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Nobunaga Besieged - Harunobu Renamed, The Tiger of Kai Shingen Takeda - Update 35

Though they were rapidly expanding their territory, the Takeda clan faced dangers from within. One could not call the land of Kai bountiful, and its people were made to bear the high cost of war expenses. The discontent of the people led to the discontent and anxiety of the local leaders and Takeda retainers. And from that discontent, Harunobu sensed a movement to exile him in the same way he exiled his father.

Harunobu Takeda:
If it’s come to this, I’ll have to act – and fast. Cannot stand idly by and end up chased out of my lands as my father was.

That very day, Harunobu joined the Buddhist priesthood and took on the name of “Shingen”. This change was all to gain the help of the Buddhist factions to bring order to his territory.

Shingen Takeda:
…If it’s for the cause of unification, I’ll become a demon or a Buddha; whatever it takes.

Though Shingen managed to strengthen his rule over his land through this movement…he had not completely extinguished the embers of treachery.

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Just thought I’d mention I’ve updated the thread and added movies from the game. They are silent due to Koei’s DRM but you can still watch them and they are captioned. I retroactively added them to the parts they should have been and in the first post.

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Nobunaga Besieged - The Uesugi Clan is Born - Update 36

Under pressure from the Hojo clan, Norimasa Uesugi-- the Kanto Chancellor – fled to Echigo. He asked for aid from the head of the Nagao clan. Kagetora Nagao, who proceeded to engage in a number of battles around Kanto on behalf of Norimasa.

Awestruck by Kagetora’s valiance, Norimasa decided to yield the chancellorship to Kagetora, thinking that a person as weak as himself was not fit for such a position. Kagetora accepted Norimasa’s offer with no resistance, almost as if he had been expecting it.

Kagetora Nagao:
From today forth, I, Kagetora Nagao, will replace Lord Norimasa as the Kanto Chancellor. I hereby change my name to Masatora Uesugi, and vow to strike down any who disturb the peace of Kanto.

When he became the Kanto Chancellor, Kagetora changed his family name to Uesugi, and combined Norimasa’s name with his own to become Masatora. In his new position, Masatora could always claim that hs battles were for the good of the Kanto region.

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Nobunaga Besieged - Toshiie’s Punishment - Update 37

Content Warning for Incest

With his marriage to Matsu, Toshiie Maeda gave up the eccentricity and flamboyancy of his youth. He did not, however, give up his proneness to anger, and ended up slaying a man after a heated argument. The man he’d cut was kin to his master, Nobunaga, and the incident affected his employment within the clan.

Nobunaga Oda:
Toshiie, as valuable as your skills may be, I cannot let you go unpunished for this affair.

Toshiie Maeda:
Aye, my lord! I shall atone with a blade through my belly!

Nobunaga Oda:
Calm down, you blasted fool. Have you forgotten you’ve just gotten married? Matsu was her name, I believe. Do you intent to leave a wife of that caliber behind in your death?

Toshiie Maeda:
Ahh… Well, now that you mention it, my lord…can something be worked out?

Nobunaga Oda:
Two years. Pass two years without incident, and stay out of my sight.

Toshiie Maeda:
Is that…all, my lord?

Nobunaga Oda:
Don’t expect a stipend, either. Endure those two years without it. If you lose the will to serve me in that time, then disappear to wherever you see fit.

Toshiie Maeda:
That will not happen, my lord! I Toshiie, will endure those two years!

Hideyoshi Hashiba:
Toshiie, you made it out all right?

Toshiie Maeda:
Yeah, and all I’ve gotta do is stay put for two years for Lord Nobunaga to pardon me. What could be easier?

Hideyoshi Hashiba:
That’s all it’ll take…to get Lord Nobunaga to forgive you? Really? I guess the world’s just full of surprises.

Toshiie Maeda:
Well, I won’t be getting paid during that time, though!

Hideyoshi Hashiba:
…Wait, no stipend?! Toshiie, doesn’t that mean you’re actually out of a… Hey, who’s that girl?

Toshiie Maeda:
Oh I hadn’t introduced you?

Matsu:
I am his wife, Matsu.

Hideyoshi Hashiba:
Since when’d you get such a beauty of a bride?!

Toshiie Maeda:
Didn’t I tell you I’d gotten married a while back?

Matsu:
You are brother’s friend Lord Hashiba, are you not? I have heard quite a bit about you.

Hideyoshi Hashiba:
B-Brother?

