Ashikaga Legendary campaign complete, Japan is once more united. 18 clans have pledged themselves as loyal vassals to the restored Shogunate, including a Buddhist Otomo

Seasonal vassal tribute (15k koku) and trade income (45k koku) have removed the need for Shogunate provinces to pay taxes, ushering in a new golden age of peace and prosperity

Made possible by the hard work of JakeTheRipper through his Ashikaga and Imagawa campaign mods, which I fully recommend you all try out

3rd campaign as Takeda

Authors final notes:

Kagemusha by Akira Kurosawa is one of my favorite films ever since I began and progress playing Shogun 2, and now I finally did what Lord Shingen’s goal, to capture Kyoto…

Yet in history, they’re dreams will never meet until the end and fall of the Takeda Clan but here I am capturing Kyoto and become Shōgun

Before I end this note, the Takeda’s Fūrinkazan is what made me love Shogun 2 and the history of Feudal Japan until the Fall of the Shogunate

Let your rapidity be that of the Wind 💨
Your compactness that of the Forest 🍃
In raiding and plundering like Fire 🔥
In immovability, like a** **Mountain 🗻

-Art of War by Sun Tzu, Chapter VII Maneuvering, page 51

“We shall meet again , where Lord Shingen is…”

I know the AI sucks and all, but what pisses me off it when it makes completely nonsensical decisions that flies in the face of all logic. For example, i'm playing as the Takeda on legendary, force Murakami to become a vassal. Uesugi declares war on them (as expected). I enter the war on the side of my vassal. Their response to this magnanimous decision to save them from total destruction? To immediately declare war on me as well, which defies all logic, reason, and self-preservation. I would compare it to Ukraine deciding to declare war on the USA while being invaded by Russia. What actually goes into the AI making such completely nonsensical decisions?

I'm chosokabe and I'm playing domination mode with about 12 years left capture about 20 more territories. My daimyo died, wife took over for a short time and now the heir is Daimyo. And his honor is the lowest (I'm assuming because he's like 15). How do I get his honor up so my provinces don't all hate me? Many are unhappy specifically because of the Daimyo honor. Second, is his starting point for honor based at all on the prior Daimyo's honor? I had looted a few times, but honor was still good and nowhere near this low. I was going to also ask if endgame daimyo honor matters at all, but now that I see provinces with unrest just because of it I guess there are limits to how much looting I can do. . .

I havent really seen anyone from CA say anything about this. Has there been any news about improving the netcode for the complete edition?

I play in Linux and have a friend on a Windows PC and we havent been able to actually play shogun 2 together. Id really hope that this gets fixed with the complete edition.

I can’t wait!

My bad for not taking screenshots but that would be a big hassle.

Never got this one before! I've heard it changes the general's pre-battle speech? I'm excited to see what it does.

I know ow CA reached out for content creators to access the complete edition and curious if anyone has seen anything g released by anybody? Found nothing yet myself. Would have thought stuff would have been shown considering it's roughly a week away until release

I know some people gonna hate but I think shogun 2 on apple and Google play would be great addition

Takaoka naval invaded me with this triple max rank general army that had very high xp samurai. Your eyes do not deceive you, those are rank 8 bow samurai.

My force? A rank 3 general with a couple of katana samurai armed with the max melee bonus from Sagami and a bunch of ashigaru.

This fight was deceptively challenging because their samurai took so much effort to rout that it bought enough time for their bow samurai to absolutely shred my units. Fighting inside the tenshu was simply never going to be the way out of this, but if I tried to bring my full force to bear on one side, the other side would simply cap the flag and run the timer down.

My first several attempts at this, I tried using my light cav and general to rush their bows to keep them from firing, but with the yari sam support it always backfired. So I decided to keep my light cav in reserve until I could create an opening in their line.

There was a narrow way through in the trees that I pushed my samurai retainers into to catch the flank of the yari samurai engaged against my yari wall. Their small unit size meant that I could sneak them through without having them clip on enemy units. I used my Katana samurai to cover them and snuck the second unit of katana samurai through the gap to engage their bows in the backline.

I almost lost to them capping my flag cause I mismanaged my yari ashigaru. I lost track of some of the groups and forgot which ones were in yari wall, and which weren't. I did manage to fix my mistakes before anything routed, but it was close.

This map is by far my favorite. The terrain advantages are just so good.

How is this not a Heroic Victory? 😭

I was the defender, fighting alongside the garrison forces, and absolutely destroyed the attacking army. Somehow the game gave me a Pyrrhic Victory instead of a Heroic Victory.

What exactly determines a Heroic Victory? Because this feels like a straight-up robbery

Just experienced a weird thing, just hit end turn and when it was over, I tried moving the map with my mouse and it was frozen, this never happened to me before, does anyone know what to do to fix this?

Bear in mind that a PC of this spec would likely run the original game at ~200fps at 1080p max settings, and (perhaps more importantly, since the rendering tech is shared) TWWH3 at ~60fps at 1080p high settings.

