Liberating Japan by Giving Everyone a Gun

12 years 65 cities and the entire Japanese military versus a bunch of random Farmers Total War Shogun 2 fall of the Samurai set during the 1860s civil war between the Japanese shogunate and the emperor of Japan where we are going to be Conquering the entire country not with Samurai not with technology but with only the worst units in the game levies and not only that but we're doing it on the hardest campaign setting a complete domination victory meaning we have to conquer every single City region and Province on the whole map within a time limit so first the rules I can only use Levy Spearman and Levy militia that means no Samurai no Cavalry and no land artillery so although I can't field Gatling guns I will be fighting them poorly the only exceptions to using levies are our generals and our navies fall of the Samurai has some of the coolest naval combat in any Total War Game Plus a couple of Navy specific features that uh we'll get to later and of course our final rule let's sponser of this video enlisted enlist your friends enlist your parents enlist your children unlisted maximizes this lovely thing called casualties by combining PvP with PVE where players lead their own squads straight into machine gun fire getting bombed run over or my personal favorite straight up freezing to death in Soviet Russia personally I absolutely love flying a plane straight into the ground with over 100 weapons tanks and aircraft there's no short of creative ways to blow someone up given the game takes place during World War II play is the coer Communists foot fetish fascists vtuber imperialists or those people with nuclear bombs you can play for free free free on PC Xbox and PlayStation Plus use my link for free staff so play enlisted or I will draft you okay that was probably the least unethical part of this video because welcome to Japan the faction we're using is the Saga Clan but not for the bonuses instead it's because we start in the bottom left of the map near a very specific Province we need to capture in order to make levies only actually work but first some nice lore that I'm going to skip as The Saga clan we start with Canon Samurai and matchlocks which I disbanded from this point forward our armies will only be Levy Spearman and Levy militia both of the armor of well someone not wearing armor will run away immediately and have absolutely no redeemable skills to speak of whatsoever but they are cheap and don't require any buildings to recruit meaning we're quite literally walking into the countryside giving people guns and calling at Texas in the bottom right is a season and year timer where we start in 1864 the problem is the game ends in 1876 so not only are we using the worst units but now we have a time limit and Shogun 2 armies are very slow The Saga Clan does at least start with a foreign veteran because we've sided with the British I I I mean the emperor that means we're hostile to faction supporting ing the Shogun it and friendly with faction supporting the Emperor or at least in theory our first turns are just recruiting Levy militia who I will be referring to as guy with guns I also embedded the foreign adviser for stat bonuses to our units adding that good old British discipline our army and faction is led by ouria John Smith a few turns later and we moved our armies into the sea navies are required to F units but if a Navy sinks the entire Army instantly dies Landing our army then sieging the City we can also use our ships on the campaign to just blow up the city and that Naval Supremacy doesn't go away so when the defending Army attempted to break the siege we get Naval bombardments as an invalid ability the bombardment scales based on how many ships and how many cannons you have near the army so the bigger the Navy the larger the bombardment as much as my Army is made up of these goobers these dummies and these silly billies let's just bomb everything still the enemy line infantry have better morale firing skill melee stats stamina armor speed and range but they are also dead Gunners in Shogun 2 have a few important properties first generally the only soldiers that can shoot are the ones in front meaning you want to stretch out your lines to get as many units firing as possible the second property is even more crucial getting shot will kill you regardless of Health wooden armor or number of straw hats you die every time what good is training when you're surrounded outnumbered and fighting a general who truly does not value human life winning the battle let us occupy the island eliminating our first opposing faction and leveling up aramia in terms of skills our goal is to get provision giving us more Naval bombardments in battle the ammo increase doesn't really matter because let's face it nobody's going to live that long our foreign veteran [Music] also leveled up who can give our army bonuses to accuracy and morale which was extremely helpful to put down this Rebellion hordes of poor Farmers meet hordes of poor Farmers so now that we have a basic grasp on the game and its mechanics our goal of conquering all of Japan and the 12year time constraint we have let's look at what's actually happening on the map on the far right side of the island is where most of the shogunate factions are and because we support the Imperial Emperor all shogunate factions are essentially hostile case in point I don't even know who these people are and they're still declaring war on me in the center is where most of the industry railroads and resource production is located which is split between the Imperial and shogunate factions on the far left is our side of Japan which is an isolated island with mostly Imperial factions as much as it might sound nice to have nearby allies I still need to kill them the faction immediately to the north starts in a military alliance with us but their land happens to make a lot of money so as their Ally I let them get invaded and die I then moved my Army into reinforcement range to entice them to Siege it back then moved out of reinforcement range so they lost siing the city and having its new Garrison attack out Farmers with sticks fighting highly trained and disciplined