Matsu:
Ah, forgive me. It’s an old habit of mine.

Toshiie Maeda:
I didn’t tell you? We’re cousins, see, and we grew up like brother and sister, so somethings she still calls me that.

Hideyoshi Hashiba:
Like brother and sister…? No…no way…

Toshiie Maeda:
Well, since I’m out of a stipend, we’re going to be living in this infantry house for a while. See you ‘round Tokichiro. Keep in touch.

Hideyoshi Hashiba:
No…no fair…

And so began Toshiie’s tribulations as he lived in lowly infantry quarters, virtually exiled from his clan.

Hideyoshi Hashiba:
…

Toshiie’s Struggle(Quest)

Toshiie Maeda, the eccentric, regarded spearman. His brusqueness working against him, the trouble he got himself in found him out of the Oda Clan.

Don’t employ Toshiie Maeda for 2 years.

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Nobunaga Besieged - The Anti-Nobunaga Coalition’s Defeat - Update 38

Eliminated the Asakura Clan

Surround Nijo Palace

Surrounded Nijo Palace

Asakura of Echizen, Azai of Omi, and the Ikko revolters of Ise Nagashima had all fallen, leaving the Anti-Nobunaga Coalition in ruins. However, the head of the coalition, Shogun Yoshiaki Ashikaga, would stand down. He refused all three of the Oda’s requests for peace. Holding up in the capital’s Nijo Castle, he continued his resistance.

Seeing this, Nobunaga sent his soldiers to the capital, finally moving to settle the score.

Nijo Palace, Kyoto…

Soldier:
Reporting! I-It’s an emergency!

Yoshiaki Ashikaga:
What?! What in the world is going on?!

Soldier:
The capital is burning! The Oda have set fire to our town!

Yoshiaki Ashikaga:
What?!

Soldier:
Furthermore, the palace has already been surrounded by Nobunaga’s forces…

Yoshiaki Ashikaga:
!

Nobunaga Oda:
It has been a long time, Lord Yoshiaki.

Yoshiaki Ashikaga:
N-Nobunaga! How did you…?

Nobunaga Oda:
I am well aware of how much I am breaking etiquette, but seeing as how this was the only way to see you…

Yoshiaki Ashikaga:
This kind of deed is inexcusable! This is treachery towards to shogunate!

Nobunaga Oda:
Before you came to the capital, Lord Yoshiaki, we acted with the utmost of sincerity. However, you saw that sincerity as betrayal waiting to happen, and attempted to bring us to our end. I’m afraid we were the ones who were betrayed.

Yoshiaki Ashikaga:
Ngh…

Nobunaga Oda:
One cannot follow a master who does not trust his servants. We will seek unification through a path different from yours, Lord Yoshiaki. And with that, I ask that you surrender Kyoto to me.

Yoshiaki Ashikaga:
…You must have had this planned from the day you said you would save me in my time of need. You were going to use me for your ambition from the start!

Nobunaga Oda:
…To get what I want, the means are a mere detail. I’m afraid I have been like that since childhood.

Yoshiaki Ashikaga:
And not being able to see through that was my failure…

And so, Shogun Yoshiaki Ashikaga was chased from Kyoto. Now, with the center of the nation in his hands, Nobunaga’s authority became something no other could match.

Anti-Nobunaga Coalition Completed!

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Nobunaga Besieged - Ieyasu Becomes Tokugawa - Update 39

Ieyasu Matsudaira had taken back Mikawa and started battling for dominance as a daimyo in his own right. The strong territorial bond and great skill of the Mikawa warriors helped his expansion greatly.

Ieyasu Matsudaira:
The Mikawa are certainly powerful… And the loyalty they support me with is laudable. To bring out that power in its fullest, I need to show the world that I am their leader. Can’t go without naming myself Mikawa representative, and making the clan worthy of the title, either.

With that, Ieyasu Matsudaira changed his name to “Ieyasu Tokugawa”. This was all to become a central figure to the men of Mikawa who made up the bulk of his retainers.

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Nobunaga Besieged - Takeda and the Imagawa Separate - Update 40

The Takeda and Imagawa clans had maintained a good relationship since the age of the Takeda’s previous leader, Nobutora. The introduction of the Triple Alliance only strengthened that bond. However, when the Imagawa lost their great leader Yoshimoto, Shingen started to feel uneasy about them, eventually resolving to break the alliance.

Shingen’s son Yoshinobu, however, was married to a woman of the Imagawa and fiercely opposed the movement.

