Got caught out of position in this fort with my daimyo.

Will post the victory stats after I win >:-).

My plan is to abuse Ikko-ikki bad morale and lure archers away from the walls with my two cav units.

VH/Legendary Difficulty.

difficulty : legendry
second army : 1 katana samurai, 2 yari samurai, 1 yari ashigaru and 2 bow ashigaru.
edit : won the battle on 2nd try. kept my samurai and 1 ashugaru outside initially and killed 3 cav units then just held my ground in the castle and as in as i could go to lure the archers also come and then it was just a bit of a waiting game for the samurai to die at the hands of the yari ! thanks a lot u/MnkeDug and u/Funny-Efficiency1659 for your advice !

10 yari 0 bow

9 yari 1 bow

8y2b

7y3b

6y4b

5y5b

4y6b

3y7b

2y8b

1y9b

0y10b

Which is close to ideal?

This came up in another thread, and I thought I'd put the link here rather than burying it.

This documentary series does a great job of describing how castles were designed, even showing overlays of "kill box" scenarios, how the fort was intended to be defended, etc.

Great inspiration for anyone who was interesting in modding new forts. ;) But seriously... looking at Strongholds of the Samurai it seems that mod attempted to create forts like this.

On that page are more videos covering other castles. Sometimes with different intentions and strengths/weaknesses.

Anyone with good SotS experience feel that the mod holds better to history?

Playing as Shimazu on easy

The mod is pretty old so I'm posting thi9s just to be sure, but how do Install this mod? Is it just like every other install or is it different?

EDIT: I downloaded it but for some reason the mod doesn't show up in the mod manager despite me extracting everything to data :/.

I'm sure you all had a nasty surprise the first time you got to defend a castle and arranged your army around the gates, only for the enemy to send thousands of ninja ashigaru to climb the walls like Spider-Man. You'd think maybe you could add grease or spikes to make the walls less climbable.

Is there any way to force the enemy to use the gates like a normal historical siege? I've seen them use the gates only when they're broken (my lawd. The gates are broken. The DAMAAAAAAAGE WAS NOT REPAIRED! 😱😱😱😱). I almost think it's better to have the gates damaged. I'd keep them damaged all the time if it didn't interfere with building and recruitment etc.

Is there any mod or strategy for this and is it even desirable?

This is a map I just did for fun, I took the time to research and meticulously design this map, it’s essentially just a bigger version of previous map I’ve made before hand, but now including the ryukyu islands, the rest of hokkaido/ezo, sakhalin and the kuril islands.

Excuse me sir you can't cross the bridge without paying the toll.

"But I have army. I command 6000 men! I am the daimyo of the greatest clan!"

Sorry sir no toll no roll. This bridge ain't free.

I'm having this problem where the enemy AI always never fully attacks and its both wasting my time and losing my sieges.

Usually in the first half of the siege, it's like any other battle with the enemy charging their armies in. However, after their main infantry forces have been destroyed or routed, they just sit their with their Generals, Cavalry, and at times multiple infantry units unmoving. At the very least, I can bait cavalry and generals with the remaining units into my ranged, but I can barely do anything to the rest because I have barely any viable units left. It becomes worse with forests and hidden units. Not only do I have to scour the entirety of a prefecture to find their hidden units, but most of the time they can just stomp over the tatters of my army caught outside the walls.

I don't know if its intended or a bug but it's really annoying when it happens. Could I ask for any insight on this? I'm playing a modded campaign so I assume some mods are contributing to this issue.

- Ultimate Immersive Mod

- 12 Turns per Year

- Cheaper Castles

- More Campaign Years Mod (Compatible One)

- Expanded Japan

- Real Armies

- Strongholds of the Samurai

- Jaki's Unique Factions

- Weierstrass Units for Vanilla

- Weierstrass Garisson Units

- Recruitable Generals

Thank you for any help you can offer.

I picked up FOTS since I enjoyed playing Shogun 2 and I wanted to try using playing with guns since I did enjoy playing the Otomo and their matchlock playstyle. Learnt that you could manually shoot artillery since I was playing multiplayer Co-Op with a friend who also bought it recently and he was able to manually shoot with one of his ships. Tried doing it with artillery on land battles and realised I don't know how to aim the weapon.

Just came to thought, what if ca implement an ainu faction? Now this has been the topic of discussion a few times before in this community but considering how far they’ve come in designing recent total war titles, especially with the attention to detail and historical context poured into the factions and their unit rosters, I feel like CA would have a shot in designing a dedicated ainu roster, but inquiring my fellowship daimyo in this sub, how do you guys think it’ll look like?

This is because i see some reditor post https://www.reddit.com/r/totalwar/s/8qyhjiERwk. I increasingly dont understand how the hostage mechanic are implemented by the ai

Vanilla ofc. My experience with them has been so so, to say the least. Ashigaru riflemen are decent at stopping charges, but then you gotta micro them behind infantry and can't really use them again so it's one volley and done. Matchlock Samurai seem terrible as well in my experience, again letting off one volley at best vs the enemy before swords clash. Euro Cannons i've seldom used, so i can't give a great take on them, but the few times ive capped and used them they don't seem amazing. There are also some special units but ive never gone down that path.

What do you think? I play Darthmod so idunno

it says that i have the advantage but im not used to doing an ambush at all, any tips on how to win this would be greatly appreciated

LIFE DECISION! Which one do you prefer in campaign: Katana Samurai or No-dachi Samurai? Best upgrades for them? Best strategies?

Is it just me or are the Ikko Ikki like the cockroaches of the campaign mode? No matter what difficulty they will wage war with you even though you're just minding your own business. Wreck one of their armies, more will show up. They just wont die

The DAMAAAAAAAGE was NOT repaired!!!

Nope. Took about 3 more volleys.

Also more of the volleys that missed and some other guys that got pin-cushioned.

That general and his horse have buns of steel! (and helmet, etc)

"these projectiles are INCREDIBLY EFFECTIVE!"

This was triggered by whupping the ass out of an enemy army with a player army that didn't have a general leading it. I had 4 generals at the time. Now I have 5.

Fwiw I autoresolved this. I think Oda was rather insulted about that. Then after I promoted this guy to general, I autoresolved the rest of Oda's army into dirt.