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>>15118270

I would but you really can't buy jack shit with 5 points.

>>15118285

Alright. Took Elina. There goes our 5 shitty points.

What difficulty?

>>15118268

>Anon tries to play X

e-celebs not welcome

>>15118281

It happens in Rance Quest technically

Continue campaign as a girl after sex-change temple by giving no fucks and yuri-raping your way across Japan mod when?

Since OP died in a ditch somewhere, I'm taking over. Let's see how long we can last.

It's a five-star difficulty and the only bonus that was picked is Elina. Here's how things are looking right now on the Units screen. That's where you replenish your troops, buy new troops for your units and upgrade your units. Every unit has stats, where 1-3 is dogshit, 4-6 is earlygame-okay and 7-9 is practically required for late-game. On top of that, every unit demands a specific number of National Power. There's a base cost that's dependent on a unit and it increases every time you increase it's size by increments of 500 troops - thankfully it's capped at 9 per unit. Oh, and cost of getting new troops rises in proportion to unit size.

And here's a special thing. On five-star difficulty there is also a stupid thing called unit scaling. Every time that you capture a country completely (by having them surrender through events or just fully conquering it) other countries increase their average unit size. The amount is ridiculous and you can't deal with it without overpowered units. We don't have those.

So, got all that? Good, because we're getting it raw today.

>>15118653

Right now we're upgrading all the National Power and recruiting everyone from Dango Princess event that we can before the war hits. We can't war just Ashikaga - Hara has a start of turn event that makes us war them when we're at war with the ugly fish and warring with two fronts at once is game over tactics. We're doing something different.

>>15118692

We just war Hara and kill all of their troops so that we can safely war Ashikaga afterwards.

>>15118692

>warring with two fronts at once is game over tactics.

constantly being at war with everyone is the dominant strategy

>>15118720

You'd think, right? But in 5-star, each AI can attack up to 3 times per turn and we don't have shit for troops yet. Thankfully, it's just Hara for now.

We keep pushing through Hara. Starting from every turn ending in a six, we have a chance to drop stat-increasing books. Speed books don't drop from levies, so those are a rarity. Lucky.

Oh, and we also got a foot trooper. Good ones are really rare, and decent ones are okay mid-game because you really don't get much of those. Updates will be less frequent from this point on, but please wait warmly.

>>15118767

Fuwanovel has it. Or look it up on a nyaa clone of your choice.

We get a complimentary catgirl free of charge. She's actually useful, too.

Shit's getting real. With Hara down three territories, they're not likely to invade Owari, but it's there. Our current goal is to conquer Mamushi Oil Field, that territory to the northeast of us, and war the Miko Institute. For now, enjoy the suffering that's about to take place.

>>15118802

Those are useful for scouting, if nothing else. We'll be getting rid of them soon, don't worry.

And now for the hard part. See, Ashikaga has Yamamoto Isoroku. It's an archer unit, and those are low tier in this game. But what it has are two really useful skills - both of them are unlockables, so we don't have to worry about them for now.

We want to capture Isoroku so that our roster does not look so terrible. To accomplish that, we need to kill Isoroku's unit once - it becomes capturable after the following cutscene. After that, we just need to kill it again, and we get a chance to capture it. That's a really tall order for us.

What we have here, however, is one Suzume. She's a plot-important character, so she can't die or be captured. She also has Assassinate 2, a skill that uses all of her action points to try to kill an enemy unit through RNG. It can be captured that way too, and AI always deploys Isoroku on it's last castle territory defense, so all we have to do is kill Isoroku once, push there, deploy just Suzume and hope to get lucky.

This means it's time for reloads.

>>15118837

It was all supposed to be really dramatic and hard, but Elina made short work of all the obstacles so far. And we didn't even have to reload once.

We run through a dungeon on turn 11 to get a Satisfaction event as early as possible - more about them later. On the way, there's a Def Textbook and a statue that increases income. Dungeons are pretty straightforward - you have HP instead of troop count, action points, like in troop battles and an option to switch commanders that doesn't take up an action point. We don't have much commanders, so this dungeon's our limit for now. Hopefully that'll change soon.

We recruit Isoroku, capture some more foot soldiers, get Shibata's Enhanced Initial Guard, watch a cutscene and are about to try to conquer Ashikaga's castle. Thinking to stop after that and pick up tomorrow because thread seems to be dead as a doornail.

>>15118895

And we did it. Elina was a great help. Will continue this at, say, 6 pm EST. Until then.

And it's back. So here's the situation. We are going for the true route and gourds are going to start breaking in a bit. Not gonna spoil anything, but if a country gets conquered it's gourd breaks and having five of them break before things are ready is really, really bad. Oda's gourd breaks at the start of the route, and at certain points they break automatically, but that's for later. For now, just keep in mind that conquering Ashikaga completely is really bad.

Forgot to mention, but a def book was given to Maeda and speed book is Rance's. Let's keep going.

After requesting a unit from Zeth, we find ourselves in a severe shortage of japanese shaman girls. Steps are taken in order to correct the situation.

H-heh.

Here we recruit Goemon and wait for Himiko to show up again. She's a top tier unit, so capturing her is top priority, but if she dies, then it's fine too - it's better than having her with 3k troops in the lategame under some other commander.

