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Old 09-08-2006, 07:30 PM   #13
Buccaneer
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Colorado
1532 and 1533: The Years of Peaces

1532 saw the completion of the Mine in Harima, adding 400 koku to the annual revenues. After another average harvest, our treasury increased to 1459 koku which was put to use in building a Large Castle in Mimasaka, which will open up the ability to build one of many different types of military, religious and espionage buildings.

The 1533 harvest was poor, our first one. Farm revenues went down 25% but enough was added to the treasury to start building a Castle in Harima due to the completion of the Mine in Aki.

So where do we go from here? On our lightly defended southern border sits the Shimazu province of Nagato. Fortunately there have been very little build-up of units into Nagato even though we have not heard from a Shimazu Emissary. They appear to be interested in the Rebel and Ronin provinces off our coast in both the south and east. On our northern borders sit the powerful Oda clan. They are aggressive in nature and they continuously shuffle units in and out of their provinces, although none of the forces grow large enough to represent an immediate threat. To find out what’s on Oda’s mind, we send our Emissary to find the Oda Daimyo and offer an alliance. Meanwhile to ensure that our southern borders remain peaceful, we train another Emissary in Mimasaka with the mission of offering an alliance to the Shimazu.

We need to buy some time for with the Large Castle now underway in Mimasaka, that will allow us to build a Buddhist Temple since we already have a Tranquil Gardens there. Mimasaka provides one advantage of all of the Mori provinces – the training of the awesome Monk Warriors for 25% less (375 koku vs 500). However with the Large Castle scheduled to be completed in late 1534 and then the Buddhist Temple 2 ½ years after that, it will be a while before we see our first trained Monk Warriors, the most powerful foot soldiers in Shogun.

The long term goal is to go after the mighty Hojo clan and the way is through the Oda clan. We need to be content now to live life in peace while the other clans fight among themselves. But the Oda clan had other ideas and we should have been suspicious when our Emissary received not answer to our proposal for an alliance.
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