Well, the concept is interesting.
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Japan in the Sengoku Era had quite a lot of iconic heroes and characters. That Oda would be specifically “the choosen” for a variant civ would lead one to think that they could have also used Hideyoshi, Date Masamune or even Sanada Yukimura.
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You could also put a “Daimyo” as a hero unit and not necessarily Oda, in any case according to your model the one who acts as hero is a “Diplomatic” who unlock many other Clans of the Sengoku Era and not necessarily Oda with Oda abilities, but well the idea is interesting.
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Landmarks: I really wanted Azuchi Castle to be the 4th Japanese Landmark, but well, it couldn’t be done. Maybe if there is a campaign maybe it can appear, that would be great.
In fact, if one day there is a possibility that they can make “MOD CIVS” with the Editor to make each civ a Joan D’Arc Hero, a Japanese version with Oda would be quite cool. In that case your idea would be good.
As a suggestion:
- You are missing something like a “Tenka Fubbu” as a final ability, or that of summoning a squad of musketeers and some cannon, or special units of the Oda guard (The Umamawari), which as I understand were a special cavalry troop.
Curiously, when the DLC came out, a topic was created to consider what other new Civ variants there could be for each Civ, let’s say “Vanilla”. ( Variants of remaining civ)
I was thinking that the Ikko-Ikki could be an interesting bet for Japan considering that the Japanese already have “A LOT” of their own unique units and representation, and considering that the variants generally “have more unique units”, it just occurred to me that there are still many that were left aside: “Ronins, Soheis, Yamabushi, Jesuit Missionaries”, could fit well into that design.
Now that I think about it, I don’t think I ever put my last comment suggesting more ideas. I think I did a lot of thinking about what extra variants could be added for the Byzantines. In fact I can think of one but it will be a surprise hehe. Take care.