Here's also a fun piece of trivia - until Uesugi dies this game, every time you attack, if there's an open spot in the enemy lines, AI can put Kenshin there at random, though it's only once a turn. The good news is that this applies every time AI attacks you as well.

Oh, and thread is fucking dead again. I sure hope people are playing videogames instead of shitposting right now :^)

After the near-infinite SUPER RELOAD HELL, the Himiko is secured. Now it's time to topple the Miko regime and reinstate patriarchy once more.

We get Rizna from Satisfaction bonus. She's a mediocre mage with just 4 int. You can get satisfaction from doing her events, but it takes a really long time and you need really good RNG. Mages are supposed to be good against Foot Troopers, but their sheer troop count is usually too good, not to mention that mages are slow as caterpillars.

After a close attack, we prepare to strike the Mikos. Let's see how it turns out.

>>15121688

Suzume managed to assassinate the backrow foot trooper and Elina kills everything else. Under ordinary circumstances, Natori would have used Miko Storm 2 to wipe everything out, but with the foot trooper gone she was promtly dealt with. Let's see where this goes.

Some downtime's on the way - raising National Power is top priority right now. So while we wait for Uruza to arrive, here's some cutscenes. We also recruit Natori because she's too good of a backrow unit. She's really vulnerable - all Mikos usually are, regardless of stats - but Miko Storm 2 is worth it. It's a move with short preparation time that damages all enemy units by 30% of their total troops and increases influence bar in proportion. We're gonna face stacks of 3000-ish units in the late-game (Takuga is a special case), so this really helps.

I wonder if Alicesoft general would work out in here.

Meanwhile, it's over turn 21 and we still need to do a dungeon to get a SAT event. Our next target is Asai-Asakura and NP is properly upgraded. All systems go.

>>15121830

VN general is slow as it is, so it's not likely to be honest. But anything could happen if enough autists get together.

After declaring on Asai-Asakura off-screen, we've finally got Uruza. She's a top-tier tactician unit that gets a broken skill later on in the game. I could get it now, but that would ruin everything. It's not good to ruin everything, so that's shelved until later. For now, we finally have a tactician.

There's also a speedbook that conveniently goes to Rance. When he's getting another upgrade, it's gonna be 7 speed into Elite Troops. Can't wait.

Meanwhile, Asai-Asakura experiences some technical difficulties. We make extra sure to capitalize on that.

Thanks to Kenshin, it almost doesn't go well. There's also a lot of situations where we're forced to underdeploy and survive, but thankfully nothing bad happens. Also, Chaos is pitching a fit again.

Asai-Asakura's final territory does not have proper back defenses, so we go in really hard and really fast with our troops until the climax. Uesugi should declare on us the next turn - this is what we want. Yukihime, however, is something else.

Normally, after you conquer Asai-Asakura, she leaves and makes a whole lot of noise that makes other countries declare war on us left and right. We only have one turn to prevent all that, so we gotta recruit her father (we just fucked his daughter in front of him) and raise him to Trust with items. After this, there is a Yukihime search event. Do it in one turn and instead of running she gets captured and recruited.

However, Uesugi is gonna declare on us next turn. We'll need troops to search for Yukihime and there's still Ashikaga and Hara to worry about.

>>15122087

Next up is Uesugi, so you're in luck. NP is going to be really low because we didn't do Hara with Tenshi Sect yet. All territories other than Asai-Asakura are on 21 construction required to increase NP - Natori really helps - and it's still this low.

>>15122087

*with interest, sorry for the brainfart

Meanwhile, a gourd breaks. Just three more to go. We also get Yukihime. She's useless, but at least we aren't fucking dead.

And the monk gets the bonus to cash because that's all that he's good for.

>>15122095

Oh, and my mistake. You can make do with Normal in case of Yoshikage. Whoops.

And now the fun starts. Please excuse the triplepost.

Still pushing through to Uesugi while defending from three fronts. The plan this turn was to deploy a fighting force to conquer one territory and to deploy Rance on the final one - Kenshin always defends it - but sadly Kenshin was defending the second territory as well so we pick up an action point item and put it on Goemon right afterwards. All that is after doing a bunch of Tenshi Sect events where they ask us not to kill them - we're warring them pretty soon.

In the meantime, Tenshi Sect declares on us because Oda Nobunaga is killing all the monks. As a result, our troopcount is lowered and riots will keep popping up on all our territories, although it's only one per turn regardless of how many territories have above 100% riot rate. After we're done with Uesugi, we're killing Hara and then Tenshi Sect. It's gonna get slow for a while.

In the meantime, we do dungeons because SAT is really valuable. I've failed already, in a sense - was supposed to do a dungeon before turn 31 to make the most of Sill events. But it's whatever now - we can trade in Yukihime for extra SAT if there's a lack of it later on.

And here we H Fuuka. We need 60 satisfaction to unlock three actions per turn and that's more or less required for success. The game never tells you that, though.

Finally, Uesugi capture event. We're not gonna vassal them, Kenshin's too good. Oh, and Yukihime's still mad at us.

I'll call it after Uesugi is done. Too tired.

