In exchange for carrying out such tasks, you’re given a sense structure or progression that also doubles up as a tutorial of sorts. Your clan leader will start expecting bigger resource loads while sending you to capture castles further and further afield. Although you can return to your town at any point to oversee its development, you’ll soon have bigger fish to fry. Many will later go on to become friends or subordinates under your command, while others will seek to challenge you in completing certain goals.Īs you ascend through the ranks, the game’s scope begins to broaden. You’ll also want to keep an eye on neighbouring retainers. Making sure you have a strong troop count is key, though having enough farms (supplies) to feed them is equally as important. Getting there takes time, however, and you’ll need to pay attention as you carefully plan what kind of town your building. As your settlement grows, the amount of incoming resources steadily multiplies, allowing for a gradual expansion and the chance of a promotion. Instead of destroying rival clans in a bid for dominance, your job is to satisfy the population within a small town, constructing new facilities and fulfilling objectives set by your liege lord.
Instead of juggling, with any lapse in judgement leading to failure, players are effectively spinning plates with the option to prioritise one over the other. To get the most of out these new features, you’ll need to offer yourself up as a lowly retainer instead of choosing to play as a lord or daimyo.īeing a retainer means a much smaller patch of land to govern with fewer pressures and responsibilities. Thankfully, Koei has been smart in the way it integrates these new systems.
To some, this will sound rather intimidating – dealing with ongoing wars, alliances, development, and trade is big enough of an undertaking without factoring in yet another strategic layer. The developers have essentially taken a magnifying glass, going much deeper than the base game. Ascension’s biggest draw, however, is how it drills down into many of the game’s already complex, intertwining mechanics.
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