Koei Tecmo reveals Samurai Warriors 4: Empires' Castle feature

A great way to plan your mischievous tactics.

Koei Tecmo, know for their musou-series, has revealed in-depth information regarding the Castle feature that Samurai Warriors 4: Empires will have.

The information as detailed below:

The Castle The Castle provides gamers with a single, intuitive dashboard for all their pre and post battle decisions and elevates the game from a tactical action title to a strategy focused epic. It plays a very important role in the Samurai Warriors 4 Empires as it is essentially a command center from where the player can regulate interior and foreign affairs, formulate political and military strategy, and utilize their allied officers’ skills to grow their army’s number, power, and loyalty. Starting of as a cluster of small rooms and growing to a multi-tiered stronghold, players can use the Castle interface to assign various tasks and Magistrate titles to their most trusted and valued allied officers. These tasks can vary from Recruitment to Diplomacy and from Development to Strategy. Regardless of the direction the player chooses to take, a careful, skill-based selection of allies will wield better results (i.e. more soldiers, more allies, more gold etc). Relationships As relationships are pivotal to all Empires games, pairing allied officers with a friendly disposition will create high synergy, which would produce faster and better results. Furthermore, since all officers in Samurai Warriors 4: Empires are based in historical figures with real personalities, assigning them to an appropriate position will generate unique suggestions and trigger specific events! Battle Preparation Aside from recruitment, commerce, provisions and the other domestic and political affairs, the Castle can also be used to prepare for battle. The Military Magistrate would analyse the situation and will make proposals to aid in battle, Foreign Affairs Magistrates would suggest alliances and diplomatic interventions, while Strategists would present the player with ideas for sabotaging and weakening the enemy. With their assistance, players can then choose how to charge the battlefield: how big an army to take along, how many provisions or gold to invest, and whether a diplomatic solution is preferable to conflict.

Samurai Warriors 4: Empires will arrive on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Vita on March 15, 2016 in North America and March  11, 2016 in Europe.