Daimyo Alias and Officer Commendation

[Vin362]

As you Daimyo and officers gain honour you can assign them an alias I know someone like
Sadakatsu Murai or other officers with a high political state benefit from being given the civil alias.

I want some opinions on how to decide what alias an officer with multiple high stats should go for like Nobunaga Oda.

[MuTaTeDtReE]

Since Nobunaga's better off on the field, I'd pick either the two battle aliases (can't remember the names at the top of my head). But it really depends how you wanna use said high stat officer. If you want them for covert operations, boost their INT, war go for either boosting LEA or STR.

The LEA alias has a passive ability for increased county occupation if the officer is leading the army unit. This really does speed up your occupation rate, decreasing damage from those fortresses and makes your invasion faster. It's even faster if you're playing as the Oda with their unique policy up. I don't remember the STR alias, but I'm pretty sure it's got something to do with damage dealing against enemy units. Officers with offensive tactics that deal soldier count decrease would definitely be better, like Kenshin, Shimazu Iehisa, Tachibana Dousetsu, Honda Tadakatsu etc. Even the basic soldier count decrease tactics do wonders with high tier STR alias.

The Civil alias is also helpful, but not necessarily for battle, but for development. I tend to see AI Ieyasu boosting his civil alias despite him being strong on other stats too. Ieyasu's probably better off with the LEA or INT alias imo. But I'd expect you'd want all-rounder officer with high stats on the field rather than sitting in the castle developing your lands at a faster rate. People like Honda Masanobu, Murai Sadakatsu are for sure better off doing that for you than Ieyasu or Hideyoshi.

[BloodyPork]

Alias passive actually applies to the whole team, it acts like officer traits. So to maximize the effect you want like one army group with different ones since it doesnt stack.

But it also give stat booster so ideally you want like your highest int guy with the int alias for example.

In general you want the combat dudes get either lead/war alias, war's effect is better but these things dont stack so the other alias has use as well. Int for those who has int as their primary stats. the POL alias is best for those people you never bring into combat as the bonus doesn't affect combat.

Though honestly these alias is not that big of a deal, AI couldn't get them to high level for a long time anyway only player can.

[MuTaTeDtReE]

Originally posted by BloodyPork:

Alias passive actually applies to the whole team, it acts like officer traits. So to maximize the effect you want like one army group with different ones since it doesnt stack.

But it also give stat booster so ideally you want like your highest int guy with the int alias for example.

In general you want the combat dudes get either lead/war alias, war's effect is better but these things dont stack so the other alias has use as well. Int for those who has int as their primary stats. the POL alias is best for those people you never bring into combat as the bonus doesn't affect combat.

Though honestly these alias is not that big of a deal, AI couldn't get them to high level for a long time anyway only player can.

Oh interesting, I didn't realize they stack.

I've seen the AI max their aliases pretty often on ExHard, especially the officers they send to fight often, like if the AI has people like Tadakatsu or Yukimura, by mid-game if you capture them, they're already maxed. Usually I'd see a lot of AIs maxing out the POL alias more often. Then again, maybe I play slow so the AI has time to spare. Is 20 years a long campaign usually?

[Vin362]

Wait it stacks so if I bring say 3 officers with the battle alias then I will get the benefits from all the additional pincer damage?

[BloodyPork]

Originally posted by Vin362:

Wait it stacks so if I bring say 3 officers with the battle alias then I will get the benefits from all the additional pincer damage?

Different type stacks in the same unit. Maybe I don't write it clear enough but it works the same like officer traits. If they have the same trait ofc the same trait does not stack. Well, no, not quite as some of those with numbers add up, but think like yellow traits that cannot add up (eg. red cavalry) it works like that.

[Silva]

Originally posted by Vin362:

Wait it stacks so if I bring say 3 officers with the battle alias then I will get the benefits from all the additional pincer damage?

They combine together but DON'T stack. In other words, you can have only one type of alias per unit. The strongest will count and the others ignored.

Example: having 1 Experienced/LEA + 1 Bulwark/VAL (so, different types) is good. Having 2 Bulwarks/VAL does nothing, since only one will count.