Nobunaga's Ambition Abridged #2 - My Loyal Meatshie- I Mean Allies!

Now we need to go and steal our neighbour's territory, for honour, and what more honourable way to do it than to use the lives of our other neighbours as downpayment?
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[@tambrone]

"Human wave assault tactics, we must use." - Yoda, probably

[@OfficiallyDevin]

Nonsense - conscripts aren't 'human'! ATTAAACCCKKK!!!

[@The-Plaguefellow]

14:55 You _are_ Nobunaga, Devin, not just "kinda". Don't you remember how Nobunaga decided to share your body with you after your Moe Tapdancing Adventures in 1920s New York City? I think I'm gonna keep the _Sakura Wars 5_ references up for as long as possible, by the way.

[@OfficiallyDevin]

So easy to forget these crucial details, must be the dark lord corrupting my mind, thanks for reminding me who I really am. The 7th heaven awaits!

[@ZERO-lz2qu]

Amazing Devin!!!! I never knew you like to play this one! Tip when playing this game - confusion - usually are dependant on the officers 'abilities/trait' and 'tactics' - mostly tactics when they are on the field. Charges, Volleys etc. are affected by how good the officer is. This reflects on how high/low the damage they can inflict towards the enemy and how much they can absorb damage. A low tier officer and high tier officer can perform 'Charges' but notably, the high tier officer tends to have better hitpoints and dmg application than the latter. But this also depends on the enemy officer as well. If your officer fights an enemy officer with higher calibre than yours. Your officer has 30-50% chance he/she can win. Factors such as tactics are also needed to be taken into an account. Adjutants also contribute to this as well. Policies are divided into 3 categories - Progressive /Neutral/Conservative. The policies are affected by how high is the innovation level of your clan is. The higher it is, the more progressive your policies become and vice-versa. However, officers within your clan with differing tenements (prog/neutr/consv/) to your policy and can affect their loyalty as it reflects on their world view. If you call an ally to take an enemy castle you both share and they manage to take it with you around. Whoever was the first to siege the castle takes the castle and doesn't reflect on how large your military contribution is. Hope this helps you in the future.

[@OfficiallyDevin]

Thanks for the tips!

[@yosee334]

It's a fun game indeed, especially if you are familiar with sengoku jidai period history. Try another clan next, with strong traits like the satake, the shimazu, the date. The takeda you should try at least first, in early campaign set up, so Harunobu (shingen) still have many more fierce retainers. Manage your territory with castles focusing on farm and military I use 4 farm (strictly cargoman and hunting ground), minimum 3 military facilities (cathedrals conjunction with one garden), and destroy "historical" forts if necessary to make chain of fortress with consideration of specialty in the region, trade ports for official traders. For example, if one forts or castle have specialty, and also access to trade ports, I make another fort close to trade ports with sufficient district thus the fort can have official trader (example region of ichijodani castle and nanao castle). If a province because can't do that strategy (like the Suzuki domain), I make the castle specific for "economic zone" in which another castle nearby (tsutsui or kiriyama palace) must be made as "covering" if the Suzuki castle attacked. Always make chain of castles in two fronts before expanding further, and destroy historical fortresses if necessary for better strategic positioning for resupplying of troops, economic reasons (specialty in the region). Then you can be a mammoth. Playing the Oda, I always go "up" and west first. Like the 3 castle one army group, example : (toyama, oyama, nanao --> I destroyed two "historical fortress up there and make one fortress instead in between, so the fortress can get benefit by official trader facility, not nanao itself). Then ichijodani, matsukura, gifu as one front (I destroy the two castle nearby the iida, and instead make one fortress in the choke intersection), Then another front will be kiyosu, toba and kiriyama. Those three army group will be my eastern front. I leave the Suzuki castle, kishiwada (usually have more than one can be made inn really boost economically), Osaka and nochiseyama as "economic regions), where takaya, tsutsui, iga ueno, azuchi, odani (later) and yakami, and next to nochiseyama as my Western front armies. It's a fun game indeed you can make grand strategy with it. Make a strong foothold, because the eastern clans far more stiff then the west (date, hojo, satake, uesugi, takeda). And in the east more prominent fierce retainers can be subdue and employ. So my strategy as Oda will always make foothold in the border of takeda - uesugi first, then conquer kinai, start with toba and kiriyama. Next will be fun to be opponent of nobunaga. Hehehe. I like play as satake, and most definitely takeda.

