Guide to the Guides (Total War: Shogun 2)

Kurkistan

This is the TW:S2 edition of the "Guide to the Guides." There will most likely be some overlap with Total War Center and other sources of guides, but I hope to keep things as organized as possible.

General Guides:

Official Shogun 2 FAQ

Frogbeastegg's Guide for Total War: Shogun 2
(^Thorough beyond compare)

Browser-Based Encyclopedia Access:*

Dribbs wrote: »

You don't even need to launch the game to view the Encyclopedia, you can simply use a web browser.
Just create a shortcut that points to ...

C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\total war shogun 2\data\encyclopedia\how_to_play.html
or
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\total war shogun 2\data\encyclopedia\how_to_play.html

Note: You will need to adjust that link depending on where you have installed the Steam client.

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Battle Guides:

Tactics:

Commentary/Walkthrough using tactics and natural features

Honda's Navy Academy [Video Guides]

Multiplayer Naval Unit & Battle Guide

Units:

Basic Unit Guide

Guide To Building an Army

Dalkar's Guide to Units and Tactics

The Ultimate Shogun 2 Land Unit Guide

About Taking Kyoto (Part 1 - Units)

Face-sploder's Unit Review

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General Campaign Guides:

The Clans, a Complete Walkthrough (Part [1] [2])

Dark Side's Economy Guide for Shogun 2
(^Superb. Read this)

Chronobomb's Guide to Retainers

Trait Gained Guide

Guide to factors that affect honour and loyalty

Diplomacy Guide

Strategic Guide

Edmon's Guide to Ashigaru Delivery Strategies

7horin's Guide to Generals

The Guide to Surviving Realm Divide

Dribbs' Guide to Diplomatic Relations

Guide: Strategic Locations

Tips on beating VH/Legendary

Shogun 2 Economic Quick Reference Guide

Map Layout:

Campaign Map - Regions, Resources, Fertility, Clans & Ports

Provinces & Factions (Starting Positions)

Resource and Bonus Distributions

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Clan Specific Campaign Guides:

How to Survive as Oda on Harder Difficulties

The Ultimate Oda legendary walk through including videos

Hattori Startup

You want to be Ieyasu? (Tokugawa Legendary guide)
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Rise of the Samurai:

RotS Economic Quick Reference Guide
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Fall of the Samurai:

Reworked Encyclopedia Map (Includes original, RotS, and FotS)

FotS Economic Quick Reference Guide

"March to the Sea" - War Economy and Play Style

Fun Tips for FotS

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Look to the links directly below if you can't find a relevant guide in this thread:

TWC Gameplay and Strategy Discussion Forum

TotalWar.org TWS2 Guides Forum

TotalWar.org FotS Guides Forum

Total War: Shogun 2 Guides and Articles
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Please post here with links to any useful guides you come across or create.

* daelin4 states that anyone posting online-sourced websites hosting the encyclopedia, such as totalwar.ru, violates breach of copyright as well as posting inaccurate information, and is forbidden on this forum. Please refrain from doing so and report any links that contain encyclopedia entries. Thanks!

Kurkistan

Added The Clans, a Complete Walkthrough under the passive aggressively named "Full Game Guides that Certain Individual Couldn't Wait to Compile Based on the Encyclopedia: :mad:" section.

EDIT: Guide in question removed from boards, removing link and section.

EDIT2: Guide verified as legit, added back on.

Face-sploder

My clan walkthrough is back up so you can link it on here if you would like.


Your welcome

Kurkistan

Added back in, sorry about the hassle. Thanks for being the first guide.

Also, sadly, this isn't going to get stickied until the official release, so the link to your guide will be languishing at the bottom of a pile of dead threads for a bit.

Face-sploder

Yeah I know I expected as much

I'm probably going to re-post a new version once the game comes out and I've actually played with the clans and experimented with all the units. Like the comment you wrote about my guide.

It's very offensive, yet fitting

Kurkistan

Added instruction for how to access demo Encyclopedia from a web browser under the "General Demo Guides" section, courtesy of Dribbs.

Dribbs wrote: »

You don't even need to launch the game to view the official demo version of the Encyclopedia, you can simply use a web browser.
Just create a shortcut that points to ...

C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\total war shogun 2 demo\data\encyclopedia\how_to_play.html
or
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\total war shogun 2 demo\data\encyclopedia\how_to_play.html

Note: You will need to adjust that link depending on where you have installed the Steam client.

Face-sploder

I have begun updating my clan guide (The Clans, a Complete Walkthrough) to V2. I will edit this post when I am finished.

Kurkistan

Took out the demo-specific content at the beginning of the post, including the access path to the demo's encyclopedia.

