Almost two weeks have passed which means it’s time to head back into the fray.
[details=Update 04 – Encounter]Last time we left it was December and things were heating up, I believe. So let’s just dive in.
Keeping it safe I’ll first do some building lest I forget to do so and waste my labor points. Strategic placement of a Water Mill should help improve nearby supply and wood production facilities.
That’s it and now we ca-
One again our father-in-law gives us a helping hand, resulting in once again saving 100 gold pieces. Much appreciated. With that I’ll also build one last Paddy in a lot adjacent to the river so we can get us much food as we can.
And that’s it for building facilities this month.
I have a feeling Nuri is feeling a bit estranged from his wife on, you know, account of her being twelve years old and all so so he decides to pay her a visit. Strictly supervised, of course.
With that out of the way I think I’ll branch out a bit and show you the map of Japan which is an entire section I’ve avoided up to this point, but also something that becomes really relevant as game goes on and things heat up.
As you can see this is the territory of clan Oda. Land within the blue borders, I mean. Keep in mind only three bases; Shobata, Nagoya and Narumi are clan Oda proper and counted as our territory. Blue flower icons are Kiyosu Oda clan which is a branch family of the clan, as was Iwakura Oda family until historically Nobunaga Oda made it the main branch some 20-ish years from now. At this point in history we are allies, though.
If we take a closer look at our three bases we can see they’re given to multiple chamberlains while Nobuhide Oda himself governs one.
Not to cause any confusion with the branch family our own Kiyosu fiefdom is assigned to Nagoya so we fall directly under Nobuhide’s purview. If you look real close you can see it on the map.
There are also some other things to show on the map.
If I toggle a certain option in the top right you can see the quality of roads ranging from 1 to 5. The thicker the line the better the road quality. Roads are more important than you imagine affecting some common sense things like speed of armies marching along but also affecting the rate of settlement growth. Basically, you want it as high as possible. Unless you’re really stuck as a mountainous clan in which case your roadwork top quality is 3.
One more matter I have to talk about are the tribes marked by purple icons. They come in multiple sorts and basically operate on support system.
At the moment they’re not that pertinent to us as a lowly retainer, but once we become more relevant regionally appeasing them may be a big thing seeing as once they support your clan at 75% they’ll send military units and if you get them at 100% support you benefit from their unique bonus depending on the type of tribe. For example, farmers yield extra supplies come season and such. Tribes can also be assimilated becoming a genuine settlement under your control, but their bonus is forfeit in that case as well. Seeing that we have FOUR tribes in our region it’s something to consider.
With all that out of the way we advance time.
I love these little events that give me free stuff. Building a Tea Room pays off, apparently.
Always a please, wife. Still feels weird saying that.
It keeps happening… which is good. It’s also our father-in-law so we’re keeping it in the family.
With that our mission is ready to be turned in come next month.
Hell yeah, it’s January of 1535.
There’s couple of things to check out here as well as something shiny.
It would be worth it for the return of investment, but money is always tight on retainer level so stimulation is still a no-go.
Wife apparently had the same idea, but same answer still applies.
Just as I hinted at before that Mission button has turned really orange and got a check mark which means mission is complete and can be turned in. So let’s do just that.
Never say no to honor and we actually actually worked for it in this case. Good stuff. Now we wait to see what the next mission will be as it will shape the future of the Oda clan. Also, if we had the money for it this is when we would expand Kiyosu’s land lots to build more stuff but that will have to wait.
With our coffers empty the way they are we’ll, well, just visit our lord daimyo and to improve our relationship.
Marking the shortest management phase ever we advance to army phase, but let’s just check a look before that.
Wait a second, that Okehazama fortification wasn’t there before. What could it mean?
Yes, judging by army stacks moving southward we’ve entered into a state of war. It’s funny because clans felt no need to announce war at the time and just marched. This surely didn’t result in conflicting alliances or anything. In our case we can see clan Oda has mustered three units which opens up a previously grayed out section in the information section.
Here we can see what comprises these three units.
Firstly it’s our clan daimyo himself with some damn fine adjutants of local forum make. I did not affect this in any way and Nobuhide chose them himself. Fact that he has adjutants unlocks more tactics for him to use during combat which is good news.
Remaining two units are headed only by two respective leaders seeing as they have no aids to support them.
We can see Kariya castle just on the edge of Oda territory is the target of this particular raid. As expected, Matsudara clan does not stand still and answers in kind.
Not sure how I feel about those odds, to be honest. As fate would have it lord Nobuhide seems to share my worries.
At once!
That actually sounds surprisingly worrisome. We’ll be the game breaker? Well, that remains to be seen.
Yes. You never ever want to avoid combat if you can help it because A) more honor and B) you don’t want to be left out of future battles for your inability to participate. As we’ll see we don’t have to go out of our way to be a tie breaker or anything as long as we do our part.
Here’s another screen I could talk about more than I will right now, but that’s appropriate considerate plenty of options are locked out for now. This is pretty much the most bog standard beginner unit you could imagine and we’ll field 200 soldiers which is our maximum at the moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7IwB6vlep0
Well, that didn’t exactly as planned, now did it? No worries because we survived. You’ll see that in Nobunaga’s Ambition it is far more important to do your duty than to be standing at the end of battles. Real time with pause works even if you did see me fumbling the controls couple of times there because things tend to get in the way of the cursor for some reason.
Such as this one where you’re pretty much meant to just scout the enemy and run away. Doing your quests is far more important than anything else, although not just hiding in the corner of the map seems to be a big factor as well. We’ll see this more in the upcoming battle(s) because this skirmish was just a simple taste of things to come.
In any case, our daimyo notices us contribution to the battle.
And then some.
Another get. This is a combat promotion which is even more ironic when you consider how we did in the last battle.
February rolls in.
Seeing that we finished our last mission Nobuhide Oda has a new one in store and this is a far more involved one.
Yeah. That’s a lot of objectives and I think I’ll be glad to have additional retainers working for clan Oda. Also… it takes us up north, so how will our invasion of Matsudaira unfold?
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That combat video took way more than it should have, but here’s the update at last. And to think it’s only going to get more common from here. I think I’ll stop trying to min-max battles and just roll with the punches so comedy might ensue. 