Quote Originally Posted by ♔EmperorBatman999♔ View Post
So will the Japanese have elite troops with breech-loaders?

And my question still wasn't answered, will "Westerners" be playable?
This question has been answered countless times already, there's even a topic on it. Seriously, try searching next time. Anyways, Westerners aren't playable as factions (though it doesn't sound too hard to mod), but there will be recruitable Western units like Royal Marines or USMC. And there's an American on the page probably to symbolize the westernization going on that was a big deal.

Foreign Veterans are also an agent you can recruit, I'm assuming they help train your armies. And both factions were modern, the Imperials probably more so than the Shogunate because the most modern, westernized domains sided with the Emperor, but the Shogunate did have a lot of modern French equipment and even some uniforms. Most of the forces on either side however were domains that often had poorer stuff, some of them even going around in armor using spears and katanas.