The Fate of Uesugi 

Shogun 2 a day keeps the Imperialists away

When in siege defense, make sure to yari wall behind your archers where possible. This way when the enemy is climbing the walls, you pull your archers behind the wall and kite tired troops into a spear wall. Works all the time for me to break even samurai units quickly.

Trade ships actually can win against kobayas by using boarding very aggressively, but you need to do it either in the rain or get lucky with none of the ships catching fire. And there's also a point of boarding in this game being incredibly bugged, so yeah lots of luck

That naval battle would have been an easy win. A trade ship easily wins in boarding against a bow kobaya and enemy ships were much more damaged than the trade ships were.

Legend of Control Groups All of the Sudden

How many tries did this take you was it only one?

Nani?

a tip for every shogun 2 player. Since legend has also problems of knowing if a general has survivied or not especially if the generals are not leading the army: All general units have a little influnce circle around them if you watch the minimap. if the general is dead this circle disappears. Obviously legend wont make much use of it, since most of the time he plays on legendray difficulty. but for other players i hope this will help.

Shogun 2 will always have a special place in my heart - absolutely loving all the recent content! You've convinced me to buy FOTS

Playing Uesugi is already a disaster campaign. Great job as usual.

Love the Historical Total War recently Legend. Keep it up mate

Finding out back in the day that the Realm Divide event can trigger on AI factions was what led to my love of playing total war games super slow. I love a good sweeping tide from time to time, but my favorite thing is playing the diplomacy game. My favorite run of Shogun2 was as the Date supporting the Takeda through the entire takeover of Japan, sticking by them while the shogunate turned everyone else against us....and then destroying them in a single turn with a ton of pre-planned ambushes and armies. Took about 75% of their territory at once and they buckled under the weight of their Shimazu war before they could do anything to stop it.

I have started Shogun 2 again because of you Legend. Thanks! Having tons of fun

Hey this is my campaign, excellent battle! Never even considered sallying out to hit the general like that but worked like a charm! Thanks my man. This campaign was quite difficult at the start. If anyone wants to play Uesugi, I basically sent out a small expedition force to take the gold island from the Honma. From there I had to turtle in my starting settlement, using sieges and forest ambushes to take out incoming armies. Eventually I was fairly rich and the enemy clans were depleted and it was pretty easy from there!

My first major Shogun 2 campaign I saw a horrifying AI shogun. I was the Date and I saw an Ikko Ikki Shogunate very early. They conquered the whole south and could convert provinces insanely fast with around 6 fully levelled monks and converted metsuke. They basically conquered most of the map through mass peasant revolts, it was a campaign where the objective was effectively “Survive”.

Legend you are definitely a major contributing factor to the + 30% rise in active player counts to Shogun 2 ! Please do a special Shogun 2 livestream 🙏 I've been looking for a lot of recent Shogun 2 let's plays or livestreams and I've only found Volound that's good but he's not as entertaining as you are 😅 Please consider ❤

I feel like i went back couple years back when you played various historical titles, its amazing.

God I love the UI, it's both more beautiful and more practical than what they've been using since R2. Classic case of CA regression

You can see if you've killed the enemy general on the minimap, if there isn't a routing unit marked as a star in the circle means he's dead, but you had a circled star running which means you haven't killed him

This game and the FotS expansion were amazing. The only TW game where putting units on walls is actually beneficial to defender and they can ACTUALLY SHOOT. Sadly this arcane technology was lost in later TW games. The only thing I'm disappointed with in this game are naval battles. But that's just subjective, never heard anyone else complain.. Otherwise this is easily one of the best TW games for me. If only we got a TW game with Attila melee combat, Shogun 2 range combat and no dumb gimmicks. Like assigning generals political post like in Attila and keeping them happy. I recently installed Attila back and played a bit and immediately got the flashbacks of managing the politics. Like, are you my top general or some teen girl from a dating sim?

I think Shogun 2 Uesugi on harder difficulties is one of the toughest start position in any Total War. Props to this guy for making it this far.

what an amazin battle! the field battle at the start then retreating to the fortress to defend the oncoming waves. i love this game and actually reinstalled it because of legends videos, and also finally tried FOTS since it looked awesome in his video

Not really a disaster campaign. Just a disaster battle. They own half the map LUL

You could argue that castle is kind of a hill.

