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Fall of the Ikko Ikki

Take control of the seas and destroy the Ikko Ikki temple fortress in a build and destroy scenario set in feudal Japan.

Kuki Yoshitaka stood on his iron-plated ship as it knifed through the water's skin, each wave scattering sprays of droplets with the regularity of an arterial wound. Known throughout Nippon as a fierce pirate warlord, Yoshitaka had navigated the tides of change of the Sengoku Jidai with the expertise of a salty pilot. When Oda Nobunaga seized neighboring Ise province, Yoshitaka swore allegience to the rising daimyo. Nobunaga welcomed the support of the head of the Kuki clan. For decades, the clan rivaled the Mori in seamanship.

That was until the embarassment of their defeat in these very waters outside the Ikko Ikki temple fortress of Hongan-ji.

Two years ago, Yoshitaka led his fleet to break the backbone of the Ikko Ikki in the midst of a decade-long siege against the monk-led zealots. The ships and sailors of the Mori clan, aligned with the Ikko Ikki against the rising Oda, provided a timber, pitch, and sail bulwark in these waters, the supply lines of the fortress. As long as the Mori controlled the sea, the temple fortress would resist Oda's armies. Yoshitaka's fleet, outnumbered and outclassed, was destroyed.

The shame of defeat, enough to make many samurai commit seppuku, did not faze the pirate lord. With a mind sharper than the tanto blade used for ritual suicide, Yoshitaka designed new large ships, covered in iron plates, which would give him an advantage over the numerous Mori fleet.