Bakumatsu Mod

[bluepoo]

looks great! glad you found someone to help with the english. and you're quite fast! have you come across any bugs? is there more to do or is it complete enough to download?

[Woody Man]

New Localisation here

Give it a look over, hopefully it's all ok

[Yoshino]

v1.0 is up!
- Added events 'Ansei Purge' and 'Sakuradamon Incident' for the Bakufu and all Daimyos
- Added a decision for Bakufu to 'Appoint Ii Naosuke'
- Added a decision for Mito,Satsuma,Choshu and Tosa to 'Assassinate Ii Naosuke'
- Rewrited description of many events and decisions (by Woody Man.Thanks!)
- Improved script of the Boshin war events.
- Took Ainu Mosir provinces of Shumushu and Etorofu(to uncolonized status).(AI-Russia sometimes invades Ezo which contain both core-provinces of them.This prevents it).

I concluded that the mod is enough to go out from an alpha-stage.
Also,I added Ii Naosuke event chain.Eventually some pro-court daimyo could gain a few prestige from it.so they close in on the overthrow of the Bakufu decision.

@podcat
Look like AI external countries didn't grab Japan provinces at least I have tested a few times.
Only exception was Russia.Aggressive bear sometimes grabbed Ezo.Becouse two their core provinces were contained.In ver1.0,I removed these provinces from Ainu.

@bluepoo
I don't find any bug so far.Maybe enough to playable(at least I hope so!).

@Woody Man
Many thinks.These files are included into ver1.0.

[Yoshino]

v1.1 is out!
- Added a event for Japan to 'Iwakura mission'.
- Added a event for the Bakufu to 'Shogun visits the USA and Europe'(What If.The Bakufu version of Iwakura mission).
- Added decisions for the Bakufu to 'Establish Shinsengumi' and 'Marriage Kazunomiya'.
- Corrected a color bug of Japanese Army.

Maybe,next update will be quite late.
Almost complete version.

[Goldor2005]

This is awesome! Thanks for this Yoshino!

[Yoshino]

Thanks Goldor!

Now V1.2 is out!

- Added a event 'The War of Satsuma Rebellion' to Japan after Unification.
- Added a event 'The cultural assimilation' to Japan and the Bakufu,which remove all past Daimyo's core provinces from united Japan(or the Bakufu) after 1880.
- Fixed a bug of decisions 'Establish Shinsengumi' and 'Marriage Kazunomiya'.
- Fixed a bug of events chain 'Boshin War'.
- Tweaked a decision 'Assassinate Ii Naosuke'.

The war of Satsuma Rebellion would be happened when
1) Unification of Japan has achieved
2) Kagoshima province's average militancy is above 3
3)'The cultural assimilation' event don't happen.

[SAS]

This is quit simply AMAZING!

[Dyranum]

Wouldn't all those new TAGs slow the game down though?

[Palisadoes]

Awesome mod!

Wouldn't all those new TAGs slow the game down though?

I haven't noticed any significant slow down.

[Yoshino]

@SAS and Palisadoes
Thank you!

@ Dyranum
As already said,I coundn't find any difference between the mod and the vanilla.

I updated to ver 1.21 which is just a bug fix.

- Fixed a bug on the decision 'Send the Perry squadron to Japan' which caused endless executed.

[Phalanxia]

Wow! This is great! How did I not find this earlier?

A few questions though:

Do you have many events for Japan post-Satsuma Rebellion?
Although I don't have Jansen with me here at uni, I remember him saying in the Making of Modern Japan that the Satsuma Rebellion was bitterer and fiercer (I.e. more difficult for the player). Is this true?
Is it possible to play as any of the Bakufu to unite Japan, or do you have to play as Chosu or one of the other leading Daimyo in the Boshin War?
Can you play as the Tokugawa and modernise Japan?
How is the Western presence depicted in Japan? Are they stomping around being as obnoxious as the Japanese thought they were being?
Is it compatible with PDM?

In return, I'd be happy to tidy up your grammar in the descriptions

[Dagfinn]

Is this compatible with the Age of Colonializm mod?

[Yoshino]

Do you have many events for Japan post-Satsuma Rebellion?
Although I don't have Jansen with me here at uni, I remember him saying in the Making of Modern Japan that the Satsuma Rebellion was bitterer and fiercer (I.e. more difficult for the player). Is this true?

Maybe so.I didn't make any events/decisions after the Satuma Rebellion.Maybe these would be out of period of the mod,latest shogunate.

Is it possible to play as any of the Bakufu to unite Japan, or do you have to play as Chosu or one of the other leading Daimyo in the Boshin War?
Can you play as the Tokugawa and modernise Japan?