Glad you ditched Warhammer for a while shit got boring. Idk I tried them and i didn't really like them. The mechanics are confusing for me

Got to love those Warrior Monk blenders. They cut things up like very little else in Shogun 2, it's a glorious sight to behold. :)

Loving the Shogun content, I know you're limited by what you receive, but could we see some offensive battles if possible.

I have an issue with my campaign - recently started S2 campaign (after couple of years) as Hattori (VH difficulty) and I went west - but somehow I got so much area that I am now at the situation, that I am about to trigger realm divide with one more province while having my armies everywhere, but not being prepared and in position. I hoped to consolidate before triggering it, but I am quite literally "forced" to trigger it anyway as on Kyushu they keep attacking me. My 2 main (mosr experienced) armies and generals are at Kyushu, where I will need 3-4 turns to get the rest of the territories, but at the same time, it will be insanely long way back to central Japan, where I expect main fighting. Another elite stack and half was recruited in Ikko-Ikki area and one stack is in Mori territory (I expected Chosokabe to join the war). Chosokabe is controlling their island and some teritories in Mori area and I was told they are about to attack/betray me. Hatakeyama kept their area next to Kyoto, so I will need to deal with them as well, although they are small (just 4 provinces?). In the east there is strong Oda (my ally) dominating most of the east and quite strong Takeda, who will be probably the main opponents - and I am neighbouring both. There is as well Date, who has 3-4 provinces in the corner, so I am not worried ATM. So now I am kinda all over place and I am kinda thinking whether to just fight everybody OR to concede central Japan, consolidate completely in the west (take down Chosokabe and have defensive line at harima-tajima area while doing so. The positive is, that I would have just one front eventually going east. The negative is, that my main recruitment centre is Echizen-Kaga and I would need to concede that area together with the central japan and need to reconquer it. Thoughts?

The settlement Fort maps in TW Shogun 2 are great. Compact and layered in a way that makes sense. CA needs to go back to games like this for inspiration on settlement design for newer games. WH3 settlement designs make so little sense.

I was thinking "hey it should be upload time by now" and there we have it, another Legend video! I finished a (short) campaign already of FOTS, but I went the basic bitch route and supported the Emperor. Perhaps I should go for long victory and try going for a republic this time.

It surely nice to see all these different games. Although it also highlights how vast and diverse TW Warhammer is. I usually don't play more than one campaign of historical TW games I own per year. With WH, I can just change the faction and its a whole new deal. But it is less polished than historical games are. There is something about ME2 cav, S2 monks and Fots cannons that makes each of them them more satisfying than their WH counterparts. Oh, and manually aiming a naval combat broadside, lets not forget about that.

I usually use yari ashigaru lines on lower levels in long straight lines so enemies will derp on them, or just holding some corner where archers can easily decimate guys from upper levels, this castle is awesome for that. Hold a position with militia or ashigaru and then burn the tower before enemy catches it, if they come with way larger force there.

How did it gets so bad that the AI just went up and won the campagne instead of the player?

People who chooses Uesugi loves pain.

Hey Legend! Since you cover historical total wars like medieval 2 and shogun 2 the playerbase got up arround 1500 players good job!!

This battle looks so fucking good omg

I do really love your shogun2 battles. Even I don't like playing shogun2 on my own.

"You can rest when you're dead." LegendofTotalHill

The towers seemed so weak. I remember back in the day using a mod that doubled or even tripled their damage output. Worked for the FotS cannon/gatling towers, too.

Lol I just had this battle in a similar situation (ai had 2 1/2 stacks) but because my armies had so many matchlock samurai as to make my land battles terrible (6-8) my castle defense was amazing and the ai got slaughtered.

