I couldn't find the template slots that you mentioned, im thinking of releasing my new submod which contains; ruler based recruitment, custom troops for player's clan, new scenes, about a hundred new items (katana,kabuto, armor, jinbaori),historical appearances of some lords, new shoulder guards for armors (2 alternatives each for variety + armors and shoulder guards from shogun 2 total war), some Kamakura/Muromachi period O-Yoroi and Domaru armors, retextured armors for some clans such as Oda, Mogami and Date, a little longer lasting battles (improved morale and increased party sizes), numerous little tweaks, ambient sounds for battles, new music, new world map village icons, new skyboxes, new loading screens and pictures, 3 types of Kozane armors + all the new things added by Suguroku and more.. So i'll probably remove takeda and oda mons from the scenes to not to break immersion, and i have 2 annoying bugs (luckly not gamebreakers) that i want to fix before release, if i cant i'll release them anyway. The most annoying one is prison break quest is bugged, when you sneak into the enemy town "walk in the streets" button is not there, the only options are leave, marketplace and arena, by going into the arena and then going in to the city through there solves the problem, (havent tasted the castles yet) and i dont know if its my doing or diplomacy's bug, i read in several topics that some diplomacy versions has this problem, anyways its not the right topic to talk about these so instead i'll leave some screenshots (from the submod)
P.S I'll announce the mod if im happy with its content.