shogun 2 Multiplayer retainer and armour set list

Hi guys.

Rather than charge head first into the game, thought I'd write all the retainer info down so those not able to play shogun can think on their selections later on. These are copied off the game's mouse over text for each one. Please forgive spelling mistakes and such.

List will be alphabetical except for the starting retainers and the clan specialization retainer. As we [TWC] are sword specialized, I can't say what the other three are, prob very similar to the sword bonus but for other units, but will leave a blank space for them for now.

Limited edition - I think it's the Ill Omen retainer that would normally come with an armour set unlock.

Clan specialism - Sword training network: Reduce sword casualties. Increased clan influence gain
Clan specialism - Reduce spear casualties. Increased clan influence gain (Credit to daniu for this)
Clan specialism - Reduce archer casualties. Increased clan influence gain (Credit to daniu for this)
Clan specialism - Reduce cavalry casualties. Increased clan influence gain (Credit to daniu for this)

Name of retainer: actual bonus (how to unlock) map meaning found on map. arm meaning it needs the following armour set. Some are linked to building chains found on the map, some to achievements and some are post battle random drops.

Huntsmen: +2 accuracy for Bow ashi (starting retainer)
Light horse stud: +1 melee attack for light cav (starting retainer)
Straw practice dummy: +1 melee attack for loan-sword ashi (starting retainer)
Wooden practice spears: +1 melee defense for yari ashi (starting retainer)
Drill square: +3 melee defense all sword infantry (map)
Bad omen: -1 morale all enemy ashi (arm. goldfish scale)
Bandit horse thieves: -5 charge bonus for enemy cavalry (map)
Blade master: +3 attack for sword infantry (arm. blade master)
Blind bow sensei: +5 accuracy all bow units (map)
Camp sickness: Reduced speed for enemy misile infantry (arm. Naoe Kanetsugu)
Cold snap: Reduce enemy bow unit reload speed (map)
Damp powder: Reduce enemy matchlock reload speed (map)
European Gunsmith: +5 accuracy all matchlock units (teppo range building chain)
European horsetrader: +5% speed for cavalry (map)
Expert gun instructor: +5 accuracy for matchlock units **need to check notes again
Famous armoury: +1 armour for all melee infantry (map)
Forage parties: Increased fatigue resistance for all cavalry (map)
Garden of convalescence: 2 most damaged veteran units fully heal before next battle (map)
Geisha poisoner: Increase enemy avatar cooldowns by 10% Cancels effect of enemy wizened sage retainer (sake den building chain)
Gokamon bodyguard: +5 melee defense for avatar (arm. Oda Nobunaga)
Gosha Odosana samurai priest: Avatar slight decreased morale of enemy units in vicinity (arm. Tokugawa Leyasu)
Hero worshiping boy: +2Hp fpr avatar (arm. Hosokawa Tadakoi)
Infantry officer: +1 morale all samurai melee infantry (arm. honda tadakatsu)
Inspiring orator: -10% recruitment cost for ashi units (map)
Kacchu-Mochi armour bearer: +3 armour for Avatar (arm. Toyotomi Hideyoshi)
Legendary item - Dragonfly cutting spear: +5 to charge, +5 vs cavalry for Avatar (drop)
Legendary item - Flawless mount Okage: +15 speed for avatar (drop)
Legendary item - Hachiman Crest: avatar aura radius increased, rally spell cooldown decreased (drop)
Legendary item - Heavenly banner: +1 morale for all units (drop)
Legendary item - Hideous Menpo Mask: avatar -3 morale and causes fear in enemy units ** (not quite sure who gets -3 morale, your av or the enemy :() (drop)
Legendary item - Kawari Kabuto Helm: +10 melee defense for Avatar (drop)
Legendary item - Kabuto of the Shogun: +2Hp +2 armour for Avatar (requires Shogun achievement)
Legendary item - Masterwork Do-Maru armour: +2 armour for avatar (drop)
Legendary item - Masterwork Kote arm guards: +2 armour for avatar (drop)
Legendary item - Tebkagoken Sword: +10 melee attack for Avatar (drop)
Lightweight Gunjingura war saddle: +5% speed for all cavalry (arm. multicoloured laced)
Livestock pestilence: Reduce speed for enemy cavalry (map)
Loyal Fuda-Shu retainers: +2hp for avatar (arm. Uesugi Kenshin)
Metsuke Inspector: Avatar rally also causes -1 morale for enemy units in radius. Cancels effects of enemy shinobi retainer (map)
Mikoshi Portable shrine: +2 melee attack for all monks (arm. multicoloured laced)
Military storehouse: Increases fatigue resistance for all melee infantry (map)
Mochiyari gumi spear bearer: +5 charge bonus for avatar (arm. Kawari Kabuto)
Mouldy feed stocks: Reduce fatigue resistance for enemy cavalry (arm. catfish tail)
Mounted scout: Increased ability to spot hidden units (arm. Maeda Toshie)
Ninja Jonin: allows field of kisho ninjas (sake den chain)
Open basketwork quivers: +5 ammo for bow units (map)
Ox carts: Allows to feild 1 seige engine (comes with first siege unit unlock)
Practice grounds: +2 melee attacl to all melee cavalry (map)
Productive rice paddies: +1 morale for ashi units (map)
Sage advisor: All unit cooldowns reduced by 1%. Cancels effect of enemy geisha poisoner retainer (map)
Sake peddler: -5 enemy missile accuracy (map)
Scroll of inspirational verse: +3 melee attack for avatar (arm. Sparse point laced)
Shinobi informer: Reveals deployment of non hidden units. Cancels effect of enemy wizened monk retainer (sake den chain)
Shogun's emissary: allows player to feild great guard unit (stables chain)
Short sighted inspectors: Reduced reload on enemy seige weapons (map)
Skilled weaponsmith: +1 melee for all melee infantry (map)
Spoiled rations: Reduced fatigue resistance for all enemy melee infantry (arm. Itakura Katsushiga)
Sticky fingered storemaster: -10% ammo for enemy bow units (map)
Supply wagon: +5 ammo for all missile units (arm silver scale cuirass)
Surgeon: Proportion of unit casualties healed after battle (map)
Target range: +5 accuracy for bow units (map)
Tetsu-bishi caltrops: +3 vs cavalry for spear and missile infantry (arm. kato kiyomasa)
Trading post: -5% recruitment for all units (map)
Uma-I horse doctor: +5 avatar speed (arm. Ichinotani)
Uma-Jirushi Nobori standard bearer: +2 morale for avatar (arm. morning glory)
Unbalance spears: -5 melee defense for enemy spear (arm. tripple hollyhock)
Untrained fugu cook: -2 melee defense for all enemy melee infantry (map)
Water carrier: Increased fatigue resistance (map)
Wizened monk: -1 morale enemy avatar, 1+ morale for your avatar, cancels enemy metsuke inspector retainer (map)
Yabusami master: +5 accuracy, +5 reload skill for avatar (arm. Golden scale cuirass)
Yagyu sword instructor; +2 melee attack for all sword infantry (sword chain)
Yari master: +2 melee defense for all spear infantry (map)
Yumi officer: +6 reload skill for bow infantry (archery chain)
Zori tori sandal bearer: Increased fatigue resistance for avatar (arm. Date Masamune)

