Total War: Shogun

[bredy087]

The AI is a lot better too. Definitely a chess match, emptied my town to attack theirs. Their army popped out of the forest, ambushed me and took my town next turn. Tricky bastards.

[natty]

The AI is a lot better too. Definitely a chess match, emptied my town to attack theirs. Their army popped out of the forest, ambushed me and took my town next turn. Tricky bastards.

Yeah I started chasing down a rebel army that was in the forest, away from the road. They strung me along for a few turns then attacked my castle when I was too far away to do anything about it. I was pleasantly surprised and pissed at the same time. The siege AI is still horrid when attacking though. They seem to just randomly throw units at you a couple at a time. Defending castles has been trivial.

[bredy087]

If you have 4 archers they can defend anything thats thrown at them. Inflict 50% casualties before their army hits the walls. Love how the units fall off the wall when killed.

Edit: Well at least in the early stages. Once soldiers start getting upgrades Ashigaru Archers don't do as much damage.

[bredy087]

What do you guys do about food riots causing rebellion. About halfway through my campaign I always end up having to fight off several rebellions in several provinces. I try to limit castle building and research farming asap but you gotta have some bushido arts or get baby stomped by other armies.

[PanthersFanNY]

I picked this up last week and got a chance to play a couple hours over the weekend. It's good so far but I'm not far into a campaign at all yet.

Bredy087, I believe markets also consume food supply, so careful when building those.

[bredy087]

Thats probably it.

[natty]

Yeah food supply is a bitch. I always start a campaign very defensively, building up roads/trading/money in general. I started a Chosokabe campaign and took the island with 5 provinces and just started racking in the money. Now I have over 100K and am about to start raping some bitches. The money goes quick though, my Date campaign fell apart once the shogun got threatened by me.

[PanthersFanNY]

I'm about 12 years or so into a Takeda campaign. I've pretty much been in some sort of war for most of that time aside from probably 3-4 years in the middle. I've taken 8 provinces and have good allies to my east/south east and west so I've been able to avoid a 2 front war. Currently at war with the Hattori and the clan right next to them (forgot the name). My income is only about 2.4k/turn right now so I plan on building that up after my conquests against the Hattori and their ally.

Fun game so far I'm glad I bought it. Next campaign I'm going to up the difficulty and play as either the Chosokabe or the Mori.

[robtrox0]

Yeah love the game, I just run out of time too quick before getting the hero units.