Fall of Samurai: Head to Head Campaign Mod
It removes all the factions from the map except for 2 and customizes the experience for direct head-to-head campaign against a single opponent.
Gets the barely functional diplomacy and boring early game out of the way so you can get straight to the meat of the game Total War.
Less is more: Only 2 real factions exist on the map. The Imperials (Player 1) and The Shogunate (Player 2). With 2 types of rebels. Imperial Rebels & Shogunate Rebels respectively.
AI removed: Rebels can not produce units having only garrisons and generals. They function as a neutral zone meatshield that are designed to be expanded into. Balancing aggression towards your opponent against cannibalizing Rebel regions is the core of the early game and allows for good replay ability with many different openers.
Agents Overhaul: Hostile Agent actions have been disabled and more power was shifted to their supportive and intelligence gathering abilities. This removes RNG and keeps the focus on winning battles on the field. Tech tree, skill trees, traits and ancillaries completely overhauled to account for this change, as well as the now redundancy of diplomacy. This removes RNG from the game, prevents cheese, and helps with game pacing.
Balanced, as all things should be: Factions are near identical. No one has any special advantage. The only meaningful difference is between the Ishinshishi agent and the Shinsengumi agent and the hope is to patch that out or balance it to the point of near irrelevance. In a Chess game both players have the same pieces.
This a Campaign designed for a direct head to head fight, with all the best parts of the game upfront and the worst parts of it removed. No more flawed diplomacy with its stupid player bias. No more agent spam exploiting RNG. No more boring early game of going through the motions to get an empire of the ground.
Now you start with one, and contend with one, at turn 1.
Known Buggs:
:Faction traits screen is bugged but faction effects are working as intended, its purely visual.
Built for PvP but works solo.