Ultimately, Shingen had Yoshinobu and a few retainers executed on the grounds of plotting to execute him. This move wiped out all of those in the Takeda clan who supported the Imagawa. The treachery was revealed by the Takeda retainer Masakage Obu, and his relative Toramasa Obu, was executed as an accomplice in the plot.

Shingen Takeda:
Masakage, you went as far in your loyalty to me as to send Toramasa to his death. Take on the prestigious name of Yamagata. Call yourself Masakage Yamagata, from now on. And from this day forward, Toramasa’s Red Brigade, is now under your command. Though not even this boon is a fitting reward for your loyalty.

Masakaga Yamagata:
Such kind words, my liege… I will repay this boon with all of the valor I can muster!

Inheriting the name of Yamagata and the elite Red Brigade, Masakage Yamagata would come too be known and feared as the strongest of Takeda’s officers.

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I’m sorry for the long wait, I will be continuing this series though!

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Nobunaga Besieged - Shingen’s Death - Update 41

Shingen Takeda, a powerful daimyo called the tiger of Kai and feared for his military mind. And now, his ailing body was drawing its final breaths. Knowing he had little time left, Shingen called his retainers together to speak with them.

Shingen Takeda:
So, you’re all here… Listen, everyone. Today, my life will end. The world must not know of my death. Keep the fact hidden for three years, and avoid battle when you can. For should you fight without my leadership, our foes will surely know that I have passed. Sink my body into the lake of Suwa. Into its pure, beauteous waters… Ha ha…”Beauteous”… This naivete must be what kept me from the capital. And yet even as I knew that, I would not give up on conquest… Oh, how foolish I have been.

Masakage Yamagata:
My liege…

Shingen Takeda:
Genshiro, is that you…? Perhaps…perhaps you could…

Masakage Yamagata:
…

Shingen Takeda:
Genshiro, you are the vanguard of the Takeda… Tomorrow…raise our flag at Seta!

Masakage Yamagata:
My liege… I will! No matter what!

Shingen Takeda:
Show our flag…to the…nation…

And so Shingen Takeda, the great star of the warring states, met the end of his life. Not even a man with his talent for strategy could resist fate, and he fell with his ambition unfulfilled

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Nobunaga Besieged - Nagashino Here We Come! - Update 42

The great warrior Shingen Takeda possessed an excellent band of retainers and a sizeable force based around Kai. Now, however, a crack appeared in the pillar of the Takeda clan.

The great star falls. On the road to the capital, following the west path, the leader of the Takeda, Shingen, suddenly died. At first, Shingen’s death was concealed by the Takeda’s retainers, but eventually, other daimyo came to know of the event.

Nobunaga Oda:
So… The tiger has finally met his end.

Ieyasu Tokugawa:
Some of Takeda’s retainers have voiced desire to join us. There seems little room for doubt.

Nobunaga Oda:
We have lost yet another man of worth. Yet… You seem to be awfully relieved.

Ieyasu Tokugawa:
But of course. My land is next to the Takeda’s, and I have been dealt many a treachery by Shingen’s hands. However, it is still to early to rest easy. The Takeda still have Katsuyori.

Nobunaga Oda:
Indeed. Though Shingen is gone, the Takeda still pose quite a threat. However, they are no longer an unsurpassable foe. Soon, the time will come to settle the score, and for that reason… I’ll have to think of a way to finish them off, once and for all.

The Battle of Nagashino(Quest)
From the East came the Takeda Clan’s cavalry, said to be the strongest in the nation. Their defeat would mean the defeat of all the old ways of war.

Enact the “Intensive Firearms” policy

Enacted the “Intensive Firearms” policy

The Oda Clan, Gifu Castle…

Orderly:
Reporting, my lord! Katsuyori Takeda has marched with troops out of Tsutsuji Palace!

Hideyoshi Hashiba:
So, he’s come. And I’ll bet he’s after Nagashino.

Nobunaga Oda:
Have the muskets been prepared?

Kazumasu Takigawa:
We’ve gathered them from everyone under the Oda’s power – about fifteen hundred.

Nobunaga Oda:
We should also have five hundred for my bannermen, five hundred for the men on the field, and five hundred for Ieyasu.

Hideyoshi Hashiba:
We’ve…we’ve almost got three thousand muskets…?

Nagahide Niwa:
So, what plan shall we enact to intercept the Takeda army, my lord?

Nobunaga Oda:
We need no plan. We need only use muskets with overwhelming numbers.