Renamed "General Demo Guides" to just "General Guides" and placed a link to online encyclopedia access as well as a plea for help for the file path of the encyclopedia on the computer's hard drive under it.

Renamed "Full Game Guides that Certain Individual Couldn't Wait to Compile Based on the Encyclopedia: :mad:" to "Campaign Guides."

@face-sploder
Take your time, you're still well ahead of the curve here.

Kurkistan

Added an "External Links" section and put TotalWar.org TWS2 Guides Forum and TotalWar.org TWS2 Multiplayer Guides Forum under it.

Kurkistan

Added Resource and Bonus Distributions under "Campaign Guides."

EDIT:
Added TWC Gameplay and Strategy Discussion Forum under "External Links."

Kurkistan

Added Dribbs's Encyclopedia directions back into "General Guides," with slight modifications to account for this not being the demo.

Dribbs wrote: »

You don't even need to launch the game to view the Encyclopedia, you can simply use a web browser.
Just create a shortcut that points to ...

C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\total war shogun 2\data\encyclopedia\how_to_play.html
or
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\total war shogun 2\data\encyclopedia\how_to_play.html

Note: You will need to adjust that link depending on where you have installed the Steam client.

Added a link to the Official Shogun 2 FAQ under "General Guides."

Kurkistan

Changed "Campaign Guides" to "General Campaign Guides," added "Clan Specific Campaign Guides" category and put How to Survive as Oda on Harder Difficulties under that category.

Kurkistan

Removed "Online Encyclopedia Access" under "General Guides," turns out that that was pirated.

Kurkistan

Added Provinces & Factions (Starting Positions) under "General Campaign Guides."

P.S. Thanks for the sticky, Shire!

Face-sploder

Because of a maximum character limit problem and me not being smart enough to reserve another post when I made my clan guide I have had to make a separate thread for part 2. I would appreciate if you add this one on here as well.

http://forums.totalwar.com/showthread.php/11166-The-Clans-a-Complete-Walkthrough-Part-2

Kurkistan

^Added links to Parts [1] and [2] for "The Clans, a Complete Walkthrough" under "General Campaign Guides."

King Rufus

Great job Kurkistan, as always . Many thanks for the effort.

DarkSideHome

Hey Kurkistan, I just uploaded an economy guide for Shogun 2:


http://forums.totalwar.com/showthread.php/11396-Dark-Side-s-Economy-Guide-for-Shogun-2


Good to see you back.

Kurkistan

^Added Dark Side's Economy Guide for Shogun 2 under "General Campaign Guides." Thanks, it's good to be back, although I still have yet to really sink my teeth into TWS2.

Kurkistan

Changed link to Official Shogun 2 FAQ to go to the table of contents instead of first post.

Added "Battle Guides" section and placed Basic Unit Guide under it.

Kurkistan

Added Commentary/Walkthrough using tactics and natural features under "Battle Guides."

P.S.
Could you guys please start posting links to guides you find, or PM me with them? That last one almost slipped over the edge of the page before I saw it.

chronobomb

I have am currently working on a guide for all the retainers. Its in my signature if you think it would be helpful.

Kurkistan

^Thank you. Added Chronobomb's Guide to Retainers under "General Campaign Guides."

EDIT:
Added "(^Superb. Read this)" directly underneath Dark Side's Economy Guide for Shogun 2 under "General Campaign Guides."

Face-sploder

I'm not under superb T_T

just kidding great job kurkistan you made it so people finally pay attention to my bullpoo and the only thing they can see before reading it is the link and the title

Hurray to Kurkistan and bullpoo

Kurkistan

^You're welcome. . .?

Added The Ultimate Oda legendary walk through including videos under "Clan Specific Campaign Guides."

Tansu

Kurkistan, the king of guides;)

Kurkistan

^Thank you, but I believe that that title rightfully belongs to Spraetter (if he gets around to making a guide for TWS2, that is. . .)

I would accept "Most awesome archivist of stuff ever" as a title, though.

Kurkistan

Created new "Map Layout" subsection under "General Campaign Guides," placed Provinces & Factions (Starting Positions) and Resource and Bonus Distributions under it, and added Campaign Map - Regions, Resources, Fertility, Clans & Ports under it as well.

Face-sploder

Making a Hattori start up guide so all the people that cannot start up don't have to nag anymore

basically a walk-through of first 10 turns and starting diplomacy so our forum doesn't get anymore "Hattori faction sucks because starting position is stupid" threads

Kurkistan

^Good to know. Post a link when it's done.

Face-sploder

Done!

http://forums.totalwar.com/showthread.php/13520-Hattori-Startup

Thanks Kurkistan