Beating Nobunaga's Ambition 2
The sequel is easier than the first one, so don't let it intimdate you. Here's how to unite Japan:
Gameplay
Strategy
Gameplay
- Oda Nobunaga is far, far more powerful than any of the other daimyos and starts out with 20/38 fiefs. Unless you really, really want a challenge, select him. If you don't select him, you still have to conquer every fief, but now you have to beat the powerful guy with 20 fiefs.
- A tax and tribute rate of 40% is sufficient and doesn't make the peasants unhappy.
- There's a fairly obvious arbitrage opportunity with food. Buy low, sell high. Easy way to make money during slow months if you have extra samurai sitting on their butts.
- A lot of the options aren't necessary. The only thing I do to samurai is give them rewards if they're not loyal enough. There's no point in fortifying the castle since you should never be invaded (if you're Nobunaga, at least). Spying, threatening, and diplomacy are all not necessary to use.
- Be cognizant of your fief's head samurai's Body Points for fiefs on the front lines. If he has < 10 BP at the end of a turn, you will be invaded and lose automatically. Embarrassing!
- Accept any offers of friendship, marriage, loyalty, etc. You'll betray them eventually, but that's their problem. Don't do any diplomacy proactively as it's a waste of time.
Strategy
- First order of business in all fiefs is to give rewards to get samurai loyalty all above 80. If you win a battle and keep some samurai, they will have low loyalty, so you must give them some cash right away to get them at least about 70.
- Next, focus on getting town happiness above 60 at least. Clearing land, flood control, and building all increase happiness; however, flood control has a frustrating habit of not working about half the time. Your advisor may hint to that effect so you can back out of it before spending money.
- Now, get your armies in order. Move all men to the front lines except for a token garrison of 15-20 men in each fief with borderline loyalty to prevent uprisings. I just kept 20 in every one just to be safe.
- Train your armies up to at least 85 and buy arms when you can. Move all front line men into cavalry divisions.
- Win battles by always using all cavalry and charging at every opportunity to mow down your opponent's men. It's such a strong attack it's almost unfair.
- At this point, the game is really just building up men, invading, consolidating, and invading again. I won in under 4 years during my final playthrough.
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