Chapter 5. Evasive Invasion



Goemon: "Chisato, Lord Yasunaga just got another baby girl."
Chisato: "But I am on a beach in Kyushu..."
Goemon: "You can always prepare a gift and ask someone to bring it back."
Chisato: "Yeah. I heard that the Chinese silk is being traded in Hizen. If I can get silk baby clothes..."
Goemon: "I like your taste!"

Note: In this campaign I tried to find out the mechanics of baby makings in the game. Here are the things I found:

1. Babies are born randomly at the beginning of a season. If we can generate a new random seed (such as by loading a new game save), there is a chance of having a baby born in the next season.

2. Babies cannot be born at the beginning of the game for a number of turns. In this game I could not get a baby until turn 7. I wonder whether this is related to the number of territories and number of existing generals.

3. Subsequent babies cannot be born within less than a year.

4. In this campaign, the most (re)productive Hattori Yasunaga I could achieve was to have a new baby on Turn 7, 11, 15, and 19, four autumns in a row. I did not really need so many sons and daughters - just to see what's possible.

Note: Manually fighting a battle generates a new random seed even if you do not load a game - I guess the game is still "loaded" at the end of the battle.