[@tonyfranksland428]

In this game siege is all about the stat. Leader with higher int and manpower can siege out enemy faster and easier

[@AnacondaNL]

So a bit of a thing I noticed in a lot of playing. Doing a lot of side things can make you accidentally break the historical quest line, like you mention. Sometimes it just skips something but if you do a lot on the side you can easily just run out of historical quests and then the game just continues without quests. In this case, Nagashima is part of the story like you mention and does become an important quest. I hope it didn't break the progression with story quests for you! Although, you could just make your own story at any point, as you're really good at it. Just the wrong channel for it now :P

[@OfficiallyDevin]

Yeah I think it's going to be easy to ruin everything accidentally, although that may not matter in the grand scheme of things. I'll just try to not die and see what happens!

[@earlofsandwich6174]

16:18 Reappearance of Great Lord Miyoshi (from Nariko's Treasure series).

[@benfrancis7745]

This makes me want to go back and watch legend of nobunaga...

[@sgtsnek962]

Wasn't the music from this game used in your NLP "Nariko's treasure"?

[@OfficiallyDevin]

Yes, can't believe they stole it from me!

[@RexOedipus.]

@@OfficiallyDevin damn time travelling devs!

[@hung-yenhoang1462]

Good times...

[@sgtsnek962]

@@hung-yenhoang1462 yea i loved that series

[@michaelbandada9887]

“We must take Mino from the Saito! It is something that I must accomplish by any means necessary! I shall do it to fulfill my ambition- I mean, avenge my father-in-law, Saito Dosan!” -Oda Nobunaga

[@Brian82406]

Well, I hope you didn't kill all the good generals from Saito. Quiet a few of them are actually related to the story line, like Takenaka Shigeharu. Nobunaga didn't always kill his enemy, he employed quite a lot of talented generals under his command. Historically, Nobunaga allied Takeda (1565) by marrying his adopted daughter to Shingen's 4th son (Katsuyori, who later took over after Shingen's death and failed miserably), went south to annex Nagano Clan in Ise (1567), and then entered Southern Omi (Rokkaku Clan) (1568) from there. It is a valid strategy you can "replicate". You should still have tons of time to take over capital. Anyway, fun video!!

[@briishpatriot2157]

I believe that officially Devin is gods true name

[@rintv3675]

Ah yes. It's very easy to roadblock/traffic jam. Iirc, the limitation is the number of units ( aka the number of battalions deployed ) and not the number of men inside each battalion. Consider dropping weaker hp battalions in favor of higher hp ones once the battles become larger.. I usually prefer progressive systems for tech. Iirc, a lot of the later techs increase maximum troop size, which is handy in the late, late game. Don't forget to befriend small independent clans! The small clans you can befriend ( the minor factions ) are kinda terrible, but they do give you a bonus army unit in every fight you take (they basically teleport there lol) and give you a small bonus ( some give horses, guns, etc ) and you can "absorb" them later for population eventually. Supplies are the greatest hurdle for most of the early game until you get your farming economy going. It ties into the districts ( and is a general pain in the behind tbh ) Manpower gets annoying as well depending if you're fighting a bigger faction, though generally it only becomes a problem once you're in a shogun 2 "realm divide" scenario. There's a uh... I think it was region system you might want to experiment with later once you've grown large enough. It basically lets you hand portions of your empire to ai vassals under your control; they'll still use your resources and your land, but it makes for hefty automation of certain tasks ( like pressing the economy button every turn. Very handy) With proper adjustments, it can even make wars on its own too. Sadly I don't remember who owns the castle if you have lots of people fighting over it. I remember it being "whoever is the first guy on the stack/queue" but I might be mistaken.

[@RodolfoGaming]

That title tho. Brilliant. Superb vid as always mate

[@TheAleatoriorandom]

Victory, victory and even more victory! Algorimth, algorimth and even more algorimth!

[@Barista.Nathan]

It is best to use a charge against a very large enemy as a very small army. Say you have an army of like 500 lying around. Charge that into a flank as a sacrifice against a very large opponent to severely weaken it. It's best used in this case, when you have a lot of small armies against one massive death stack. You'll probably find that useful in battles against the Uesugi and Hojo, who tend to have a few castles with MASSIVE armies.

[@tenchimuyo69]

Castle taker is always who starts the siege first unless a script says otherwise. Was actually a problem in Iron Triangle, as it made the campaign less dynamic. Hojo would always ask Takeda to take Musashi, Takeda would always get there first because of their cavalry bonus... and in doing so would cut the Hojo off and block their expansion.

[@thearmoredgamer9912]

There is a tutorial that does help with the mechanics. and just so you know their is a naval battle that will eventually happen I forget when (I own this game on ps4) just so you have a heads up"

[@spartanassassin5839]

Rather than using automatic move, you can select a gathering spot where these troops would gather and move after they gathered at the specific location. That's part of the system Koei in nobunaga's ambition as well as ROTK applied so that things like accidentally meeting a stronger enemy and loss would be avoided.

[@OfficiallyDevin]

Oh, in the next part I complain about not being able to do this, better look this feature!

