Board 8 > Shogun 2 download finally complete.

(+) Yeah! (+)

Something like a month after I bought it, it has finished downloading on my "LOL Alaska Internet."

I am going to play it now, and post thoughts in this topic after I have some.

For the record, my only previous experience with the series is Rome. Which I liked a fair amount.

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Shogun 2 (and its expansions, Rise of the Samurai and Fall of the Samurai) constitute my some of my favorite games. I actually just got finished playing it for the last 3 hours, I was trying an Ikko Ikki campaign. It got off to a good start, but it's going pretty badly. Just lost too provinces to the Oda clan.

Which clan are you thinking of playing as?

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I'm not sure. I'll probably pick the one with the coolest name!

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Awesome game

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What part of Alaska? My girl used to live in Fairbanks.

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intro was cool

what is with these load times

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Jeff Zero posted...
What part of Alaska? My girl used to live in Fairbanks.

Anchorage

Fairbanks is depressing. actually most of Alaska outside of Anchorage is not my favorite. there's not much there and as you move north it's dark all the time.

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OmarsComin posted...
Jeff Zero posted...
What part of Alaska? My girl used to live in Fairbanks.

Anchorage

Fairbanks is depressing. actually most of Alaska outside of Anchorage is not my favorite. there's not much there and as you move north it's dark all the time.

She didn't mind the 'dark all the time' for the duration of her stay but admitted she'd dislike it if she had to experience it for more than a couple of years.

Yeah, I got lots of stories about how depressing Fairbanks was though for sure. Lots of native drunks with nothing to do.

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My personal favorite clan is the Takeda clan, but they're a little rough to start off with. Most people seem to recommend Chosokabe or Shimazu, if that matters to you.

Of course, the "winners" of the historical war were the Oda and Tokugawa clans, but ironically they are two of the hardest clans to play as, mostly due to their horrible starting conditions

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Tokugawa yes

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"When I was a young man, I had liberty, but I did not see it. I had time, but I did not know it."

I picked Shimazu right before clicking this topic again

normal difficulty short campaign

let's go

Yeah, I got lots of stories about how depressing Fairbanks was though for sure. Lots of native drunks with nothing to do.

for me it's hard to get motivated during winter months where it's always dark and always freezing outside. I had a couple rough patches during college because of that. I think it affects some people more than others though. I've thought about moving to California for the last year or so.

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I am always going to recommend a change of pace to people who are considering one. I traveled for three years, so yeah!

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btw, I STRONGLY recommend reading this:

http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?137395-Frogbeastegg-s-Guide-to-Total-War-Shogun-II

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oh man I can tell I'm gonna have to turn off advisor help pretty quickly

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From: Erugios | #009
My personal favorite clan is the Takeda clan, but they're a little rough to start off with. Most people seem to recommend Chosokabe or Shimazu, if that matters to you.

Of course, the "winners" of the historical war were the Oda and Tokugawa clans, but ironically they are two of the hardest clans to play as, mostly due to their horrible starting conditions

I always play as Tokugawa. Its pretty hard.

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Did you get Fall of the Samurai, Edward? If so, do you also pick a pro-Tokugawa faction, or do you pick one of the pro-Meiji factions?

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I did, and I of course go with tokugawa.

I have loyalty to Ieyasu because of SB3 lol.

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Now THAT'S dedication!

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My first game has been completed

I moved my army and took the nearby city they said I should take on my first turn.

Next turn this massive army came in and killed my army. Two turns later, that army took over my main city.

how do you play this game

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veeeery carefully

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Here is what I am going to do.

I am going to walk to the nearest gas station. When I get there, I'm going to buy a Reese's Fast Break candy bar.

Then I'm going to walk home.

When I get home, I am going to eat my candy bar and make another attempt at normal mode, this time playing more conservatively.

It cannot fail, I am sure of it.

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hey I annihilated my first rival

fun

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Yeah, the first few turns can be the toughest. Once you get past turn 5 or so you don't need worry about instant death anymore.

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Started a new campaign as the Shimazu. I have most of Kyushu. Only need two more provinces. Managed to stamp all traces of Christianity off the island as well

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I really suck at this game

I think I'm trying to be too expansive too quickly or something

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Are you employing a high number of samurai? If so, that could be your problem. They have insane upkeep. It's best to fill most of your spots with ashigaru

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mostly every time I declare war on someone else they always seem to have a bigger army than me, and this is after I spent some turns building stuff up in preparation for invasion.

my only experience with the series before this is Rome but playing on normal difficulty there I was rarely outclassed in army size, seems like I usually am here.

on an unrelated note, man the load times for this game are severe

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holy crap I see what you mean about upkeep

I just went bankrupt and my dude lost honor or something

how are the computers fielding armies this big when I'm trying to do the same and spending way too much money

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Are you making samurai or ashigaru? Samurai will bankrupt you very quickly in the early game, and will be overwhelming by the sheer numbers of enemy ashigaru. It's better to have larger numbers of cheaper troops early on. Once you have enough soldiers to field up to the unit cap in battle, you can start replacing ashigaru with samurai.

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Managed to take over Kyushu and am making a foothold into Honshu. Not sure if I should do a double pincer attack. Have my Daimyo and one of his sons invade Honshu, and have his heir and another son invade Shikoku. I'd be able to move through quickly, but I'm worried about triggering realm divide.

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By the way, the online community is pretty darn nice. I've never run into any jerks during a random match up.

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