Quote Originally Posted by Sp4 View Post
Yeah some of the stuff they have in the vanilla Shogun 2 is pretty mind boggling... Climbing walls instead of ladders? Carving castles into rocks instead of building them somewhere convenient... Cannons made from wood... total lack of shields xD This is almost like watching some aliens.
Actually Japanese fortress construction is really fascinating! They independently developed a lot of the same principles of fortress design as Early Modern Europeans did.
(One of my big gripes with Empire was the lack of amazing forts, especially since it was such a feature of post-Military Revolution warfare.)