Takeda Campaign

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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.

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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.

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Winter 1538
947 Koku, we had a normal season
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I start building a tea house in Kai, so I can soon spy on the enemy clans without them noticing it and meanwhile reducing the loyalty there.
I will attack Mikawa next turn, I now moved my last attacking troops to Totomi.
I have money now, but I'll spend it only in the east, where my most important regions are.
I train 60 sam. archers in Kai, to defend Kai if necessary while my troops attack Mikawa.

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Spring 1538
397 Koku(!)
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YEAH! I got shingen now, and so I got the best general of japan at this moment. He's an archer, and will stay in Kai to beat any foolish Uesugi army that dares attacking me. He already won 32 battles, but I'll try to improve that much more. (maybe to 64?)

I train 60 yari cav. in Kai, cav are doing well in this campaign, so I just train some more.
I set the taxes up to 100%, loyalty is improving in Totomi. (and Suruga)

My assault on the Oda clan in Mikawa:

My hamamoto, h4, 11 heavy cav, three star(***)
180 cav archers, h1
60 yari ashi's h1.

Oda just changed his army in Mikawa, I don't know what it's like now, so it'll be hard. I can see it are 206 men and the general is 1-star(*).

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Sorry people, but I don't have the time to post more on the campaign today.
The next seasons include four battles(fun-to-read! )and are going to take a lot of time. I think friday in the after noon I'll post that year, and I think I can play and post another year then too.

enjoy!

EDIT: Toga, I do have time for some practice, C U at MSN!

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hello people,

I have an awful lot of time today, so I expect to post another 2 years, maybe I'll include sreenies of the campaign map, too.

enjoy it!

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Summer 1538
22 Koku :(
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The tea house is now ready in Kai, I can now train Shinobi's.
As you knew, I attacked the Oda in Mikawa:

**********Attack on Mikawa**************

It's 251 from me to 161 from the Oda, I attack with good weather, because I have so many archers.
I don't know if Mikawa is really going to increase my amount of Koku, but it's at least a start, plus: I can make the Oda less powerful by defeating him here.

Mikawa has a river, I'm afraid it is going to be hard. When the battle started, his troops were right behind the river, so I sent my cav. archers right away to shoot them before they would take a better position. I came to late to hit anyone, but I saw that his army existed from 60 ashi's and 101 yari sams. that included his general. Because he had no archers, it was going to be easy, you'll see later what tactiks I used.

I managed to get 120 cav. archers in position to fire at anyone of his soldiers who put one step further to the bridge. I put my ashi's right behind the river, so if they would cross, I would be able to stop them from attacking my cav. archers. Then I started sending my daimyo across the river, and his troops of course charged in. Then I quickly withdrew them behind the river, and shot at him with my archers. He didn't know what to do and going on like this I shot many of his men. I just kept doing this, and in a while, my archers had no ammunition left, but he had only 16 yari sams left. At the moment I noticed I had no ammunition left, I suddenly sent my cav. archers over the river. His yari's immediately fled and I killed all of them without losing a man.

I won: killed 152(9 ashi's had escaped by fleeing from the battlefield), lost 0.
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*************The defence of totomi***************

Imagawa attacked me in totomi, with all his troops he had left in shinano, 106 men. I have only 60 archers, and I don't think I wil win, because totomi is so hard to defend. At the time he attacked, I only had a port in totomi, and it doesn't pay off much with every season either. While he left shinano alone, it would certainly be taken over by the rebels, and Shinano has good cav. and a payoff every season lots higher than totomi, so I don't understand why he attacked me, but it's important to win this one. If I lose, I lose contact between Mikawa(my daimyo!) and Suruga, and my Daimyo could get killed by the Oda, if they attack.

I position my archers on one of the only 'hills' mikawa has, but I'm not quite confident I will win. His army existed out of very few yari sams, few ashi's, but a lot of archers. I fired at his ashi', and some later at his archers. I shot only about 5 of his men, and he outnumbered me in the final charge. His ashi's are faster, so hit-and-run isn't possible either. I decided just to rush down the hill when he started climbing it. It went well, but not good enough to kill so much men. In the end, his fast ashi's killed much of my routing troops.

I lost: killed 28, lost 43. A bad result, and a very bad moment in the campaign.
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I destroy everything in Mikawa to keep Oda from having it in case they conquer Mikawa back. I'll use the money to train more sams, Totomi has proven that I don't have enough.
I set the taxes to 75% again, I am going to attack Totomi from Mikawa, and I don't want the Oda to be reinforced by loyalistic rebels.
I train 60 yari ashi's in Kai, and I start buiding a famous tea house there.