Samurai goes about as well as you'd expect especially in a map so foggy that the only thing I know for sure is that I'm shooting someone eventually their troops surrendered and started retreating let's see here when was the 1929 we're in the clear the next Target was the island to our left leading us to our first naval battle Shogun 2 has some of my favorite Naval battles of any total war game which isn't really a high bar considering the newer games just don't have them Total War Troy the face that launched a thousand ships allegedly because our vessels can only fire from the Sid the start of every battle is maneuvering to get a good angle in your opponents the ships can fire on their own or you can manually fire a broadside winning a naval battle can capture some of the opposing ships assuming they still exist it also opened up the path for our army although interestingly any navy can transport any army so witness my 2,500 levies on one boat landing on the island their army SED out but setting up on the hill we devastated their infantry and more importantly got a really good screenshot Shogun 2 really surprised me with just how good it looks being from 2012 then again there's a lot of games which also came out around that era and still look pretty amazing we ended the battle chasing down routing units and move to Siege the city on the one hand I could accept their offer of peace and save thousands of innocent lives peace welcome to the world of Shogun 2 Siege battles now I know this Castle doesn't look that fortified and these Arrow Towers aren't all that scary so let's look at it from a different angle everyone in the Garrison has a gun I need to climb a literal Mountain to get to them and oh yeah I have no melee units my plan essentially consists of running at the wall then screaming at my soldiers oh apparently my units are expert rock climbers most of them climbing isn't really the scary part getting to the top is what should worry you but after two Naval bombardments and overwhelming numbers we successfully destroyed the enemy's will to live so by the end of year 1 we' seized both nearby Islands acquired my allies land through honorable means and had barely made a dent in conquering Japan if we wanted to get on Pace to conquer all 65 provinces we'd need to secure a specific City in the South that of course was held by Satsuma now Satsuma is one of the strongest beginning factions it has two starting provinces an immediate vessel and oh look it took over most of the island it's also an imperial faction so they're supposed to be on my side supposed to come be seated I will order tea and we will have agreement Before Sunset because their army is vastly larger and better I defeated it by completely ignoring it and sailing up to their capital from behind sure I'd have to fight the army later but they were busy bulldozing my Ally sniping their Capital it's important to never loot in Shogun 2 ardio has this gross disease called honorable if we do dishonorable things literally everyone will declare war on me which is fine the problem is lower public order and dishonorable generals Zuma's capital is so important because it has a special building chain called a blacksmith increase a unit armor and accuracy there's also another building that increases accuracy further combining for a whopping plus 35 accuracy to any unit recruited in the province for reference our levies have 10 so we could more than quadruple their accuracy and with bonuses from our foreign veteran we can make them on par with the highest tier Elite infantry they still second melee though another captured city later and we came across Satsuma third City but with an obstacle the winter I mentioned it briefly but Shogun has a season or calendar in the spring people are happy summer brings replenishment rate fall lowers income and winter kills everything it makes all armies in enemy territory take sizable attrition each turn meaning waiting out the siege wasn't possible but what we did have 2,000 extra bodies and none of them ours choshu the clan above Satsuma was also in the area giving us an entire stack of extra units it even researched explosive shells making our Naval bombardments even scarier and with our Ally reinforcing from the from from the leave me [Music] alone Aira in my defense I did also hit some enemy units maybe I even blew a hole in the defenses so really they should be thanking me selflessly allowing my Ally to attack first and engaging what I dubb the great human wave offensive they overwhelmed Cavalry somehow killed a general and then ran straight into samurai and died their lack of a go-getter attitude would cost us in their lives because my farmers are not very bright but at least it was better than the AI who walked out of the city to fight us wait is that a white flag their way the ones who stayed in the city did not Faire much better eventually winning the battle we did take more casualties than I'd hoped probably due to my Ally not pulling his weight but I'll forgive him this time because of that I'm sure the city will be overjoyed to hear I'm taking over now you might have thought bombing our Ally would be something they don't like and the very next turn they sent me a message asking for a military Alliance I guess they liked my tactics but joshu aside Satsuma still had one settlement left to the north being defended by a fully kitted Army so we need to sit back and develop our provinces for the time being we' reached the end of year two in the campaign and had made up some of the time we were behind on securing the blacksmith was absolutely essential but our economy was somewhat lacking because I had the tough decision of either drafting more Farmers or actually feeding people besides Satsuma there is also another issue Pirates raiding trade routs with the Western powers and continuously bombing my ports cities and Farms now my Navy is decent but decent only earns a oneway ticket to the Bottom of the Sea which is why I researched Foreign Affairs unlocking the final boss of the game white people this lets us accept a military Mission from one of the three Western Powers France the USA or Great Britain France is out of the question because