Ive seen the a.i take the shogunate once only (in legendary) Date campaign. More steamrolled, they took the shogunate. It was weird. The oda also went from being the big blob, to getting its butt handed (likely as ashigaru dont stack up as well in autoresolve, and the a.i weirdly loves navies in legendary = mori bonus) I just got around to an oda legendary and must say i loved it. To deal with early game borders i actually vassaled the first clan you start off with at war (to the north of you), which let me focus on the tokugawa, Inegawa and the kitabake. Allied to takeda, and picked up the pieces when the ikko destroyed them. Constant warfare with the hattori back and forth. Wrecked the hojo (after takeda got taken out) Built up Sagami into my troop production centre. Just went balls to the wall on gold tier oda long spear. Omg. Combined with stand and fight lvl 3, encampment +2 weapons, and any extra buffs, those oda long spear decimate enemies, especially in spear wall absorbing a charge.. Naginata charging them, they lose 60 of their 150 or so in the first 3-4 seconds. And oda nobunaga is overpowered in legendary. "Impolite" doesnt mean squat in legendary. He gets heroic trait, plus the trait that hurts enemy moral. The oda are overpowered. Only downside is no matchlock ashigaru to do some historical roleplay. Also farm gameplay for oda is OP. Considering many clans will pay you to trade with them (even on legendary) you can afford terrace farms fairly easily mid game. Rush out land consolidation, and bank up momey for those, you get at least 18 surplus food. 18 extra growth to each settlement per turn. All before realm divide. Then your access to metsuke courts or libraries (tech accelerators) plus monk buff sites, and nearby ninja schools. Only campaign i have had more fun on is Ottomo getting the european ships and the destruction with matchlock's and tercos. I'll likely never touch a mori or uesugi legendary.

Im my latest game, Otomo on hard, The Oda took the shogunate and then LOST IT, leading to the askaga shogunate reappearing

Former advisor "The men are fatigued my Lord and some need to rest".....LOTW "Yeah well right now we need to fight, you can rest when you are Dead" and knowing LOTW that might be sooner for some then others......... haha

16:19-16:23 no magic there Legend, just the age-old phenomenon of guys trying to look their strongest, bravest and unphased-by-peril in presence of ladies. How thoughtful of CA to implement that as a game mechanic.

Legend, I'd love to see you play FoTS as Nagaoka, but instead of fighting for the Shogun, switch sides and fight for the emperor on legendary.

Shogun 2 is my favorite total war title, and the uesugi is my favorita faction. Warrior Monks RULE xD

"...alright these guys here start bringing them back up... and girls of course." 😅

With bow warrior monks this province can survive against triple stack assaults. First, burn ALL of your towers so that they cant be captured. Then, Layer your spear ashigaru flush against the base of one of the 2nd or 3rd walls then put your ranged units on top that same wall. The enemy will piece meal run at your melee troops while your ranged troops fire at them from an elevated position inflicting consistent and sustained causalities. If you have gun powder and use this strategy you can win almost any siege battle. Gun units that can fire constantly and with impunity are devastating.

TBH don't like sieges in S2, they feel to chaotic and messy for me. Field battles are much more entertaining IMO.

Balance of Power means shit in older Total War Games. Specially in Shogun 2 and Rome 2

one way to cheese lost naval battles is to sit right next to the border so when you start to rout you instantly retreat not giving time for your ships to sink or surrender. Personally kinda hate the naval system in Shogun 2 since the ai are slippery bastards and will do this trick to you plus most of the time you can't catch them the second time and even if you do they can do the same thing again and again til you sink or capture every ship without it sailing out of the battle zone. Really annoying trying to chase down stacks of fleets that keep raiding/blockading your trade routes or transporting armies especially since they won't declare war til the troops have been landed if they are not already at war. All whilst Auto-resolve sucks for naval battles often letting them escape and taking more damage than necessary leading to high repair costs and a lot of downtime or you manually fight every naval battle which gets really boring fast and takes ages. IMO this biggest problem with Shogun 2 and the lackluster unit variety but thats because of the limited scope of Japan.

Ok I just finished watching a five year old uesugi save. What a coincidence

Legend, why don't you play modded campaigns? Such as dawnless days etc.

Bro when are you doing a FOTS livestream?

You can still cheat out fire arrows in the rain by alt clicking the use continuously button in the bottom left of the main button

How can you NOT win with a castle and a full garrison against only that force?

You hardly see legend use control groups but he seems to always do in shogun 2. That’s how much control groups are important in shogun

Any chance of a shogun 2 livestream legend?

Every Uesugi campaign is a disaster campaign.

I know not controling large army is a game mechanic free to use, but for me its cheating

This was like wack a mole. Smacking units as they come over the walls

You're commetary was excellent on this one legend. Very enjoyable to watch

Once I saw that Iko Iki became Shogun

God, the music in this game is ON POINT.