Armour sets and how to get them

There are 26 different armour sets. Each has several (between 2 and 9) peices and gathering the entire set rewards an unlock of a retainer and the ability to equip the armour on the avatar.

Some peices are dropped, a few are linked to the map, and the rest are tied in with achievements. Good luck getting the harder ones!!

Goldfish Scale
9pc x Random drops

Ichinotani
3pc x found on map in avatar multiplayer

Armour of the Shogun
9pc x There can only be one achievement

Morning Glory
1pc Complete co-op campaign
1pc Complete vs campaign
1pc Take 15 regions on avatar map
1pc drop

Multicoloured Laced
1pc Max level missionary achievement
1pc Max level ninja
1pc Max level monk
1pc Max level metsuke
1pc Max level general (single player)
1pc win 25 land battles in MP
1pc Battlefeild dominance achievement
1pc Dishonoured foe achievement
1pc Drop

Nanoe Kanetsuga
2pc x Drops

Oda Nobunga
1pc Heroic warrior achievement
1pc Hojo Victory achievement
1pc Swathed in fire achievement
1pc Living for battle achievement
1pc Military might achievement
1pc Legendary force achievement
2pc x drop

Kato Kiyomasa
1pc Gathering storm achievement
4pc x drop

Scale Cuirass
2pc x ddrop

Silver scale Cuirass
7pc x drop

Sparce Point Laced
1pc Bringer of death achievement
4pc x drop

Kawari Kabuto
1pc Experienced Taisho achievement
1pc Drop

Tokugawa Leyasu
1pc Castle Stormer achievement
1pc Man the defenses achievement
1pc Date victory achievement
1pc Stubborn pursuer of victory achievement
1pc Uesugi victory achievement
1pc Shimazu victory achievement
1pc The dragon of Japan achievement
1pc Mori victory achievement
1pc Drop

Toyotomi Hideyoshi
1pc Takeda Victory achievement
1pc Uniter of Japan achievement
1pc Oda victory achievement
1pc Soaring fame achievement
1pc Tokugawa victory achievement
1pc Against all odds achievement
2pc x drop