Magic arrives at the scene, sporting really mediocre stats. She has all the shortcomings of Rizna, except instead of 4 int she has 6. If you bother to learn it, her special move is a penetration beam, which wastes all of her action points to do a lot of damage to at most two units so that at least you can use her as a really shitty Megumin, but she's really, really mediocre unit. She does, however, have three satisfaction events.

Also, Uruza has finally ascended past the Super Saiyan.

Okay, fuck it, thread is dead as fuck and I'm tired. Let's continue some time else, probably tomorrow.

YOU DIDN'T TELL ME ANON

YOU DIDN'T TELL ME ABOUT THE PANDAS

And we're back again. Here's a short recap for those of you still following this.

After starting the five-star run with only Elina, we've upgraded NP and warred Hara. After killing their troops to decrease aggression, we've warred Ashikaga. After taking Oil Field and doing some defensive measures, we declared on Mikos and captured two of their best troops to recruit them later on. After awhile, we took Mikos, warred Asai-Asakura, captured Asai-Asakura, warred Uesugi, Kenshin got captured by her uncle and now it's up to us to rescue her by conquering Uesugi on time.

Our set of objectives right now looks as follows - first off, we need 60 satisfaction to get three actions per turn, as mentioned earlier. Second, we need NP badly - our bulk of units will pass the 500 troop mark pretty soon and when that happens, their cost increases by 1. If total cost of units exceeds total power, we get much less income. Third, we really need better troops - right now the most of our force is weak units that do good damage, but croak easily. There's also a matter of permit holders. Fourth, we need to do a lot of dungeons - those offer items and more importantly, levels. And finally, we need to keep up the war engine at all costs so that we can strengthen our troops and weaken AI's at the same time.

And with that in mind, let's continue our journey to hell.

Actually, nevermind, I'm a retard. Apparently it's 50 SAT to increase action fans, not 60. Damn, you keep forgetting those things after not playing this game for a while. Thank fuck the wiki exists.

Uesugi faction without Kenshin quickly gets taken out. Now it's gonna be time to kill Hara and to start doing pressure on Tenshi Sect, but after that, there are two possible routes to take.

We could go north and war Houjou. We want to take both Saitama and Edo, capture Ran and use her for a while and get the hannies from the back. This means not dealing with racoon dogs from Tokugawa at all for quite a while and then we stall out Houjou for most of the game. The problem with that course of action is that we border Akashi and Tanegashima - Akashi will eventually declare on us, although the war can be delayed through events and Tanegashima will eventually get conquered by Mouri. So if we're willing to deal with those two things, that's one of the ways to go.

Alternatively, it could be the time to take the south. We conquer Tanegashima and stall out Akashi, which is gonna be more or less easy. After that, we could war Tokugawa and stall them until all the racoon dogs are captured, then conquer them. This opens up a road to hannies for easy NP or satisfaction, depending on what we want.

Because of permits and Houjou being a pain to deal with without good ninja units, I'd MUCH rather go south if possible, though if enough people in the thread want to take the high road, then we'll go for that. It's going to be a while before there is a choice because gotta kill Tenshi Sect first, so you'll have some time to decide.

Oh, and we also start on reinforcements from Leazus. It's gonna take a while to get them, but we're struggling with NP so it's okay.

Meanwhile, difficulty begins to spike up. Uesugi's gourd gets broken, and the next one's gonna break automatically at turn 70 - Mouri's, at this rate. We want to get as much time as possible and final auto gourd breaking event occurs at turn 90, so we gotta stall other counties for this long. Keep in mind that the event at turn 70 gets skipped if there's only 1 gourd left to break, so if we want to conquer some other country with a gourd, we best do that until turn 70.

The list, as you can see, is Mouri, Houjou, Iga, Akashi and Ashikaga.

Akashi and Ashikaga we can comfortably stall out. We can completely ignore Iga because there is an event that makes that province rebel back to Iga's control randomly - and because it's full of ninjas there's a chance that some of them have Assassinate, which is really bad. It's best if DA takes over them. Mouri is really lategame material, really tough units with lots of really good Foot soldier formations. If it's possible, we'd LIKE to kill them with permits before they die to DA, but if we're too slow things are gonna go really wrong.

Well, it was never gonna be easy in the first place.

Pictured: Hara massacre, turn 41. Suzume didn't manage to assassinate a foot trooper at first, but then Isoroku managed to do it with Whirlwind Shot. Now it's time for Tenshi Sect.

>>15126482

Isoroku is a special case. Initially, she can't be captured or killed. After her unit dies the first time, there is a cutscene where her subordinates sacrifice themselves to let her escape. After that, if you kill her, there is a chance that she gets captured when her unit is annihilated. I don't know if she's able to die in the process, but most likely not.

>>15126512

Assassinate can't kill plot-important characters. It will fail every time if used on one marked as such.

We get sweeping fire for Isoroku and defend against Ikkyu. He got off Witty Comeback, but thanks to Goemon's 4 actions we were able to turn it around before the combat ended.

Meanwhile, Tenshi Sect attacks 3 times per turn and takes two parts of our province. The brutality.

Ganko was recruited from Mamushi Oil Field. He's terrible as a tactician - his only skill is to proc a chance of all buffs on only ONE troop, but what he does have is 8 defense, a glorious amount that allows him to be fielded for when backrow isn't safe. Right now, we don't have a backrow foot trooper with EIG, so that's really good.

