Battle of Nagakute

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Battle of Nagakute
Part of the Sengoku period
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From top to bottom: in-game portrait for the battle; Artist's depiction of the Battle of Nagakute; location of the battle (represented by the red dot).

Date:

1584

Location:

Nagakute / Owari Province / Japan

Historical result:

Tokugawa victory

  • Ikeda captured and executed
  • Tokugawa forces withdraw before Hideyoshi's reinforcements arrive

Objectives:

Victory conditions:

  • Destroy the enemy

Defeat conditions:

  • Your army is destroyed or routed

Historical analogue:

Battle of Nagakute

Belligerents
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Tokugawa
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Forces of Hashiba Hideyoshi
Commanders
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Tokugawa Ieyasu
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Ikeda Tsuneoki
Strength

Historical: 35,000 troops


Historical: 80,000 troops

Casualties

Historical: Unknown, likely minimal

Historical: Unknown, possibly heavy

 

The Battle of Nagakute (presented as Nagakute in-game) is an historical battle in Shogun: Total War. The battle is a re-enactment of a battle fought during the Sengoku period between the Tokugawa under Tokugawa Ieyasu and the forces of Hashiba Hideyoshi at Nagakute in Owari Province. In 1583, at the Battle of Shizugatake, Hideyoshi supported Oda Nobukatsu over his brother, Oda Nobutaka, in the succession of the Oda clan following the betrayal and assassination of Oda Nobunaga by Akechi Mitsuhide. Hideyoshi and Nobukatsu's forces were victorious in the battle and Hideyoshi invited Nobukatsu and other generals to his residence at Osaka Castle, which he had finished building that year: the intention was to have Nobukatsu and the other generals pay homage to Hideyoshi, effectively marking himself as Nobunaga's successor in name, not Nobukatsu. As such, Nobukatsu broke his bonds with Hideyoshi and did not go to Osaka Castle. When Hideyoshi began to suspect that Nobukatsu's three retainers were plotting against him, he had them executed and used their deaths as justification for attacking Nobukatsu, leading Nobukatsu to request Tokugawa Ieyasu for reinforcements. The next day, Ieyasu personally led an army to the region, leading to a battle directly between Hideyoshi and Ieyasu.

The two armies would engage each other in a series of battles known as the Komaki campaign. Both sides exchanged gains and losses until finally Ieyasu had fortified Mount Komaki, creating a stalemate. Ikeda Tsuneoki (referred to as Ikeda Nobutero in-game), one of Hideyoshi's chief commanders, decided to begin raids through Mikawa Province with an army of 20,000 men, an action Ieyasu had expected and led an army personally to intercept Hideyoshi's force. The Tokugawa rearguard engaged Ikeda's army and the noise of the battle drew the attention of Hori Hidemasa, the head of one of Hideyoshi's divisions, who arrayed his troops in the village of Nagakute. He held off the initial Tokugawa attacks, but was forced to withdraw as the main body of Ieyasu's army arrived, numbering 9,000 men. Another of Hideyoshi's commanders, Mori Nagayoshi, waited for Ieyasu to move in and support one of his commanders, allowing him to flank the Tokugawa forces. However, the Tokugawa army charged forward, instead of swinging around, avoiding the flanking maneuver and catching the charging Hideyoshi troops unawares. Mori Nagayoshi was shot off his horse and killed, demoralizing the Hideyoshi army, and with the use of 3,000 musketeers, the Tokugawa defeated the Hideyoshi. Ikeda was captured and executed, and despite Hideyoshi's arrival with reinforcements, Ieyasu had already pulled back to Komaki, unwilling to risk further casualties. While the conflict would continue for some time after Nagakute, both Hideyoshi and Ieyasu settled for peace in 1585, as "...both men were too sensible to waste strength on a foolish quarrel." Hashiba Hideyoshi would later change his name to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, founding the Toyotomi clan, and would ultimately go on to unite Japan briefly until the end of the Sengoku period.

The player assumes control of the Tokugawa. The map is large with hills around the edge and dense forest here and there, with a large clearing in the middle. The Tokugawa army starts hidden in a forest, while the Hideyoshi army is deployed on the opposite side of the map ontop of a hill. The player is on the offensive, while the Hideyoshi army is on the defensive. The player wins by destroying or routing the enemy army. The player is defeated if their army is destroyed or routed. The battle, however, is actually bugged and impossible to lose: before the player can even engage a single enemy unit, the Hideyoshi army will immediately break and rout, causing all their units to leave the field and automatically give victory to the player.

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