huh,thats strange,I can get the event to happen within 5 years.I almost always manage to kill a daiymo in battle by then.When I was Takeda,I killed the Hojo Daiymo before the third year was out.He had got seperated from his routing army and was completely surrounded by YS and YC.Hehehe,it still took 5 min to kill him,but killing a daiymo almost always gives me the event.Otherwise,just autocalc battles when you can,that can give you the event quickly as well.Like,you got the enemy trapped in his castle,when his guys are down to bout 50,attack the castle.Autocalc the battle though.

I'd debate more on the shimazus posistion for sucess,but I don't have the hard info to make a case.I'll get back to that though.

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"I maintain none the less that Yin-Tang Dualism can bo overcome.With sufficent enlightment,we can give substance to any distinction:Mind without body,north without south,pleasure without pain.Renember,enlightment is a function of will power,not of physical strength."-Shang-ji Yang,essays on mind and matter.