When half your army switches sides

[@RTEducators]

Player in desperation: "Legend, you see those stacks of armies?" Legend: "I see them." Player with confidence: "I don't want to see them anymore." Legend: "You're not ready for this. But okay." (proceed to annihilate everything while admiring the hills)

[@RTEducators]

😁@@isaacalves97

[@Ap0lIon]

I´m hoping for a "Legends Top 10 favourite hills to (not) die on" video

[@rixx9285]

While admiring the hills, hilarious

[@RTEducators]

@@rixx9285 yes while admiring those voluptuous big hills…

[@fischerbasham678]

he destroyed everything in part because he "admired" the hills

[@oliverhughes610]

These battles always make me laugh because like the entire war only had something like 8000 dead irl

[@righteousham]

Yeah, the actual Boshin war was relatively bloodless. So much so that one of the "historical" battles you can fight--the fall Osaka castle--is mostly fictions. The castle was burned but the defenders surrendered it without resistance after the Shogun fled.

[@NathanCassidy721]

Is that from actual battles or does that account for peopl that died from disease. This is not an area of history I’m familiar with, but I know a vast majority of deaths in wars are not on the battlefield but the hospital. Mostly due to post-battle inflections and malnutrition if you cut off supply lines.

[@magnus4945]

that death count from wikipedia is misleading because it leaves out some big battles like the ezo and satsuma rebellions

[@oliverhughes610]

@magnus4945 it doesn't leave out the Ezo republic afaik and the Satsuma rebellion was 8 years later so why would it be included lol

[@thedon9247]

The total casualties (Recorded ones at any rate) were about 13200. These are military casualties, keep in mind. The satsuma rebellion was a direct result of the Boshin war, so including it is a reasonable choice imo, even if it was about 8 years after the boshin war. The satsuma rebellion was quite a bit bloodier, with about 36k soldiers killed and wounded in under a year before the leader of the Rebellion was killed.

[@desserted5446]

Legend at 16:56 : You see those Red Bear infantry? Artillery officer: Yes Legend: I don't want to see them anymore

[@juncheok8579]

That spread was so good

[@nvelsen1975]

Opposing officer: Our troops are flying all over the battlefield! A shameful dispray!

[@b3njiflareon354]

@@nvelsen1975 flying in pieces 😭

[@TheBigManWithTheBiggerPlan]

I knew exactly what moment this was about that was beautiful

[@Bluemangrup]

what is that quote from?

[@LRMRULES]

Hearing Legend go "its cause there not on gaurd mode" in his little voice absolutely sent me

[@kubli365]

oh he noticed good xD

[@w0lf667]

Why is he so allergic to it though

[@LRMRULES]

@@w0lf667 ???

[@w0lf667]

@@LRMRULES I meant whenever he uses it's when he does that or just because people tell him to rather than his own incentive

[@LRMRULES]

@@w0lf667 I have no idea wtf your talking about

[@andrewdelaerranz9648]

The soundtrack when a battle is declared has to be one of the most beatiful compositions CA has made for a total war ever, it gives me lots of different emotions together, brilliant OST.

[@antoniodelaugger9236]

Duty calls!

[@zarakdurrani7584]

I still get nightmares from when playing as Tosa on Very hard, i was surrounded by Obama clan on every side and almost every turn they'd send stacks after stacks to attack my only able fully marshalled army led by the Daimyo himself.

[@Hadrexus]

Shogun 2's Duty Calls and that Warhammer ambient background music both give me the chills

[@jinkeloid]

One day, one day you will have someone edit and compile all parts of the video and stream of you saying “hill” and it will be an hour long.

[@YourBoyJohn817]

One long video but it speeds up every time Legend says "hill" it speeds up 1x

[@YellowSnow]

i love the smoke effects in this game

[@RTEducators]

These battles are slowly becoming more and more impossible... What can possibly get worse than this...? lol

[@ikmalkamal5830]

One general and two Gatling guns against two full stacked armies?

