MP Campaign: Alliances?

[Toranaga_Sama]

Hmmm...thinking on the Alliance issue...I don't think its been discussed...but Damiyos need a TREASURY!!!

What do you think might induce an Alliance? You can't bribe or extract Koku; you can't trade or demand land/provinces, so what?

The only thing I can think of at the moment (its late), for example, take Shamuza (sp?) he'd probably be happy to ally with Oda or Takeda or Ugeshi maybe.

An agreement could be made to split Imagawa's lands between say Shamuza and Oda making "joint" attacks upon Imagawa, overwhelming him on two fronts and draining his resources. Result, player eliminated and both Shamuza and Oda are strengthed and at a cheaper cost than if they had gone it alone. Also, quicker.

Another example, Takeda and Ugeshi could do the same except against Hojo. They could jointly attack Shimosa (sp?) and Musashi (sp?). Hmmm....presuming they'd both be successful, which one got the better deal? Having Musashi makes it a lot easier to take Hitachi!

Here's the fun part: One or the other makes the agreement and then doesn't attack!! He sits back and watches the "fool" get chewed up in a BRIDGE battle; then sweeps in and mops up!!! Ahhhhhhhhh...this is gonna be great.

Orrr, He doesn't sweep in at all...he instead chooses to lord it over the two weakened damiyos and extract tribute or demands them to become his vassals (too bad the AI can't handle it).

Hey, Wigwam86, and you thought the AI was a backstabber.

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[I think I'll go to bed now.]

[Hosakawa Tito]

Toranaga-Sama,that's sneaky and dispicable have you no honor I LOVE IT!Hope your listening CA/DT/EA.
Tito

[Naughty_Plumber]

Oh god. Hate to be with you.


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HnT

[wigwam86]

is that u Yabusama???

it is possible that u will be able to make tributes/pay other pple koku. it would add a needed twist to the game. i wish you could demand koku in SP... it would make it more realistic. but 4 MP it would be fun to make a puppet daimyo that you could tell them, "Attack Hojo or i'll attack you." or, "Pay me 1000 koku and i'll defend bla bla province." or "Pay me 2000 koku or DIE!!!!"

[solypsist]

of course without a patch ausing all those exclamation marks (the "!!!!!" for those grammatically-challenged) just might make your system crash.

[Toranaga_Sama]

>>it is possible that u will be able to make tributes/pay other pple koku. it would add a needed twist to the game. i wish you could demand koku in SP... it would make it more realistic. but 4 MP it would be fun to make a puppet daimyo that you could tell them, "Attack Hojo or i'll attack you." or, "Pay me 1000 koku and i'll defend bla bla province." or "Pay me 2000 koku or DIE!!!!"

[Toranaga_Sama]

>>is that u Yabusama???

[Toranaga_Sama]

>>Orrr, He doesn't sweep in at all...he instead chooses to lord it over the two weakened damiyos and extract tribute or demands them to become his vassals (too bad the AI can't handle it).

[Vanya]

Maybe they could add marriage too... send your son to marry, say, the Hojo daughter, and when the old man dies, you get his empire because your l'ill one has tied the know with the Hojo son! A way to kinda take over other lands without conquest... and add a little more intrigue...

But if she leaves, 'she takes half'! Let the little princesses run around with other warlords, make the son jealous and call off the wedding and attack her old man... making Hojo an enemy again!