Food Supply?

[Kryme101]

Im having trouble with this, its -2 i upgrade my roads and farms but i still get shortages, how do you keep food supplies up?

[Kyias]

Rice Exchanges (and their market upgrades) cost food. So do castles.

You have to manage upgrades with available food supply. So right now, you either need to take over another region which has food OR destroy some market chain buildings.

[Kryme101]

markets dont consume food though, do they? i thought having markets helped produce food =/

[Arksa]

The first building in the market chain doesn't cost food. The ones after that do. This is because of game balance (everyone would be spamming markets all over).


So, build more farms!

Keep an eye on the food supply on the down right corner when you want that new upgrade for the castle.

[Kryme101]

oh i see =/ ok so only have one market?

[Herr Shimmler]

Level one market doesn't cost you any food, Rice exchange and higher level of marketchain building does. You can have as many of them as You want providing that You can produce enough food.

[Amaranthen]

Don't upgrade every single fort town into castles, leave some forts in between as forts. Upgrade them to stronghold to unlock another slot, then leave it at that. That'll save you tons of food.

ONLY upgrade the frontier forts into castles or fortresses for defending purposes and recruitment purposes.

I have about 22 food surplus using this way.

Upgrade those with monk bonuses into fortresses to recruit monk bow and monk warriors.

[SonOfCrusader76]

Don't upgrade every single fort town into castles, leave some forts in between as forts. Upgrade them to stronghold to unlock another slot, then leave it at that. That'll save you tons of food.

ONLY upgrade the frontier forts into castles or fortresses for defending purposes and recruitment purposes.

I have about 22 food surplus using this way.

Upgrade those with monk bonuses into fortresses to recruit monk bow and monk warriors.

That sounds like a great plan!

[Kryme101]

Don't upgrade every single fort town into castles, leave some forts in between as forts. Upgrade them to stronghold to unlock another slot, then leave it at that. That'll save you tons of food.

ONLY upgrade the frontier forts into castles or fortresses for defending purposes and recruitment purposes.

I have about 22 food surplus using this way.

Upgrade those with monk bonuses into fortresses to recruit monk bow and monk warriors.

Yeah but the frontier is always expanding so i will upgrade one castle take a another castle and have to upgrade it cause the front has moved :/

[Amaranthen]

Yeah but the frontier is always expanding so i will upgrade one castle take a another castle and have to upgrade it cause the front has moved :/

Nonetheless, plan whether you'll have to turtle in certain provinces or moving on after dropping a ashigaru garrison.

I usually push forward with conventional army to conquer 2-3 provinces, then stop at choke points to upgrade my new front and move ashigaru garrisons in the previous few provinces.

[Kryme101]

Nonetheless, plan whether you'll have to turtle in certain provinces or moving on after dropping a ashigaru garrison.

I usually push forward with conventional army to conquer 2-3 provinces, then stop at choke points to upgrade my new front and move ashigaru garrisons in the previous few provinces.

thats a pretty good idea ill try that

[Eien]

Yeah but the frontier is always expanding so i will upgrade one castle take a another castle and have to upgrade it cause the front has moved :/

Basically you don't really have to do it, build castles on fallback points and choke points, where the enemy has to break themselves against the wall, you don't have to keep upgrading your front.

[Thefallenhun]

The food seems to trip a bunch of people up on a first runthrough, just be careful.

[SupAll]

The food seems to trip a bunch of people up on a first runthrough, just be careful.

It might be because in previous TW titles, Food either improved your growth/wealth or hampered you late game due to population growth (RTW). In this game, Food is actually a necessity for your survival and a lot of people who have played previous titles aren't use to that in the first playthrough.

[Kryme101]

Ok thanks all for your help

[lsm]

is it possible to just upgrade to merchant guilds and just use the extra income to pay for garrisons?

[SonOfCrusader76]

Im having trouble with this, its -2 i upgrade my roads and farms but i still get shortages, how do you keep food supplies up?

As well as all the other advice, see that no-one is blockading your trade, and that your farms/ports aren't damaged.

[SupAll]

What I do is I upgrade key provinces to Castle (such as North Shinano/Kiso) and any area with a Smith to Citadel (so I can build all my troops with +6 melee). I also recommend building up to Fortress and nothing beyond for the rest, which will give you a surplus of +1 food for each of those provinces. What to define as a key province? See it as your wall that you will hold at all costs if you get pushed back. Obviously, this means your capital, but areas that the enemy must take to advance deeper by land (such as the mountain passes to the East of Kyoto), must be fortified well. This strategy has allowed me to maintain a food surplus of 20. ^.^

[Kryme101]

What I do is I upgrade key provinces to Castle (such as North Shinano/Kiso) and any area with a Smith to Citadel (so I can build all my troops with +6 melee). I also recommend building up to Fortress and nothing beyond for the rest, which will give you a surplus of +1 food for each of those provinces. What to define as a key province? See it as your wall that you will hold at all costs if you get pushed back. Obviously, this means your capital, but areas that the enemy must take to advance deeper by land (such as the mountain passes to the East of Kyoto), must be fortified well. This strategy has allowed me to maintain a food surplus of 20. ^.^

Damn nice one lol most food iv ever got is 6 =/

[Papay]

Hi

What can you do when you have food shortages?It seems that with my clan this problem is persistent and my food shortages are -1, -2 despite the fact that i've upgraded the irrigation system.Is there another way to solve this problem?