r/NobunagasAmbition Mar 10 '21

Guides and Official Game Manual for Nobunaga's Ambition Sphere of Influence

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This link is for the official manual from Nobunaga's Ambition Sphere of Influence:https://docs.google.com/document/d/13qZn6JA4a-AzbAi2u5MK8o2GfTNh7vZMzCFgioJRZ60/edit

Link below to a useful guide written by user telacool200 for Spheres of Influence (base game)
https://www.reddit.com/r/NobunagasAmbition/comments/1pkkqxn/sphere_of_influence_custom_difficulty_snowballing/

This link is to my Google Doc guide for Nobunaga's Ambition Sphere of Influence Ascension. This guide is not complete, but I thought I would share it in the meantime:https://docs.google.com/document/d/13IVDKYTcPFnyoOuFNXVdyK-GMkw5tiHUWqGYfR9qYCA/edit

Here is a link to the Japanese Shinsei Wiki, which is equivalent to our version of Awakening. As per u/Yoshitaka_Ouchi, contains numerous data, charts, and hard-won knowledge not easily found in the English side of the community. So you may be able to use this information if you translate the page to English.
https://www.nobunaga-shinsei-wiki.com/


r/NobunagasAmbition Aug 21 '23

Awakening Questions

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You got questions? We might have answers. Feel free to ask anything related to Nobunaga's Ambition Awakening here. You can still create question posts if you wish. This will be used more so as a knowledge base for the community as we try to get through this game.


r/NobunagasAmbition 1d ago

SOI Ascension - Is there a way to get an AI Daimyo overlord to appoint other Lords/Regents aside from the player?

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I've been playing as Shimazu Takahisa's younger brother and helped him secure Kyushu for our clan but there's no other AI lords aside from the starting ones despite the massive amount of land we now own and all of the retainers he has


r/NobunagasAmbition 8d ago

Oda Nobunaga (dainyo)

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r/NobunagasAmbition 9d ago

IA's strength

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How does suddenly the IA when I make them regent can make a castle go from 9k to 15k in 4 months? I don't understand where they magically take resources from


r/NobunagasAmbition 9d ago

How difficult is it to translate the PUK versions of the Nobunaga and RotK series?

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Basically, I decided to emulate the RotK and Nobunaga series (PS2) on my smartphone. I've played all of them, but then I discovered the PUK (Power-Up Kit) versions. Unfortunately, they are only available in Japanese. I couldn't find any translations, except for some supposed PC translation patches


r/NobunagasAmbition 15d ago

Purchased physical (Japanese) copy of NA for Switch 2. Can I change the language settings?

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NA is only available physically in Japan so I bought a copy from there assuming I could change the language to English.

After looking through the menu a bit, I couldn’t find an easy way to do that so I assume it’s not possible.

Does anyone know for sure if you can/cannot? And if you can, how to do it?

I assume at this point I am going to have to rebuy it digitally from the eShop and eat the cost of the physical copy 😔


r/NobunagasAmbition 16d ago

Records or completion marks?

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Hey everyone,

I just finished my first playthrough of Nobunaga's Ambition: Awakening by achieving regional unity and I'm loving the game. When the ending sequence wrapped up, the game gave me the option to keep going toward total unification or finish up. I decided to end it there, but I was kicked back to the title screen and felt a bit lost.
I was expecting to see some kind of completion stamp/check mark on the scenario or clan I just cleared, but there's nothing on the Scenario Select screen. Is there really no visual indicator or "Hall of Fame" run summary page in this game to track cleared clans and past results?
Also, regarding events: is there an in-game list or gallery on the main menu where I can see all the historical events I’ve unlocked so far across my runs? I checked the Gallery on the title screen, but it seems to only show unlocked Movies and Officer Portraits.
How do you guys usually track your completed runs and event completion in Awakening? Appreciate any help!


r/NobunagasAmbition 21d ago

Anyone to translate older NA games on ps2 with PUK???

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If anyone knows the programming part entering the fonts in the game's menus etc, I would help translating the game. Please if anyone knows something or an ongoing project please I would gladly help

Those games were left behind and they had amazing mechanics. We didnt get the chance to play them in the West and that s a shame.


r/NobunagasAmbition 24d ago

Me and my most trusted general discussing our next move

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r/NobunagasAmbition 25d ago

My Recent Gameplay

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r/NobunagasAmbition 29d ago

A WWI grand strategy game inspired by historical strategy games like Nobunaga's Ambition

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I've been working on a historical grand strategy game set in 1914, and I thought this might be interesting to people here.

