My brother was playing this game (which we have both been obsessed with lately), and he pointed this out to me:

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/54176 ... BBAD71032/

You can see in the lower left of the daimyo's profile that he has a goban, which gives command attributes to him in battle. Pretty cool of them to include it.

Now I'm on the prowl for shogi references in the game...

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That's a neat find!

What's the game like? The last two of the series that I had played were Rome and Medieval, and then skipped Empire/Napoleon because of the fairly negative reception it got. Is Shogun an improvement again? How well does the AI cope?

The leftmost slot in the "Retainers" section shows a an image of a shogi piece on a shogi board. If the "go board" info is a popup/tooltip related to that, then the developers have mixed up go and shogi.

The text says "Go Board" but the icon is a Shogi piece (the "銀将") , presumably on a Shogi Board (将棋盤), not a Go Board (Goban, 碁盤):Did I miss something?

Oh, I had only looked at the picture zoomed out and assumed the picture was a goban and the black was black stones. Good spot. Pretty amusing mistake.

Maybe they use the silver general piece to indicate all games generals can get, to save file space.

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I also noticed this while playing and I made a bug report:

http://forums.totalwar.com/showthread.p ... post136601

Jared, is that your set in the photo?

Shogi also gets a text reference in the game.

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/59580 ... 828B83091/

It seems the Silver General is the default "gaming" icon in the game, as I had a feeling of.

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