Shogun 2: Rise of the Samurai - Hiraizumi Fujiwara Campaign #1

Shogun 2: Rise of the Samurai. Playing as Hiraizumi Fujiwara on Legendary.
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[@taLLgapasa]

go fuck yourself

[@watt338]

Sub To Dolan Dark

[@tomh4754]

Tolga Gül Loving how legend pinned and favourited this comment.

[@Flow86767]

Tolga Gül wut?

[@jacksons9546]

Russian Bear legend is a king

[@BNSFGuy4723]

Albania GamesRecords That’s Tolga Gül. He be who be, vëlla 😂

[@accipiterluscus7881]

In medieval 2 I had an assassin whom had taken out Multiple popes, assassinated the whole Moor royal bloodline, then I sen him after some lowly Byzantine priest he had a 98% chance of success and got spotted then chased down by the town guard and killed. let's just say it was A shamefur dispray

[@masterdark4105]

Spies in a nutshell

[@_Gandalf_The_White]

Not to forget the universal grunts of the soldiers when they spot him in the cutscene or the spy on army movie where knocking out the guard is clearly audible.

[@gavrilogajic8208]

95% chance is max though

[@patrikhorvath9296]

"Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting them." -The Art of War I love that book.

[@seanhillman1016]

Untrustworthy allies are a feature of Total War games, not a bug.

[@hungphan670]

​@@AzoiatheCobra no they will not turn against you right away they will stay with you as long as the diplomatic point still positive so it's easy to track when they will turn against you and i think it's actually a good thing because you have to wipe out mostly all the map to claim victory so you will likely have to go to war with them at some point and they turn against actually make you not untrustworthy

[@GoodOlChippy1]

João Miguel Azoia weirdly enough both my allies that I’ve had for a long time in my most recent campaign as the Hojo haven’t betrayed me since the realm divide happened. Despite there being a bunch of juicy I defended castles lol. Is probably because I’m playing on hard though, not legendary

[@aaronford4159]

I was playing empire total war and I was the untrustworthy ally I was the AI

[@godisforever7263]

@@aaronford4159 my man just used the uno reverse card ok that's AI

[@coscom100]

I trust my allies and I'll be the first to say I'm an idiot.

[@insertjokeh3r3]

Did you see the new Total War Rome 2 game in the bottom left on the menu? You should check that out.

[@jaymz6473]

insertjokehere There's a Rome 2 now?! Jeez, they're running out of ideas... Next, they'll make a Barbarian Invasion full game...

[@waffelzx_7203]

insertjokehere 😏

[@Achillez098]

They already have, it's called Attila XD

[@LordVarangian]

i bet they will start creating fantasy like warhammer one next

[@woodzy136]

Lord Varangian that's crazy. I'm crying from laughter. Next thing you will tell us is that they will make a sequel for that warhammer game right? Get out of here

[@felixjaeger1635]

Fujiwara is my fav faction in ROTS not only because of good starting regions but buffs to your economy. I never rush through my campaign. I take my time building financial superiority.

[@mathewfrazier1381]

Felix Jaeger Kubuto Fujiwara is the best with their research.

[@someorclad9738]

For historical and me reading about the period and loving the individuals there, I prefer Taira (either one is good). But in terms of being easier and a laid back experience (for me at least), any of the Fujiwara. Its just as you said, good start, decent economy, and maybe its just me, but playing them feels very... calm.

[@Nicator_]

@@someorclad9738 Same! Taira no Kiyomori is like the Tywin Lannister of medieval Japan.

[@Danneman92]

You can afford not to rush and be aggressive because they start in a mega safe position. Compared to the start positions of the Tiara's and the Minamoto's, the Fujiwara's are a breeze.

[@spacewargamer4181]

@@Danneman92 Not at all, they don't have any battle buff in units, their economy is not that powerfull anyway and they have a lot more enemies.

