Strat is a hard thing to enjoy unless you're in a faction that is completely dominating. It breeds hatred, drama, and suffering at every turn.
All I wanted was an honorable battle in which Auphilia and I commanded a set number troops against each other with the same themed equipment. I totally dig the ninja/samurai theme and desired to have a glorious battle with a faction I heavily respected, because in two months everyone is going to be fully tin-canned with +3 weapons of doom and I only wanted to bring a little flavor to the world before happens.
It is impossible for me to get my wish now that Auphilia has committed seppuku. Khorin, please have someone get in contact with me after the coming battle at Unuzdaq Castle and list the resources lost. We can discuss re-reimbursement for your people if you desire it. I probably wont have your support with any future endeavors, but if your people wish to merc or join up with me on upcoming ninja missions I will hire you all with the highest priority and pay well.
The Josho Shogunate originally planned to make each clan be its own faction in strategus. We wanted to have a spot to the corner or such and war within ourselves having clans fight each other to make their leaders the shogun. Unfortunately, each clan could not be self-sustained, and there were no strong samurai clans who could challenge the Red Lotus other than Kogado (Empress Guard) and the Ninja, either of which would be inappropriate as they already have the Empress and Master Ninja. We wanted weeaboo vs weeaboo battles more than anything really, even if it meant waring with ourselves. Unfortunately, we soon realized that this would be something our faction simply couldn't afford to do in strategus and abandoned the idea.
Fighting your ninja would have been fun, and I was excited to see the new Uesegi Shogunate forming to challenge our rule. In weeaboo vs weeaboo battles no one has to worry about major disadvantages due to lack of shields or such. I guess you just picked an awkward time for us. You could have messaged me in the forums and I would have gladly accepted and made an army to meet you in the field as soon as I could, instead you attacked an undefended castle (interesting challenge there) while we were at war and being attacked by multiple other factions, etc.
I probably mentioned this before, but it isn't really the attacking of the castle that bothers me, as 400 troops or whatever you had wouldn't be enough to take a castle. What bothered me is having a dozen members nearby who were too inactive to do anything about it. Strategus isn't really something I wanted to play by myself or with one or two people. I have single player for that. Which makes me think some sort of AI should be implemented to use on inactive players, so the game doesn't halt when a few clan members have a life to attend to.
