Finished: 06 PM Thu 03 Aug 17 UTC
Tokugawa Ieyasu
3 days /phase
Pot: 406 D - Spring, 1580, Finished
Sengoku, Anon, WTA
1 excused NMR / no regaining / extend the first 2 turn(s)
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09 May 17 UTC Spring, 1570: (Hypoguy): Hi all, thank you for joining!
Can you promote this game with other players you know, so that we can start this game? Thanks!
09 May 17 UTC Spring, 1570: (gopher27): But then the game ceases to be anonymous.
10 May 17 UTC Spring, 1570: (Hypoguy): The most important thing about the anonymous feature is that you don't know which player is playing which country... And anyway, if we don't find 5 more players, we cannot play this game at all
10 May 17 UTC Spring, 1570: (BobRoss): Hi y'all
10 May 17 UTC Spring, 1570: (BobRoss): Excited to go all Kamikaze on you guys.
10 May 17 UTC Spring, 1570: Greetings all from the Chosokabe
11 May 17 UTC Spring, 1570: Welcome to the game. Oda wishes you all the best. May we all live peacefully together.
11 May 17 UTC Spring, 1570: Did I say Oda? I mean Asakura. Wow, I really cannot remember these names. They mean nothing to me. Are there any real Japanese in the house?
11 May 17 UTC Spring, 1570: Takeda were known for their cavalry and emerged as the first dominant power. Oda is who actually won this war. They gave Hojo's territory to a subordinate (Tokugawa Ieyasu) who then overthrew them a generation after the conquest of Takeda. Thus began the Tokugawa Shogunate that lasted into the late 1800s. Oda also led a united Japan in an invasion of Korea that resulted in war with Ming China and eventual disaster for them and their armies.

My understanding is that Oda won by developing an idiosyncratic brand of infantry tactics that moved away from samurai towards the kinds of mass mobilization that we should associate with the rise of gunpowder in Europe in the 1400s. They deployed spears and handguns but coupled Eastern European style "field fortifications" to devastating effect against Takeda much as Gonzalo de Cordoba's "pike and shot" reorganization of the Castilian army in Southern Italy resulted in 50 years of near annihilation level defeats for the cavalry focused French armies. The Japanese at the time were in contact with the Portuguese who had recently adopted Spanish tactics in their own armies.
11 May 17 UTC Spring, 1570: Shimazu and Mori definitely survived. I think everyone else was devoured by the Oda, who then were transformed into Tokugawa after a coup-like rebellion.
11 May 17 UTC Spring, 1570: Just to remind everyone, this variant has special victory rules:
"SCs required for solo win: 25 (of 37)"

So you will need 2/3 to win rather than 1/2.
11 May 17 UTC Spring, 1570: +1 for the awesome historical insight.
11 May 17 UTC Spring, 1570: Hopefully history will repeat itself :) good luck all
06 Jun 17 UTC Spring, 1573: Uesugi, thanks for playing!
06 Jun 17 UTC Spring, 1573: Thanks Asakura!

Best of luck to all of you, am most certainly curious to see how this game is going to develop ;-)
25 Jun 17 UTC Spring, 1575: Is Chosokabe still around?
26 Jun 17 UTC Spring, 1575: Hopefully, would really tilt the balance of power if he isn't.
06 Jul 17 UTC Autumn, 1576: If Oda NMRs at this moment, then this game will be broken.
06 Jul 17 UTC Autumn, 1576: Fortunately, Oda just entered orders!
07 Jul 17 UTC Autumn, 1576: And Shimazu is gone. Thanks for playing!
Looks like Chosokabe is going to be the next victim.

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