[@jjo3874]

Props for doing this man, rarely anyone let`s play this campaign on legendary, and I know it's in part because it is by far the most difficult (even if you are the Fujiwara)

[@godisforever7263]

Finally, a guy who enjoys rise of the samurai like I do or something like that.

[@chickensforthechickengod9337]

4:35 best intro I've bloody ever seen it was beautiful

[@Danneman92]

I realize this is an old video and that this comment might even ever be seen, but nevertheless, I feel the need to comment what you've said regarding all allies being backstabbers. In my soon-to-be 400 hours I've put into this game I have found the A.I allies to be in the top two of all TW games regarding their reliability (first one being WH) as allies. Granted that your allies have a good reliability rating, they often times sick with you for a long, long time. I've been allied with Dependable/Steadfast clans basically entire Long campaigns, and they joined all wars I've asked them to (which in most cases have been plenty), even vs Mighty/Terrifying clans. I actually finished my Takeda Long Legendary campaign today, and Imagawa and Sagara rolled with me practically the entire playthrough. Using the word "practically" because the alliances didn't last 100% of the campaign because Imagawa died, and I messed up with the Sagara by requesting them to join me in a war against Chokosabe, to which Sagara was allied with. Later on however I vassalized Imagawa and re-allied Sagara, which lasted till the end of the campaign. Imagawa was Dependable, and Sagara Steadfast, and they stayed with me even after RD. I was never once betrayed by an ally/vassal faction (believe me, I had plenty of both ;P). However, something that would even make an otherwise reliable ally unreliable is this game's HARDCODES. Your sisterclan in this for example is HARDCODED to declare war on you if you take Fukushima, hence why did it now. If you don't, however, there's a high chance that they'll stick with you for a very long time. When I played this as Minamoto (the one who starts in Takeda territory) my Kiso Minamoto sisterclan stayed with me till she died (around 50-60 turns in if I remember it correctly), and joined me every single time someone declared war on me. Needless to say, I'm very happy with alliances in Shogun 2, ;D

[@spacewargamer4181]

I did a shogun 2 campaing once where I became shogun and I would still have even 4 allies that with -200 still would stick with me, was awesome, but I didn't rished enought to make the objetives, so it wasn't that right. And in RotS vassals made after RD would not betray me even when they were treacherous

[@UnbekannterSoldat74]

Unfortunately the game does not deepen the 'request allegiance' feature. For example you could have multiple choices of how to achieve a town's loyalty: Bribe the local court (money intensive), make reform promises to the people (where you then have to implement reforms like in Rome II in the following turns, but which please the population - otherwise the people become unhappy), or make privilege promises in which a town becomes your protectorate, not directly controlled by you. Each of these options would have their own requirements in costs, how much pro percentage there must be to use them and having their own chance of success. You would literally have to choose the best option for the town and decide what eventual risks you would accept from your choice.

[@LuizAlexPhoenix]

I saw someond actually ask for this once and agreed. Legend is now doing it. Therefore, Legend accepted a request. lol Seriously, though. I like this campaign. The only annoying part is exactly what Legend mentioned. Samurai aren't cost effective. The name of the pack is RotSamurai and the Samurai aren't that good.

[@kingKapuzina]

Samurai are quite good on the battlefield since your normal levy flees so fast. Just not cost-effective on a strategic level (garrison, mass, autobattle)

[@AxiomRazer]

Those shoulder pads are ridiculous

[@htoodoh5770]

AxiomRazer They are shield, I think.

[@jedyzichterman358]

AxiomRazer Historically accurate, and not as ridiculous as you might think in terms of protection

[@mercurianrepublic5943]

Omg i didn’t even know this existed!My first campaign was with this very faction and it was very fun.I guess i know what i’m going to be watching this week!:D

[@landstreikerdood5376]

A nugget of wisdom. "Plans Never Survive Contact With The EnEmY"

[@grasa95]

"I played a bit of fall of the samurai and i didnt enjoy it that much" Well that didnt age well :)

[@amarsofiane]

i think the quote is more like " to defeat an enemy a 100 times out of a 100 is not the height of skill, it is defeating them without having to fight them" or something like that

[@Bayonet1809]

It is all a translation from Chinese anyway, so any English version is always going to be an approximation.

