Shogun: Total War 2 - Page 16

On March 22 2011 20:54 TigerKarl wrote:
For me it is definitely worth the money. This game will be interesting for a long time with the support of an insane modding community.
If it is worth the money for you i don't really know. You should check out the demo version. Tell me if you need links to the demo mods which makes it almost as sweet as the real game.

On March 22 2011 21:16 TigerKarl wrote:
Ok, here is what i recommend you to do:
First play the tutorial campaign of the demo version to understand the game.

Then you can use this mod to play all factions of the demo unlimited:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=428223
It is like the real Shogun 2 game then with a smaller map

You can also use this mod to customize your own battles:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=429404
Like 3000 Samurai against 2000 Cavalry troops or whatever you like!

On March 22 2011 17:42 Vipsanius wrote:
Just finished my shimazu domination campaign on normal.

It got interesting after I took kyoto, and everyone and his grandmother declared war on me. Had to do some epic army positioning to keep all my cities, but I had them in the end. After their all-out attack, I could easily counter and win. The only challenge was not to over-extend myself.

Some interesting facts:
- A vassal counts towards your number of victory regions. You can either make a vassal if you want trade income (which can be up to 1000 per turn), and you already have enough production facilities. I do not recommend making vassals early game, because I think the trade income could be notably lower and your vassals will turn on you (when you take all of Japan).
- Ninja's are very good to snare armies, so it is always useful to have a few around near your front line. Is your main army away to crush some rebels? You can stall the enemy for a few turns before he takes a city.
- Destroy all christian buildings. Unless you want the christian bonuses (earlier firearms), you shouldn't convert to christianity. If you want the christian daimyo achievement, just win a campaign, load the save before the last siege, convert to christianity, win. You can try out christianity to get that missionary in a later campaign, but if you convert to christianity now all of your regions will have uprisings, which is going to be very fun.
- Do use siege engines. It saves half of your army falling from the walls. I learned this when taking kyoto. I had 2 stacks when I attacked, got half a stack when I won. If I were fighting a human opponent, I would have lost very hard.

On March 22 2011 23:34 tryclops wrote:
consider buying the game from amazon.com as a download. It's 10$ cheaper and is 100% steam activated no matter how it is installed(whether it be with a disc or download).

On March 23 2011 05:46 blahz0r wrote:



So you're confirming you were able to activate it on Steam through the Amazon download ?

On March 23 2011 06:29 keit wrote:
Game is such a piece of shit, got to year 1570 and until then all enemies were derps and fell easily to my level 6 general army. Had over half the map but two of the strongest clans started churning out fullstacked lv6 armies one after another until I just got overwhelmed. Couldnt even reproduce armies fast enough to defend their fucking enormously gay zerging tactic.