[@spit782]

1 levy infantry vs whole army

[@RTEducators]

I'm going to upload an old impossible battle that I had years ago in Total War Shogun 2. ALL EUROPEAN CANNON vs 2.5 full stacks of samurais + others. Do not ask WHY I have a full stack of European Cannons... it just happened.

[@VanguardDeezNutz]

Garrison levy and some line infantry vs 8000 units

[@Pilvenuga]

Naval battles. FOTS naval battles can be cheesy but they are also brutal.

[@inductivegrunt94]

Legend sure showed those traitors why they shouldn't have defected. Rule Number 1 of FOTS: Never let Legend get the hill, you'll never win.

[@luzhang2982]

Its a classic napolean move. Get there first, setup first. He was an artillery man first and foremost too.

[@Diego000793]

I've been following you for 11 years and I love seeing you cover FOTS. Keep it up Legend!

[@tristanthebaut9716]

you gotta love how Legend is holding the total war community together through the disintegration of Warhammer 3.

[@AquaticSkipper]

Reminds me of mrsmartdonkeys otomo legendary campaign, everything is going sweet, he's all the way east by Kyoto, waaay into the campaign. After his enemies rout in a battle, his general just barely rides in front of otomo blunderbuss cav right as they fire a volley. The volley obliterates his Daimyo and a handful of others. This causes a big drop in loyalty etc, instant civil war, campaign wrecked lol

[@pisuoxide]

Wasn't those tercios instead of blunderbuss? I remember that moment lol

[@Laucron]

Do you have the link to that episode? Thanks in advance!

[@pisuoxide]

@@Laucron The moment itself is in the first 3 minutes of episode "A VERY ROUGH START - Otomo (Legendary Challenge: Gunpowder Only) - Total War: Shogun 2 - Ep.01!" Btw. It was Blunderbuss

[@Laucron]

@@pisuoxide Thanks a bunch man!

[@Sercotani]

I've..never seen this happen. The things you find out every day...

[@benceklock4831]

I didn't even know this could happen

[@robert23456789]

​@@benceklock4831if things really go to hell it dos at times

[@jzerf5329]

I had it happen a couple weeks ago. Lost my daimyo of all things, and rage quit the campaign

[@Pilvenuga]

this is why looting settlements is a bad idea in shogun 2, as that reduces your daimyos honor and in turn, affects the loyalty of your generals

[@proudhellene5874]

Daimyos cannot join the enemy@@jzerf5329

[@quangtrungfromvietnam7243]

What fascinated me the most is that, even a experienced TW player who really know how to build their army super strong, and familiar with the game (since they chose republic) can still struggle with general honours (which is the reason why defection happens). Who could have thought that such an old game can still be this challenging, and you can learn new thing from it (I'm pretty sure there are quite a few people who don't know defection is a thing in shogun 2 and FOTS). Such excellent game tbh.

[@Gitsmasher]

so.. are defections happens because the Clan leader is honourless/low honour? Never seen this happen before.. any imperial/shogunate speacial troops just disband when go Republic

[@VictorrineAurum]

@@Gitsmasher Daimyo traits + Daimyo honor and General's loyalty (Usually because of envy of other generals, wife or traits)

[@StavrosKing]

​@@VictorrineAurumcan it also factor the number/type of units that defect too?

[@UnknownLord711]

What can happen too is if you use a general too much they become less loyal because they gain a trait called vision of grandeur or something and they become very disloyal, I actually had that happen and lost my main army during a republic campaign

[@VictorrineAurum]

@@StavrosKing I think it's random? Unless there's factors that affect it like the longer the units are with the general, the more loyal they are to the general than to the daimyo over newly recruited regiments/battalions? I guess.

[@bladescythe6589]

Imagine if that experienced general who defected saw his previous man leading the army and obliterating those unit stacks. I bet that guy is having deep contemplation in the aftermath.

[@elchjol2777]

General: I trained that man too well.

[@janjansen7129]

Yesterday a Tosa army defected to my side, the surprises this game still throws at you!

