FOR THE EMPEROR! Shogun 2 Total War - Fall of the Samurai - Satsuma Campaign #1 

*I prefer Oranges but Satsuma are pretty good too... ;)*

Other Total War titles: here is small enemy stack for you to train. Fall of the Samurai: here is enemy army, enjoy the pain.

Fall of the Samurai was the best Total War ever made hands down from the historical perspective. Maybe I'm biased because of guns and ironclads but thats my era of history.

Since you plan on going republic, keep in mind that your imperial infantry will disband automatically as well as your Ishin Shishi agents. So perhaps relying on line infantry or black bear infantry (Satsuma's unique unit which is better than line infantry but worse than imperial infantry) until you go republic is a viable option. Yeah, allies and vassals suck in this game. You can't trust them and sometimes they switch allegiance to backstab you when you least expect it. But you can kinda predict it if they start moving their armies to your borders.

It’s the nature of time that the old ways must give in

A good tip for future battles is that you can easily deploy firearm infantry behind each other in two tiers in FotS. One of the few games I don’t have to worry about friendly fire as long as the hill is steep enough.

Lionheart I have some advice as someone who spent a long time abusing certain game mechanics of FotS - naval bombardment is entirely broken as a tool to win battles. Use it, use it again, keep using it. Smash their toughest units with it every time whilst keeping your troops back so they have to march to you (giving you more time to bombard). Use in sieges to just obliterate their defences. Secondly - spread your rifle units as thin as they go every time to maximise the number of troops firing effectively. Thirdly - make use of flanking fire. Position melee units in the open as a bait, then have rifle units hidden (if possible) in the flanks with fire at will disabled. Wait for the enemy to engage on your melee units then wheel your rifle units to blast them from the sides and rear. Fourthly - cavalry are even more powerful in FotS than they are in the base game. Use your generals units (and other cav units) to ride down and roll over any distracted enemy rifle units you can get to (you don't want them firing at your cav as they charge which is why you want them distracted first). Fifth - always get the British. Don't worry about the others. HMS Warrior is a doomstack on its own its like the Black Ship but more scary. Royal Marines are also really strong even if not quite as good as the French unit. The Americans suck never get the Americans. The French naval ship sucks also. Sixth - as the Satsuma you have the ability to quickly obtain a powerhouse recruitment centre in your capital for maximum accuracy infantry. You don't even need to spend on line infantry when you can recruit levy infantry with massively upgraded accuracy, they're way cheaper to maintain so you can have huge stacks of sniper-quality levy infantry running around for pennies. Good luck out there I'm looking forward to watching this series.

So about the HMS warrior, I've been in it and it's honestly huge. It was the first armoured frigate of the British navy and was also along with her sister ship (the HMS Black Prince) the first Iron-hulled ships produced in retaliation to Frances commission of the first Ironclads. Though she never saw combat and never fired her guns at any enemy targets during her service. She's still around, she currently resides at Portsmouth in the UK as a museum ship.

Satsuma is on the imperial side of the bosin war because they were on the losing side of the battle of sekigara they were branded tozama(outsiders) so they couldn’t grow in the new government and was always look at with suspicion

Your first battle here reminds me of the first battle for Cruise’s troops when they fought the samurai and were obliterated. Though they had the guns, the warriors of the old way were superior. I’m sure you will pull it out and grow dominant over time, but still, thought it revealing that the spear line dominated you in that battle.

The Ryukyu (Re-yook-you) Islands are a chain of islands that run from just south of Kyushu all the way to Taiwan. Okinawa is the largest and most famous of these.

"Japan prospered. The people were content." But that all changed when the Fire nation attac- no wait, that's not it. I meant to say, when the Americans showed up with our special brand of gun-point diplomacy. Not a whole lot of difference to be honest though. "The Shogun abandoned his people and signed the Treaty of Peace and Amity." Not exactly. More accurately the captain of the American flagship rolled up and said "Hey. We heard you guys might have some money and we want it. Your capital city is within range of our cannons so you can either sign this trade agreement or we can start shelling your people. Your choice."

Ryukyu Kingom is now Okinawa Island, it used to be independent state until Japan annexed in 1879.

Kyushu. The island you're on is Kyushu. The others are Shikoku, which is the other island near Kyushu. Honshu which is the main island, and Hokkaido which is the northern island.

I am so excited for this series. Great choice.

Really excited for this series! Loved the Shogun/Napoleon series!

It is time to relive the history, as Lionheart command the mighty Satsuma army, with the aid of legendary commander/samurai Saigo Takamori, on his journey to unite Japan. I'm so hyped for this series, and I hope that you will be able to keep Saigo alive til the very end of the campaign

May you have the best pizza today and everyday after. May the power of the pizza be with you always. 🍕 thanks for the series 👍

Nothing like watching a new LionHeart campaign on my Birthday

Thank you for the video! So basicaly Shogunate sided with Americans, Emperor with the British (Anglo-Japan alliance was formed later and hold on up to post WWI period). And the short lived republican uprising were helped by some French officers and unofficially by France (because the Third Republic just kick in at that peirod). But it is only true if my memory serve me well.