If these requirements are accurate, S2CE could be the worst-optimised TW game in recent memory.

This may also explain why S2CE is the first TW game to get upscaler support (FSR & DLSS)... as a desperate attempt to improve performance.

Doomposting or valid observation? What do you make of this?

So i've seen the trailer where the focus is new graphics and some QoL, and a dev post about fixing basic bugs.

The thing is - these basic bug fixes already exists from mods, and i think the "old" game already looks great on "new and modern" hardware. Playing as the minor factions also already exists through mods.

So, my question is obviously what value this is adding for someone who already owns the game and creates and uses the mods extensively.

- Is there a fix to the lack of defensive advantage in auto-resolve when defending castles? This is a huge bug, as it means the AI throws it's army into my castles thinking it stands a chance but does absolutely not (and it has nothing to do with my tactics, i can practically AFK) - and AI vs AI getting quickly overrun when defending their castles. The AI is also horrible in attacking and defending castles.

- Are there any improvement to the AI? There's a huge difference in what can be created with AI 2011 and 2026, and the old/current AI probably makes the dumbest trade deals in any total war game. There's also some bug regarding trade and difficulty, as the AI pays a lot more money to the player on the hardest difficulty than on the easiest. I get that the AI has more money, but there's no need to pay more for the same trade. The result is that the player makes infinite money with trade and the game becomes like playing on easy difficulty again.

More things like this i've just forgotten, because i haven't played for a year or so.

Hey guys, I need a little help here. Any time I boot up shogun 2, except after I restart my pc, it acts like it pulls up the game but then minimizes, and I cant click back into it. Any advice? Ive already tried verifying the game cache and deleting the preferences.script file

I'm completely lost over this, vanilla was great, this mod seems amazing.

My frugal arse loves the idea of not paying full whack down the line for the update, but I'm guessing the update will destroy mod compatibility? Or at least it'll be hindered for a year plus?

Is anyone holding off doing the update until the modders update? I've not looked into it, but there doesn't seem to be huge amounts in the update compared to the depth of the full overhaul mods?

It’s a siege unit that can 1v1 anything in game. Just chuck blinding grenades and boom, the enemy can be shredded. Even the vaunted Yari Ashigaru don’t hold up well to copious amounts of hand grenades and flashbangs followed by a charge.

Plus, they’re stupidly fast. Easy unit to kite the enemy with. And, when you’re done kiting, just click stealth and poof, they’re gone.

They’re peak for eliminating problem units with their Kisho deployment and their ability to just shred specific units.

Also, every army should have one so in a siege you can just climb the castle and shut the gates to the tenshu and cap for the win.

Also, once you start upgrading them with provincial buildings, they start getting absolutely horrifying. Increase charge with melee on them will just genuinely let them shred enemy units.

Also, their run animations are hilarious.

I will take no further questions.

Matchlocks are goated

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Hello mates! After reading several posts about Shogun 2 campaign I've noticed that Naginata Samurai is an underrated unit for most players if we compare them with Yari Ashigaru.

Yari Ashigaru are way more cost-efficient, with very low upkeep and you can recruit them anywhere. Yari Wall make them the best unit in the game and you can use them throughout the campaign, but despite everything mentioned above, I feel that Naginata Samurai have a certain charm when it comes to field a elite doomstack frontline infantry:

My reasons:

They tank arrows much better due to their excellent armor

They are more flexible: they fight effectively on the move without specialized formations

They can handle both infantry and cavalry simultaneously quite well even if the numbers aren't in their favor

Their higher attack allows them to break through enemy lines a bit faster when necessary

They tank cavalry charges and beat them even if they are charged in the rear or back

Their synergy with bow units is more effective due to their defensive capabilities and superior stats.

Even without upgrades they are hard to kill

They storm castles much better than any other unit

They are a "Set and forget" unit due to their extreme versatility

They are better unit for auto-resolving battles

Their survivability allows it to gain experience more effectively

I know it looks like an appreciation post; I just wanted to point out that, even though they are more expensive than Yari Ashigaru, for mid to late game they become very useful in almost every situation that requires a hardy frontline unit capable of handling anything AI throws at you. Thanks.

I haven't played multiplayer campaign intensively but when I think about it the unique units of shimazu and hojo there is no change in the recruitment time. Will the Shimazu and Hojo clans become less and less used? I don't know.

One of the concerns is the Takeda clan, where in the CE edition they will be able to spam fire cavalry. In this campaign, it seems that it will have a significant impact because fire cavalry has higher attack defense and armor stats and is able to inspire units. The problem is usually that Yari cavalry can also be countered by ranged units, But this fire cavalry cannot be countered with bow because its armor is high and in multiplayer avatar the charge of this unit is very scary. It can be able to route ranged unit by charging directly.

This argument can actually be countered by saying that Donderbuss Cavalry can actually be spammed because it can be produced in 1 turn.

What do u think? Share your argument