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Aurubin: Mar 17, 2011

Not really sold on Cosmo Jarvis' performance in this. Everybody else is great.

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Aurubin: Mar 17, 2011

Why were Japanese sailing ships such dogshit? Just seems odd for an island nation to have such a bad navy.

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Aurubin: Mar 17, 2011

Is Kuroda supposed to be Oda Nobunaga?

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Aurubin: Mar 17, 2011

Yngwie Mangosteen posted:

I think he's Oda Hidenobu, the guy after Nobunaga.

Oh, multiple Odas got assassinated? My sengoku era history is mostly total war games, so looking forward to Toranaga's turtle strategy.

# ¿ Mar 25, 2024 16:38

Aurubin: Mar 17, 2011

While in line for the "what a twist!" thing, I just think a Toranaga false flag has too much potential for failure. But who knows, maybe they'll sell it well if it's that.

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Aurubin: Mar 17, 2011

You think the sun is gonna shine in the final episode?

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# ¿ May 18, 2024 15:44

Aurubin: Mar 17, 2011

Sanguinia posted:

After his victory at the Battle of Sekigahara, Ieyasu Tokugawa's (ie the real Toranaga) power over Japan is essentially unchallenged. None of the remaining daimyo have the strength or will to oppose him. Three years later, 1603, the Emperor formally anoints him with the title of Shogun. Two years after that, 1605, he officially retires, naming his son Hidetada to the office in his place. While Ieyasu retains true political power, this move cements his family's herditary hold on the position of Shogun and confirms that the position itself will remain the permanent head of government. This begins an unbroken 250 year Tokugawa dynasty, an era we know today as the Edo Period.

Over the next ten years, Ieyasu consolidated power by addressing the only two effective threats to his continued rule: the wealth brought to Christian daimyos by favoritism in foreign trade, and Hideyori Toyotomi, the son of his long-dead friend the Taiko.

Within 10 years, the Christian religion had been forbidden and all Tokugawa retainers and vassal required to forswear their adherence to the faith. The construction of ocean-going ships was forbidden. Trade with Europe was banned outside a single port in Nara, controlled by a Tokugawa loyalist and far from the power centers of the once-Christian lords.

Hideyori, the young boy whose power Ieyasu had once held in trust as part of the council, spent most of his remaining years in Osaka Castle. He was married to Ieyasu's grandaughter and assumed to be a useless fool who had no care that his father's wishes for him had been usurped. Around 1614, this illusion was shattered when he imprinted a subversive message onto a bronze bell as part of a rennovation of a major temple within his fief which appeared to call for the end Tokugawa rule and the return of his family to power. He began to gather a small army of ronin and forge alliances with anti-Shogunate lords. Ieyasu's response to this challenge was decisive. One year later, Osaka castle was burning, Hideyori was dead, and the Toyotomi line extinguished.

Ieyasu died in 1616 with all his enemies vanquished. His heirs carried on his legacy by solidifying an inflexible caste system that shattered social mobility into the Samurai class, ensuring another Toyotomi Clan would never rise, and sealing Japan's borders entirely to foreigners on pain of death.

There would be peace and corruption in equal measure for generations as Japan prospered and stagnated in isolation, waiting for the day the Black Ships would force them back into the modern world and begin the fall of the Shogunate.

Not quite. You see when Ieyasu had conquered half the country this triggered the Realm Divide mechanic forcing him to break all his treaties and conquer Japan before the turn limit ran out.

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