I kinda feel bad for him.
>>344869726
What mods are you using?
>>344869868
None, why?
>>344870053
Is it some expansion for Shogun 2?
The timeline seems at least a hundred years off.
>>344870230
It's the Fall of the Samurai expansion.
>>344870230
autist
>>344870230
It's an expansion, Fall of the Samurai think it's called.
AHMSTRUNG GANS
>>344870404
Just got them. Bringing 3 sets to my main stack giving these hand-me-down parrot guns to my other force that's nearby.
Got 3 Britbong marines too and almost have kneel fire and gatling guns.
Almost time to play the Last Samurai soundtrack while killing these scrubs.
>>344870230
>HURR DUUR
fucking retard
>>344870312
Fuck of...
>>344870297
>>344870384
Nice, never knew there was an expansion.
>mfw
>>344870706
You fucked up
>>344870706
>losing 3 men to kill one
That's a defeat.
>>344870596
Hows living under a rock?
>>344870706
>Lost: 3
>>344870875
This.
Shamefur dispray.
>>344870706
>Not just mowing him down with gunfire
>Instead takes the oh so honorabu route and melees him to death
>>344870706
>Lost: 3
>>344870706
how the fuck did you manage that
>>344870830
>>344870875
>>344870929
>>344871024
>>344871086
>>344871143
>>344871238
Fucking auto-resolve. Making me look bad in front of all my internet pals.
>>344871454
>Using auto-resolve
Leave.
>>344871454
>autoresolving
>not playing that battle for the glorious screenshot opportunity
How do you guys ever have enough money in Hard difficulty? I went independent, my own lord route. But I didn't have enough of Japan to face everyone when the time came. FotS dlc, of course.
>>344871454
>not personally mowing the brave man down with gatling guns
>>344871501
this. never use autoresolve on a TW game.
>>344871512
upgrade your provinces?
>>344871675
Autoresolve is fine provided you save beforehand and if you get too many casualties by autoresolving, you reload and play the battle manually.
>>344871512
Put geishas in your richest towns, focus every province but a couple recruiting ones entirely on economic buildings.
>>344871675
I think FotS actually has the best autoresolve of all the TW games. It HEAVILY favors artillery.
I have no idea how autoresolve made that guy lose any men. I've autoresolved similar battles against larger forces with 0 casualties
>>344871675
Not this, who the fuck can be bothered to chop down a force like 10% of your size?
>>344871512
trade with europe
only focus a couple towns on recruitment
fill the rest with inns and taverns
upgrading them isnt always the best idea
>>344871729
I do upgrade my provinces. Income buildings first, then farms generally for the rest? I just never have enough income because my taxes are low to maintain provincial growth and my armies are always large so the upkeep kills me. I get like 1000~ gold a turn, but then have to constantly make men because it's Hard and I'm fighting multiple factions at once.
>>344871947
then raise your taxes
>>344871778
>>344871920
Okay, I never bought Geishas (or any other special unit), and I didn't trade with Europe.
>>344871947
Doom stack then, 3 stack was enough to take over Japan
>>344871843
>10% your size
>all melee
>you have enough archers to break them before they even reach your lines
>autoresolve
>their units kill yours at a 1:1 ratio
???
>>344872013
>Never bought an agent
What the fuck? Monk's in the normal campaign are God tier for raising revolts to make rivals clans smaller without the need to build expensive armies
>>344871995
>>344871995
I was told to keep taxes low so your provinces get stronger. Only, this crippled my production all game and I couldn't expand as fast.
>>344872157
So, get monks and geishas?
>>344871675
You never played any TW games for longer than few hours, didn't you? 80% of battles are against tiny, irrelevant armies or garrisons.
>>344872238
only do that near mid to late game when your provinces are all well developed
>takeda shingen throws himself at my walls
>I'm playing date clan
>I have 5 warrior monk units, 3 warrior bowmen units
>warcry does the job for me and the date clan charge bonus rapes them
I forgot to mention, he had a massive deathstack of yari and naginata samurai.
>>344872128
Even then you're left at 90% strength which can be fixed in what, 2 turns? Maybe if the stakes are high and every mans counts but I'd still be fine with autoresolving that
>>344871843
Auto resolve resolves the conflict as if your forces were commanded by a 10 year old kid who skips tutorials, plays on easy, and always uses console commands for god mode
>>344872238
i dont think monks are in FotS but it's been a long ass while
but dude all the agents are worth it
ninja can give your armies nice movement and line of sight boosts, and can prevent armies from moving on your settlements while you quickly recruit defenses or move an army to intercept
ishin shishi give a hella boost to public order so you don't have to stop collecting taxes on provinces that would otherwise be rapidly heading towards revolt
and holy fuck foreign veterans are the most broken unit in any TW ever with their training bonuses and bonuses to gunpowder accuracy and ammo
>>344872379
>date clan
You know the current Date lord is some college dropout? Date is failures. Fuck Date.
