You making ninja only run at 1;52 am in Total war Shogun 2 and I'm grinding every afternoon Japanese bombers with bombers only in War thunder. We are not the same but we both are insane😊
@@superchug2469 currently I use the D4Y (the earliest variant) and the H8K2 (which is the Japanese Man O' War, aka the BV-238). My goal is to get the B7N1 and one of the higher tier bombers, maybe even the G8M1 (but it's so expensive spaded) so I can have a fighting chance with CAS in Ground RB. But my recommendation is the G4M1, it's nimble, fast and has a pretty good bombload compared to other Japanese planes, sometimes even after it.
I imagine stak's daughter sneaking through the house to grab something from the fridge while stak sneaks into the garage...."I haven't seen anything when you didn't see anything"
I'm glad you're finding out but good rule for most total war games; Don't do military alliance! At least not in the beginning. Wait until after "Realm Divide", and then your allies will actually stay allies. Same for vassals
I think the worst part about the kisho ninjas with the ninja factions, is that they are strictly worse then regular ninjas. Do to a bug in the game that CA never patched, the buffs you are meant to have in the campaign and battles, does not work. Mostly it heavily impacts the kisho ninja's bomb ammo. So not only is a "ninja only run" hard, the bug makes it a lot harder :>
It’s less a bug and more “CA buffed literally every other clan’s ninjas but completely forgot to do the same to the two clans that actually specialize in them”
I actually did ninja only run a few times on the hard difficulty. And yes - ninja ARE a glass cannon. BUT! Key and main purpose to them is a flash bombs. Use them, charge and you simply wipe everything in existance. Even hero units have trouble dealing with this kind of charge attack.
Important note on Ronin units (especially if the host does a Ikko Ikki campaign), they not only gain experience faster than their contemporaries, but their stats grow more quickly as well. What they lack in numbers is made up by their potential, getting replaced eventually by warrior monks, they're still heavy hitters that can become power houses in their own right in the early to mid game.
I love that of all units, it's Ninjas carry bombs that explode strong enough to uproot whole trees.😂 Like, sure, Ninjas DID use bombs from time to time, but they were typically relatively small things meant for misdirection and distractions.
I love how you sneak out at night not to cheat not to drive away but to make a video for us. I thank you and fear for you man but get up at like dawn or something to start early
Ninja only really is impossible given the nature of the challenge. Stakuyi should try Ashigaru only as the Oda for the hilarity that is cheap mass producable peasant units.
Please, for the love of the spirits, blease use yari-wall for the yari-ashigaru! Especially in defensive siege battles!! The buffs they get are insane. Place them directly behind the wall, withdraw your bow-ashigaru and yari-wall. One yari-ahigaru can defend against any enemy unit, even against multiple.
You should have kept the ninjas on the walls for defense on that last battle. You'd have maybe been surprised at how well it works, those bombs really crush morale. Hattori was my first playthrough, and they're interesting though challenging. You really have to make use of the hiding abilities and the guerilla deployment of the faction to change battles. Like you don't wanna have a line of ninjas just holding next to each other, it's best to have a unit or two act as bait, perhaps a general, and then you hit them hard and fast with the ninjas. Thanks for playing this, it brought back a lot of fun memories.
Classic vanilla Shogun 2: the Tokugawa clan dies after turn 1. The AI can't figure out that if you bribe the Oda army with the starting metsuke and then invade you win the war. In my games the Oda quickly join them in the grave after the Hattori sneak up behind them with all their peasant levies who have ninja training somehow. The Mori and Shimazu are usually soon to follow, although sometimes the Shimazu survive and send the Otomo to Jesus. Some of the most powerful and influential clans in real-life history dealt a swift kick in the ass by eternity. Good stuff, especially when you've been drinking.
Stack, trying to remember the name of a province in a country he went to a handful of times: How do I not remember basic geography? Meanwhile me, who cannot remember the name of any town further than 5 minutes away from me: Yes of course, that's absolutely basic geography. Definitely. Clearly. Absolutely not!