[@sup1602]

Hope that army had their riflemen. Repeater rifles < Flintlock garbage.

[@undrgrnd734]

this game doesn't have flintlocks lol you mean muzzleloaders. Muzzleloaders honestly... don't really have as much of an impact. The animation might matter a bit but reload skill matters way more in this game if you are looking at shots per minute

[@PillarOfWamuu]

@@undrgrnd734 Muzzle Loaders are how the weapon was loaded. Flint lock is how the weapon is fired. Muzzle Loading flintlocks are definitely a thing

[@brandonzzz9924]

The smoke is so great in this game. Always amazing to watch the troops become entirely invisible and hope that they survive longer than the enemy

[@Gladerunner2113]

"... So its treason then."

[@SoraTheHappyEmo]

SHAMEFUR DISPRAY

[@tzardnickolasthelitromanov]

0:03 They defected not because of general loyalty here but because, they had a geisha who enchanted a part of his army. (In the timestamp; There's a fan symbol ((representing the embedded Geisha here)) up above the banner of the Tosa daimyo's army). Enchanting is really op (alongside the Ishin/Shinsengumi agent bribe option), while the chance is relatively very low for a general to defect if he has high loyalty. It can still happen (quite a bit, actually) if the Geisha is high level.

[@shubhabrataray1313]

THOT GOT THE MEN ACTING UNWISE.

[@nagrom1003]

Na, this was my battle, it was a defection. The thumbnail highlights the defection. When this happened I selected my full army, attacked the enemy, and then had half an army. Those geisha events are cause there’s agents all over the place up to some mischief

[@tzardnickolasthelitromanov]

@@nagrom1003 I've personally never had that happen to me like that with my almost 1,500+ hours in STW2/FOTS. The only times I've had defections; Was either Bribes and Enchants. If so here; do you remember what that General's loyalty level was?

[@nagrom1003]

@@tzardnickolasthelitromanovI didn’t know it could happen either. Loaded up an old save to see his loyalty and it was 1

[@gonavygonavy1193]

​@@tzardnickolasthelitromanov This could happen when you order a low loyalty general to attack an enemy. In my personal mod I've removed the sources of easy loyalty so switching sides could happen more often, cause I find it interesting.

[@johnrick846]

Got to love that legend gave him back an army with more units in it then what he started with.

[@klaasvaak2575]

I like the whole video, the part at 12:50 however is the GOAT. Just looking at all the lead flying over , smoke everywhere, soldiers running, officers shouting orders. All while the mountain turns grey with smoke. Another terrifying sight for the attacking soldiers where it seems like the whole hill is shooting at them.

[@JGeMcL]

Seeing those cannons just make holes appear in their lines just impresses how terrifying it must have been.

[@BobertRobert437]

You got no kills on the armstrong guns because they were limbered up. For some reason in this game if the artillery isn't deployed, the crew are immortal. They still take damage though, all the horses and men will die in unison with the gun they are attached to.

[@marcusflutist1230]

I've seen poor horsies tank entire gunlines

[@goodguy23]

I have had SHATTERED artillery crews massacre entire cavalry units trying to run them down while retreating. It's kind of bonkers really.

[@derkylos]

It's possible to kill the guns while they're limbered up, it just takes a while with infantry or cavalry. On the other hand, a lucky cannon round can delete the entire crew in a single hit (basically, the unit becomes 4 super-tough entities).

[@_JaiSss_]

"Have you got a moment to admire our friend and saviour - the hill?"