We still don't recruit Kenshin because she joins on auto-event, which happens at a fairly high priority over others. However, since we still get story events, it's gonna take a while. She and Ai can wait.

Oh, and Tenshi Sect completely neglects to deploy ranged units in their formations. We make sure to completely exploit this to get away with as few deployments as we can.

And for those that don't know, monk units fully replenish themselves at the start of your turn, so they essentially have free repairs. Riot-type units (Axes instead of swords) deal terrible damage, but massive numbers compensate for this. Generally, Tenshi Sect mostly uses this troop type, so you can sometimes get away with using a monk unit and having it heal itself.

Finally, the other warrior unit that's good enough. We can get Masamune later on if there's enough balls to do so, but that's way down the line.

Meanwhile, Ai gets recruited. We increase our foot soldiers up to 1000 and build Foot Soldier training grounds - for the cost of 5 National Power we get 5 more troops in all Foot Soldier units per turn. It's tough, but required.

Oh, and also Ai joins the same turn that reinforcements arrive and fills up our National Power. Fuck.

Hannies have taken residence in Kyo. We didn't kill them though - there is no point.

Couldn't scout this time, and that's what happened. What a failure. Still pushing through that territory with 3 castles.

>>15126842

You just lack guts to try again, that's all. The game's not that hard.

FUCK YES SPEEDBOOK IT'S HERE.

After giving up a castle and reconquering it again, we are faced with a challenge. Namely another issue of SUPER RELOAD HELL. Thankfully, it was resolved by putting Initial Battle Rating on Suzume, but I really need Dousan at this point.

Oh, and we get Kaname. She's a terrible ninja with 4 in all combat stats.

I really can't decide.

There's 21 turns left until the Mouri gourd breaks. We obviously can't capture Mouri during that time, so to abuse the gourds we must capture either Houjou, Akashi or Ashikaga. The only merit to capturing Ashikaga is that we get a warrior with Light Attack and SAT from both Isoroku event and capture event - all those things can be ignored in favor of something else. When Akashi is done, they're REALLY done - they send child soldiers with miniscule troop sizes at you when they're down to a last part of the territory. They're not a threat at all.

Killing Houjou to the north, however, carries a lot of merit. First, the earlier we do that, the sooner we get Souun. It's a diviner with 8 in all combat stats that's capable of doing a magic attack instantly. However, his recruit event has a very low priority, meaning that it isn't likely to come up very often, so the sooner the conditions for his recruitment are met, the better. However, it must be done in the next 21 turns and we've just finished slaughtering the Tenshi Sect. If we are to do that, then it must be done now.

It's late and there's a lot to think about. I'm calling it for today. Tomorrow, we're gonna pick a course of action and carry on through with it.

>Bitch fucks everything up in all the IF routes

>Can't rape her, or fuck her even once

>Doesn't show up in the sequels

Fuck everything.

>>15127350

It sounds like north would be a better move strategically (we need better units), but south might produce some interesting events. As someone with no idea how bad five-star difficulty really is, go with whatever's more fun for you.

>>15129447

>Aki

>not recruiting best miko

>>15129447

>Gaymon

He's good, but not too good. He still dies to any amount of damage taken without troops and while he doesn't need them, to attack, he needs them to not die. There are loads of units other than him that want EIG cover, so it's painful.

>Houjou

We're doing that then. Takeda is after permits, so if there's some free time inbetween, we can kill Tanegashima.

WE ARE BACK. After acquiring a course of action, we are set to invade Houjou, a nation of Diviners. They seal holes to hell all around the country where ogres come from. They're also great units in general when used right. Their nation will deploy a lot of diviners and they tend to have a strong backline, but we have a good monk and three ninja units, so things shouldn't be this bad. Still, it's gonna be an uphill battle.

There's supposed to be a famous auto-event with a diviner girl where Rance has a choice to rape her and enter war with Houjou for free, but we didn't get it this time around. That's an action fan wasted. We're going to be whittling down Houjou while improving NP and getting Dousan for the next few turns, so it's back to desperate survival mode for now. Will post some battles in a bit.

Oh, and we recruit Andou Kyuuri. It's a shitty diviner with 4 in all combat stats except attack. He has a cucumber fetish.

We get SAT from Magic and see Takuga's event. Houjou was in charge of Shikoku, province where Takuga starts, but they take over because it's dog-eat-dog land. We also recruit Takuwan-sama, a warrior with 4/5/4/7 with Shouting Charge. You could make an argument for saving books for him because of 7 speed, but 3 base cost is just too much. We're dismissing him soon enough.

>>15130625

>yukihime

Wasn't she suppose to roam around japan fucking lord to make them declare war on rance? and ended up being a cumdump for low grade bantits

>>15130674

see >>15122095 , if you recruit her this way, she doesn't run off and become a low-tier whore, at least not even more than what she is right now.

Akashi's introduction event is shown. After everyone in the country is killed by Mouri, a kid has to lead a country. Now we have to prevent him from making questionable decisions.

>>15130693

You get reinforcements sometimes, but they're really weak. Enemies also can't attack vassaled provinces, so if you're defending against someone and you have a chokepoint with a vassaled country, they can't progress. You naturally get NP from it. The flipside is that you get no SAT, items or events. You also don't get levies.

