any tips for playing as aizu?

[D・U・P!]

I suck at total war campaigns and get overwhelmed by betryaying allies

[Telvido_cat]

Allegiance switching/betrayals is really disappointing in FotS. I honestly think they did zero game testing and just wanted to create fake difficulty. As aizu I would head North beginning with the Sendai and continue North including Ezo. Move as quickly as you can because you'll be racing against the Matsumae who will 100% turn imperial. Also watch Sado same crap as Homma in Sengoku 100% devious little ......

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[madgamer2]

I would keep in mind that the warring states period was a situation where every clan thought they would be the one who would unite the country, Japan had 2K years of peace and harmony before this happened.
When an ordered society falls apart after so many years of order and reverts to a society of disorder a situation like the warring states period results in 50+ years of violent conflict ;.....well research and testing have nothing to do with what happened. If you read a history of the period you might have a better idea what it was like,

[madgamer2]

BTW.... start with a clan that seems to fit your style of play and start on easy level. There are some good videos on how to play this game on youtube among the many posted there.

[Cato]

The Aizu are one of the more difficult ones imo - I have had limited success I have had more success with others in how ever many hours I have - the Tsu for example the maxim is take the offensive and intiitive and quickly seize central Japan for playing as the Satsuma seize your island quickly and stabilize

The Aizu have two problems:

Dirt poor north provinces and VERY long distances to travel.

I'm not sure how you resolve that to be honest Ill play as them soon again to see how they play

[Lukotar]

Japan never had 2K years of peace.

[BastardSword]

Aizu is my favorite clan, they have the best variety of units and they have a challenging start. They have fertile farms and are near other fertile farms, but for some reason it always seems to take a long time to make much money with them.

In terms of warfare, use their white tigers a lot, they are way better than levy infantry. Just put about 6 of them in a castle and they can defend it really well. Or use them early on in your campaign in your main armies because they'll deal well with enemy levy infantry.

Anyway I find that the best strategy with Aizu is to put a defensive army in their home province, then do everything you can to take over all the provinces to their north. If you can take all of them over plus the Hokkaido provinces, you'll make tons of money especially if you build financial districts, maxed farms, upgraded factories everywhere. Use shinsegumi to cause revolts in any of these provinces so you can take them over.

I find that if you expand to the south, eventually Matsumae will definitely turn on you and annoy you to death with ship spam, and possibly Sendai as well. Keep an eye on Nagaoka and Jozai who might turn on you too.

[BastardSword]

I'm playing Aizu now on Very Hard, first time I've played VH on FOTS. The tougher battles are enjoyable.

However, the strategic side is pretty annoying. The game is basically beating me over the head trying to make me flip to the other side. All the shogunate clans around me have flipped to imperial, including Matsumae as usual. Nagaoka and Jozai got owned, and now the clans that owned them are attacking me with full stacks over and over again. They use garbage units so it's easy enough to defeat them, but they refuse to make peace so I can't really do much other than turtle in my home province. I'm trying to expand north against Matsumae but it's taking a while.

As usual I'm trying to rush to get kneel fire, but I'm super broke no matter what I do to build up my economy, and it's taking forever to get to modernization level 3.

[D・U・P!]

Thanks a bunch for the advice guys. Giving the aizu another try and enjoying it.
Good luck with your run BastardSword, would love to see more updates from you

[BastardSword]

Well I'm still trying to get to modernization level 3 and it's taking forever.....just want kneel fire...

I have two crappy smallish armies and keep getting attacked by Takayama to the west and Matsumae to the north. Once I defeat one invasion I get invaded in another area, and it takes soooo long to move around.

Oh and this is the map...it's only 1866 and already literally all the other clans except for Sado have flipped to imperial. The game is basically begging me to flip to imperial. I really don't feel like doing a republic run. FML.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2263592023

[AKOOMA]

I used cheat engine for infinite money.

I couldn't even win a campaign on easy without cheating lmao.

[BastardSword]

Ok, I give up on very hard. I like the more challenging battles but everything else is just annoying because all the horrible issues in FOTS just get worse, like AI ship spam, the AI flipping to the other side for no reason other than to create fake difficulty, and the way it takes forever to march your armies anywhere. I'm completely broke, like making 25 koku a turn, which wouldn't be that bad except I've upgraded a lot of my money-making buildings and farms and I'm just not making any money at all. By this point in a Hard campaign I'd be making around 5000 to 10,000 a turn, not 25.

I've holed up in my home province which is fine, but I'm trying to expand north and it's just really annoying. Literally every clan on the map declared war on me, I've taken all their land but then they keep invading me over and over again by sea and I can't move my armies around quickly enough to take them out. And I'm broke so I can't hire more men. Then the game is forcing me to switch to imperial because literally every clan on the map is now imperial. I did that and all the clans at war with me still refuse to make peace with me even though I've destroyed all their invading armies, and now I have to fight off rebellions in all my provinces because I switched allegiance. Screw it.

[Cato]

Well I started playing on Hard - doing ok atm captured the province to the south - debating my next move

[eyecarrot19]

if you have no money, just sack the provinces
I had a run with Obama clan which is more vulnerable to many flank attacks, naval invasions and betrayals. constantly sacking cities instead of trying to build up economy, helped me build good army and economy building even with negative income and after my armies was just on sacking progress, eventually my 4th-5th armies started to getting back revolved from sacking provinces to just hold them