Meanwhile, Shimadzu (Shimazu) created a profitable lasting tech giant.
>>344872238
i keep my taxes on normal no matter what. the only time i fuck with taxes is when i have a province about to rebel and then i just stop collecting in just that province until i can handle it better
>>344872504
Unless you play TW: Warhammer on VH or Legendary difficulty level, then the AI is autoresolving like it was controlled by the ghost of Napoleon himself, winning tough engagements with barely any losses.
>>344872504
I know I'm not saying the autoresolve is good, just saying you should never do it is stupid
The only time I would ever consider it is in naval battles since it really fucks those things up
>Creative Assembly's designers will never be stoned to death and replaced with people that don't take 1 step forward, 50 steps back
why live?
>>344872570
The clans are still around? I thought they'd all be just normal people by now with no power.
>>344872528
I had a foreign veteran (started with him). For one of the retainers, I picked tourist or some shit and got -7% movement. I thought it was a typo. So, my main army had -7% movement the whole game. That was unfortunate.
>>344872986
sounds like you fucked up. does it give you something decent in return for that?
the vast majority of retainers my veterans get are just various guns that grant accuracy bonuses
i hope you specced him for training
>>344872986
Also, I bought an ironclad. It got destroyed by wooden frigates. I expected some Monitor v. Virginia, nope.
>>344873113
No, it's literally -7% movement. Nothing else. Nothing good.
>>344872982
After the clans were disbanded, some used their money to create corporations. A decent number of major Japanese corporations have samurai roots.
>>344873126
tfw I can't into boats in this game
>>344873259
well literally why the fuck did you do that
>>344873126
i don't believe you, unless this happened in an autoresolve
FotS is fucking shit at naval autoresolve when western ships are involved
>implying the guy didn't ask for honoraburu 1v1 duel until he fell
LMAO at these shamefur fucks.
Has anyone ever actually finished a Rise of the Samurai campaign?
>>344871512
lower taxes for super economic growth, build roads and farms, sign as many trade agreements as possible, cull your weak neighbors asap
>>344873702
What the fuck
>>344873126
Was it one of the unique Ironclads or the generic one everyone can build?
The unique ones can all solo full stack enemy navies of any quality as long as they don't get surrounded (the British one can be surrounded and win).
The generic ones need some high end frigate support for extra fire power or careful micromanagement and manual aiming.
>>344873523
Nope. I had an ironclad and two iron plated frigates(?). Enemy had five wooden ships.
Sent two frigates against two enemy ones.
Ironclad against three enemy.
Ironclad blew up. I was like what??
>tfw games like tw look fun as fuck but i'm too dumb and adhd too play and enjoy them
>>344873885
did you overheat the engine?
>>344873867
It was the generic one. I didn't use it correctly because although it showed that its guns fired directly from the front, I thought "that can't be" and so I positioned it broadside against the enemy ships (so, on its side).
Apparently it was better off firing from its front. I didn't micromanage it because I thought it would be fine against some enemy wood ships.
>>344873990
I don't know what that is.
I left it sitting firing away at the enemy.
>>344873702
Yea. The end cinematic made me chuckle.
>>344872982
where do you think sapporo beer comes from, or yamaha keyboards
>>344873802
The main force of their army came in as reinforcements which made things easier, I had the Samurai Retainers outside the castle walls with the gunners and bow samurai above them, so they held up their melee guys as the anvil, the matchlocks and bows were the hammer
>>344874048
Yeh, the generic ironclads can be lucky shotted and instant killed like the wooden ships. It's one of the reasons I skip building them and go straight for the unique country ships.
I've had some legendary games on the brink where the foreign ship swings it around just because the enemy can't touch my coasts anymore.
best shogun 2 mods
go
>>344869726
HE'S JUST STANDING THERE
MENACINGLY
>>344874968
and against the doubters, he dies because of his wounds in the end, and his hair surrounds his Stand
>tfw you can't play as the Satake
>>344874727
just in terms of usability, the best mod i ever got was a unit card color mod
a lot of the unit cards are a little samey but it colors them by type (bow, spear, sword, gun, cav) so you can tell at a glance
Shogun 2: FoTS is objectively the best Total War with rome 1 being a close second.
