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[mirrorshades]

Ah, Nobunaga's Ambition. I remember playing this game on my friend's Nintendo for what seemed like hours, back in the early 1990s.

I wanted to give it another go, but apparently my skill at strategic management and military tactics has diminished considerably since high school... this game is turning out to be *hard*, even at the lowest difficulty setting.

What I find is that, if I don't get attacked on the first turn, I am unable to build up gold/rice/army/city fast enough to compete... I can barely maintain a status quo. Eventually, I will either invade or be invaded, and my army gets crushed.

I can't believe that I was so much more of a military genius in high school... so I'm thinking I might be missing something. Anyone got any pointers for getting started off on the right foot? I have noticed that the daimyos all begin with different levels of wealth, army sizes, etc... but that doesn't seem to matter since the computer AI builds so much faster than I can.

I know that I can choose 8 players at the beginning, then consolidate all the fiefs... but that feels like cheating somehow (though I'm sure that's what we did in high school). Any tips for winning using the actual gameplay mechanics? :)

[F_LeRoy]

I must not be doing something right. I have this game running in DosBox, & it runs fine. But, all I can hear through the game are something like high-pitched beeps. I'm not sure if there is supposed to any music, but I'd think there would be some sound. Any ideas/ suggestions would be appreciated.

[The Fifth Horseman]

The high-pitched beeps are PC Speaker sound, which DOSBox emulates and puts through your soundcard instead of your machine's PC Speaker.

That, or if you're running DOSBox with machine=tandy, it's the emulated Tandy-1000 sound chip - a little better than PC Speaker, but not much...

[Borodin]

Got this and the original Romance of the Three Kingdoms for review as my first KOEI titles. The weird video ratio and black-and-white images took a while to adjust to, but the game had real depth and fine AI. My only regret is that KOEI was seduced away from the PC, alas!