FOTS Intimidating Samurai
In the Fots experience, modern units are wholly superior to traditional units. Well positioned rifle-armed units will destroy melee units in pitched battles.
In terms of the effectiveness of guns, this is obviously the correct balance, however I always felt that the balance to this system was off, both from a game perspective but also a historical perspective.
You, as a modern person sitting comfortably at a computer, know that your rifle-armed peasants make for a fearsome army that would wipe the floor with sword and spear-wielding traditionalist samurai.
But your peasant soldiers shouldn’t know that. Your conscript peasant farmers should be absolutely trembling in their boots at the sight of the fearsome professional samurai warriors who fight for enemy warlords.
In order to correct this imbalance, I have given all traditional, professional fots units the unit abilities ‘banzai’ and ‘warcry’, allowing terrifying charges into the ranks of gun-toting conscript troops (and adding greater importance of elite and western infantry who have superior morale).
From the Shogun 2 encyclopedia:
"Banzai!" is a battle cry used by no-dachi samurai that increases the speed and violence of their charge and melee attack, whilst active. Banzai also freezes the attacking unit’s morale for the duration of the effect.
The war cry is used by all warrior monk units and heroes to strike fear into the hearts of their enemies. When activated, the war cry greatly lowers the morale, movement speed and defensive capabilities of nearby enemy units.
Seems to be save-game compatible.
Note that the Fots tech tree by default locks the Banzai ability to researching the T1 military technology Shih.
Full list of changes below.
unit_to_unit_abilities_junctions:
Boshin_Inf_Spear_Yari_Kachi:
banzai
warcry
Boshin_Inf_Sword_Katana_Kachi:
banzai
warcry
Boshin_Inf_Sword_Shogitai:
warcry
Boshin_Inf_Missile_Bow_Kachi:
banzai
warcry
Boshin_Inf_Missile_Matchlock_Kachi:
banzai
warcry
Boshin_Cav_Missile_Samurai_Hero:
banzai
warcry
Boshin_Cav_Missile_Bow_Ki:
banzai
warcry
Boshin_Cav_Spear_Yari_Ki:
banzai
warcry
Boshin_Gen_Generals_Hatamoto:
banzai
warcry
