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[Kon-Tiki]

I did that with Enter? Could be, too. The action-button, which I thought was spacebar. Could be mistaken though. I'll see how I do it today k:

hey guys, i am playing the game, it's amazing, specially for an old game.

but, i have a problem, whenever a rival resigns or dies, the game freezes, how come? any solution for that?

[Japo]

If it's what I think, the game should un-freeze in a minute, it's some timing bug. But I thought it was fixed some DOSBox versions ago, unless it's re-appeared, which one are you using?

I'm not sure to be honest, i'm not good with these stuff.

I waited and it worked though, thanks a lot ^^

though, it seems now that i am a hatamoto, things are getting worse for me, the maximum number of troops i can raise is about 400, the enemy has 700+ soldiers and battle fights are becoming literal hell lol.

any advice? should i drill the troops?

I took a hostage from one of my fellow hatamoto and am trying to do whatever it is that i can to increase my honor and troop size.

[Japo]

It's been a while since I played this. The maximum number of troops depended on your land holdings. Pick any missions that involve a land reward, and defend what you already have.

Battles are easy as long as you're the attacker, see one of my posts just above.

You can also increase the value of your land by raising the taxes the peasants pay, but it also decreases your honor.

You can increase your honor by winning duels or fights against bandits, marrying a woman from a family with higher honor than you, or donating land to monks. If you're caught while trying to abduct a relative of an enemy, you'll lose honor, but nothing will happen if you're not caught in the act, even if you use it later for blackmail.

Generalship is the least useful of attributes, it influences the morale of your troops in battle. It's usually more important to outmaneuver or outnumber the enemy.

will do. thank you very much :]

[tristanzz]

Thanks to spotty internet and power outages, there was time to do some serious off-and-on samuraiing these past couple days, and I got my unsurpassed honor.



Theory: we can't get this level if we either 1) play all the way through with our original samurai, rather than a successor, or 2) assassinate either our Hatamoto or Diamyo lords. It could be either one, since those are the two main differences between this game and my previous attempt.

The highest honor my samurai could get in any case was "extreme" until he was made the Daimyo of the clan. Once he succeeded the old Daimyo, he immediately passed the rank on to his son, the third generation Youth. This kid pulled off this honor stunt within a few turns by winning a typical "wandering duelist who defeats all comers" encounter. According to the hex data in the save game, Honor rose from 7A (122) to 80 (128) in this encounter. So that's how that goes, just for anyone who gets stumped.

[Japo]

I never got to isolate what gives you unsurpassed honor. I also tried to find out about the high score (Tanaka was me as guest):

http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/sho...488#post144488

[tristanzz]

The best guess I can offer is that the buck needs to be passed on to an heir at least once. I noticed that brand new characters can never begin with 80 honor, even though 80 land, generalship, or kenjutsu are all possible. Honor can start at 70 at most. There is probably a link there. For kicks I backed up my save and set all the values to FF before winning, and got to see the 300-year shogunate message.

On the record, this game is the only abandonware I ever started from scratch, having never played it during its release. It's an awesome game.

[dimos]

FYI...
SaveGames are in TALLTALE
For savegame1 you'll find:
Honor value in AD or 173
Army value in AF or 175
Swordsmanship value in B1 or 177
Generalship value in B3 or 179
Land value in B5 or 181
...these are the locations in the TALLTALE file if you hex-edit it