Here's some battles. It's not too hard for now, but it's getting there.

>>15130732

Are you talking about abusing the troop merge event? Takuga units's stats are way too low to be of any use and if our average troop size gets too high, AI will raise it's troop size even more, so we're putting them off for now. It's likely that they'll get DA'd.

We recruit Dousan-chan. It's a monk unit that can use Convert Action in army battles. On top of that, she almost has 1000 troops right off the bat. To recruit her, we needed all three units from Oil, one free NP and a SAT bonus. It's gonna be very worth it. We dismiss Takuwan-sama right afterwards, but keep Andou - he can still use Guard Shikigami, and it doesn't actually scale with INT.

>>15130689

yea but as >>15130693 says, she is worst girl so not even worthy of taking a slot in my army

>>15130780

Her event at 7 Hate has you pick from going to Normal or her deleting herself from the troop list and you getting 5 SAT, so if you want, you can spend 6 happiness items to get half a SAT bonus. Or just delete her, she won't start declaring again if you do that.

Oh, and we get a story cutscene. Apparently Ran is experimenting with something on the caliber of nuclear weapons. That's gonna end well.

Do you see this? It's Nanjou Ran and she has Summon Suzaku. It has very little preparation time and it will absolutely obliterate everything. If you see this, do NOT deploy anything.

Thankfully they decided to invade our territory with that attack, so it's no big deal. But if they tried to take their territory back, we'd effectively lose an action fan.

>>15130849

About that, if you equip any troopcount-boosting item, all gains made from selling troops become zero.

Meanwhile, Maria joins in. It's a cannon troop with an unlockable skill that makes her a really great Megumin. Even if she's slow, if we give her enough troops, she'll pull her own weight thanks to the great defense modifier that cannon troops get. One more tough backline unit for the count.

>>15130873

Oh fuck, didn't think of that. But rushing over there is still not worth abandoning Souun and giving up on Hannies.

Meanwhile, shit starts to get real. Some events happen and we keep pushing through their territory only to find that Maeda as he is now is incompetent. We need more SAT.

They keep pushing us back. Some events are shown, but nothing major. Time to set up permits bretty soon.

This is ridiculous. And we get a book from this, too. Dousan best girl.

We abuse Sill some more and finally get rid of the worst girl. Feels great. Meanwhile, we keep piling up SAT to upgrade Maeda and Rance and upgrade NP while we can.

We keep conquering Houjou, bit by bit. Assassinate is really powerful. There's also a Draft Paper that we picked up, which goes to Maria. It's really slow compared to what was going on before - Houjou has a really wide variety of formations and they only attack once or twice per turn, but when they do it's usually a disaster, so picking and choosing units is required, whereas before you could somehow manage to make do with using all of your combat roster to defend.

Oh, and we get two permit holders. Since foot troopers are easier to replenish, we're gonna use as much of the foot trooper permit as we can because we're behind on troopcounts and thus need more money, but we need to capture tactician and diviner units with 1k troops. We can make do with Ran for a diviner permit holder for a while, but tacticians are top priority now.

We get Leila from reinforcements and this fills up our roster. It's time to make some cuts. Guess what's the right choice.

We cut Fuuka and Rizna. Both of them are useless and only take up a space on the roster. This frees up 3 NP.

Meanwhile, we get more SAT and get some buffs on Maeda. He goes whatever the equivalent of Ultra Instinct is in JAPAN, transforming into a defensive juggernaut. If he has guard on, nothing should be able to seriously harm him now.

Houjou attacks us three times in one turn on that one territory that we don't want to lose. It really hurts, but there's no choice but to concede it.

>>15131247

To get the sword on a no bonus run you need to kill Ashikaga and do a dungeon there, do an event and do a dungeon again. Speed scrolls sound like a nice idea, but the problem is that you don't get a good warrior unit to kill undefended things that AI leaves on and Himiko is really valuable, so you end up using Rance for that because he needs stats to do better in Commander battles as well as levels and he needs two speed books. There is an event that gives a +speed to Katsuie for SAT, but at that point you're so behind on it that it's usually not worth taking. That said, if I do get another speed scroll, it's definitely going on Maeda. As for money, we're so behind on troops that it's better to just get them right now to lessen the risk of dying rather than stockpile for jewgains.

Oh yeah, and Ally Guard+ is a thing, too. Once we get a chance, we can put that on Katsuie since he's capped on happiness right now.

It took this long, but we've finally managed to capture Ran. Now she won't be a thorn in our side. We had a close fight as well.

And finally, permits. Now this won't be a nightmare anymore.

We get a weird item and put it on Maria, because she needs all affection that she can get right now.

>>15131382

We're gonna have to do dungeons eventually, but right now we're on a timer. Gotta conquer Houjou in 9 turns. At turn 70 Mouri gourd breaks automatically and if Houjou's breaks before that, then it doesn't.

I can't believe Souun is fucking dead.

>>15131469

It's supposed to be someone named "Masako", but it's just a generic diviner with a really high troop count. We'll be killing Houjou shortly. In the meantime, let's up Rance's stats a bit.

We get in really hard and are about to kill Houjou. The formations the game gives you are really something else.