>>344871995
Leave taxes on default
>>344875453
that's what i was saying. he had them on low.
>>344875430
This is true.
>>344875453
start with high taxes and lower them once you get more territories. more taxes, more units, more territory. once you get a lot of territories you can drop it down.
>>344875430
Medieval 1 is the best TW game
Rome is overrated
>playing napoloen total war as prussia
>no wars,no need to fight france is salty, but too busy
>annex small german city states
>only focus on infastructure
>it's winter
>this song is playing
>i am just making money in order to fight back against france and free bavaria and baden württemberg
>set my eyes upon trade
>pay the spanish and danes to cease alliance, and fuck their navy up with my PREUSSEN navy
>ally with sweden to avoid naval wars
>rich as fuck as of now
>elite units piling up, and this song is still playing
its maximum comfy to play as germans
minimum comfy as russians
this song was the one playing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k0Vzlro0aA
>>344873990
>when you deliberately send your patrol boat on a suicide mission, overheating its engine and making it blow up next to a big ass frigate
good times
>>344875430
Rome 1 is inferior to every TW game after Empire
>>344876694
it's inferior to every TW game before empire too
>>344874048
I'm wondering if the enemy had researched armor-piercing shells, or at least the heavier ammunition one step before it. It would make a little more sense that your ironclad got one-shotted then.
But yes, the Kotetsu really shouldn't be turned broadside on, if possible. Its thickest armor and its biggest gun is right in the front of the ship, so it should be pointed straight towards the enemy. What most probably happened to you was that when you turned it broadside on, a lucky shot by the enemy managed to punch straight through the armor and into the engine room, which detonates the boilers and kills the ship instantly.
You can do the exact same thing to enemy ships, especially if you micromanage and aim the shots themselves. The generic ironclad, Kotestu, is actually really excellent for this. Its giant cannon in the front has long range and is fairly accurate, so if you aim right underneath the smokestack of enemy ships (using armor piercing ammo) oftentimes you can just detonate them outright.
>Enemy ships always know where your fucking ships are even when there's no possible way they could see them
I really fucking hate that in Shogun 2
>>344876664
huh. do exploding ships do splash damage? enough to sink other ships?
never knew
>>344878331
it can set them on fire and make them surrender almost immediately
>tfw major battle after major battle in the same place with the same army
>>344876416
>>playing napoloen total war as prussia
>prussia
>>344879454
what's wrong with that?
>>344879521
It's boring and uncreative.
>>344869726
holy fuck this campaign is a nightmare on higher difficulties. tsu on very hard (not even bothered to go legendary) haunts me to this day
>TW online community
>>344880090
I have an inkling that man loves tits
>>344869726
Why are you even fighting him? He's a great early trade partner and pro imperial like you.
>>344880181
you shouldn't just make assumptions about people
>>344872785
>when you nutted but she still suckin
>>344871675
>>344871454
>>344870875
>tfwi'm a lazy fuck who autos every battle that's over 50% favored
>>344871501
It's one person, you don't really need to fight that shit. It did make OP look hilarious dumb though.
his one bodyguard died in the charge but this fucker killed like 8 of my katana samurai before going down
>>344880868
>using swords v. cavalry
>>344880945
it was all i had you fuck
>>344880945
This. nigga should've had some Yari Ashigaru
>>344875371
>Dr Pavel, I'm Tokugawa Shogunate
>>344873368
Different shell types have different ranges.
is there anything more fun than manually controlling cannons in a defensive battle while you wait for the enemy to reach you?
tfw total war vidya will never be this good again.
>>344870404
Heavy artillery is so cheap in FOTS but fuck me is it so fun tearing the enemy to shreds
>>344880296
He just fucking sailed over and declared war on me after breaking a trade agreement. He's my vassal now.
Usually all I do early game is get a bunch of secret police and incite revolts so I can take provinces without getting into a war.
>>344883320
it wouldnt be so ridiculous if the AI weren't so fucking garbage
the computer literally NEVER uses loose formation, doesn't go out of their way to path through forests when under fire, and also refuses to charge until very close
so, they just mosey slowly and casually towards you across the entire battlefield in tight formation, losing hundreds of men until they rout before they even meet your infantry
i mean, that said, i fucking love watching that happen, but it is broken as fuck
>>344883452
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy to much work its easier to steamroll the retarded ai
>If they'd have turned up one turn later I might not have had any armies nearby
Got lucky, time for them to get fucked
I remember the time I invaded Japan with American soldiers. They just sat back while their Japanese allies effortless slaughtered their enemies.
>>344873354
sony.
>>344882583
I liked Attila
