Oda Nobuna no Yabou [Light Novel]

[Undertaker]

Originally Posted by chad001

On that note, I'm starting to think the Saitou clan is the only that has male generals/officers. Prominently at least...

depends on what you consider as prominent.

Seriously though, even currently as LN (as of v7) there are still tons of famed Oda vassal that had not appeared yet...

Originally Posted by wagnerr

@willx
1. in winter war still happening
2. trading oversea including westerner happen
3. technology advance or not tradisional
4. nobunaga could moving his armies in short timespan
5. nobunaga himself smoother the roads for faster mobility and trade
6. horse scarce "arguable"
nobunaga,hideyoshi are bussines person

@chadoo1
sengoku ending at nobunaga die
CMIIW

I'll give you 4 and 5 since they are basically connected.

2 does happen but it is only restricted to few large port notably Kai and a reason why Nobunaga puts that city as one of his top priority when marching toward Kyoto.

not quite sure what you are getting at 3, technology do advance, but at that time there is still no fighting winter and snow.

Horse are scarce. The famed Takeda cavalries are now believed to be less then 3000 and the ratio of horse to soldier is no more than 10:1 and closer to 15:1. Based on new records found, Takeda's cavalries aren't even real cavalries but foot soldiers using horses for maneuverability reasons. It is also been supported by the fact that Japanese horse were not only small but had short legs, those horse were even smaller compare to Mongolian horses that even lacks the stamina and carrying ability(only advantages Mongolian horses had)

As for winter war, it does not happen North and East from Mino due to snow and freezing temperature. Both Takeda and Uesugi had mentioned many times that they can't mount campaigns during winter.. That fact also buys Nobunaga some times for him to deal with Western and Southern enemies.

BTW, Japanese Sengoku doesn't end witht eh death of Nobunaga, it officially ends 1603 when Tokugawa establishes new Shogunate, 21 years after Nobunaga's death. That is even on the earliest definition as some historian put Takugawa's death as the end of the Sengoku Period, in that case the period ends on 1616, 34 years after Nobunaga's death.

Originally Posted by Athena

To be honest, Sengoku is not that comparable to ROT3K (Romance of the Three Kindoms) when it comes to feints, defection, treachery and has no Zhuge Liang, so I wonder what kind of strategies and such the MC (Yes! Back on topic!) could find. If it's something like screaming your general's name again, then I pass.

There are still all those thing, especially defection and treachery, that is the bread and butter of the Japanese Sengoku periods and due to geography it also feature some guerrilla warfare type of encounters (toward the latter periods) and fort battles and plenty of night raids and ambush.

[wagnerr]

professionalism nobunaga soldier
Uesugi Kenshin at lastt massive preparation winter to attack are signal
eventhough not abundant or not big but i certain exist

professional soldier
firearm
firearm factory is advance


arguable in pov etc
you see "arguable"

because horses still use in almost all samurai war
transportation
trading

its not scarce enoough to use and killed at war..

it depend on the perception of scarce

Momoyama period = hideyoshi period

you adding unimportant detail in the comment
one is exist not inexist
abundant war record in years

too certain in number are wrong
remember kojiki not recorded himiko
eventhough chinese classic pointing empress

[Sumeragi]

Volume 2 Illustrations

Spoiler for Loli Onmyouji Hanbei:

Spoiler for Oda Generals:

Spoiler for Er..... "Become your bride?":

Spoiler for Future "Bride" Making a Move:

Spoiler for The Shy Raccoon:

Spoiler for Bishonen Marriage Proposal:

Spoiler for Inuchiyo Actting the Tiger:

Spoiler for Appearance of the Hero in the Eyes of the Maiden:

Spoiler for Dark Niwa:

Spoiler for Yoshimoto being Yoshimoto:

Spoiler for Snake~ Snake~:

[chad001]

DARK NIWA!!!!!!!!!!!

Also, wow Nene, getting aggressive there...

[Master Assassin]

Originally Posted by chad001

DARK NIWA!!!!!!!!!!!

Also, wow Nene, getting aggressive there...

There's also that something which... uh... might send someone wondering whether it's legal... unless context is given

[ReaperxKingx]

Things just got interesting especially Niwa. The usual smiling tactician got another side to her, personally I like it. I feel that women should have another side of them, it makes them more interesting and you'll fall in love with the surprise.

Also, how many Lolicons did Hanbei and Nene just make in this thread?

[Sumeragi]

Just for the record, the ages of the Oda Faction characters:

Monkey: 17
Nobuna: 16
Katsuie: 18
Nagahide: 20
Inuchiyo: 12
Goemon: 11~12
Nene: 7
Hanbe: 14

[ReaperxKingx]

Hanbei looked a lot younger than she really is. Niwa is the only adult among the group it seems.