[@Ryuko-T72]

I've had this happen with Saigo Takamori, which is crazy considering him as a person

[@безназвания-у7п1п]

Hey guys, probably this comment's a bit late but maybe useful for those who play at higher difficulty/legend. U actually can avoid defection no matter what ur loyalty is either 1 or even -100 (1 is the minimum but it's countable). So every time u are going to attack enemy's army don;t attack with full squad - just move army at the edge of the red circle and select ONLY ur general and attack with only 1 general and make sure army left as aid fot the battle - in this case they never defect. The reason to attack with general not the rest of ur army is that generals have higher move points and after the battle or if enemy fled it can be crutial that u army didn't move too far from settlement and didn't lose many movement points. The other reason is about getting exp for general. Once ur general assaulting - they gain full exp compared to when they are joining army as aid. The biggest disadvantage of this is that u actually can't use night atack but in the late game with strong army the biggest concern is defection of a 5-6 star general with main army. I am a Tsu legendary enjoyer so this tip helped a lot cos without looting that's just a challeng to develop anything and i always had 1 loyalty

[@soldier22881]

this was so cinematic and epic, a battle on 2 front, the cavalry leading a strategic strike to disrupt the enemy, while the main force holds the first wave, after both enemy detachments are destroyed one final gigantic wave arrives, the men exhausted and running low on ammo brace for the final wave, the cavalry that took ton of losses rides out once more to provide that crucial rear charge, the naval bombardment coming in clutch to change the tide of battle and the artillery doing its job of making problems no longer problems. amazing use of tactics, positioning and most importantly strategy, legend knows how to use terrain, a smart man.

[@freerbx793]

>"close victory" >look inside >5:1 casualty rate

[@AvengerAtIlipa]

You cannot issue movement orders to units in kneel fire mode, but they will still chase after units that fought them in melee unless you also have guard mode on.

[@slymako]

I sort of imagine that if Legend ever got a time machine he'd go around telling famous generals that [insert military unit here] are garbage this patch and they shouldn't recruit them

[@clefsan]

If Legend ever got a time machine, suddenly the Australian Empire ruling the world would become a thing. 😇

[@carrahignett1643]

​@clefsan How do you think the nation state of Australia came to exist? It was called the British empire.

[@clefsan]

@@carrahignett1643please note that I spoke of the AUSTRALIAN Empire, though, not the british one. I was implying that a LegendofTotalWar who travelled into the past and became a proper Warlord/National Ruler could have created an alternate history in which Australia conquered the world.

[@carrahignett1643]

@clefsan Aside from the fact Australians (founding stock) are ethnically British, if he travelled back in time he'd just be expanding the British empire from British owned Australia. However, my initial comment was supposed to be taken in humour. It isn't that deep.

[@tristandell]

@@carrahignett1643☝️🤓

[@trowachess]

Defections that'll make the Skaven proud!

[@MrMyrkaskog]

Wait.. did Sir “Horse Sandwich” Legend just utter the words “Cavalry are the least important units we got!”?? 😂 I thought I’d never live to see the day!!

[@calebbouchard9262]

>forgets to toggle guard mode >also him "WHY ARE YOU CHASING!?" 😂

[@Iceman-135]

That arty shot at 16:59 was just sublime. Every shot hit the unit at once. Yummy.

[@walker1tnranger]

“It’s cause you’re not in guard mode” Yes, exactly 🤣

[@kkrup5395]

The hill cameo is my favorite part of those videos!

[@emanueledimatteo2052]

I love FOTS and after your recent videos i came back to play it, now i know more about thanks to your video i like it even more! Also can you do a video about naval warfare? i fund they are REALLY hard even if they are so incredible

[@NMvapa]

Hey, here are some general tips if you're interested: - Bigger ships mean more base morale, which is really important. Many ships will route before they burn down/get destroyed. They are also generally better, 1 frigate can destroy a few corvettes. - Researching at least explosive rounds will give you the ability to win every battle until mid to late game, as they start fires on wooden ships and the enemy either burns or has to go for repairs. - You can manually control a ship if you need some tricky maneuver that the pathing can't manage - Generally setting a ship's position and facing is more reliable than giving the attack order - If an enemy retreats hit continue and try to sink them/let them burn down, so they don't keep it on the campaign map

[@Diego000793]

