Trade Nodes

[evil.sausage]

You know, those foreign trading posts that bring you trade with China or Indonesia? Yeah, I have a question about them.

When you get to one and find it occupied, I get that trying to strongarm your way in is an act of war against the clan that was there ahead of you. My question is will they leave, like to go back to their homeport, if you wait? Or have they staked a claim that makes it theirs alone until someone takes it away from them?

[Nobody]

In my experience they will happily sit on the trade node until the end of time unless a hostile force removes them. Said hostile force needn't be you though.

[easytarget]

If the clan on it isn't that large and happens to be in your path of conquest anyway taking them off the board should remove their trade ships.

And if you just happen to have a batch of your own trade ships conveniently sitting right by that trade node when it opens up no one's the wiser when you grab it for yourself.

[evil.sausage]

Originally posted by easytarget:

If the clan on it isn't that large and happens to be in your path of conquest anyway taking them off the board should remove their trade ships.

And if you just happen to have a batch of your own trade ships conveniently sitting right by that trade node when it opens up no one's the wiser when you grab it for yourself.

I grabbed the trade node and we're now at war.

[markeason]

I just leave a bow kobaya beside it. Wait until the clan occupying it is eliminated by someone else, then grab it myself when they are driven off or eliminated.

I only attack ships on a trade node if I am already at war with the clan.

Going to war for a trade node makes little strategic sense. Your wars should be about acquiring provinces. Taking the trade node of a clan that you are at war with, to harm their economy, makes sense.

[easytarget]

Originally posted by evil.sausage:

Originally posted by easytarget:

If the clan on it isn't that large and happens to be in your path of conquest anyway taking them off the board should remove their trade ships.

And if you just happen to have a batch of your own trade ships conveniently sitting right by that trade node when it opens up no one's the wiser when you grab it for yourself.

I grabbed the trade node and we're now at war.

Me thinks you didn't properly grasp the sequence of events then. By the phrase taking them off the board I meant simply eliminate the clan who occupies the trade node if they happen to conveniently be in your way towards conquering the island anyway.

Edit: Oh and Markeson's first sentence above is typically what I do as well, although usually I try and save time by sticking a stack of 10 trade ships by the node.

[markeason]

Originally posted by easytarget:

Originally posted by evil.sausage:

I grabbed the trade node and we're now at war.

Me thinks you didn't properly grasp the sequence of events then. By the phrase taking them off the board I meant simply eliminate the clan who occupies the trade node if they happen to conveniently be in your way towards conquering the island anyway.

Edit: Oh and Markeson's first sentence above is typically what I do as well, although usually I try and save time by sticking a stack of 10 trade ships by the node.

I'm too tight to pay the upkeep on all those boats - they may have a long wait for the node to be liberated :)

[evil.sausage]

Originally posted by markeason:

Originally posted by easytarget:

Me thinks you didn't properly grasp the sequence of events then. By the phrase taking them off the board I meant simply eliminate the clan who occupies the trade node if they happen to conveniently be in your way towards conquering the island anyway.

Edit: Oh and Markeson's first sentence above is typically what I do as well, although usually I try and save time by sticking a stack of 10 trade ships by the node.

I'm too tight to pay the upkeep on all those boats - they may have a long wait for the node to be liberated :)

No, I get what you're both saying. But the Osumi were already listed as unfriendly and shared a border with me, so a war was inevitable. And they were already fighting two enemies. So I decided that there would probably not be a better time to go at it with them.

[markeason]

Which clan are you Otomo or Shimazu?

[evil.sausage]

Originally posted by markeason:

Which clan are you Otomo or Shimazu?

Shimazu.

[markeason]

Cool. Capture Kyushu, turtle a bit to build your economy and build 4 or more full stack armies, then roll on to Kyoto and the end game.