In all of the TW games I've played, "friendly" projectiles can and will hurt your own troops if they are in close proximity/fighting with an enemy unit.

Particularly the fucking cannons.

Gotta micromanage more then I guess. Sigh. I used to be able to waste them over bridges and all sorts, now even a seige means I loose numbers. I take it the standard strategy for Shogun still works out as 4 Ashigaru Bowmen, 2 Samurai Bowmen, protectd by a line of Yari Sam/Ash-men and maybe some katana/no-dachi men for awesome charges, light/yari cavalry on the flanks to pincer units... yeah?

If a unit is in combat, do you still get a charge bonus for attacking them?

I wouldn't bother with No-daichi. The charge is devestating but you have to maneuver them well since charging is the only thing they do well, if they're caught in missile fire they're dead rather quickly and they're barely better than Yari Ashigaru in extended melee. Plus expensive hoooly shit expensive.

It's more about aggressive defense, if that makes sense. Try if you can to always engage an enemy in their fort but never lay siege, just starve them out till they sally fourth. Place your stacks in such a way so that an enemy force is baited or can't move past them without starting a battle.

And I always fancied seeing the effects of an all-matchlock army on an all warrior monk one. We should definitely indulge ourselves.

Jesus, this Shogun sounds the shit, but fuck mega PC's. Is Rome a bitch to run or will a laptop I bought at Christmas be ok?

Paul the sparky wrote:

Jesus, this Shogun sounds the shit, but fuck mega PC's. Is Rome a bitch to run or will a laptop I bought at Christmas be ok?

Should run it startlingly well.

I don't have a clue about the specs, I don't even know where to look to find out.

Cracking start to another legendary difficulty co op campaign with a mate tonight on Shogun 2. Me as Takeda he as Hojo.

Takeda being able to recruit light cavalry from the start gives you a big initial advantage. And having two units of light cav and using them in tandem with my spare general unit practically saved on their own a couple of shakey early battles including an ambush against an even sized force of a thousand men. Bill in Hojo is slowly expanding due to his rich provinces, gold mine and cunning use of diplomatic backstabbing/taking advantage of undefended settlements.

Right now we've got a strong Ally in Imagawa who's keeping the Oda monster at bay but the Ikko-Ikki's volatile religion is starting to seep into my provinces and their guaranteed militancy will eventually be an issue. For now, the Takeda-Hojo alliance is battling for its life against a weakened Uesugi clan which has one huge death stack army remaining but only two provinces. If we manage it, hopefully Date further east will be a pushover and we can then focus just going west, to the shogunate!

Have a good play with the editor and I'll wager you come down on the side of brilliant.

Getting my rig this weekend. Looking forward to a bit of pee-cee gaming.

Never thought i'd utter those words.

Dunno yet. Gonna make my final decision/order on Friday morning.

They've been known to have them once in a while.

Tempy wrote:

Getting that mental Alienware one still? What specs did you go for?

@Brooks - I keep meaning to explore plenty of those 7DFPS entries, RPS did a good article about a bunch of them. One of them was a Wolfenstien rendition of the bit in Slaughterhouse V where Billy Pilgrim experiences a battle backwards, so the aim is to unshoot everyone.

Edit: Here is the link, the first one is certainly a game for H to play during his hols, lest his iron grip over poor Scottish grammar slip.

I am going to get involved with all of those

It was already on PC!

Heh, I know. It sounds like they've improved the audio and visuals... are they testing the waters for some kind of remake?

You can also insta-level your characters, which should make it a nice relaxing experience.