SENGOKU MUSOU LEVEL 5 WEAPONS FAQ (v2.9, 6-7-04) by Edward Chang (chang.459@osu.edu) Revision History v2.9 (6-7-04) Additional info on Magoichi's and Mitsuhide's 5th weapon. v2.8 (5-31-04) Added two more fourth weapon retrieval tricks. Revisions throughout. v2.7 (5-27-04) Added more info on Edit Sword. Added another Fourth Weapon retrieval trick. v2.6 (5-13-04) Revised several of the 5th weapon conditions; added a Fourth Weapon retrieval trick. v2.5 (3-6-04) Added methods for Edit Sword and Naginata. Removed the "Not as Easy" 5th weapon retrieval trick as it could not be confirmed at this time. v2.1 (2-27-04) Corrections on Ranmaru's, Nouhime's 5th weapon. Added Edit weapons, added method for Spear. v2.0 (2-19-04) Much more specific info included about supply team movement and miscellaneous information. v1.0 (2-17-04) All weapon stats included. Expanded descriptions and tips. Will add Edit Characters in next revision. v0.8 (2-16-04) First version. Still missing exact supply team locations, some weapon stats. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Listing by Character --Sanada Yukimura --Akechi Mitsuhide --Oichi --Uesugi Kenshin --Hattori Hanzou --Takeda Shingen --Kunoichi --Mori Ranmaru --Nouhime --Oda Nobunaga --Maeda Keiji --Okuni --Ishikawa Goemon --Saika Magoichi --Date Masamune 3. Miscellaneous Tricks 4. Credits 1. INTRODUCTION This is an FAQ for Koei's action game Sengoku Musou, soon to-be-released in the United States under the name Samurai Warriors. This FAQ deals with the Level 5 weapons, unique weapons for each character that, like the fourth weapons in Shin Sangoku Musou 2 (Dynasty Warriors 3), have special attributes and elements attached to them, but can only be gotten through specific means. In Sengoku Musou, Level 5 weapons must be earned on Hard (難しい) difficulty. There is no need to use the hardest level, Hell (地獄). Thus to get these weapons your characters would theoretically need to be near maxed out, although there are ways around this (see the tricks section for details.) This FAQ makes use of SJIS encoding in order to display Japanese characters. I included this feature so that if you do not know Japanese, you can easily match up the characters on your TV screen to the characters in this guide. You will need to have support for viewing Japanese characters on your computer, however. Certain versions of Windows should have it built in; otherwise, you'll either need to get a program like NJStar Communicator, or you'll need to get Japanese character support for Internet Explorer (free from Microsoft) and open this file in IE instead of Notepad/Wordpad. 2. LISTING BY CHARACTER Each Level 5 weapon is listed here under who uses it, along with its elemental attribute and stats, and how to get it. Characters are listed in the order in which they appear in the manual. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SANADA YUKIMURA 真田幸村 Ensou Susanoo 炎槍素箋鳴 (Fire Lance "Susanoo") Stats: Base Attack 47 Fire Element Life +50 Musou +27 Attack +40 Defense +38 The basic requirement is defeating 1000 enemies in the Summer Campaign of Osaka (大坂夏の陣). Clear the following missions: luring the two generals in front of your cannons, destroying the enemy cannons, returning to home base, and preventing Date Masamune from entering the castle. At this point the mission to charge into enemy camp will show up; you should take this opportunity to defeat as many enemy generals as possible and build your kill count. Then charge into the enemy camp and continue towards 1000 opponents. A supply team will appear near the southwest of the map and head for the gate east of the castle; defeat the captain for the weapon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AKECHI MITSUHIDE 明智光秀 Reiken Futsumitama 霊剣布都御魂 (Sacred Sword "Futsumitama") Stats: Base Attack 47 Lightning Element Attack +42 Musou +37 Defense +46 Attack Radius +28 In the Battle of Yamazaki (山崎の戦い), upper version, first defeat Nakamura Kazuuji and the guard captains on Tennouzan 天王山. A mission will show up to assist Matsuda Masachika towards the south. Do so by defeating Nakagawa Kiyohide and Takayama Shigetomo. Now clear the Tennouzan of enemies quickly before the Maeda Keiji charge or enemy reinforcements events show up about five minutes into the battle; if you do so a supply team will appear near the enemy commander, heading towards the cave up north; defeat the captain for the weapon. You cannot let your guard captains on the Tennouzan die. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OICHI お市 Konohana Sakuya "Sakura" 木花開耶 桜 (Blooming Flowers "Cherry Blossom") Stats: Base Attack 45 Lightning Element Attack +44 Defense +39 Ranged Attack +39 Musou Gain +40 In the Battle of Anegawa (姉川の戦い), first defeat Tokugawa Ieyasu. Help your allies by defeating Ishikawa Kazumasa 石川数正 and Sakai Chuuji 酒井 忠次. Then defeat Akechi Mitsuhide and Maeda Keiji. Continue defeating enemy generals, then when Oichi says she wants to talk to her sister (in- law), head to the southeast part of the map, south of the river. Nouhime will show up - defeat her. Now with all your generals still alive, the army will charge. Nobunaga's three sub-generals will show up as reinforcements. Defeat them all and the supply team will appear towards the southwest of the map and move northwards. Defeat the captain for the weapon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ UESUGI KENSHIN 上杉謙信 Ama no Murakumo 天ムラ雲 (Heaven's Clouds) Stats: Base Attack 48 Ice Element Life +50 Ranged Attack +47 Mounted Attack +41 Movement +45 In the Mortal Enemy Battle of Kawanakajima (川中島宿敵戦), occupy Kaizujou 海津城, then return to your base and defeat Hattori Hanzou before he takes your camp. Head towards the region to the right and defeat Sanada Yukimura before he can retake Kaizujou. Retreat temporarily to your base. After reinforcements show up, head towards the withdrawal point in the west, then charge straight for the Takeda Shingen main camp within 1 minute once that missions shows up. The supply captain will show up on the east of the map and heads towards the north exit. Defeat the captain for the weapon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HATTORI HANZOU 服部半蔵 Inga Yomitsu 闇牙黄泉津 (Night Fang "Underworld") Stats: Base Attack 46 Night Element Musou +40 Ranged Attack +45 Movement +42 Jump +32 In the battle of Mikatagahara (三方ヶ原の戦い), the general objective is to withstand the Takeda army's battle formation. Once the stage starts, lure Naitou Toyomasa and Yamagata Masakage forward and defeat them. Then defeat Oyamada Nobushige, and immediately head towards Baba Nobufusa's location. Defeat him without letting Hirote Hirohide get defeated. Anayama Nobukimi and Takeda Katsuyori will come towards you, defeat them as well. You can't let any of your allies be defeated. Infiltrate the enemy camp using the ninja route, then take all the enemy gates and the supply team will appear. They appear slightly to the east of your home camp and head west. Defeat the captain for the weapon. Shingen will start retreating once you take all of the gates, so it might be prudent to wait until your allies are close to his camp before taking the last gate to get in his way. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TAKEDA SHINGEN 武田信玄 Tenson Kourin 天孫降臨 (Heavenly Descendent) Stats: Base Attack 49 Fire Element Defense +45 Mounted Attack +45 Mounted Defense +43 Attack Radius +50 In the Mortal Enemy Battle of Kawanakajima (川中島宿敵戦), follow the missions to take the temple in the northwest by defeating the general and sealing the gate there. Then defend Chausuyama by defeating Date Masamune when he attacks it. Then protect the fortress towards the west by defeating Hattori Hanzou. Defeat Maeda Keiji, and then defeat Kenshin's generals until he has less than six left. You will get a message to charge into Kenshin's camp by yourself; do so in 1 minute and the supply team will show up. The supply team will appear near Keiji's original position, moving towards the temple; defeat the captain for the weapon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ KUNOICHI くのいち Kushinada 琥死那蛇 (Kushinada) Stats: Base Attack +45 Ice Element Life +37 Musou +45 Ranged Defense +49 Jump +29 In the Rescue of Ueda Castle (上田城救出戦), reach the fifth floor in less than 3 minutes 45 seconds, without defeating any enemies. A precious item report will appear; go to the northwest, and the weapon will be in one of the rooms there. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MORI RANMARU 森蘭丸 Shinken Kamudo 神剣カムド (Heavenly Sword "Kamudo") Stats: Base Attack 48 Ice Element Defense +40 Ranged Defense +48 Movement +40 Musou Gain +25 In the Revolt of Honnouji, (本能寺の変), prevent the fire attack from happening, now stop in fron tof the south gate and continue defeating enemies, not letting any in. The supply team will appear near your location; defeat the captain for the weapon. It appears from the gatepoint just south of the temple and heads for the east gate. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NOUHIME 濃姫 Hiruko 蛭好 (Hiruko) Stats: Base Attack 46 Night Element Life +28 Defense +49 Movement +35 Attack Radius +43 In the Revolt of Honnouji (-{能寺の変) (it must be the upper path version), run up to Nobunaga and defeat him within five minutes. Head east from your starting location and loop around once the doors open. Leave the temple from the west door; the supply team will appear on the west of the map, moving towards the exit point in the southeast. Defeat the captain for the weapon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ODA NOBUNAGA 織田信長 Orochi no Aramasa 蛇之鹿正 (Aramasa of Orochi) Stats: Base Attack 48 Night Element Musou +45 Attack +26 Mounted Attack +49 Attack Radius +35 In the Battle of Okehazama (桶狭間の戦い), defeat the two front-line guards of the Imagawa army. A mission will show up to assist Hideyoshi 秀吉, but ignore it and let him be defeated. Now defeat Imagawa's generals until he has two left. Hanzou will show up and run towards the enemy base as support; get to the base first and the supply team will show up near the southwest, near Hideyoshi's original location. Defeat the captain for the weapon. Hanzou is extremely fast so you'll probably want a horse (preferably Matsukaze). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MAEDA KEIJI 前田慶次 Ama no Nuboko 天之珠鉾 (Jewelled Halberd of Heaven) Stats: Base Attack 50 Lightning Element Life +50 Attack +46 Mounted Attack +44 Musou Gain +25 In the Test of Kawanakajima (川中島腕試し), defeat all enemy generals and subgenerals except for the commander. The supply team will show up in the southwest and head towards the north exit point. Defeat the captain for the weapon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OKUNI 阿国 Hikage Ame no Uzume 日影天金田女 (Sunlight "Ame no Uzume") Stats: Base Attack 46 Fire Element Defense +41 Ranged Attack +33 Jump +49 Attack Radius +37 In the Dance of Ise Nagashima (伊勢長島の舞), stick to Goemon as he runs around the map, and defeat Mori Ranmaru, Akechi Mitsuhide, and Hattori Hanzou. The supply team will show up near near the center fort and head towards the northwest exit. At this point you can leave Goemon; defeat the captain for the weapon. You'll probably want Matsukaze to catch up. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISHIKAWA GOEMON 石川五右衛門 Gourai Takemikazuchi 轟雷建御雷 (Roaring Thunder "Takemikazuchi") Stats: Base Attack 49 Lightning Element Life +49 Ranged Defense +27 Movement +49 Avoidance +36 In the Invasion of Osaka Castle (大坂城無断進入), find three treasures on the first floor so you can move to the second (you don't need to beat Kunoichi). Once in the second floor, you will get a mission to check all of the rooms. Do so in five minutes and the precious item report will appear. The weapon will be in the room just in front of the stairs up. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SAIKA MAGOICHI 雑賀孫一 Gokuen Kaguzuchi 獄焔火具土 (Hellfire "Kaguzuchi") Stats: Base Attack 47 Fire Element Attack +43 Ranged Attack +50 Ranged Defense +41 Attack Radius +43 In the "Defense of Echizen" (越前防衛戦), defeat Shibata Katsuie 柴田勝家 and Sakuma Nobumori 佐久間信盛 within 2 minutes. When the mission comes to snipe at Akechi Mitsuhide from the right of the screen, succeed; then when Hattori Hanzou comes out to look for you, successfully hide from him (run around the map avoiding him). Finally help your allies in escaping from the map; they're in the northeast. All five of them must successfully escape. A supply team will appear near the center of the map, close to the leftmost guard point of the ones lined up in the southwest, and it will head for the empty gate (the one with no gate captain) straight north from Mitsuhide's starting position; defeat the captain to gain the item. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DATE MASAMUNE 伊達正宗 Raden Mikaboshi 螺細三日星 (Periwinkle "Mikaboshi") Stats: Base Attack 46 Ice Element Attack +45 Mounted Attack +35 Musou Gain +32 Attack Radius +39 In the Intrusion of Honnouji (本能寺乱入), arrive at the temple before Mitsuhide. Defeat Mitsuhide's generals, then defeat Mitsuhide himself. Now defeat all of Nobunaga's generals and subgenerals. Complete all this without any of your own generals having lost and the supply team will appear in the temple, running for Nobunaga's exit point. Defeat the captain to pick up the weapon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EDIT CHARACTER (SWORD) Douji Kiriyasutsuna 童子切安綱 Douji Killer Stats: Base Attack 46 Fire Element Musou +47 Attack +44 Defense +38 Attack Radius +46 In the third stage, Battle of Nagashino 長篠の戦い, fulfill the following. This is one of the trickiest weapons to get, and you'll likely have to have the Matsukaze or another fast horse, and you'll have to save often. --first clear Nagashino castle (the northeast area) of enemies. --try to defeat as many of the following as possible (this isn't necessary, but it will make your life easier)" Takigawa Kazumasu, Maeda Katsuie, Niwa Nagahide, Shibata Katsuie, and the rifle units in center. --once reinforcements appear near your home base, defeat them (as per the mission) as quickly as possible. --Maeda Keiji will begin his charge. QUICKLY get close to him before the fail-mission message, but don't worry about defeating him. --once your home base falls, your commander will begin retreating. If everything was done right, he should retreat to the southeast. By now somebody will probably defeat your general Baba Nobufusa 馬場伸房; Maeda Keiji will say something, and at this point the supply team will appear in the lower right, heading for the gate in the upper right of the screen. Defeat the supplyteam captain for the weapon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EDIT CHARACTER (SPEAR) Tonbokiri 蜻蛉切 Dragonfly Killer Stats: Base Attack 48 Lightning Element Life +41 Mounted Attack +50 Mounted Defense +39 Jump +32 In the final stage, Summer Campaign of Osaka (Upper Version), complete all the missions as given. Namely, first lure the two sub-generals to in front of the castle's cannon, then destroy the opposition's own mobile cannons. Assist Sanada Yukimura in returning to home base, then defeat Date Masamune before he can invade the castle. Assist Sanada's charge on the enemy camp, guard him while he's ambushed, and when the gates finally open, charge in to the camp yourself before Sanada does. The supply team will appear in the southwest and head for the exit point east of Osaka Castle. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EDIT CHARACTER (NAGINATA) Benkei Iwatooshi 弁慶岩融 Benkei's Rocksplitter Stats: Base Attack 47 Night Element Ranged Attack +42 Ranged Defense +49 Movement +48 Musou Gain +30 In the first stage, Battle of Okehazama 桶狭間の戦い, defeat all enemy generals and subgenerals except Nobunaga before he charges your home base. You'll definitely want a saddle (preferably Matsukaze) for this one as your time is extremely limited. The supply team will appear near Oda's home base; defeat the captain for the weapon. 3. MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS EASY FIFTH WEAPON RETREIVAL This is a bug that was in the Japanese release of the game. It has apparently been removed in the US release. To get any 5th level weapon, utilize the following bug. Pick the person whose weapon you want to get as 1P; now pick Kunoichi as 2P. Play her Rescue of Ueda Castle (上田城救出戦) scenario, and follow the conditions needed to get her 5th weapon (reaching the last floor under five minutes). There will be a precious item report; simply head down the path and then go into the west room for the weapon. You'll get the weapon, but instead of Kunoichi's it will be your 1P character's weapon. On the last floor you're supposed to protect Sanada Yukimura, but this isn't necessary; after he loses a certain amount of health he'll withdraw and you'll win, so you don't even have to build up your characters to accomplish this. Note that in order to trigger the precious item report your chosen 1P character must enter the stairway from the fourth to the fifth floor. If your chosen character is very slow, I suggest using Kunoichi to pass the first three