There's really only 1 tip for naval warfare: get explosive rounds. Later on try to get the armour piercing explosive rounds for an guaranteed win. You can win naval battles 1:4 only because of the ammo type . In the campaign map, bigger ships are great, but a prefer the biggest one that you can recruit in one turn, since the AI can be annoying and is hard to keep track of all of the enemy navies, especially after RD

[@KimmoKM]

To add to the other post, "crossing the T"/raking fire (since the guns are placed at sides of the ship, bringing your broadside against enemy bow or stern allows you to put your full firepower to bear while they can't retaliate) is pretty much the most powerful tactic you can do, but it's difficult to perform in practice, especially considering the AI is actually pretty good at facing their broadside against your approaching ships and likes to turtle. However, this behavior is also exploitable: since "turtling" is such a high priority for them, you can use first-person fire mode to fire at enemy ships without them reacting, since the AI doesn't react until you are actually at range, but because shots have some deviation in terms of their length, you can hit perhaps half of your broadside from just beyond the listed max range of the ships. It's extremely cheesy, but then, if you are playing on higher campaign difficulties, I think everything is fair game.

[@ilari90]

You can cheese the naval battles when attacking, you need to manually shoot, just outside firing range, that way few of your shots hit the enemy, sometimes. You can take out whole fleets with one ship. It's freaking slow and tedious, but yeah, I do it that way.

[@emanueledimatteo2052]

Thank you all i will try to follow your tips

[@chodie4u]

If there's one thing I've learned from watching Legend play Fall of the Samurai it's that hills win campaigns.

[@SaltyRocksPew]

This is the first disaster battle I've seen where you actually gained 2 units and didn't lose any

[@johngordon7429]

Achieving victory with army of 1740 using the terrain, interlocking fields of fire, ans perfectly timed naval barrages against a massive force of 8393. What a legend...of total war!

[@soldier22881]

Thanks!

[@bertchintus4103]

Goddamn, that first battle was so expertly handled, phenomenal stuff mate

[@Raptor747]

It literally was because your units weren't on guard mode. I've played a bunch of FOTS, and I can confirm: if you put them on guard mode, they will not end up way out of position because they won't just continue to chase the units you right-clicked on until they've routed (or your unit has routed).

[@seandilallo8718]

This was insane. It was like watching Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg.

[@conorfowler]

Hill stonks after Legend's recent videos 📈

[@boeyOwO]

In 0:58 u can actually make your general able to help the seige by selecting your entire army march to the location > spilt army > join > spilt again. ITs an expolite I think Since your gerenal has more movement area than your army and if u spilt your army it will spawn your spilted army infront of your old army on where you want the spilted army go. so u can do this: Move your entire army to the location, then spilt entire army without your gerenl, so your gerenal can move again, select your general to join back the army until your geneal cannot move or join any more, it can spilt around about 2 to 4 times. Then you have to spilt army again but in another way. This time you have to leave a unit behind which spilt all the army except 1 Levy infrantry. default Army : 1 Gerenal + 8 Levy Infrantry to Army A : 1 levy Infrantry + Army B: 1 Gerenal + 7 Levy Infrantry u can do it until u run out all the levy infrantry. so in this case I believe u can actually have some levy infrantry as reinforcement too.

[@Timmytiger18]

I feel like Satsuma is everyones favourite faction, coz of the fact you can get gold rated accuracy on infantry units and artillery, and decent armour stats, along with foreign veterans and train time. You can literally just print Satsuma Infantry and stomp factions. The AI never seemed to take advantage of this properly. I feel if FotS got a second look at and some minor tweaks is all it needs, it would be the best TW game ever imo. lol.

[@sup1602]

The tosa are my favourite due to their riflemen just putting out so many shots in such a short time period. No other unit in the game can match their dps. Only crappy thing is the island they start on is dogcrap other than the silk resource that can be used to make a lower unhappyness industry chain building (a minus 1 instead of 3).

[@whzpoor]

If Legend were to ever have an indigenous name, he'd be known as "Rolling Hills".

