Where is the Great Guard???

**Jean-Roch Coignet** · March 15, 2011, 11:26 AM

after everything has been developed, upgraded and so on why cant i buy great guard?
anyone having the same problem?

**Spartan262** · March 15, 2011, 11:27 AM

You must be shogun first I think.

**Death_Sheep** · March 15, 2011, 11:28 AM

Originally Posted by Jean-Roch Coignet

after everything has been developed, upgraded and so on why cant i buy great guard?
anyone having the same problem?

First off, what are the requirements for Great Guard? Make sure you have them.

And I mean doubly make sure. I for one am looking at the encyclopedia and wondering how besides trade I can get my hands on some stone and incense when starting from Echigo...

**Jean-Roch Coignet** · March 15, 2011, 11:29 AM

ohhhhhh

could be the problem, never thought about that, well unit description didnt mention it, just the buildings you need to have.

**Jack Lusted** · March 15, 2011, 11:30 AM

You must be Shogun to recruit Great Guard.

**Jean-Roch Coignet** · March 15, 2011, 11:30 AM

Originally Posted by Death_Sheep

First off, what are the requirements for Great Guard? Make sure you have them.

And I mean doubly make sure. I for one am looking at the encyclopedia and wondering how besides trade I can get my hands on some stone and incense when starting from Echigo...

i have and i mean it, i have all arts and buildings which should enable to have them.

**Jean-Roch Coignet** · March 15, 2011, 11:31 AM

Originally Posted by Jack Lusted

You must be Shogun to recruit Great Guard.

Thanks Jack

tried to be shogun for a turn but got attacked by 3 full stack in the next turn on normal difficulty

**Death_Sheep** · March 15, 2011, 11:31 AM

Originally Posted by Jack Lusted

You must be Shogun to recruit Great Guard.

Welp. There we go.

**Jean-Roch Coignet** · March 16, 2011, 09:28 AM

i conquered Kyoto, is that normal that after 1 year of holding the city, i get 1 Great Guard and 2 Yari Cavalry and still cant recruit Great Guard despite the fact that i have the buildings which should enable it? and not to mention that im with Takeda clan and what i got was the normal Great Guard and normal Yari cavalry and not the Takeda specific units.

**Mr. Os** · March 16, 2011, 10:55 AM

You get some free alongside your god-mode ship also when you become Shogun. The Mori didnt know what hit them.

**stickman** · March 22, 2011, 10:56 PM

Playing a Takeda game; Ive been holding Kyoto for a good 2 years, have access to all resources, have built up all stated necessary buildings etc required for recruiting great guard, and I still can't recuit them! On becoming Shogun I recieved a standard great guard, and not the Takeda version. What have I missed? Could this be a bug? Ive noticed a few people have this issue in the various forums....

**Alkarin** · March 23, 2011, 12:45 AM

Ive had this issue aswell. still not able to recruit the great guard after becoming shogun, and i only got regular great guard as takeda

**Wikiphile** · March 23, 2011, 03:11 AM

Originally Posted by Alkarin

Ive had this issue aswell. still not able to recruit the great guard after becoming shogun, and i only got regular great guard as takeda

After becoming the Shogun, i have finished researching and built the legendary bujutsu. In addition to the Great Guard and 2 yari calvary, i am able to recruit one more.

**stickman** · March 23, 2011, 07:12 AM

Originally Posted by Wikiphile

After becoming the Shogun, i have finished researching and built the legendary bujutsu. In addition to the Great Guard and 2 yari calvary, i am able to recruit one more.

Are you playing Takeda? Ive got a gut feeling that this may be a Takeda only problem.

**Jean-Roch Coignet** · March 23, 2011, 07:37 AM

well, i conquered Kyoto with Takeda on normal and on hard, on my way now to Kyoto on legendary, but there were never ever takeda great guard in my games, all buildings and arts were mastered and i got only 1 normal great guard unit. something is not okay with this i guess.

**stickman** · March 23, 2011, 08:20 AM

So it seems we have a bug, I shall now raise the issue on the totalwar.com forums........

**Wikiphile** · March 23, 2011, 08:49 PM

Originally Posted by stickman

Are you playing Takeda? Ive got a gut feeling that this may be a Takeda only problem.

I was playing as Oda, didn't need the Guard Calvary that much since my upgraded Ashigaru army stacks rocks. As Takeda, even when i became the shogun, i can only get normal Guard Calvary and not Takeda Guard Calvary albeit the experience is increased to 3 if i built a legendary bajutsu in Kai.

**newguy** · March 23, 2011, 09:16 PM

try downloading the treasury mod pack. it's like a copy of the the game script or something.

scripting.game_interface:add_restricted_building_level_record("SHO_Port_3_Nanban_Trade_Port")
scripting.game_interface:add_restricted_unit_record("Cav_Spear_Great_Guard_Takeda")
scripting.game_interface:add_restricted_unit_record("Heavy_Ship_Nihon_Maru_Mori")

i think that line is what is causing the issue? down the mod and remove it from that. it should overwrite the original script when you start game?

all speculations. i'm not a modder.