It offers a completely different gaming experience. After that this guide contains more general directions for the rest of the campaign. The #1 fansite for Total War: Shogun 2, with up-to-date news, articles, and a friendly gaming, designing.

In order to closely mirror real historical combat the Total War series uses a high number of parameters where someone new can easily get lost in or be unaware of. Still, it deserves a mention because it’s still connected to Shogun 2, and it came with its own set of DLC, which would be hard to talk about without talking about the main game.Set 400 years after the time period of Shogun II, Fall of the Samurai covers one of Japan’s defining moments – the Meji Restoration (Japans first major step into becoming a modernised global power). These units range from foot soldiers to hand gunners, warrior monks to mounted samurai. You have a total of six (seven if you bought through Steam) factions to choose from, split between the Pro-Emperor and the Pro-Shogunate faction, and everything from clan management, to naval warfare, to agents and even multiplayer has been changed. The consequence of this is that dishonourable actions by either party will show up in the relationship between those two clans.Ĭreative Assembly have been very aggressive with DLC for the Total War series, and never more so than in the case of Total War: Shogun 2.

Shogun 2 hero units