For a game focused on pitched battles its surprising how choosing the battleground is non-existent. It would be nice if you could use your Ninja or Metsuke to help scout for a good battlefield to put you at the advantage when defending or provide for better conditions when attacking an enemy. The terrain has more often been an obstacle than a boon or strategic asset. It would make more sense if the attacking army was set at a disadvantage since the defending army was already in the area for a time and had the opportunity to scout for a suitable location but all too often theyre just bad for both sides. The key component to pitched battles was both sides agreeing on some level or another of meeting at a predetermined location, not just attacking each other at any odd location they happen upon one another. Im no military strategist but it doesnt take a general to realize that an area with lots of uneven terrain isnt an ideal battlefield.
Ive gone to fight a battle outside a city in what seems like an open plain and the battlefield will be covered in trees and have a giant hill in the middle, Ive fought battles in the middle of the woods and ended up in a wide open battlefield with nearly perfectly level ground and almost no trees.īut thats besides the point though, matching the terrain to the campaign map makes perfect sense but my problem is how strategically the maps have been rather poor. Im pretty sure youre right, but that hasnt always been the case for me. But over all the games been fantastic and I look forward to playing more of it and getting more familiar with its intricacies. I was expecting them to be more crafted like the tutorial map with streams and villages, strategic cover and high and low ground, and not randomly generated areas with hills and trees here and there.
Im guessing on hard or just with the harder clan starts things like diplomacy, ninja and metsuke become more important, but for me it was just build a big ass army with a ton of archers and slowly but surely chip away at my enemies, even after the Shogun marked me for death and all of Japan was after me I really didnt face much opposition.Īs well I was a bit disappointed with the battle maps since most were really bland and nothing like what a general would pick for a battle. In my very first campaign only after going through the tutorial as the Chosokabe on Normal with a Long victory length game I was shogun by 1576 and well on my way to completely dominating all of Japan.
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I also have to say the game is a bit easy considering I am a complete newbie to the series and genre. I do wish there were more micromanaging options for the provinces and clan, its a little goofy you can exempt a province from taxes but you cant set the tax rate per province. Only ever tired Napoleon before, very very briefly, and it did not click with me at all, felt way too complicated and tedious, but Shogun 2 has been a breeze to get into.
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