Hideyoshi Hashiba:
Can we…can we win like that?

Mitsuhide Akechi:
In a normal battle, no. But the battle we’re about to conduct is far from normal. In a normal battle, one begins with an exchange of musket fire, then arrows, then finally, spears.

Nobunaga Oda:
This battle, however, will end with muskets. No matter how the Takeda advance against us, we will keep on firing.

Nagahide Niwa:
Yet, what if the Takeda cavalry slice through our numbers? I cannot imagine our men’s guns hitting their famed Red Brigade…

Nobunaga Oda:
We will grant them no chance to cut into us. We will not simply keep on firing – we will be firing from the front, left, and right. They’ll face our bullets from three directions.

Mitsuhide Akechi:
In addition, we’ll construct a stockade to slow their horses down for a few moments – a few critical moments.

Hideyoshi Hashiba:
So a stockade’s the only plan we have…in stock!

Mitsuhide Akechi:
…

Nobunaga Oda:
…Monkey, you’re deploying in front of the stockade.

Hideyoshi Hashiba:
…Surely you can’t mean that, my lord.

Kazumasu Takigawa:
…I see. So this is why we gathered up all of those muskets and gunpowder.

Nagahide Niwa:
Only we of the Oda, with Kunitomo, Sakai, and Kyoto under our grasp, could bring a plan like this to fruition. Katsuyori could not copy us if he tried.

Kazumasu Takigawa:
Indeed. The quality of the muskets and gunpowder themselves are far above what one can find in the east.

Nobunaga Oda:
We head for Okazaki tomorrow morning. It will not be enough to simply win this fight. I must create a new way of war… And I must have those who follow my orders win with it.

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Nobunaga Besieged - Battle of Nagashino - Update 43

Nobunaga Oda:
All forces, heed my call! This battle will be fought with a way of war crafted by my hand, and our victory will be no ordinary one. Following are the rules of engagement. First, not a single unit is permitted to retreat. Second, do not advance before the stockade. Falling back is permitted – mind your distance from the enemy. Finally, my unit will not move. Should I be required to move in this battle, our victory will be sullied. This is not a battle we have a chance of losing! Win, everyone, and win in a way that will strike at the very heart of the Takeda clan!

Masatoyo Naito was trusted as an adjutant on the same level as Shingen’s younger brother, Nobushige Takeda. Though he never stood out, he supported his clan from behind the scenes. However, the Takeda retainers Masatoyo had supported for so long were n the verge of collapse after the crushing blow they’d been dealt by the Oda.

Masatoyo Naito:
Everyone, forward! Break the fence! If I do not stand here, who will?! Giving the Takeda everything I am is the purpose Lords Shingen and Nobushige have left me!

Though Masatoyo put up a valiant fight, the guns of the Oda fired furiously, and enemy archers rained arrows upon them.

Soldier:
Lord Masatoyo, the enemy archers…!

Masatoyo Naito:
Stand your ground! We are the pillars of the Takeda clan… And I am the adjutant to the Takeda clan, Masatoyo Naito!

Masatoyo was pierced with so many arrows that his armor was said to look like a straw coat, yet he continued to fight. Every time his soldiers fell apart, he would regroup then advance again. However, the enemy’s focused firing finally brought them down. The death of Masatoyo, known to later generations as a “True Adjutant”, hastened the collapse of the Takeda clan.

Nobutsuna Sanada, heir to Yukitaka Sanada and leader of the Takeda’s retainers in Shinano.

Masateru Sanada, younger brother to Nobutsuna and tactician famed enough to be regarded by Shingen as “his own two eyes”.

The two brothers fought valiantly to break the Oda army’s defenses.

Masateru Sanada:
Gah…!

Nobutsuna Sanada:
Masateru!

Masateru Sanada:
Brother, it seems that this is where I meet my end… Please, retreat while you can… Nobunaga truly knows his way around the battlefield… Should we stay, we’ll all find ourselves in the same grave…

Nobutsuna Sanada:
…I won’t pull back.

Masateru Sanada:
Brother, even…even our liege, even our father would tell you to retreat like I am now!

Nobutsuna Sanada:
Masateru, the very pride of the Sanada is riding on this battle. Our father swore that he would throw his life away for our liege and the Takeda if he had to. We who bear the six coined banner of the Sanada cannot leave Lord Katsuyori alone in this hell of a battlefield!

