Adds an additional 75 officers to SoI to help clans and dates that need more officers.
This update adds an additional seventy five officers to SoI to help provide more manpower to clans (mainly in the west) and dates that suffer from lack of officers. While not gamechanging in terms of balance, it should help some clans perform more consistently better without gorging the unifier clans too much. Many of these officers are ported from SoI: Ascension, but some were either introduced by later games or are still absent from NA as a series, and care has been made to integrate them with the overall balance changes of the base mod. In order to install the mod, download the file and extract or copy its contents to your SoI BUSHOU file.
Assuming you have a normal installation, the path should be “Documents>TecmoKoei>NOBU14PK_EN>EDIT>BUSHOU”. After copying the files into that folder, boot up SoI, go to Edit Created Officers and select Export/Import. Go to the load menu and load the officers - SoI for some reason makes it so that you can only export/import a maximum of fifty officers at a time, so you will have to manually load them in two batches. Afterwards, go to Active/Standby and either manually load all imported officers or select the switch all button. NOTE: if selecting switch all it will activate any extra officers that you have unlocked. These officers are not edited and are game rewards that will break game balance; in order to differentiate between them, Extra officers will have an Extra in their category tab, and will have to be manually set to standby if you do not wish to have them in your game.
If all of the instructions are followed correctly, your Created/Active Officers count in the Create Officer menu should have increased by 75 (meaning if you have no active officers prior to this it will register 75/1055). The recommended dates for these new officers to have the most impact would be 1551/55, 1582 (Fateful Clash or Kiyosu Conference) and 1600.
Will I have to redownload the Historical Rebalance Mod for this to work?
No, this mod only adds new created officers, it does make any changes to the historical officers - you can have one without the other if you want.
Will I have to backup my preexisting created officers to avoid them being permanently lost?
While backing up your EDATA000 file and exporting your own officers to a backup file is always a good idea, it should be unnecessary: the installation method is done through the Import/Export feature to avoid overwriting any created officers you might already have.
You mentioned many of these officers are from Ascension. Will I have to download graphics packs for them to work?
No. While the Ascension officer graphics can be downloaded from here (special thanks to JMSA on the KoeiTecmo Warriors forum for porting them), these officers are all using generic portraits accessible through the SoI character creator. This was done to avoid complicating the download process and potentially overwriting preexisting custom portraits.
Are there any new maiden officers?
Unfortunately the SoI character creator treats all female officers as men for all purposes except the activation of a few traits, so ultimately I decided against adding any missing historical maiden officers since part of their functionality would be lost.
Are these officers able to be edited after installation.
Yes, once you've successfully installed you can edit these officers like any other created character.