I use Kisho Ninja instead of firebomb throwers. I think of them as less of mainline combat units and more as "firebomb throwers capable of self defense". Were I to make a Kisho Ninja focused army, I would want yari ashigaru or naginata samurai to hold the battle line, bow samurai to draw the enemy forward, and a small force of real cavalry - probably bow or yari - to do cavalry things. All of this would be in service of getting the enemy into range of the ninja's bombs and letting those bombs put in the work.
This. Bombs value doesn't lie in kill but in disrupting enemy formations to increase your own yari wall killing power. Also I dare AI to set their own Yari walls with bombs anywhere close. There is also little trick by positioning your bomb throwers withing Yari wall for their minimal range to be just on the tip of spearwall thus eliminating friendly fire.
@stakuyi kinsho ninja have huge charge bonus and great attack the way to use them is trow the bombs at the enemy and then charge at them after one volley the enemy unit at that time is either on the ground or getting up when the charge hits and gets destroyed also in sieges since ninjas can hide you put them behind the wall not in it and wait for the enemy melee units to climb up then trow bombs at them when they get to the top and charge at them after that to mop up the survivors for when you don't have more ammo
Honestly, my favorite thing about the Hattori is their ability to cheat before a battle. Every clan has to start their troops behind the yellow line before a battle begins. Not the Hattori though, they can start the battle PAST the yellow line, and behind the white line. Saves you SO MUCH time during invasions.😂
20:50 If at first you don't succeed... redefine what "success" means in the first place Alternate title for this video - "Just Because You Can, It Doesn't Mean That You Should"
You know the saddest part about the Hattori (and Tokugawa)? The last patch for Shogun2 was a balance patch for all units and CA thought kisho ninjas were bad so they buffed them. However, they forgot Hattori and Tokugawa had "enhanced" kisho ninjas and so those didn't get buffed. So right now, "better kisho ninjas" actually mean "worst kisho ninjas" -__-
So if you ever want to revisit this idea, the ultimate immersive mod ( I think thats the name) adds a few other ninja units like bow ninjas and matchlocks
I also prefer playing as the Otomo, and playing Co-op with my friend and having her play Shimazu, so we can take Kyushu together. I also like to fortify my towns like crazy and keep 4 gunners at least, in every castle. Because holy crap. If you get gunners on the walls, and position yari ashigaru directly beneath your walls, you can shoot your enemy for longer, at near point blank range, and its quite effective in the early to mid game. Sure you lose yari to friendly fire, but eh, theyre peasants. Theyll make more lol Though a unit i absolutely insist people not sleep on, are the Donderbuss cavalry. Do not let their short range fool you, use them as mounted shotgun infantry. I will usually keep donderbuss cav as a defensive garrison. Dismount them and line them up just below your walls with gunners behind them, and watch your troops absolutely _shred_ the charging samurai in a spray of gore and broken dreams 😂
Video 57 of asking Stakuyi to play Equestria at War as the Lord Protector, Ferdinand Dawnclaw in the Griffonian Empire (allow the soldiers to storm the palace)
Hi Stakuyi! If you think it'd be worth it, I think a playthrough of the Youjo Senki Redux mod would be fun to see. Please? It would really make my day. =^x^=
@stakuyi That sucks. You would think they would have fixed those bugs and not do a new launcher that treats mods downloaded before it as core programming. I haven't been able to play the base game because of this since.
@@anna-flora999 I don't know. I had some Steam mods installed, a update happened to the game, and the next time I started it up, the mods were on. I tried to turn off those mods, they were still on, I tried to delete them from multiple sources, they were still on, so I tried to delete them from the files. Finally got rid of them, but new the game won't load after selecting a clan to play. My best guess is that it transformed the mods into key files with that damn update.
@Enchie it's a bug from the old mod launcher not being turned off right, download the old launcher off moddb and just unselect the from the old launcher, and then revert back to the new launcher
Running units down is not necessary. The game kills whatever units are still on the field once you end the battle. Still super cool though running them down
I think standing and fighting in a city is the wrong strategy. If i remember right ambushes work fabulously with a ninja only army and a decent general
Hi Stakuyi! If you think it'd be worth it, I think a playthrough of the Youjo Senki Redux mod in HoI4 would be fun to see. Please? It would really make my day. =^x^=
Ninja only may be possible, you just chose the wrong clan for it. Try the Chosokabe, since they are isolated on a Island, giving you more time to build up.
