Japanese

Japanese is a faction created by Hagekura. It is based on the Sengoku Period (Warring States Period) of Japan. It is the first of other factions that will be in an unnamed techtree by Hagekura.

History
Japanese was first announced on 25 October 2010. The latest version was released on 9 December 2011.

A small downloadable modification was made for the faction in January 2012 to enable it to run on the Glest Advanced Engine. Details can be found on the Glest board thread.

Public reception
The Japanese faction was well received by the Glest community, praised largely for its large techtree, uniqueness, and good quality models. Based on historical Japan, it was vividly popular and continues expansion with the recent release of a new techtree map. It has been considered being added into the Megapack, though no decisions were made and much work with balancing would be necessary before that could occur, in addition to the exclamation that the Megapack was too large as it was.