***Official Shogun Total War 2 Thread***

If you're desperate just get one ship to board it whilst the others own it. I believe it won't be able to shoot back during the boarding. Rinse and repeat.
 
One question I have, on a short campaing, you cant possibly upgrade and maintain all the provinces you own as that woulc consume all your time.

Do you basically get a base together, which generates enough cash to fund you campaing to conquer the 25 provinces in the objective?

I havent left my sideo fthe island yet (8/25 provinces captured) and I think I only have a few turns to go now.
 
Is there a config file you can tweak to change the mouse wheel button to rotate the campaign map, rather than pan it? I.e. the same as the battle map? I cna't find a setting to change this in game.
 
I put all my provinces building up farms etc. i dont build past a strong hold. everywhere has a sake den and a market (or upgraded equivalent) Any province with a weapon/armour smith is where i build my armies. i put the biggest castles i can here (and my origional home province btw) and thats where my armies come from. I try and have no enemies at my back so the push is all in one direction.
 
Took me about 7 restarts for me to work out what to do sensibly and complete the campaign on normal. 50 hours showing on steam to get my 1st win. I wouldn't get to disheartened. But yeah I do the same as another poster use the start town to generate army, when u capture new provinces use these to build farms and saki dens and markets (for money). and then just make a few more provinces for making your army as you take more provinces (ideally with the armour smith on it)
 
After my first full play through (and every bit of the campaign/battle tutorial I could lay my hands on), I've yet to go back and try some more. In a way the short campaign looks challenging given the time constraints and the curve balls that are thrown your way during it, I'm suspecting the middle setting (40 provinces + 6 key ones before 1800) is maybe the easier one to go for.

The build up was slow though, I didn't think I was going to get anywhere near beating it in time, but things picked up pace for one reason or another and ended up coming in well under the limit.

A distant friend's husband of mine (is that right..? distant friend of mine's husband? all looks wrong!) passed along a couple of comments when I first started playing - I was asking for info on playing battles out and that they seemed kind of pointless, he said he doesn't bother with that and just does the 'strategy' side of the game (to which I said I think he just likes to tax the peasants).

It wasn't long before I started to play the same way though, winning most battles through setup and actions on the main campaign board rather than via going into the battle mode itself, except on some specific occassions. That helps move things along too.
 
Loveing this game, still keep trying to play it on legendry haveing loads of fun keep getting my ass kicked but still fun though :D

Manged to get 6 towns all was going well was allied with the bigest faction then they turned on me.

Went well at first took 3 towns in 2 turns then they started throwing everything they had at me affter another 15 turns I am down to just 5 towns and going to lose 2 of them in the next turn lol, So I have a sneaky suspicion that I am going to get my but kicked yet again.
 
What's dreaded about Realm Divide, other than it turning the game into a bit of a gold rush to win? I thought it was normal to kick in at some point and stay that way, should it not?
 
Forde said:
Thread bump: is the dreaded Realm Divide still in the game? Has there been an offical patch about it?
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Don't think so on the patch front (could be wrong though) - there are many mods around that will get rid of it though, pop to Total war centre. :)
 
Okay thanks guys, needed to know it for a review.

topdog@OC said:
What's dreaded about Realm Divide, other than it turning the game into a bit of a gold rush to win? I thought it was normal to kick in at some point and stay that way, should it not?
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I don't really mind RD that much, but it does annoy me that even staunch, long-term allies and vassals (!) turn against you at the drop of a hat.
 
Problem with the RD is it sort of dictates your game and removes much of the long term strategy and politics. Forming strong alliances to help guard a border becomes pointless because you know they will turn on you, so why not just destroy them when they are weak?
 
is it possible to remove the turn limit in the campaign mode and just keep going until you win? I know that removes some of the restrictions but it would give you more time to fully explore all the features of the game and really make a powerful army.

Also it ran like a dog on my:

Ati 5850 Extreme
E6600 @3Ghz
4 Gigs Ram
Windows 7

Was odd - perhaps its the Core2 thats making it suffer?
 
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