I‘d say Ninja, the WWO isn’t really a trained soldier or assassin. They have a chance as long as they have bullets and the moment that runs out they are toast. Even then, the Ninja would have a decent chance throughout I‘d say.
in the last battle why not put the kisho ninja on the walls instead of the bandit archers?, the kisho ninjas yeet bombs and fight well, the archers can shoot :3
My favorite clan... Mori... Wako raider are literal piranas, capable of mowing down katana samurai 1v1 while costing 2/3, taking 1 turn to produce, being tagged as ashigaru. While the required buildings are "hard" to come by, once you get them and spam them... Is a bit like oda or ikko ikki with "ashigaru" spam (with a morale boost from the holy site provincial especiality)... While having a good navy and easily controling the west trade nodes and having a fucking gold mine province... "Oh but the mori dont buff any land unit and their navy isnt even the best, otomo have a better navy" Yes, mori dont boost any land unit. But, just because shimazu dont boost naginata samurai means that you dont use them and they suck? Just because chsokabe only boost ranged means that you dont use mellee? Mori units are vanilla, which means they arent bad (and you can say they have one of the best sword units in the game)
Are you able to beat the game with navy and using Canon units only the American Armstrong guns let that be your challenge also maybe let your kid make the decisions she Is the supreme commander. Top tier ships and canons btw
If I had a nickle for every time this man snuck out of bed to record a video, I'd be rich
😂
The next time stack drinks too much bourbon
he should have to play as the bourbon's of france
You making ninja only run at 1;52 am in Total war Shogun 2 and I'm grinding every afternoon Japanese bombers with bombers only in War thunder. We are not the same but we both are insane😊
What kinda bomber you use?
doesnt the japanese bombers suck since they are made of paper?
@@dannekayy9248 yes, yes they are
@@superchug2469 currently I use the D4Y (the earliest variant) and the H8K2 (which is the Japanese Man O' War, aka the BV-238). My goal is to get the B7N1 and one of the higher tier bombers, maybe even the G8M1 (but it's so expensive spaded) so I can have a fighting chance with CAS in Ground RB. But my recommendation is the G4M1, it's nimble, fast and has a pretty good bombload compared to other Japanese planes, sometimes even after it.
The snail has taken your soul
I imagine stak's daughter sneaking through the house to grab something from the fridge while stak sneaks into the garage...."I haven't seen anything when you didn't see anything"
I'm glad you're finding out but good rule for most total war games; Don't do military alliance! At least not in the beginning. Wait until after "Realm Divide", and then your allies will actually stay allies. Same for vassals
He better starts learning how to use yari wall as well
I think the worst part about the kisho ninjas with the ninja factions, is that they are strictly worse then regular ninjas. Do to a bug in the game that CA never patched, the buffs you are meant to have in the campaign and battles, does not work. Mostly it heavily impacts the kisho ninja's bomb ammo. So not only is a "ninja only run" hard, the bug makes it a lot harder :>
It’s less a bug and more “CA buffed literally every other clan’s ninjas but completely forgot to do the same to the two clans that actually specialize in them”
You know, I love how you say something and Gabby edits in a comment. Y'all just have the most wholesome relationship
General: "Bandits! Hold the line!" Bandits: "Hold the what now? We're gonna go mug somebody"
I actually did ninja only run a few times on the hard difficulty. And yes - ninja ARE a glass cannon. BUT! Key and main purpose to them is a flash bombs. Use them, charge and you simply wipe everything in existance. Even hero units have trouble dealing with this kind of charge attack.
Important note on Ronin units (especially if the host does a Ikko Ikki campaign), they not only gain experience faster than their contemporaries, but their stats grow more quickly as well.
What they lack in numbers is made up by their potential, getting replaced eventually by warrior monks, they're still heavy hitters that can become power houses in their own right in the early to mid game.
