Finally i hear this music without tousands of arrows flying.

0:39 you gotta admit this is smooth as hell

"Ashigaru no yari, de gozaimas." Japanese Translation (rough): "Spear-bearing soldiers, we are." Practical Translation: "Ready to swarm like ants over the Ronin units, we are." But yeah, I love Ashigaru troops

OUR GHENERUHL IS IN GUAVE DANGAH MY LOLD

I've finally started a shogun 2 campaign and to say that it's fun and satisfying to decimate an entire superior army with whatever troops you have. It's awesome.

Our victory will be remembered for 10,000 years!!!

DIS IS A BULACK DEI, AWO GENEWUAL HAS FAULLEN MY LOHD

This song plays in my head every time I am faced with the situation that there is no winning in the end. "So what happened to the men at Thermopylae?" asked Katsumoto, Augren smiled and replied..."They died to the last man."

Battles like that are exhilarating when you don't know if you'll make it or not. I had one similar to that last week where I had about 2500 men and the enemy ambushed me with 4800. I had mostly samurai units and a fully upgraded general. Ended up killing all 4800 enemies, but only had 23 Bulletproof Samurai (heavy nodachi added by a mod) and the daimyo general with three guardsmen left at the end of it all.

Most anime don't feature them at all anyway. They do look cool and they're useful supporting/defensive siege units. I don't know if there's much else to say on the topic since it's pretty unanimously agreed that they're useful, but there you go.

OUR GENERAL IS IN GRAVE DANGER

pfft samurai, who needs samurai when you have hordes of peasants.

Battle music = the most relaxing music

Such music. Very 日本の. Much eargasms.

the drum in the beginning sound almost exactly the same as melee cafe from Rome Total War

OUR GENERAL IS IN GRAVE DANGER MY LORD

I can understand you. I too had problems in the beginning. :) The trick is to put an ambush -during- battle. Because AI of Shogun II and expansions is good enough to choose secure positions, you have to lure them out. In one battle, there was a forest in the center. I hid marched my spear units in it, and archers stayed behind. Then I sent my general near enemy, and his cavalry came chasing, who were shocked by sudden charge of spearmen. He lost his cavalry and general, and remaining army fled.

I remember them also saying something like ''Yari Ashigaru niko daimyoas'' but maybe I'm wrong though. And yeah I also LOVE the Ashigaru units. The hats, the ''full'' armour some of them wear and the weapons are simply good-looking. Coming from a European guy who's not into anime or the sort.

Thanks. A funny fact is that I have seen the units of FoTS lose very badly from the good old Ashigaru, even when armed with cannons and Gatling guns. The older units are good in melee and armored better. And the old breech loading medieval cannons easily silence the modern cannons. :)

0:38 Nihon Maru appearing on the horizon.

This is basically the theme of the Mori Clan in my head, Dozens of superior Bunes and kobayas riding the way, flaming arrows falling like rain over those who dare challenge the Clan of master ship builders. A storm of war. The Tsunami of the Mori, the masters of the waves.

This song makes me think of the dogfights in the Pacific theater of WW2 before the Kamikaze raids.

awsome !

My samurai slaughtering the ashigaru climbing the walls as my general the walls as my dismounted general fights with honor alongside his men

Oh god... the honesty is strong with this one

You make it sound like you achieved something of actual importance in the real world, but then I remember...Shogun 2.

When your johnny somali and have to run away from an angry mob in japan

1:15 friggin goosebumps man, 侍にございます。 samurai ni gozaimasu

be like the tsunami.. overwhelming force, unending.

Were some of your men running from the battlefield in a shamefur dispray or "fatigued and some must rest"?

Oda knows what's up.

epic music for epic game! BANZAAAII

i love being the oda with those fucking ashigaru and make people mad as hell

@ashlehbh I had Uesegi (they had strong warrior monks, and hard difficulty) finished legendary (or something, the one where you capture all japan) campaign on hard, ONLY using ashigaru... ok, i did use a couple of monks, cause i got some for completing a quest

Charge, no-dachi samurai!

BANZAAAAAIIII!!!

Odd question, but which game is the music between 23:40 and 24:00? I know I've heared it in from a battle at some point but cant find the track, and wouldn't mind listening to it again for old times sake.

I love lone swordsman

I haven't managed to set up an ambush yet. My armies get spotted a lot. Bad luck I guess.

Can you tell me which faction is good for Ashigaru other than Oda? I am a veteran but anyway I would like to know your tips, because I am not good at using them. :)

see, even samurai Japan has Epic Music

OUR MEN IS RUNNING FROM THE BATTLEFIELD SHAMEFUR DISPRAY!

Decisive Korean victory.

what is that insturment you hear around 0:02 and 0:05 ?

Here for Stege Japan timelapse. 10/10 as all of shogun 2 OST

1:29 UTE!

0:39-1:15 16th century feudal Japanese version of C'mon N' Ride It (The Train).

Banzai !!!!

Oh yeah, you can certainly do some old-fashioned butchering if you manage to get up close, but that's why I take time to interlace the fields of fire from my rifle troops and artillery. If I do everything right, the enemy won't get close enough to spit at my men before being mowed down.

DATE NODACHI SAMURAI CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGE!

damnit. whats the songs when you play date masamune before the battle begins?load screen. it's like drums dum dum. then some clinging sound like daka daka daka daka and then the drums come slowly coming back dum dum. what song is that?

Yeah, and you can widen up your troops to increase their field of fire, but have to pay the price in the form of more time to mobilize. Have you tried ambush tactics? Even good old warrior monks can win just by surprise killing a unit, and starting a chain of routing.

Delete all files with the name "patch" in your shogun 2 data folder, then verify your shogun 2 files.

Somehow when this play I in my mind see blue xenos from first Down of War ... Whyyyy Tau why you do this me ? XD

龙潮、虎袭、龟阵、鹰猎。

Whoever came up with the title for this song must be feeling really awkward right now...

KURUSOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tota War.

They are great, but you need some Samurai to hold vital positions, or to punch holes in their defense. All hail the Oda clan for their ashigaru though >:D

0:51

My shogun 2 crashes a lot :C

yu no hav Kisho Ninjaah ?

SUGOI!

i know it sounds silly but i think there should be a Insect Total war, but just imagine though,ants are regular infantry, spiders can be defencive/heavy type of unit, your general could be a ant queen or something important, and wasps can be a supportive kind of unit.

Well, no other faction get's ashigaru bonuses to my knowledge, so stick with Oda if you want to go with a big traditional army. They are great if used correctly, but they have lower average morale than your bread and butter line infantry army, so you have to pick your opportunities carefully and act swiftly when you find them. Do not allow you enemy to dictate the contact. You must be like the crane striking at the salmon. I'm more of a "gaijin and Gatling guns" player personally.

私たちの国、私達の名誉のために戦います。大名 ！ の

Yeah Nippon (Writhen Nihon) means Japan. にほん on Hiragana Writhing stil or on Kanji 日本 ^^

VELY DISHONORABUR! COMMIT SUDOKU!

Just skirmish with fire-rockets to take care of the stupid garrison problem. Troll logic wins.

You need to play SimAnt.

AWE YUNITS AWE RANNING FUROM THE BATTARU FIERLD! SHAMEFURU DISUPURAI

So fucking untrue

lol, one forever alone disliked this

GANBATTE!!!!!!!!!

you can't hail Ashigaru, they are just a type of soldiers, but we can hail those particular ashigaru, especially their great leader! ALL HAIL YAMADA TARO!!!

only noobs use yari ashigaru i play as Chōsokabe and had a army of archers and won the long campaign on hard...