[@spartanassassin5839]

I'm more of a Three Kingdoms player and played less in nobunaga. But if I'm not mistaken the feature could be found around the military selection or something and there's one that allows you to choose the gathering location. But it's worth the check.

[@soviet_tank_lover]

Edit: Just noticed that Devin took mino province 14 years earlier than Nobunaga did irl, huh. History spoiler about the azai/oda relations. The azai later do betray the oda which causes a clusterfuck of a retreat for the oda forces which almost completely collapsed the oda clan

[@SeanHiruki]

How to get the Azai to trust you? Easy just send your sister Oichi

[@ralseidreemurr5082]

Devin is secretly oda

[@MrPizzamoe]

For the charging thing: it basically seems to be a large multiplier on dmg. Which means stuff like attack buffs and confusion on the enemy will have a proportionally larger effect. At least in my experience this seems to be sensible. So maybe try to buff your melee Attack or sth with another ability and then charge. If it works like i think the charge should work as a multiplier to the dmg buff.

[@Barista.Nathan]

IIRC the faction with the most raw troops at a seige gets control of the castle.

[@tremor3258]

Coordinating troops from various points to be able to gather for an assault without having to involve is a feature I"d love TW to have if we could do something about the way total caps per army worked in that system.

[@aldouztek2784]

The clan unit with highest LDR among the 3 siege unit will own the castle upon succesfull siege

[@Vicnotinho]

I think is best for u to focus on trops and agriculture, this game is all about having bigger number, bigger traits and bigger trops

[@jacobtrebilcock2070]

you gain the castle by being there first. even if you brought 500 troops and the allies bring 10000. you will still gain the castle. if you got there first

[@Temuho]

Your voice sound like the king and generals voice's channel

[@SuperCrumpets]

this game is good, the campaign is so much better than total war campaigns in alot of ways, especially the realtime campaignbattles. if only the manual battles had more tactical depth to them like shogun1 total war.

[@goodcomrade2949]

Yes I love how moving armies is much more strategic. but sadly the real time battles look very ugly and looks very limited

[@levinforever5086]

I think attacking rokoku might be better and azai will pobably help u alot on this base om real history

[@kingofhavoc9227]

Loveing the series, could make a good Narritive lets play. also if ye deside to try out the " new world mod " i commented about a couple videos ago, make sure to have the following mods to make it a bit better/ nicer. Orbis Terrarum II - Open Beta Rome II HD: Legacy of Rome HD Cities v2.0: Darker colors WITH new Barbarian Cities [DeI+all Campaigns+DLC] Rome II HD: Legions of the Imperator Rome II HD: Heroes of Zama Rome II HD: Sons of Mars AAA: Generals - Punics (Aging, Advancing, Acclimatising) (Carthaginians) AAA: Generals - Greeks (Aging, Advancing, Acclimatising) AAA: Generals - Rise of the Republic (Aging, Advancing, Acclimatising) (Italians) AAA: Generals - Romans (Aging, Advancing, Acclimatising) AI Cheat 2.0 ( to make the Ai get better troops and be more aggresive.) AAA: Generals - Rise of the Republic (Aging, Advancing, Acclimatising) (Italians) the modder is going to update the mod soon so its gonna get better in a couple of days. also when you active those mods it turns off the names of the fantasy factions but that's abount it, the factions exsit and you can play them just fine but no names. ( try troy, their troops are really stylish! or the etruscans if you want a really hard start!)

[@elconejofunco]

Praise the algorithm! Glory to the Oda!

[@chrisyotas5854]

YAY 28th! Also thx for making this a series.

[@Mandatorian-r7o]

Priase the Algorithm! Also is it just me or do you sound a little more 'not bored' in this video. With the Sparta campaign you sound borderline annoyed but in this one you sound normal

[@OfficiallyDevin]

This is correct, planning to play some more new games this year, should help with my sanity

[@vincentlius1569]

Do you know how to make the AI move historically ?, mine always end up with Takeda didn't attack imagawa also Matsudaira being attacked by Tokugawa (I played as Tokugawa edit officer)

[@levinforever5086]

For azai Shouldnt oichi (nobunaga sister) get married to nagamasa

[@levinforever5086]

Well she got married to him Later 😅

[@schlesi1.044]

yay

[@Vicnotinho]

The troup who surrounder first gets The castle, u can have 300 trops of yourself and 10000 of an ally however if u gets to surrounder first The castle is yours. I love this game and have played a lot. Im not really interest in the historycal part i like to play as a new clan with my retainers

[@chringlanthegreat4556]

Hello there

[@yurisc4633]

General Kenobi

[@buzoianumihai7654]

Noiceee !!

[@Fonix00]

Algorithm . Incoming