[@ΒασιληςΛυπηριδης-φ4κ]

Imagine being that general that defected, lol

[@scribe923]

Love that legend can put out quality and entertaining content so quickly. Love that i can have your content to relax to. Love your work!

[@Huhido]

New to your channel, started watching you since you started posting this type of content, am I happy this was recommended to me, keep it up!

[@BarokaiRein]

Nice to see you're still uploading and everything. I was just randomly reminded of your channel when I was thinking to myself that Scipio was a better general than Hannibal, and then atarted thinking back on why I thought that way. I remember you talking about it with us, the chat, back in TW Warhams2 days, before your channel blew up and you got thousands of people in streams. Good times.

[@dorkking100]

Artillery share healthpools between 10 men at a time. This means it takes a lot of damage to kill, but they die in groups of 10.

[@lastword8783]

I wish the save file would be uploaded by legend so everyone else can try as well.

[@Maul222]

Legend should make a T-shirt that says "I ❤ BIG HILLS"

[@majorkhajiit]

I gotta say, I really wish wathammer had visuals like this. Watching all the smoke billowing across the battlefield is just gorgeous.

[@danielhall6354]

i wish that empire handgunners were as responsive as line infantry in fots

[@Predator20357]

Can’t wait to see him do a tier list on all the maps based on how good their hills are

[@cankandaz8049]

My FOTS gameplay really improved. Thank you for the series :)

[@SalmonCaramel]

Absolutely insane performance. Bravo again, Legend!

[@nikonn87]

these Shogun 2 videos keeps me going man...

[@JavierGonzalez-dz8kv]

That first battle was insane. Great job

[@Justicegamingandco]

Wow that was an really tense battle. and the best performance i have ever saw in such an dire situation. good job! you got my sub and of course a like :D

[@rocky2392]

Could you do a whole fall of the samurai disaster campaign? The battles are great but saving a whole campaign would be cool.

[@antoniodelaugger9236]

That campaign would instantly be won the moment you have 4 armstrong cannons

[@InTecknicolour]

SO IT'S TREASON THEN. LegendofTW meatgrinder go brrrrr

[@Chtigga]

I don't know about you guys but I feel like Legend is about to do a Fall of the Samurai livestream very soon.

[@siberarmi]

Fall of he Samurai, Rıse of the Hills.

[@darthplayer5333]

-Sir, we have him surrounded, he only got 2 levy, 1 cannon and a block of cheese! -Good, our 5 full European stacks should get him obliterated -Sir! We lost! -How? -He had a nice looking Hill

[@Gold_Roberto]

PLEASE continue dropping these videos i cant afford shogun 2 + dlc and these videos keep me from going insane and you're also much better than me

[@dragontear1638]

Watching just how fast the main and last enemy wave of the first battle just fell apart on contact, same for the second battle, bravo, really impressive. =D

[@secretarybailey770]

loving the fall of the samurai vids legend keep them up

[@jahmive]

ive never played this game but when you clicked to bombard there was an option to disembark army 2:40

[@toupeiragamer8564]

He tried landing them on the beach, but probably couldn't because it was in the enemy area of influence (The red circle around them), but i wonder if he clicked to disembark army they would run straight into the enemy or not? I mean, the game was giving him the option, so maybe it would work.

[@LegendofTotalWar]

I went back and tried that and what happened was the ship traveled back to the port. It was impossible to land those troops at that beach.

[@toupeiragamer8564]

The legend himself doing some myth busting.@@LegendofTotalWar

[@dudel996]

"I really wish I had a hill..." LegendofTotalWar 2023

[@ChippewaJohannes]

2:44 Looks like this screen might be how you would disembark your armies rather than just clicking on the campaign map.

[@SWtaervdesn]

If the defector lord somehow knew Legend would receive this Disaster battle save file, he may have stayed.

[@morowenidi4621]

14:45 artillery shell hits a bird lol

[@sausageson]

I forgot how amazing the smoke and explosions look in fall of the samurai

[@kachantacemenov3181]

Toggle "Guard mode" so infantries in defending wont go out of their positions.