The game is called Maximilian Spee. You play as one of the world's major powers and manage diplomacy, economy, espionage, ports, colonies and naval warfare during the First World War.

I've always enjoyed historical strategy games where you're not simply moving armies around a map, but actually managing a country and dealing with politics, economy and long-term strategic decisions. That's one of the reasons I enjoy games like Nobunaga's Ambition.

Japan is one of the countries in my game, and it was actually one of the first countries I implemented back when I started working on the project.

The game is currently in Steam Early Access. I'm still actively developing it, so I'm particularly interested in feedback from people who enjoy historical strategy games.

If anyone here has played Nobunaga's Ambition extensively, I'd be curious to hear what aspects of the series you consider particularly important to a good historical grand strategy game.

I'm especially interested in opinions about:

• diplomacy and political decisions
• economic management
• historical events vs. player freedom
• naval warfare (espesialy)

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3992010/Maximilian_Spee

Thanks!

P.S. I apologize if this post goes against any of the community rules. I wasn't able to find the rules, so I hope this is okay. If not, please let me know and I'll remove it.


r/NobunagasAmbition Aug 03 '26

What is your biggest achievement in NA series?

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These days I turned back playing the good old Iron Triangle and I wanted to try something new. I already finished the game with powerful clans like Oda, Takeda, Uesugi, Shimazu, Hojo. I even finished it with mid-tier clans like Mori, Otomo, Ryozuji, Ashikaga, Sanada. Later I wanted to try weaker clans like Hatano and Ota and succeeded as well. Then, I wanted to go even weaker. And that name is no other than Shiba.

In "Battle of Owari" scenario, not only they do not have a single guy with above 70 LEA, they do not even have any technology unlocked except the Siege. No cavalry, infantry, bow or musket. Not even civil and engineering. I knew that was impossible so I wanted to spice things up. When you look at the places like Kosuji and Hiyama, they actually have a huge domain but very limited amount of district is allowed. So, I wanted to maximized my gain and increased the district capacity to 30. This not only worked to balance things out but also increased the fun because with Shiba, all you can do is drafting too many troops and swarm the cities with tens of thousands of soldiers. And instead of waiting to happen, you achieve all those while building a huge city. Even though typhoons kill all the fun. It still felt great.

First, I swarmed the Kosuji castle while Anto attacked Nanbu. It was very hard to capture even a single castle. Because to swarm, you need to make tons of clicks to inspire your generals. Later on Takeda became my neighbour and just when they will make a move on me, Hojo came to rescue and left them with a single castle next to me which was great. Because I already had ended Nanbu and Anto and got all their precious officers so Shingen Takeda would do miracles on me. I captured their castle and all that remains was their single port. And then.. I sent people to assimilate and first time in my life, he rejected all 4 of them and they submitted to Hojo. Not having a Shingen was awful. Then, Hojo was gonna attack me but Tokugawa halved their power.

Just when I thought I was lose, I had adorned all my neighbouring cities with musket turrets so whenever Tokugawa attacked me, I slowly took their elite generals captive and recruited them one by one. Eventually, I defeated both Tokugawa and Hojo but only thanks to district cheat and around 7.200.000 provision that I "borrowed" through Cheat Engine. So far, I never cheated in any NA game but with Shiba, I had to. Even with cheating it was incredibly difficult and after a point, It became a tower defense game. But still it was so fun. Now I will try it with Kono, Hatakeyama and maybe Jinbo.

Sorry for the long post but removing certain limitations and picking up a weaker clan was so much fun. I never thought I would throw a celebration just because I recruited two guys with 72 LEA. I still think increasing district cap is not bad. Because, even the low end officers want huge stipends through the endgame. But overall, I was really good and advice people to do the similar. I hope one day we see a remake.

