The shift key allows for your character to zoom in, mainly for better aim using range equipments, the only set back is that while zoomed in, your character will move slower.

It gets broken out of whenever the charcater engages in combat. Running mode results in the character moving faster. Lords taken as prisoneers should be released whenever possible, as the passive income from simply owning buildings should be massive.ДЄll named characters in the game cannot be killed, that includes Lords, Ladies, Companions etc. At this stage it is very important to build favourable relationships whenever possible. All other unit gained should be dumped into random owned locations as garrisons. The goal of the late game to to expand your kingdom, as simple as that, while increasing army size. Lords taken as prisoneers should be released should fianance allow for it. The mid game should last till about day 110. After the successful invasion, its near compulsory to track down and request the town be rewarded to you if not the town is likely to be rewarded to another lord with a higher relationship points with you lord. After an acceptable army is created, solo invasion of a single town is to be down to set up a base to rebel the lord with. The goal of the mid game is to inprove the quality and amount of troops currently in the army, at this stage there should be a concious effort to transition the army from a peasant tier army into a samurai class army. Lords taken as prisoneers should be kept to ransom to establish a monetary reserve. The early game should last about 40 days. Generically speaking, the best way as to achieve this is to work for the guidemaster and do tasks for the lords before offering vassalage, with the occassional village raiding. As for equipments, other than buying the bare minimum to start building experience in a certain arms. The goal of the early game would be to establish relations with lords of the clan in which you want to serve under and to build up monetary reserves so as to be able to afford the recruitment of troops.

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