Differences Between Noriaibasha and Smaller Clans

[ninja_coder]

At Clan Iwinaga, a campaign would generally last 8 to 10 weeks. Maybe 12. Clan Nettobuku planned everything in two-week campaigns — though, admittedly, they took far less territory in any single campaign. However, Clan Noriaibasha never lets any campaign be less than six months long. Even if it results in taking no more than a single village.

Perhaps this is because of the large numbers of priests and nobles associated with any campaign. In Clan Tenya, we didn’t even have any priests until shortly before I left. This made it very easy for us to lose sight of the ways of Harmony and Righteousness. At Noriaibasha… I am currently involved in two campaigns. Each one seems to have more priests, of both the Nichiren and Tendai orders, than warriors.

But these things are not necessarily bad, as long as we have enough warriors to take the desired territories. Which we do.

One thing that I do find a bit worse: At Clan Tenya, I was in frequent contact with peasants and townspeople — the people most affected by our operations. Here at Noriaibasha, I’m not sure that I will ever have such casual conversation with the populace.

It is a price I can pay.

Also, at Noriaibasha, it is clear that I will have no input into the overall strategies of the operations I’m associated with. This is of little importance, however, because I found that even at the smaller clans, my input was frequently disregarded by the nobles anyway. At least here, they are honest about the fact that I will have few or no leadership opportunities.

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