Who will you play as first?

[birdboy2000]

The demo's out. We've seen the map. Release is only three days away. Which clan or character will receive the honor of your first Sengoku game?

Me, I'm playing as whoever's in charge of Date at this point, because Date Masamune was awesome in Sengoku Basara. PUT YOUR GUNS ON.

 

[5lyder]

I was planning to play as Nanbu or Osaki.


As Osaki I would have Date as my first target

 

[Captain Gars]

I'm thinking about a game as one of the three Ashikaga brothers. All have a small/tough start but keeping the shogunate clan alive is a nice goal.

 

[unmerged(155641)]

The "evil" Takeda clan.

 

[unc15]

Otomo.

 

[soran]

I'm thinking about a game as one of the three Ashikaga brothers. All have a small/tough start but keeping the shogunate clan alive is a nice goal.

i'm planing either Ouchi or one of the Ashikaga siblings myself

but i'll see once i download the game xD

 

[Julyan]

Honwa! Little three kori daimyo with Uesugi as a neighbour. What's not to like?

 

[Captain Gars]

Honwa! Little three kori daimyo with Uesugi as a neighbour. What's not to like?

They usually build up their island as an impenetrable fort and wait for the Uesugi to get into trouble, then they strike and establish a beachhead for further inland conquest.

 

[Samusas]

Probably Imagawa, the first clan I tried in Shogun Total War

 

[Sandam]

The "evil" Takeda clan.

uniting Takeda of Kai with Takeda of Aki will be fun

 

[Ares Enyalios]

Probably Imagawa, the first clan I tried in Shogun Total War

Really? You must really mean the first Game? In the 2011 Version they aren't playable, intstead now the Tokugawa. The best of Sengoku is the larger timeframe. 55 Years is just to small.

I think i will play the Takeda too. But Date are also Nice. The Uesugi are to mighty to me in the Devs. The own half of Kanto and the rest of the East.

 

[Samusas]

Really? You must really mean the first Game? In the 2011 Version they aren't playable, intstead now the Tokugawa. The best of Sengoku is the larger timeframe. 55 Years is just to small.

I think i will play the Takeda too. But Date are also Nice. The Uesugi are to mighty to me in the Devs. The own half of Kanto and the rest of the East.

Yep, the first Shogun, but you can play Tokugawa in Shogun 1 in the later start dates.

 

[Pyriel]

Personally I tend to favour really starting out really far down on the food chain.

So.. prolly a kokujina within shimazu or Kono, to challenge the rest for domination of respective island.

 

[Captain Gars]

The Uesugi are to mighty to me in the Devs. The own half of Kanto and the rest of the East.

The Uesugi aren't as easy as they seem. They have a lot of neighbours (potential plotters), an underage clan leader, and some strong vassals of another dynasty. Also, don't be deceived by the larger provinces in norther and souther Japan. You need to control 50% of the provinces, not 50% of the area of Japan. The middle of Japan holds a lot of small provinces.

 

[Nuril]

Either Oda Toshihiro or Oda Toshisada, because they're the two landed nobles of the Oda Clan at this time, with Nakashima+Niwa and Haguri+Kasugai respectively. They're tiny, subservient and surrounded, but I wouldn't mind losing.

 

[Captain Gars]

Either Oda Toshihiro or Oda Toshisada, because they're the two landed nobles of the Oda Clan at this time, with Nakashima+Niwa and Haguri+Kasugai respectively. They're tiny, subservient and surrounded, but I wouldn't mind losing.

Since you liege, the Shiba clan, is involved in the Onin War and is fighting the neighboring Hosokawa, this is a good time to break free and start your independent Oda clan. Since Shiba is at war with a lot of outsiders they probably will decline to fight you when breaking lose. Then while the major clans are busy fighting each other you build up your clan's infrastructure and then turn on your war exhausted neighbors, one by one...

 

[Mauso]

I will try to establish either the Mori or the Hojo. Unless I am wrong, the Hojo would start out as a "hostage", so I am not sure how that would play out in game.

 

[chatnoir17]

Either Oda Toshihiro or Oda Toshisada, because they're the two landed nobles of the Oda Clan at this time, with Nakashima+Niwa and Haguri+Kasugai respectively. They're tiny, subservient and surrounded, but I wouldn't mind losing.

I have noticed twice in Demo that the Oda became independent clan, so I guess you have a good chance.
But Asakura... Even though they have a nice leader, the clan is eaten by the Togashi, Toki or Niu-Shiba rapidly...

 

[Captain Gars]

I will try to establish either the Mori or the Hojo. Unless I am wrong, the Hojo would start out as a "hostage", so I am not sure how that would play out in game.

Yes, Hojo Soun starts the game as a hostage traded away by the shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa. He's not called Hojo Soun though as he hadn't changed his name yet at this point. Here he is called Ise Shinkuro. But if you start as Yoshimasa and breaks off the hostage trade with the clan that has gotten him, you can then give him land and switch to play as him instead.

 

[Lord Tywin]

Shizumu has a nice starting position, so I will probably conquer the islands first and then go onto the mainland.