Catfish tail
2pc x drop

Tripple Hollyhock
1pc Divine right achievement
1pc drop

Uesugi Kenshin
1pc Headhunter achievement
1pc Spreading like wildfire achievement
1pc Fear no horsemen achievement
1pc Beserk charge achievement
1pc Path of the leader achievement
1pc drop

Itakura Katsushige
3pc x drop

Western Style
4pc x drop

Maeda Toshie
2pc x drop

Date Masamune
1pc Balanced attacker achievement
1pc Claw of the tiger achievement
4pc x drop

Golden Scale Cuirass
1pc One rule under God achievement
1pc Trade route monopoly achievement
1pc Famed Shogun achievement
1pc Exceptional warriors achievement
1pc Advanced firearms achievement
1pc Unnecessary force achievement
1pc Belligerant admiral achievement
2pc x drop

Honda Tadakatsu
2pc x drop

Hosokawa Tadaok
1pc swift and deadly achievement
1pc Holder of Shikoko achievement
1pc Glittering grand cities achievement
1pc Zen like dedication achievement
1pc eradicate the Iga achievement
1pc Onna-bugeisha achievement
1pc Holder of Kyushu achievement
2pc x drop

Akechi Mitsuharu
2pc x drop

Blade master
3pc x drop

There are also 16 crests that are linked to achievements, but these don't tie in with set bonuses, my hands are cramping and my rig too old to show that level of graphical detail anyway, so I won't bother typing these up :P

Reserved 2.

Will but odds and ends in here and let you know how up to date the info is.
Just hastily copied into in a scribble then typed it up. Might be a few errors where I ran out of room and squeezed all info into my margins. Will go over and add bold and colour tags to help make list easier to read. Will fix spelling mistakes and correct the unknown information. Please let me know if you want to add or spot an error :)

Will work on an FAQ here too, updated as i learn/can be bothered. Just to help us nubs out :)

How many retainers may I take into battle?
There are five slots, but they unlock at different levels. You start with one slot at level 0 but unlock extra slots at levels 1, 4, 7 and 10.

What are best/worst retainers?
What retainers compliment XYZ army composition?
What retainers compliment XYZ avatar build?
What is better, retainers that buff my army or debuff their army?
Do retainer similar bonuses stack? (eg -5% recruitment cost and -10% ashi recruitment cost)
Can I counter enemy retainers?
What happens if I have a retainer that cancels the enemy retainer that cancels one of my retainers? (Example. Sage advisor/Metsuke > Shinobi/Geisha Poisoner > Wizened monk

Updated with armour sets

Great work, thank you so much for this. :bow:

hey,

With 'PC DROP' do you mean the avatar MP map or the SP campaign map? (or both?)

thx for the list btw :)

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Date Masamune
1pc Balanced attacker achievement
1pc Claw of the tiger achievement
4pc x drop

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*touches screen and slowly cries*

I need to do this!!!

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Originally Posted by Dreamw4lk3r

hey,

With 'PC DROP' do you mean the avatar MP map or the SP campaign map? (or both?)

thx for the list btw :)

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Excuse my shorthand, it means "piece is dropped". After a battle for (as it says on the info on the armour set screen) 'random post battle drop' - I think you need a victory to get the gear, I'm sure later on the mathematicians can crack the chance/conditions of a certain drop.

*Bump* for usefullness

What happen to teh armor wit teh club an teh spear

The other clan specialization retainers have the same effect as the sword one, reduced casualties for the appropriate unit type and increased clan influence gain.
I'm pretty sure the Ox Cart is not in the Teppo chain, don't you get it along with the first siege weapon?

when it says "reduced casualties" that means post battle you will recover more men from the fight right?

Please (anybody) post pics of the full sets when you get them D:

EDIT: Here are the sets I have...


Maeda Toshie

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http://i.imgur.com/eOXRa.jpg

Goldfish

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http://i.imgur.com/BS1Wz.jpg

Scale

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http://i.imgur.com/Q0u9F.jpg

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Originally Posted by daniu

The other clan specialization retainers have the same effect as the sword one, reduced casualties for the appropriate unit type and increased clan influence gain.
I'm pretty sure the Ox Cart is not in the Teppo chain, don't you get it along with the first siege weapon?

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Thanks, I thought so. Will fix now.

Also - will fix the Ox cart. I musta copied my notes wrong :(

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Originally Posted by dmcheatw

when it says "reduced casualties" that means post battle you will recover more men from the fight right?

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I'm not sure - it's not very clear. I don't think it keeps your units on the field alive any longer - so yes, probably reduces casualties post battle (important for maintaining healthy vet levels) - If someone can confirm this, though would be great. Though personally this retainer is locked into my first slot, FOR THE CLAN!!