I love that of all units, it's Ninjas carry bombs that explode strong enough to uproot whole trees.😂 Like, sure, Ninjas DID use bombs from time to time, but they were typically relatively small things meant for misdirection and distractions.
The fact that this man is 3 sheets but still has the ability to explain the history and lore of the game with perfect pronunciation is impressive
I love how you sneak out at night not to cheat not to drive away but to make a video for us. I thank you and fear for you man but get up at like dawn or something to start early
14:50 He's not even playing HOI 4 but still pulls off an encirclement!
Give this man a like and watch time so he can insulate his garage from the elements!
Gosh darn.
Ninja only 1 hour and 20 minutes.
Welp the popcorn is ready here we go.
Ninja only really is impossible given the nature of the challenge. Stakuyi should try Ashigaru only as the Oda for the hilarity that is cheap mass producable peasant units.
Please, for the love of the spirits, blease use yari-wall for the yari-ashigaru! Especially in defensive siege battles!! The buffs they get are insane. Place them directly behind the wall, withdraw your bow-ashigaru and yari-wall. One yari-ahigaru can defend against any enemy unit, even against multiple.
It's an only ninja run
That's the entire premisse
You should have kept the ninjas on the walls for defense on that last battle. You'd have maybe been surprised at how well it works, those bombs really crush morale. Hattori was my first playthrough, and they're interesting though challenging. You really have to make use of the hiding abilities and the guerilla deployment of the faction to change battles. Like you don't wanna have a line of ninjas just holding next to each other, it's best to have a unit or two act as bait, perhaps a general, and then you hit them hard and fast with the ninjas. Thanks for playing this, it brought back a lot of fun memories.
You know what's actually fun? Cavalry only Takeda run
So Stakuyi, you've chosen to play as the Ninja...
I can't... _Believe it._
Damn Donut Cop-good luck with that bourbon and ninja powers combined.
Classic vanilla Shogun 2: the Tokugawa clan dies after turn 1. The AI can't figure out that if you bribe the Oda army with the starting metsuke and then invade you win the war. In my games the Oda quickly join them in the grave after the Hattori sneak up behind them with all their peasant levies who have ninja training somehow. The Mori and Shimazu are usually soon to follow, although sometimes the Shimazu survive and send the Otomo to Jesus. Some of the most powerful and influential clans in real-life history dealt a swift kick in the ass by eternity. Good stuff, especially when you've been drinking.
I like how this turned from a ninja only run to some ninja run
Stack, trying to remember the name of a province in a country he went to a handful of times: How do I not remember basic geography?
Meanwhile me, who cannot remember the name of any town further than 5 minutes away from me: Yes of course, that's absolutely basic geography. Definitely. Clearly. Absolutely not!
Stak, for a challenge may i suggest a 'doctor doom' run where you take a opm to world conquest
I use Kisho Ninja instead of firebomb throwers. I think of them as less of mainline combat units and more as "firebomb throwers capable of self defense". Were I to make a Kisho Ninja focused army, I would want yari ashigaru or naginata samurai to hold the battle line, bow samurai to draw the enemy forward, and a small force of real cavalry - probably bow or yari - to do cavalry things. All of this would be in service of getting the enemy into range of the ninja's bombs and letting those bombs put in the work.
This. Bombs value doesn't lie in kill but in disrupting enemy formations to increase your own yari wall killing power. Also I dare AI to set their own Yari walls with bombs anywhere close. There is also little trick by positioning your bomb throwers withing Yari wall for their minimal range to be just on the tip of spearwall thus eliminating friendly fire.
I like the idea of Stak getting blackout drunk and recording youtube videos.
@stakuyi kinsho ninja have huge charge bonus and great attack the way to use them is trow the bombs at the enemy and then charge at them after one volley the enemy unit at that time is either on the ground or getting up when the charge hits and gets destroyed also in sieges since ninjas can hide you put them behind the wall not in it and wait for the enemy melee units to climb up then trow bombs at them when they get to the top and charge at them after that to mop up the survivors for when you don't have more ammo
I'd love to see a version of this with the immersive mod. More choices for all kinds of ninja units. even ninja bows
Honestly, my favorite thing about the Hattori is their ability to cheat before a battle. Every clan has to start their troops behind the yellow line before a battle begins.
