There is a madness in his method

**Adam99** · 01-26-2009, 20:43

I think its genius! Its certainly different to the usual abandon either the east or the west strategies. Very risky though, will leave a massive defensive line and will probably need a few good sized garrisons, but if you manage it it will leave Mori and Oda in a mess.

**Sasaki Kojiro** · 01-26-2009, 22:08

Btw, does anyone remember the key you hit to zoom out on the campaign map? I remember it being page down and page up but they don't seem to work...

Sorry about the large image size of the last two posts, I'd forgotten that I could convert the tga's to jpeg. Paint shop pro lets you do it in batch. I'm on day 1522 of 30 day trial

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The Mori will surely sally forth from the castle bring in more troops for support. I bolster Mimasaka as much as I can and send a few dozen men to bizen to raize it to the ground if they abandon it.

Mori doesn't even attempt to rescue the troops in Mimasaka. 200 die in the seige. I invade Harima and they give it up without a fight. The mine is still there, nice! I forgot that invaders don't autopillage mines. I can see the Mori has many more troops than I thought though, doubtless they will attack Harima.

Or perhaps they'll invade bitchu instead

I move half the harima army back to Mimasaka in readiness to attack bitchu. Send raiders to hizen again.

Gah! Shimazu has invade suo with a yari samurai and two ashigaru. Killed many but didn't handle the battle that well. Thought I could rout the yari sam taisho, should perhaps have drawn back and attacked the ashigaru. Tea house destroyed but they will not hold the province.

mmph. Shameful. I optimistically defend Bingo hoping for some ashigaru units. But they are all samurai. Mori's hatomato unit catches the yari samurai in the woods and ties both of them up. Things are not going to well.

The large castle is complete in Aki. It must be defended, the troops sent from back east will help. Suo must be retaken as well and the tea house rebuilt. The shinobi have demonstrated their usefulness with a loyalist revolt in bitchu. My raid on bizen was forced to withdraw when they moved troops in.

Hah, another loyalist revolt! My army in bitchu is ready to strike. Suo has been retaken.

I drive Mori out of bingo. My shinobi cause a revolt in hoki. Things are looking good, he does not have the manpower to strike at any of my provinces and he has to be hurting for money.

They finally invade harima. Archers prove their worth yet again. Mori is certainly hurting for men now...

The rebels have taken hoki and inaba and my shinobi are taking up position in other provinces. I'm positioning my best generals in places of need. My finances are in excellent shape.

Perfect. A failed invasion of bitchu.

Shingen! As well as naginata cavalry. A potent combination. Now the question is, do I continue to push past Harima to yamashiro, or do I build up an army with Shingen and take on Shinano?

**Sasaki Kojiro** · 01-26-2009, 22:12

Originally Posted by patdj

I'm curious how the non-crusader version works out. Nicely described, good to follow, but: is anything happening near the Kantô?

So far nothing happening in that region. Built the mine complex asap. Now I have 2000 koku a year from mines.

Originally Posted by Adam99

I think its genius! Its certainly different to the usual abandon either the east or the west strategies. Very risky though, will leave a massive defensive line and will probably need a few good sized garrisons, but if you manage it it will leave Mori and Oda in a mess.

The shinobi are turning out to be my greatest ally. With the rebellions they caused plus a couple key defenses the western portion is safe. The east will be trickier since those clans are much richer than the mori...