Shogun 2 Otomo Campaign Episode 1: The beginning of a new era...

Toreno

Welcome to my lets play of the Otomo clan in Shogun 2 with Darthmod!  In this first episode we are already at war with two clans, hated for being Christian and have hardly any forces. Thankfully we have do access to gunpowder and powerful friends from the west...  Please note this is an unofficial video and is not endorsed by SEGA or the Creative Assembly in any way. For more information on Total War, please visit www.totalwar.com.  Social Media ⬇️ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/toreno.bsky.social Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Toreno4 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/toreno170 Mastodon: Toreno17@mastodon.social Threads: https://www.threads.net/@toreno170 Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Toreno17 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/toreno5/videos   Game: Shogun 2 Total War  ⬅️

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00:00Hello everybody and welcome to my new let's play on Shogun 2 Total War. We'll be playing

00:11as the Otomo, with faster import of matchlocks, reduced recruitment costs for gunpowder infantry,

00:20reduced costs for missionary actions, and an improved frame of conversion to the clans

00:25of religion, which in this case will be Christianity. I've played this clan a little bit before.

00:31It's quite hard because you get a minus one honour from the Christianity, I believe. You

00:39only have two provinces, but the southern islands are some rich provinces around here,

00:44so that will be a good thing for us if we can expand. So, now to get started.

00:55I'm just going to leave the cinematic running.

01:26And victory wipes away dishonour.

01:34Truth has come with the foreigners, and souls can be saved by following the church's teaching.

01:43Heathens who cling to the old ways will be compelled by the power of Christ to kneel before God.

01:56My fellow Jesuits landed recently on your shores and found that we have much in common.

02:04We have our deep loyalty to the Holy Father in Rome. You have a deep loyalty to your daimyo

02:11and to the Shogun. Our loyalties have provoked others and made them enemies, for such is

02:20the way of the world. Now your country is in turmoil. The Shogun's authority wanes,

02:28and your own position is threatened by lesser men. Together, though, we can be strong. Trade

02:36with us brings you the strength of God's wealth and guns to arm the righteous. The lands of

02:44your old rivals, the Ouchi, are near. Seize them, punish your rivals, and gain a foothold

02:50on the mainland. The Shimazu resent the favour you enjoy in the eyes of the Shogunate and

02:56the close friendship we have between us. Be wary of them, for their delusions of superiority

03:03will make them determined to see you crushed. Be vigilant, and all will be well.

03:11The heathens will be brought to the Lamb, or they will be destroyed. By God's grace,

03:19the Otomo will prevail.

03:22So, as the introduction explained, we've already got contact with Europeans, we've sort of

03:30got to spread the Christian faith, we've already got enemies with some clans. I believe we

03:37might actually already be at war with some. Yeah, we're at war with the Ouchi and the

03:45Shoni. So that's already put us in quite a difficult position. We're going to send our

03:53priest out. We'll send him over here, towards the Sagara. We're going to have to send our

04:04fleet to block the pass here. We're going to build some trade ships quickly, just so

04:14we can take control of some of the trade routes. About three should do. Let's check our finance.

04:22We're going to make 2,201. So, we're ok there. We need to get our honour up. That'll take

04:2912 turns. That'll give us some bonuses on the way. Check our diplomacy, see if we can

04:37get any trade. We're very friendly with the Ito, and we already have a trade agreement.

04:42Sagara, I'm probably going to attack them, so I won't do that. I'll see if I can get

04:48one for the meantime, but I don't think they're going to accept it. No, they're not going

04:57to accept that. And check our clan. We'll obscure basic things. We've got to construct

05:09a chapel, and we'll get the word of God. I don't know if I'll do that straight away.

05:15I might wait until we've captured some provinces before doing that. We've got to build up our

05:21armies as well. We can get matchlock infantry. Right, straight away pretty much. We've already

05:31got some infantry. We're already at war with the Shoni, we'll have to see if we can recon

05:40the area quick. We haven't got an awful lot of troops, but once you have the garrison

05:52in, I don't think we can take it in this turn. So I'm going to have to build up our army

05:59a bit first. We're going to go for Barashigaru straight away, just to get something in case

06:07they attack us. Send some troops from here quick. Mainly ranged units. It's going to

06:21put us to zero on public order. And those troops are stuck there, so we're going to

06:29have to build up our roads I think. Alright, so now all that's done. I don't think there's

06:39anything else I can do. Set research. Yep, let's see what's our province with the most

06:50attacks. 482. Oh, it's this one. So that's our more prosperous province. I think that's

06:58also our capital. Build a Nanban quarter down here at some point. So let's just end the

07:06turn for the moment. For the first few turns, we haven't discovered any clans, so it should

07:13go relatively quickly. As we discover more clans, I might end up skipping the turns because

07:20obviously we don't want to watch through all of these clans doing everything. Ah, we've

07:27got a trade ship. Barashigaru and Matchlock Ashigaru. If we recruit some Matchlock Ashigaru,

07:41we should get two experienced Matchlock Ashigaru. Ok, we'll have to do that at some point. Maybe

07:48not straight away, because I'm trying not to spend lots of money at the moment. Send

07:53our trade ship down there. Also recon to there. That city's undefended, but Aito has quite

08:01a few provinces, I believe. Let's see if we can expand the map. Not sure who... Satsuma,

08:09where's Satsuma? That'd be a new clan, or an undiscovered clan I'm assuming. So we'll

08:17have to discover them at some point. Let's check their army now. I'm not sure if it's

08:25got bigger. I can't tell exactly. They also have a small town over here. I could theoretically