[@CannedPsycho-]

Is one inch enough? Her: "Ugh..." LoTW: *Aggressively positions artillery.*

[@jschex123]

Legend: “those red bear look scary actually.” 3 Armstrong guns and 3 secs later….no red bear

[@chocho6766]

all the disaster battle in a nutshell : "have you ever tried a hill ?"

[@russ2120]

"maybe don't shoot at shit units like spear levy" he says while targeting spear levy

[@McLainCraft]

Imagine defecting to the enemy, fighting your old army and then still losing! You’ve gotta feel real bad about your ability at that point.

[@mosheidan]

i like this fall of the samurai videos, thanks Legend

[@maximusd26]

I NEVER build navies in any total war, but FoTs's naval bombardments are really a different breed

[@ilimirfanrocknroll8471]

For killing the main commander general you can check the minimap for it. Commander looks as a star shape while others looks as a cavalry triangle. When you kill the commander general star becomes triangle too so you could know you killed the commander.

[@audunms4780]

Lost one general, but got a geneneral ofTotalWar

[@admiralsosa55]

it’s good to see ppl playing shogun! multiplayer is going to be funnnnn

[@vitrioleco4849]

I love this game because positioning and tactics actually matter, you can't just Wind of Death the whole first army.

[@TheSpartan451]

God the gunsmoke in this game looks majestic

[@danielhall6354]

the orbital bombardment is a really nice feature

[@hafwenanargya4906]

Damn, that artillery volley instantly breaking the Red Bear infantry. Btw, do you use any mods? I might want to play this game so I want to know the must-have mods for this game.

[@shadowjezzter]

Got back into shogun after watching your vids, forgot how fun it is to bombard silly samurai

[@jorgejustin461]

Hey Legend, I've been subbed for a looog time and honestly stopped watching around the time you went all in on Warhammer. Happy to say I'm back watching basically everything again. Good to see you haven't gotten sloppy after just spamming one unit for the last 5 years.

[@luzhang2982]

In the first two minutes, the ship with the army could've beached the army next to the town for reinforcement. Legend didn't need it, but that would've made it a (relatively) easier battle.

[@luzhang2982]

Should've clicked to the left. Also with ninja and agents, need to click to the left, instead of directly clicking on the enemy armies sometimes. Gotta detach to make it work. They can be fiddly. A sabotage also can make things significantly easier. The Zone of Control is what is really preventing beaching, but a (granted usually failed, unless you savescum or get lucky) sabotage army can make it happen.

[@luzhang2982]

Its also possible the agent was simply out of movement, because was deployed into that city that same turn. Still worth checking.

[@prorace_type_r]

When you were bombarding the enemy, there was an option that said "Disembark Army", maybe it was possible.

[@Gitsmasher]

yes, this is a worthy "disaster" battle. Ah that pre battle flute thingy music... nostalgic

[@StarshadowMelody]

"Sir, United States Marines, Sir." Not exactly something I expected to hear in a Total War game, so the timeframe of Shogun has kinda blindsided me.

[@brendansaltvick5824]

This is really making me wanna play Shogun 2. I never really played it before since I was really into medieval, Warhammer, and Rome.

[@biowiener7825]

shogun is so damn awesome, this is the Fall of the Samurai DLC though, just saying before you buy the wrong game (the dlc is standalone, meaning you dont need the base game shogun 2 to play it)

[@brendansaltvick5824]

@@biowiener7825 🫡

[@SGProductions87]

I think you have to make sure to attack into their gun crew. If you go through the middle of their guns you won't get any kills. There's some sort of bug about this invincible artillery thing, been there for years.

[@danshakuimo]

Still remember that one game in the default campaign where my best general that conquered half of Japan for me defected to the Ashikaga shogunate and got adopted by the Ashikagas and became daimyo after I assassinated the Shogun. I was playing Otomo and they even took Tercos and a cannon with them but still beat them.

[@maxamaxa194]

Good lord that battlefield smoke.