We kill Houjou and recruit Ran. Next up are Hannies and strengthening our army enough so that their numbers float at 1000 mark instead of 500. We also need to somehow manage to extract enough value out of permits while all of that is going on. Final gourd breaks on turn 90. Oh, and Megumin finally learns Explosion.

>>15131609

We have to kill Takeda with permits because Tourin is too good. We can't take too long or their blitz will kill us, so ideally it's gonna take two to four turns to do it. To make that happen, we need to prepare.

>>15131649

After killing strong bears, we finally get a good item. Kenshin wants it right now, so we're giving it to her.

Meanwhile, there's some really great doubts right now. We don't really need hannies - we can conquer them through events any time. Once we do, however, troops from the other countries become even stronger. Only priority right now is Souun and Takeda and we're gonna need every edge that we can get while going against the cavalry, even if it's only a final territory.

In any case, let's call it for today.

We're back. Permits are online, meaning that we can use income to kill a number of territories. We'll need to take Takeda in the span of 2-4 turns, do a lot of dungeons and capture Dokuganryuu to extract the maximum value out of permits. However, if we war the youkais just like that, Tokugawa will be forced to declare war on us, so we'll have to face them one way or the other. Fighting both Dokuganryuu and Tokugawa at the same time is very hard and since we're going to do a bunch of other stuff for a while, let's just war the racoons for now. More troopcount for Takeda, but we can deal. The plan right now is something like this -

Use the downtime to stall Tokugawa until all racoon dogs are dead/captured, then kill it - Kill Takeda with permits - Kill Tanegashima if they're not taken over by Mouri yet - Kill Dokuganryuu with permits

Our limit is turn 90 when auto-event breaks the last gourd - we have 24 more turns. Things are going according to plan.

We put 14 worth of happiness items on Ganko and give him Battle Rating Down 2. It's a really useful skill that I wish we had that a lot sooner. Another book drops and here's some more battles. Things are more or less mild because we didn't declare on Tokugawa yet, but soon.

Ran says something about a dungeon in Oil Field. Apparently, Souun is still alive there after all those turns with no food or water, waiting for us. We promptly fug her for it and she learns a skill as a result. We're not actually going to go Ran route, though, so it's a little sad.

>>15135714

Here. It's still prep time right now, so things are slow.

Shibata finally gets Ally Guard+ and the other foot trooper unit finally gets much-needed stat boosts in defense. Still no EIG, so it's painful.

Oh, and also Mouri declared war on us. They're behind Tanegashima and Akashi, so we couldn't delay the war with them, but that also means that they're not gonna attack us until they take over Tanegashima. It's going to get annoying when they do.

We finally declare on racoon dogs. They won't stand a chance against us. What could possibly go wrong?

There has been an unexpected difficulty. Racoon dogs are too strong and capturing them is hard because their nation isn't in destroyed yet. We're working on that, though.

Oh, and Takeda will declare war on us pretty soon.

Things go wrong. We don't want to go to Ran route, so we don't want to go to the Oil dungeon just yet, but Ran really wants to go. So she does.

Well, rip Souun for real. In other news, there haven't been a breakthrough with racoon dogs yet and Mouri may take over Tanegashima soon.

We bite the bullet and take over Tokugawa. Ordinarily this would be suicide because of assassinate and it almost was, but there's not much choice. There's an H-CG with Senhime afterwards and we're going to set up for Takeda next. But this really was too risky. Now to set up for Takeda.

For the next time I try doing this kind of run, recruiting Ganko and putting Battle Rating Down 2 on him ASAP will come first. There's also a variant with a Popularity Staff, too.

>>15136073

Apparently womens fertility rises after a rape, so all these women he's banging have a increased chance of getting impregnated

>>15136073

Oh yeah, and we finally discovered a dungeon. This means that we can finally fire Ranmaru without consequence, so we do so.

There's three turns left until it's time for a Takeda war, so it's time to make final preparations. We're gonna hire ALL the mediocre Foot Trooper units that have piled up in our prison throughout the run that we can and put EIG on as many of them as possible. We want at least two of them with EIG. It doesn't matter that much if they die, because their stats are gonna be trash anyway.

Oh yeah, and we do dungeons while we wait.

It's a treasure that we've just found. Damage-reducing effects don't stack with Guard in this game though, otherwise it'd be broken instead of good.

Because we've defeated Tokugawa and because war is a trendy thing to do, Hannies declare war on us. I forgot about this event, so we're just going to kill them with permits really quickly because of the SAT. Also, we're not getting Senhime just yet because she's too painful to maintain.

Things are going really wrong at this point.

Hannies are dead and Takeda will declare on us shortly. Things are about to get very fun.

Fuck, this is gonna go horribly wrong. Let's hope we capture a good tebasaki unit.

>>15136226

Best of luck.

Meanwhile, we do more dungeons to finish the Kaguyahime event. Oh fuck, what do you even put this on.

Oh, and we do Kaguyahime event to get more SAT and get a fourth action per turn. From now on, the only decent thing we can get out of SAT is 3 affection for everyone, since getting a fifth fan is impossible. War with Takeda next turn.

