The Shogun: Total War thread!

[gangleri2001]

Well, I supose that only few gamers still play the original Total War game. Anyways, it's a classic and this is its forum.

My current campaign (starting at 1550 as the Uesugi clan)

Now I'm playing as the Uesugi clan. I've made a "blitzkrieg" on the Hojo clan's territories but, as you can supose, my blitzkrieg stoped at Musashi (that . .. .. .. .ing province anyone can atack without losing two or three armies). Then I started to recruit all the best units I could afford in order to take Musashi. Then I attacked with my damiyo (Uesugi Kenshin, with a general honor of 6 and battlefield honor of 8) and 1750 men that damn province.

The battle was a honorable defeat. I attacked with 1750 men and the hojo clan sent all its reinforcements of Sagami, so they had 2250 men on the battlefield. It was a bloody battle. My daimyo, Uesugi Kenshin, fought like an hero and he attained a battlefield honor of... 11!!! (my previous record was 9) because his unit alone killed over 200 men!!! Uesugi Kenshin ROOLZ! The aftermath of the battle was 1050 casualties on my side and 955 casualties for the Hojo clan. It was, as I've said before, an honorable defeat.

But the best came the next turn. The Takeda clan, which was an allied of the Hojo clan in order to stop me, betrayed the Hojo since they had no defences on Sagami and they were to weak to stop me (the Hojo clan had at that moment only three provinces, and if they lose Sagami and Musashi they wouldn't have enough founds to keep fighting). The Takeda betrayed them in order to get Sagami and, in an absrud movement I could never understand, the Hojo sent ALL THEIR units placed in Musashi to Sagami, what allowed me to sent the troops that survived the last battle back and take Musashi without resistance! The Hojo then realised that it was an absrud movement and sent some of their troops back and the Takeda (who also wanted to take such an strategic province) sent also a little army. Since both of them had the bulk of their armies fighting at Sagami, they couldn't stop me and retired! What a . .. .. .. .ing lucky strike!!
Now I control the rich northern Japan, I've koku enough to bribe the dangerous ikko-ikki rebs at Kaga and build two impressive recruit centers at the iron-rich provinces of Sado and Hitachi!! Soon I'll be fighting against the Oda clan for the control of the central region.

This is how the current map looks like:

Soon Japan will be mine!!!

 

[Civfan333]

man, I hope they make shogun total war 2

 

[lutzj]

man, I hope they make shogun total war 2

QFT. We need to return to the Far East.

 

[Donkey Puncher]

I have rtwand mtw2 I would love to pay shogun but were can I get it I have looked different places I may just go get eras and be done withit

 

[Civfan333]

that's pretty much the only way to get it.......

 

[gangleri2001]

man, I hope they make shogun total war 2

You're so . .. .. .. .ing right. The game that started the whole saga deserves it!

Here you got some samples of the videos and the IN-GAME music that the players of the original game enjoy:

Mongol battle music

Japanese battle music

The summer tune (so relaxing!)

Download the Mobilize 3 tune, the best tune of the whole saga

Only a game like this could began the saga.

 

[Maniacal]

I've tried playing it but it crashes easily on XP.

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Best game of the series. A Shogun 2 would be lovely.

 

[gangleri2001]

I've tried playing it but it crashes easily on XP.

No, it doesn't because I play shogun total war with XP. BTW, I've written a list of the things that shogun has and the other games of the saga don't.

- Amazing music! The best music of a computer game ever!

- Pretty nice graphics (remember that it's 8 years old)

- The throne room and its scenes

- Rebellions everywhere: ikko-ikki, christians, unhappy farmers, loyalists

- The possibility that a fallen clan may return and, if you get killed by a ninja/geisha and you got no heirs, you can lose even though you're actually winning the game.

- The heirs of the clan and the fact that you must protects their lives, bringing to the game an absolute new dimension because you just can't use your best generals.

- The event vids: defeat and victory vids, europeans arrive to japan, you or one of your generals commit seppuku, the new daimyo vid and, obviously, the ninja and geisha vids. Those vids make every turn an amount of interesting events that change your whole campaign.

- The excellent setting that brings you to that time just like any game of thw saga.

- The fragile alliances.

 

[kulade]

I've never played Shogun, but by the way you describe it and by the videos on Youtube, it sounds pretty awesome.

 

[The Yankee]

I spent so much time playing Shogun back on my family's first computer. I'd waste entire days on it!

I think I should have a copy of it somewhere. I'll have to load it onto my laptop.

 

[Maniacal]

No, it doesn't because I play shogun total war with XP.

Well, it crashes a lot for me.

 

[gangleri2001]

Do you use nero burning rom? Because Shogun total war has problems with this program since shogun consider it to be a debugger.

 

[Maniacal]

No. The game doesn't work without being in, I can't remember which, either that small resolution or 256 colours.

Old games tend to sometimes work fine and sometimes not on XP. I can run a few DOS/Win95 games without any emulation and others I had to use DOSBox for.

 

[gangleri2001]

I suggest you to look for what programm or whatever may create this problem, because I'm pretty sure that it isn't XP itself what causes this.

 

[Maniacal]

I suggest you to look for what program or whatever may create this problem, because I'm pretty sure that it isn't XP itself what causes this.

Well i could, but my hard drive kind of DIED on monday and this problem is from last year when I bought the eras pack.

 

[Elta]

I suggest you to look for what programm or whatever may create this problem, because I'm pretty sure that it isn't XP itself what causes this.

What happens with me is it will choke and log out in the start up area. In campaign it is not so bad ...... it will cut out every hour or so. Never in battle though

What is does everyone's army look like in the end of the game?

I always use the southern most clan and by the end of the game I attack only in the sunny seasons. Take Niginata that are fully upgraded (because they suck in bad weather)
and musketeers that are fully upgraded

I take a few fully upgraded yari cavalry and heavy cavalry as well.
I generally win with only 40 to 50% losses at most. Usually like 20 to 30% because the PC doesn't know how to use niginata and they spam archers which are super ineffective against niginata.

You guys?

 

[gangleri2001]

Naginata and musketeers in my opinion suck. Naginata are too ineffective in bad weather conditions and they are too slow and musketeeers don't let you to attack the troops that are behind the "infantry wall". That's why I prefer archers: they can decimate the enemy troops while your infantry is doing its work, their reload time is pretty faster than the musketeers' and they are way better in sword combat.

 

[Elta]

I always take the high ground/ attack in good weather. And Niginata are basically immune to arrows + musketeers can take out Kensai while archer units can get taken out by just one Kensai easy. It doesn't matter if Niginata are slow. They can absorb a cavalry charge from anything and own when they get there. And if I get attacked it's over, just let them come to you and tear them apart

What do your 16 unit armys look like generally?

 

[Traitorfish]

...musketeeers don't let you to attack the troops that are behind the "infantry wall".

I found that out the hard way- in one of the first campaigns that I played, I tried to use them like archers, and ended up finding out that my casualties were double my enemies kills. Still, I love them just for the spectacle. Nothing like the crash of 400 muskets and the ensuing splatter of enemies to feed a Shogun-based ego-trip!