[@thstguy8023]

Wah legend using agents?

[@ColonelCrisp]

What a twist.

[@matthewmiller9485]

About dang time someone does a Rise of the Samurai campaign on KZbin!!!

[@noirdessaim]

"I take offense at being called an idiot because I'm an idiot" What a legend.

[@maxmustermann-zx9yq]

thats what I like about FotS: almost all Units have the same size and replenishement

[@MartinBeseda]

Fujiwara is my favourite! Still, I'd like to see such a full playthrough for Kamakura Minamoto - I'm not able to win the campaign on anything harder than Normal...

[@DraconiusDragora]

"Lets get trade ships in these... Ah shit..." ~LegendofTotalWar

[@Jazzingguys]

I always felt that the Rise of the Samurai campaign was so boring and slow. Hope you give it some life.

[@GutsLikesItInTheAss]

Yeah it's bland and repetitive. FoTS is the best, much more unique and diverse units. On top of default Samurai units u got Napoleon style gun battallions + Western Marines. And massive gun ships.

[@pride2184]

also the campign is so small and easy

[@Danneman92]

@@pride2184 What? The campaign map is literally the same as vanilla and FotS. And, it's by NO means "easy", unless you play on low-medium difficulties, because then it'll obviously be easy.

[@pride2184]

@@Danneman92 um even on the hardest its easy. Just play every battle and bam easy. Only issue is rebellions. But still easy. I want a hard campaign unlike rome 2 constant rebellions and civil wars each game has its cheese moments but ai just can't beat players who are actually competent. I top 100 on leadervoards on rome 2 and shogun 2 so I think battling is how you make it easy

[@kman9060]

Wow legend I didn't know you were a weeb.

[@willybilly1644]

xD

[@Klubargutan]

Shogun 2 is the best total war to date!

[@ll061231]

Hey Legend! like your vids man, you always come up with new interesting campaigns like this one, makes me wanna play shogun again :)

[@AndrewWantsToRock]

Dude that last battle was awesome, I honestly thought you were going to lose

[@qq-lw2vp]

I played as the Fujiwawa and took half of Japan and every clan declared war upon me except my loyal Fujiwawa ally and lots of my own provinces started a revolt and I had to move back my two army’s and I am going to die.

[@coloradoing9172]

What happened next?

[@WolfpackWargaming]

it'd be cool to see a fall of the samurai campaign but legend goes completely traditional with his armies and wipes out gunpowder and establishes a republic

[@Tanakun09]

You were wise to choose this faction. Now you can protect your rear flank and position

[@jacksons9546]

Very interesting. I’ve always thought FOTS was fun and Rise was boring but I didn’t get far. Watching this to see what I did wrong

[@Epic0201]

25:50 Welp there you go, take my like xD

[@claycashman8665]

Legend your now the Sassanid Empire with agents lol. Keep up the great vids man

[@TheArthurega]

where's the civil war ?

[@itsBepizz]

Talk about fujiwara were they good at drifting with horses?

[@amarsofiane]

doesn't kaizoku literally mean "pirate"? so isn't kaizoku pirates mean "pirate pirates"?

[@Amutsal]

Yes, it's a weird habit some translators have where they want to flavor the text and make it obviously foreign while also trying not to lose meaning. It leads to a lot of strange decisions in their work. A personal peeve of mine is how they use the Japanese word for weapons in unit names (katana, yari, naginata) for some units, but not others. For example the bow units where they are just called "Bow Samurai". ffs quit trying to be artistic and just be consistent in your work.

[@yurisc4633]

Yes.

[@tomh4754]

Amu But naginatas, katanas no-dachis and yaris are all Japanese unique weapons. Similiar, yes, but they are different to medieval European arms. The bow however is hardly Japanese; what do you want them to call it? The 'Arrowishootyari Samaru'?