Takeda declares and things start kicking into high gear. We put Speed 2 book on Uruza, so that we can get her Accurate Shots even faster. Kanami is going to be our permit holder, so we spend some money to get her to 1k troops. Goal right now is to defend against Takeda and capture their territories after that.

>>15136412

Permits. But now we have to attack, and that will not be fun.

Somehow, they did not attack for one turn. After that, they did not protect their cavalry, resulting in this. We fire Akechi and get this thing under our wing - it will become a god soon.

We do a dungeon to get Ogre Bonus and happiness items and find a ridiculous item that we put on Keiji right away. With this troop list, it's gonna be tough defending against Takeda if they go all out, but whatever. It was worth it in the end.

Meanwhile, Isoroku gets us another cavalry unit. It took one assassinate and two Whirlwind Shots to get it. And here we almost lose a diviner unit, but at this point it would have been okay because all he could have done is guard shikigami anyway.

What the fuck was I worrying about? It's a massacre. Even without permits it'd be manageable, now that I think of it.

Well, if we did try to take them on any earlier though, it would be a giant mistake without the backrow guard units.

It's time to make some more cuts. We're firing our construction crew and a cucumber diviner because we don't need NP all that much anymore and we're running out of space. We got 8 turns left until the final gourd breaks and we need to recruit Tourin and invade Dokuganryuu while we still have the permits to do so.

>>15136586

You know what, you're right. Let's just fuck up south with our cavalry and permits while we can before DA kills them.

Meanwhile we get the other benefit of invading Takeda - an extensive collection of seashells that gives us +15 SAT. Rance is really a man of culture. We also get an attack book.

Meanwhile, we get what makes those mediocre units God. It's time to demolish things really really hard.

Things went really wrong because Yuzumi's musket shot can proc assassinate effect. Luckily, no one died, but I needed to deploy a disposable foot trooper with EIG to survive this. What a blunder.

Meanwhile, an all-out battle event happens. Now we can capture Mouri sisters, not that they're any good. Kiku does have assassinate, though.

Meanwhile, Chinu poisons all of our troops and we get an introduction to Shimazu. They're a western faction.

>>15136759

You forgot (25). Those proxies are terrible.

Anyway, we force Takuga to retreat. Permits make a short work of the rest of the territories. Oh, and after putting 7 ATK on a 4-action cavalry, we can give it the +2 atk item, capping it's attack. It's gonna be something for sure.

After fielding out best troops against them, Takuga folds like tissue paper. We also get to fight some ogres off-screen. There is not a lot of challenge left in the game, now that we get to exploit overpowered formations every turn. We're gonna take over Akashi after this, then Mouri and Dokuganryuu. Maybe even Iga.

>>15136789

see >>15118778

After killing a second Mouri territory, we find ourselves in a lack of things to kill. Akashi will war us on their own shortly and we still have loads of permits. So we war Iga because we can get away with it - fifth Gourd event is next turn.

We get a story cutscene after the fifth gourd breaks. Kou sees how her brother murdered a monk along with a demon entourage, so now we have to find her to avoid a secret route full of pain. From now on we can kill all the countries that we want and it should be okay.

First, however, comes a search for Kouhime. We can't attack anyone until we find her.

>>15136843

I'm retarded.

Anyways, it's that time.

And that's where we'll end it for today. We can't fight anyone anymore until we confront Nobunaga, but we CAN do dungeons and stuff. Not many things are a threat with this team, but it's still gonna be tough dealing with Dokuganryuu. Look forward to it.

>>15139309

>permits

I don't like it either, but AI just goes into overdrive late-game and you're just so far behind on everything. This run, we've barely managed to conquer almost everything that we wanted to in time and we're still gonna miss Dokuganryuu.

>Kiku

Dies to tacticians removing her buff and there's no guarantee that you can get a defensive item in a no bonus run. You could try to get it from a dungeon, but we already have Himiko with Guts Armor for this if there is a special need to do that.

>Teru

6 defense. You could happiness her up to 7, but she has to equip Dragonfly Cutter or there is no point. What's more, Counterattack 2 means no EIG.

>Chinu

Dies on majority of routes. Admittedly better than Natori when unit scale goes way up, but she dies.

>Motonari

Another warrior unit, but way too late into the game. Also need to do Takuga events to obtain.

In other news, we're back again. As said earlier, visiting Honnouji advances the story and makes us able to attack again - we, however, don't want that just yet. We're gonna do some preparations first, namely levies, raising troops, dungeons, item shop abuse and so on. It's gonna take a while, but autism compels me.

We clear Yoshikage and get loads of NP for our troubles. This will be useful soon enough. Meanwhile, Akashi's events start up. We want them all done before going to Nobunaga.

We get rid of Iga by doing an event. You can only do that in second games and Inukai by himself isn't much to write home about, but it's a second good ninja unit.

We get a bunch of junk and levels. There's also Maria and Ganko gets a much-needed castle siege expert. Prep time will soon be over, so please forgive the slow.

>>15140383

>something unexpected came up

That happens when you watch these scenes.

Man,Konosuba s3 sure isn't pulling any punches

>>15145192

Am i the only one that enjoys when aqua (and only aqua) gets raped in doujins/lewds?

>>15145234

Anon, aqua is not retarded, that would make me feel sorry for her and want to protect her.

