====== How to play ======

**Goal:** unite Japan by holding all 38 provinces. You lose if your last province falls, or if a third succession breaks your clan.

===== Starting =====

On the title screen choose **New campaign**, then the scenario (1560 or 1582), the level of the computer clans (Gentle, Easy, Normal, Hard or Ruthless) and your clan. **Quick start** begins at once as the Oda clan in 1560. **Continue** picks up the game from its last autosave, made at the end of every month. **Load campaign** opens a save slot, or imports a save file.

===== The main screen =====

Click a province on the map, or use the arrow keys, to see it. **Tab** steps through your own provinces. Red is your clan; the gold outline is the province you are looking at; the small white keep marks your lord's seat.

^ Key ^ Order ^
| 1 | Govern |
| 2 | Military |
| 3 | Diplomacy |
| 4 | Provinces |
| 5 | Chronicle |
| 6 | Settings |
| 7 | Help |
| 8 | Campaign (save, load, new game) |
| 9 | End month |

Esc opens the campaign menu. Mouse and touch work as well as the keys.

===== Orders =====

Orders are given in your own provinces and cost the governor **body points (BP)**. 10 BP are always kept back for defence. BP come back each month, according to the governor's politics.

  * **Cultivate land** raises the rice harvest.
  * **Flood control** guards against typhoons.
  * **Develop town** raises trade and gold.
  * **Reinforce castle** helps in battle.
  * **Give rewards** raises support and loyalty.
  * **Train politics** makes a better governor.
  * **Sell rice** turns rice into gold at the market price.
  * **Hire soldiers** costs 1 gold and 10 people per soldier; a province holds at most 100. **Train soldiers** raises their skill.
  * **Propose alliance:** a clan that agrees will not attack you, nor you them, for 12 months.
  * **Incite uprising** sends a ninja to lower a rival's support.

===== The seasons =====

In month 3 (spring) gold comes in from trade; in month 9 (autumn) the rice is harvested. Soldiers eat into both. Typhoons strike in summer, and unhappy provinces rise up.

===== Battles =====

Invade a bordering province from **Military**. Your three units (red banners) face the defenders.

  * Click one of your units, then click an empty hex to move or a neighbouring enemy to attack. With the keys: the arrows move the cursor, Enter acts, Tab picks the next unit.
  * **1 Attack**, **2 Rifle fire** and **3 Charge** choose how the next attack is made. Rifles hit hard without being struck back, but must reload: move or wait before firing again. A charge hits twice as hard and is struck back twice as hard.
  * **W** waits. Infantry who wait lie in ambush and strike double.
  * Cavalry move two clear hexes in a straight line. Forests protect, mountains block, and a weakened defender shelters in the castle.
  * Destroy the enemy commander (the pennant) to win. Each side eats rice every three rounds, and the defender wins after 90 rounds. **X** withdraws.

===== Music =====

Settings (6) turns the music off or sets its volume. In the browser the music starts at your first key press or click. **F**, or the button at the top right of the page, shows the browser game full screen.