That first battle was remarkably close to a fair fight, and we know what militaries usually say about fair fights. As you said, early-game armies in FotS have such a diverse collection of traditional and modern units, so these battles will require a lot of attention and micro to ensure the various types are all used effectively. The gun units have to stay safe and shooting, while the melee units have to strike at the right times.

Yes! Back to Satsuma again! FOR THE EMPEROR!

Ryukyu Kingdom was a small kingdom on the Okinawa Island and a lot of surrounding isles. It was invaded by the Satsuma in 1609 and kept as a vassal until 1879.

I’m a long time viewer of your channel and love the content as well as the wit and banter. I would love to see an Imperial /Traditionalist campaign in the future. Can you do be both or is the Imperial path always come with westernization? I really would like to see the Imperial faction adopt a more Traditionalist approach but I’ll watch this one too.

So the island that you're on is, as others have said, Kyushu. Your main city there is now the modern city of Kagoshima and is the main trading/shipping port of southern Japan. It's also gorgeous and I loved visiting there when I was stationed in Sasebo. They have an active volcano nearby, Sakurajima Volcano, which is basically in the middle of the bay and is pretty awesome. The surrounded national park is franky amazing. Fun fact, the volcano used to be an island until... I want to say 1920(?) when an eruption connected it to the nearby peninsula.

In the early game a traditional army can be extremely effective for claiming lots of territory quickly. You can get powerful samurai melee units with the first two tiers of buildings, and they can bully early modern units quite effectively.

The sound of armstrong guns in this game is asmr...

I'd just like to advocate for Total War: Troy - especially the mythical DLC. Very thematic stories and I really enjoyed the trade of goods.

Just some advice for this faction, I would definitely invest in your navy. I’m pretty sure one of your neighbors has a gold mine too. Loving the Napoleon and Shogun playthroughs!

Shogun 2 in 2024, you are based brother

Yes! More Shogun 2 please!

taking over all of kyushu and the 3 tiny islands will be enough for realm divide, it kicks off right as you hit legendary status

Funny last time I played this was my faction, pretty OP

Well the imperial faction wasn't mad at modernization. They were mad at how modernization was happening. The shogun signed a bunch of unequal treaties with the west that caused economic issues leading to some groups deciding to support the emperor to stop those unequal treaties and get rid of the shogun

Ryukyu Kingdom, is president day Okinawa Island, and the other islands to the south of that island towards Taiwan.

FOR THE GOD EMPEROR!!!! Oh wait you meant the Japanese emperor… eh still works

I was watching some old Shogun 2 videos, and it does seem like legendary is more difficult. Even so, I understand your reasoning to stick to very hard.

BTW you can recruit directly to your armies in the field

Damn! if there were ever a Pyrrhic victory, whewww!!!

The island you start on is Kyushu island

French: Best infatry (better accuracy and better reload) American: Best Artillery (Better accuracy and maybe more range) British: Best Ships. (Can't remember how, but Rule Britania, Britania rule the waves.)

The Ryukyu Kingdom is the islands south of japan including okinawa.

pronunciation help: Ryukyu is pronounced ReeyooCue and it was the nation state that is now the Okinawan islands Nobeoka: NohBayOhKah Hirado: HeeRahDoh Goto: GohToh

Certain provinces got Natural resources.. i hope you going to take advantage of that. Example province with coal give discount in recruiting ship so its profitabe to make that province your main shipyard

for real fall of the samurai was my favorite total war expac

For the Emperor! Let the Age of the Samurai end and the Age of Progress begin! Time for Japan to rise and become a great power to rival those in the west!

Reason number what the heck ever we need a new Shogun. It’s the original and it’s still the best.

When fots first came out I had to restart like 20 times lol

when the unit yells "on the double!" am i the only one hearing them yelling "and the devil!"

I love the music for this game

the ryuku kingdom is modern okinawa

You can only buy modern infantry and a flag ship from one of them, Britian has the best broadside ship, the French have a Ram based on the CSS Stonewall Jackson and the US ship has turrets that don't rotate.

Its a good idea to take the small island to the north

little bit of topic question. Lionheartx10, when it comes to some conditions influencing the settlements in some ways like growth, number of inhabitants, religion, culture, what do you prefer? Do you prefer the way of Medieval2TW/Third age total war, basically it has influence on public order and on being able to train certain units only if specific culture or religion is present in sufficient amount, or TWRome, where if you recruit too many units from one settlements, you significantly cripple the growth of the settlement and you won't be able to upgrade settlements anytime soon, or Warhammer, where it's just corruption influencing just public order? And second question about diplomacy. I am not talking about the options in diplomatic actions, but about the options how to start diplomatic action. Do you prefer the old option, where you have to recruit diplomat and send him to another faction's settlement/army, or the new option - just discover them and then you will be able to do it wherever you want to?

Yess!

That first battle was a mess but it was an excellent battle none the less

Ryukyu is the southern islands of Japan, including Okinawa

FOTS & Shogun 2 really needs a remaster.