Masateru Sanada:
Heh… Ah, you’re right. Indeed. We of the Sanada go into battle fearing not death… Retreat is simply something we cannot do. For this battle, however…I just wished to know what our liege…would have…done…

Nobutsuna Sanada:
…Masateru, forgive me. I will leave your body here. Warriors of Sanada, hear my call! This is where we die! We will fight down to the last man and carve the very name of Sanada into this land! Masayuki…the Sanada’s in your hands, now…!

Though Nobutsuna drove the Oda army into fear swinging his meter long sword forged by the legendary Sadatsugu Aoe, he fell to a hail of bullets. However, his fighting spirit was passed down onto his younger brother Masayuki’s child Yukimura, a man who would see his warrior’s reputation precede him.

Masakage Yamagata, critical retainer to the Takeda clan and Shingen’s most trusted officer. His elite Red Brigade was known throughout the land. However, not even they could stand before the might oof the Oda army’s liberal use of firearms. And, though Masakaga fought valiantly against the odds…

Masakage Yamagata:
Gahh…!

Soldier:
Lord Masakage!

Masakage Yamagata:
Should we of the Red Brigade retreat over such a trifle, I could not face our liege. Men, forward! We fall for the sake of the Takeda! Break their fences! …Guh…!

Soldier:
Lord Masakage, I beg of you – pull back!

Masakaga Yamagata:
Pass me my command baton… Even if these limbs of mine break, I will continue to fight. Watch over us, my liege! Bear witness to the pride of the Takeda, to the battle of the Red Brigade!

Soldier:
Lord Masakage!

Venturing a final valiant charge, Masakage Yamagata had the Oda army’s bullets tear through his entire body, meeting a glorious end on the battlefield. It is said that Masakage, fighting for the Takeda’s victory t the very end, died holding the command baton in his teeth.

The Battle of Nagashino Movie Plays

Soldier:
Our second garrison has fallen. The enemy is still coming strong! If this keeps up…

Nobunaga Oda:
Right now, think only of luring the enemy in. Once they step into our range, the Takeda forces will meet their end. Fire!

Deafening roars filled Shitaragahara. Blasted by bullets from all directions the Takeda charge was broken and its forces routed. Important Takeda retainers fell one after another. Nobunaga’s revolutionary strategy, making great use of firearms, dealt a crippling blow to the Takeda army…and brought about a large change to the old, cavalry-centric way of war.

Hideyoshi Hashiba:
Lord Nobunaga! Both Nobutada Anayama and Nobukado Takeda’s units have started to retreat out of fear!

Nobunaga Oda:
Hmph, the weak always have the sharpest eyes. Shingen, you were far too strong… Katsuyori should not have learned only from the strong, but from the weak as well. Everyone, you fought well. This battle has ended in victory. Chase after the enemy and take what heads you can – gain your glory!

The Takeda army, praised as the strongest in all the warring states, met a grand loss of historical scale before the barrels of the Oda’s guns. As key retainers fell one after another, Katsuyori Takeda, the clan’s leader, managed to barely escape the battlefield with his life. The Oda forces pursued the retreating Takeda army, killing remnants as they went and eventually catching up with Katsuyori himself. However, one man stood before them. The Beast of Mino, Nobuharu Baba.

Nobuharu Baba:
Well met, men of Oda! And well fought! We have lost, completely and utterly. Yet though we may have failed on the battlefield, I cannot allow you to take my master Katsuyori’s head. I have stood upon the field of war over seventy times, yet have not bore a wound once. I, Nobuharu Baba, will be your opponent! Take my head and win your glory!

Nobuharu Baba, retainer to the Takeda since the age of Shingen and renowned on the battlefield as the “Immortal of Mino”, took up the rear guard and met a glorious end after a valiant battle. His final battle strengthened his reputation as a warrior with no equal.

Battle of Nagashino(Quest) Completed!

Held in the Mikawa Province under the control of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the Battle of Nagashino was a huge deciding factor in the complete change of warfare we saw in 1500’s Japan. This battle cemented the use of firearms which at the time people were mixed about. But seeing the defeat of what was considered one of the greatest armies in the land, the Takeda, people could no longer deny the viability of guns. The use of stockades to protect gunners became a staple in warfare. This was also where Nobunaga got to show off the technique of Triple Firing. This is a method where you line up gunners three deep. One fires, one readies to fire, one reloads. This cycle keeps up a barrage of bullets, it is also Nobunaga’s Officer Skill in Nobunaga’s Ambition. It highly increases the damage he does in game with muskets for his entire force. The battle took place in 1575.