Any player daimyo(and only AI damyo of Satsuma,Choshu,Tosa and Mito) can begin to overthrow the Bakufu.
As for the Bakufu,they can become a united and modern nation if they annexed Japan(i.e.won the Boshin war).

How is the Western presence depicted in Japan? Are they stomping around being as obnoxious as the Japanese thought they were being?

I haven't make any decisions/events yet except the vanilla's ones.
Maybe some decisions,such as 攘夷 (Jyoui.expel barbarians) for conservative daimyo would be added into the next version.

Is it compatible with PDM?

Is this compatible with the Age of Colonializm mod?

I don't have a spare time to keeping updated with other mods.Sorry.
Feel free to adjust my mod with other mods.
Tweaking some files(such as common\countries.txt) would be necessary to do so.

In return, I'd be happy to tidy up your grammar in the descriptions

Thank you.I will integrate it into the next version.

[Phalanxia]

OK. If this continues to be worked on I think this could turn out to be something really neat!

Maybe so.I didn't make any events/decisions after the Satuma Rebellion.Maybe these would be out of period of the mod,latest shogunate.

I think it should, with a focus on the restoration. That would make it more interesting to play post-restoration.

As for the Bakufu,they can become a united and modern nation if they annexed Japan(i.e.won the Boshin war).

Ok, so do they then tag switch to Japan? Does the Bakufu civilise? What happens to the daimyo who side with the Bakufu?

I don't have a spare time to keeping updated with other mods.Sorry.
Feel free to adjust my mod with other mods.
Tweaking some files(such as common\countries.txt) would be necessary to do so.

Hmm, I know nothing about modding (that's why I offered to fix grammar), so I wouldn't know what to tweak..

Thank you.I will integrate it into the next version.

I'll take a look at it at the weekened, when I've got some free time

[Te. Kenzo]

Maybe the Daymio should be satellite of Edo at start?

[Naselus]

Is it compatible with PDM?

It should be fairly easy to make this compatible with PDM. The only conflicting files atm are the ones in the common folder, which can be merged up pretty easily.

Tho I wouldn't be at all suprised if this mod was incorporated wholesale into PDM...

[Jaol]

Awesome looking mod!

this is really cool. do you have any problems with external countries trying to take advantage and grab parts of japan now that its split up?

Perhaps each individual country is too small to be worth the infamy in the ai's opinion. Players would be another matter though.

If it became a problem, I guess Yoshino could always add an event chain allowing the Japanese minors unite into the Bafuku when threatened from the outside.

[tanathos]

I'm not sure if my game is working as intended. I feel I might have borked a few things. Anyway, I'm playing as the Bakufu in POP Demand mod, where in Bakumatsu has recently been incorporated.

In the begginning of the game, I attacked Kobe that had un allied with me. I foolishly called all my allies to help (I somehow thought others where my satellite) and thus lost all my alliances except one (everyone declined to help). The result? I was able to declare war with the Restore Order casus belli on everyone, every time I had one free diplomat. What's worse : only the first battle saw an alliance of Daymo against me, for the rest, everyone always declined to help each other. The result is that it's now 1856, the Perry ships have just landed (confirming me that at LEAST the mod's event are working, as for a while I thought nothing would be happening), I control the entirety of Japan (no Daymo are lefts except Ainu up north) and have westernized.

I still see no decision to form Japan, is this normal?

[Sjiveru]

Oh this looks amazing.

Are the screenshots still accurate? I would hope it's historical provinces and historical daimyou, not modern prefectures as nations.

I'd be willing to help with this, English and translation as well as just the mod itself.

Idea: This has probably been said, but you could use one tag for a unified Japan, with the Bakufu as the Absolute Monarchy version (i.e. the Bakufu as winners of the Boshin War) and the Empire as the Constitutional Monarchy / Prussian Constitutionalism version.

[tanathos]

So an update on my screwed up game : it seems that eventually the Boshin War did break out, but the only provinces to rebel where Kyoto and Osaka. By then I already controlled Mandchouria, had sphered the entirety of south asia and was winning my second war against Netherlands to retake their South Asia possessions. Needless to say the rebellion was crushed. So now it seems I'm stuck as the Tokuwaga Bakufu as a country and can never become Japan since those that did, the court faction, was eliminated. Does this mean I have no choice but to play as a Daymo instead of the Bakufu and then pick the court faction when the Boshin war break out? It's very deterministic -_-

I'll keep playing to see if the Bakufu eventually becomes Japan but it seems that's very unlikely...