo earlier, it is Takeda Nobutora, 3 star, 5 wins, 0 losses.
The ashi's I trained earlier go to Izu, and the Izu army goes to Kai, because Kai is far more important.

[Drisos]

Autumn 1531
Still 59 Koku
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*************attack on bingo*************

120 vs. 60
Takeda vs. R&R
Bingo - No rain

Bingo has two great forests on both sides of the map, so I alreay know in which he is. My cav. archers are in front of my yari's, and when I get close, I see his men are 60 ahi's, simple enemy. When he sees my army, he sudden decides to run away, of course I let my cav. chase, but they weren't fast enough.
I won: 0 - 0.
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I still don't have money for anything.
I have 2 regions in the west now, but only 180 men, while I can see now that the rebels have way more men, it's gonna' be hard to maintain those two regions. I got two bad messages this season, Uesugi is the richest clan, and Hojo has built a big castle. In the east, army's are growing, but noone is fighting, I still don't know what to do there.

[Drisos]

Winter 1532
1040 Koku, we had a normal season
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Wow, I'm being attacked in Aki, it's 120 Rebels vs. my 60 cav. archers (H1 because of a 2star general)
**************Defence of Aki*****************

They attack with no rain, I'm relieved, now my 'hit-and-run' tactik will be effective. I see not much mountains to position my troops, but I don't know his army, so I do want a hill at least. I set my cav. at a hill at the border, which isn't very good, because I cannot run when he has Yari sam charging in. I start the battle, after long waiting, I see he has 60 ashi's and 60 archers.
His units aren't being used very strategic, he doesn't spread them out and the ashi's are walking between the archers. In this circumstances, my archers kill a lot of them, about 15 ashi's and 10 archers go down. I decide not to run, but to charge the ashi's(who mostly flee soon) and when his ashi's flee, his archers will be an easy prey for my cav. His ashi's seem to have high honour and kill many more of my men than I expected, but my tactik did work, they fled. Because I was so close to the border, I had several minutes to chase them, and I killed very much men of him, including his general.

I win: 116 killed, 32 lost. My men gained +1 honour, he only got 4 ashi's left.
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The hojo emissary comes to me, and I make an alliance with him too, because I still don't know who're gonna' be my enemies in the east.
The rebels outnumber me in an assault on Bingo, and I decide not to defend, but to retreat to Aki, so I can easily defend Aki from them. In the throneroom, I see the Shimazu have conquered one region now too, but they(and I) are the only ones.
Yeah, I got Koku again:
A yari dojo in Aki.
A big castle in Kai.
60 Yari sam in Kai.

I forgot my emissary for a while, I now send it into Sagami, next turn I'll see what Hojo has.

[Drisos]

spring 1532
90 Koku left
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The rebel armies in Iwami, Suo and Bingo aren't very big, once I complete the dojo in Aki I'll conquer the regions soon. Aki has a good army, so I will easily obtain that region til the dojo is finished. Back to the east:

I don't have money left again.
In Izu are now 120 ashi's, in Kai I have a pretty good army.
Hojo has:
archer dojo
spear dojo
Golden palace(!)
tranquil garden

His army is about: 240 ashi's, 120 sam archers, A daimyo and about 180 units of yari sam.
^^^^^
I'm not exactly sure, but it was almost this, not too strong, but not so weak either.