Not the Hattori though, they can start the battle PAST the yellow line, and behind the white line.
Saves you SO MUCH time during invasions.😂
Honestly, this is the best Christmas present that I could have gotten
It's alright Stak. No point in trying to do something if it's literally impossible to do. That's no fun.
Never knew my favourite explainer man also plays shogun 2
Merry Christmas stak and his family , and everyone else
The mood is on point for this challenge! Very nice
Stakuyi at this point is trying to piss off his wife. Also Merry Christmas.
Im pretty sure that the iko iki are warrior monks and they were like the biggest obstacle to reunifying japan for the Oda
stakuyi out here employing a decorative military force.
Love the history facts in entertaining content 👌
17:32
16th century carpet bombing isn't real, it can't hurt you.
16th century carpet bombing:
20:50 If at first you don't succeed... redefine what "success" means in the first place
Alternate title for this video - "Just Because You Can, It Doesn't Mean That You Should"
Go easy on him Gabby. Rip Stakuyi o7
I think there’s a mod that adds more unit types for ninjas out there somewhere.
Could be worse, you could be leaving the house, and getting into trouble with the law.
HOI4 ahistorical chile but every time something ahistorical happens, Stak takes a shot
Is it just me or when he says Yaty Yaty Yaty, he is saying ya da ya da ya da
Merry Christmas mate!
You know the saddest part about the Hattori (and Tokugawa)?
The last patch for Shogun2 was a balance patch for all units and CA thought kisho ninjas were bad so they buffed them.
However, they forgot Hattori and Tokugawa had "enhanced" kisho ninjas and so those didn't get buffed.
So right now, "better kisho ninjas" actually mean "worst kisho ninjas" -__-
I would love to watch you play Total Warhammer 2/3 and see how you handle the Skaven
well this should be intresting with the bugged clan
So if you ever want to revisit this idea, the ultimate immersive mod ( I think thats the name) adds a few other ninja units like bow ninjas and matchlocks
I also prefer playing as the Otomo, and playing Co-op with my friend and having her play Shimazu, so we can take Kyushu together.
I also like to fortify my towns like crazy and keep 4 gunners at least, in every castle. Because holy crap.
If you get gunners on the walls, and position yari ashigaru directly beneath your walls, you can shoot your enemy for longer, at near point blank range, and its quite effective in the early to mid game. Sure you lose yari to friendly fire, but eh, theyre peasants. Theyll make more lol
Though a unit i absolutely insist people not sleep on, are the Donderbuss cavalry. Do not let their short range fool you, use them as mounted shotgun infantry.
I will usually keep donderbuss cav as a defensive garrison. Dismount them and line them up just below your walls with gunners behind them, and watch your troops absolutely _shred_ the charging samurai in a spray of gore and broken dreams 😂
Video 57 of asking Stakuyi to play Equestria at War as the Lord Protector, Ferdinand Dawnclaw in the Griffonian Empire (allow the soldiers to storm the palace)
when you laugh you look like a Ventriloquist doll
Hi Stakuyi! If you think it'd be worth it, I think a playthrough of the Youjo Senki Redux mod would be fun to see. Please? It would really make my day. =^x^=
I hope he is playing with a mod to fix their ninjas. Its rather annoying bug that makes them worse than regular ninjas.
Nope, utter trash
@stakuyi
That sucks. You would think they would have fixed those bugs and not do a new launcher that treats mods downloaded before it as core programming.
I haven't been able to play the base game because of this since.
.... I'm sorry what? How did they fuck that up @@Enchie
@@anna-flora999
I don't know. I had some Steam mods installed, a update happened to the game, and the next time I started it up, the mods were on. I tried to turn off those mods, they were still on, I tried to delete them from multiple sources, they were still on, so I tried to delete them from the files. Finally got rid of them, but new the game won't load after selecting a clan to play. My best guess is that it transformed the mods into key files with that damn update.