Im currently in the last few turns of my satsuma campaign... All i can say is bolt for the railway and build it FAST

yeeessss!

Love satsuma

And by the way the general is a pretty powerful unit. if you do not trust yourself with cav, use them as infantry maybe they will survive longer with you :)

Great

GG. I thought the first battle was suppose to be easy.

🍿oh boy here we go

For the Shogun!

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I really want to play this game again too.. but every time I launch the campaign the game crashes so I gave up lol

Loving the total war content. What's the plan with Warhammer 3? You waiting on the new update?

At the double

Just wanna say, don't feel the need to play Darthmod if you don't want to. Take this as an official vote for vanilla rise of the samurai... Whenever you get around to it

Hey Lionheart, I have a request, if it's ok with you, could I make comments that are like letters to loved ones as the clan grows and fights other clans?

I believe that your Western alliance options are also limited by your allegiance. If you're Pro-Emp, you can get British or US, and if you're Pro-Shogun you can get French or US.

Just go to Line Infantry, the leve infantry is only worth it if you need troops to calm a populace or need guns for a defensive siege

I suppose Napoleon could be considered a saga game too, that and FotS are their best games imho

Dude you gotta use kill boxes more. You could take a whole settlement with 3 riffle regimens

Hey lionheart I always wondered why you never played the warpath campaign on empire total war

Geishas can affect total income on their last 3 skills

Thought about doing another Three Kingdoms series?

Hey Lionheart, 1. Generals can still get bad traits by siting into settlements for doing nothing for too long and I strongly suggest you park them outside, Into the forest in Ambush Stances to prevent them of having bad traits like eyes for the Ladies or Likes his food. 2. 15:10 Please consider adopting that unrelated family member General you start with and this is not just a random General this is the Legendary Samurai and General Saigō Takamori that would personally lead the Emperor's Finest Troops to Victory in the Boshin War and also lead a Rebellion against the Meiji government in 1877 and died with honor. And he was also the true last Samurai in history and inspired the Ken Watanabe Character of Lord Moritsugu Katsumoto in the movie The Last Samurai and please adopt him and make him lead the next stack. And he is also playable in the historical battles for Fall of the Samurai and given his own model and Portrait but CA choice not to reuse that model in the Campaign gameplay for some reason. 3. Before you turn Republic, make sure the Cadet School is fully upgraded to the Army War College to get access to elite republican guard infantry and order to do that you have trade with the foreign powers as soon as possible or sail a ship around japan to see who has cotton and Light Machine and remember before you turn Republic and that was your mistake in your Obama Campaign and after you turn republic the foreign powers Bug out and you no longer have cotton and Light Machine for republican guard infantry.

Ah yes, the good old gunpowder units constantly reforming rather than firing issue. Self preservation must always come second to keeping proper order wot wot?

I have a question why is it that I can’t play the other dlcs but I can play the base game. And I have all the dlcs

I recommend you nearly always put your Line INfantery in defensive mode. Than thy keep on shooting while maybe their flank is in meele. I do not look forward to a rise of teh samurai playthrogh. although would love a Darthmod Shogun 2 campign.

To be honest Japanese had The Opium wars as an example what is going to happen if they don't modernize.

there's no mode to change name of the unit?

hi everybody

What's going to be the rationale from a role play perspective for going independent? If the Satsuma have been loyal to the emperor ever since the first shogun it would be a bit out of character. Could it be some orange bearded British influence perhaps?

pls do rise of the samurai next

Looking to buy Fall of Samurai and it seems its now ...standalone game or what? Its not under Shogun 2 but " Fall of Samurai Saga" ? Whats the difference what did they do with it lol.... Reviews are pretty negative

Firstly

HOW ARE YOU PLAYING FALL OF THE SAMURAI, IT WONT WORK ON SHOGUN 2? AND I DO NOT HAVE ANY OTHER WAY TO ACCESS IT, I SEE THERES A SAGA BUT I BOUGHT ALL THE DLC BACK IN 2012 WHY THE HECK CAN'T I PLAY THIS GAME?

Someone that clearly hasn't played EU4 to think Ryukyu is Korea

when this first came out it took 20 minutes to load into battles even with a i9 and 4080 it takes awhile wonder what causes it i guess i am spoiled by ps5 and m.2

I had a 3rd great uncle who fought under Lee in the Civil War and later went to Japan for 7 years before coming home and dieing just before ww1

Warhammer has ruined the word 'emperor' for me. Heard you saying 'Hail the emperor' and immediately said 'for Sigmar!'

everyone but legend who plays this seems to have absolutely no idea what they're doing. second guessing themselves every step of the way.

I wish these players would play with the formations given and not put the units in a straight line 😒.

Maybe lower the difficulty setting a little - you're gonna be creamed wasabi very soon..?

This first battle was pain to watch, i never seen such bad control of units. Well, i guess, this channel is not for me.

Why r u ppl still playing unmoded in 2024? I got 4k hours in shogun2 but I can't play unmoded no more, simply said, mods provid new units I need for the game