Continuing in what is turning out to be a busy few days in Shogun 2 news, CA have caught up for missing a week in their faction features. Thus we have two today, the Tokugawa and Shimazu:
Although it sounds like once Kyushu is subdued beneath the Shimazu Daimyo the entire nation of Japan is ready to be conquered. Striking from a secure island homeland has it's advantages, but as we've seen from some of the recent previews the AI is not beyond sailing an army down to attack you at your heart while your armies are crushing someone elsehwere.
Let us know on ourforums what you think of the Shimazu Clan in comparison to the others that have been announced thus far. Credit to Aftermath for delivering upon us this news.
I expected the Shimazu to specialise in gunpowder being that they were the first to encounter the Europeans, so I'm surprised they infact specialise in Katana Samurai.Quoted from CA Blog:
The Shimazu are a proud clan, with a long history worthy of their pride. To the Shimazu, loyalty is everything, and their generals are less likely to develop ambitions of their own. Shimazu katana samurai are cheaper to recruit and maintain in the field than those of other clans; they can also recruit superior katana-armed samurai.
The clan can trace its ancestry back to Minamoto Yoritomo, the founder and first shogun of the Kamakura shogunate. In 1187, Yoritomo appointed his son, Tadahisa, as military governor of southern Kyushu. The young man took the name of Shimazu in Hyuga province, his seat of government, as his own. Thanks to a well-organised army and administration, abundant local resources, and a certain distance between Kyushu and the Kamakura court, the Shimazu clan became rich and powerful. They did not, however, become hidebound: when their vassals in Tanegashima met a strange, shipwrecked people from the other side of the world, the Shimazu were quick to see that trade with these "nanban" Europeans might be worthwhile.
Now, under the daimyo Shimazu Takahisa, the clan has a chance for true greatness. Their home province of Satsuma is secure, and they are at peace with the Sagara of Higo province to the north. Higo, however, is a tempting target for expansion because of the warhorses to be found there. There is the small matter of a war with the Ito clan in the provinces of Osumi and Hyuga, but once these local difficulties are resolved the distance from Kyushu to the shogun's palace is not so great after all...
Although it sounds like once Kyushu is subdued beneath the Shimazu Daimyo the entire nation of Japan is ready to be conquered. Striking from a secure island homeland has it's advantages, but as we've seen from some of the recent previews the AI is not beyond sailing an army down to attack you at your heart while your armies are crushing someone elsehwere.
Let us know on our
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