Noif’s Bows (Brown and Black version)
If you’re like me, you’re not exactly a fan of how the majority of bow units across Shogun 2 and its DLCs have the same black-striped, red-colored bows. While they’re not ahistorical or anything, I think they contrast too much with the units themselves, but luckily years ago, prominent Shogun 2 modder Noif made three reskins for the bows, which look much nicer and better represent the average look of the bows in Medieval and Early Modern Era Japan.
Sadly, Noif himself has long since retired from modding, and due to the nature of TWCenter, only the Brown/Black variant was recovered. I’ve decided to share it here because people rarely use TWCenter to download mods nowadays and because I think these small reskins deserve more exposure.
The original Total War Center thread:
https://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?576747-Noif-s-Bows
Bow Ashigaru
Bow Cavalry
Bow Hero
Bow Ronin
Bow Samurai
Bow Wako
Bow Warrior Monks
Hattori Bandits
+ Garrison and Dojo variants
(Chosokabe Daikyu Samurai and Yoritomo’s Yabusame Cavalry have unique/non-red bows by default).
Bow Attendants
Bow Levy
Bow Warrior Monks
Foot Samurai
General’s Bodyguard
Mounted Samurai
Mounted Samurai Hero
+ Garrison variants
Bow Kachi
Bow Ki
Samurai Hero
Any ships containing archers will also be affected.
Any custom units that use the default red bows should be affected as well.
Noif – the original creator; all the work was done by him, I simply reuploaded it for more people to enjoy.
Moloch – for helping me get a hold of the packfile itself, allowing me to convert it to a proper format and upload it.
(I will upload proper screenshots at a later date.)
