Takeda Campaign

**Drisos** · 05-08-2005, 11:12

Summer 1536
32 Koku
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I was right, the Imagawa attacked Totomi from Shinano. The Imagawa brought a big army and his daimyo, so I could totally destoy the Imagawa clan in this battle, but he outnumbered me, and it was going to be hard.

*************Defence of totomi*************
My daimyo, Nobutora, leads the defence. He's 3***.
It's 229 of me vs. 371 of the Imagawa.
My army: 98 yari cav. h2, 60 archers h2 and 60 ashi's h1.
He attacked with light rain, which wasn't smart, he had lots of archers.

I position my army(actually only my archers) at a tiny hill in the middle of totomi. My ashi's are to the left of my archers, and can attack troops from behind if they go for my archers. 60 yari cav are to the right, and will try to attack from behind or attack his archers. My daimyo and 38 yari cav. will do the same on the left of my archers.

After a long wait, I see his army coming, lots of archers, and 60 yari sam. His ashi's are far behind. When he comes in range, I shoot at his yari's, who are coming right to my archers. I go to their flank with my ashi's, but they decide to leave the archers and go for my ashi's. Meanwhile, his daimyo is to my right flank, so I send my 38 yari cav to stop them. My 60 yari cav. charge in at his archers and kill many, no enemy yari's around, there stuck on the left side. With my daimyo, I attack the yari unit from behind, but too late, my ashi's flee and his yari's face my hamamoto now. Then I see the solution, I charge in from behind with my archers, who were still firing at his archers. At the right flank, there was a big chaos. My yari cav. was fighting against enemy archers and his hamamoto. It went pretty well, but his hamamoto was very strong and didn't lose many men. On the left, his yari's are fleeing(what's left of them is fleeing), and my ashi's are back too, but now his ashi's arrived too and attacked mine. Attacked by my hamamoto, my ashi's and my archers, they soon flee. At that moment all his archers flee too. His daimyo keeps fighting for a while, but then he flees too, he escapes.

I won: killed 322, lost 118, I've earned lots of honour with this battle.
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Imagawa is still alive, but has only Hida and shinano now, and his army isn't bigger than 240 in total. Imagawa is no threat anymore, and Oda's army in Mikawa isn't too big either. Hojo's army is big, but I'm his only ally, and he's in war with uesugi, so he won't attack me.
I've got a new heir this turn, in 16 years he'll be a general.
In the west I send Suo and Aki troops into Iwami, R&R will give up, he has only about 60 men. I send 60 archers from Aki to totomi, I have ports in both.
My emissary is in Shinano, I think I am going to attack that one too.

**Drisos** · 05-08-2005, 11:14

Autumn 1536
32 Koku, not enough
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I've got Iwami now too and can abandon Suo. That's good, because Shimazu are in Buzen and I might get in war with him. I don't know yet.

I send my Daimyo back to Kai.

Not much happened this turn . . .

**Drisos** · 05-08-2005, 11:19

Winter 1537
1087 Koku- it was a normal season
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Imagawa sent me an emissary, but I refuse his offer. I want to qonquer Shinano.
The swordsmith in Kai is finished, so my men are even better now.
I start building a famous archer dojo in Kai.
I train archer cav. in Kai, they did great in the attack on totomi, I want to use them against Shinano too.
I train 60 archers in Aki, for in Nagano, so Shimazu doesn't attack me.
I checked the alliances menu: Hojo and Takeda vs. Oda, Imagawa, Uesugi and Shimazu. Not so good, but there all to weak to hurt me.
I set my taxes to 90%, loyalty is going fine.

**Drisos** · 05-08-2005, 11:21

Spring 1537
12 Koku (!)
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I don't have money again, so I need a few more good regions. I decide to attack the small Oda army in Mikawa. I send my emissary there and start moving troops from Kai to totomi.

Shingen will come next turn I think, but I'm not training anything. . .

not much happened . . .

**Drisos** · 05-11-2005, 15:48

Hello folks,

Sorry I'm so late with the new reports, but here are 2 more years:

enjoy!

**Drisos** · 05-11-2005, 15:56

Summer 1537
12 koku
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My famous archers dojo is now ready in Kai, Kai is now a pretty good training region.
I am preparing the attack on Mikawa, I think I'll use especially cav. archers, because he only has Yari units there.
Shinghen in now 16 years old, but I didn't train a unit this turn, so he's not a general yet.
The west is pretty quiet, Shimazu isn't doing anything, and I and the rebels don't either, I won't train anything there unless they get stronger or I have too much money.
In the East Uesugi and Hojo are still training men. Their armies are now way bigger than mine in Kai, so I don't hope they attack me.

**Drisos** · 05-11-2005, 16:02

Spring 1537
12 Koku
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When I get more money again, I'll train men in Kai. This is because Imagawa is still there in Shinano and Oda might have large armies in Owari and Mino, so it will be hard defending the former Imagawa regions.
My planning is first to conquer Mikawa, then improve loyalty and increase my armies, and then attack Shinano.
The Hojo still haven't attacked Musashi, while Uesugi is only getting stronger this way, because he can expand to the east.
In the west there's still no danger, the R&R don't plan to attack me anymore, I think.