@Enchie
it's a bug from the old mod launcher not being turned off right, download the old launcher off moddb and just unselect the from the old launcher, and then revert back to the new launcher
I saw one run where dude didn't use any asigaru for Hattory, only samurais and ninjas on legened.
i love your vids, especially the shogun two videos❤❤
When he mentioned last run he was doing a straight Ninja run I got super hype !
I can just imagine him going to gabby with the video to edit the next day/morning 😂
You gotta use yari wall man, it's the best ability in the entire game
Running units down is not necessary. The game kills whatever units are still on the field once you end the battle. Still super cool though running them down
Your wife is an angel to let you game during the night.
I think standing and fighting in a city is the wrong strategy.
If i remember right ambushes work fabulously with a ninja only army and a decent general
Hi Stakuyi! If you think it'd be worth it, I think a playthrough of the Youjo Senki Redux mod in HoI4 would be fun to see. Please? It would really make my day. =^x^=
Ninja only may be possible, you just chose the wrong clan for it.
Try the Chosokabe, since they are isolated on a Island, giving you more time to build up.
Ninjas or Wild West Outlaw, who’d win in a duel? Would the results change if there were 500 of each?
I‘d say Ninja, the WWO isn’t really a trained soldier or assassin. They have a chance as long as they have bullets and the moment that runs out they are toast.
Even then, the Ninja would have a decent chance throughout I‘d say.
its funny how the hattori ninjas are literally just worse than the regular ninjas
Ah! A fellow bourbon man of culture. huzzah
I would've watched more but you broke your rule in the first battle
Wouldn't the ninjas be better on the wall? With the explosions lol
Merry Christmas and a Happy New year I'm on the sherry so lol ❤❤❤❤❤
in the last battle why not put the kisho ninja on the walls instead of the bandit archers?, the kisho ninjas yeet bombs and fight well, the archers can shoot :3
My favorite clan... Mori... Wako raider are literal piranas, capable of mowing down katana samurai 1v1 while costing 2/3, taking 1 turn to produce, being tagged as ashigaru. While the required buildings are "hard" to come by, once you get them and spam them... Is a bit like oda or ikko ikki with "ashigaru" spam (with a morale boost from the holy site provincial especiality)... While having a good navy and easily controling the west trade nodes and having a fucking gold mine province...
"Oh but the mori dont buff any land unit and their navy isnt even the best, otomo have a better navy"
Yes, mori dont boost any land unit. But, just because shimazu dont boost naginata samurai means that you dont use them and they suck? Just because chsokabe only boost ranged means that you dont use mellee? Mori units are vanilla, which means they arent bad (and you can say they have one of the best sword units in the game)
OuR gEnErAl Is In GrAvE dAnGeR mY lOrD.
hes back
Part 4 of asking you to play hoi4 millennium dawn as Malaysia
So a Japanese Order of Hashashin
Idk how possible it is but what if you did a challenge where you could only recruit Metsuke.
Yessssss I’ve been waiting for this oke
Thanks for suffering for us.
Did you play from a Macbook? Some model proportions look very unusual)
Drunk episode! 😂❤
Its the 6th Great Ninja War
Irony is that the devs fucked up on the Hattori stats so Hattori kisho Ninjas are worse than regular :(
Should have sent the save to legend
why have everybody so large troops and i not?
Ikko is one of the easiest factions to play as. I mean once you get monks it's GG.. You will route every army.
clan eshin approves
Video 59 of requesting stakuyi to play Magna Europa
Ikko Ikky are suppose to be hard? I conquered all of Japan basically spamming Sword Ashigaru. But I am no Legendary player, I played maybe on Hard.
Try Oda one day too
An hour and 20 minutes!
Please do an iko iki play through and start all of the rebellions
Are you able to beat the game with navy and using Canon units only the American Armstrong guns let that be your challenge also maybe let your kid make the decisions she Is the supreme commander. Top tier ships and canons btw
Number 5. Video(s) about Canadian warcrimes good sir?
If you hit end battle it will kill everything on the battlefield if you win don’t waste time
5k Likes!!!!! Iko Ikki Challenge!!!
My Shogun 2 keeps crashing when I try to start a campaign does anyone know how to fix this?
do this again in fall of the samurai