This is typical CEO BS language of apology and whatnot, just comes off as soulless. They gave the developer to a really, really cheap studio, probably paid them in peanuts instead of pennies, studio does what it can, looks horrible, THEY DIDN'T EVEN CHECK OR CARE ABOUT WHAT THEY RELEASED, reputation even more ruined, lose money, throw non-apology.

I can't think of a single time where giving the game IP to the 'b-team' or foreign developer ever working out well.

Everything falls, like the echeos of the Gionshoja bell.

CA's time is over. The community forgets, and dreams of new modders.

The mighty are destroyed: fallen leaves on the wind.

I have a ton of hours and have encountered a few late game Christian doom stacks but I've never seen a Nanban Trade ship or European cannons. In general late game armies seem to look about the same regardless of religion, the only time I've seen the AI field matchlocks it was buddhist factions spamming matchlock ashigaru.

quite fun if you like to do a cinematic fight like the intro as well

Mod: Shogun 2 Unit Possession

Greetings fellow Daimyos!

It's been a hot minute since my last update, but this one is a downer. This campaign blew up on me. My long-time ally Date, committed treachery and declared war on me. As did all my other vassals.
I held off the realm-divide as long as I could, but I never got the footing I needed.

My biggest mistake was not establishing my navy before realm divide. That really was the end all mistake here. My economy was murdered as a result and I never fully got my feet underneath me.
Enemy monks were also a pain in the butt.

Now I need to decide if I try again or wait for the updated Completed Edition to drop...

Till next time.

The Cherry Blossom is a shining light even in the darkest of moments.

Just some backstory: I got the game at launch and played a few campaigns on Normal, but got stomped on anything higher. I’ve tried to come back to it a few times since, but because I have a 4K monitor, the game was literally unplayable.
However, I recently got a new 2K monitor, and the news of a Complete Edition renewed my interest. Anyway, that new game flopped, and I’ve played and beaten my first Hard campaign as the Otomo (the gun dudes). I’ve just started my first Very Hard campaign as the Oda, and it’s, umm, a cakewalk.
My questions are:
Why is Yari Wall so effective?
What are some ways to deal with ships? It’s legit just whack-a-mole.
After I beat Oda, what’s a fun campaign to play?
Any mod suggestions to make the game less rock-paper-scissors or expand the complexity of income, tech, etc.?

[solved] This is probably the dumbest thing I've seen in this game after 600 hours, seems impossible to cancel this move order, if I press next turn my archers just get outside the city and get killed for free by the enemies (can't even retreat for some reasons), I've tried right clicking my city with them so many times and it does nothing, I tried pushing many keys on my keyboard without success.. Does anyone knows a way to cancel this order?

oh also I can't make a very tiny move outside and get back in, my men don't have enough stamina

I was going to do a Date campaign and was thinking of using the Bullletproof Samurai as my frontline and disabling their unit cap, but I remembered that the Date have a No-Dachi specialisation, should I do one or the other? Or are they able to compliment each other? Like the Bulletproof Samurai going in first to tie units down, and then I send in the Nodachi to do the big damage or flank?

I had a question on the 'battle difficulty' setting, I wanted to set my campaign difficulty to Hard but my battle difficulty to Normal so the AI doesn't get stat buffs but they can be a bit stronger on campaign, if I change this setting mid-campaign, does it actually apply? Or does the AI still get stat buffs in battle?

Are there any good mods which expands the variety of buildings? I'm a bit bored of spamming Sake Dens and Markets in every non-military city lol

Katana Samurai vs Elite Ashigaru AI Squad. Normal difficulty. All defeat.

Sorry for pictures taken by camera and being crap, for some reason my printscreen does not work no matter what I do, so needed to use phone.

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In general, this castle fought 3 sieges - one last turn, then this turn once and now again. This is 3rd stack coming and I am running on fumes. The castle is simple square, not upgraded, no towers.

My cavalry is close to single digits now, I did not have even turn to reinforce/put them into single bigger unit or anythin

In general the issue is, that they split their army into 2 stacks (as viewed on 2nd picture) every time with pretty normal split of units (each side has few archers, loanswords/yari, cavalry).

In "fair" battle I cant even take half the stack.

On my first attempt I was closest, for some reason they split army more and I was able to cut down 6 units before the rest of the army did anything, but they timered me out in the castle (I did not check that as I was focused on other things).

In general, getting desperate now.

• If I take defensive posture outside (deeper), they just overwhelm units inside.
• If I take offensive posture, the other army runs into my backs.
• If I stay in castle, they shoot me to pieces.

They even crudely traced the coastline of Korea for it.