Takeda Campaign

[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.

[viermaaldomi]

I believe it is called a tranquil garden
BTW, I forgot to say it's good to see your technical problems are solved.
Nice reports of your campaign too.

[Drisos]

Nice reports of your campaign too.

Thank you!

Most people stopped reporting after a few years, but after a few years, it all gets more complicated and difficult, and more intresting, so I intend to go on for a while.

Thanks for the translation too, those words are not in a dictionary.

[Drisos]

Summer 1532
still 90 Koku
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The Yari's dojo in Aki is finished, so I can get expanding in the west.
Izu's loyalty has improved, but my Koku didn't: taxes to 110%.
There is still no war between two clans, everybody is just trying to steal regioins from the rebels.
I send my emissary to Suruga to check Imagawa's army, but conquering suruga wouldn't be of a to great use. (Suruga's income < 200 koku.)
Sagami would be great to conquer, Hojo is even building improved lands there.

[Drisos]

Autumn 1532
90 koku
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The shimazu sent an emissary, I now have 4 allies.
I checked the map, Shimazu and I are still the only ones that have conquered a R&R region, but all the armies are rapidly growing.
My emissary is now in Suruga, next turn, I can check out his army.

I still don't know who to attack in the east, I hope hojo is so foolish to attack me or uesugi.

[Drisos]

Winter 1533
Had a good season: 1596 Koku
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The big castle in Kai is ready, but I'm not gonna' spend money on a new building yet again.
I train 60 ashi's in Aki, I want to attack the rebels there next turn.
Imagawa's army is 50% archers, a good prey for yari cav. but his daimyo is 4star and all his men have high honour, so his army is pretty good.

I start building a mine in Kai.
I train 60 sam. archers in Kai.
My emissary now goes to shinano, to check again what the rebels have, I might want to attack Shinano.

Forgot something again, my heirs:

Takeda Shingen(!!!!!!) 11 years
takeda nobushige 4 years.