Hi Sorinel,

I'm a big fan of your work,Stronghold of the Samurai. I also really enjoy the Fall of the Samurai campaign, but I feel that siege battles there don’t quite reach their full potential in this campaign in particular. The introduction of artillery completely changes the paradigm and strategies of sieges, and that’s why I’m considering creating a mod based on your work to “modernize” the SOTS castles making them feel more authentic to FOTS, both visually and in terms of gameplay.

Taking all of this into account, I wanted to kindly ask for your permission to use your work as a foundation. Of course, I will give you full and proper credit for your work.

Is the Kyoto map supposed to be so simple? It's just two villages without any walls or palace or smth like that. Looks like a tier 1 settlement, but it is supposed to be at least a citadel siege map.

Just open the part 1 and delete everything except bettleterrain and it'll work

I'm on the same page with Deygotwingsnow's comment down below, recently the mod pack makes the game crash when its put in a combo with the 10 year anniversary mod.

This mod is causing the game to crash at startup when used together with Enkeli's 10 year anniversary mod, specifically the campaign map part. I have no idea why this is happening as the two mods are supposed to modify different things. Enkeli is providing little assistance as the instruction he gave that supposedly "fixed" it was pretty vague and he started to sound frustrated when I asked him to elaborate. Anyone has any insight?

good mod, but very buggy. And some castles have really little space for units placing, mb cuz of scale?

matchlock towers don't fire at all. Anyone faced this issue or knows how to solve it?

Does it include euro star fort if you upgrade that far in FOTS?

Its must have mod imo

Buggy but still good, does it changes maps for fots and rots ?

Really cool mod but it's just too damn buggy.

I will try that thanks!

@Tennougin It is time consuming to tell you all the settlements what maps are set on and depends on the campaign map. In expanded japan mod I think most of the extra provinces are all set on the same map or copied from nearby provinces and they repeat alot!

If you want you check: first you need to see on what map the settlement is set; the order for the province type that is set to be Gassan-toda is like this: level 1: Aki; Level 2 Karasuyama; Level 3: Gassan Toda. If you find the province that has level 1 as Aki or level 2 as karasuyama you upgrade it to level 3 and get Gassan toda. Hope that helps!

Hello, i subs to all 5 parts of mod, activate all 5 in mod manager, the tick box for each one before start game, but mod doesnt work. The inscription of game version in upper right corner show that game is modded, but castles still be like in vanilla maps. Help me please.

How do we spawn Gassan toda castle on the campain map? Im using expanded japan mod to complement SOTS.

Use the coop version. It is 1 file and works the same! Download from the link in the description.

can you combine all to one patch?

Are there google drive link for no coop version ?

Awesome!!!

very good，thank you！

@Wiki.1111 Yes. Just move them inside BEFORE clicking start battle. Make sure all units are placed correctly inside the castle!

Sometimes the generals go underground in the battle and can't move

Great mod ,thx for creating

@[3WK]rcorse if the units spawn in the ground(when you are defending and it is deployment phase) just move them one by one inside the castle before you click start battle. This may happen if you have lots of cavalry or a big number of units.

@Conner the coop version is standalone.

there are some bugs with units in the ground

Do you run the coop version with the base as well or standalone? @sorinel1991

@Lokieys Yes. You need to download the COOP version for multiplayer. Link in description. go here: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1HQc2-EIIiqDeY-Mfo2RSqABK3Z995JWE?usp=drive_open

these don't work in multiplayer.

@Danielkjm No. The maps are made for sengoku period and they do not feature gattling guns and cannons, but it is compatible with fots.

Hi, i really love your mod, i enjoy every battle, but i have a question. Do gattling guns building and cannons upgrade the guard towers ??? Could you help me plz ?

@Gerard Originally I made the castles much smaller but I got a lot of complaints that there is no room for troops and so on. So I changed the castles to be bigger. I am now thinking to make the castles to their original size. I am working on a new version to replace the bigger castle with different ones.

i honestly have a love-hate relationship with this mod some castles are great cause as a defender on them i can predict where the enemy is going and pile my troops there for a defense that REQUIRES siege engines to be defeated and sometimes i end up with a massive lower level with a small upper level in the middle and have 0 idea where the enemy is comming from, have to stretch out my troops and loose more soldiers than i feel like i would loose on a (usually smaller) vanilla map sometimes it makes me downgrade/not-upgrade castles untill i conquer all neighbouring provinces to make sure i can defend them while doing it

the change is supposed to happen from the first level settlement right? (forts)

@sorinel1991 yeah i tried both from my collection and desktop i ticked all 5 parts then cliced launch shogun 2 but nothing happened neither in my already saved campaigns or the new one

Did you load the mods from mod manager?

@sorinel1991 hey thanks for the answer. I did what you said but nothing changes in the castles. They still remain the vanilla ones.

@Theoklitos you need to sub to all 5 parts one by one. And activate all 5 in mod manager whrn you start game. Select the tick box for each one and then start game.

Hello , i am really unfamiliar with mods so i would like some help if it is possible. Do i have to dowanload every part of this mod seperately or do i just jump to the 5th part and i am all set?

I wish i could play them in skirmish

Do you have any plans to make this mod for Rise of the Samurai?

Is this mod compatible with saved game?

@sorinel1991 What unit size did you test your castles with? Reason I ask is Even had same problem I did with MOSS. Engineer Weierstrass told me it was ultra unit sizes were too big for some of the castles. I had units spawning under the map all kinds of weird places. So two fixes we came up with is lower unit size or just place them as you said. I'm just curious if your castle don't matter on the unit size.

@Even Just move the general inside the castle when it happnes. Nothing to fix here. Ai places the troops auto inside castle. If you defend you place them.

General Spawns in the Mountains sometimes plz update this, very good mod though so thxs for the time sir

Much thanks for this ! Was so bored of the vanilla maps now i'm excited to play the game again :D

I am excitedly downloading this now.

Nice mod!
But does it work well with Expanded Japan mod? If not, please help it work well, tyvm!

@Scaldar This version here does not work with MOSS. I am making a different version that will be compatible with MOSS and exclusive only for MOSS.

Nice to hear it! But I guess actually dosn't work with MOSS...

New huge update that improves the maps better than ever. I completely reworked all maps to incorporate all the suggestions that I have received and all the reported issues fixed. (Check description for changelog)

I learned a lot about map making and if you have any suggestions or issues please report and I will do my best to improve the maps even further. I am now working to bring the maps to MOSS with Engineer Weierstrass.