Shes dumb, a stuck-up cunt, a slut and also useless, she deserves to be used as a living onahole.

>>15145369

Anon, did i forget to mention shes a drunkard aswell?

She deserves nothing other than hard dicking.

Do not lewd the megumin though.

>>15118268

Just dropped by to say that this thread is fucking amazing.

Serious respect OP. I hope you do another one after this.

This is way better than my shit game post troughs.

>dude playing sengoku rance at a good level of skill on a high difficulty

>one of the very few threads on /v/ of someone playing a game skillfully

>getting derailed

We're back, so please wait until I do all of this pre-Honnouji stuff. Also, thank you for bumping the thread, otherwise it would be really bad.

For those who already know how the game goes - there is a lot of setup if you want to do a specific thing. It involved skipping a bunch of events in order to do something ridiculous. We're doing that instead of conquering Dokuganryuu. If you lurk the wiki a bit, you will most likely know what it is.

We fire some of our permit holders to make way for the True Route characters. We're just about done with them anyway.

Meanwhile, we finish up our dungeons. Road to Hades is tough, in more ways than one.

Oh yeah, we finally attack Honnouji. If you pick the first option, it gives you a game over.

In other news, Kentarou is a kill-stealing son of a bitch. We have to conquer Ashikaga, Mouri and Akashi now as soon as possible. It's a race against time.

We watch a cutscene and start with Akashi. Get a load of this.

And they're wiped off the map. Two more to go.

We get 3 more Kanou scrolls from Tora no Ana. It's not terrible. Oh, and here's what you get for beating Gunagan, since we obviously can't do it this playthrough.

Kentarou joins in. Oh yeah, and Natori died.

Mouri family gets taken over. All that's left now is to wait for Demon Army to arrive.

Actually, we also get Kojika's events because we took so long. Earlier, she went around the continent trying to kill Mouri by herself. Rance doesn't recognize her and fugs her in the afterparty. Predictably, she gets mad.

>>15146398

>I don't think you get the option to declare war on them in the first place.

Yeah, that. I don't know how long it would take to get DA to appear, so we're gonna war Dokuganryuu this turn and attack with all permits because you can peace them at any time.

We find a hot spring event and use permits to kill Dokuganryuu. It's gonna take two or three more turns at most. Just waiting for DA now.

Anyway, we successfully defend against Dokuganryuu and now are about to kill them. Somehow, this wasn't how I thought it'd go. Now to see if we can actually beat Masamune.

Well, there we go. Permits are really the best, huh. Now to comfortably wait for DA.

DA finally appear. Just in time, too. We've got all the books from Ezo last turn, so we did everything we could before they've popped up.

Ah, here they are. DA blitz will be coming up shortly. We're not going to bother attacking until then.

We get an Emperor Ring from Choushin. It's a bit of a waste to do it now, but we're waiting for the blitz and there's nothing else to do but prepare for it.

Right after I attacked out of frustration, my turn ended and a DA army blitz started. So that's how it works, huh.

After numerous trial and error, we have found a way to beat the entire blitz.

For the first fight, we face Yoshihisa. It's a giant stack of foot soldiers. We need to deploy a foot trooper with at least 7 defense to stay alive. Here I use Goemon to help with defense because all tacticians are much-needed for their boosts here. Isoroku, Suzume and Goemon remove the monk post-haste alongside the guarding foot soldier and it's over.

For the second fight, we face a second brother, Kazuhisa. It's a stack of warriors with 8 in all combat stats. To not die, we need to deploy a foot trooper with at least 8 defense and a good tactician to put a defense buff on it. Luckily, Shibata meets the criteria so he just tanks those warriors like a champ. Diviner in the back was a threat, but 9 attack 9 speed cavalry took care of it.

Third fight was a joke. We deploy Kenshin to remove an action point from Toshihisa - he has 2 by default and put a Protective Paper on Kouhime. No matter what, Toshihisa will always go first, so he naturally shoots the protective charm that we got earlier this turn from Kouhime's event. It's only available once you enter a route and once you do, you need to talk to a route's heroine to get it. The rest of the fight is trivial.

Fourth fight is even more of a joke. Iehisa is a tactician with a massive troop stack. The thing is, however, that AIs in this game prioritise buff removal instead of damage. So all we need to do is to deploy a tactician that can renew buffs and we're good to go. We've put Battle Strategy 3 on Ai before, so we can save Tourin for last.

Fifth fight, however, is hard. There's at least 2 warriors every time and by this point, you're generally out of everything and while in earlygame deploying warriors against warriors worked out just fine, here the troopcount goes way up and only that much doesn't cut it. We've upgraded Maeda's speed to 7 and I think that you need at least 5 or 6 with Ally Guard+ and EIG to stand a decent chance of protecting a row. Naturally, for defense we want to go as high as we can - 9 defense with a 45% defense buff (9 int x 5% per int) from Tourin. The rest is just deployed because there's a chance that there are 3 warrior units on the front line and defending is good.

There's not a whole lot left to the game after this, so let's keep going until the end. I feel bad for reloading for this long, but it's been worth it.

We have 6 turns to find Hirami lemons. Or, we can just conquer all the DA up to the bridge during that time and win the game. Guess what we're gonna do.