Shogun 2 TW shipped with no direct x11 support

[Liet]

From what I've read on some S2 forums, your best solution is hoarding money BEFORE the shit hits the fan, hehehe. Here's the thread dealing with your problem:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=436206

I would recommend disbanding every unit you really don't need, and ensure you've got at least 4 trade ships on all the foreign trade ports.

I worry myself that the cost of administration for holding 20 or 30 provinces will bleed me dry...

 

[ayabe]

After the Realm Divide, diplomacy is broken, to me it wasn't worth playing once I became Shogun as nothing changes on that front, you are still at war with everyone and they all hate you with a passion. I wasn't about to start throwing heaps of cash on weaklings just to get them to stop attacking me.

I stopped playing at that point since I won the short campaign - I had no desire to continue playing another 100+ turns like the last 25 fighting 3+ large battles per turn. Just wasn't worth it to me. I plan on starting a long campaign over the weekend.

That being said, I didn't have any real money issues, didn't hoard prior to the event, and had 0, ZERO! trade routes, yes your trade takes a tremendous hit when everyone declares but it's manageable as long as you don't have unnecessary non-ashigaru troops everywhere. I had 4 full stack field armies for dealing with the naughty children and 1-2 ashigaru units in my rear provinces and still had ample money with ~35 provinces. Surplus food helps keep the happiness up so you don't have to keep large numbers of troops in your rear areas.

This was also with medium tax rates and just a couple vassals to trade with.

 

[TraumaRN]

Bought the game yesterday, spent 5 hours downloading it and then first 5 minutes it crashed.

Then.

Played for 4 hours straight with NO issues. I don't really notice the lack of AA that much and I am enjoying things so far. Wish you could be researching more then one thing at a time. Also feels like at least in the initial stages the developers kinda handicapped the player a little bit so you can't just build high level castles in every town and steamroll the AI like you could in previous total war games.

 

[LurkerPrime]

I just finished my first long campaign this weekend on normal and the last half was basically just mopping up the AI. The first thing I went for is getting 4-5 trade ships on the 3 trade spots to the left of the map. Those will give you ample cash flow throughout the game.

The first things I focused research on was getting the highest level farms so I could have food for the upgraded markets. Get 5 Mentske as soon as possible as a lvl 3 one of those guys later can increase the tax revenue of a province by 20-30+%, so if you stick them in your 4-5K wealth provinces its a significant increase in cashflow.

Right before the shit hits the fan (when you max your prestige or whatever) I married off my free daughter to the biggest clan on the other side of the map and also allied with them. this gives ~ +200 relations, which will buy you around 20+ turns of them being an ally and also absorbing attacks from all the other clans that delcare war on you. In addition you'll still have at least 1 trade partner.

I had 5 large armies full of the upgraded spear guys with the +3 armor (from armory) and +2 attack (from some other building) and about 5-6 units of the samaria archers. It wasn't really a challenge, although I did autoresolve most of the battle or else it would have taken a month to finish.

One big hint: if 2 large enemy forces are together you can ninja sabotage one and it can't reinforce when you attack. Or you can just wait till next turn and the non-sabotaged army will usually move away, letting you easily gang rape it with minimal losses.

Also having a lvl 6 general with 2 points in the siege skill results in most towns only being able to survive for 1 turn, which makes taking the better defended towns much easier.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Coming to the thread a little late, but I went ahead and bought it after hearing mostly good things about it; I'm really liking it. No AA is a little annoying (I use a pretty low resolution screen), but seriously who gives a crap that it's not dx11...

 

[Regs]

I just finished my first long campaign this weekend on normal and the last half was basically just mopping up the AI. The first thing I went for is getting 4-5 trade ships on the 3 trade spots to the left of the map. Those will give you ample cash flow throughout the game.

The first things I focused research on was getting the highest level farms so I could have food for the upgraded markets. Get 5 Mentske as soon as possible as a lvl 3 one of those guys later can increase the tax revenue of a province by 20-30+%, so if you stick them in your 4-5K wealth provinces its a significant increase in cashflow.

Right before the shit hits the fan (when you max your prestige or whatever) I married off my free daughter to the biggest clan on the other side of the map and also allied with them. this gives ~ +200 relations, which will buy you around 20+ turns of them being an ally and also absorbing attacks from all the other clans that delcare war on you. In addition you'll still have at least 1 trade partner.

I had 5 large armies full of the upgraded spear guys with the +3 armor (from armory) and +2 attack (from some other building) and about 5-6 units of the samaria archers. It wasn't really a challenge, although I did autoresolve most of the battle or else it would have taken a month to finish.

One big hint: if 2 large enemy forces are together you can ninja sabotage one and it can't reinforce when you attack. Or you can just wait till next turn and the non-sabotaged army will usually move away, letting you easily gang rape it with minimal losses.

Also having a lvl 6 general with 2 points in the siege skill results in most towns only being able to survive for 1 turn, which makes taking the better defended towns much easier.

Good advice there! :thumbsup: