When your army clashes with another army and you decide to take it to the battlefield, at first it appears that your co-op partner can spectate the fight, but won’t be able to actually participate as he or she has no units invested in the fight. However, you can gift some of your units to your co-op partner so they can play with you. There is also the potential opportunity, for both of your armies be on the battlefield: when one of you is reinforcing the other one in an attack against an enemy. To do this, however, your armies must be pretty much right up on each other on the campaign map when one of you attacks. For my and my partner’s play-style, mirroring our armies seems ineffective, so we skipped this option. We were having an excellent time purely playing the game on the campaign map. Though some die-hard RTS’ers may disagree, I think the auto-battle option is a great idea so people have a choice between a pure strategy game and a strategy game with real time strategy battles. It really opens up the game to a wider group of players. I only really had one other small complaint with the game, and it’s mostly a complaint inherent to any turn-based game played cooperatively. During the turn-based portion of the game, you and your co-op partner each have your own turn. While you certainly aren’t stuck not being able to do anything at all during your partner’s turn (e.g. you can check out all your cities, queue up recruiting, browse the in-game Encyclopedia, etc.), there were times where I found myself out of things to keep myself busy with.
Again, this was pretty minor, and many potential problems surrounding this could simply be cleared up if you and your co-op partner are courteous of each other and try to make your turns as quick and efficient as possible. In conclusion, Shogun 2: Total War completely met my expectations and even exceeded them in some areas.
I still feel as if I’ve barely scratched the surface of the potential depth of the game. The great thing is that you can get by with the basic knowledge, but greater potential is there if you want to pursue it. For example, I’ve hardly experimented at all with the monk agents, but if I chose to utilize them more, I’m sure I’d be well-rewarded for my effort.
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