they don't support the emperor the USA technically works and even offered us a military Mission first but they focus on artillery so I declined in favor of Great Britain to ask the British for help you've got to be pretty stupid or pretty desperate and I am all three it isn't very important now but remember it for later when this thing fin finish his building for now though our main concern was finishing off Satsuma but as I passed the turn I realized I'd made a grave mistake I'd bombed them too much if such a thing even exists because choshu was able to snipe the settlement from under well the game considers choshu a defacto Ally because they also support the emperor I don't due to extremely complicated sociopolitical reasons like I want all their [ __ ] to prepare for the inevitable War I would cause we cleaned up the naval Pirates improved our income and Allied fuka a small Clan bordering our cities my wife even gave birth to a daughter which is how I discovered I had a wife my blacksmith had also been upgraded into a gunsmith along with a new firing range meaning we could never recruit levies with 45 accuracy instead of 10 I'd even recruited gisha who are quite possibly the most powerful agent in the game don't believe me watch as Chu sends an elite Assassin after one gisha are beefy just like choshu over here fabricating a reason to declare war luckily fuka joined me in the defense but it didn't help our political situation a whole lot we were about halfway through year three and at war with this clan this clan this one that one and all of those also that one even just booting choshu off the island wouldn't be easy although apparently my gisha was able to walk in wave her fan and seduce their General that Gushi got him acting unwise when I was finally able to attack the city fuka had come to hell we had four armies one of whom was the previous defending General against a single garrisoned Army and were all barely favored fuko's Army was made up of Samurai Horsemen and somehow ninjas basically an army actually good at sieging is what I thought ninjas are pretty great until they get shot my Ally was able to reach and scale the wall so his infantry were the perfect distraction for the enemy range units my soldiers just hailed bullets into the Garrison for about 20 minutes we basically shoveled as many levies up the walls as was physically possible and when my ammo was depleted go get them boys one farmer with a gun outside your house is scary 5,000 Farmers with guns outside your house and the South Will Rise Again by the end of the battle our army had a tranquil 66% mortality rate the city was completely leveled and most of the casualties were not mine in summary success but the other side of the island was far from idea with my ports being constantly sieged then bombed then sieged again tensions within our land were also not great so it's probably time I introduce you to something I've been exploiting the entire game it's called Taxi see whoever made Shogun 2's public order system did not realize how insane it can get if public order is negative for two consecutive turns a rebellion spawns but the unintended side effect of this is that there's no difference between negative -1 public order and -1 billion so each turn I can set my tax rate to break the backs of my citizens causing negative public order in every Province the following turn I just lower it back down and everybody forgets which I've been doing every other turn for the entire game there's only two kinds of money in this world money the government owns and money the government will own with Revenue earned from the Great Theft I built a somewhat decent Navy to try and save our ports see the enemy ships are built from this crazy material wood so when I shoot them with explosive shells their entire Navy surrendered then I sank it my clan development also reached max level which basically means we've adopted Western weapons and traditions the downside is a public order debuff but as we've established before public order is a game of rock paper scissors where the winner is always military occupation speaking of which we now had our first group of blacksmith buffed levies with improved armor and accuracy the downside is that our blacksmith is on the bottom left of the island meaning recruited units would need to Traverse a huge distance to actually start fighting fortunately it seemed that someone on the mainland had developed a solution Railways are great but they're also nowhere to be seen on our Island meaning we need to expand onto the mainland to get access and what better way to actualize that than to eliminate Chu it taken us three full years but at last we controlled the entirety of our Island what to expand onto the mainland was an entirely different Beast requiring us to Traverse a straight necessitating Naval Supremacy to pass on one side is our land and on the other is two full stacks of Chu although since my Ally is the closest they'll attack him first and I'll be okay dear Japanese deities I ask of you only one thing to stop getting bombed I swear my people are used to it by this point which would be great in 1945 beating Chu's siing Army wasn't hard especially since we had those blacksmith buffed levies even with trained line infantry we still outclass them letting us cross the straight to fully eliminate choshu but of course a new enemy tosa with their Clan specific red bear infantry and also a supporter of the emperor which stopped me from declaring war for about 5 seconds I set my Shinobi ahead to scope out their armies possible my Lord oh God at least he can sabotage their units the one thing that is nice about levies is how cheap our armies are I have about six full Stacks worth of levies garrisoned everywhere a new 20 stack of buffed levies multiple armies in the mainland and still making more than 10K but levies have a pretty big weakness cannons to's armies were beginning to field parrot guns the first actually decent cannons our masses of infantry are not very helpful we could still overwhelm most armies but the longer the game goes the higher Tech units our enemies will feel so at the end of every battle I need to explicitly hunt down rout Cannon