[Premark: The combat balancing has been the initial focus and base of the starting S2R modding project, with some (small) campaign balancing changes. The S2R+ modification goes heavily into depth, offers a whole new battle and especially campaign experience] # Battle balancing: Battles are more realistic, last longer (but not too long), the mod makes the fantastic martial art animations viewable. # Battle balancing: Samurai and Monk Warriors show proper elite skills without being uber units. Ashigaru progress to proper soldiers within the campaign.
Total War: Shogun 2 is the seventh installment in the Total War series, and will return to the values of 16th century Japan first war game Shogun: Total War, after a series of games set mainly in Europe. The game was released on March 15, 2011 for Microsoft Windows.
# Unit additions: 40 units have been added (for balancing purposes and increased realism), this is including the AUM-Sho custom units. Ownership dependent on faction.
# Flavour: Japanese derived unit names for a better immersion into the period. # Campaign balancing: Buildings and arts deeply modified (properties, requirements, impacts changed for more realism and challenge). # Campaign balancing: Factions develop properly, survive longer, minor factions don't steamroll over majors anymore. # Campaign balancing: Restructured cashflow, the game shall be a financial challenge throughout the campaign. # Campaign balancing: AI shows a less unrealistic behaviour and acts smarter. # Campaign balancing: Cultural influences (via buddhist, ikko, catholic factors) play actually a relevant role. # Campaign balancing: A revamped unit recruitment system, besides gameplay decisions also with a focus on historical realism consideration.
Special features: # Since v1.98 customised/implemented content: - Universal AI mod (UAI) # Since v1.99.5 customised/implemented content: - Additional Units Mod (AUM-Sho), custom units mod # Since v2.4 implemented content: - No Red Border mod, battle borders invisible Note: Do not use those mods listed above separately, if you play S2R+, disable them while playing S2R+. Also see the 'Other Mods' section below. Preparation: S2R+ is at best to use with - TWS2 Limited Edition - Ikko Ikko DLC - Sengoku Jidai DLC - CA's patches (latest updates) *** S2R+ Installation: Use the download-link at the bottom of the post. It needs winzip or winrar or 7zip installed on your system (7zip is perfect and fully free to get via internet-search) to decompress the file ie. Onto your desktop. Decompressed, you'll get a folder Shogun2Realism+ which includes the S2R+.pack mod file and txt files (readme, changelog, credits).
Download the zip file. Extract it onto the desktop or elsewhere. Open the extracted S2R+ folder. Bible explorer 40 limited edition. (edit: not used, just only pack file now) 4. Copy and paiste the S2R+.pack file into the TW Shogun 2 data folder.