Shogun: Total War

Shogun Total War is the first step in the Total War franchise. Unlike later games, this one has a strong rebel army, and the cheating geishas.

Rebels
In normal gameplay, the rebels are unplayable. Using cheats to play as them shows that they are basically unfinished; unlike other rebels in later Total War titles, the rebels have features of a clan, a partially-functioning throne room, unused strings of Rebel alliances/sons, and very buggy features. The icon, on a normal clan shows their respective symbols. The rebels, however gets a Face. Clicking on the icon brings you to the Shimazu's throne room. Leftover strings imply that the rebels were to have functional heirs at one point of development. The Rebel General's son has come of age and is ready to serve him. The Rebel General has been assassinated. The Rebel General has been killed in battle. The Rebel General has died from an illness. After his defeat in battle The Rebel General had no escape and was forced to commit seppuku. His son has taken over command of the Rebels. The above strings are stored near the other "Lord dies" strings. However, the "Died from an illness" string will never be loaded, as seen from the right. His son has taken over command of the Rebels, but Rebel forces are paralysed for 1 year Impossible, as the rebels are not given heirs to begin with. This region is claimed by Rebels and Bandits who you are allied to. Do you wish to break the alliance? Rendered impossible in the Warlord Edition, as the developers removed the ability for rebels to make agent units. He is allied to the Rebels. Unlike the previous string, this is normally impossible in all versions, as the rebels will never make Emissaries unless the player utilizes a glitch or file edits.

Warlord Edition
A re-release with its expansion and the base game. It too unleashes several bugs and dummied-out content.

Mori 1530
The Mori, who is unavailable in this campaign year, can be made playable readding a complex string to the 1530 data file.

PlaceDaimyo:: 15 2 SetStartDaimyo:: 2 0 Region 15, which is the Aki province, put a "2" where "5" was. SetRegionOwner:: 15 2 The Mori will be playable after you save the file. Note: The Moris will be wiped out shortly, due to you haven't added them troops.

Geisha/Ninja
Normally, the enemy cannot target your ninjas and shinobis, but there are strings that can be loaded but are blank. Likewise, you cannot target enemy ninjas and shinobis without the using "see all cheat" anyway. The game still loads the strings, but the resulting message ends up blank. A simple file edit (see image) can prove this.

Father Visitor
This agent unit is mentioned only in the string file. According to what the strings are saying, it sounds like a predecessor to Medieval Total War's Pope system.

There is only ever one Father Visitor, the head of the Church in Japan. The first person to build him gets to use him until he dies. As an Emissary to Christian Daimyo he is unsurpassed, and can order them to accept alliances on pain of excommunication. They are however subject to Ninja attack, so it's not generally a long term appointment. You are at peace with this Daimyo. Would you like to order an alliance under pain of Excommunication? You are at war with this Daimyo. Would you like to order a ceasefire under pain of Excommunication? The Father Visitor brings news from %s. He demands an audience. Note that %s is replaced by the faction name. Father vistor. Super Emissary. Christian Daimyo... ...cannot refuse his treaties. Use him as an emissary. Unit description when viewed in map. To make it appear ingame, Use "Makeunit:: 1 24" om "Starting in 1530.txt" This will give a "Father visitor" to the Shimazu clan. It uses the Priest's Model.

Medical School
This building is mentioned in the string files. However, there is a "Famous" and a "Legendary" version of it, though.

A Medical School trains doctors who work with armies in the field to reduce the proportion of casualties that succumb to their wounds. Only one school is required to provide for your entire domain. The school increases the rate tat which units recover from battle casualties. The Famous Medical School has mastered the traditional healing arts, and further improves the rate at which units are reinforced after suffering casualties The Legendary Medical school has researched new ways of treating the wounded, and maximises the speed at which a wounded man can return to his unit.

Chousokabe Clan
The Chousokabe Clan was supposed to be playable in one point, as sound files of their emissaries remain in the program folder. To drive a point, in the Sengoku Jidal scenario intro video, there is a castle in Tosa province which is the place of the Chousokabe clan in real life. However, they are not completely removed- A clan is occupying their space. In this case, the rebels occupied them. To see the effect in the game, let us use "Starting at 1530.txt" as an example. Type this code above "Makeunit: 4 0", since it's the "beginning" of the rebel's forces. Givedaimyo: 2 0 Note that they are still counted as the "Rebels".

Daughters
The Daughter functions which was later used in Medieval Total War exists as sound files. There are no strings that gives their names, however.

Unused Movie
There is an unused movie depicting the geisha assassinating a general in a camp area. Normally, the regular general assassination video only depicts the geisha in a house.

1530

 * In campaign 1530, the Hojo starts with a golden palace- This is an error, as the label given in the startingat1530.txt file says "Sagami port". The other campaigns have the correct building, though.

1550

 * The Rebels cannot build agent units. However, the rebels have a Ninja, Abe Shigekane, in their service, and starts on Omi province.
 * The Takeda are given an Armoury in their starting position; Normally you require Iron sand deposits in the region to make one, but it looks like its gameplay wise though.