floors and then your chosen character to complete the fourth and fifth, which are comparatively short. Another notable point is that if you're not doing this with two people, your chosen character may get attacked by enemies on the first and third floors. Try putting Amaterasu no Tama 天照珠 and Himiko no Fu 卑弥呼符 on your character to raise Life and Defense respectively. If you're still having trouble making the five minute deadline, equip Tengu Geta 天狗下駄 to raise speed, and the Hachiman Bell 八幡鈴 and Onmyou Candle 陰陽手燭 if you have them to reveal the entire castle map and the location of any traps. EASY GOOD FOURTH WEAPON RETRIEVAL Since the bonuses on the fourth weapons are random, it's quite possible to get a fourth weapon that's actually better than your fifth. To get some good fourth ones, set the difficulty to Hell (Chaos) and play Kunoichi's fourth stage (Rescue of Ueda Castle again...) You don't need to beat anybody so don't worry about not surviving; there's at least one treasure box on every floor, so if you equip the Annai Ningyou you can scout out where the boxes are. Some will contain weapons and some items, but by the time you get through the entire stage you should have retrived four weapons; it's just a matter of luck on their bonuses. BETTER GOOD FOURTH WEAPON RETRIEVAL If you're more confident in your ability to fight on Hell (Chaos) difficulty, try Okuni's 5th stage, Dance of Azuchi Castle. The following locations have weapons (and while you're at it, items): 1st Floor --the room immediately to the northeast of your starting point --Mori Yoshinari (item) --far west room (item) 2nd Floor --eastern section (room with two boxes) 3rd Floor --far west (item) --center of spiral staircase 4th Floor --far east --Saza Narimasa (item) --Takigawa Kazumasu 5th Floor --north of exit This will give you 6 weapons. You don't have to beat most of the enemies, but you do need to survive so this is not recommended for starting characters. BETTER GOOD FOURTH WEAPON RETRIEVAL, AGAIN This method has the advantage of being able to get both weapons and items at the same time; the strategy is the same as the Good Items Retrieval trick in my Items FAQ. Set the difficulty to Hell and play Goemon's fifth stage (upper), Goemon's Rampage. This uses the exact same map as Honnouji so use the above. You'll be guaranteed eight items, and there are also five generals who drop weapons: Kurota Junpei, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Hattori Hanzou, Kunoichi, and Sanada Yukimura. Work your way counterclockwise around the perimeter, assist Keiji when he shows up. Then when Okuni shows up, go down and save her from Kunoichi quickly. Once you take out all the generals on the outside, head inside and loop around the outer perimeter of the temple and clear that of enemies as well. At this point save; then collect all 8 of the items and take on Hideyoshi in the center. If you don't get what you want, soft reset and try again. Again, Senrigan and Kappa Amulet will help. Since this is a fifth stage and not a third like Mitsuhide's, you'll have a higher chance of getting those elusive +50s. BEST GOOD FOURTH WEAPON RETRIEVAL The best (i.e. fastest) but also unquestionably the hardest method of getting 4th weapons is using Date Masamune's Intrustion at Honnouji (5th stage upper). The trick here is using the fact that weapon boxes never disappear. There are 7 generals who drop weapon boxes here; what you want to do is defeat them all in the same general area, to the west of the temple. Then one they've all dropped their weapons, save, collect them all, and then defeat Nobunaga. Once again Kappa Amulet/Discern are necessary. You'll have to be pretty buffed up already to survive this stage on the highest difficulty. 4. CREDITS Thanks go to: Koei and Omega Force for the incredibly addictive game. Sengoku Musou Kanzen Kouryaku (http://pikkee7.hp.infoseek.co.jp/) and Natsu no Omoide (http://www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown-Part/8350/) and http://homepage3.nifty.com/high_piyo/musou1s_top.htm for much of the information in this guide. This FAQ Copyright 2004 to Edward Chang. Redistribution in any form, including reprinting in electronic or print media, without express permission of the author is strictly forbidden.