[@Amutsal]

As far as this game is concerned there is little practical difference between weapons as they are still used in the same roles using the same tactics. Are you arguing that there is a real fundamental difference between a Japanese sword and a European sword? And in contrast to that, are the bows just that much more similar? All I am asking for is consistency in their work. Whatever the naming conventions.

[@Bayonet1809]

Bow Ashigaru should be named Yumi Ashigaru, they even say it in their voice lines when you click on them in battle. I remember in AoE3 they called them Yumi Archers, which is not quite as bad.

[@matkobednjanec3478]

I really hope so that you have incrised the size/font of inventory, I mean that is supper small

[@XoreisBlood]

I've been watching these playlists thinking the normal shogun is like a 50 episode playlist why is this only 10... then I see the 1:36:58 time and realize they are super long episodes.

[@abdullahqaiser6050]

ahahaha "I can do do the info for them so just shut the fuck up" thats gold😂😂

[@_Gandalf_The_White]

Kill as many as you need to... Unless you're playing Scythia... The world will burn for asking me every turn to be a protectorate.

[@mercurianrepublic5943]

For a Scythian snapa neither late nor early,he sacks precisely when he means to.

[@davideandreagalelli6175]

Regarding the alliances in Shogun, I have noticed that the higher the level the more unreliable is the IA

[@sunzelretch22]

I'm surprised you're playing RotS, not many Total War KZbinrs play it. Still hoping for a Call of Warhammer Kislev campaign from you, I can already see the missile cavalry spam.

[@mahartma]

Cool series, Rise is so underrated. My go-to faction, too :)

[@Jello_Criminal]

1:15:00 of staring at a map. Nice game of risk

[@AvengerAtIlipa]

Good plan. The ai cant declare war on you if they dont know you exist.

[@Erik-ow8lq]

"Ok I can do the intro, shut the fuck up" lol hahahaha xD. Almost lost my cup of coffee on that one +LegendofTotalWar

[@nymerie]

If you capture a province and the enemy has some building that you don't really need. Why demolish it? What do you gain by doing that? Just keep it. For example at 45:18 he did it.

[@ethanruigrok7946]

you get a building slot to build a useful building from

[@dolphinhos]

dude that last fight was another thing..

[@burntbread5110]

you are feeding my illness legend

[@arthegor]

Lionheart's warring machine hahah I died there.

[@mmksquared]

If you haven't learned already Legend gives 0 fucks about what you want or care about and does what he wants.

[@xDiranx]

has he always had such a giant chip on his shoulder?

[@xDiranx]

I am new here, do tell.

[@xDiranx]

and how does that justify him being a dick? there are numerous ppl who can do that? is an abrasive personality his UPS?

[@xDiranx]

Spend 5 minutes using youtube and youll find tons of ppl who pride themselves in their Total War abilities. If youre into Shogun 2, try MrSmartDonkey, he does tons of Legendary stuff. I think SurrealBelief and KingofMacedon do all sorts of Total War? Not sure tho. The fact that you couldnt go 3 comments without being insulting probably says a lot about you and his fan base. Nobody ever said anything about being offended. Simply asked if thats his usual jolly self, or if someone rubbed him the wrong way. You were the one who went from 0 to "Fk of m8 u c0nt, tis his stlez" hero.

[@AnthroTsuneon]

I feel you'd get bored of Fall of the Samurai, as well, since many of the modern units are functionally almost identical, other than stats. Maybe one or two ability differences. But the traditional units are still good fun to use

[@tcc5750]

41:08 "All according to plan"

[@PG19871230]

Heroic victory

[@saberpendragon271]

Is it wrong that I just leave the tax rate at normal and never mess with it?

[@1kvolt1978]

It's a proper way to go. Raising taxes greatly deteriorates economy, so it is kinda the last resort. You should do it only if you absolutely need it.

[@1kvolt1978]

Or not :).

