Mejii Restoration

**jo the greek** · February 22, 2011, 04:53 PM

Ooh shogun 2 is boring

Why not making us all Tom Cruise and make a bit more interesting !!!

JOTHEGREEK PROPOSING
Mejii Restoration

**bbad89** · February 22, 2011, 05:00 PM

I'm not sure what you mean by this.

**DarkArk** · February 22, 2011, 05:08 PM

The Meiji restoration wouldn't make a bad mod, but you would probably need to be able to put in Napoleon unit textures with Japanese faces to make it work. The naval combat would also be totally different.

**Erwin Rommel** · February 22, 2011, 05:20 PM

I oppose this proposal.

I suggest a BAKUMATSU Mod.

**CoconutFred** · February 22, 2011, 05:21 PM

Well for now he could just keep Shogun 2 textures and plug in Tom Cruise's face.

**jo the greek** · February 23, 2011, 12:36 PM

Hmm it seems people here have no idead what Mejii restoration is

**emperor77** · February 23, 2011, 12:39 PM

Originally Posted by jo the greek

Hmm it seems people here have no idead what Mejii restoration is

TOM CRUISE!

**jo the greek** · February 23, 2011, 12:46 PM

Apart from that nothing

**Khorney** · February 24, 2011, 11:14 AM

was just thinking about this today actually, i would totally be down for a boshin war/satsuma rebellion mod. could even extend it with scenarios for the sino-japanese war and russo-japanese wars, as they all fit into the late ETW, pre ww1 tech side of things, so it would be easy enough to share assets.

could have it setup satsuma/choshu vs tokugawa alliance, upto loyalist faction to court support and get the major provinces on side, or takeover and form a united front (so starting map would probably be a similar setup to shogun with all the different diamyo, just not everyone at their throats from the get go XD).

could have 'floating' western powers who arn't allowed to fight each other, get offmap reinforcements then can bargain with the 2 sides for territory etc... in return for military aid

i don't think posting a picture of tom cruise in the first post is the best way to garner support from people who might know about the subject however...

**davsim** · February 24, 2011, 11:20 AM

This could be a great mod I think.

**Raiden** · February 24, 2011, 11:29 AM

Could be interesting but might be better suited for a NTW/ETW mod, as stated.

**Blitz66** · February 24, 2011, 11:39 AM

While a Mejii Restoration mode is an incredibly cool, and good idea, I don't think it falls within the scope of what this game is capable of.

It would be like modding the industrial revolution into Medieval 2.

A Mejii Restoration mod would require much more than simply a map of Japan. At this time, Japan was being influenced heavily by the European world, and exerting their own influence on the mainland in Korea, and China.

Naval combat would be far more akin to Napoleon era, or even beyond, into the era of steam.

I'm not saying it would be impossible (in fact I know very little of what is possible with Total War modding), I'm just saying it would take a tremendous overhaul.

**Khorney** · February 24, 2011, 12:01 PM

since its an incremental improvement on the ETW engine, i don't see how there would be massive issues in implementing some of the old features.

bearing in mind there are already going to be firearms in the game, and the presence of firearms, while important, was no where near as pervasive as in the contemporary European conflicts during the boshin war

**wolfshart79** · February 24, 2011, 12:03 PM

I love hollywood representations of history (derp) and all the completely accurate things they show (derp) its full of win!

Tom Cruise is a

.

**Tullius Tiro** · February 24, 2011, 12:05 PM

wolfshart79:

I second Blitz66 points.

The only real war of the meji restauration, was the Boshin campaign, which lastet one year.
You would need a game that have a focuses on economy (industrialisation) and politics.
A Meji Restauration Mod fit games like Europa Universalis III or Victoria II and it's possibilities. But you would miss the desired action in those games.

**Khorney** · February 24, 2011, 12:44 PM

there was alot of fighting and politics going down in such a short span, relatively, that i think an interesting scenario could be made of it. economic models like industrialisation or whatever would not be the scope of this, it would more be along the lines of the original shogun which concerns itself mostly with just the simple raising of an army, manoeuvres, diplomacy between other daimyos and foreign presence and of course the tactical battles.

satsuma rebellion in the 70's could probably also feature

which is why i think the 'meiji restoration' would be a bad title for the project, as it wouldn't be about the restoration or modernisation movements at all.

**Robertclive** · February 24, 2011, 07:15 PM

if this is successful then I might get Shogun. Good luck

**Rhetorikolas** · February 24, 2011, 08:32 PM

Shogun 2 is not boring if done right. But I also think it would be great to see a Meiji Restoration mod. You could take some of the units from Empire/Napoleon and tweak them around to fit into S2.

**Augment** · February 24, 2011, 08:41 PM

Don't do it unless you create every model (gatling guns, rifles, cannon etc) from scratch.
Not like that WW1 mod for NTW where a vickers machinegun is just a puckle gun model.