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The Ronin, a Bladelords of Nippon Prologue

Behind this pompous name is a teaser for the Nippon mod we're working on. I'll spare you the long explanations, here's a summary:

What does it do?
The Red Ronin is a legendary hero that has a small chance to pop during your battles, as long as you're not Chaos-aligned (so he won't show up for chaos dwarfs, Norsca, skaven etc). You'll be able to control him for the duration of the battle (or fight him for that one battle). Once the battle is over, he's gone (along with some of your gold, unless he was fighting for the other side of course).
This is only for the vanilla and TOW maps, not for IEE. IEE will have the full faction instead.

Is this loreful?
It is not. The Bladelords of Nippon mod will be a complete reimagining of Warhammer's Nippon. I like to think it is lore friendly (I've played the tabletop games for well about 30 years now, I presume to think I know more or less what makes something feel "warhammer" and what doesn't, and I strived to hit that sweet spot between grimdark and silly), but this means nothing as it varies from people to people.
A ton of lore has been written, but I don't believe most people like to read walls of fan-made background, so for now I'll spare you and let you watch the short trailer video instead, it should provide some broad concepts of what we've done.

Credits:
Rhox for the script work
Grackul for the DB work
Tutur for helping me make the lore and names meaningful and interesting, and convert the event videos
Nick for the Red Ronin's voice (to be added later, but for now you can hear him in the trailer)
Dave for the trailer score
Frodo for RPFM
Ole for Asset Editor
Phazer (or whatever he goes by these days) for QTRME
Games Workshop for Warhammer
and, of course, Creative Assembly, for this amazing game, whatever quirks happened lately.

The list will be quite a bit more chunky for the actual Bladelords mod, I'm not looking forward to writing it down :p

If you want to know more, you can reach out to us in the Modding Den on Discord https://discord.com/channels/373745291289034763/1000830194485043335

Submods:
Japanese translation by Ashitaka: steam://openurl/https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3371011782

Chinese translation by 织田信长: steam://openurl/https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3209581682

To come next:


Underneath, here's a preview of what you can expect from the main mod.

What is displayed underneath is NOT part of the Prologue mod

The first of the Legendary Lords, a powerful melee lord.
Of course, there are other legendary lords planned, the Red Ronin is just one of them.


A powerful melee lord.


A support lord.


A stealthy champion.


A melee buffer.



Low cost tarpit unit. Comes with spears or bows, on foot and mounted.


Ranged unit, explosive rounds.


Heavy, powerful infantry. Those are your samurai in Bladelords. Come with great weapons or polearms.


Same as above, but mounted.


A ranged magic unit.


A powerful artillery.