Shogun 2 really does have some of the best siege battles

The game does let you know that the general has died, assuming he has actually been killed. If the generals body gaurd has only been shattered and run away, there's a chance that he survived and has only ran away and didn't get killed. Thus not giving you the notification that he was actually killed.

sir please do historical battle of kawagoe

Insane battle, wp LEGEND.

"leg to war here" - RU-vid subtitles.

that enemy Daimyo had plot armor...

End battle extra kills is only fots

Watashi no usagi ni sawaranaide kudasai

I should stick to just Shogun 2, FOTS keeps turning into 'swarms of enemy faction ships bombarding everything you know and love' simulator

Pretty good but could use a hill

Have been playing Shogun 2 again because of your videos and have really been enjoying it. The only two things are that I don't quite get how the finance system works and I'm not a fan of how weak the general's bodyguards are. I much prefer the Medieval 2 way of having them be elite heavy units, but I know that that might be a bit more difficult in Shogun 2

I just played a Shogun 2 campaign and the end battle feature is definitely mopping up the routing army so no need to run them down or have cavalry really, just a few strong melee units to wrap up the flanks. Not sure how the algorithm works there, but probably similar to the ROTS.

Give him something Harder come on

Defensive siege battles would be so much harder in Shogun 2 if the AI weren't so fond of climbing walls when there's a perfectly good gate right next to them. Wonder how many died falling while climbing the walls in that battle.

I know everyone’s hoping for a full scale historical TW, me included, but I’d also love to see a romance mode like with 3K but on Japanese unification. Samurai warriors 2 was my childhood

You missed the general by my feeling on the morale. Also firing down from a wall into melee is more effective where possible, especially the free yari ashigaru garrison units. Guns great for that too. Warcry works on up to 4 units iirc.

You can win a naval battle with trade ships. If you encounter the Black Ship and it is heavily damaged, you can capture it in auto-resolve using a full fleet of trade ships because auto-resolve is broken. Much easier than trying to actually fight it and hilarious if you succeed.

Oh a fresh Legend video for lunchtime! Amazing to see the resurgence of historical titles, c'mon CA go back to your roots (not Saga titles)!

Funny thing: I have once played a game, when an AI faction became the Shogun. Said faction was Oda, and I was playing as Uesugi =)

I've been having a stupid amount of fun with Fourstrider's collection for shogun 2. I know legend doesn't do mods but boy howdy is this one giving me another few hundred hours of play

Im waiting for my new PC to be delivered and then the first game I'm playing is Shogun 2. These videos reminded me why I love it so much!

Shouldn't ashigaru be used outside to kill cav no warrior monks. You would easily benefit from it long term.

Those bow warrior monks are absolute units when you have the max accuracy bonuses, they snipe everything and you can have constant whistling arrows going on, reducing morale when needed.

7:00 in the minimap you can see the white blinking (routing) triangle (cavalry) with a circle around it (general) in te south-west. that is the general escaping, alive.

always wanted to play uesugi cause of the warriors monks flavor, never once have i've managed to live past turn 25

Idk why but the AI almost always takes the Shogunate for me even when I play aggressively and go straight for it

Fuck yes SHŌGUN 2!

Anyone in here know if Azazel can be revived in IE? Nice vid btw, i enjoy the historical content :)

*legend sees second wind* "ooh!"

I haven't seen legend spread his missile units out on the walls yet in a video, it is making me secondbguess myself. I thought it you wanted all entities in a unit to fire it is best to spread them out?

your series is great, love the commentary and skill in choosing your battle and tactics.

in NTW the main general couldn die he got wounded for a few turns maybe similar mechanic for ai here?

am pretty sure i saw the general, he was shattered and your horses where nearby but i think you didnt notice him in the heat of the moment, and ran away, which to be fair he looked like a katana samurai horsemen but am sure he was that white horse around 8:00-8:06 and that horsemen didnt have a banner on him.

6:36 Warrior Monks: I'm not trapped in here with you, you're trapped in here with me!

Did the castle map with the tower on the inner wall with it's control point outside that wall ever get fixed?

real legend I hope Creative Assembly hires you for the balance team