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. |