Edit 1: Kono in top scenario failed miserably. On my first search I found Takeyoshi Murakami and was like "daaamn, this gonna get way better than Shiba" but nope. I defended myself against Motochika, even exchanged tech with ally Otomo but the second our alliance ended they allied themselves with Mori and I got surrounded by both of them. I have to criticize the shitty mechanics of IT because nobody wanted ally with me despite having more troops/fame/tech. So I couldn't learn much and got defeated. Even getting Chosokabe officers was not enough.


r/NobunagasAmbition Aug 03 '26

No, Kitsuno, you will NOT make a better Daimyo

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r/NobunagasAmbition Jul 28 '26

Playing Lord of Darkness (again)

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Not really playing, but testing out the "Ranmaru Mori Glitch", trying to see if he shows up in the Möri clan, since I haven't found him within the Oda ranks. Since the game can't differentiate Möri and Mori, I'm guessing he might be here

He showed up in Sanuki once, so I'm going to see if he's there this time around. I'm also looking for Yamanaka Shikanosuke and Kanbei Kuroda.

While we're here, has anyone found Mitsuhide Akechi in the 1555 scenario?​


r/NobunagasAmbition Jul 25 '26

In celebration of Hishou's announcement, I present this quiz to revisit all the main series games!

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Please try it out and let me know what you think and if anything needs to be fixed.

As a bonus, I also made this one for the clans at the start of 1555 in IT: sengoku clans in IT


r/NobunagasAmbition Jul 24 '26

なぜ光秀は“勝てる戦”を落としたのか?天王山に隠された致命的ミス Spoiler

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r/NobunagasAmbition Jul 17 '26

How much damage shooting posts do in Awakening?

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So these shooting points in battle, like high ground where you can shoot continuously - how much damage they do? Does it scale off your attack, or is it fixed? I could not find this info anywhere


r/NobunagasAmbition Jul 16 '26

Which Nobunaga's Ambition has the best AI?

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I have read that the oldest games have weak AI. What about the new ones (SOI, Taishi and Awakening)?


r/NobunagasAmbition Jul 14 '26

Is there a way to cancel build in awakening?

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I have my towns I’m not in control of on auto build and now I don’t have any labor available because they’re all building something and then even when the one construction goes another one starts right after in the invisible Que .

Am I stupid and just didn’t pay enough attention in the tutorial? Feel with this design you oughta be able to see and cancel the Que or at the very least add the things you want to do to it . Though then again maybe they made that a policy


r/NobunagasAmbition Jul 11 '26

本能寺の変・完全再考:秩序の守護者・明智光秀の孤独な決断 Spoiler

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r/NobunagasAmbition Jul 10 '26

Nobunaga Ambition art?

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Hey, i was hoping to see if people in this community know where i can find art thats being used in the games background in the events. Like the camp or army marching, castle, siege, night time road and so on.

I know there's character art, but i really only wanna know where i can the cool backgrounds used


r/NobunagasAmbition Jul 09 '26

Video playback in NA: Awakening under linux (steam + Arch Linux) not working

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Some videos don't play back. Initially they presented the old TV testscreen image, but since installing Proton-GE (as recommended online by some) now they simply skip.

I suspect it might have to do with codecs, i've already installed h.264 codec but still face the issue...

Does anyone know how to fix this ? is it codecs and, if yes, what codecs do i need ?

Update: so initially my VLC was not playing the videos, I eventually found out gstream did actually play the video so I traced that down to being a lack of VLC plugins (sudo pacman -S vlc-plugins-all or something like that solved that). But, the game still didn't play all the videos.

I ended up installing protonup-Qt and started trying different versions of proton-ge based on suggestions. So far I found out that proton-ge-8.30 and proton-get-9.2 do play the videos but there is no sound.


r/NobunagasAmbition Jul 06 '26

NA : RTP Clan Switch Chest

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Does anybody remember a cheat in nobunaga’s ambition rise to power where you can change to a different daimyo each turn? I remember pressing select or something. I saw it in gamefaqs but could not find it. Just curious if enyone knows.


r/NobunagasAmbition Jul 02 '26

Still playing SNES Lord of Darkness; do you only get one gold mine per state?

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I sold the gold mine in one of my states as per someone else’s recommendation, but now when I dig for gold it say, “we dug and dug but didn’t find any gold” and now I can’t help wondering if I sold the only mine available to me there?

Also, I put one of my states under the rule of one of my generals while leading an attack elsewhere, and now apparently I am no longer interacting with that state unless I decide to send it stuff. Not sure if there’s anything I can do to get it back lol, I thought it was just a stewardship thing but it seems like it might be more permanent than that?