With Empire: Total War already under their belt, they have the knowledge of how to make line infantry work, and the assets in place to bring them over wholesale. That’s not the only convenience of this setting for Creative Assembly. About as short a time as the typical game of Total War, in fact. The entire face of the country was altered in a startlingly short time. The introduction of railways cut travel times by a previously inconceivable degree, and the assembly line and factories turned Japanese production into a powerhouse. It’s not only about the weapons, but also the massive changes to infrastructure that went on during the period.
But after the West was allowed to dock, Japan went from sword-wielding warriors to regimented platoons of rifle-bearing troops in half a century. Feudal Japan was still pretty feudal in the early 1800s, while the British and the French were gallivanting around the globe with steamboats and smooth-bore rifles, and it wasn’t until 1842 that the Japanese even allowed Western ships near their borders. Silly child: history has no time machines.īut, evidently, it does have a few time capsules. Before being laughed at by his classmates. On paper, Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai reads like the ramblings of an eight year old after his first history lesson, hand stretched tentatively up into the air in class to ask who would win in a fight between a rifleman and a samurai.
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