08:41send a... Oh, he wouldn't reach it in one turn. That's not good. I could get my troops

08:50on a ship and just send them around there, but I'm not sure we could reach it in one

08:55turn, which would leave this right open. So at the moment we've got... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,

09:026, 7 lots of troops for you there. 6 lots of troops, although once you add Garrison

09:09in, that'll be another 3. So they'd outnumber us still. We'd just have to hope for a morale

09:17type victory, I think really. So we'll send some more Metrocashigara up there. Recruit

09:24some more. Let's check our finances. Our upkeep's starting to chip into our income now, so not

09:35an awful lot we can do in this turn I don't think. Oh, we can move our priest. Send him

09:41to start reconning these towns. Why's it not letting me move here? Ah, there's quite

09:51a lot of mountains, that's why. Oh, didn't see this bit come up. Oh, we encountered some

10:03clans. So we'll see if we can get trade with them quickly. Oh, that's finance. I should

10:14also mention I'm playing with the Darth Mod. I don't know if I mentioned it at the beginning.

10:19It'll be in the description, but just so you know, I haven't really used it before, so

10:24I'm not sure how much of a difference it'll make to the game. I know it increases range

10:28for matchlock troops, which will be important for this playthrough obviously. Right, I think

10:33we'll start the end turn. Not an awful lot we can do in that. Right, I'm just going to

10:42go through it quickly. Yeah, nothing much has happened again. Ah, we've completed the

10:50mission. And we've completed one of our techs. We'll now go in for this one, that'll give

10:57us Zen, that'll give us plus one clan happiness. This gave us a bonus to clan-wide techs, so

11:04let's check our techs now. It hasn't brought it upwards, but considering we just recruited

11:11some units, it's kept it about the same. We've got more troops, that's always good. Bring

11:18our trade ship down here. Or we can send them to this one. If we can just grab it for ourselves

11:27we can start filling them out later. Right, let's start getting incense. Not sure if that's

11:36going to give us much of a bonus, but not much shown there. Right, let's just check

11:44our troops. They're still going to be stuck there. Send these lot up as reinforcements

11:54as well. They don't look like they're getting that much further despite the roads, which

12:00is kind of annoying. But still, at least I haven't got a turn timer on them. I did remember

12:12reading in Darth Mod it said they would be recruited in zero turns, but that makes it

12:19sound like it's instantaneous or something, because everything else is produced in one

12:25turn. This doesn't mention anything either. That seems a bit odd. Right, we've got quite

12:34a few more troops now. One last recon of the area with my ship. And they've moved most

12:45of their army out. Ah, this would be a good time to send our troops over there. Ah, we're

12:56not going to quite reach it. Send our general. We should retreat him really. Ah, we can't

13:04retreat. So... Ah, we've been ambushed. Ah, that's not good. I'm just going to put myself

13:13in a bit of a pickle. I'm just going to resolve it and hope he retreats. Nope, we lost our

13:18general. That's not good. Right, we should have really not sent him out. Was he a good

13:27general? Yeah, he was quite a good general. Ah, that's not good at all. Although we've

13:34got him, who's going to come of age soon. See if we can build some roads here. And a

13:42harbour. A bit more turn growth. We could... I'm not going to do that. If we offer land

13:54to the Fodners, because we get a bit of money, but we'll also lose more honour. That's the

13:59last thing we need. We could... I'm going to build the improved irrigation, get some

14:08more food, start building up a stockpile. That sort of thing. I'm just going to skip

14:13to the next... I'm going to go to the next turn now. I'll probably end the video soon,

14:19because then when the action starts I'll have that all in one video. Our priest is just

14:26exploring. I'm just going to let the turns carry on. Right, nearly finished. And there

14:47we go. Right, tensions rising in Busen. Well, we knew that was going to happen, which is

14:53why we sent up more troops. But now, we need more barashigaru to try and even that out.

15:04We've got three more matchlock ships... um, ships, I mean troops. We'll send this ship

15:12over here though. He can hopefully finish his journey up here. As long as we can just

15:20grab these trade routes. I'm not sure what we got out of this one. Oh, incense. Oh, so

15:31we haven't gained anything extra. I mean, we've got more trade, but we haven't got an

15:39extra trade resource. We'll send these troops up here quick. And they can't quite reach

15:49us, which is kind of annoying. I could send them as reinforcements, but then they're not

15:59going to move much in this turn. Oh, we've got ourselves a bit nearer. Send the rest

16:07to attack. It seems like their army has actually retreated. Ah, they're in the city. They outnumber

16:17us a bit, but I'm hoping that we can just, with our superior firepower, we'll be able

16:26to sort of shock a Naughty enemy into defeat. Because, um, yashigaru matchlocks do give

16:33quite a big morale effect. Then hopefully the archers can defeat them, like can cause

16:43more casualties themselves. If we can kill the general and their daimo, we should be

16:48able to have quite a successful turn. Again, nothing else has happened this turn. If there's

16:56a battle, I'll do it in the next episode probably. Sorry for the rather abrupt ending. I was

17:02supposed to end the video here, but I forgot to end it and dined it up in a battle, which

17:08I was going to do in the next episode, like I already said. So I'm going to end the video

17:13here. The battle will be in the next episode. Thank you for watching. Leave feedback, it's

17:18very important to me. Like the video if you enjoyed it, subscribe if you like watching

17:22these videos, and once again, thanks for watching. And my apologies for ending the video so abruptly

17:29for the reasons I mentioned. And see you in the next episode.

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