

Now, the Samurai shall know true fear, as they are replaced by those they saw with disdain and disgust! With this Mod, 8 new models are added into the game, turning all units the Hattori can recruit (Monk units are left alone however) into Shinobi! This means that units from the lowly yet dependable Yari Ashigaru to the crew of the mighty and powerful Nihon Maru have their regular unit models replaced by Shinobi! So, imo, Tokugawa are the weakest faction since you don't get to make any calls of your own and you need to provoke your lord-clan into attacking you (otherwise you lose honor and as such your diplomacy goes down) having no really useful boni.So, it's quite wide-known that the Hattori clan conists of Shinobi (Ninjas) and folk who have kisho training.īut, would you like to take it even further? To throw off the masks of the Samurai and fight not as one of them, but as a Shinobi? To proclaim the appearance of your clan from the shadows of the Shogun and not just take over Japan, but establish a new rising order composed of the shadows and those who wield it?! Read: it is worse than the vanilla version (less ammo and same stats) but unlike the Hattori they don't get forward-deployment on their ashigarus.

Like the Hattori their special unit is bugged. Those being an increased succes chance for metsuke (+2% so nothing to write home about) and increased diplomacy (yay). Not starting as a sovereign clan and only having 2 bonuses that matter in any way. Would be useful for faster army-shipping though.Īnd now we have the Tokugawa. well they are only here because I never found their boni to be very useful. That said: The moment you get past, I guess, ~turn 10 thing should get easier especially since you should be able to flood your enemies with ashigarus if you focused on your economy. well let me say I was afraid to leave my capital. I had games where only 1 clan at a time declared war and ones were. That and the fact that your mid- and late-game armies can be absolute monsters (armorsmith + armorer say hi) and that in early game you can still use monks as long as they are shielded from arrows. However I would rule both of them out because you have a gigantic advantage when it come to research: You can ignore large parts of the war-tree. Ikkos are one the list due to 2 reasons: their ashigarus are weaker iirc and they, just like the Uesugi, specialize in monks aka the most expensive troops. The candidates are imo Ikko Ikki, Uesugi, maybe Oda + Mori and the Tokugawa I will assume vanilla for my reasoning btw.