[chad001]

Originally Posted by Sumeragi

Just for the record, the ages of the Oda Faction characters:

Monkey: 17
Nobuna: 16
Katsuie: 18
Nagahide: 20
Inuchiyo: 12
Goemon: 11~12
Nene: 7
Hanbe: 14

Wow... greatest age difference is 7 years apart. Man, Sagara's going to end up less of a lolicon than Hideyoshi was!

[Sumeragi]

Originally Posted by chad001

Wow... greatest age difference is 7 years apart. Man, Sagara's going to end up less of a lolicon than Hideyoshi was!

He's 10 years older than Nene.

[ReaperxKingx]

Originally Posted by Sumeragi

He's 10 years older than Nene.

Actually I think he was talking about the average general acceptance age a couple should be apart to be a couple. Wow, and Chad101 I agree with you highly.

[Undertaker]

Originally Posted by wagnerr

professionalism nobunaga soldier
Uesugi Kenshin at lastt massive preparation winter to attack are signal
eventhough not abundant or not big but i certain exist

professional soldier
firearm
firearm factory is advance


arguable in pov etc
you see "arguable"

because horses still use in almost all samurai war
transportation
trading

its not scarce enoough to use and killed at war..

it depend on the perception of scarce

Momoyama period = hideyoshi period

you adding unimportant detail in the comment
one is exist not inexist

Can't really figure out what you trying to say.

Preparation for war /= going to war.

You can prepare all you want but the fact is there is generally no war engagement during winter up north and east.

Sure, horses are used in war but when the best ratio is about 1:10 to 1:15 for supposedly the largest cavalry in Sengoku, that is pretty scarce in my book.

As I said the recent research shows that even the so called Takeda cavalry only uses horses for transportation, they don't fight on the horse. So they definitely scare of losing horses.

And you are dividing Azuchi–Momoyama period, Azuchi–Momoyama period overlaps Sengoku period. Argue all you want, but the current popular argument on when Sengokuu ends are either:

1) Nobunaga been consider as Tengajin (天下人) (1576)
2) Siege of Odawara (1590)
3) Establishment of Tokugawa Shogunate (1603)

None of it suggest that Sengoku ends with death of Nobunaga.

Anyway, this is getting out of topic, again, it like the Three Kingdom period, strictly speaking in academic sense, Three Kingdom only lasts about 40 some years but that is not what most people and historians might look at it.

Originally Posted by ReaperxKingx

Actually I think he was talking about the average general acceptance age a couple should be apart to be a couple. Wow, and Chad101 I agree with you highly.

Feel bad for Nagahide, she's now older than Katsuie when her real-life counterpart is only 2 years older than Nobunaga, while Katsuie is around 10 years older...

[Sumeragi]

I deeply worry about you gentlemen (the lolicons, that is).

[chad001]

Originally Posted by Sumeragi

He's 10 years older than Nene.

Yeah... doing the math... Nene (born 1546, married 1561, 15?) vs. Hideyoshi (born 1536, married 1561, 25?) 25-15=10?!?!?!? HOLY SHI-. Wow...

On the other hand though Lady Yodo... (1569, around 1582, so about 13+ vs. Hideyoshi who was about 46 at the time.... ugh....)

CMIIW

[ReaperxKingx]

People got difference preferences, weird but it is amusing. It like how some people prefer older women.

[Sumeragi]

Things get a bit interesting in Volume 3, I have to say.

[ReaperxKingx]

Hahaha, when you said that, it gets everyone excited. Niwa and Nene are big surprises. Nene is so bold for her age. Niwa who is always so cheerful and judge things by a scale of 0 to 100 can make that type of face smiling but scary.

[Sumeragi]

I'll just say that the Volume 3 Illustrations are very, very good.

[wagnerr]

LOL WHATEVER

you should understand comment as whole before commenting

[Undertaker]

Originally Posted by chad001

Yeah... doing the math... Nene (born 1546, married 1561, 15?) vs. Hideyoshi (born 1536, married 1561, 25?) 25-15=10?!?!?!? HOLY SHI-. Wow...

On the other hand though Lady Yodo... (1569, around 1582, so about 13+ vs. Hideyoshi who was about 46 at the time.... ugh....)

CMIIW

In Maeda Toshiie's case (born 1539, married 1558) at age 19 (older than norm) his wife (as cousin) Matsu (born 1547) at age of 11 years old and Nobunaga got married at age 15 (born 1534, married 1549) and had his coming-of-age ceremony at age 12. (now that is a shota for girls...)