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Epic Garrison add-on

Basic idea of the mod is to make it easier for you, as you can confidently send out all your armies on a campaign and be confident that you’ll at least have a shot at defending on the home-front. It’s mostly for myself, as I haven’t seen a mod like this on the workshop, and I enjoy siege defenses more than the field and siege attack battles.

Along with everything else this mod does, the ‘Onna Bushi’ and ‘Samurai Retainer’ have increased unit sizes identical to ordinary samurai units (so depends what unit size you’re playing on)

Garrisons for castles will go as such:
Level 1 Castle – 3 Units
- 1 Samurai Retainer
- 1 Yari Ashigaru
- 1 Bow Ashigaru

Level 2 Castle – 6 Units
- 1 Samurai Retainer
- 2 Yari Ashigaru
- 2 Bow Ashigaru
- 1 Yari Cavalry

Level 3 Castle – 9 Units
- 1 Samurai Retainer
- 3 Yari Ashigaru
- 3 Bow Ashigaru
- 1 Yari Cavalry
- 1 Onna Bushi

Level 4 castle – 13 Units
- 3 Samurai Retainer
- 2 Yari Ashigaru
- 1 Katana Samurai
- 2 Bow Ashigaru
- 1 Bow Samurai
- 1 Bow Warrior Monks
- 2 Yari Cavalry
- 1 Onna Bushi

Level 5 Castle – 22 Units
- 4 Samurai Retainer
- 3 Yari Ashigaru
- 2 Katana Samurai
- 4 Bow Ashigaru
- 2 Bow Samurai
- 2 Bow Warrior Monks
- 3 Yari Cavalry
- 2 Onna Bushi

Either Yari or Bow ashigaru will be replaced by the superior units, as the ashigaru have a priority level of 2 (Onna Bushi for example have 5, the highest) when the game checks what unit to use as garrison.

Other Buildings:
All recruitment facilities, excluding docks provide their base unit type, and a hero unit type for the infantry lines.
So a yari dojo will give you a Yari Samurai for each tier, and tier 4 will give a Yari Samurai and Yari Hero.
Same applies to the bow and sword schools. Cavalry school just adds 1 Yari Cavalry in each tier.

The artillery/gunpowder building has 1 firebomb thrower on each building level, and on level 4 it has an additional Matchlock Samurai unit.

Level 3 and 4 stealth lines have 1 Kisho Ninja.
The Ikko Ikki cannot take advantage of most of the samurai units, so for them, I just added a bunch more of their warrior monk garrisons from their temple line into the temple line. Not sure how many, but they’ll have 20 units in garrison by tier 4 castle, probably.

I have an idea to make a mod that is similar to this, but spreads out the units added between all of the buildings that you can build, instead of adding them all in a large chunk from the castles. So economy buildings would give ashigaru tier units, and the military buildings would provide Samurai, and the castles themselves would only give you the Onna Bushi and Samurai Retainer units. So if that’s something you’d like, give me ideas of what units go where.

Version 1.1
Chosokabe, Shimazu, Hattori, and Tokugawa get their clan respective unique unit in the garrison now. (The Chosokabe get the right Bow Hero and the Shimazu get the right Katana Hero, etc.)