You are sent back in time to 1863 as the commander of the Shinsengumi. How would you equip your loyal elite soldiers to win the Boshin War for the bakufu?
You are sent back in time to 1863 as the commander of the Shinsengumi.
You are sent back in time to 1863 as the commander of the Shinsengumi. How would you equip your loyal elite soldiers to win the Boshin War for the bakufu?
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Japanese history otaku detected.
What is a good website to get some background on the Shinsengumi (btw that is a series of restaurants in LA and Orange County)
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I don't understand any of these words
I suppose having more than 7 soldiers would be a good start.
First of all the french sucked in that war. Second i would give my dudes at least muskets for when we march on kyoto. Then id bribe satsuma with more land or something to switch sides and put pressure on the western flank to buy me time to modernize the army. Shogunate really shit the bed in this one
>How would you equip your loyal elite soldiers to win the Boshin War for the bakufu?
maybe realise that it's the 19th century and fighting an army of rifles with smoothbores was not very bushido tbh
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Immediately defect and fight for the Union in the Civil War. Thanks to my heroism I would use my influence to normalize Japanese settlers for immigrating to the Pacific while simultaneously kicking out Chinese immigrants. Imagine Japan Towns up and down the west coast vs the shit Chinatown we have.
>Imagine Japan Towns up and down the west coast vs the shit
We did have Japantowns but greedy like farmers had the Japs sent to internment camps so they could take their land. With the nips gone, guess who moved to fill the void? Did you know that fortune cookies are actually derived from Japanese tsujiura senbei? They ended up in Chinese food because Chinks replaced Japanese restaurants and people asked for their fortune cookie so in typical Chinese fashion, they made a shitty Chinese knockoff of the Japanese product.
Japanese immigrants were considered normal and were usually respected members of the community. When word came down that all Japanese were to be interned, the governor of Texas said frick you to FDR and busted out many Japanese who were forced to be interned in Texas. You can tour one Japanese family’s manor in Texas if you ever have the desire. They were stalwart Confederates, though, and hated Black folk so nobody remembers them.
Democrats have always hated us Asians, huh?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niihau_incident
Just remember this is why the Japanese were interned, Germans and Italians were also interned, and "muh yellow peril" had nothing to do with it. It didn't matter how many Japanese were loyal to the US, all the mattered is that there were an unknown number that were actively disloyal.
>Japs in Hawaii turn traitor
>Send all the Cali Japs to camps to make sure Hawaii Japs don't pull any more shenanigans
Get real, the reason the Japs were sent to camps is that farmers go jealous of the farms that Japs created by irrigating what was considered marginal land.
Maybe adopt codes of conduct that cause needless attrition from sudoku. Also, some gunz might be a good idea. The Shinsengumi were a bunch of dumb thugs who the Shogunate would never have recognized as samurai or anything approaching samurai were it not for the dire straits they were in.
*don't cause needless attrition
Swords, horses, and revolvers. After 1865 I convince the shogun to recruit Confederate General Jo Shelby, now sitting with his men in Mexico and trying to find work with Emperor Maximilian, so that he can help lead our forces. When the war breaks out in 1868 we'll be able to run circles around the Imperial forces with our Confederate based cavalry.
Kill myself
Very interesting thread, arigato OP-sama.