Crews and obliterate all of them Misha can also slow down the advance of enemy armies by seducing their generals I mean the worst he can say is no regardless things were going decently we taken several of tosa City secured another blacksmith and maxed out our clan Fame wait we maxed out our clan oh that's not good welcome to the realm divide a special event that triggers as soon as we occupy a certain number of cities and when it hits the the limit Total War by taking enough provinces for the emperor he and every other Imperial faction have decided to throw in their support with us so instead of being The Saga Clan we're now The Saga Imperial Vanguard letting me Ally every other Imperial faction regardless of grudges so what's the downside of Realm divide well this would be it immediate war with every shogunate faction led by their own Vanguard who is none other than a game for this if you thought it was bad before now the real grind begins to take everything else so what better way is there to start the realm Divi then by reforming our taxes to make them even higher we'd need to take over the rest of the island so money was a necessity my rated trade routs on the other hand not so much the Shogun had a significantly larger Navy than us bombing a ludicrous amount of port cities causing blockades and transporting armies so it was imperative we stopped them which is why it's time I reveal my trp card I summon and the [ __ ] bits remember that British military Mission well this is what it gives us a single warrior class Ironclad with over 300 crew 42 cannons and their impenetrable hole one does not fight this thing they survive it and even led by a grand Admiral Maurice this single ship also called cost more to upkeep than an entire Army probably because it is an entire Army sir your general is in terrible danger Fuller Navy cleaned up the coast an ambush battle which I've actually never seen before so I decided to fight it manually turns out they had ninjas turns out ninjas throw bombs didn't know that sure that's a lot of casualties but it just doesn't matter the amount of armies I could field was becoming ludicrous using the rail Lions to transport them instantly and despite recruiting almost 20 levies every turn my income was still still going up I mean what could possibly counter a massive Army of farmers another massive Army of farmers in a Twist I'm still somewhat confused about the AI began to ditch their shogunate infantry for their own stacks of levies I know I've shown attacking in several sieges but not really defending and the AI in Shogun 2 is absolutely Relentless so in deploying my troops I put some on every level of the fort as soon as the enemy started to scale the walls I pulled back further and further up the levels but Jesus Christ did I underestimate the AI gigantic wall you shouldn't climb here's 2,000 levies group of soldiers in a choke point just cram everything in it even their General wasn't spared because I'm pretty sure he died slipping on the wall the first level was overwhelmed immediately and the final capture point was nearly overwhelmed with sheer numbers we were barely able to hold on for a victory and the AI threw nearly the entire Army away in the process oh great we beat that army so why am I surprised they literally did it again next turn as much as I was horrified at what they were doing it was pretty impressive their tactic was actually really good so what if I could do it but better which is why I'd been building a secret weapon one we'd gotten from the second blacksmith we conquered Meet The Horde 4,000 Levy Spearman Juiced with extra armor melee attack and morale and that's not including my other 4,000 stack on the naval front Maurice and the Ironclad were fighting multiple navies at once and it wasn't even close it was 1870 and we' captured 39 out of 65 provinces for the emperor with the rest falling extremely quickly but the real final challenge was the province of moushi with the castle of Eda or in modern terms Tokyo I gathered my stacks of levies and prepared to move on the capital requiring us to grind through an inexorable tide of Shogun and infantry the methods changed from a ridiculous amount of bombing to filtering a whole Army of elite infantry over a bridge and ended by pushing 4,000 spear levies through a wall of bullets despite my best efforts to spend money we now had over 35,000 in income with about 15 full armor worth of levies map wide so bringing our Dao from the north and more armies from the south we'd arrived at Castle Edo just like how the game started six years ago it was Winter and instead of being at our old capital we were now at Japan's future Capital the enemy fielded a lineup of about 3,000 Elite Shogun at infantry and our army levies levies levies and levies 14,7 48 of them the shogunate had fought well killing two levies for each infantry loss but with near unlimited reinforcements four Naval bombardments and our maxed out legendary Dao Edo had fallen and about 20 turns later so did the rest of Japan with all 65 provinces captured for the emperor triggering the victory screen where our emperor looks onward probably terrified that a giant army of farmers just took over the country meaning we had once and for all conquered all all of Japan for the emperor but 65 provinces isn't all of Japan with the entire Northern side still being not ours one minute please oh my God finally the last Province I have grilled my way through the entirety of Northern Japan which is a nightmare to Traverse but this is the last settlement my levies are so leveled up they're up to 94 accur and I have $1.4 million cuz I've just stopped spending money it's done it's it's over thank God I didn't even lose a single unit for the final battle as it should be that's it the last Clan is gone of all the challenges I've done this one might have taken the most creativity and I'm pretty sure I haven't forgotten anything either oh [ __ ] also be sure to check out in Ed it's free and you can use the link in the description to sign up for free stuff [Music] below

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Length: 24min 15sec (1455 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 31 2024