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Eriks improved general skills

I created this Mod for one reason alone. I didn't use most of the original Vanilla Shogun2 generals skills. I never used intimidating or living treasure, nor legendary warrior. Allthough being skills exclusively for 6 star generals their benefits were too weak. Now all skills in my new Skilltree have 3 levels. Hopefully you now find all of the skills a good choice and have more freedom to choose which one is best for your playstyle. I also added 3 New skills (marked with "***").

IMPORTANT NOTES

***** Known Bugs *****
- The new Skills, marked with "***" (shinobi, cavalry tactics and infantry tactics) only work for their first level. Please don't put more than one point in them. I need to erase those skills from the tech tree... hopefully without the need to create a complete new one.
- You have to start a new campaign, it's not really safegame compatible. This is a limit being a mod, only CA could make these changes and staying kinda safegame compatible *****
***** Known Fixes for Problems *****
- missing Skill names in all languages other than English. So just switch to english, if you miss em.
***** New Features in V1.2 (08.December2013)*****
- added the Ikko Ikki Generals. They have 5 completely new and unique skills, but loose the 5 body skills.
- added a special takeda-only skill. This was a testdrive for my plan to give every clan an own special skill for their generals.
***** Planed Features *****
- I will add a special skill for every clan. (perhaps except otomo. its so hard to mod them right now with assemblys kit) If you have good ideas for what should be a skill exclusively for a clan, send me a private message. an explanation, why u think that clan should have that skill would be nice. For example: Takeda should have something boosting their cavalry. (btw: I found a way to do this, without the need of restarting a campaign, if you already startet it with an actual version of this mod. so all future addons of this mod will be safegame compatible (safegames of this mod of course))
- I think about adding another skilltree to all generals. Boosting the stats of all troops under his command. I will have to test the possibilities of this skilltree. If i would ad this skilltree it would be safegame compatible to previous versions of this mod, so don't worry

THE CHANGES

I have changed the experience tableau for the general as well. The following chart shows you the number of experience points you need for the level ups. In total you need 430 points to reach 6 stars. (for your info: without my mod you need 400 to reach 6 Stars)
1 Star: 0XP = 0 SKillpoints
2 Stars: 40XP = 3 Skillpoints
3 Stars: 60XP = 3 Skillpoints
4 Stars: 80XP = 4 Skillpoints
5 Stars: 100XP = 5 Skillpoints
6 Stars: 150XP = 6 Skillpoints
" I made the level up system much more linear. The huge bump in needed XP from 5 to 6 Stars tries to compensate for the 5 new extremely powerful 6 Star general Abilities getting available (Living legend, intimidating, Siege defender, siege attacker and legendary warrior). "

--->Generals Charisma Tree<---
Poet: Movement Speed: 5/20/35%
Religious: Convert Province: 2/4/6; Movement Speed: 5/10/15%
Honorable: Reduce Upkeep: 5/20/35%
Inspiritional: Boost Aura, Inspire and Rally 10/40/70%; Movement Speed: 3/12/21%
Living Treasure: Loyalty/Honour: 1/2/3; Less Loot: 30/60/90; Reduce Upkeep: 5/10/15%; Happiness: 3/6/9

" This skill tree is for the charismatic abilities of the General. In summary it enables the general to increase the campaign map movement speed, decrease the upkeep, boosts his active skills and aura diameter. The miscellaneous benefits like more loyalty/honor or converting a province to his religion are part of this skill tree too. "

--->Generals Pirate Tree<---
Admiral: Sea Attack: 1/4/7
Ambush: Ambush: 1/4/7
***Shinobi: Night Battle / ranked fire / Blinding grenade
Pirat: Sea Defence: 1/4/7; Landing Attack: 1/4/7; Loot 5/20/35
Intimidating: Enemy Moral decreased: 3/6/9; Loot: 20/40/60; Movement Speed: 5/10/15%; Reduced Recruitment Cost: 5/10/15%

" This skilltree mostly supports sea or ambush related battles. It also increases the amount of plundered goods. The 6 Star Skill Intimidating was boosted the most, but is by far the skill with the most prerequisite skills. Originally he decreased the enemy moral by 1 point regardless if this skill was level 1 or 2. This alone was boosted massively "

--->Generals Knowledge Tree<---
Strategist: Reinforcement: 2/8/14
Ashigaru General: Ashigaru Moral: 1/4/7
Infantry General: Infantry Attack: 1/2/3
Cavalry General: Cavalry Charge: 1/3/6
Field Attacker/Defender: Fieldattacks/deffs: 1/4/7; Reinforcement: 1/4/7
***Infantry Tactics: Stand and fight/Pike Square/Banzai
***Cavalry Tactics: Wedge formation/Fire Arrows/swooping Crane
Siege Attacker/Defender: Siegeattacks/Deffs: 2/4/6; Timebonus: 1/2/3; Additional Amunition: 25/50/75%

" This skill tree represents a general's tactical and strategic knowledge. This boosts the reinforcement via supply-management and moral is enhanced in specific situations or directly like the ashigaru general ability. Most units can be enabled with active skills or stat bonuses. "

--->Generals Body Tree<---
Warrior: bodyguard size: 5/20/35%; Moral: 1/4/7
Die Hard Fighter: bodyguard size: 5/20/35%; Defense: 1/4/7
Master Swordsman: bodyguard size: 5/20/35%; Attack: 1/4/7
Master Horseman: bodyguard size: 15/30/45%; Charge: 4/8/12
Legendary Warrior: bodyguard size: 25/50/75%; Armor: 1/2/3

" I boosted this skilltree allot. I know, if you max this part of the skilltree (investing 15 Points) Your generals numbers will rise 3 times (40 will become 130) and his fighting power will rise significantly. He will now even rival hero units. The reason i did this is plain simple. If you invest hours of gameplay into your general (to get him to level 6) and invest almost every skillpoint in his bodyguard/fighting tree, then he should be an extremely powerfull unit on the battlefield. He is still mortal and strong counterunits will still ripp him apart, but now he isn't a weakling who has to fear every enemy unit. In fact now he has to be feared by most. "

--->Generals Faith Tree<--- (Ikko Ikki only tree, replaces their Body Tree.)
Isolation: Bodyguard size: -95/-70/-35% (this is very bad, but higher level reduces the penalty allot)
Wanderlust: Movement Speed: 5/20/35%
Enlightened: Research: 10/20/30%
Liberator: Bodyguard size: 5/20/35%; Convert Province: 1/4/7; Reduced Recruitment Cost: 1/4/7%; Reduced resistance: 13/52/91%
Holy War: Ashigaru Moral: 1/2/3; Infantry Attack: 1/2/3; Moral Bonus: 1/2/3; Reinforcement: 2/4/6

"i punish the generals early in this skilltree through the isolation bodyguard reduction. The skills in this tree are very potent, especially the lategame ones. (5 and 6 Stars) So i think it's worth the hard way. I replaced the Body tree, because i think the Ikko Ikki didn't have alot of samurai, so there general bodyguards aren't good fighters or great in numbers."


As allways: This mod is as small as it can be and the buggy data from B.O.B. (one of the tools you need to make mods for shogun 2) was removed. Thats the reason, why you shouldn't have a soundbug if you only use this mod. And it should work with allmost all other mods.

I hope you will enjoy it as much as i do playing with this ^^