

Oda Nobunaga commissioned them and they were used at the Battle of Kizugawaguchi in 1578, where a fatal weakness was revealed. Only six of the largest ships, the almost-legendary O-adake bunes complete with iron armour, were ever built, probably because they were cripplingly expensive to build, man and maintain.
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Once shipbuilding did get underway, the vessels produced were huge and resembled nothing quite so much as floating castles.

Historically, it was not until the Sengoku Jidai that the Japanese started building warships, but not for any national fleet. With such a yard shipwrights can construct the largest and most powerful ships to add to a clan's navy. This allows very large ships to be built and then gently floated away. The Drydock is a type of port building in Total War: Shogun 2.Ī good shipwright travels in his own ship.Ī drydock is a basin that can be drained for shipbuilding work, and then flooded when a vessel is completed.
