Tosa-what next?

**wealthmonger** · April 08, 2012, 08:46 PM

I haven't had a chance to play much so I'm getting my feet wet with Tosa. previously I've completed a couple short campaigns.

Tosa on hard difficulty, long campaign. I let my original province rebel and I relocated to central honshu to see how that works out.

Here's the situation as it stands now. Recommendations welcome on what to do next?

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I did a peace treaty with Nagoya so I have to leave them alone for at least a few more turns.

I just started a naval invasion of Ozu in Awa province. I don't want Shikoku but I want it to be controlled by imperials.

Currently at war with Obama, Ozu and Okazaki.

Income of about 3000 per turn with 3 fairly large army groups and some garrison troops.

Just finished cordial relations in the arts.

Imperials pretty much control the left of the map and shogunates control the right.

**grumph** · April 09, 2012, 07:00 AM

1. dont let obama reemerge. hell just cause you trouble later if he stays.
2. ally with strong, imperial factions in your back. the helping in wars bit is annoying, but keeps them from attacking you and maybe you wont have to push to mushashi al by yourself.
3. murder the takayama, save for that little barren province. mino has a railway so you NEED to have it, and that very north province of them just helps for the LOS it gives(close ships get spotted)
4. expand mainly across the railroad, and get 1-2 vassels in central japan, convert them if you must, as they can help you big time later on. in my last nagoaka cammapaign i had a vassel own 1/3 of japan just becuase he grew a bit and then proceeded to steamroll the rest of honshu.
5. develop owari on max accuary. max acc. armstrong guns, imperial infantry and guards just kick ass.(heck, ive taken countless of castles with 40-60 losses just using 3 armstrong guns and 2 guards. 2 tipes of castles that works on)
6. get a good navy and countelss of gunbaots and follow this: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=532575
bombarding fleets of death are a huge problem later on and you dont want to commit a whole stack to defending your back, nor 6 fleets.
7. you MUST get musashi. its a railroad chokepoint and thus very important. its also THE place to break into the core lands of shogunate honshu as you dont have large marching times to capture about 4 provinces, you can bring reinforcemtns very fast, and if you hold the nagoaka capital you can use that as a fixed point and just push south of it, with 2-3 stacks foing the trick vs 7+ stacks. at the point were you can march on with that army there the only major threath left should be matsumae/any big clan that holds ezo.

**Noif de Bodemloze** · April 09, 2012, 01:43 PM

This sound really nice plan, what I have figured out when Island is mine, then take middle of main island.
I have one problem, that I can't take whole turtle island, because I still have my allies in East-Island. I am wishing when they break up with me.

**wealthmonger** · April 09, 2012, 03:00 PM

I've got my core provinces converted to imperial, Obama's gone, Takayama has made a nice buffer zone between myself and the bulk of the shogunate clans. Unfortunately Miyazu and another shogunate clan were winning against Choshu.

So here's how it goes now. I take a province of a shogunate clan to left of me, loot, let it rebel and move on to the next one. Everytime I loot I use that money to build a few more buildings in my core provinces while I learn the economic techs.

So to keep my economy slowly edging it's way up I have keep playing Loot Total War? This is going to get tedious after a while. I have geisha in my most profitable provinces, trade agreements with imperial clans, trade with foreign powers, building cottage industry lines, market lines, trade ports, farms etc.

So I just have to be patient and keep doing what I'm doing, is that correct?

**grumph** · April 09, 2012, 11:31 PM

dont loot! develop central japan(save for owari) economically and grow, research techs ect. to cut administraion. you really want to keep developed cities. looting sucks imo. as the penalty of occupying and costs to rebuild are BIG. i only loot when i cant hold the city to leave nothing behind.