Early TW days

[Cha]

Including the things mentioned before, STW was the first of its kind. Plus I liked the foggy atmosphere and the music. Another thing was that it was about a culture that I wasn't very familiar with, so it was a very new thing for me.

Warlord Edition or Mongol Invasion would've been better if the Mongol side had more variety of army units. The Chinese and Korean military (or maybe most of them) really didn't dress like they did in the game. The Korean uniforms in the game were actually Mongol uniforms.

[Tamur]

This discussion of terrain and Shinano makes me think of yet another general area: connection with the landscape.

At the time I was playing, I was occasionally annoyed with the two-landscapes-per-province phenomenon (if there was a river). However, with discussions like this and hindsight being what it is, that is yet another interesting connection to the game.

I don't think anyone can develop a love for dynamically generated landscape unless the dynamics create exactly the same place reliably. Otherwise we can't all mention the defensible ridge to the left, or the hidden plateau, at specific spots, since each map grid will be slightly or wildly different.

edit: plus, this thread made me dig out my Shogun disk case and realise I'm missing disk 1! Ack, time to hit Amazon.