The Dragon Guard of Watatsumi
Author note: If you run into any issues here, run this mod FIRST in your load-order.
Example of bug = Recruiting more than 1. I have capped this unit to 1 max as any other hero unit so if you can recruit more, other mods are causing this interferance.
"A song of battle! devoted to the Red Guard of the Dragon has begun!" https://youtu.be/nMgUTJo0wPM?t=6450
THE SHOGUN… has sent word! The sound of fiery pyres, stretching from Kyoto to Mount Fuji. The Dragon Guard… has been called to battle!
Deep inside the mountain, the inhumane beings that used to be most loyal and skilled of samurai dwell, devoted to wielding the fiersome flame of Watatsumi, the Dragon God of old Japan. Only the fiercest, and bravest… will be up to the task. Because it will come at the cost of ones very humanity to carry the very incarnation of fiery doom, in the name of the Shogunate! Such power… and such evil, in the name of order… has a heavy price! But one these loyal warriors gladly pay!
The Shogun… has called once again. And you… will all… BURN! Yakedo o ou! (maniacal, inhumane japanese laughter)
NONE… may challenge the Shogun! BURN IN THE FIRES OF THE DRAGON GOD!
Beware… The Dragon Guard… comes!
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Work in progress unit: The unit is fully functional, and balanced quite well with the exception of its flamethrowing capabilities which for the sake of fun have been limited to 4 rounds of ammunition which is because this unit will annihilate anything in its path.
I’m open to suggestions as to further balancing but I feel I’ve done what I can throughout the 3 days of testing.
Believe it or not, its not easy to balance a flamethrower. Haha.
The unit itself is overwriting the Shimazu heavy gunners. Simply because. No other reason than the convenience of building on existing features. To recruit it you need an Arsenal + iron resource. I added this because I dont want the AI to spam it easily. The unit can be killed but if used properly or catches you off guard it’ll effectively ruin your entire day 😀
Figuratively it goes without saying that this is not historically accurate. Its just a fun, crazy unit because I felt like it.
I did however use a bit of mythological history to have it fit in but thats it. 95 % fantasy. As far as I know anyway.
The unit is incredibly dangerous. Its the kind of unit you send in when you want someone really…♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ F’ing dead. It has more armor than any other unit in the game, although not to broken extends. It can die ofc. It is bulletproof, it can resist quite the amount of arrow fire (except from hero archers which naturally do more damage) and this is because the flamethrower range is 50 yards.
I’ve set it to 50 for the following 4 reasons.
Nr 1: Byzantine greek fire flamethrowers in the 15th century were 15 yards max. That wont work in this game.
WW2 flamethrowers however could fire up to 50 yards (minus tank flamethrowers)
Why is this a correlation? Because I’ve not seen the flamethrower on the field of battle in between those 2 periods (minus ww1. I think)
nr 2: Visual purposes. Looks ridiculous to have large beams of flame fire over 100 yards. Well.. in my own personal opinion ofc. Feel free to mod this anyway you wsh. Just my preference.
Nr 3: In-game balancing. I dont want enemy units to get annihilated before getting up close with a chance to fight back or take some shots because this unit will literally murder anything it gets into contact with as long as it has ammo. The flames are armor-piercing = Damage goes through multiple ranks. Which is also why I’ve added some spread to the unit so that projectiles will miss their target to prevent …overly… insane kill ratios. But thatll happen anyway in tight quarters haha.
nr 4: I just find it more fun when the unit is up close and personal and then gets freaking MELTED with a colossal wave of flame incinerating their existence… and thereby officially ruining their day.
Other than that. The unit is a bit weaker in damage than katana hero, but has a little more defense. So its not stronger or weaker than other hero units, minus the flame. But perfectly able to hold its own and slaughter hundreds of Ashigaru or samurai.
The unit can be recruited from all available player factions as well.
And if anyone wants to make edits. By all means go right on ahead and do what you want.
The unit uses various models from my primary mod = The Shoguns Samurai Elite most of the credits on that will apply to the work I’ve assembled here.
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Specific credits I will include in this description are as follows:
Scopeh who’s present across most of my mods. Unique boshin red Oni ninja model.. Absolute masterpiece.
suomen-SuurRuhtinas. This talented modder made the framework of this mods flamethrowing potential. You can find the original mod which inspired me here= https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=845610484
Furthermore I will credit Bullgod for his oustanding models that I’ve used quite a bit here (and always) and of course the outstanding ninja mod from Scopeh who built upon the mega awesome boshin ninja models.
Lastly, credit for the picture used goes to the superb artist, HereticTemplar on Deviantart = https://www.deviantart.com/heretictemplar/art/Flamethrower-Samurai-204800077
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If you wish to know how to make edits to this mods or others, refer to my original main mod = Shoguns Elite for a tutorial. Its at the bottom of that mods description and has a link that takes you to a thread which contains a whole lotta info + walkthrough thatll give you a clear idea of how baseline shogun 2 modding works (including editing)
Enjoy the mod everyone.
And as always, make sure to make backups of your work if you mod this mod yourself, because I may apply updates sometimes if I rebalance things, or add more gear pieces.
"thick japanese accent:" The Shogun has sent out the call… You… WILL… Burn…! Anata wa moerudeshou! Uragirimono yo!!*
And no, I didn’t create this because GOT is around the corner. But the fact that it IS… only serves to make gaming pyromaniacs (like myself) hunger for the opportunity to BURN some traitors and fools that dare defy our empires!
Enjoy, fellas and fellarettes!
