Entry 1 - Winter 1864

Setoru's starting position:


My starting position:


To begin with I did the standard procedure of spending my initial money on commercial buildings, and tried to trade and ally with as many neighbouring clans as I could, including the clan Tsuwano, which was surprising considering they were Shogunate and ultimately my enemy:


To try and grab an early lead I decided to attack my neighbouring enemy, the Iwakuni, by laying siege to their town. Our armies were pretty much balanced but of course he had the massive advantage of defending from a fort, however I had the bonus of being able to call in naval bombardments from my nearby fleet, so we decided to attack just to bombard the enemy as much as we could then probably retreat (Setsoru has a nearby unit because I gifted him one of mine, before we found out you can just share your units in battle if the other player doesn't have any):


I haven't got around to filming the replay of the battle yet, so wait for the next post.