I felt that the unit variety was a bit lacking in Gekokoju, so I extended the troop tree by adding a proper troop tree from the Peasant Woman. Instead of just going
Peasant Woman --> Onnabushi --> Trained Onnabushi --> Veteran Onnabushi --> Elite Onnabushi
it now goes:
Peasant Woman
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Onnabushi Kyudo Josei Bushi
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Trained Onnabushi Onnabushi Cavalry Trained Kyudo Josei Bushi
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Veteran Onnabushi Onnabushi Katana Cavalry Onnabushi Naginata Cavalry Josei Yabasume Veteran Kyudo Josei Bushi
Elite Onnabushi Elite Onnabushi Katana Cav Elite Onnabushi Naginata Cav Elite Josei Yabasume Elite Kyudo Josei Bushi
The Trained Onnabushi line has been modified to wield progressively longer naginatas and heavier armor, rather than their previous use of naginatas, bows, and horses These have been split up into the other lines. The Cavalry line is pretty self-explanatory - they are heavy cavalry with your choice of katanas or naginatas. Kyudo means archery in Japanese (I think, I don't actually know Japanese), so you would be right in guessing the Kyudo Josei Bushi line are archers with a Wakizashi sidearm. Yabasume is the sport of horse archery, and these gals are pretty just their foot archer friends put on horses, with more compact bows.
I can put up my version of troops.txt if there's any interest. However, there are two problems with this currently.
The first is a pretty simple bug: for some reason the Josei Yabasume unit spawns without a horse, even though he has the mounted flag set, is set to use a horse, has a horse in his items, and has sufficient riding skill to ride said horse. The Elite Josei Yabasume works fine, with the same flags set and the same horse. Any help would be appreciated!
The other problem is the difficulty of acquiring Peasant Women in the base Gekokoju. The only source of them is the Peasant Women that spawn from villages with trade goods for the cities. This means the only way to recruit them is either to beat up bandits that have captured them, or to go straight to the source and knock unconscious a bunch of peasant women and recruit them from prisoners. The problem with this method is that it costs you relations with the village, the city, and the owning lord, as well as honor, so it only works for some playthroughs where you don't give a **** about those things. If it's easily possible to make peasant women recruitable somewhere, I'd love to know how. The other option is making the tree upgradable from a different unit, perhaps all the Ashigaru.