
The Matsumae domain is a faction in Fall of the Samurai.
General Information[]
Matsumae is arguably the strongest faction at the beginning of the campaign: it controls the entirety of Hokkaido, with a total of five provinces: Sapporo, Shiribeshi, Hiyama, Oshima, and Iburi. It often invades neighboring Hirosaki, which is initially at war with it. Due to its number of provinces and remoteness, it almost always survives the majority of the campaign unless the player specifically targets it.
The Matsumae are initially pro-Shogunate, but they often change allegiances and/or attack the other shogunate factions in the region, especially if the player controls one of the factions nearby. The Jozai, Aizu, and particularly Sendai domains have reason to fear the Matsumae, who is unafraid to send invasion forces to trouble any coastal region and requires a protracted effort to eliminate.