Conquest Mode

They should really change the auto hostility function against occupying a non enemy castle. One misclick and gone you have to fight your important ally in the worst possible time. They should give a note a warning of the sort, like when we trespass their territory. If we accept city should be auto emptied and ownership should return back.

I guess I’ll chime in with my thoughts:

So conquest is never really fun for me unless I try for a low turncount. This is because I need something to challenge me and winning is never ever in question when I play. It’s just a matter of how long that takes. One of the things I really hated in EW7 was the whole barbarian faction that comes in trying to overwhelm everyone thing. That put a more or less check on how long it took.

That’s at the very least not here. And while the map is huge, you do have means to deal with that issue. EW7 felt a lot slower because everyone moved like 1 or 2 spaces at a time and it was WAY harder to increase your mobility. Those two things being dealt with has made conquest a lot more enjoyable for me.

You should not play conquest until you’ve finished the campaign (so far). Having a bunch of horses, upgraded generals and units is basically mandatory to playing efficiently.

You also have to juggle between a lot of resources in order to get by efficiently. If you mismanage them you can get slowed down to a crawl as you spend all your cash on buying just enough food to ashigaru wall.

Also I don’t think that the 80-90% success chance on agreements is that big of a deal. They probably shouldn’t cap it there for factions with annoying traits, but luck is everywhere in this game anyways.

Now my issue is the respawning generals. That I don’t really think is well implemented. It’s supposed to do two things: make up for the fact that the AI is really bad and keep the prescence of generals around instead of being permanently gone once they’re dead. Defeating your enemies SHOULD have an overall positive impact, even if it’s not the best thing you could be doing, but killing enemy generals has like a 80% negative impact on your progress and 20% positive. It’s sometimes worth it to just take some heat off of a city that’s being attacked, but they respawn instantly, on a stronger unit AND seem to be spawned for free. Since you should be on the offensive more than the AI that often means that a city you’re attacking gets a really heavy meatbag. It means that in order to beat your enemy you actually HAVE to have them alive. Really stupid.

They should just not have them spawn instantly, and also make the AI actually pay for them getting out.

which pretty annoying especially if you neighbor hostile major clan endless wave of same general that I just defeat respawn instantly next turn even my general is easily overwhelmed them still feel very annoyed.

Idk about auto spawns either. Yes they are annoying but since we spam all generals at will they have to balance it out somehow. Even Oda clan has like 2 gold maybe 3-4 purple generals at max while we can invade them with 20+ generals if we like. Small clans are even worse they sometimes have only green/blue generals. So considering we have that general pool what should the AI has? And once you are on the border and declare war you get 1-2 small castles right away shrinking the enemy territory before they can even react. I would prefer an easier diplomacy for small clans and even harder fights with major clans.

Agree that the undead generals kill the fun.
They are not really adding any challenge, only annoyance. Overall, the conquests in EW7 and GCS are easy since there is no real existential threat (recall Serbia in EW6 conquest). I like the new diplomacy system because it adds some challenge in managing resources, but I also miss the day that I need to balance the defense and offense.

As you may notice, guys, in first two conquests generals usually don't have any equipment. Just imagine Uesugi fully equipped with lvl 10 items. Pure fun