DarthMod: Shogun II v4.0 and v4.0++ HotFix Released! news

Special new in v4.0

Bayonets are finally available thanks to the mod of IGdood and kungfuserge. This original mod can be found here: Twcenter.net.
DarthMod has used this mod's technique to enable Bayonets and balanced the stats accordingly. Now you can enable Bayonets in the Boost options of the Launcher for the following units:

• Elite Imperial Guard Infantry
• Infaderie de Marine
• Kihetai
• Republican Guard Infantry
• Royal Marines
• Shogunate Guard Infantry
• United States Marines
• Garrison Infantry
• Light Sharpshooters
• Light Yugekitai
• Azure Dragon Force
• Black Tortoise Infantry
• Imperial Infantry
• Line Infantry
• Line Republican Infantry
• Line Shogunate Infantry
• Line Vermillion Bird Force
• Militia Levy Infantry

By enabling bayonets you give to these units special anti-cavalry/defence properties and a slight attack penalty. The only glitch is that in combat animation the rifle/musket is slightly mispositioned between the hands. If you want to revert to vanilla Katana/Sword melee fashion of the original game, you can do it anytime without spoiling your campaign save.

Some elite units can now form squares:

• Elite Imperial Guard Infantry
• Infaderie de Marine
• Republican Guard Infantry
• Royal Marines
• United States Marines
• Imperial Infantry

Line Republican Infantry

• The following units now have mass fire (fire all together and not only the first rank):
  
  • Matchlock Kachi
  • Light Sharphooters
  • Tosa Riflemen
  • Light Yugekitai
• Included the special CAI File that was removed from version 3.4 because of incompatibilties with the official patch. Now the major clans, like Oda, will have more survival/prevail chances and the Ashikaga Boost options works 100% as it is intended. (We must thank Daniu for his ongoing support of the PFM Tool for that.)
• Included the special character bonuses files that give +3 Skills to generals, special character bonuses etc. as it was in version 3.4. (We must thank Daniu for his ongoing support of the PFM Tool for that.)
• Increased the FotS Land Campaign movement and the Naval Movement for all campaigns. That results to more naval invasions and more action in the campaign map.
• Reduced the insanely high cost of FotS buildings to more proper levels. That results to a more challenging CAI that can recruit better units and also there is less "misery" for the human player (not able to do anything for many turns).
• White Tigers have a slightly better balance.
• Spear Levy have -1 morale for better balance.
• Included the widely requested large deployment zones and ambush mod FOTS S2 ROTS of freelancerX as a Boost Option.
• Re-updated the Atmoshperic Sounds mod (there were some issues reported).

On 13/5 and 14/5 they have been uploaded the following HotFixes

Special new in v4.0++ HotFix

• Shinsengumi Police Force can now Kneel fire.
• Repaired and fine tuned the new Campaign Battle auto calculation.

Special new in v4.0+ HotFix

• Vanilla Boshin Rifle Units "Break Dance Bug" Fixed (It can now occur very very seldom).
• Naval Campaign movement points doubled for a more dynamic game and many invasions (in the previous version this was not enabled correctly).
• Land Campaign movement points increased very slightly.
• Several fixes to CAI handicaps.
• FotS buildings cheaper for the AI to make it more challenging (to develop and build more armies).
• Yari Kachi Anti-Cavalry Bonus increased slightly.
• Some improvements to character skill tiers (now the FotS General and Character have not so many bonuses per upgrade).
• Traditional buildings have more modernization penalties and also there are some new technology modernization penalties (your choice for modern or traditional warfare is now clearer).
• Some Building effects improvements/vanilla fixes.
• Coastal defenses +25% more effective and have more range.
• Movement speed penalties balance improved.
• Melee mechanics improved to become more decisive and violent.
• Unit responses improved.
• Mangonel effectiveness balanced.
  

  Download the latest version from here as well: Strategyinformer.com