New strategy for Japan

[Nabroleon2022]

Hey guys, after a great angevin campaign i now want to play Japan. What are your best strategys?
Is ikkio ikki gov worth it?

 

[Banedon Runestar]

Best strategy to do what?

Unite Japan?
Create a Japanese Prussia?
Build the Japanese Empire 400 years early?
Do a world conquest?
RP a Japan that’s gone Buccaneer?

Cause the answers to all of those are going to be different.

 

[Nabroleon2022]

Best strategy to do what?

Unite Japan?
Create a Japanese Prussia?
Build the Japanese Empire 400 years early?
Do a world conquest?
RP a Japan that’s gone Buccaneer?

Cause the answers to all of those are going to be different.

Uniting Japan as a daimyo

 

[Banedon Runestar]

Uniting Japan as a daimyo

I’ve done it a few times as Tokugawa, uniting Japan militarily by around 1500 or so.

Alliances are good, but they’re all temporary. Marriages are bad because they slow you down so don’t use them and don’t accept them.

Check and double check your target’s treaty webs, when someone is weak or isolated, strike!

Until you unite Japan, build galleys. Heavies and lights aren’t efficient early.

Generally, pick a direction and expand that way to the sea. As Tokugawa I usually conquer the two small southern islands first, and the southern portion of Honshu. Only then do I think about heading north.

If there’s other questions you have, be specific but you’ll get answers.

 

[Pellucid]

I like to ally the daimyo in Mino so his fort blocks off half the northern island for me. Most daimyos don't have a high enough force limit to siege it.

 

[Maxxie42]

I only have anecdotal evidence for this, but I'm fairly certain that getting high opinion with Ashikaga will stop them from forcing you to seppuku every other week, which saves quite a bit of admin points. Plus you don't need your diplomats for anything else as a Daimyo, so might as well.

 

[Slaytanic]

I only have anecdotal evidence for this, but I'm fairly certain that getting high opinion with Ashikaga will stop them from forcing you to seppuku every other week, which saves quite a bit of admin points. Plus you don't need your diplomats for anything else as a Daimyo, so might as well.

My anecdotal evidence is the opposite. They are only able to force seppuku if you are below 50% liberty desire, so after failing to prevent it by improving relations I just focused on getting it high.

 

[Lykus Cerebros]

Not exactly new, but I want to throw in So.

You can turn into pirates. The money made from pillaging Korea and China can easily allow you to afford going double over FL. It helps with the sieges and you can unite Japan by 1500 at least.