Oz, sorry for the delay in the answer, but I have noticed your post only today.I'm only seeing download links for the Napoleonic![]()
If the Daimyo is in a city, you can't attack him since human players can't attack cities without declaring wars, but if the Daimyo is out in the open, you should be able to assassinate him just fine without declaring war. Or at least that's how it should work, I don't have any experience in PBEMs to know if the game's different to a normal single-player game of Civ3, though I did test the assassinations with the MP version of the Sengoku scenario.However, as I learned in one of the PBEMs, despite having hidden nationality, it is not possible to assassinate a rival Daimyo, without first declaring war?! (Must be a bug in the game.)
This "Settlements grow to Size 3 without a Hospital" feature also confused me the first time I played Sengoku, but there is nothing in the .biq to indicate how this happens, so I only have an untested hypothesis as to how it works.To my big surprise, my capital grows to size 13?! Hmm, I checked it in the editor: none of the improvements in that city (palace, granary, archive, marketplace, barracks) allows city level 3, and level 2 has the usual limit of 12 citizens?! Anyone any explanation for this?
Just as a side note since you already won the game, King-units (which I'm pretty sure the various versions of Daimyo are) will defend last, regardless of their stats compared to the other units in the stack. So you'd need to work your way through all other defenders before killing the king.it might not be so easy to get their Daimyo in a town well-protected by lots and lots of Spearmen (defense 3) -- unless they upgraded it and it is now top of the stack...
This "Settlements grow to Size 3 without a Hospital" feature also confused me the first time I played Sengoku, but there is nothing in the .biq to indicate how this happens, so I only have an untested hypothesis as to how it works.
I believe that if a .biq includes 3 settlement sizes which can be attained before all BFC tiles are worked, but no building which specifically "Allows Size3", then once Size2 has been achieved, towns simply grow on to Size3 without impediment. That is, it's the presence of a "Size3 building" which tells the game to enforce the (Size2, Pop12) population-cap.
You do still get the Size3 population-pollution, though.
That's good to know. And it explains, why the regular 1/1/1 Ashigaru was still top of the stack in Sendai... (I completely forgot that even the level-1 Shogun would have defense 2, so would be stronger than the Ashigaru...)King-units (which I'm pretty sure the various versions of Daimyo are) will defend last, regardless of their stats compared to the other units in the stack.