[@CalNostra1109]

based giga chad doing what he wants. Respect. Gunpowder time frame sucks.

[@ziyankhan8499]

really that shitty face he would have made while mocking his "loyalist" subscribers!

[@aggrisabernathy8770]

LoL Legend is a Tsundere."It's not like I like my viewers or anything, Baka."Tsundere (ツンデレ, pronounced [tsɯndeɾe]) is a Japanese term for a character development process that describes a person who is initially cold and even hostile towards another person before gradually showing a warmer side over time.

[@willybilly1644]

who the fuck cares

[@czarpskov3337]

i died laughing after seeing that

[@thienvuchau2100]

Hell yeah!! Finally!

[@gastonhitw720]

hell yeah!, then make one of the Fall of the samurai with Darthmod, epic shit dude and is not that bad, maybe u didn't enter too far in the campaign

[@Azariven]

Finally! Nice!

[@begelzim]

When you base intelligence off of a Total War Game :)

[@kman9060]

But can you get a Civil War?

[@deriznohappehquite]

I'm an idiot and I don't trust my allies.

[@greaterdanemark2397]

John D. Those two statements shouldn't mix

[@trippfields279]

36:44 That's what she said

[@The_Blackshield]

Awww yeah. Going to enjoy this one, fucker. :)

[@101osin1010]

anyone see the "fuk u" engraved on the map

[@fabianustertius6460]

29:33 what a bad luck

[@stevenvroom1041]

Oh. They teach Japanese in high school in Australia? Or was that just a personal thing? I guess it makes sense because Japan is the closest thing to a developed neighbor country... Right?

[@Bayonet1809]

They taught (and I believe still do teach) Japanese at high schools in New Zealand too, although in these times teaching Chinese would make more sense, as Japan is no longer the major power in the Pacific it once was.

[@stevenvroom1041]

Interesting. Somehow I just kind of assumed (stupidly so) that everyone learns English, French and German at high school. I guess people can make really dumb assumptions if they never think about the subject.

[@Bayonet1809]

That assumption is not entirely wrong though, in NZ at least the standard options provided apart from Japanese are French, then German. After that I believe Spanish, then Chinese, then Latin if one goes to a prestigious school. I think Australia differs in that Indonesian is very common, due to Indonesia being the closest country to Australia.

[@stevenvroom1041]

German in New Zealand? That's kind of odd since German isn't a wide spread language as far as I know.

[@Bayonet1809]

Well, it was an option at my high school, but I am going off five year old information.

[@calinrazvan8502]

I really hope for more Rome 2 in the future :D

[@ncvg2107]

Hiraizumi??

[@DrCornTato]

fuck yeah

[@tateroyal9811]

Yeah allies mean shit in shogun 2

[@Jenniferentrance]

are you a weeb legend

[@DannyMakesVideosIGuess]

I have a feeling.... Absolutely fucking not, just doesn't seem to be something he'd be into

[@rainthegenericname_7131]

This is a shot in the dark...

[@ConciseOxford100]

3.07 wtf?

[@Jixxor]

Unsure why it would make someone an idiot for saying a campaign is hard when actually playing the game and not just auto-resolving everything? Can as well go play CK3 then because if you don't do the battles manually (at least regularly) then why play a Total War game when CK outclasses those in every other aspect but the real-time battles?

[@tecneck8669]

30:40 Heh

[@KvltKommando]

lol goblin doom divers

[@greaterdanemark2397]

Haha cool

[@jonnyo9193]

I cringe every time you jack up the tax rate Legend. You always want to keep it on normal tax rate so the town growth increases, which raises the overall province wealth a substantial amount over time, greatly improving your economy.

[@Bayonet1809]

But in the early game at least, the extra money is more important imo.

[@christianhunter473]

Hey No Not Nice You Stop Don’t Make Him You I Want Get Your Way Now Stop Bad More is Your Baby Now Go It Carry now

[@ПётрПавловский-щ1х]

WHAT?