This bugs me a little, because in Shogun 2, without any agents speeding up research it is highly likely that before going through the entire tree (or trees, because there are civil and military technology branches), the campaign would have ended in victory or defeat. There are buildings in some provinces that have the ability to speed up research but it is not imperative.

In Shogun 2, technological research are conducted without any buildings required to be constructed, nor are there any agents that can speed research up, unlike Napoleon and Empire when “gentlemen” do these kinds of work. Firstly, technological research in this game proved to be a surprise for me. The Technology Treeīut let me start with some quirks of the game that I find curious. This was the first time in my acquaintance with the franchise that I tried a campaign set in the (late) Medieval period, as well as experiencing a Medieval mode of battle, and it proved to be something of a shock.

Let’s begin with the main campaign, depicting the Sengoku Jidai - or Age of the Warring States - between 15.

Total fall of the samurai mod