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In the absence of Regina, I will jump in and post today's announcement of the new video development diary. Covering factions, this is the second video diary in a four-part series about the upcoming strategy title Sengoku, due for release on PC in Q3 2011.

View the second video developer interview here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_TDFAnYPKE

Read the written developer diaries here:
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/content.php?460-senguko

[video=youtube;5_TDFAnYPKE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_TDFAnYPKE[/video]

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I like your Faction system :) are the units the only bonus that religion offers?

From the screencasts in the background of the video, I see that each religious building has different effects.
 
I like your Faction system :) are the units the only bonus that religion offers?

No, the system is somewhat different now from when the video was recorded.
The Buddhists give you a bonus to reinforcement speed.
The Shintoists give you a bonus to honor gain.
The Christians give you a bonus to tax.
 
Can players found church or other buildings in 1467, about 80 years before the arrival of Portuguese missionaries and marchants?
Or is there any event like the Mongorian invasion in CK which works as trigger for these buildings?
 
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I am 99,9999% sure you can't build them before Christians arrive... it would make no sense.
 
This obviously means that for at least one playthrough I will have to try to make the entire island Christian; not because of any personally-held beliefs, but because it would be so strange.
 
No, the system is somewhat different now from when the video was recorded.
The Buddhists give you a bonus to reinforcement speed.
The Shintoists give you a bonus to honor gain.
The Christians give you a bonus to tax.

Since there is not a technological tree in the game it makes sense that Christianity give you more tax because of the better commercial relation with Portuguese merchants in lands were the Jesuits were established. Will Christianity spawn anywhere or will it have predominance in the south? Kyushu and south Honshu like happened in history?
 
Since there is not a technological tree in the game it makes sense that Christianity give you more tax because of the better commercial relation with Portuguese merchants in lands were the Jesuits were established. Will Christianity spawn anywhere or will it have predominance in the south? Kyushu and south Honshu like happened in history?

Maybe it will appear in different places and at different times in different playthroughs? It would certainly make it more difficult to anticipate its arrival, although I wouldn't object if it followed a more historical route.
 
Maybe it will appear in different places and at different times in different playthroughs? It would certainly make it more difficult to anticipate its arrival, although I wouldn't object if it followed a more historical route.

You are probably right for gameplay sake. Also it would not be a historical, because the problem was not the Jesuits and the Franciscans intentionally fixing themselves in the south, the problem was if the daimyos accepted Christianity or not. So is your choice as a Daimyo that matters like it was in reality
 
An event will bring the Portuguese to Japan, enabling christian churches and arquebuses. There will be some randomness to when it fires, so it won't happen exactly 1543. But it won't fire for the first 40 or so years to keep some historical flavor. Where the Portuguese first land will also be a random coastal province (maybe slightly weighted towards the south).
 
An event will bring the Portuguese to Japan, enabling christian churches and arquebuses. There will be some randomness to when it fires, so it won't happen exactly 1543. But it won't fire for the first 40 or so years to keep some historical flavor. Where the Portuguese first land will also be a random coastal province (maybe slightly weighted towards the south).

haHA! Look at me being a clever guesser. I'm glad that it's taking this route, as it will keep the user from selecting a certain province from the outset to obtain the Christian bonuses more easily.
 
An event will bring the Portuguese to Japan, enabling christian churches and arquebuses. There will be some randomness to when it fires, so it won't happen exactly 1543. But it won't fire for the first 40 or so years to keep some historical flavor. Where the Portuguese first land will also be a random coastal province (maybe slightly weighted towards the south).

Are Dutch still represented?
 
Julius Caesar? :)

Nitpicking... On the other hand, leaving him in might ease the disappointment with the Rome fans of this not being Rome II.
 
Nitpicking... On the other hand, leaving him in might ease the disappointment with the Rome fans of this not being Rome II.

The Koei games allowed the player to unlock """historical""" figures (ranging from Julius Caesar to Sunzi/Sun Tzu), so it's perfectly reasonable Caesar should be in this game as well ;)
 
The Koei games allowed the player to unlock """historical""" figures (ranging from Julius Caesar to Sunzi/Sun Tzu), so it's perfectly reasonable Caesar should be in this game as well ;)
Let me guess. Caesar survived his assasination attempt and then managed to flee east through Russia and Siberia, and finally reach Japan, where he has lived a long life thanks to the advanced Chinese medical expertise and healthy Japanese food. ;)

Anyway factions sound good. I look forward on having to balance between them and establishing my own Christian Shogunate.
 
I have to say this is the most interesting Sengoku feature so far. I like having to balance between a number of mysterious factions, never appeasing them all, and you bring angry vassals and angry mobs into it :).

I just wonder if Christianity will be a viable choice given there will already be temples constructed everywhere.