For those who have played Europa Universalis III, combat will look familiar. The terrain of the battleground is picked from one of the terrain types available in the province. The more of the province a certain terrain type cover, the higher the chance of that terrain being picked. Each terrain type comes with a penalty towards the attacker, the worst being impassable mountains. Crossing a river when entering into battle gives an additional negative effect as well as the large negative effect you get when crossing a strait. Since there are no ships in Sengoku, this large penalty represents the difficulty of doing a naval landing and going straight into battle. This can be quite nasty to attack across, so holding and fortifying provinces at a strait can be a very effective strategy.
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Hello and welcome back to another Sengoku developer diary. As you may have noticed there have been a shortage of these dev diaries for the last couple of weeks due to vacations and the internal team being busy putting the finishing touches to Sengoku as well as preparing several projects for the upcoming GamesCon. The topic this week will be civil war.

Even though large parts of Japan are already embroiled in a civil war when the game starts, an individual clan may also find itself in an internal civil war - a power struggle for the title of clan leader.
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Hello and welcome back to another Sengoku developer diary. This week has been very busy as the team is getting the last features into place, and because of it today's diary will be a short one. As said at the end of last week's developer diary, today's topic will be ninjas.
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Hello and welcome back to another Sengoku developer diary. Last week never got one as Friday was a holiday but today we return and the topic is what was promised in the last dev diary: factions. Or more precisely, religious factions. At the start of the game there are two religious factions present in Japan: Shinto and Buddhism. Then sometime in the 16th century when westerners arrive, Christianity will be introduced and become the third and final one.
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Hello and welcome back to the Sengoku development diaries. After a two-week break due to holidays and E3 we are back to talk about buildings and province improvments. As For the Motherland is in its final stretch and Sengoku has reached beta stage, both Johan and Besuchov are busy knocking out code today, so the task of writing this diary passed down the chain of command and ended up with me.
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