Welcome to... _______________________________________________________________________________ ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ DYNASTY WARRIORS 5 For the Sony Playstation 2 Complete FAQ/Walkthrough Written by Keith McMullen Current version: Version 1.3 Completed: 10/22/2011 Last revised: 09/15/2012 _______________________________________________________________________________ ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ TABLE OF CONTENTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ **NOTE** To jump to a certain section of this guide without having to scroll through, hit Ctrl + F on your keyboard and use the [XXXX] search tool next to the section that you want to view. 01. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [INTR] 02. Version History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [VRHX] 03. Game Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [GMBA] > Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [CNTR] > History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [HIST] > Game modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [MODE] > Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SCRN] > Bases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [BASE] > Bodyguards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [BODY] > Tips and tricks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [TNTS] 04. Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [CHAR] > Shu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SHUC] > Wei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WEIC] > Wu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WUCH] > Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [OTHR] 05. Musou Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [MUSU] > Shu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SHUM] > Wei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WEIM] > Wu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WUMS] > Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [OTHM] 06. Free Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [FREE] > Battle of Xi Liang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [XILI] > Battle of Ji Province . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [JIPR] > Battle of Liang Province . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [LIAN] > Struggle for Nan Zhong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [NANS] > Battle of Nan Zhong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [NANB] > The Yellow Turban Rebellion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [TYTR] > Battle of Si Shui Gate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SHUI] > Battle of Hu Lao Gate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [HLAO] > Battle of Chang Shan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SHAN] > Battle of Jing Province . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [JING] > Battle of the Wu Territory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WUTE] > Battle of Wan Castle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WANC] > Battle of Xia Pi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [XIAP] > Battle of Guan Du . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [GUAN] > Guan Yu's Escape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ESCP] > The Trials of Sun Ce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SUNC] > Battle of Xia Kou . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [XKOU] > Battle of Chang Ban . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [CBAN] > Battle of Chi Bi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [CHIB] > Escape from Chi Bi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ECHI] > Battle of Tong Gate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [TONG] > Battle of Cheng Du . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [CHDU] > Battle of He Fei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [HFEI] > The Invasion of Nan Zhong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [NANI] > Battle of Mt. Ding Jun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [DJUN] > Battle of Fan Castle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [FANC] > Battle of Yi Ling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [YLNG] > Conquest of Nan Zhong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [NANC] > Battle of Tian Shui . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [TIAN] > Battle of Jie Ting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [TING] > Battle of Chen Cang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [CHEN] > Battle of He Fei Castle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [HFCA] > Battle of Bai Di Castle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [BAID] > Battle of Wu Zhang Plains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WUZP] 07. Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ITEM] > In-game items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [INGM] > Regular items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [REGU] > Rare items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [RARE] - Harnesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [HARN] - Orbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ORBS] - General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [GENE] 08. Fourth Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WEAP] > Shu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SHUW] > Wei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WEIW] > Wu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WUWP] > Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [OTHW] 09. Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [MISC] > Character unlocking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UNLK] > Officer drop list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [DROP] > Chaos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [CHAO] > Challenge Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [CHAL] > FAQs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [FAQS] 10. Credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [CRDT] 11. Legal info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [LGIF] _______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 01. INTRODUCTION [INTR] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Ever since I played a demo of Dynasty Warriors 3, I've been a big fan of the series. I've played many of the expansion games (Xtreme Legends, Empires, etc.) as well as some of the other games developed by Koei that revolve around the Three Kingdoms era. Not only do I enjoy the games, but they got me interested in the actual history behind them. I've read the full Three Kingdoms book, and have read up a lot on the actual events of this era as well as the history of many of the characters. So it only made sense to me to write an FAQ/Walkthrough for what is probably (in my opinion) the best of the Dynasty Warriors games thus far - Dynasty Warriors 5. Don't get me wrong, the ones before it were great too (haven't played anything above 5 yet) but I always thought the fifth had the perfect balance of all the games. Being that this is one of my all-time favorite games and that I've already played it for countless hours before writing this FAQ (and now countless more while writing it...) I've tried to go as in-depth as possible for this FAQ. So if you see anything that's wrong or you think I'm missing, please shoot me an email at: kmfx24 [at] yahoo [dot] com Please include the words "Dynasty Warriors 5" in the title so I can quickly sort through my email and find what I need. Any comments and criticism are welcome, so long as it's constructive. Please don't email me asking a question that is already covered in this FAQ (such as how do I get "X" weapon or "X" item - unless the strategy I have is completely wrong, which it shouldn't be.) If you provide me with any additional information that I then add to this guide I will certainly give you credit. _______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 02. VERSION HISTORY [VRHX] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Version 1.3 (09/15/2012) - Small update - fixed a few spelling and grammar errors, and I added the wikipedia article that I used to gather some information for the history in the credits section of this FAQ. Version 1.2 (02/26/2012) - Revised the formatting a bit. Also changed my stance on posting this guide on websites other than GameFAQs, -> PLEASE READ UPDATED LEGAL INFO! <- Version 1.1 (11/08/2011) - An email from Daryl Engel pointed out an error in the requirement I had down for Sun Ce's forth weapon. I have since corrected this with what I _believe_ to be the correct requirement. See section UW10 for more information. Version 1.0 (10/22/2011) - Finally finished. Took me a lot longer then I had originally planned, mostly due to laziness on my part. But I knew I had to finish this before BF3 came out or else I would never get it done. And thankfully I did, with 3 days to spare! I'll probably make a few updates here and there with some spelling errors and such (as I'm sure this guide is riddled with them) but I don't see any major additions in content any time soon. I'm very Dynasty Warrior'd out right now. _______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 03. GAME BASICS [GMBA] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ If this is your first time playing any Dynasty Warrior game, there is quite a bit to learn in terms of actual game play. And even if you have played any of the previous games, there are some new additions to this game as you probably would have guessed. In this section I'll go over basic information that I believe all players to this game should know. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- CONTROLS [CNTR] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Directional pad: Character movement. Left analog stick: Character movement. Right analog stick: Nothing. Select: Change bodyguard orders. Start: Pause/Display information screen/Skip event. Select + Start: When pressed at the same time, the game will restart (does not work while saving/loading or during FMVs.) L1: Guard (can deliver a counter attack while guarding by pressing triangle immediately after guarding a blow)/Rotate battlefield map to the left on the information screen. L2: Turn on/off character name and life display/Change battlefield map from 3D to 2D and vice versa on the information screen. L3 (push down on left analog stick): Nothing. R1: Raise your bow. To aim, use the directional buttons. There are three different ways to attack with the bow: - Press square: Normal damage arrow. - Press triangle: High damage arrow, stuns the enemy. - Press circle: Shoots a volley of arrows quickly (musou gauge must be full to use this one.) Also will rotate the battlefield map to the right on the information screen. R2: Toggle between complete map and zoomed in map/Change battlefield map from 3D to 2D and vice versa on the information screen. R3 (push down on right analog stick): Activate musou rage (only if you have an available musou rage token to be used.) Triangle: Charge attack/Resume game if paused. Square: Normal attack. O: If the musou gauge is full, you will perform your musou attack. If it is not then hold down this button to slowly increase your musou gauge until full. X: Jump/Mount or dismount a horse or elephant (must be near it.) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- HISTORY [HIST] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- **NOTE** While I know most of the general history behind the Three Kingdoms era a lot of information here - especially names and dates - I got from the Wikipedia article on the Three Kingdoms. The link is in the credits section if you want to read more information about this era, which I highly suggest you do, as not only is this period in history very interesting, but it will help you better appreciate the story as you play the game (or at least I think so.) Dynasty Warriors 5 takes place during a time in China's history known as the "Three Kingdoms" era. Most scholars and historians consider this time period to be from the start of the Yellow Turban Rebellion around 184 A.D. to the fall of the Wu Kingdom by the Jin Dynasty in 280 A.D. Academically speaking, however, the start of this era is considered to be the foundation of the Wei Empire in 220 A.D. None the less, DW5 also includes events starting back from the Yellow Turban Rebellion so that is where I shall begin. Many problems plagued China during the ending rule of the Han Dynasty. During the rule of Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling there was much protest and rebellions among the people due to political oppression and economic decline. Most of the time these rebellions weren't too successful and they usually ended up in executions of many protestors. However in 184 A.D. Zhang Jiao along with his two brothers Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao led a large rebellion against the Han Empire that would become known as the Yellow Turban Rebellion (named for the color of the scarves worn around the rebels heads.) The Emperor Ling ordered generals Huangfu Song, Lu Zhi, and Zhu Jun to lead the Han army against the rebels, and also ordered local governments to supply soldiers to the cause. This course of action was successful, and eventually the main portion of the Yellow Turbans was defeated and the rebellion ultimately failed. It was after the rebellion that the Emperor Ling gave administrative powers to local governments in attempts to more easily extinguish smaller raiding parties that began popping up throughout China. These local governments were able to command a regional military and eventually were able to rule independently of the central government. Shortly after these events Emperor Ling died. Now the struggle for power was between a eunuch faction and some court officials led by He Jin. He Jin plotted with warlord Yuan Shao to kill the eunuchs, but they learned of his plan and had him assassinated. Yuan Shao's army eventually invaded the capital of Luoyang and killed the eunuchs. This breakdown of a central government is what brought upon many civil wars that eventually led to the formation of the Three Kingdoms era. After the killings of the eunuchs a warlord by the name of Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang with a large army and took control of the imperial court. Dong Zhuo threw out the current emperor, Emperor Shao, and replaced him with Emperor Xian. Dong Zhuo rose to power in the imperial court and declared himself Chancellor. He ruled with tyranny and an iron fist, causing a coalition led by Yuan Shao to attempt to overthrow Dong Zhuo's power in 190 A.D. Eventually Dong Zhuo's reign of power was ended when he was assassinated by his adopted son, Lu Bu. Following this, the land was divided amongst many different warlords fighting for power. Yuan Shao occupied northern Ye, Cao Cao was located south of him, Sun Ce was establishing his rule underneath Yuan Shu in southern Yangtze, Liu Zhang controlled the western Yi, and the northwest was controlled by several smaller warlords such as Ma Teng. The Emperor Xian eventually fled from the remaining of Dong Zhuo's followers and sought refuge with Cao Cao. Cao Cao was suggested by his advisor Xun Yu to have Emperor Xian move the capital from Luoyang to Xuchang since Luoyang had been burned down by Dong Zhuo during his retreat. This was done and Cao Cao was appointed chancellor. In the south, Yuan Shu defeated several warlords and thus declared himself emperor of the Cheng Dynasty, much to the protest his subordinate Sun Ce. A coalition was then led against Yuan Shu, which itself included Sun Ce, and he was defeated. Lu Bu, who had allied himself with Liu Bei following the assassination of Dong Zhuo, betrayed Liu Bei and seized control of Xu Province. He then formed an alliance with Yuan Shu's remaining forces. Liu Bei fled to Cao Cao, and with both forces combined they led an assault against Lu Bu. Lu Bu was defeated and executed on Cao Cao's orders. Cao Cao later learned of an assassination attempt on himself, with Liu Bei being part of the plan. Liu Bei successfully fled to Yuan Shao in the north for refuge. At this time, Cao Cao decided to set his sights on the northern area of Ye, and he attacked Yuan Shao. Cao Cao won the decisive battle at Guan Du, and eventually all of Yuan Shao's forces were defeated, leaving Cao Cao ruler of northern Ye. Liu Bei then fled to Jing Province and sought refuge with Liu Biao. Now in an attempt to unify the land, Cao Cao marched on the southern province of Yangtze. Sun Quan, who was now ruler of Yangtze after his brother Sun Ce was fatally wounded in battle, secured and alliance with Liu Bei. Both Sun Quan and Liu Bei's forces met Cao Cao's much larger naval force at Red Cliffs in the winter of 208. After a fire attack destroyed the majority of Cao Cao's fleet, he was forced to retreat, resulting in a great victory for the vastly outnumbered allied forces. Cao Cao returned north and focused on attacking the northwestern territories. Liu Bei advanced on the western province of Yi according to the advice of his strategist and advisor Zhuge Liang. Liu Bei successfully secured the lands of Ye after defeating Liu Zhang, and he appointed Guan Yu in charge of the Jing Province. This land was then later attacked by Lu Meng of Wu, and Guan Yu was captured and executed on Sun Quan's orders. Following Cao Cao's death in 220, his son, Cao Pi, forced Emperor Xian (who had since then was essentially a puppet emperor being used by Cao Cao) to step down from the throne and officially declared himself emperor of the Wei Kingdom. This move officially ended the Han Dynasty. One year later Liu Bei then declared himself the emperor of the Shu Kingdom in an attempt to restore the Han Dynasty. Later that year Sun Quan was declared as the King of Wu. This is now when we see the official formation of the Three Kingdoms era. In an attempt to get revenge on Wu for the death of Guan Yu, Liu Bei declared war on Wu and the two armies met at Yi Ling. The result was a major defeat for Shu, and Liu Bei retreated back to Yi province where he died shortly after. His son, Liu Chan, took over as ruler of Shu. After the battle of Yi Ling both Shu and Wu focused the majority of their attack against their common enemy, Wei, instead of each other. However the southwestern territories of Yi, led by the Nanman people, started to revolt against Shu. Zhuge Liang led an army down to silence the rebellions, and after a number of battles fought against the leader Meng Huo, they eventually quelled the rebellions. Zhuge Liang led Shu through several attempts at capturing the northern territories of Wei, most of which were unsuccessful. Zhuge Liang eventually died during the battle at Wu Zhang Plains, causing the Shu army to retreat. Wei strategist Sima Yi pursued the retreating Shu army, but doubtful as to if Zhuge Liang had really died or if this was another trap of his, he eventually pulled back, allowing Shu to successfully retreat. Around 230 A.D. there was much turmoil within the state of Wei. Power was shared between the commander of Wei Cao Shuang and Sima Yi, however Cao Shuang did not trust Sima Yi, and eventually started to strip him of power. However, Sima Yi led a coup against Cao Shuang and successfully stripped him of his power and became the ruler of Wei. Wei would then go on to eventually conquer the Kingdom of Shu after the Shu capital Cheng Du was taken by an invasion of Deng Ai of Wei. In 263 Shu ruler Liu Chan surrendered, effectively ending the Shu Kingdom. In 264, Sima Yan, son of Sima Zhao (who was son of Sima Yi) seized the throne of Wei held by Cao Huan, putting an end to the Kingdom of Wei. He then established the Kingdom of Jin, which would go on to bring about the era of the Jin Dynasty. With only two kingdoms remaining - Wu and Jin - Sima Yan ordered the invasion and destruction of the Wu territories. Since the death of Sun Quan in 252, the Wu Empire was declining and growing weak. Under intense pressure from Jin invasions, Wu collapsed in 280 A.D., leaving Jin as the victor in unifying the land and bringing about the Jin Dynasty. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- GAME MODES [MODE] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- There are three main game modes: Musou mode, Free mode, and Challenge mode. Each mode offers a different variety of game play, with different objectives. Listed below is a brief explanation of each game mode. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Musou Mode | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ In musou mode you select an officer from one of the kingdoms (Shu, Wei, Wu, or Other) and you play through that characters 'storyline' - a collection of battles that plays out in a story with said character being the main center point. What battles you'll play depends on which character you'll select. Generally speaking, any battles that your character plays a big/important role in will be in their musou mode. Musou mode can be played on easy, normal, hard, or chaos difficulty. For more information about each characters individual musou stages, please refer to the musou mode section of this guide (section 5.0). .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Free Mode | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ In free mode you can select an individual battle and play through that specific battle one time. Upon winning the battle you will return to the main menu. All battles can be played on free mode, although they are not all available to be played directly from the start. To unlock certain battles on free mode you must first play through them on musou mode. Officer development is the same in both free and musou mode - that is, any stats your officer gains while playing in either of these modes will be reflected if you play with them in the other mode. For more information about each individual free mode battle, including complete walkthroughs of all playable sides of each battle, please refer to the free mode section of this guide (section 6.0). .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Challenge Mode | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ Challenge mode is sort of like an arcade mode, in which you're playing to meet a certain objective, and you score is reflected in a number of points. There are four different courses available for play under challenge mode: - Time attack - Rampage - Sudden Death - Bridge Melee For more information regarding challenge mode as well as each of the individual courses it offers, please refer to the challenge mode section of this guide (section 9.4). -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- SCREENS [SCRN] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- There's two types of screens here that I'll be talking about - the game screen and the information screen. Both of these screens will tell you important information about the battle that you're currently in. The game screen is just that - it's the screen where your character is, where all the action is. This is all the stuff you see when you're running around in a battle killing enemies. The information screen is what you see when you press the START button during the battle. Below I'll breakdown all the different things you'll see on each of these screens, and exactly what they mean. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Game Screen | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ This is the screen where you will be controlling your character and fighting the enemy during the battle. It's a little hard to describe where everything is on this screen without an actual picture, so bear with me here. I'll start from the top left of the screen, and work my way around clockwise. Take note that in two player mode the screen is split horizontally, but both players will still have the exact same information on each section of the screen. Enemy information ------- This is displayed at the very top left of your screen, and it will display the enemy information of the last soldier/officer that you have attacked. Their small avatar will appear in a circle, and next to that will be their health bar, their rank, what officer they're under, and how much morale that officers unit has. The more stars, the higher the morale and vice versa. If the enemies health is greater than the length of the health bar, it will be displayed by a lighter red over a darker red color. Combos ------- As you perform combos, you will see a "X Combo" ("X" being the number of combos you have currently performed) appear on the left side of your screen, under the enemy information. This will not appear until you have a combo of 5 hits or greater. Battle morale ------- At the top right hand corner of your screen is the battle morale bar. This shows how much morale each army has. The blue is your morale, the red is the enemy morale. As you defeat officers and complete certain objectives, morale will increase. Time remaining ------- This is located directly underneath the battle morale bar, however it only appears on the game screen when the battle timer is below 10 minutes. Every battle has a certain amount of time it needs to be completed in, and if that timer reaches zero it's game over. Map ------- The map is located underneath the time remaining and battle morale. It takes up a good portion of the right hand corner of the map, and it shows you where both all of your units are and where all of the enemy units are. There are two types of maps you can switch between by pressing R2: the complete map and a zoomed in map. The complete map shows you the entire battlefield, while the zoomed in map just shows the area surrounding you. There are several different bits of information you can gather from the map: - Enemy location: Enemy units are represented by red dots. Enemy officers are also represented by red dots, however they're a much more brighter color of red, making them stand out more. - Friendly location: Friendly units are represented by blue dots. Friendly officers, like enemy officers, are a much more brighter color of blue. - Commander location: Both the enemy and friendly commander are designated by a lighter color dot just like regular officers, however their dot will also have a glow surrounding it. - Your location on the map: Your location is indicated by the big green arrow that moves, showing where you are (as if that wasn't obvious enough...) - Bodyguard location: Bodyguards are indicated by a green dot on the map. - Steed location: If you have a harness equipped and you get off your horse, you can see where it is by looking for a yellowish colored dot on the map. This only appears when the horse is not being ridden. K.O. Count ------- This appears in the lower right hand corner of the screen and is a counter that keeps track of how many enemy soldiers you've killed. Character information ------- In the lower left hand corner of the screen is your characters information. It has a small avatar of your character in the corner, and next to it is their life bar and musou bar. The life bar is the larger top bar, while the musou bar is the thinner lower bar. As you lose life the color of the life bar will go from green to yellow to red. Below the musou bar will be a number, this is how many arrows you currently have (20 is the default starting number, the maximum is 99.) Next to the arrow count is your bodyguard icon, which displays what command your bodyguard is currently set to follow (see the bodyguard section [3.6] for more information.) This can be changed by hitting select. Above the health bar is where any temporary abilities gained from items will be displayed. This includes the following: - Yellow bar: Offense x2 (30 seconds.) - Green bar: Defense x2 (30 seconds.) - Blue bar: Speed increase (30 seconds.) - Pink bar: Musou time increase (10 seconds.) For more information about what items give these boosts see the in-game items section (section 7.1) of this guide. Battlefield Message ------- This is a bar that runs the length of the screen and will appear over the character information when the conditions on the battlefield change. This can be anything from morale being raised or lowered or an enemy/friendly officer being defeated. You can check a log of the battlefield messages on the information screen. No Entry symbols ------- If you try to enter an area off limits on the map, a "No Entry" symbol will appear in the middle of the screen. There are three types: - Man: This is a symbol of a running man with a dashed circle overtop him. This means that whatever area you're trying to enter is off limits completely. - Horse: This is a symbol of a horse with a dashed circle overtop it. This means that whatever area you're trying to enter is not accessible on a horse. Dismount and enter on foot. - Elephant: This is a symbol of an elephant with a dashed circle overtop it. This means that whatever area you're trying to enter is not accessible on an elephant. You must dismount and enter on foot. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Information Screen | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ The information screen will appear before the beginning of each battle. Once you have entered the battle, this screen can be brought up again at any time by pressing the START button. The game will also be paused while this screen is up. There is a lot of information that can be taken from this screen, so let me break it down: Battlefield map ------- You will be able to see a complete overview of the map. On this map, you will be able to see the following: - All current living enemy officers: These are little red blocks (look just like that one Tetris block that would always screw me up!). - All current living friendly officers: These are little blue blocks. - Your location: Your location is designated by a green arrow. - Steed location: If you have a harness equipped and you're NOT on your horse, it's current location will be represented by a little speed-bump looking icon. - Enemy bases: You can see the location of any current enemy bases that have not yet been taken. They are designated by a red triangle, square, or circle. For more information about bases see the bases section (section 3.5). - Friendly bases: You can see the location of any current friendly bases that have not yet been taken. They are designated by a blue triangle, square, or circle. For more information about bases see the bases section (section 3.5). - Neutral bases: These are bases that have not yet been occupied by either friendly or enemy troops. They are designated by a gray triangle, square, or circle. For more information about bases see the bases section (section 3.5). - Enemy checkpoints: These are little red thumb tacks that are usually around the edges of the map. This is where enemy reinforcements can come from. Defeat a checkpoint to cut off that route of reinforcement. - Friendly checkpoints: Work in the same way as enemy checkpoints, except these are blue in color. - Any structures: This includes any type of building walls, pathways, mountains, bridges, and bodies of water. Preparation ------- This option is only available before you actually start the battle. When you select this option you will be taken to a new screen where you can change your characters equipped weapons, items, and bodyguard. You are also able to see your characters current status on this screen. Conditions ------- This screen will show you the conditions for winning or losing the battle. Unit Info ------- This screen will show you all of the allied and enemy officers on the screen. Moving your cursor over the officer will show you their location on the battlefield, as well as any living sub-officers underneath them, their army morale, and their army size. If an officer has a sub-officer underneath them, then pressing the "X" button with that officer highlighted will show you the location of their sub-officers. Overview ------- This screen is also only available before you actually start the battle. It will show you the main objective behind the stage as well as any recommended strategies. Time Left ------- This is shown on the right side of the screen. Every battle has a time limit (usually an hour) and when that timer reaches zero the battle will be lost if you're still fighting. Personally I don't think I've ever had the timer reach zero on a battle, so this generally shouldn't be an issue. Personal ------- This option replaces the 'Preparation' option once you've actually started the battle. On this screen you can see all of the preparations you made prebattle, however you cannot change anything. Battle Log ------- This option is only available once the battle has been started. It will show you a log of all the different battle messages that you have gotten thus far. Interim Save ------- This will save your game data during the battle. The number of times you can save depends on the difficulty. On easy you have an unlimited number of saves, on normal you have three, and on hard you have one. The number of saves left is shown by memory card icons on the bottom right hand corner of the screen when the battle is paused. Start / Resume ------- Select 'Start' once you are ready to begin the battle, then if you pause the game during play select 'Resume' to return to the fight. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- BASES [BASE] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- One of the new features to the Dynasty Warriors games is the introduction of bases in this game. There are four different types of bases, each serving a different function. Taking an enemy base will raise morale, while loosing one will obviously lower it. Also, once a base is taken it will cease to function for the remaining of the battle. The different types of bases as well as their functions are as follows: [ Attack base ] - These bases are represented by a triangle on the map. They have a catapult outside attacking enemy forces. The units protecting the base will attack aggressively. Guard Captains will drop items that increase your attack ability. [ Defense base ] - These bases are surrounded by high walls. The units guarding the base can block your attacks. The Guard Captain will drop an item that increases your defense ability. [ Supply base ] - These bases will raise morale and also contain items. The Guard Captain can use items that affect the units within the base (including the player.) Defeated Guard Captains will drop an elixir. [ Checkpoint ] - Checkpoints will send in reinforcements, and will continue to do so until they're taken. Defeated enemy checkpoints will later turn into an allied checkpoint. Smaller bases will only have a Guard Captain inside which must be defeated to take the base. Larger bases will also have two Gate Captains who guard the two doors into the base. Upon approaching the base, both doors with close and the Gate Captain must be defeated to open the door (the door he was guarding will open. Defeating one Gate Captain will NOT open both doors.) Once the Guard Captain inside is also defeated, then the other door will open as well and the base will fall. Bases are represented on the map by a certain shape and color. Blue bases are allied bases, while red bases are enemy bases. Gray bases are neutral bases, meaning that they currently don't belong to either army. The first person to enter into a neutral base will claim that base for whatever side they're on. On the game map attack bases are a triangle, defense bases are a square, supply bases are a circle, and checkpoints are little thumb tacks. If you are trying to get into an allied base and the doors are closed, defeat all of the enemies around the base for the doors to open back up. Also, if you happen to be inside a base when the doors are closed and find yourself trapped inside, use the ramp that is next to the gate. Finally, when an enemy or friendly base is conquered, other bases for that side will become temporarily confused and cease to function. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- BODYGUARDS [BODY] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The bodyguard system in DW5 is a lot different then the system used in the previous games. In the older DW games bodyguards were just generic soldiers that gained experience along with your character during battles. As they gained experience not only did their stats increase, so did their number. In total you were able to have up to 8 bodyguards in the older games. However in DW5, you only have one bodyguard. Instead of it being just a generic soldier, your bodyguard is a much stronger unique character. From the start of the game there are four bodyguards available. You can have up to eight "saved" bodyguards. However you can only take one bodyguard into battle with you, and this can be selected on the information screen under "Preparation" before the battle begins (once you battle begins you cannot bring in a bodyguard.) Also, while playing a characters musou mode, if you choose a bodyguard before a battle that bodyguard will automatically be selected to go into battle with you for the additional battles of that officers musou mode unless otherwise selected. After each battle, so long as you took a bodyguard into battle with you, that bodyguard will receive points. In order to further develop and increase their stats, bodyguards will need these points. As they gain more points, their level will increase. And as their level increases, so do their stats and skills. The maximum level a bodyguard can reach is 6, after that you won't see any increase in the bodyguards stats/special abilities. There are several different things you should know about bodyguards. I'll break down these key points here: Elemental Attacks ------- As a bodyguards level increases, they may be able to have an elemental attack attached to them. This appears as a little icon underneath their name. Their elements are the same as the orbs that you can attach to your own characters: fire, ice, shadow, and light. What element they have is random. Weapon ------- There are six different types of weapons that bodyguards can have, each which affects how the bodyguard will fight in battle. The type of weapon that the bodyguard has is randomly determined once you acquire them, and it cannot be changed. The six weapons are as follows: o Sword - Bodyguard assists you in a musou attack. o Spear - Bodyguard assists you in a musou attack. o Staff - Bodyguard assists you in a wide ranging charge attack. o Bow - Bodyguard assists you with a powerful charge attack. o Crossbow - Bodyguard assists you with a powerful charge attack. o Fan - Bodyguard will heal you (+50 health.) Special Abilities ------- These are, well, special abilities that your bodyguard will have available to them. They're sort of like "perks" that make them even more useful. These abilities are learned as your bodyguard levels up, and the maximum number that they can have is four. There are eight different special abilities, listed as follows: o Heal - Bodyguard can heal itself. o Rage - Bodyguards attack power increases when in trouble. o Wall - Bodyguards defense power increases when in trouble. o Fame - Your army morale becomes less likely to decrease. o Link - Better items can be acquired through smaller combos. o Hire - A bodyguard will definitely join you after battle. o Item - Acquired items are increased by one after battle. o Find - Acquired weapons are increased by one after battle. Rating ------- Your bodyguards rating is basically an overview of just how good your bodyguard will end up being. The higher the rating, the better their overall stats, as well as the more special abilities they can learn. There are two ratings given to each bodyguard: a letter and a word. The letter is the bodyguards development potential, and the word is the bodyguards development type. -> Development Potential - This is the amount of kingdoms that are mentioned. The more kingdoms mentioned, the higher the potential. The number of kingdoms is represented as follows: o S - Entire land o A - 3 kingdoms o B - 2 kingdoms o C - 1 kingdom -> Development Type - This informs you of how your bodyguard will gain their stats after each battle. Like the development potential, there are four different types: o Superior - Initial abilities are high and can develop quickly. o Brilliant - Initial abilities are low, but can develop quickly. o Remarkable - Initial abilities and development are average. o Veteran - Initial abilities are high but don't develop as well. Each bodyguards rating is generated randomly after the end of each battle. Obviously you can a better chance of getting a stronger bodyguard on harder difficulty settings. The best type of bodyguards are the "Superior/S" ratings. It should be noted, however, that you can manipulate the Playstation 2's internal clock to get higher ranked bodyguards. For more information about this you should read AceLegend90's "Internal Time Trick Guide". I have never experimented with this and, in all honesty, don't really know any more information about it. Just like in the previous DW games, your bodyguard will heal once you pick up a health-restoring item. It's a good idea to keep your eye on your bodyguards health, and pick up a meat bun/other health item even if you don't need it if your bodyguard does. One other thing you should be aware of with bodyguards is that you can give them orders via the [SELECT] button. There are three different orders that you can give: attack, guard, and hold. Attack is represented by a little sword icon, guard is a shield, and hold is a hand. You'll see this icon underneath your characters life and musou bars, next to your arrow count. The commands are pretty self-explanatory. The "Wait" command will have your bodyguard just stay wherever the command is given. This is useful to use if your bodyguard is very low on health and you need to find a meat bun - just have your bodyguard wait in an area clear of enemies while you go find something. That's pretty much all there is to know about bodyguards in this game. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- TIPS AND TRICKS [TNTS] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- If you're new to the Dynasty Warriors series I've compiled a list here of some tips and tricks to help give you a bit of an advantage when playing. o Officers that are in what I call "hyper mode" have a sort of aura surrounding them. This means that their attack and defense will be doubled. A lot of times these officers will also gain some type of stat boost after a certain amount of their health is gone. These include health regeneration, attack x2, defense x2, and speed x2. Sometimes they will also go into a musou rage mode when even more health is lost. o If you're fighting an enemy officer and they go into musou rage mode, just run around (or quickly hop on a horse) and evade them until their musou rage subsides. I don't suggest you just completely run away from them, however, because if you do most of the time they will taunt you and your morale will decrease. o Equip characters that have many juggle attacks with a fire orb. Attacking an enemy while they are in the air will only do half of the damage as compared to if they were on the ground. Therefore characters who are "juggle-heavy" (so to speak) usually benefit from a fire orb as juggling an enemy while they are on fire can help make up for the fact that damage is halved. This is why many sword users are so deadly: their musou is usually a non-juggling attack. o If both you are your bodyguard are able to use a musou attack and are close enough together, you'll see a glowing "energy chain" connecting both you and your bodyguard. Using a musou now will cause your bodyguard to use their special musou attack along with yours as well. Your musou will also be a true musou as opposed to just a regular musou. It's a good idea to grab a musou wine, as they will fill both your musou and your bodyguards musou, and then get close together and wreak havoc. o This is my method on "training" a new character starting from their default stats: Play "Guan Yu's Escape" 2-3 times on easy. Kill all of the officers and make sure you grab their stat boosting items that they drop, and make sure you open each of the weapon crates (there's one by each gate.) By the third time through their attack stat should be about halfway, with their defense a little bit behind (Guan Yu's Escape has many attack+ officer drops.) With any luck you should have their third weapon, at LEAST their second. Now play "Guan Yu's Escape" on hard until you max their stats/get them to where you're comfortable. You will max out their attack stat much quicker than their defense. o Enemy officers CANNOT block immediately after getting up from being knocked on the ground. Therefore once you've knocked an enemy down on the ground, start slashing right before they get up. Once they do they'll start getting hit immediately by your attacks, with no ability to block them. o Learn how to flip to avoid being knocked onto the ground. If you get knocked into the air, hit L1 when you peak in the air to do a flip and land back on your feet. Likewise, if you get knocked onto the ground, hit L1 right when you hit the ground to spring back up onto your feet. Getting knocked onto the ground leaves you vulnerable to unblock able enemy attacks once you get up. o Learn how to counterattack: when blocking an enemy attack with the L1 button, pressing the triangle button at just the right time will make your character counterattack an enemy blow. You have to time it just right, however. You need to press the triangle button at the exact same time that the enemy attacks your block. This can backfire on you, however, because if you mistime the counterattack your character will be vulnerable to enemy attacks. _______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 04. CHARACTERS [CHAR] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ There are 48 characters in Dynasty Warriors 5, six of which are new to the series. In this section I will go into detail about each character, including the following information: brief historical background (this is taken directly from the encyclopedia of the game), the characters weapons, their move set, their models, and my own personal rating of the character. Obviously my rating of each character is my own opinion, but all other information about each character should be accurate. Please take note that I do *NOT* cover musou modes, fourth weapon requirements and strategies, and unlocking information in this section. I have an individual section in this guide dedicated to each of those subjects, so please refer to those sections for that information. Also take note that for each characters move set, the following abbreviations are used: S is for the Square button, and T is for the Triangle button. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- SHU [SHUC] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The kingdom of Shu has 13 playable characters, 2 of which are new to the series (Guan Ping and Xing Cai.) This section will cover each officer in the order that they're listed on the character select screen. To quickly find the specific character you're looking for, use the Ctrl + F search function and the appropriate key from the following list: Zhao Yun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SC01] Guan Yu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SC02] Zhang Fei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SC03] Zhuge Liang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SC04] Liu Bei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SC05] Ma Chao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SC06] Huang Zhong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SC07] Jiang Wei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SC08] Wei Yan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SC09] Pang Tong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SC10] Yue Ying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SC11] Guan Ping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SC12] Xing Cai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SC13] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Zhao Yun [SC01] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: Unknown Died: 229 A.D. A Shu officer. Formerly a servant of Yuan Shao and later Gongsun Zan, he changed loyalties to Liu Bei, impressed by his virtuousness and personality. Bold and daring, he single-handedly charged through the enemy army at the battle of Chang Ban in order to rescue Liu Bei's son, Liu Chan. He was among the Five Tiger Generals of the Shu Kingdom. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Horizontal slash from left to right. SS: A forward stab. SSS: Zhao Yun spins around, swinging his spear horizontally as he does. SSSS: A vertical slash downward. SSSSS: Zhao Yun spins around, swinging his spear horizontally as he does. SSSSSS: A diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSSSS: A forward stab. SSSSSSSS: Zhao Yun spins around, swinging his spear horizontally as he does. SSSSSSSSS: Zhao Yun spins around, swinging his spear over his head a few times, then slashes horizontally from left to right. T: Forward lunge. ST: Zhao Yun uses the butt of his spear to knock the enemy into the air. SST(+T): A series of six slashes up and down, and then a horizontal slash from right to left. SSST: Zhao Yun spins in a circle, slashing horizontally to the right. SSSST: Zhao Yun raises his spear into the air, then quickly slams it down into the ground causing a blast that sends enemies into the air. SSSSST: Zhao Yun jumps into the air, then slashes horizontally from left to right. XS: Zhao Yun jumps in the air, and swings downwards from left to right. XT: Zhao Yun jumps into the air, slashes downwards with his spear, sending any enemies near him into the air, then he slashes them again while in the air. Musou: Zhao Yun starts spinning around in a circle, slashing diagonally repeatedly, then he finishes it off with a horizontal slash True Musou: The same as his regular musou, except at the end he jumps up into the air and a gust of wind damages all enemies nearby. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking the right and left sides. Mounted charge: One charged attack on the right then the left. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left sides. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bronze Spear Power: 4 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Great Spear Power: 8 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Dragon Spear Power: 12 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Fierce Dragon Power: 36 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Medium Attributes: Charge +16, Defense +17, Attack +17, Musou +17, Life +17 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: This is the default model. It contains a lot of white, blue, and green. His hair is in a ponytail, with a headband underneath it. Model 2: A much darker version of the first model. Most of the white has been replaced by a dark blue/purplish color. Model 3: This is his DW4 model. Contains a lot of white, blue, and gold. He has an armored plate on his right shoulder, and also one that extends down his upper right arm. He has a white and golden cloth that comes down the backside of his right leg. Model 4: Much like the third model, except there is more gray and blackish colors. He is also wearing green underneath. His hair is back in a high ponytail, with a headband around his hair. -> Rating: 4/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zhao Yun is a very solid character, kind of the "default" character of the series if you will. He's very balanced, and easy to get a hang of. His normal attack string is his greatest advantage - it's good at dealing with taking out large groups of enemies. He's got a very solid fourth weapon as well, giving his main stats a nice boost. Probably one of his biggest flaws, however, is a rather weak musou. It only targets one person and, while it might be a great juggling attack, isn't nearly as good as other crowd clearing musous. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Guan Yu [SC02] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 162 A.D. Died: 219 A.D. A Shu officer. Sworn brother of Liu Bei and Zhang Fei, has was the leader of the Five Tigers and helped build the foundation of the Shu Kingdom. With his strong sense of duty and bravery, he was labeled as a warrior without an equal. Guan Yu was also known for his beautiful, long beard. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Diagonal slash from left to right. SS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSS: Forward stab. SSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSSSS: Slash from top to bottom. SSSSSS: Guan Yu spins around, swinging his spear with him. SSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSSSSS: Forward stab. SSSSSSSSS: Guan Yu spins around, swinging his spear with him. T: Guan Yu lunges forward, twirling his spear in his hand. ST: Guan Yu launches nearby enemies up into the air with his spear. SST(+T): A series of seven diagonal slashes. SSST: Guan Yu spins around in a circle with his spear, knocking any enemies that get hit away. SSSST: A gust of wind launches any nearby enemies up into the air. SSSSST: A burst of energy comes out of Guan Yu, damaging and breaking the guards of any enemies it hits. XS: Guan Yu jumps into the air and swings downward from left to right. XT: Guan Yu jumps into the air, swings downward from left to right, then comes crashing to ground slamming down his spear, knocking down any enemies nearby. Musou: Guan Yu spins around in a circle, swinging his spear with him. True musou: Same as his regular musou, except at the end there is an added gust of wind that launches enemies into the air. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking on the right and left. Mounted charge: One charge attack on the right then the left. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left side. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Crescent Blade Power: 5 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Moon Blade Power: 10 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Blue Dragon Power: 16 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Blue Moon Dragon Power: 38 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Light Attributes: Charge +16, Defense +17, Life +18, Horse +16, Attack +18 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: This is the default model. Lots of green and gold. He has a golden dragon armor plate on his right shoulder. Model 2: Same as the first model, just different colors. The green has been replaced by a dark gray, as well as his armor plate. His mid- section now has some red and gold along with a little bit of green. Model 3: This is his DW4 model. Lots of cloth, most of it is green with some red around the edges. Model 4: Same as the third model, except different colors and no hat. The green has been replaced by white, and the red has been replaced by green. He no longer has a turban, instead now he has a headband and a little hat on his head (I forget what those are called...) -> Rating: 3.5/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guan Yu is pretty good, but he does have a few setbacks. For one, he is painfully slow. If you've played any other Dynasty Warriors games this is to be expected, but still annoying. His fourth is pretty good, and although its light status lets you attack quicker, that also means a reduction in strength. However he has good crowd clearing abilities and a pretty good SST string. His musou is a good crowd clearer as well as juggling tool. Once you get him on a horse he's a great character to use, but don't run around with this guy or you'll get frustrated fast. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Zhang Fei [SC03] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 168 A.D. Died: 221 A.D. An officer of Shu and a member of the Five Tiger Generals. He was the sworn brother of Liu Bei and Guan Yu. At the Battle of Chang Ban, he alone rode out on the Chang Ban Bridge and gave a powerful shout, frightening off one million of Cao Cao's troops. His love for wine and drink often led to his defeat in battle more times than not. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Horizontal slash from the left. SS: Zhang Fei slashes from the right, attacking with the end of his spear. SSS: A diagonal slash downward from left to right. SSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSSSS: Horizontal slash from the left to right. SSSSSS: Zhang Fei spins around, swinging his spear with him. SSSSSSS: Zhang Fei slashes from the right, attacking with the end of his spear. SSSSSSSS: Diagonal slash downwards from left to right. SSSSSSSSS: Zhang Fei spins around, swinging his spear with him. T: Zhang Fei stomps on the ground, knocking down any nearby enemies. ST: Zhang Fei launches enemies up into the air with the end of his spear. SST(+T): A series of seven diagonal slashes from left to right, ending with a shockwave of energy coming from Zhang Fei, damaging any enemies nearby. SSST: Zhang Fei spins around, swinging his spear with him. SSSST: Zhang Fei slams into the ground, sending enemies flying into the air. SSSSST: Zhang Fei stomps his foot on the ground, knocking down enemies. XS: Zhang Fei jumps into the air, slashing downward from left to right. XT: Zhang Fei jumps into the air, does a flip, and comes crashing down, slamming his spear into the ground. Musou: Zhang Fei unleashes a series of diagonal slashes from left to right, then finishes it off by spinning around and swinging his spear, sending enemies flying. True musou: Same as regular musou, except at the end a shockwave of energy comes out of Zhang Fei, damaging enemies. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking on the right and left. Mounted charge: One charge attack on the right then the left. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left side. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bronze Pike Power: 5 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Iron Pike Power: 11 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Serpent Blade Power: 17 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Viper Blade Power: 39 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Light Attributes: Fill +16, Defense +15, Musou +17, Horse +16, Attack +19 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: The default model. He has some gold plated armor on his shoulders and torso, with some green clothed draped over top. The rest of his outfit is dark brown and gray colored, along with a hate with some tassel-looking thing coming out of the top. Model 2: This is the same as his first model, except with different colors. This model features more white, gray and red. His hat is now red, and his pants are mostly white and gray. Model 3: This is his DW4 model. He has an armor plate on his right shoulder, and a cloth draped around his left shoulder. His pants and hat are green, with a golden cloth draped over his pants. Model 4: Similar to the third model, except this one is mostly white. Also, he has another cloth draped over his right shoulder, covering most of his torso. -> Rating: 3.5/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Personally I don't think Zhang Fei is that bad. His move set isn't too bad, his SST string is pretty effective at clearing crowds, as is his musou. He is, however, plagued by some of the same problems as Guan Yu. For one he is unbearably slow, and his light fourth weapon comes with some reduction in power. His regular attack string isn't so good, but I believe his SST string makes up for it. All in all Zhang Fei is pretty decent. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Zhuge Liang [SC04] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 181 A.D. Died: 234 A.D. The Shu strategist and advisor. He was often referred to as the "Sleeping Dragon." He decided to serve Liu Bei after being honored by three visits from the young Shu leader. A genius of both domestic and foreign affairs, he was a major contributor to the founding of the Shu Kingdom. He attempted to conquer the northern territories on five different occasions, but halfway to realizing his dream, he died at the Wu Zhang Plains. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Horizontal slash from left to right. SS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSSS: Forward slash. SSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSSSSSS: Zhuge Liang spins around, with his fan flying 360 degrees around him. T: Zhuge Liang summons up a fireball, which explodes after several seconds. ST: Zhuge Liang launches enemies up into the air with his fan. SST: Zhuge Liang summons a ball of energy that damages anyone it touches. SSST: Zhuge Liang spins around, with his fan flying 360 degrees around him. SSSST: Zhuge Liang summons a large blast of energy that sends any enemies it hits flying into the air. SSSSST: Zhuge Liang summons several fireballs (the same type that he uses in his regular T attack) which explode after several seconds. XS: Zhuge Liang jumps into the air and slashes downward from right to left. XT: Zhuge Liang jumps into the air and shoots out several laser beams from his fan that spread out horizontally. Musou: Zhuge Liang shoots out laser beams from his fan in sets of three, then finishes it off with a quick single line of laser beams. True musou: Same as his regular musou, except at the end, instead of rapidly shooting off several laser beams in a row, he shoots off one large laser beam. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking on the right and left. Mounted charge: One charge attack on the right then the left. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left side. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- War Fan Power: 2 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Warlord Fan Power: 6 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random White Feather Power: 10 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Peacock Feather Power: 32 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Medium Attributes: Charge +18, Fill +15, Bow +15, Defense +18, Musou +20 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: The default model. He's wearing a white robe with a longer green garment underneath. His robe has the Chinese Tao symbol on the sleeves of both arms, and he is wearing a green bracer on both arms. Model 2: Same as model one, except a few color changes: his robe is purple, his garment underneath is white and gold, and the bracers on his arms are gold also. Model 3: This is his DW4 model. He is wearing a white robe, also with the Tao symbol on his legs, with a green garment underneath. The main difference here is his hat, which is sort of just a big white circular shape. Model 4: Similar to model three, except for this one his robe is black and his clothes underneath are a darker shade of green. His hat is also different, and it is more similar to what the sorcerers of the Yellow Turbans wear. It is green and gold. -> Rating: 3/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I know Zhuge Liang is considered one of the better characters, but I personally never found him to be that great. His regular S string is rather decent, but I find his T strings to be very poor. I suppose his rather powerful SSSSST makes up for the fact that his SST has no +T, but one thing that's annoying about the SSSSST is that when you try to perform it in large groups you'll usually get hit before you can summon up all of the fireballs, thus limiting is deadliness. His main claim to fame is his deadly musou. It's great for clearing out crowds and can wreak havoc on officers life bars, but it's hard to aim sometimes and land several consecutive attacks on one target. His fourth weapon is pretty good, but I think the bow attribute could've been substituted for something better. All in all he's certainly one of the better characters, but personally I never thought he was as great as everyone else seems to think. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Liu Bei [SC05] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 161 A.D. Died: 223 A.D. The first Emperor of the Shu Kingdom. Along with his sworn brothers, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, he participated in the campaign against the Yellow Turbans. After fighting in various battles, he established the Shu Kingdom, signifying the beginning of the Three Kingdoms era. His aim was to restore the Han Dynasty, thereby bringing peace to the troubled land. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Diagonal slash from left to right. SS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSS: Forward stab. SSSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSSSSSS: Downward slash from top to bottom. T: Liu Bei slides to the right, then slides back to the left and slashes, damaging enemies and sending them flying. ST: Liu Bei flings enemies into the air with his sword. SST(+T): A series of six fast diagonal slashes followed up with a horizontal slash from left to right. SSST: A downward slash from top to bottom. SSSST: Liu Bei stomps on the ground, sending enemies flying into the air. SSSSST: A shockwave of energy comes out of Liu Bei, damaging and stunning all enemies near him. XS: Liu Bei jumps in the air and slashes directly downward. XT: Liu Bei jumps in the air and slashes downward right to left while hovering in the air temporarily. Musou: Liu Bei performs a series of quick, diagonal slashes while moving forward, then at the end he performs a few more quick slashes while standing still. True musou: Same as his regular musou, except at the end Liu Bei stomps on the ground, adding extra damage and causing enemies to fall down. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking on the right and left. Mounted charge: One charge attack on the right then the left. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left side. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Long Sword Power: 3 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Imperial Sword Power: 7 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Gold Dragon Power: 11 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Gold Moon Dragon Power: 34 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Medium Attributes: Luck +20, Speed +18, Musou +15, Horse +15, Defense +18 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: The default model. Lots of green and gold colors. He has armor plating on his torso, shoulders, legs, and wrists. The armor has gold outlines with a green background. His pants are a dark grayish color, and he has a large white piece of cloth hanging out from his back. He is also wearing a hat with a large white tassel-like thing coming out of the top. Model 2: Same as the first model, just different colors. His armor now has a green outline, with the background a light goldish color. The tassel on his hat seems to be a more goldish color as well. The cloth on his back is now green. Model 3: This is his DW4 model. Like his default model, it is mostly green and gold with armor plates on his shoulders, arms, torso, and legs. His hat is a little different though; it has two red strings coming out the back instead of a tassel. Model 4: This is a lot different then his other models. The colors have drastically changed - his pants and sleeves are white, and the background of his armor plates is now a teal color, but are still outlined in gold. He has a purple sash going around his waist. His biggest change is his hat - it's a hat similar to those worn by Yellow Turban sorcerers. It is mostly green and gold, with a bit of white and purple in the front. -> Rating: 4/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Liu Bei is one of my favorite sword users. He has a deadly S string, and his SST(+T) and SSSSST string are excellent crowd clearers. His musou is basically like his SST(+T) string, except he deals extra damage at the end with a series of stationary slashes. This makes it great for both clearing crowds and quickly knocking down officers health bars. The only thing he is lacking in is a good fourth weapon. While it isn't bad, attributes such as speed and horse could be better replaced with something else. However Liu Bei and his forth can be put to good use if you're using him to try to score some high leveled items - slap him on Hex Mark, add a Luck+ item, and use his fourth to really boost your chances. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Ma Chao [SC06] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 176 A.D. Died: 222 A.D. The eldest son of Ma Teng. He received the nickname "Ma Chao the Splendid" due to his skill as a warrior. In an attempt to avenge his father, he commanded an army of troops of Xi Liang to attack Cao Cao at Chang An, but lost. He later went on to serve Liu Bei where he proposed numerous strategies, such as the capture of Han Zhong. He was counted among Shu's Five Tiger Generals. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Diagonal slash from right to left. SS: Ma Chao attacks with the blunt end of his spear. SSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSS: Downward slash from top to bottom. SSSSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSSSSSSS: Downward slash from top to bottom. SSSSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. T: Ma Chao swings around his spear 360 degrees, hitting all enemies around him. ST: Ma Chao flings enemies up into the air with his spear. SST(+T): A series of four (I believe) quick frontal stabs, followed by a horizontal slash from left to right. SSST: Ma Chao stabs forward, launching enemies away from him. SSSST: Ma Chao summons up a gust of wind, blowing enemies up into the air. SSSSST: A shockwave of energy comes out of Ma Chao, damaging all enemies around him. XS: Ma Chao jumps into the air, and spins his spear around in a circle directly downwards. XT: Ma Chao jumps into the air and does several spins forward, spinning his spear around with him. Musou: Ma Chao alternates between spinning his spear to the right and left side, then he spins himself on his spear, kicking his enemies while he does so, and then when he comes back onto the ground he slashes from left to right. True musou: Same as his regular musou, except instead of spinning around on his spear at the end he falls onto the ground, then leaps up, bringing a gust of wind with him damaging enemies and sending them flying. Mounted attack: Repeated slashes on the right side. Mounted charge: Ma Chao twirls his spear in the air, sending a shockwave of energy out of him and damaging all enemies around him. Mounted musou: A series of quick slashes to the right, then at the end he performs a mounted charge attack. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Iron Spear Power: 5 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Stallion Spear Power: 10 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Silver Stallion Power: 16 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Stallion Fury Power: 38 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Medium Attributes: Horse +20, Defense +16, Life +15, Speed +15, Attack +17 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: Ma Chao's default model. He is wearing brown pants and brown armor on his torso. He has some white colored armor plates on his upper arm and legs. He has green bracers as well as a green sash going around his waist, with a long piece of green cloth coming out of the back. He has a helmet with the upper half of a dragons head on it, and white hair coming out of the back. Model 2: The same as his first model, except this one includes much more gold color. His armor and pants are now a light gold, as is his helmet and the hair coming out of the back of it. Model 3: This is his DW4 model. The colors are mostly the same as the first model, but there are a few differences. He now has a while sash around his torso, and he has spikes coming out of his bracers. His helmet isn't a dragons head, instead it now has two horns coming out of the side and a white tassel-like thing coming out of the top. Model 4: Similar to model three, but with some color changes. His armor is now white, his sleeves and pants are now green, and the sash around his waist is now red. He is now wearing a white turban as a hat, with a gold headband around it. -> Rating: 5/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ma Chao is simply a beast on a horse; completely unstoppable. Put him on Shadow Runner so he can't get knocked off and you'll have to try to lose, even on chaos mode. Equip him with the horned helm and his fourth to even boost his horse stats more and you'll be slaying officers like it's nothing. Off the horse Ma Chao is still pretty solid, with a good S string and a decent T string. However I think Ma Chao's biggest flaw is his off horse musou. It's decent, but somewhat hard to control and really only effective as a good crowd clearer - forget about using it to target an individual officer. But as long as you got Shadow Runner there really is no reason to have Ma Chao off the horse. The only bad thing about his fourth is the wasted speed bonus; if this was a different attribute it would make the weapon even better. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Huang Zhong [SC07] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: Unknown Died: 222 A.D. A Shu officer. Masterful with a bow, he was capable of hitting a target 100 times out of 100 tries. He served both Liu Biao and Han Xuan. While under Han Xuan, he had a fierce battle with Guan Yu. He later served Liu Bei and participated in the Battle of Mt. Ding Jun. He accompanied Liu Bei during his ascension to the throne of Han Zhong, and was appointed as one of the Five Tiger Generals. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Diagonal slash from right to left. SS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSS: Forward stab. SSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSSSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSSSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. T(+T): Huang Zhong shoots up to six volleys of five arrows. ST: Huang Zhong launches enemies up into the air with his sword. SST(+T): Huang Zhong shoots up to four volleys of five arrows, with the last volley stunning any remaining enemies. SSST: Huang Zhong spins around and slashes the enemy diagonally with his sword, sending them flying backwards. SSSST: Huang Zhong punches the ground, sending nearby enemies flying up into the air. SSSSST: Huang Zhong spins around, swinging his sword with him. XS: Huang Zhong jumps into the air and slashes downward diagonally from right to left. XT: Huang Zhong leaps into the air, does a flip, and while doing so shoots a volley of arrows down into any enemies below him. Musou: Huang Zhong spins around swinging his sword diagonally. True musou: Same as his regular musou, except at the end he launches the enemy forward and shoots an arrow at them that explodes on contact, dealing heavy damage and sending them flying into the air. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking on the right and left. Mounted charge: One charge attack on the right then the left. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left side. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- War Sword Power: 4 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Veteran Sword Power: 8 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Sage Sword Power: 12 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Oracle Sword Power: 36 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Light Attributes: Fill +18, Bow +20, Musou +15, Horse +15, Defense +15 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: Default model. Lots of green and gold colors. He has a small hat on top his head also. He has armor guards on his upper arms, torso, and legs. He also has a large green cloth on his back. Model 2: Same as model one, except a different color scheme. This model consists of mostly white, yellow, and gold. His armor is now a mixture of mostly yellow and gold, and his pants and sleeves are white. The hat on top his head and cloth draping down from his back are both now gold as well. Model 3: This is his DW4 model. He is wearing a large golden robe with some white clothes underneath. He has some green armor and cloths draped around him as well. He is wearing a large armored hat that covers most of his head and has a spike on the top. Model 4: Much like model three, but with a few differences. His robe is now a light green-yellow color, and the cloth around his waist is now red. His hat is different too- it's now a helmet with golden wings on the sides and a green tassel coming out of the top. -> Rating: 3/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Despite a few attacks, Huang Zhong is pretty much just an average character. There are a few charge attacks of his that make him rather unique, however. His main advantage point is his regular T attack, which can also be spammed +T. This volley of arrows, when equipped with the fire arrows item, can be quite deadly. His SST(+T) is essentially the same thing, just with fewer volleys; however the last volley makes up for it with stunning power. Still, the main way to go with Huang Zhong is to just spam T(+T) with using his XT to quickly escape. His musou is rather decent as well, dealing out some heavy damage to individual officers as well as being a decent crowd clearer. Now for the bad... while spamming his T(+T) is effective, he's left standing still while doing so, leaving him very vulnerable to enemies and archers. Aside from his T(+T) and SST(+T), the rest of his T strings and his S strings are rather weak and ineffective. Plus his fourth weapon, for how difficult it is to get, is a letdown. No attack attribute and a light weight status degrades his attack power greatly. With both good pros and cons, I've always found Huang Zhong to be just average. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Jiang Wei [SC08] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 202 A.D. Died: 264 A.D. An officer of Shu. He once belonged to Wei, but was caught in a plot by Zhuge Liang, who had come to conquer the north. Filled with respect for Zhuge Liang, he was treated as a successor and was even entrusted with Zhuge Liang's strategy books. After his mentor's death, he vowed to fulfill Zhuge Liang's ambition, and continued the attacks against the north. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Diagonal slash from right to left. SS: Jiang Wei attacks with the blunt end of his spear. SSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSSSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. T: Jiang Wei summons up a single fireball that explodes after several seconds. ST: Jiang Wei launches enemies into the air with his spear. SST(+T): A series of six diagonal slashes, followed up by a horizontal slash from right to left. SSST: Jiang Wei lunges forward with his spear held in front of him like a ram, pushes nearby enemies back. SSSST: A gust of wind blows nearby enemies up into the air. SSSSST: Jiang Wei lunges forward, stabbing his spear, then spins around and slashes horizontally from left to right. XS: Jiang Wei jumps into the air and swings downward from left to right. XT: Jiang Wei jumps into the air and hovers a bit while performing several quick stabbing motions downward, then slashes downward from right to left. Musou: Jiang Wei spins around, while swinging his spear with him, and finishes up with a slash horizontally from right to left. True musou: Same as his regular musou, except at the end he shoots out a giant fireball. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking on the right and left. Mounted charge: One charge attack on the right then the left. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left side. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trident Power: 4 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Great Trident Power: 8 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Vapor Power: 12 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Blink Power: 36 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Medium Attributes: Luck +15, Attack +16, Life +17, Speed +15, Musou +18 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: His default model. His pants and sleeves are white/gray, and he is wearing a teal colored armor on his chest and legs. He also has a purple colored cloth running down his left leg. His hair is in a ponytail that is up high on his head. Model 2: Same as his first model, just with different colors. His pants and sleeves are a bright white, and the armor on his chest, shoulders, torso and legs is now purple with gold outlining. Model 3: This is his DW4 model. His sleeves and pants are white, and he has a purple colored armor plate around his waist. He has a green cloth that is draped around his neck and runs down his back and left leg. He also has two brown shoulder guards on, and the ponytail on his head is lower. Model 4: Same as his third model, but with a few differences. For one the color is different: he cloth around his neck and back is now teal, as is the armor around his waist. He also has two bracers on his wrists that appear to be dragon heads. -> Rating: 4.5/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jiang Wei is deadly, especially at taking out crowds. His S string is great, and takes out huge swarms of enemies easily, as does his SST(+T) string. His musou is also great at both taking out crowds and dealing a large amount of damage to a single officer. His fourth weapon is pretty good, although the luck and speed attributes could have been better replaced with something else. But regardless, Jiang Wei is still one of the top officers in the game. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Wei Yan [SC09] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: Unknown Died: 234 A.D. A Shu officer. He served under Liu Biao until his death, from which he joined Liu Bei. Despite his rebellious spirit and disapproval from Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei took him in as one of his own, eventually promoting him. He later went on to continue the line of Fiver Tiger Generals with his bravery and was a major force in the Shu efforts to take the north. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Diagonal slash from right to left. SS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSS: Wei Yan spins around, swinging his spear with him. SSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSSS: Wei Yan twirls his spear around several times in front of him. SSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSSSSS: Wei Yan spins around, swinging his spear with him. SSSSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. T: Wei Yan does a few flips forward in the air, attacking with his spear to the left. ST: Wei Yan launches enemies up into the air with the one end of his spear. SST(+T): Wei Yan rolls around on the floor several times, swinging his spear in a circular motion above his head. SSST: Wei Yan slashes from left to right, sending any enemies he hits flying backwards. SSSST: Wei Yan launches some type of circular gust of wind that launches enemies up into the air. SSSSST(+T): Wei Yan swings his spear around his head several times, then finishes it off by slashing from left to right. XS: Wei Yan jumps into the air and swings downward from right to left. XT: Wei Yan jumps into the air and, while upside down, twirls his spear around very quickly several times below his head. Musou: Wei Yan starts sort of "rolling around" - alternating between standing up and lying down - while swinging his spear around. True musou: The same as his regular musou, except at the end he spins on his head, and a gust of wind surrounds him, blowing enemies up into the air. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking on the right and left. Mounted charge: One charge attack on the right then the left. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left side. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Double Vougle Power: 4 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Strike Voulge Power: 8 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Double Star Power: 12 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Comet Strike Power: 36 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Medium Attributes: Charge +16, Defense +16, Musou +15, Luck +15, Attack +18 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: This is his default model. He is wearing a mask which covers the top half of his face, and his hair is tied up in a ponytail and is coming out the top. He has green and gold armor covering his entire chest, and he has armor plates on both shoulders. He is wearing a skirt that seems to be made out of several different types of cloth, and it is brown and dark green in color. Model 2: The same as his first model, just different colors. The green and gold has been replaced with black and white. His mask is also now black and white. Model 3: This is his DW4 model. His mask is a little different - the face portion is the same, however now there are two golden wings on each side. He has a large plate of armor on his left shoulder, which also has some type of golden piece coming off of it. His skirt is mostly dark brown, and the armor on his chest is gold with a little bit of green. Model 4: The same as his third model, but with a few differences. His armor is now mostly white, red, and green, and his skirt is green with some white. He has a completely different mask, it is smaller and is completely golden. Also his hair is now white, and is tied up at the very top of his head. His skin complexion is also very darker. -> Rating: 4.5/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wei Yan is a very fun character to use, and is also a beast. His S string and T string are both great for taking out large crowds, as is his musou. His two best attacks are his SST(+T) and his SSSSST(+T) attacks, which you can just run around spamming to destroy everything in your path. His fourth weapon is also good, just adding to his deadliness. Personally I think Wei Yan is one of the best characters in the game, as well as one of the most fun to use. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Pang Tong [SC10] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 179 A.D. Died: 213 A.D. An official under Liu Bei. A classmate of Zhuge Liang, he was often compared to the Sleeping Dragon as an accomplished strategist. At the Battle of Chi Bi, he helped execute the plan that ensured victory for the Allied Forces. After joining Liu Bei, he suggested the capture of the lands of Shu and led the campaign himself. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Pang Tong spins around in a circle, swinging his staff with him. SS: Pang Tong attacks with the end of his staff from behind his back. SSS: Pang Tong starts to do a cartwheel, while swinging his staff directly over his head and downward. SSSS: Pang Tong completes the cartwheel, kicking upwards when he does so. SSSSS: Pang Tong pushes forward using his staff as a ram. SSSSSS: Pang Tong jumps in the air and does several flips before landing. SSSSSSS: Pang Tong attacks with the end of his staff from behind his back. SSSSSSSS: Pang Tong starts to do a cartwheel, while swinging his staff directly over his head and downward. SSSSSSSSS: Pang Tong spins around in the air while upside down, with his staff spinning in a circle hitting enemies in all directions below him. T: Pang Tong summons a green fireball that explodes after several seconds. ST: Pang Tong knocks enemies into the air with his staff. SST(+T): Pang Tong does a series of three backflips, then he stands his staff up in the air and rotates around it in a circle, kicking enemies in all directions. SSST: Pang Tong spins around in the air while upside down, with his staff spinning in a circle hitting enemies in all directions below him. SSSST: Pang Tong summons up a burst of energy that blasts enemies into the air. SSSSST: Pang Tong spins around in a circle with a huge blast of wind surrounding him, knocking all enemies into the air. XS: Pang Tong jumps into the air and slashes downward from right to left. XT: Pang Tong jumps into the air and glides across the air a few feet on top of his staff. Musou: Pang Tong spins around in the air with several gusts of wind coming up from underneath him, damaging all enemies around him and sending them flying into the air. True musou: The same as his regular musou, just with an additional gust of wind at the end. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking on the right and left. Mounted charge: One charge attack on the opposite side he last attacked. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left side. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vision Staff Power: 2 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Mirage Staff Power: 6 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Wind Staff Power: 10 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Tornado Staff Power: 32 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Medium Attributes: Fill +18, Luck +15, Bow +16, Def +17, Life +15 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: Default model. Pang Tong is completely covered in clothes and robes, with only his eyes showing from a white cloth draped over the bottom of his face. The top part of his head is covered in a green and gold hat. Most of his clothes are green and gold also, with a little bit of red in the middle. Model 2: Same as his first model except now his clothes are mostly white, gray, and a dark blue/purpleish color. His pants and the cloth around his face are a dark gray, almost black color. Model 3: This is his DW4 model. Most of his face is still covered, except now the hat he is wearing is sort of a mini-sombrero looking hat, with red frills hanging off the sides. The robe he is wearing is mostly green and gold, with the sleeves having a brownish background. Model 4: He looks like someone from the Yellow Turbans in this model. His hat and upper body clothes are all a very bright gold. The hat looks like a Yellow Turban sorcerer hat. His pants are white. -> Rating: 1.5/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pang Tong is just... bad, as far as I'm concerned. For starters his S string is just awful. Not only is it bad at clearing crowds, it's also bad at attacking individual enemies. His T string is pretty bad as well - his SST(+T) is decent, but still hard to target an individual enemy with all hits. His only other decent T string attack is his SSSSST, but due to the fact that he takes his good old time getting ready to use it he'll usually get hit before he can. The only reason I'm giving him a 2/5 is his musou. It's pretty deadly, and really the only redeeming factor that he has. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Yue Ying [SC11] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: Unknown Died: Unknown The wife of the great strategist Zhuge Liang. She was said to have supported her husband with her knowledge of astronomy, geography and military strategy. She was apparently quite unattractive, but Zhuge Liang pursued her anyway when he heard of her wisdom. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Horizontal slash from left to right. SS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSS: Downward slash from top to bottom. SSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSSSSS: Yue Ying spins around in a circle, swinging her spear with her. SSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSSSSSSS: Downward slash from top to bottom. SSSSSSSSS: Yue Ying spins around, swinging her spear with her. T: Yue Ying throws her spear forward a bit, which spins around hitting any enemies, and then returns to her like a boomerang. ST: Yue Ying launches enemies up into the air with her spear. SST(+T): Yue Ying performs a series of three rapid forward stabs, followed by a horizontal slash from left to right. SSST: Yue Ying spins around in a circle, swinging her spear with her. SSSST: Yue Ying summons up a gust of wind that launches enemies into the air. SSSSST(+T): Yue Ying spins around several times, swinging her spear around with her. XS: Yue Ying jumps into the air and swings downward from left to right. XT: Yue Ying jumps into the air, scoops up enemies on the ground by swinging her spear downwards, then slashes them again while they're in the air. Musou: Yue Ying spins around in circles, swinging her spear with her. True musou: Same as her regular musou, except at the end she finishes it off with a large gust of wind around her. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking on the right and left. Mounted charge: One charge attack on the right then the left. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left side. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- War Spear Power: 3 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Martial Spear Power: 7 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Horizon Power: 11 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Oblivion Power: 36 Attacks: 6 Weight: Medium Attributes: Charge +15, Horse +15, Bow +16, Def +17, Life +16 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: This is her default model. She's wearing a white robe with a green sash around her waist. Most of her clothing underneath the robe is green as well, including green boots and bracers. She has golden shoulder pads on both shoulders, and some golden designs on her robe. She is wearing some type of golden hat, with a red gem on the front and elf-like ears on the sides. Model 2: Same as her first model, just different colors. Now the robe is mostly light blue, teal, and gold. Her waist is purple, and the sash is now white, as are her shoulder pads. Her hat is now silver/ white as well. Model 3: This is her DW4 model. Her robe is mostly white and gold, with a green and gold chest plate. Her hat is very similar to her previous two models. Model 4: Similar to the third model, but with a few differences. One is the color, this is more green and gold, with the upper portion of her chest a dark brown. Her skirt is also now an armored plate on her right leg. -> Ranting: 2.5/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Personally I find Yue Ying to be just another average character. Nothing about her really stands out or makes her extremely useful. Her S string is decent, but I believe her T string could be much better. Her SST(+T) is good for dealing out damage to a single enemy, but useless for any type of crowd clearing. Her SSSSST(+T) is the same as her musou, therefore easily spammable. Both this and her musou are great for clearing crowds, but bad for dealing any type of heavy damage to officers since it's more of a juggling attack. Her fourth weapon is decent as well. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Guan Ping [SC12] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: Unknown Died: 219 A.D. An officer under Liu Bei. The second son of Guan Ding, he became Guan Yu's adopted son after Guan Yu took an interest in him. When Liu Bei took Shu, he and his father protected Jing. Captured by Wu at Mai Castle, he suffered the same fate as his father. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Horizontal slash from right to left. SS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSS: Guan Ping spins around and slashes diagonally from right to left. SSSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSSS: Guan Ping spins around and slashes horizontally from left to right. SSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSSSSSS: Guan Ping spins around and slashes horizontally from right to left. T: Guan Ping jumps up in the air and slams his sword on the ground. ST: Guan Ping launches enemies up into the air with his sword. SST(+T): Guan Ping performs a series of six diagonal slashes from the right and left and finishes by slamming his sword on the ground, causing a shockwave of energy to go around him. SSST(+T): Guan Ping spins around up to four times, swinging his sword around with him hitting everyone. SSSST: Guan Ping launches enemies up into the air with a gust of wind. SSSSST: Guan Ping jumps into the air and throws his sword down to the ground in front of him, causing an explosion that damages all enemies around the landing area. XS: Guan Ping jumps into the air and slashes directly downward. XT: Guan Ping jumps into the air and does a series of quick slashes downward. Musou: Guan Ping spins around in circles, swinging his sword with him. True musou: Same as his regular musou, except at the end he jumps up into the air and slams his sword down on the ground, causing a shockwave to run straight along a path and damage any enemies that it hits. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking on the right and left. Mounted charge: One charge attack on the right then the left. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left side. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Iron Blade Power: 4 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Giant Blade Power: 8 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Flying Dragon Power: 12 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Young Dragon Power: 36 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Light Attributes: Charge +16, Bow +15, Life +15, Luck +15, Attack +17 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: This is his default model. He's wearing a green shirt with a white plate of armor around his waist, which also has two thigh plates. He has an armored plate on his right shoulder, and green and gold bracers. He has a large green cloth coming down his left leg, and he has a green bandana around his head. Model 2: Same as his first model, except with different colors. This model is mostly red and white. His armor, shirt, and pants are now red with a white outline, and the bandana around his head is now white as well. Model 3: This is also similar to his first two models, but with a few differences. The colors are mostly green with a red outline now, and instead of a bandana he is wearing a hat that covers the top portion of his head. Model 4: Same as model three, just with different colors. This model is mostly white with a little bit of green here and there. The hat on his head is the same as his third model, but now it's white. -> Rating: 3.5/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guan Ping is definitely good, but I just don't find him to be the kind of powerhouse that I feel he should be. He's a good crowd clearer, that's for sure. His SST(+T) is both good at dealing individual damage to an officer and then the shockwave of energy at the end is good for damaging large crowds. His SSST(+T) is great for taking out large crowds, as is his musou. However, since it's a juggling musou it isn't that greatest for officer damage. His S string is decent, but nothing to write home about. Guan Ping is certainly a good character, but I can't help but feel that he could be better. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Xing Cai [SC13] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: Unknown Died: Unknown The daughter of Zhang Fei. Calm and rational, she was also a fierce warrior, much to the delight of her father. Growing up alongside Zhang Fei, she is mature beyond her years. Along with Liu Bei's son, Liu Chan, and Guan Yu's adopted son, Guan Ping, she was praised as the future of Shu. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Diagonal slash from right to left. SS: Xing Cai quickly bashes any enemies with her shield. SSS: Xing Cai spins around and slashes diagonally from left to right. SSSS: Forward stab. SSSSS: Another forward stab. SSSSSS: Xing Cai runs forward, stabbing with her weapon. SSSSSSS: Xing Cai smacks enemies with her shield. SSSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. T: Xing Cai lunges forward and spins around, smacking enemies with her shield. ST: Xing Cai launches enemies into the air with her shield. SST(+T): Xing Cai spins around in a circle up to four times, swinging her weapon with her. SSST: Xing Cai spins around, slashing from left to right, then throws her shield out which comes flying back to her like a boomerang. SSSST: Xing Cai launches a burst of wind forward. SSSSST: Xing Cai throws her shield up into the air and slashes horizontally from right to left. XS: Xing Cai jumps into the air and slashes downward from left to right. XT: Xing Cai jumps into the air and catapults downward, smashing her weapon into the ground causing a shockwave. Musou: Xing Cai launches any nearby enemies a little bit into the air, then proceeds to slash horizontally from left to right. True musou: Same as her regular musou, except at the end she lunges forward with an explosion. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking on the right and left. Mounted charge: One charge attack on the right side, or the side opposite of her last attack. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left side. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Long Fork Power: 4 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Cobra Fork Power: 7 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Sacred Light Power: 11 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Ambition Power: 34 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Medium Attributes: Horse +15, Spd +16, Def +17, Musou +17, Life +15 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: Her default model. She is wearing a short green dress with a silver armor chest plate. She also has armor on both her shoulders and her lower legs. Model 2: Same as model one, just different colors. Her dress is now more of a lime green color, and her armor is a goldish/light yellow color. Model 3: Similar to the first two models, except with different colors and some additional clothes. For one she now has full armor gear going up to her neck, and she appears to be wearing a dark colored pair of pants. Her dress is more of an aqua blue, and the armor is a mix of white, blue and purple. Model 4: Same as model three, except now her pants are white, her dress is a fire red/yellow/orange mix, with her armor being different shades of gray and white. -> Rating: 2/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- After playing with Xing Cai quite a bit I actually started to get use to her, and found her to be not too bad... but thinking about it there really isn't enough good things about her to rate her too highly. Her SST(+T) is great for clearing crowds, and her musou is great for dealing damage to officers... and that's about it. The rest of her T string is literally useless, and her S string is nothing to brag about. Other then that there really isn't much else great about her. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- WEI [WEIC] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- There are 13 playable Wei characters, two of which are new to the series (Cao Pi and Pang De.) This section will cover each officer in the order that they're listed on the character select screen. To quickly find the specific character you're looking for, use the Ctrl + F search function and the appropriate key from the following list: Xiahou Dun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WC01] Dian Wei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WC02] Xu Zhu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WC03] Cao Cao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WC04] Xiahou Yuan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WC05] Zhang Liao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WC06] Sima Yi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WC07] Xu Huang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WC08] Zhang He . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WC09] Zhen Ji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WC10] Cao Ren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WC11] Cao Pi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WC12] Pang De . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WC13] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Xiahou Dun [WC01] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: Unknown Died: 220 A.D. A Wei officer and cousin of Cao Cao. It is said that he lost his eye to an arrow during a battle against Lu Bu. He then removed the eye from the arrow and ate it. Later, he commanded numerous troops and fought in various places, serving as Cao Cao's right-hand man. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Horizontal slash from right to left. SS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSS: Downward slash from top to bottom. SSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSS: 360 degree slash horizontally from left to right. SSSSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSSSSS: Downward slash from top to bottom. SSSSSSSSS: 360 degree slash horizontally from left to right. T: Xiahou Dun sprints forward and slashes horizontally from right to left. ST: Xiahou Dun launches enemies into the air with his sword. SST(+T): Xiahou Dun performs a series of circular slashes. SSST: 360 degree slash horizontally from left to right. SSSST: Xiahou Dun slams the ground with his sword, causing enemies to go flying into the air. SSSSST: Xiahou Dun performs two horizontal slashes. XS: Xiahou Dun jumps into the air and swings downward from right to left. XT: Xiahou Dun jumps into the air and slashes downward, scooping up enemies into the air, then slashes them while in the air. Musou: Xiahou Dun performs a series of diagonal slashes from left to right. True musou: Same as his original musou, except at the end there is a shockwave of energy and an additional slash. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking on the right and left. Mounted charge: One charge attack on the right then the left. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left side. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scimitar Power: 4 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Great Scimitar Power: 8 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Kirin Blade Power: 12 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Kirin Fang Power: 36 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Medium Attributes: Charge +17, Horse +16, Def +17, Atk +17, Musou +16 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: His default model. He is wearing purple and blue colored armor on his chest and wrists. Underneath he is wearing a yellow colored shirt and pants. He also has a purple and white colored cloth covering his thighs. Model 2: Same as his first model, except now almost all of his clothes are a very golden color. He has some green on his bracers/waist area, as well as a little bit of red and brown. But other then that the rest of him is gold. Model 3: This is his DW4 model. His costume is mainly purple, blue, and some green. He has armor plates on both his thighs, and his eye patch is a larger piece of cloth that goes around his whole head. Model 4: Similar to his third model, except now it's mostly dark blue, white and a light purple. This biggest difference is that he is now wearing a cape, similar to his DW3 model. -> Rating: 4/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Xiahou Dun is a pretty solid character. He deals out a good bit of damage, has a nice fourth weapon, and his attack strings and musou are great for handing out some heavy damage. His S string is very good, and really isn't lacking in any areas. His T string is decent, but you'll find yourself mainly spamming his SST(+T). His musou is great for individual damage as well as taking out crowds. Xiahou Dun is an all-around well balanced character. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Dian Wei [WC02] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: Unknown Died: 197 A.D. A giant of a man who served as Cao Cao's personal bodyguard and was constantly by his side. After Zhang Xiu's attack on Wan Castle, he alone stood before the enemy troops, giving his life so that Cao Cao could escape. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Horizontal slash from left to right. SS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSS: Downward slash from top to bottom. SSSSS: 360 degree slash from left to right. SSSSSS: 360 degree slash from right to left. SSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSSSSSS: Dian Wei throws his axe, which spins around and returns to him like a boomerang. T: Dian Wei stomps on the ground, knocking down enemies near him. ST: Dian Wei launches enemies into the air with his axe. SST(+T): A series of three quick downward slashes followed by a horizontal slash from right to left. SSST: Dian Wei throws his axe, which spins around and returns to him like a boomerang. SSSST: Dian Wei launches enemies into the air with a burst of energy. SSSSST: Dian Wei smashes the ground with his axe. XS: Dian Wei jumps into the air and slashes downward from right to left. XT: Dian Wei jumps into the air, does a somersault and comes crashing back down to the ground. Musou: Dian Wei performs a series of slashes with his axe as well as using his left arm to bash people. True musou: Same as regular musou except at the end Dian Wei slams his axe into the ground, causing an explosion that damages nearby enemies. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking on the right and left. Mounted charge: One charge attack on the right then the left. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left side. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hand Axe Power: 5 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Strike Axe Power: 10 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Bull Power: 16 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Mad Bull Power: 38 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Light Attributes: Charge +15, Atk +18, Life +17, Fill +15, Musou +17 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: This is his default model. He's wearing two large armor plates on his shoulders that wrap around his chest and are attached to a smaller buckle around his waist. The plate on his left shoulder has a single spike coming out of it. The rest of his arms are covered with blue and silver armor. He is wearing blue pants with a purple cloth wrapped around the back. Model 2: Same as his first model, but different colors. This model has much more darker colors. His armor is mainly black and silver, and his pants are a dark gray/black color as well. His skin tone is much darker too, almost reddish in color. Model 3: This is his DW4 model. He has a large armor plate with two spikes on it on his left shoulder, as well as a bracer on his left arm with a spike coming out of it. He has a large armor chest plate that is blue/silver/gold in color. He has a blue sash around his waist, and his pants are mainly blue with two armor guards on his upper leg. Model 4: Same as his third model, but with different colors. This model has a lot of turquoise, light blue, gold and silver. He's also wearing a light blue hat in this model. -> Rating: 3.5/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dian Wei is a pretty decent character, with his strengths being his S string and his musou. His S string is just all around great, and his musou is a good crowd clearer and damage dealer. His SST(+T) string is decent, but can be a little difficult to control. None of his other T strings is very remarkable, except maybe his SSSSST. His fourth weapon is decent, even though it is light weight. At least it has the Atk +18 to make up for it. A big downfall for Dian Wei though is that he's very slow, you'll need a horse for his guy unless you want to slap on a speed scroll. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Xu Zhu [WC03] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: Unknown Died: Unknown A Wei officer. An extremely large man possibly as big around as he was tall. As capable in battle as the great Dian Wei, he also served as Cao Cao's personal bodyguard. Normally an average and absent-minded man, he transformed on the battlefield, fighting with the fierceness of a tiger. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Horizontal slash from right to left. SS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSSS: Downward slash from top to bottom. SSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSSSSSS: Xu Zhu spins around, swinging his club with him. T: Xu Zhu stomps on the ground. ST: Xu Zhu knocks enemies into the air with his club. SST(+T): A series of five quick downward slashes. SSST: Xu Zhu swings around and knocks enemies away with his club. SSSST: Xu Zhu slams the ground with his club, knocking enemies into the air. SSSSST(+T): Xu Zhu hops forward up to three times, knocking enemies with his club, then jumps up into the air and crashes back down to the ground, damaging enemies. XS: Xu Zhu jumps into the air and swings downward from right to left. XT: Xu Zhu jumps into the air, rolls himself up into a ball, and comes crashing down to the ground, bouncing around a few times. Musou: Xu Zhu spins around in a circle swinging his club with him, then at the end he falls down onto the ground. True musou: Same as his regular musou, except instead of falling down he unleashes a shockwave of energy around him. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking on the right and left. Mounted charge: One charge attack on the right then the left. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left side. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Club Power: 5 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Spiked Club Power: 10 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Bone Crusher Power: 16 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Stone Crusher Power: 38 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Light Attributes: Fill +17, Bow +19, Life +20, Luck +15, Def +19 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: His default model. He's wearing a blue vest with no shirt on underneath, and he has a blue scarf-life cloth around his neck. He has a red sash around his waist and a larger piece of cloth on underneath it that wraps around his body and covers his upper leg. His pants are blue and he's wearing some sort of tiara-like hat. Model 2: Same as his first model except this is mostly gold and red. His vest is outlined in gold with a dark brownish background. He scarf around his neck is now a dark red, as are his pants. The rest of his clothes are gold. Model 3: This is his DW4 model. His vest is now much smaller, extending just below his armpits. His hair is also tied up in a bun at the top. His bottom half is essentially the same as his other models, except his pants are purple. Model 4: Same as the third model, just different colors. His vest, pants, and clothes around his waist are now all mostly grayish in color. -> Rating: 1/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Xu Zhu is, simply put, one of the most frustrating officers to play as. He's slow, clunky, and his move set is a mess. His S string is decent for clearing out crowds, as are some of his T string attacks, but he's so slow with so much lag you can hardly even pull them off half the time. His musou would be semi-decent if it wasn't for the fact that he just literally falls down at the end. This pretty much forces you to use a Way of the Musou scroll if you want to make any use of it. His fourth weapon is light as well, and with no attack bonus this makes it take a big hit in damage. All in all Xu Zhu is one of the worst officers of the game, hands down. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Cao Cao [WC04] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 155 A.D. Died: 220 A.D. The Wei Ruler. He was labeled a "Hero of Chaos." A man of many talents, he wrote numerous books on strategy and tactics. During the Yellow Turban Rebellion, he joined the Imperial Forces, distinguishing himself on the battlefield. Following the death of Dong Zhuo, he strengthened his foothold in the troubled central plains, thereby establishing the foundation for what would become the Wei Empire. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Horizontal slash from right to left. SS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSSSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. T: Cao Cao summons up a fireball which explodes after several seconds. ST: Cao Cao launches enemies into the air with his sword. SST(+T): Cao Cao performs a series of seven quick slashes with his sword, while quickly zig zagging to the left and right. SSST: Cao Cao slashes horizontally from left to right. SSSST: Cao Cao stomps on the ground. SSSSST(+T): Cao Cao performs a series of five diagonal slashes, alternating from the right and left. XS: Cao Cao jumps in the air and swings downward from left to right. XT: Cao Cao jumps into the air and slashes downward two times, then he launches a little swirl of energy down. Musou: Cao Cao spins around while slashing up and down diagonally. True musou: Same as his regular musou except there is an additional slash at the end which sends enemies flying back. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking on the right and left. Mounted charge: One charge attack on the right then the left. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left side. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Broad Sword Power: 3 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random General's Sword Power: 7 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Sword of Heaven Power: 11 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Wrath of Heaven Power: 34 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Medium Attributes: Charge +17, Bow +15, Life +17, Horse +17, Atk +17 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: This is his default model. He's wearing a piece of red and gold colored cloth around the top of his chest, and underneath is a blue and white shirt. Around his waist is some type of sash, which also extends into a piece of cloth that covers the back of his legs. His pants are the same color as his shirt underneath. He has a small hat on top of his head. Model 2: Same as his first model, except the colors in this one are mainly black with a gold outline. His shirt is mostly gold, as is the hat on top of his head. Model 3: This is his DW4 model. His undershirt and pants are purple, and the cloth around the top of his chest is mostly red and gold. Has has two bits of chain mail coming down from around his waist that cover the top portion of his legs. Like his other models he has a small hat on top of his head. Model 4: Same as model three, except his model is mostly all purple. His pants and shirt are a much lighter purple then they were on his third model, and so is the armor around his arms. The chain mail around his waist is a more darker purple/blueish color. -> Rating: 4/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cao Cao is probably my favorite sword user in the game. His S and T string are great at taking down crowds, and with his fourth weapon he really becomes a powerhouse. His SST(+T) and SSSSST(+T) are his best attacks, along with his musou. Both of them are great at dealing with crowds while also dishing out heavy damage to officers. His fourth weapon also helps boost his horse stats. Using the ice orb with his SSSSST(+T) will provide great results. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Xiahou Yuan [WC05] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: Unknown Died: 219 A.D. A Wei officer and cousin to Xiahou Dun. He worked with Cao Cao from the beginning, commanding a division of Cao Cao's newly formed army. Famous for his lightning quick attacks, he had a long list of accomplishments, including the defeat of Ma Chao. However, at the Battle of Mt. Ding Jun, he was killed by Huang Zhong. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Diagonal slash from right to left. SS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSS: Forward stab. SSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. T(+T): Xiahou Yuan shoots a volley of four arrows, with the final volley stunning enemies it hits. ST: Xiahou Yuan launches enemies into the air with his club. SST(+T): Xiahou Yuan performs a series of seven diagonal slashes, alternating from left to right and right to left. SSST: Xiahou Yuan spins around and slashes downward diagonally from left to right. SSSST: Xiahou Yuan launches enemies into the air with a gust a wind. SSSSST(+T): Xiahou Yuan performs a series of five attacks, alternating from left to right and right to left. XS: Xiahou Yuan jumps into the air and slashes downward diagonally from right to left. XT: Xiahou Yuan jumps into the air, does a flip, and comes crashing back down to the ground, slamming his club on the ground. Musou: Xiahou Yuan spins around, swinging his club with him diagonally. True musou: Same as his regular musou, except at the end he lets out a shockwave of energy. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking on the right and left. Mounted charge: One charge attack on the right then the left. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left side. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Battle Rod Power: 4 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Strike Rod Power: 8 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Power Rod Power: 12 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Enforcer Rod Power: 36 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Medium Attributes: Charge +16, Atk +16, Life +17, Bow +19, Musou +17 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: His default model. He is wearing mostly blue and white armor. He has two armor pads on his upper arm as well as his upper leg. He has a golden cloth on around his waist, but it is mostly covered up by the other clothes he has on over top of it. He's wearing a helmet that covers most of his head aside from his face, and there is a large white tassel coming out of the top of it. Model 2: Same as his first model, but with different colors. His armor now is mostly a brownish color with gold outlines, and he is wearing some purple clothes underneath his armor. The tassel on top of his hat is now purple as well. Model 3: This is his DW4 model. He's still wearing armor plates on his upper arms and legs, and he is also wearing a large chest plate of armor. Most of this is blue and gold, with a white shirt on underneath. He's wearing a purple sash around his waist with a red colored piece of cloth being used as a belt. His pants are a light blue. Instead of a large helmet he's now wearing a small hat on top of his head. Model 4: Similar to his third model, but with some differences. The main one is the color, this is mostly a grayish color with gold outlines, and white pants and cloth belt. His hat is now back to the same as his first and second model, except the tassel is blue. -> Rating: 3/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Much like his Shu counterpart, Huang Zhong, Xiahou Yuan suffers from the same sort of averageness. His T(+T) is good, but leaves him standing still, so you must be careful when to use it. His S string is decent and despite the fact that he has a few +T attacks in his T string, they aren't really that good. His SST(+T) isn't useful at dealing with crowds, and his SSSSST(+T) suffers from a good bit of lag at the start. His musou suffers many of the problems of his SST(+T), mainly its lack of range. Overall Xiahou Yuan isn't that bad because he is a heavy hitter, but he lacks the range to really be a stand out character. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Zhang Liao [WC06] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 169 A.D. Died: 224 A.D. A Wei officer. In the beginning, he fought in various battles under Lu Bu. After Lu Bu's death, he served under Cao Cao. During his defense of He Fei, he managed to repel over 100,000 Wu troops with just 800 men. He was feared throughout the land. He was promoted to the head of the Wei Five Generals. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Horizontal slash from right to left. SS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSS: Zhang Liao attacks with the blunt end of his spear. SSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSSSSS: Downward slash from top to bottom. SSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSSSSSSS: Zhang Liao attacks with the blunt end of his spear. SSSSSSSSS: Zhang Liao swings around 360 degrees with his spear. T: Zhang Liao lunges forward, twirling his spear in front of him. ST: Zhang Liao launches enemies into the air with his spear. SST(+T): Zhang Liao performs a series of seven quick diagonal slashes, alternating from left to right. SSST: Zhang Liao spins around swinging his spear with him. SSSST: Zhang Liao launches enemies into the air with a gust of wind. SSSSST: Zhang Liao uses an even bigger gust of wind to damage all enemies around him. XS: Zhang Liao jumps into the air and swings downward from right to left. XT: Zhang Liao jumps into the air and launches down a swirl of energy. Musou: Zhang Liao slashes diagonally from left to right and right to left, then finishes if off with a horizontal slash. True musou: Same as his regular musou, except at the end he summons a large fireball. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking on the right and left. Mounted charge: One charge attack on the right then the left. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left side. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pole Blade Power: 4 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Great Blade Power: 8 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Blue Wyvern Power: 12 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Gold Wyvern Power: 36 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Medium Attributes: Fill +15, Horse +18, Life +17, Luck +15, Atk +17 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: His default model. The clothes he's wearing have several different colors: some are purple, some blue, and some a more teal color. He's wearing some armor plates on his shoulders and upper arm, as well as his chest. He has pirate-like hat on which has a white tassel coming out of the top. Model 2: Same as his first model, except most of the colors here are a lighter purple, a darker purple, and a reddish brown. Model 3: This is his DW4 model. His hat is similar to his first two models, but a little smaller. He has a maroon colored cape on, and his shirt and pants are a grayish color. He's wearing some blue and red colored armor around his waist and on his upper legs. Model 4: Same as his third model, except his hat is different and he is no longer wearing a cape. He is wearing more blue and purple colored clothes, and his hat is similar to a pickelhaube with a spike coming out of the top. -> Rating: 3.5/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zhang Liao is definitely above average, but not without some drawbacks. He's great at taking out crowds, especially with his musou and SST(+T), both which also deal a good amount of damage. His S string is decent, as is his fourth weapon. However most of his other T string attacks have quite a bit of lag to them, especially his SSSSS(T). But even still, Zhang Liao is a good crowd clearer and still one of the better officers in the game. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Sima Yi [WC07] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 179 A.D. Died: 251 A.D. A Wei officer. He was promoted after Cao Cao recognized his talent and ability. In the battle against Shu, he refused to be lured out by Zhuge Liang, putting his efforts into a strong defensive effort, which resulted in victory. After serving four generations of the Cao family, he won a battle with Cao Shuang to seize control of the Wei Empire, laying the foundation for what would eventually become the Jin Dynasty. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Horizontal slash from left to right. SS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSS: 360 degree spin with his fan. SSSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSSSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSSSSSS: Sima Yi launches his fan forward to attack. T: Sima Yi summons up an ice-based elemental ball. ST: Sima Yi launches enemies into the air with his fan. SST: Sima Yi shoots out a single laser from his fan. SSST(+T): First Sima Yi launches his fan forward to attack, then when it returns to him he lunges his body forward with the fan spinning around him, attacking enemies all around him. SSSST: Sima Yi launches enemies into the air with a giant ball of energy. SSSSST: Sima Yi shoots out four lasers from his fan in several different directions. XS: Sima Yi jumps into the air and launches his fan downward to attack. XT: Sima Yi jumps into the air, and when he lands back on the ground he uses a shockwave of energy to damage and knock down all enemies around him. Musou: Sima Yi shoots out a series of five lasers - two to the left, one in the middle, and two to the right - while standing still. True musou: Same as his regular musou, except at the end he summons a giant Tao symbol underneath him that damages enemies all around. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking on the right and left. Mounted charge: One charge attack on the left then the right. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left side. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Strategist's Fan Power: 2 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Command Fan Power: 6 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Black Feather Power: 10 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Dark Feather Power: 32 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Medium Attributes: Charge +15, Def +16, Musou +19, Fill +15, Atk +15 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: This is his default model. He's wearing a robe that is mostly purple. There are some blue and gold designs on the front portion of the robe as well. He is wearing a large purple and gold hat with a big tassel-like thing coming out the back of it. Model 2: This is the same as his second model, except now his robe is red. It has the same golden designs on the front also, and there is a tiny bit of purple around the waist area. This must be his costume if he was fighting for Wu. Model 3: This is his DW4 model. He is still wearing a robe, but he also has some armor pads on his shoulders. Most of the robe is still purple, with more blue in it towards the bottom. He's wearing a battle helmet with a large tassel coming out of the top. Model 4: Similar to his third model, but with some differences. His robe is now mostly gold, with some purple up on the chest area and around the back of the robe. He is no longer wearing a helmet, but instead is wearing a hat with some sort of weird flap coming off the back of it. -> Rating: 3.5/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I consider Sima Yi to basically be a better version of Zhuge Liang. He has what I believe to be is probably the best musou in the game, as well as a good S string and a deadly XT charge. As always an elemental orb T charge is good, but the rest of his T string is lacking, which is what brings his rating down. His SST is pretty much useless, and his SSSSST, while great and all (considering its much like his musou), suffers from a good deal of lag. But still, I enjoy playing as Sima Yi, if not just to spam his musou. Unfortunately if his T string was better he would be a complete beast, but such is not the case. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Xu Huang [WC08] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: Unknown Died: 227 A.D. A Wei officer. A servant of Yang Feng, he joined Cao Cao after being persuaded by Man Chong. He served as an important part of the Wei forces. A wise and valiant general, Cao Cao labeled him "A match for Sun Tzu!" after his victory over the army of Guan Yu at Fan Castle. He is counted among the Five Generals of Wei. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Horizontal slash from right to left. SS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSS: 360 degree spin while swinging his axe. SSSSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right, SSSSSSSS: 360 degree spin while swinging his axe. SSSSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. T: Xu Huang stomps on the ground. ST: Xu Huang launches enemies into the air with his axe. SST(+T): Xu Huang swings his axe 360 degrees around his head. SSST: Xu Huang spins around, swinging his axe which sends enemies flying backwards. SSSST: Xu Huang smashes the ground with his axe, causing enemies to go flying into the air. SSSSST: Xu Huang smashes the ground with his axe and foot, causing damage to all enemies around him. XS: Xu Huang jumps into the air and swings downward from right to left. XT: Xu Huang jumps into the air, then starts spinning around swinging his axe, while slowly floating back down to the ground. Musou: Xu Huang swings his axe 360 degrees around his head. True musou: Same as regular musou, except at the end he uses a shockwave of energy to damage all enemies around him. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking on the right and left. Mounted charge: Two charge attacks on the right side/the opposite side of his last attack. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left side. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Battle Axe Power: 4 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Great Axe Power: 8 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Destroyer Power: 12 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Marauder Power: 36 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Light Attributes: Fill +15, Spd +15, Life +18, Luck +15, Atk +17 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: His default model. He's wearing a mostly white and blue robe with some gold plating here and there. He has some armor on his upper legs, and is wearing blue pants. His hat almost looks like a white turban type of thing. Model 2: Same as his first model, but with the colors flip-flopped. His robe is mostly blue now, with some white and gold sections. His pants are now white. His hat is a slightly lighter blue than the rest of his robe. Model 3: This is his DW4 model. His hat is similar to his first and second model, maybe just a little less detailed. He's wearing more armor on his upper body now, with a chest plate and arm guards. The rest of his clothes are still mostly a mixture of blue, white, and gold. Model 4: This model is pretty different from all the rest. His pants and undershirt are a light purple, and he's wearing a lot of armor on his chest, waist and upper arms. Most of his armor is a goldish color, with some red and blue mixed in. His hat is still similar to the other models, except now it encircles his entire head and is wrapped around his neck like a scarf. -> Rating: 3.5/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Xu Huang is a pretty solid character, with good crowd clearing abilities and reliable damage. His SST(+T) and musou are his two best attacks. Coincidentally, they both happen to be the same. Nothing else from his T string is really noteworthy; his SSSSST would be better if there wasn't lag. His S string is great and is also what makes him good at clearing crowds, and he probably has one of the better XT attacks in the game. His fourth weapon is light, but has an attack attribute to make up for it. All in the all Xu Huang is definitely one of the better officers, but I don't think he has quite what it takes to be at the top. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Zhang He [WC09] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: Unknown Died: 231 A.D. An officer of Wei. Once under the command of Yuan Shao, he was forced into a tight corner due to false charges brought against him by Guo Tu. He then went on to serve Cao Cao and fought mainly against the Shu forces, where his abilities were acknowledge by Zhuge Liang. At the Battle of Jie Ting, he surrounded Ma Su and defeated him. He was counted among the Five Generals of Wei. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Diagonal slash from right to left. SS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSS: Forward stab. SSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSSSSS: Forward lunge and upwards slash. SSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSSSSS: Forward stab. SSSSSSSSS: Forward lunge. T: Zhang He jumps up, does a backflip while kicking enemies. ST: Zhang He kicks enemies into the air. SST(+T): Zhang He does a series of fast diagonal slashes, then a small lunge forward while swinging his claws. SSST: Zhang He lunges forward while on fire. SSSST: Zhang He launches enemies into the air with a gust of wind. SSSSST(+T): Zhang He performs a quick slide to the left then the right. XS: Zhang He jumps into the air and slashes downward on both the left and right sides. XT: Zhang He jumps into the air and spins upside down with his claws facing downwards. Musou: Zhang He skates across the ground while slashing. True musou: Same as regular musou except at the end he jumps into the air and comes crashing back down to the ground. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking on the right and left. Mounted charge: Charge attack on both the right and left side at the same time. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left side. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Iron Claw Power: 4 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Strike Claw Power: 8 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Peacock Talon Power: 12 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Phoenix Talon Power: 36 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Medium Attributes: Charge +15, Spd +19, Musou +19, Fill +15, Atk +16 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: His default model. He's wearing a purple, blue and gold chest plate, and he has a purple shoulder pad on his right shoulder. His pants are a combination of a dark and light purple, and he has a small, light purple skirt hanging down behind him. His hair is in a long ponytail on his head. Model 2: Same as his first model, except most of the purple has been replaced with a light and dark pink color. His armor is mostly silver, and the ends of his pants and right sleeve are a light pink. There is a little bit of blue on his skirt. Model 3: This is his DW4 model. He's still wearing a chest plate, except now most of his torso is covered as well. His pants and top section are mostly brown and gold. He has some type of armor around his shin area, and he's wearing a small crown on top of his head. Model 4: This is like his third model, except now his pants and torso area are a white color with a bit of purple mixed in. He's also wearing a small pair of wings on his back... yeah. -> Rating: 2.5/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zhang He is pretty bad, but I think with a little work he can be playable. For starters he has short range, only one really heavy damage attack, and a rather weak S and T string. He S string isn't horrible, but it's not ideal for crowds. The only really good move on his T string is his SST(+T), which deals a good bit of damage, albeit only to individual enemies. The only really good crowd control move he has is his musou, which is good if you use it to just skate through crowds. However if you're trying to land every hit on an individual officer, it's going to take some practice, but it is possible. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Zhen Ji [WC10] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: Unknown Died: Unknown A woman of peerless beauty. She was married to Yuan Shao's second son, Yuan Xi. However, when Cao Cao captured Ji, his son, Cao Pi, fell in love with her and immediately made her his wife. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Horizontal slash from left to right. SS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSS: 360 degree spinning kick. SSSSS: Diagonal kick from right to left. SSSSSS: Forward stab. SSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSSSSSS: 360 degree spinning kick. T: Zhen Ji plays a note on her flute, which summons a ball of energy that damages all enemies around it. ST: Zhen Ji kicks enemies into the air. SST(+T): Zhen Ji slaps a single enemy nine times. SSST: Zhen Ji kicks enemies backwards. SSSST: Zhen Ji launches enemies into the air with a gust of wind. SSSSST: Zhen Ji damages enemies around her by playing a note on her flute. XS: Zhen Ji jumps into the air and performs a spinning kick. XT: Zhen Ji jumps into the air and plays a note on her flute. Musou: Zhen Ji plays consecutive notes on her flute, damaging all enemies around her and sending them flying into the air. True musou: Same as her regular musou except with an additional note at the end. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking on the right and left. Mounted charge: Does a somersault on the horse, kicks enemies on the right then the left. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left side. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flute Power: 2 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Iron Flute Power: 6 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Moon Flute Power: 10 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Dark Moon Flute Power: 32 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Medium Attributes: Fill +20, Horse +17, Bow +18, Def +18, Life +17 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: Her default model. She's wearing a small purple and gold top with her right shoulder exposed. Part of the top that runs down her left arm is see-through. Her skirt is mostly purple with a single piece of green cloth wrapped around the top. She's wearing some type of small hat on her head. Model 2: Same as her first model except all of her clothes are a light or dark golden color. Model 3: This is her DW4 model. She's wearing a long robe that is light purple in color around her torso and chest area and dark blue on her arms and below her waist. There is also some golden patterns running down the middle as well as outlining some parts of the robe. She's wearing some type of golden crown on her head, and her hair is in a long ponytail in the back. Model 4: Same as her third model, but with some different colors. The color around her chest is a dark blue or purple color, with the bottom half and arm area a lighter purple. The gold areas from the previous model are now silver. The crown on her head is slightly different and is also a silver color. -> Rating: 2/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zhen Ji is lacking in too many areas for her to be decent. Her range is very limited, and neither her S nor T string are very good. Many of her attacks are focused on a single enemy, making her very bad for dealing with large crowds. Her only really decent attack is her musou, which unfortunately also juggles. But still, it's the best bet to just spam it anyway when you use her. Other than that there isn't much else very good about her. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Cao Ren [WC11] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 168 A.D. Died: 223 A.D. A general of Wei and Cao Cao's cousin. Cao Ren excelled in all the martial arts, including archery and horsemanship. At the Battle of Chi Bi, he defended Jing. Under Cao Pi, he held the rank of Lord Grand Marshal. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Horizontal slash left to right. SS: Diagonal slash right to left. SSS: Downward slash from top to bottom. SSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSSS: Forward thrust with shield. SSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSSSSS: Downward slash from top to bottom. SSSSSSSSS: Takes blade out of shield and slashes horizontally from left to right. T: Cao Ren stomps on the ground. ST: Cao Ren takes his blade out of the shield and uses it to launch enemies into the air. SST(+T): Cao Ren shoots out a series of seven swirls of energy. SSST: Cao Ren pushes back enemies. SSSST: Cao Ren slams his fist on the ground launching enemies into the air. SSSSST: Cao Ren charges forward with his shield. XS: Cao Ren jumps into the air and slashes downward from left to right. XT: Cao Ren jumps into the air, does a flip, and comes crashing back down. Musou: Cao Ren slashes diagonally left to right quickly and then finishes it up by stomping on the ground. True musou: Same as regular except he launches enemies into the air before stomping on the ground, and then when he does stomp it causes a shockwave of energy. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking on the right and left. Mounted charge: One charge attack on the right then the left. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left side. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Buckler Blade Power: 4 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Strike Buckler Power: 8 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Crane Power: 12 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Roc Power: 32 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Light Attributes: Fill +15, Bow +15, Def +18, Atk +15, Life +19 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: His default model. He's wearing armor plates on his chest, both arms, both legs, and an armored helmet that covers most of his face. The armor is mostly a blue or purple colored background, with a silver of gold outlining. His clothes underneath the armor are a dark blue. Model 2: Same as his first model, but different colors. His armor is now mostly gold with a brownish background. The clothes underneath his armor are gray. Model 3: This is his DW4 costume. He's wearing an armor vest that also has some shoulder pads, and he has some armor plates on his upper legs and knees. His clothes underneath the armor are purple. He's wearing a helmet with spikes going down the middle. Model 4: Similar to his third model, but with a few differences. His armor is now a silver and blue color, and the clothes underneath are black. His helmet is like that of a Trojan, with the material going down the middle purple. Part of this helmet is also covering his face below his nose. -> Rating: 2.5/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cao Ren is yet another poor character. He's very slow, has a limited range, and has a poor S string. His T string is all but useless except for his very good (and really only useful attack) SST(+T). If it wasn't for this attack I probably would've rated him a 2 or even 1.5. His musou is decent as well, but nothing amazing. His fourth, while being light, does at least offer an attack bonus to make up for it. His mounted attacks are also very slow, making horse combat almost useless with Cao Ren. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Cao Pi [WC12] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 187 A.D. Died: 226 A.D. The first Emperor of Wei and Cao Cao's second son. Cao Pi was skilled in the arts and in warfare and fought alongside his father from an early age. During the battle against Yuan Shao, he met the beautiful Zhen Ji and upon obtaining permission from his father, made her his wife. Following Cao Cao's death, he assumed control of the Wei throne and forced the Emperor to step down, effectively stealing the crown. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Downward slash from right to left. SS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSS: 360 degree spin attack. SSSSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSSSSSS: Cao Pi slides to the right and slashes horizontally from left to right. T: Cao Pi summons an ice elemental ball. ST: Cao Pi launches enemies into the air. SST(+T): Cao Pi takes apart his conjoined blades and uses them to perform a series of eight diagonal slashes. SSST: Cao Pi slides to the right and slashes horizontally from left to right. SSSST: Cao Pi takes his blades apart and slams them on the ground, causing a bunch of blue energy to go flying out which launches enemies into the air. SSSSST: Cao Pi lunges forward while slashing down diagonally from right to left. XS: Cao Pi jumps into the air and slashes downward from left to right. XT: Cao Pi jumps into the air, scoops up enemies with his blade and then slashes them in the air twice. Musou: Cao Pi takes apart his conjoined blades and uses them to quickly slash back and forth diagonally from left to right, then at the end he does a spinning attack. True musou: Same as his regular, except instead of his spinning attack the end he does a few more quick slashes, then stomps on the ground. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking on the right and left. Mounted charge: One charge attack on the right then the left. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left side. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Twin Blade Power: 3 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Dual Fang Power: 7 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Pure Havoc Power: 11 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Chaos Power: 34 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Medium Attributes: Fill +15, Def +15, Musou +19, Spd +19, Atk +15 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: His default model. He's wearing a long blue cape that wraps around his neck and goes all the way down his back to his feet. He has some armor around his waist and on his chest, it's mostly blue and gray in color. His clothes underneath are a purpleish-blue. Model 2: Same as his first model, except now his clothes are mostly white and gray. Model 3: Also the same as his other two models, but different colors. His armor is now mostly red and gold. His clothes are a very pronounced purple, and his cape is dark red. His hair is up in a high ponytail on his head, with a small wing-looking thing on top of his head. Model 4: Same as his third model in terms of his hair, and now most of his clothes are a gold/dark yellow color. -> Rating: 2/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cao Pi is lacking in very many areas. For one he has a short range, his attack is slow, and both of his strings are sloppy. His SST(+T) is somewhat alright for dealing out good damage, but it gets hard to keep control of it towards the end. None of his other T string attacks are very good except maybe his T attack itself. His musou isn't the greatest either, as it doesn't dish out enough damage to make up for his other subpar attacks. His horse attack is decent, however. It's a shame there is no horse bonus on his fourth. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Pang De [WC13] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: Unknown Died: 219 A.D. A Wei officer. He served Ma Chao, but was captured during Cao Cao's attack on Han Zhong and joined Wei. At Fan Castle, he fought against Guan Yu and showed his resolve, even going as far to prepare a coffin before going to battle with Guan Yu. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Diagonal slash from right to left. SS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSS: 360 degree horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSSS: Downward slash from top to bottom. SSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSSSSS: 360 degree horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSSSSSS: Downward slash from top to bottom. T: Pang De stomps on the ground. ST: Pang De launches enemies into the air with his halberd. SST(+T): Pang De performs a series of six diagonal slashes and a horizontal slash from right to left. SSST: Pang De performs a horizontal slash. SSSST: Pang De smashes his halberds on the ground launching enemies into the air. SSSSST: Pang De runs forward with both halberds extended out to his sides. XS: Pang De jumps into the air and slashes downward from left to right. XT: Pang De jumps into the air and flips around, slashing downward with both halberds. Musou: Pang De performs a series of quick horizontal slashes while standing still. True musou: Same as his regular musou except at the end he slams his halberds into the ground causing a shockwave of energy. Mounted attack: Repeated slashes on the right side. Mounted charge: Charge attack on both the right and left sides. Mounted musou: A series of quick slashes to the right side only, then a shockwave of energy. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- War Pick Power: 4 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Sturdy Halberd Power: 8 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Pole Axe Power: 12 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Heavenly Halberd Power: 36 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Light Attributes: Luck +15, Def +15, Life +18, Horse +17, Atk +16 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: This is Pang De's default model. He's wearing a lot of armor: both of his shoulders, arms, chest, and legs have armor on them. The armor is mostly silver with some blue here and there. His clothes on underneath are entirely blue. He's wearing a helmet that goes around his entire head, and it has a large tuft of white hair coming out the top. Model 2: Just like his first model, but much darker in color. His armor is now mostly black with a silver outline, and his clothes on underneath are now a very dark red. His helmet is black as well, as is the hair coming out of the top. Model 3: Similar to his first two models, except color differences and a small change to his helmet. His armor is now mostly brown and silver, and his clothes underneath are green. His helmet now has an additional plate attached to it that covers his eyes. Model 4: This is the same as his third model but with a color change. Now his armor is mostly black and silver, and his clothes on underneath are white and silver. His helmet still has the extra piece covering his eyes like in the third model. -> Rating: 4.5/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pang De is just badass. For one he has great range and crowd clearing abilities with his large halberds. His musou is one of the best in the game; it's devastating to an officers health. His S string is excellent, as is his T string. Spam his SST(+T) for great damage and crowd control. His mounted attack is much like that of Ma Chao, also making him a beast on the horse. I don't believe he's as good as Ma Chao however; his mounted charge isn't as good plus his attack speed is a little slow. I'd much rather keep him on the ground to really dish out the damage. Plus he has a great fourth weapon, even though it's light. He is, unfortunately, extremely slow. A horse is required for long distance movement. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- WU [WUCH] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- There are 14 playable Wu characters, one of which is new to the series (Ling Tong.) This section will cover each officer in the order that they're listed on the character select screen. To quickly find the specific character that you're looking for, use the Ctrl + F search function and the appropriate key from the following list: Zhou Yu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UC01] Lu Xun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UC02] Taishi Ci . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UC03] Sun Shang Xiang . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UC04] Sun Jian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UC05] Sun Quan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UC06] Lu Meng . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UC07] Gan Ning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UC08] Huang Gai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UC09] Sun Ce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UC10] Da Qiao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UC11] Xiao Qiao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UC12] Zhou Tai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UC13] Ling Tong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UC14] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Zhou Yu [UC01] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 175 A.D. Died: 210 A.D. A Wu officer. He was the sworn brother of his lord, Sun Ce. According to Sun Ce's will, he became chief lieutenant to the young Sun Quan. At the Battle of Chi Bi, he served as the commander, leading his fleet to victory over the much larger forces of Cao Cao. He was often complimented on his good looks. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Diagonal slash from left to right. SS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSS: Spin and diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. T: Zhou Yu summons up a fire elemental ball. ST: Zhou Yu knocks enemies into the air with his sword. SST(+T): Zhou Yu performs a series of seven slashes while quickly turning around each time he attacks. SSST: Zhou Yu jumps into the air and slash downward and across, knocking enemies back. SSSST: Zhou Yu uses a gust of wind to launch enemies into the air. SSSSST: A horizontal slash from left to right. XS: Zhou Yu jumps into the air and slashes downward from right to left. XT: Zhou Yu jumps into the air, launches out a swirling blade of energy, then stomps back onto the ground when he lands. Musou: Zhou Yu performs a series of quick diagonal slashes. True musou: Same as regular musou, except at the end he stomps on the ground causing a small explosion around him. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking the right and left sides. Mounted charge: One charged attack on the right then the left. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left sides. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bronze Sword Power: 3 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Iron Sword Power: 7 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Elder Sword Power: 11 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Ancients Sword Power: 34 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Medium Attributes: Charge +17, Bow +16, Def +15, Atk +16, Musou +18 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: His default model. He's wearing a robe that covers mainly his chest and back, with part of it hanging down between his legs. The robe is red in color with some gold outlines. Around his waist is a purple sash. Underneath he's wearing gray clothes. Model 2: Same as his first model, but different colors. His robe is still a red color, but it is a much darker red. The gold outlines are a darker gold as well. His clothes underneath are also a dark red, although not as dark as the robe. Model 3: This is his DW4 model. It's somewhat similar to his fist two models in that he has a robe covering most of his chest that is also red and gold, except the backside of it is mostly white. It also has some flaps coming down his upper legs, and it's larger around his shoulder area. Model 4: Similar to his third model, but with some differences. His robe is now gray in the front, and red in the back. His clothes underneath are gray as well, and the sash around his waist is now green. His hair is also up in a ponytail. -> Rating: 3/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zhou Yu is pretty good, although nothing amazing; I would say slightly above average. His S string and T string are both decent, although his range could use a little work. His musou is good as well, but also lacks some range. Personally I would just spam his S string, as his really only good T attack is his SST(+T). He also has a pretty good fourth weapon. Not as good of a sword user as the rulers, but still good overall. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Lu Xun [UC02] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 183 A.D. Died: 245 A.D. A Wu officer who married Sun Ce's daughter. A very thoughtful young man whose distinguished service was rewarded with a promotion from Sun Quan. In cooperation with Lu Meng, he managed to defeat Guan Yu and succeeded in recapturing Jing. At the Battle of Yi Ling, he served as Supreme Commander, leading Wu to a carefully planned victory over Liu Bei and the massive Shu army. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Diagonal slash from right to left. SS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSS: Forward stab. SSSS: Diagonal slash downwards with both sabers. SSSSS: Horizontal slash to the sides with both sabers. SSSSSS: Spins around diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSSSS: Diagonal slash downwards with both sabers. SSSSSSSS: Horizontal slash to the sides with both sabers. SSSSSSSSS: Spins around and diagonal slash from left to right. T: Lu Xun summons a fire elemental ball. ST: Lu Xun launches enemies into the air with his sabers. SST(+T): Lu Xun jumps into the air and spins in a circle several times, then as he's coming back down to the ground he slashes downwards on both sides with his sabers. SSST: Lu Xun jumps into the air, does a backflip, and when he's coming back down he slashes downwards on both sides with his sabers. SSSST: Lu Xun launches enemies into the air with a gust of wind. SSSSST: Lu Xun lunges forward while spinning around. XS: Lu Xun jumps into the air, does a backflip, and while coming back down he slashes downwards on both sides with his sabers. XT: Lu Xun jumps into the air and shoots out a swirling blade of energy. Musou: Lu Xun spins around while slashing upwards, then one downward slash at the end. True musou: Same as regular except at the end instead of a downward slash he summons up a huge fireball. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking the right and left sides. Mounted charge: One charged attack on the right then the left. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left sides. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Twin Sabers Power: 3 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Wing Sabers Power: 7 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Eagle Power: 11 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Falcon Power: 34 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Medium Attributes: Fill +15, Spd +20, Musou +19, Luck +18, Atk +15 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: Lu Xun's defeat model. He has a red and gold shirt on that only covers the top portion of his chest, with the backside of it draping down to his legs. He has a teal colored sash around his waist and is wearing red pants. He has a small red and gold hat on top of his head. Model 2: Same as his first model, but with different colors. Most of his clothes are purple in this model. The back portion of his clothes are a mixture of blue, purple, and some red towards the ends. The very top portion of his shirt is a pinkish color. His hat is now purple as well. Model 3: This is his DW4 model. It's mostly red with gold outlines. He has some armor on his upper chest and on his knee caps. His pants are a brownish color. His hat is similar to his other two models except there's not as much at the top and it has a piece of cloth coming down from the backside. Model 4: Similar to his third model, but with some color differences. Most of his clothes are now white, including his shirt. However the armor plate on his chest is still a reddish color with some silver and gold mixed in as well. He is not wearing any hat in this model. -> Rating: 2/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lu Xun suffers from a lack of good range and a below average move set. All of his attacks - S string, T string, and musou - lack any decent range. His SST(+T) only hits about three times and can be difficult to control. None of his attacks really make for good crowd clearing capabilities. His musou is decent, but again is really only useful against individual enemies. His fourth weapon isn't that great, I think he could do without the speed or luck boost. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Taishi Ci [UC03] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 166 A.D. Died: 206 A.D. An officer of Wu. With his strong sense of duty and a feeling of obligation to his mother, he saved Kong Rong, the prefect of Bei Hai, from danger. Later, he served Liu Yong and fought Sun Ce to a draw. Liu Yong eventually lost to Sun Ce, forcing Taishi Ci to submit to Sun Ce, serving him from then on. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Horizontal slash from right to left. SS: Forward stab. SSS: Horizontal slash from right to left with a spin. SSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSSS: Forward stab with both weapons. SSSSSSS: Forward stab. SSSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSSSSSSSS: Forward stab with both weapons. T: Taishi Ci stomps on the ground. ST: Taishi Ci knocks enemies into the air with his weapon. SST(+T): Taishi Ci performs a series of 5 downward slashes plus a horizontal slash from right to left at the end. SSST: Taishi Ci stabs forward with both weapons. SSSST: Taishi Ci slams his weapons onto the ground, knocking enemies into the air. SSSSST(+T): Tashi Ci performs a series of 5 forward stabs with his right weapon and a forward stab with both weapons at the end. XS: Taishi Ci jumps into the air and slashes downwards with both weapons. XT: Taishi Ci jumps into the air and bodyslams back down to the ground. Musou: Taishi Ci performs a series of alternating forward stabs with both of his weapons. True musou: Same as his regular musou except he adds a ground stomp to the end of the attack. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking the right and left sides. Mounted charge: One charged attack on the right then the left. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left sides. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Twin Rods Power: 5 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Spiral Rods Power: 10 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Wolf Slayer Power: 16 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Tiger Slayer Power: 38 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Medium Attributes: Charge +15, Horse +15, Bow +15, Life +18, Def +18 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: The default model. He's wearing born and golden armor pads on his shoulders and upper legs. He has a red and gold armor plate on his chest, and a purple sash going around his waist. His pants and shirt are completely red in color, and he's wearing red bracers on his arms. He has a red battle helmet on with golden wings on the front and a purple tassel in the back. Model 2: This is the same as his first model, except mostly black. His armor has a silver outlining, and the sash around his waist is now gold. The rest of his armor/pants/shirt are mostly black in color. The tassel on his helmet is now a dark red. Model 3: This is his DW4 model. It's actually pretty similar to his first model in design. He has armor plats on his shoulders and upper legs, except it's golden/red in color. The armor plate on his chest is much larger than his previous models, and is red and gold in color. His helmet is very similar, except the wings are farther out on the sides of the helmet as opposed to right up top. The tassel coming out of the helmet is both purple and red. Model 4: Somewhat similar to his third model, but with some differences. His armor is now mostly silver and some brown/golden color. His pants and shirt are a much darker red. His helmet is now a pickelhaube with two horns coming out of the sides that are pointed downward. -> Rating: 2/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Taishi Ci has a good musou, but that's about it. And really his musou is only good for killing officers. He's not a good crowd clearer by any means, not with his regular S string, nor his T string, nor his musou. His SST(+T) is decent, but again it is really only useful against individual enemies. Overall Taishi Ci has a pretty weak move set and is a very subpar character. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Sun Shang Xiang [UC04] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: Unknown Died: Unknown The daughter of Sun Jian, she was also the younger sister of both Sun Ce and Sun Quan. A tomboy, she took interest in the martial arts from a young age. When she later became Liu Bei's wife, it is said that her ladies-in- waiting were constantly outside her room, dressed in full armor. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Horizontal slash from right to left. SS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSS: Forward stab. SSSS: Spinning horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSS: Spinning horizontal slash from right to left. SSSSSS: Circular kick from left to right. SSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSSSSS: Forward stab. SSSSSSSSS: Sun Shang Xiang spins both weapons around herself. T: Sun Shang Xiang performs 3 forward cartwheels. ST: Sun Shang Xiang knocks enemies into the air with her weapons. SST(+T): Sun Shang Xiang performs a series of 3 diagonal attacks while spinning, then spins both weapons around herself. SSST: Sun Shang Xiang spins both weapons around herself. SSSST: Knocks enemies into the air with a burst of energy. SSSSST(+T): Sun Shang Xiang spins both weapons around herself several times. XS: Sun Shang Xiang jumps into the air and slashes downwards while spinning. XT: Sun Shang Xiang jumps into the air and throws her weapons down to the ground which then return to her. Musou: Sun Shang Xiang slashes horizontally with her weapons and does a 360 degree spin at the end. True musou: Same as her regular musou except with a gust of wind at the end. Mounted attack: Both of her weapons go flying around to her right and left side and then return to her. Mounted charge: Same as her mounted attack, except performed twice. Mounted musou: A musou form of her mounted attack. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chakram Power: 2 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Moon Chakram Power: 6 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Luna Chakram Power: 10 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Sol Chakram Power: 32 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Heavy Attributes: Luck +19, Bow +15, Spd +19, Def +17, Life +15 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: Her default model. She is wearing a red and gold vest as well as red pants with some gold in them also. She has a red headband around her head and two bracers on her arms. Model 2: This is the same as her first model except her vest and pants are now green instead of red. There is still some gold mixed in as well. The headband is now green as well. Model 3: This is her DW4 model. She has a mostly white shirt with red sleeves, and a small blue sash around her waist. Her pants are a dark red around her upper legs, but then below her thighs they become a much brighter red. She has a red headband around her head. Model 4: She is wearing a light red/almost pink shirt with white sleeves that are very short. She's also wearing white shorts that are very short as well. -> Rating: 1.5/2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sun Shang Xiang is very poor in this game. Her fourth weapon is heavy, which really hurts most of her moves. Her horse combat is unbearably slow, don't even bother using it. Getting off many of her T attacks is hard due to the heavy weapon, but her SSSSST(+T) is probably her best move, just spam that. Her musou is nothing special considering the fact that it juggles, but it's not horrible either. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Sun Jian [UC05] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 156 A.D. Died: 192 A.D. A great hero who is said to be the descendant of the legendary Sun Tzu. He became well known after defeating a band of pirates and further distinguished himself during the battles against the Yellow Turbans. He soon became the Perfect of Chang Sha and served as the vanguard for the coalition forces against Dong Zhuo. Following the battle, he found the Imperial Seal hidden in a well and took it back home with him. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Diagonal slash from left to right. SS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSSSS: Downward slash from top to bottom. SSSSSS: Upward slash from bottom to top. SSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSSSSSS: Sun Jian turns around and stabs behind his back. T: Sun Jian lunges forward while spinning. ST: Sun Jian launches enemies into the air with his sword. SST(+T): Sun Jian performs 6 rapid alternating diagonal slashes with a horizontal slash at the end. SSST: Sun Jian turns around and stabs behind his back. SSSST: Sun Jian stomps on the ground, launching enemies into the air. SSSSST: Sun Jian slashes diagonally from right to left. XS: Sun Jian jumps into the air and slashes downwards. XT: Sun Jian jumps into the air and slashes downwards 3 times, then does a flip at the end. Musou: Sun Jian performs rapid diagonal slashes with a forward lunge at the end. True musou: Same as his regular musou but with an additional ground stomp at the end. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking the right and left sides. Mounted charge: One charged attack on the right then the left. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left sides. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tiger Sword Power: 4 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Tiger Claw Power: 8 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Lone Tiger Power: 12 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Savage Tiger Power: 34 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Light Attributes: Fill +18, Horse +18, Def +16, Musou +15, Life +15 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: This is Sun Jian's default model. He is wearing a lot of armor that is mostly red with gold outlines. This armor is on his chest, shoulders, arms, and legs. He has a red piece of cloth that drapes down from his waist in between his legs in both and front and the back. His helmet is a pickelhaube with two golden tassels coming out of the bottom of the spike. Model 2: This is the same as his first model, except now his armor is mostly gold instead of red. There are some dark brown outlines in it as well. His pants have tiger stripes going up his upper legs. His helmet is the same color except for the tassel, which is now red. Model 3: This is his DW4 model. His armor is red with some bright gold outlines and designs on it. He is wearing armor on his chest, upper arms, and upper legs. His clothes underneath his armor are a sort of blue/teal color. His helmet is still a pickelhaube, and it has a single red tassel coming out of it. Model 4: Similar to his third model, except now his armor is red and silver. His clothes underneath are the same color. His helmet has no spike nor tassel coming out of the top of it. -> Rating: 3.5/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like most sword users, Sun Jian's main source of damage is going to be his non-juggling musou. It rips through crowds and officers, so use it often. And of course just like all other sword users his S string is pretty good, as is most of his T string. The thing that knocks Sun Jian's rating down from most other sword users is that his fourth weapon is light, and has no attack bonus on it to make up for this fact. Still, Sun Jian is an above average character and shouldn't have much trouble holding his own. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Sun Quan [UC06] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 182 A.D. Died: 252 A.D. The first Emperor of the Wu Kingdom. He was the second son of Sun Jian and the younger brother of Sun Ce. He succeeded the family line following Sun Ce's sudden death. Of his younger brother, Sun Ce is to have said, "You believe that your offense is strong, but in actuality, it is your defense which is stronger." At the Battle of Chi Bi, Sun Quan faced the larger forces of Cao Cao and managed to emerge victorious. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Diagonal slash from left to right. SS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSS: Upward slash from bottom to top. SSSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSSSSSS: Downward slash and then a diagonal slash from left to right. T: Sun Quan stomps on the ground. ST: Sun Quan launches enemies into the air with his sword. SST(+T): Sun Quan performs 6 fast diagonal slashes with a horizontal slash from left to right and a downward slash at the end. SSST: Sun Quan slashes downwards and then left to right horizontally. SSSST: Sun Quan slams his weapon into the ground, knocking enemies into the air. SSSSST: Sun Quan performs a 360 degree spin attack. XS: Sun Quan jumps into the air and slashes downwards. XT: Sun Quan jumps into the air, does a flip, and slams back down to the ground. Musou: Sun Quan performs rapid diagonal slashes with a horizontal slash at the end. True musou: Same as his regular musou but with a lightning attack at the end instead of a horizontal slash. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking the right and left sides. Mounted charge: One charged attack on the right then the left. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left sides. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wolf Sword Power: 3 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Wolf Claw Power: 7 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random King Wolf Power: 11 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Master Wolf Power: 34 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Medium Attributes: Charge +17, Fill +15, Bow +15, Atk +16, Musou +18 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: His default model. He's wearing a large robe that is mostly red and gold in color. Around his waist in the back is a piece of cloth that has tiger stripes on it - perhaps he stole it from Sun Jian? His clothes underneath are red with some blue/teal towards the ends. His hair is up in a bun on his head. Model 2: Same as his first model, except his robe is now a very dark red color. The gold on his robe/armor also seems to be darker and stands out more. The tiger stripes are also on the fur that's on the top portion of his robe. Model 3: This is his DW4 model. He's wearing a large robe that is red with some gold on the ends. The robe extends all the way down to his feet, and there is no separation at the legs. The armor around his chest area is mostly red and gold with a little bit of green around the waist. He is wearing a hat on his head. Model 4: Same as his third model, except with some color differences. The sleeves on his robe are now purple, and the bottom half of the robe is red. His armor is more silver now instead of gold. And the hat on his head is similar to that of the sorcerers. -> Rating: 3.5/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Another sword user, Sun Quan has a good move set and a damaging musou. Unfortunately, his true musou juggles, actually making his regular musou move preferred. But other than that he has a great move set, and a nice fourth weapon (compared to his father, Sun Jian, at least.) Like other sword users spam his SST(+T) to cut your way through crowds and use his SSSSST if you find yourself surrounded (or his ground stomp T attack works well also.) .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Lu Meng [UC07] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 178 A.D. Died: 219 A.D. A Wu officer. Already an accomplished warrior, he devoted himself to learning and became a paradigm of wisdom and valor after being admonished by Sun Quan. He was greatly admired by Lu Su as a great servant of the Wu Kingdom. Together with Lu Xun, they reclaimed Jing, taking the great Guan Yu in the process. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Horizontal slash from left to right. SS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSS: Lu Meng turns around and attacks with the blunt end of his spear. SSSS: Lu Meng spins around and attacks horizontally from right to left. SSSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. T: Lu Meng summons an exploding fire orb. ST: Lu Meng launches enemies into the air with his spear. SST(+T): Lu Meng performs 7 alternating diagonal slashes. SSST: Lu Meng spins around and slashes horizontally from right to left. SSSST: Lu Meng jumps up and slams his spear onto the ground. SSSSST: Lu Meng jumps up, spins around, and slashes horizontally from left to right. XS: Lu Meng jumps into the air and slashes downward from right to left. XT: Lu Meng jumps into the air, does a front flip, and lands slamming his spear into the ground. Musou: Lu Meng performs a series of horizontal slashes with a forward stab at the end. True musou: Same as his regular musou except he stomps on the ground at the end instead of a forward stab. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking the right and left sides. Mounted charge: One charged attack on the right then the left. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left sides. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Glaive Power: 4 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Great Glaive Power: 8 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Tiger Hook Power: 12 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random White Tiger Power: 36 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Medium Attributes: Charge +15, Horse +16, Bow +15, Def +17, Life +17 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: Lu Meng's default model. He has red and gold armor on his chest, and an armor plate on his right shoulder that's gold and gray. He has a skirt on that just covers his back, with green pants on underneath. His hair is up in a high ponytail on his head. Model 2: Same as his first model except the colors are much darker. His armor is a dark red with silver outlines and designs. The rest of his clothes and armor is mostly gray and dark gray with some red outlines. Model 3: This is his DW4 model. His pants and shirt are a mixture of red and orange. Over top of his he is wearing armor on his chest and upper legs. The armor is red and gold, and on his chest plate is the design of a golden face. There is a golden design on both of his shoulders that looks to be the half-head of some type of animal. His hair is in a ponytail on his head. Model 4: Same as his third model but with some color differences. The upper portion of his body is mostly red with his armor being silver. The lower half of his body is mostly purple and silver. He is wearing a hat on his head. -> Rating: 2.5/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overall Lu Meng is a below average spear user. Lu Meng's only good T attack is his SST(+T), the rest aren't very useful, so you'll probably just end up spamming that most of the time. His musou is great in the fact that it doesn't juggle, a rare feature for a spear user. His fourth weapon is decent, but would be better with something other than the horse and bow bonus. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Gan Ning [UC08] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: Unknown Died: 222 A.D. A Wu officer. A former pirate, he attached bells to his clothes so that enemies would know when he was coming. He served under both Liu Biao and Huang Zu, but after being passed over for promotion, took his services to Sun Quan, who at the recommendation of Zhou Yu and Lu Meng, welcomed him to Wu. He later fought at Chi Bi and in the campaign against Wei. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Diagonal slash from right to left. SS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSS: Forward stab. SSSS: Spinning kick. SSSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSSSSSS: Spinning kick. SSSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. T: Gan Ning runs forward while slashing diagonally at spins at the end. ST: Gan Ning launches enemies into the air with his sword. SST(+T): Gan Ning performs 7 quick up and down slashes and a diagonal slash from left to right at the end. SSST: Gan Ning spins around and slashes horizontally from right to left. SSSST: Gan Ning knocks enemies into the air with a burst of fire. SSSSST: Gan Ning uses a large gust of wind to damage all enemies around him. XS: Gan Ning jumps into the air and slashes downward from right to left. XT: Gan Ning jumps into the air and scoops enemies into the air with his sword, then slashes them 3 times while in the air. Musou: Gan Ning runs around very fast with his sword in front of him. True musou: Same as his regular musou except at the end he jumps into the air and when he lands there is a shockwave of energy that comes out of him. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking the right and left sides. Mounted charge: One charged attack on the right then the left. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left sides. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pirate Sword Power: 5 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random River Sword Power: 10 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random River Master Power: 16 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Sea Master Power: 38 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Light Attributes: Charge +15, Luck +18, Spd +15, Atk +19, Musou +15 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: His default model. He has no shirt on and is wearing red pants with some gold outlines. He has a purple sash around his waist with some bells attached to it. He has a red headband around his head and two larger feathers coming out of his hair in the back. He has tattoos on much of his upper body. Model 2: Similar to his first model, except now his pants are a very dark, almost black color. The sash around his waist is now red, and it still has the bells on it. The headband around his head is now gold, with two red symbols on the front. The tattoos on his chest are also different. Model 3: His DW4 model. He's wearing a green vest that goes around his shoulders and no shirt on underneath. His bells are draped around his neck now. He has a red belt around his waist and red pants with a golden design on the right leg. He has a red headband and two large feathers coming out his hair in the back. Model 4: Same as his third model except now his vest is red, his belt is green, and his pants and headband are white. His bells are now draped around his waist instead of his neck. -> Rating: 4/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gan Ning is great, and has one of the most fun to use musous in the game, at least in my opinion. It's not the easiest to control and you can, at beast, get in about two single hits on one officer, but they're two very powerful hits. The rest of his move set is pretty good; his SST(+T) really only does heavy damage to one person, so use it against officers. His fourth weapon, while light, has an attack bonus and a musou bonus, making it pretty decent (considering you'll be spamming his musou a lot.) He has good crowd clearing abilities with his SSSSST. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Huang Gai [UC09] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: Unknown Died: Unknown An officer of Wu since the days of Sun Jian. At the Battle of Chi Bi, together with Zhou Yu, he executed their special plan: After being "attacked" by Zhou Yu, Huang Gai surrendered to Cao Cao, where he then set fire to the Wei fleet, leading to a great victory for Wu. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Horizontal slash from right to left. SS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSS: Downward slash. SSSS: Downward slash. SSSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSSSS: Downward slash. SSSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. T(+T): With a one tap T he plants a bomb on the ground which explodes after several seconds. With multiple T taps he throws the bomb a few feet in front of him. ST: Huang Gai punches enemies into the air with his fist. SST(+T): Huang Gai kicks 7 times with his feet and then punches enemies into the air with his fist at the end. SSST: Huang Gai slashes diagonally from right to left. SSSST: Huang Gai slams his weapon onto the ground knocking enemies into the air. SSSSST: Huang Gai stomps on the ground. XS: Huang Gai jumps into the air and slashes downward from right to left. XT: Huang Gai jumps into the air and throws an explosive down to the ground. Musou: Huang Gai performs a series of horizontal slashes. True musou: Same as his regular musou except at the end he throws out several explosives in front of him. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking the right and left sides. Mounted charge: Two charge attacks on one side. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left sides. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Iron Rod Power: 4 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Great Rod Power: 8 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Shadow Rod Power: 12 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Dark Shadow Power: 36 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Medium Attributes: Charge +15, Luck +16, Def +17, Atk +17, Life +15 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: His default model. He's wearing a small red shirt that runs down just the middle of his chest. He has some red and gold clothes on around his waist that run down to his upper legs and is wearing large boots. He has a shield in his left hand that is red and gold. Model 2: He's wearing the same outfit as his first model, except now the colors are black with gold outlines. His skin is darker and the hair on his head is white, making him look much older. His shield is still the same as it was in his first model, however. Model 3: This is his DW4 model. It's mostly the same as his first two, except his armor around his torso is held up by straps that go around his shoulders. His armor is red and gold with some silver around the outside. He's wearing red shorts underneath. Model 4: The same as his third model, except now his armor is mostly silver and white. His skin is also much darker. -> Rating: 2.5/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Huang Gai is a pretty weak character. He has short range, and a poor T string. His SST(+T) does decent damage to a single enemy, but it's useless with crowds. Even his regular S string is rather ineffective at dealing with more then several enemies at once. His musou is odd in the fact that a lot of times officers would "fall" between the hits, as in I couldn't juggle them very effectively. Maybe it's just me, but a lot of the time I would hit someone with the first two blows, then the third would somehow just miss, allowing them to fall to the ground for much of the remaining musou. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Sun Ce [UC10] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 175 A.D. Died: 200 A.D. The oldest son of Sun Jian. After his father's death, Sun Ce went to serve Yuan Shu. Later, borrowing 3,000 troops in exchange for the Imperial Seal, he went to raise his own army. In a short while, he had already stabilized the land of Jiang Dong, giving him the nickname of "Little Conqueror." Starting with his old friend Zhou Yu, he went on to gather many talented officers, laying the foundation for the Wu Kingdom. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Horizontal slash from left to right. SS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSS: Forward stab. SSSS: Roundhouse kick. SSSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSSS: Sun Ce leaps forward with a kick. SSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSSSSS: Forward stab. SSSSSSSSS: 360 degree spin attack. T: Sun Ce stomps on the ground. ST: Sun Ce kicks enemies into the air. SST(+T): Sun Ce performs 6 diagonal slashes and two roundhouse kicks at the end. SSST: Sun Ce performs a 360 degree spin attack. SSSST: Sun Ce slams his weapon into the ground, knocking enemies into the air. SSSSST(+T): Sun Ce performs a series of quick horizontal slashes back and forth. XS: Sun Ce jumps into the air and does a spinning kick downwards. XT: Sun Ce jumps into the air, does a flip, and slams back down to the ground. Musou: Sun Ce performs a series of diagonal slashes while spinning back and forth, then jumps into the air while spinning at the end. True musou: Same as his regular musou except at the end there is a shockwave of energy from a ground stomp and then an explosion afterwards. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking the right and left sides. Mounted charge: Sun Ce kicks 3 times to one side. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left sides. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tonfa Power: 4 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Studded Tonfa Power: 8 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Conqueror Power: 12 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Overlord Power: 36 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Medium Attributes: Charge +15, Spd +18, Atk +18, Musou +15, Life +15 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: Sun Ce's default model. He has a short red and gold robe on that is tied at his waist. Underneath he has blue and gold clothes. He has an armor pad on his right shoulder, and is swearing bracers on both arms. Like Sun Quan he has a tiger striped piece of cloth that wraps around his waist in the back. His hair is in a ponytail on his head. Model 2: Same as his first model except all the red has been replaced by a more dark gray/black color. His clothes on underneath are also a dark gray/black color. Model 3: This is his DW4 model. He's wearing a lot more armor in his model. He has an armor chest plate which also includes his shoulders, and he has two armor plates on the sides of his upper legs as well as one that runs down the middle between his legs. His clothes on underneath are a dark blue color. His hair is still in a ponytail. Model 4: Similar to his third model except now his armor is mostly silver and red. His clothes on underneath are red as well. His hair is still in a ponytail, except now it's more towards the back on his head. -> Rating: 2.5/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sun Ce isn't really too horrible of a character overall, but I just could never enjoy playing as him. He's a fast attacker and has a decent move set, with a good crowd clearing musou. However his musou is pretty weak when it comes to attacking individual officers as it juggles and is hard to land every hit. His horse attacking is terrible, and he can't even break boxes/urns while on a horse without a wind scroll, you'll have to actually get off. Due to this, he obviously suffers from range issues on the battlefield as well. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Da Qiao [UC11] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: Unknown Died: Unknown Daughter of Qiao Xuan, wife of Sun Ce of the Wu Kingdom. Together with her younger sister, Xiao Qiao, they were known as two of the land's greatest beauties and were referred to as the "Two Qiaos." It is said that their beauty shone brighter than any moon or star and put the most beautiful flower to shame. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Horizontal slash from right to left. SS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSS: Forward stab. SSSS: 360 degree attack. SSSSS: 360 degree attack. SSSSSS: Da Qiao jumps into the air and does a flip with her fans below her circling around. SSSSSSS: Forward stab. SSSSSSSS: 360 degree attack. SSSSSSSSS: Da Qiao jumps into the air and does a flip with her fans below her circling around. T: Da Qiao summons a fire orb that explodes after several seconds. ST: Da Qiao knocks enemies into the air with her fan. SST(+T): Da Qiao performs a series of 6 diagonal slashes with a 360 degree attack at the end. SSST: Da Qiao flies forward with her fans outstretched to her sides. SSSST: Da Qiao knocks enemies into the air with a gust of wind. SSSSST: Da Qiao summons up a large burst of energy. XS: Da Qiao jumps into the air and flies down with her fans outstretched to her sides. XT: Da Qiao jumps into the air and shoots down a fireball from her fans. Musou: Da Qiao spins her fan a few feet in front of her, then spins it in a large circle around her body at the end. True musou: Same as her regular musou except she summons a large fireball at the end. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking the right and left sides. Mounted charge: Da Qiao's fans go flying to her right and left sides and then return to her. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left sides. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Twin Fans Power: 2 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Violet Fans Power: 6 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random True Beauty Power: 10 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Qiao Beauty Power: 36 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Heavy Attributes: Luck +18, Def +15, Atk +16, Musou +19, Life +15 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: Her default model. She's wearing a red and gold shirt with white sleeves. She has a blue skirt on with a larger white cloth wrapped around her waist that covers most of it up. There is some small ornament in her hair that has a small white piece of fabric coming down from the back of it. Model 2: The same as her first model, but with different colors. Most of her clothes are purple in this model. Her shirt is now white instead of red, and her sleeves are purple and white. Her skirt is now red, and the cloth wrapped around it is purple and while as well. Her socks are completely purple. Model 3: This is her DW4 model. She has a red shirt on with large sleeves that are white near the shoulder then get bluer as they go down. She has a very short, dark blue skirt on. Her hair is in two pigtails on her head with two red flowers. Model 4: Much like her third model, but with some differences. Her shirt is the same, except the sleeves are now a white and light red color. Her skirt is a little longer and is purple, and she has some kind of design going around her upper left thigh. There are two large flowers on the sides of her head in her hair. -> Rating: 2.5/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The only thing I really like about Da Qiao is her regular S string. It's good for clearing out crowds and taking down officers as well. Other than her SST(+T), I don't find too much to brag about with the rest of her T strings. Her T is useless considering the large amount of lag it takes, and I don't care for her musou either. It has a very short range, and doesn't do much damage to individual officers, even if you get most hits in. Like Sun Shang Xiang, her horse attacking is slow and pointless. This isn't helped by her heavy fourth weapon, either. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Xiao Qiao [UC12] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: Unknown Died: Unknown The daughter of Qiao Xuan. She later married Zhou Yu of Wu. Together with her older sister, Da Qiao, they were referred to as the"Two Qiaos." Upon hearing a rumor spread by Zhuge Liang that Cao Cao was after the Qiao sisters, Zhou Yu persuaded Sun Quan to declare war, ultimately leading Wu into the Battle of Chi Bi. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Horizontal slash from right to left. SS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSS: Forward stab. SSSS: Horizontal slash. SSSSS: Upwards slash. SSSSSS: Downward spinning slash. SSSSSSS: Horizontal slash. SSSSSSSS: Upwards slash. SSSSSSSSS: Downward spinning slash. T(+T): Xiao Qiao performs a series of downward slashes while stumbling about, with a diagonal right to left slash at the end. ST: Xiao Qiao knocks enemies into the air with her fan. SST(+T): Xiao Qiao performs a series of 3 diagonal slashes with a 360 degree sweep by her fan at the end. SSST: Xiao Qiao launches her one fan several feet in front of her and her other fan several feet behind her. SSSST: Xiao Qiao uses a gust of wind to launch enemies into the air. SSSSST(+T): Xiao Qiao jumps into the air and performs a series of quick front flips, using her fan to make herself into a sort of human "buzz saw" if you will. XS: Xiao Qiao jumps into the air and performs a spinning attack downwards. XT: Xiao Qiao jumps into the air and flies forward several feet while spinning. Musou: Xiao Qiao jumps into the air and performs a series of quick front flips (same as her SSSSST) and at the end does two additional front flips with her fans flying around underneath her. True musou: Same as her regular musou except she uses a shockwave of energy at the end. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking the right and left sides. Mounted charge: Xiao Qiao's fans go flying to her right and left sides and then return to her. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left sides. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Double Fans Power: 2 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Peach Fans Power: 6 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random True Grace Power: 10 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Qiao Grace Power: 32 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Heavy Attributes: Charge +17, Fill +15, Spd +19, Def +15, Musou +15 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: This is her default model. She has a white shirt with long white sleeves and some red designs on. The shirt has two long flaps that drape down the back below her knees. She's wearing a pair of short orange shorts. Her hair is tied up in a ponytail on her head. Model 2: Similar to her first model, except now her shirt is a mixture of red, orange, and yellow. The two long flaps going down her back is light green and yellow in color. Her shorts are the same color as her shirt. Model 3: This is her DW4 model. Her clothes is just one dress that starts out as light blue at the top, then there is some green around the waist, and the rest is red. There is also some orange at the end of her sleeves. Her hair is in a ponytail on her head. Model 4: Similar to her third model, except the top portion of her dress is red and the bottom half is white. Her hair is now in a bun on her head instead of a ponytail. -> Rating: 2.5/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I find Xiao Qiao to be pretty much similar to Da Qiao, perhaps a little bit better. Her SST(+T) is decent for damage as well as clearing crowds at the end, and her SSSSST(+T) is essentially just a shorter musou. Speaking of which, her musou is probably one of the coolest ones in the game, but far from the most practical. It's good at ripping through crowds, but it's pretty difficult to land consecutive hits on a single officer. But when you do, it's deadly. Her S string, while decent, isn't as good as Da Qiao's. Her heavy weapon doesn't help her, either. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Zhou Tai [UC13] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: Unknown Died: 225 A.D. A Wu officer, Zhou Tai joined Sun Ce with his former comrade, Jiang Qin. Despite serious injury, he succeeded in rescuing Sun Quan when he was attacked by bandits. At the Battle of Yi Ling, he killed the barbarian general, Sha Moke. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Diagonal slash from left to right. SS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right while lunging forward. T: Zhou Tai performs two diagonal slashes while lunging forward. ST: Zhou Tai knocks enemies into the air with the blunt end of his sword sheath. SST(+T): Zhou Tai performs 8 rapid diagonal slashes from left to right. SSST: Zhou Tai performs a diagonal slash from left to right while lunging forward. SSSST: Zhou Tai stomps on the ground, knocking enemies into the air. SSSSST: Zhou Tai performs a forward stab. XS: Zhou Tai jumps into the air and slashes downward from left to right. XT: Zhou Tai jumps into the air, scoops enemies into the air with his sword, then slashes them twice while in the air. Musou: Zhou Tai rapidly slashes diagonally while standing still, then lunges forward at the end, putting his sword back in the sheath. True musou: Same as his regular musou, except at the end he uses a shockwave of energy before lunging forward. Mounted attack: Repeated slashes on the right side. Mounted charge: Charge attack on the left then the right side. Mounted musou: Repeated slashes on the right side then a charge attack on the left then right. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eastern Sword Power: 4 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Katana Power: 8 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Dawn Power: 12 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Dusk Power: 36 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Medium Attributes: Fill +16, Spd +15, Atk +17, Musou +18, Life +15 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: Zhou Tai's default model. His left side is covered in armor, while his right side is covered by a robe. Both are a dark brown in color with a dark red outline. Underneath he's wearing a dark gray outfit. He has a hat wrapped around the top of his head that has a little bun on the top of it with some sort of object sticking through it. Model 2: The same as his first model, except now the robe and armor are red and gold in color. His pants underneath are a lighter gray. His right sleeve is also red with some gold designs on it. Model 3: This is his DW4 model. He has an armor chest plate that extends down to his thighs. It's dark gray/black in color with red and gold outlines and designs on it. He has an armor plate on his left shoulder as well which is just barely visible. His pants on underneath are a dark gray. He's wearing a red cape that has frills coming off the shoulders. He's wearing a battle helmet that has a large ornament coming out of the top of it. Model 4: Similar to his third model, except now his armor is mostly silver. His helmet is also different in the fact that now there is a silver plate covering all of his face except for his eyes. -> Rating: 4/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zhou Tai is one of my favorite characters, so perhaps my rating is a bit biased, but I don't care. His S string is great, and his T string is very good as well. With horse combat similar to that of Ma Chao and Pang De he can be a beast on the horse, unfortunately there is no horse stat on his fourth weapon. However with a horned helm he'll be good to go. But his best feature is his wicked musou, which will destroy officers and crowds alike. Plus it just look badass. I also like the sound his sword makes as he slices through enemies. Personally, though, I feel as if he's been nerfed a little from DW4. However, he's still a beast in my opinion. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Ling Tong [UC14] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 189 A.D. Died: 237 A.D. A Wu general and the son of Ling Cao. Upon joining Wu, he tried to seek vengeance for his father on Gan Ning and was reproached by Lu Meng and Sun Quan. Later, when fighting with Yue Jin of Wei, his life was saved by Gan Ning, upon which he made peace and swore an oath of friendship. However, on the battlefield, their rivalry continued as they competed to see who was the better warrior. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Diagonal slash from left to right. SS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSSSS: 360 degree attack. SSSSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. T: Ling Tong lunges forward with a roundhouse kick. ST: Ling Tong kicks enemies into the air. SST(+T): Ling Tong performs a series of 7 roundhouse kicks. SSST: Ling Tong does a front flip and slams his foot on the ground when he lands. SSSST: Ling Tong knocks enemies into the air with a gust of wind. SSSSST: Ling Tong summons a large burst of energy. XS: Ling Tong jumps into the air and slashes downward from right to left. XT: Ling Tong jumps into the air and shoots out a swirling blade of energy. Musou: Ling Tong performs a series of rapid diagonal slashes with a 360 degree attack at the end. True musou: Same as his regular musou except there are additional attacks at the end. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking the right and left sides. Mounted charge: One charged attack on the right then the left. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left sides. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wood Nunchaku Power: 4 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Iron Nunchaku Power: 8 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Rising Phoenix Power: 12 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Dragon Fury Power: 36 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Medium Attributes: Charge +16, Luck +16, Spd +19, Atk +17, Life +15 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: Ling Tong's default model. He's wearing mostly red and gold clothes, with a red cloth that drapes down his back to his knees. He has a red sash around his waist and his hair is up in a ponytail. Model 2: Same as his first model, but different colors. The red is much darker now, and the gold areas have been replaced by silver. Model 3: This model is also similar to the other two in terms of the design of his outfit. However now his clothes are almost completely white, with some gold outlines. He hair is also down now, and not in a ponytail. Model 4: Again, similar to all of the previous models except with different colors. Now his clothes are mostly purple, with the areas in the middle being a much darker purple, as well as the sash around his waist. His hair is also down and not in a ponytail. -> Rating: 4/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ling Tong is super-fast, and it makes him quite deadly. His S string and his musou are great at just ripping through crowds and officers alike due to his extremely high attacking speed. His T string is pretty good with a nice SSST, although his SST(+T) is just a series of roundhouse kicks. But coupled with a pretty good fourth weapon and Ling Tong is one deadly force to be reckoned with. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- OTHER [OTHR] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- There are 8 playable characters in the "Other" section in Dynasty Warriors 5, one of which is new to the series (Zuo Ci.) This section will cover each officer in the order that they're listed on the character select screen. To quickly find the specific character that you're looking for, use the Ctrl + F search function and the appropriate key from the following list: Diao Chan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [OC01] Lu Bu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [OC02] Dong Zhuo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [OC03] Yuan Shao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [OC04] Zhang Jiao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [OC05] Meng Huo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [OC06] Zhu Rong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [OC07] Zuo Ci . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [OC08] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Diao Chao [OC01] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: Unknown Died: Unknown A young songstress unequaled in beauty as well as song and dance. Having been raised by Wang Yun as his own daughter, she agreed to participate in his plan to divide Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu. She managed to get close to both of them, and succeeded in tearing their relationship apart, with Lu Bu later killing Dong Zhuo. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Diagonal slash from left to right. SS: Forward stab. SSS: 360 degree attack. SSSS: Roundhouse kick. SSSSS: 360 degree attack. SSSSSS: 360 degree attack. SSSSSSS: Forward stab. SSSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSSSSSS: 360 degree attack followed by a roundhouse kick. T: Diao Chan slides across the ground with a kick. ST: Diao Chan knocks enemies into the air with her weapon. SST(+T): Diao Chan performs a series of diagonal slashes with a front flip and 360 degree attack at the end. SSST: Diao Chan performs a 360 degree attack followed by a roundhouse kick. SSSST: Diao Chan knocks enemies into the air with a gust of wind. SSSSST: Diao Chan shoots out two swirling blades of energy. XS: Diao Chan jumps into the air and slashes downward from left to right. XT: Diao Chan jumps into the air, does a flip, and slams her weapons on the ground as she lands. Musou: Diao Chan performs a series of roundhouse kicks with a front flip at the end. True musou: Same as her regular musou except she uses a large 360 degree burst of energy at the end. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking the right and left sides. Mounted charge: One charged attack on the right then the left. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left sides. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mace Power: 2 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Great Mace Power: 6 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Enchantress Power: 10 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Diva Power: 32 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Heavy Attributes: Fill +18, Luck +18, Spd +19, Def +16, Musou +18 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: Her default model. She's wearing a pink dress that is light pink on the top and underneath is a more reddish pink color. Her dress is tied in the back in a bow and she's wearing white stockings on her legs. Her hair is also tied in a bow on her head, and she has a small flower on her chest attached to her dress. Model 2: Similar to her first model but with different colors. Now her dress is a darker purple underneath and white on the outside, with a mixture of red and yellow around the edges. The flower on her dress is now blue. Model 3: This is her DW4 model. She's wearing a long white dress with a long piece of pink fabric wrapped around her waist that has a pink flower attached to it. Her dress is sleeveless, however she is wearing two small white pieces of cloth around her upper arms. There is a pink bow in her hair. Model 4: This is similar to the dress she's wearing in model 3, except it's a bit shorter. This one is cut off at the knees. It is also a mixture of a light and dark pink instead of white. There is also some purple in the designs on her dress, and the cloth wrapped around her waist is purple as well. -> Rating: 1.5/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Personally I find Diao Chao to be one of the worst characters in the game. Her range is awful with her weapons, as is her entire S string and the majority of her T string. Her heavy weapon makes her attacking even more unbearable as it's extremely slow. And her musou is downright awful; even if you connected every hit with an officer it will do mediocre damage. Not to mention the fact that it's completely useless with taking out even half of a crowd of soldiers. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Lu Bu [OM02] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: Unknown Died: 198 A.D. The mighty Lu Bu. He was skilled in all the martial arts, especially archery and horseback riding. It was often said, "Among men, Lu Bu... Among horses, Red Hare..." Red Hare could gallop 1000 leagues in a single day and Lu Bu burnished his fabled spear. Loyal only to himself, he cut down his own adopted father, Ding Yuan, and joined Dong Zhuo, only to later betray him as well. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Diagonal slash from right to left. SS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSS: Downward slash from top to bottom. SSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSS: 360 degree attack. SSSSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSSSSS: Downward slash from top to bottom. SSSSSSSSS: Forward lunge with a slash from left to right. T: Lu Bu performs a circular 360 degree slash with a stomp at the end. ST: Lu Bu knocks enemies into the air with the blunt end of his spear. SST(+T): Lu Bu performs a series of 5 circular slashes above his head with two diagonal slashes and a shockwave of energy at the end. SSST: Lu Bu performs a forward lunge with a slash from left to right. SSSST: Lu Bu slams on the ground, knocking enemies into the air. SSSSST(+T): Lu Bu performs 6 diagonal slashes with a ground stomp at the end. XS: Lu Bu jumps into the air and slashes downward from right to left. XT: Lu Bu jumps into the air, does a flip, and body slams back down to the ground, then slashes horizontally from left to right which sends enemies flying backwards. Musou: Lu Bu slashes diagonally while spinning in a circle, and slams his weapon on the ground at the end. True musou: Same as his regular musou except there is an added shockwave of energy at the end. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking the right and left sides. Mounted charge: One charged attack on the right then the left. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left sides. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Halberd Power: 6 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Great Halberd Power: 12 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Sky Piercer Power: 18 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Sky Scorcher Power: 40 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Medium Attributes: Horse +20, Def +20, Atk +20, Musou +19, Life +19 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: Lu Bu's default model. His entire upper body is covered with armor, including a chest plate and two shoulder guards. He has a red and yellow fabric draped across the left side of his chest plate, and the buckle wrapped around his waist has some sort of demon face on it. He's wearing two armor plates on his thighs, with a large skirt on underneath. The hat on his head has two long strands coming out of the top that extend down to his lower back. Model 2: Same as his first model, but with different colors. Most of the armor on his body now is silver and white in color. There is some areas of yellow and purple around his mid-section. Model 3: This is his DW4 model. Again, just about his entire body is covered in armor. The two armor plates on his shoulders have spikes coming out of the top of them. His armor is mostly gold, with red along the edges. However his arm guards are purple, as is a small portion of his chest plate and the sash around his waist. His clothes on underneath the armor are black. He's still wearing a hat on his head with two long strands coming out of the top that extend down to his lower half. Model 4: Similar to his third model, except now his armor is mostly silver with gold around the edges. His clothes on underneath the armor are now white. The hat on his head is slightly larger around the base, but the strands coming out of it are pretty much the same. -> Rating: 5/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- He's Lu Bu, what do you expect? Of course he's going to be amazing. His S string and T string are great, both at taking out crowds and officers alike. Spam his SST(+T) and SSSSST(+T) to absolutely destroy anything in your way. His musou is pretty much an average spear-user musou, and unfortunately it juggles, but it doesn't really matter as it's still going to tear enemies up. He has the best fourth weapon in the game, with major boosts to the four main stats. The horse +20 just makes him even better for mounted assault. But if you've played any of the other Dynasty Warriors games, did it really surprise you that Lu Bu is the best character in the game? I didn't think so... .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Dong Zhuo [OM03] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: Unknown Died: 192 A.D. The former Prefect of Xi Liang, he was summoned to Luo Yang by He Jin to protect the young Han Emperor. However, he quickly usurped the Imperial Court's power and began a reign of terror. He adopted the mighty warrior Lu Bu as his son to further his tyranny, but in the end he was betrayed by Lu Bu and assassinated. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Diagonal slash from left to right. SS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSSS: Forward stab. SSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSSSSSS: Dong Zhuo turns around and stabs behind his back. T: Dong Zhuo stomps on the ground. ST: Dong Zhuo knocks enemies into the air with his sword. SST(+T): Dong Zhuo performs a series of 8 rapid diagonal slashes. SSST: Dong Zhuo turns around and stabs behind his back. SSSST: Dong Zhuo stomps on the ground knocking enemies into the air. SSSSST: Dong Zhuo slams his weapon on the ground. XS: Dong Zhuo jumps into the air and slashes downward. XT: Dong Zhuo jumps into the air, does a flip, and slams his fist into the ground as he lands. Musou: Dong Zhuo performs a series of diagonal slashes and then does a body slam onto the ground at the end. True musou: Same as his regular musou except instead of a body slam at the end he throws forward some explosives and rolls backwards. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking the right and left sides. Mounted charge: One charged attack on the right then the left. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left sides. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tyrant Sword Power: 4 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Great Tyrant Power: 8 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Fear Power: 12 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Horror Power: 36 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Medium Attributes: Luck +17, Horse +17, Def +15, Atk +18, Life +15 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: His default model. He's wearing a large, golden armor plate on his chest with a robe wrapped around his waist - apparently that's his version of a belt. He has two shoulder pads with spikes coming out of the top. His right sleeve is a salmon color and much larger then his left sleeve, which is purple and thinner instead. He's wearing a large hat on his head with two flaps coming off the back. Model 2: Same as his first model, except different colors. His armor is mostly black now with a little bit of gold here and there. His lower body is mostly a mixture of white and gold, as are his sleeves on his arms. Model 3: This is his DW4 model. The armor on his chest is a bunch of different colors: there is some black, gold, red, purple, pink and green. His clothes underneath are mainly purple. He has a small green and gold hat on his head. Model 4: Similar to his third model, except now his clothes are almost entirely gold and yellow. The armor on his chest is mostly yellow while his clothes underneath are a bright gold. His hat is different as well; it has large spikes going up and is golden. -> Rating: 3.5/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dong Zhuo is pretty much just like all of the other sword users. He has a good S string and a decent T string. Of course his main feature is his devastating, non-juggling musou, like most other sword users. So all in all he's a pretty good character, and his fourth weapon is pretty good as well. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Yuan Shao [OM04] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: Unknown Died: 202 A.D. A member of the distinguished Yuan Family, he became the leader of the coalition forces in the movement against Dong Zhuo. Following Dong Zhuo's death, he fought against Cao Cao, who was trying to take control of the central plains. However, despite his large army at the Battle of Guan Du, internal strife and various other troubles such as the attack of his supply depot led to a major defeat. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Diagonal slash from left to right. SS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. T: Yuan Shao performs a rolling somersault forward. ST: Yuan Shao knocks enemies into the air with his sword. SST(+T): Yuan Shao performs a series of 6 rapid diagonal slashes with a 360 degree attack and a horizontal slash at the end. SSST: Yuan Shao performs a downward slash. SSSST: Yuan Shao slams his weapon on the ground, knocking enemies into the air. SSSSST: Yuan Shao uses a 360 degree shockwave of energy. XS: Yuan Shao jumps into the air and slashes downward from right to left. XT: Yuan Shao jumps into the air, does a flip, and slams his weapon into the ground as he lands. Musou: Yuan Shao performs a series of diagonal slashes. True musou: Same as his regular musou except at the end he jumps into the air and throws his sword down to the ground. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking the right and left sides. Mounted charge: One charged attack on the right then the left. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left sides. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Noble Sword Power: 3 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Regal Sword Power: 7 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Sword of Honor Power: 11 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Sword of Kings Power: 34 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Medium Attributes: Fill +15, Horse +15, Bow +15, Def +18, Musou +17 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: This is Yuan Shao's defeat model. Most of his clothes are a mustard yellow color with some brown and orange mixed in. He has armor on his chest, shoulders, and thighs. He has a long cape on that drapes down to his feet. He also has a battle helmet on that has a small tassel popping out of the top. Model 2: This is the same as his first model except with some different colors. His shirt and pants underneath his armor is actually the same mustard yellow color as his first model, however his armor plates are now a dark gray/purple color. His cape is now purple also, as well as his helmet. Model 3: This is his DW4 model. He is wearing a yellow robe with some orange in the middle. His belt buckle is a demons head with two large horns coming out of his head. He has armor on his upper arms and his upper legs that extends down to his knees. He also has an orangish cape on, and a battle helmet with a spike coming out of the top as well as a large gray tassel. Model 4: Same as his third model for the most part, and with different colors. His armor and robe are now a silver color, and his clothes underneath are a crimson red. His cape is red as well and has a large circular design in the middle. His hat is no longer a helmet, but a rather large square-ish looking hat. -> Rating: 4/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Again, another good sword user. However I believe Yuan Shao to be above that of Dong Zhuo in terms of swordsmanship. Of course his S string and his musou are great, that's to be expected of a sword user. Out of his T string, his best two attacks are his SST(+T) and his SSSSST, which is a great 360 degree shockwave move. The only real bad thing about Yuan Shao, in my opinion, is his rather weak fourth weapon, with a horse and bow slot that could have been better used for something else. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Zhang Jiao [OM05] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: Unknown Died: 184 A.D. A former government official out of the Ju Lu region. He spread his teachings as the founder of the religious sect known as the Way of Peace. He used the turmoil of the land to gather the support of the people. With these supporters, he formed the group known as the Yellow Turbans. Declaring himself the "General of Heaven," he turned against the Han Dynasty, leading the Yellow Turban Rebellion. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: 360 degree attack. SS: Zhang Jiao stabs behind his back with the end of his staff. SSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSS: Downward slash. SSSSS: Downward slash. SSSSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSSSS: Zhang Jiao stabs behind his back with the end of his staff. SSSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSSSSSS: Zhang Jiao shoots fire out of his staff in front of him. T: Zhang Jiao stomps on the ground. ST: Zhang Jiao knocks enemies into the air with his staff. SST(+T): Zhang Jiao levitates his staff in front of him up and down, with a shockwave of energy at the end. SSST: Zhang Jiao shoots fire out of his staff in front of him. SSSST: Zhang Jiao knocks enemies into the air. SSSSST: Zhang Jiao performs a 360 degree fire attack from his staff. XS: Zhang Jiao jumps into the air and slashes downward. XT: Zhang Jiao jumps into the air and shoots down fireballs 360 degrees. Musou: Zhang Jiao shoots out several fireballs from his staff, then he uses a horizontal fire attack from his staff from right to left (same as his SSST.) True musou: Same as his regular musou except the fire attack at the end is 360 degrees (same as his SSSSST.) Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking the right and left sides. Mounted charge: One charged attack on one side. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left sides. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Magic Staff Power: 2 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Mystic Staff Power: 6 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Fire Staff Power: 10 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Volcano Staff Power: 32 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Medium Attributes: Charge +16, Fill +9, Luck +15, Atk +15, Musou +17 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: This is his default model. He is wearing a large robe that is mostly gray and white, with some yellow around the cuff of the sleeves and in the front. He has some kind of feather-like thing in his hair that is gold, and also something similar on his forehead. Model 2: Similar to his first model, but with some different colors. Now his robe is almost entirely white, with some purple around the sleeves and in the back around his waist. His hair and beard are now white, making him look older. Model 3: This is his DW4 model. He is wearing yet another large robe that is a dark golden color, and almost brown on the back. Wrapped around his neck is a large cloth-like thing, that is red with some designs on it. He has a gold bandana around his head with two little things hanging off the sides around his ears. Model 4: Similar to his third model, except now his robe is more reddish at the bottom and a lighter gold up top. The main different is his hat, which is a big round golden helmet that looks rather goofy. -> Rating: 1/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zhang Jiao is just awful, one of the worst, if not THE worst, in the game. At least in my opinion, of course. His S string is just goofy and all around bad; it has poor range and lacks any good crowd clearing abilities. Out of his T string his only really good attack is his SST(+T) which can deal some decent damage and has a 360 shockwave attack at the end for extra benefit. His SSSSST is decent for clearing immediate crowds, but that's if you can actually pull it off before he gets swarmed to death with attacks from peons. His musou is terrible as well, dealing weak damage to individual officers and not much in terms of crowd clearing abilities. His fourth weapon is pretty weak as well (fill +9, really?) but at least it has an attack boost on it. But still, Zhang Jiao is definitely a bottom tier character. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Meng Huo [OM06] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: Unknown Died: Unknown The King of Nanman. He controlled the lands south of Shu, but led a rebellion against them. He fought with Zhuge Liang, but was no match for his wit. He was captured seven times, and Zhuge Liang released him each time. This impressed him so much that he agreed to serve Zhuge Liang and the Shu Kingdom. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Horizontal slash from left to right. SS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSSSS: Forward stab. SSSSSS: 360 degree attack. SSSSSSS: Horizontal slash from right to left. SSSSSSSS: Forward stab. SSSSSSSSS: 360 degree attack. T(+T): Meng Huo runs on all fours, lunging at the end. ST: Meng Huo knocks enemies into the air with his fist. SST(+T): Meng Huo performs 4 spinning attacks with a diagonal left to right attack at the end. SSST: Meng Huo belly flops onto the ground. SSSST: Meng Huo slams on the ground, knocking enemies into the air. SSSSST: Meng Huo slams onto the ground. XS: Meng Huo jumps into the air and belly flops back down onto the ground. XT: Meng Huo jumps into the air and lands on the ground, doing 2 hops. Musou: Meng Huo slams his fists on the ground. True musou: Same as his regular musou just with extra hits at the end. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking the right and left sides. Mounted charge: One charged attack on both sides. Mounted musou: Alternating musou slashes on the right and left sides. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nanman Gauntlet Power: 4 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Beast Gauntlet Power: 8 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Beast Master Power: 12 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random King of Beasts Power: 36 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Light Attributes: Charge +15, Fill +15, Horse +15, Atk +18, Life +19 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: This is Meng Huo's default model. He's wearing a large golden chain around his stomach with a demons head in the middle. His belt also has some type of demon head looking thing as a buckle. He is wearing a large shield on his back with two horns coming out of the top sides. He is also wearing a brown skirt and a necklace. On his head is a helmet with many spikes coming out of the top. Model 2: Same as his first model, but with some color differences. For one, all of the fur around his skirt and feet is now white. Most noticeably, his skin is much darker, and his facial hair is now white. The shield on his back is now a more darker golden color, and the helmet on his head is an orangish color. Model 3: This is his DW4 model. He has a shirt on that only covers the left half of his body. He has a bunch of chains around his chest, with a demons head connecting them all in the center. His skirt has two armor plates for his upper legs. His hat is large and his made of multicolored feathers. Model 4: Same as his third model, but with some differences. His shirt is now cheetah skin, and the helmet on his head has two large horns coming out of the top. -> Rating: 3/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Meng Huo isn't all that bad, but he's someone I could just never enjoy playing. Many of his moves are 360 attacks, so he's a good crowd clearer (especially his devastating musou) but he's very slow and has bad jump attacks. His T attack is actually only useful in getting around if you don't have a horse. In fact it's preferred over running; keep tapping T to move at a quicker rate then he runs. But still, you'll definitely want a horse if you're going to be using Meng Huo. Unfortunately his horse attacking is horrible except for his horse charge, which is really the only thing you should use if you're going to attacked with Meng Huo mounted. His fourth is pretty good as well. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Zhu Rong [OM07] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: Unknown Died: Unknown The wife of the Nanman King, Meng Huo. She claimed to be a descendant of the Goddess of Fire. Very strong and skilled in the martial arts, her trademark move was a deadly leaping slash attack. Stepping in for her husband, she managed to capture Zhang Yi and Ma Zhong, but was caught herself by Wei Yan and Ma Dai. A hostage exchange followed, with both parties returning safely. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Horizontal slash from left to right. SS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSS: Forward kick. SSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSS: 360 degree slash. SSSSSS: Horizontal slash from left to right. SSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSSSSS: Forward kick. SSSSSSSSS: Zhu Rong spins her boomerang around herself two times. T(+T): Zhu Rong does sort of a "breakdance", spinning herself around on the ground kicking enemies. ST: Zhu Rong launches her boomerang into the air, which in turns launches whatever enemy she hits with it into the air as well. SST(+T): Zhu Rong throws her boomerang long distance five times. SSST: Zhu Rong spins her boomerang around herself two times. SSSST: Zhu Rong launches enemies into the air with a gust of wind. SSSSST: Zhu Rong uses a large burst of energy to damage enemies. XS: Zhu Rong jumps into the air and slashes downward from left to right. XT: Zhu Rong jumps into the air and throws down a line of five fireballs. Musou: Zhu Rong throws up a series of knives to the left and right, and at the end throws out a few all around her. True musou: Same as her regular except at the end she runs forward with her boomerang spinning around her. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking the right and left sides. Mounted charge: Zhu Rong's boomerang does a 360 degree sweep around her horse. Mounted musou: A musou form of her mounted charge. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Boomerang Power: 3 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Spitfire Power: 7 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Magma Wheel Power: 11 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Inferno Power: 34 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Medium Attributes: Charge +16, Bow +15, Musou +18, Fill +17, Def +15 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: This is her default model. She's wearing a short striped shirt and top. She's also wearing several necklaces and a bracer on each wrist. The bandana in her hair has three large feathers sticking out of the one side. Model 2: Same as her first model, except now her skirt and top are cheetah skin. Her skin is much lighter than her first model, and her hair is brown. The feathers in her head are a light red color as well. Model 3: This is her DW4 model. She has a short skirt on that has two armor plates on the sides, and she also has armor on both legs that runs up to mid-thigh. She has a small top on that is similar to her leg armor and she has a very small cape coming down the back. She has a group of large feathers sticking up in her hair. Model 4: This is similar to her third model. However her top and some parts of her armor is a white color now. She also has white feathers sticking up from the armor on her legs. Her skin is much darker than her other models, and her hair is up in a ponytail. -> Rating: 4/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zhu Rong is a beast, which surprised me when I first started playing as her and maxing her stats. Honestly I never really played as her in the previous Dynasty Warriors games, so I don't know if she was this good in the others, but she's definitely good in this one. Her musou is an absolute beast, as it tears through crowds and destroys officers health. She has a good deal of 360 attacks, and her SST(+T) is a nice long distance attack. Her horse charge and musou are also very deadly as they are a 360 attack as well. But if you really want to kick some ass with Zhu Rong all you need to do is spam her musou, and since her fourth weapon has a nice fill +17 bonus, that shouldn't be too hard to do. Zhu Rong is definitely a top player in this game. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Zuo Ci [OM08] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Historical Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: Unknown Died: Unknown Possessing mystical powers, he was also known as Master Niao Jiao. While training in the Emei Mountains, he received a magical text. He appeared suddenly before Cao Cao and taunted him, which got him imprisoned. Later, he mocked Cao Cao, who had him executed, but he didn't die, instead predicting Cao Cao's death and disappearing, causing Cao Cao to faint. -> Move Set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S: Horizontal slash from left to right. SS: Forward stab. SSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSS: Diagonal slash from right to left. SSSSS: 360 degree attack. SSSSSS: Forward stab. SSSSSSS: Forward stab. SSSSSSSS: Diagonal slash from left to right. SSSSSSSSS: Zuo Ci shoots out laser beams in a 360 degree direction. T(+T): Zuo Ci summons an elemental orb. The orb will be a fire element if triangle is only pressed once, and will be an ice element if triangle is pressed twice or more. ST: Zuo Ci knocks enemies into the air with his cards. SST(+T): Zuo Ci manipulates his cards in front of him to do several slashes back and forth. SSST: Zuo Ci shoots out laser beams in a 360 degree direction. SSSST: Zuo Ci summons an energy blast, launching enemies into the air. SSSSST(+T): Zuo Ci causes two explosions. XS: Zuo Ci jumps into the air and slashes downward from right to left. XT: Zuo Ci jumps into the air and comes flying back down to the ground with a fireball in front of him. Musou: Zuo Ci walks around with his cards spinning around him in a circle, then does a large 360 degree lightning attack at the end. True musou: Same as his regular musou except at the end first he shoots out some fireballs, then some ice, and then he finishes with the lightning attack. Mounted attack: Alternates between attacking the right and left sides. Mounted charge: Zuo Ci's cards sweep around his horse 360 degrees. Mounted musou: A musou form of his mounted charge. -> Weapons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cursed Deck Power: 6 Attacks: 4 Weight: Random Mystic Deck Power: 12 Attacks: 5 Weight: Random Crane Deck Power: 18 Attacks: 6 Weight: Random Trump Deck Power: 40 Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) Weight: Medium Attributes: Charge +15, Bow +15, Musou +20, Fill +20, Def +15 -> Models ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 1: This is his default model. He is wearing a long gray and black robe that has some purple around his waist. In the middle of his chest is a white piece of cloth with a Tao symbol in the middle, and the same thing is on his back side. His hat is a large, cone-shaped white hat. Model 2: This is the same as his first model, except now his clothes are mostly gold in color. Pretty much everything is gold except for his pants and the little piece of cloth at his waist, which are a more brownish-orange color. Model 3: Similar to his first two models, but with a few differences. For one his robe is now almost completely white, with some darker areas around his waist. He is no longer wearing a hat, and his long white hair now flows down his back. I cannot tell if the symbol on his chest is still the Tao symbol or not, but it's some kind of design at least. Model 4: This is the same as his third model, except now his robe is almost completely black. His hair is black as well. -> Rating: 4.5/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zuo Ci is one of my favorite characters, and also very deadly (which of course is one of the reasons I like him.) His attacks are definitely unique (what did you except from someone whose weapons were a deck of cards?) but they are not to be underestimated. He has very good range, even without a wind scroll, and his S string will tear up crowds of soldiers. His T string attacks are almost all excellent, most of them being great at clearing out crowds. Strangely enough I found his SST(+T) to be one of his weaker attacks, whereas with most other characters that can be one of their strongest. But it's still a decent attack for individual officers. His musou is excellent, especially his true musou which has an amazing crowd clearing finish. Plus his forth weapon is great, especially considering that it has fill +20 and musou +20, and is the only other weapon other than Lu Bu's that has the nice 40 damage perk. His horse charge and musou are pretty decent as well. Zuo Ci is an all-around beast, that's for sure. _______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 05. MUSOU MODE [MUSU] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ First and foremost, this is not an individual walkthrough of each characters stages on musou mode. Instead, I will merely list each characters musou mode stages and I will have the "story" text from each character that is shown in between each stage. If you are looking for an individual walkthrough of each battle, please refer to the Free Mode section of this guide (section 6.0). -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- SHU [SHUM] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Zhao Yun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SM01] Guan Yu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SM02] Zhang Fei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SM03] Zhuge Liang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SM04] Liu Bei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SM05] Ma Chao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SM06] Huang Zhong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SM07] Jiang Wei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SM08] Wei Yan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SM09] Pang Tong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SM10] Yue Ying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SM11] Guan Ping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SM12] Xing Cai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SM13] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Zhao Yun [SM01] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Zhao Yun ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "My name is Zhao Yun. I am searching for a lord worthy of my loyalty so that I may help bring peace to this troubled land. In this land of Ji, I joined Yuan Shao's army so that I could serve in the campaign against the Yellow Turbans. I fight only for those who value truth. But, is Yuan Shao really a master worth serving..." -> Battle of Ji Province ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "We defeated the Yellow Turbans. However, I know now that Yuan Shao is not a worthy master... Upon learning this, I left Yuan Shao's camp. I have traveled across the land in search of my true master. When I happened to visit Gongsun Zan, I learned that Yuan Shao had formed an army to defeat Dong Zhuo. Dong Zhuo is a traitor to the Han. This is the perfect opportunity to bring an end to this chaos. I have gone to serve Gongsun Zan and join the allied army against Dong Zhuo." -> Battle of Hu Lao Gate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Having left Gongsun Zan, I went and joined Liu Bei, whom I had met at the Battle of Hu Lao Gate. Due to his virtue and ambition, I have decided to go and serve under him. Now, Liu Bei is being chased by Cao Cao's army, who fears what he might become. Together with all the people that have chosen to follow him, we must somehow make it to Jiang Ling. These times are marked by their unpredictability. However, it is times like these when I must forge a new path for Liu Bei with my spear. We shall prevail!" -> Battle of Chang Ban ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of Cheng Du ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Having settled in the lands of Shu, Liu Bei now is equal in strength to Cao Cao of Wei and Sun Quan of Wu. However, many people were forced to give their lives in battle to realize this day. My lord is distraught over the deaths of his two sworn brothers, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. In an effort to avenge Guan Yu's death by the hands of Wu, he advanced his army to Yi Ling. Despite my pleas that the true enemy of the land is Wei, not Wu, my lord refuses to listen. For the sake of Shu... We must win this battle!" -> Battle of Yi Ling ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Zhao Yun's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Guan Yu [SM02] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Guan Yu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am Guan Yu. To serve my sworn brother, Liu Bei, who vowed to rise against the chaos in the name of virtue. I shall raise my blade in battle until that day has come. In the Yellow Turban Campaign, my brother and I, along with our other sworn brother, Zhang Fei, volunteered to fight against the rebels. Together, we showed the land the strength of the three sworn brothers led by Liu Bei. And now, in order to defeat the traitorous Dong Zhuo, we have joined the allied army formed by the regional lords. My blade shall cut down those who stand in the way of justice!" -> Battle of Si Shui Gate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of Hu Lao Gate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "After Dong Zhuo's defeat, the land was splintered as various factions vied to control it for themselves. Although brother was awarded the lands of Xu, it was not long before he was attacked by Cao Cao. Following that battle, us three brothers were scattered and I agreed to serve under Cao Cao under the condition that I would leave once I learned where my brother was. That is how I wound up joining him in his quest to defeat Yuan Shao of Ji. I am worried about the safety of my brothers, but nevertheless, I must serve my current master with loyalty..." -> Battle of Guan Du ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Guan Yu's Escape ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "After a long journey, I was able to rejoin brother and Zhang Fei. Despite having no land to call our own, I know that this is where I truly belong. Now that we were back together, Cao Cao feared what we would become, so he decided to launch an attack against us. After managing to evade pursuit, we eventually joined forces with Wu and defeated Cao Cao's army at Chi Bi. And now, I have been ordered to chase after Cao Cao as he flees from Chi Bi. However, I still owe much to Cao Cao. I don't know if I can face him..." -> Escape from Chi Bi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "With our victory at Chi Bi, we have gained much momentum. Brother has obtained the lands of Jing and Shu, thus splitting the land in three between us, Wei and Wu. The way things have been going, it appears that Cao Cao and Sun Quan have joined forces. It would seem that they both have their eyes on this land of Jing that has been left under my charge. Looking to make the first move and take advantage of the situation, I marched on Fan Castle in Xiang Yang. For the sake of brother's quest for the land... my spear shall cry out to the heavens!" -> Battle of Fan Castle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Guan Yu's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Zhang Fei [SM03] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Zhang Fei ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I'm Zhang Fei. Together with my sworn brothers, Liu Bei and Guan Yu, I have vowed to bring peace to this chaotic land. During the Yellow Turban Campaign, we fought hard and were evaluated pretty highly. So we decided to join the regional lords in their coalition to bring down Dong Zhuo. This Dong Zhuo character just ignores the imperial court and does as he wishes! He must pay for this. I'll go out and bring back his hide!" -> Battle of Hu Lao Gate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "After defeating Dong Zhuo, one thing led to another and brother was placed in charge of the lands of Xu. But then that damn Lu Bu came along and messed everything up. He just came along and showed brother no respect whatsoever. To make things worse, he somehow managed to steal Xia Pi Castle from me! He'll pay for this sooner or later... We teamed up with Cao Cao and are setting out for Xia Pi. Ah! I'll smash him up good! I'm not going to hold anything back in this battle!" -> Battle of Xia Pi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "A short time after defeating Lu Bu, Cao Cao came and attacked us. I got separated from my brothers for the time being. After meeting up with my brothers again, some guy named Zhuge Liang became our strategist. That must've made Cao Cao angry, because he came and attacked again. Perhaps we should flee to Jiang Ling... But we have to take our people with us, making it difficult to escape. Cao Cao's army has already caught up with us here at Chang Ban. Well, it looks like this is a job for me..." -> Battle of Chang Ban ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Somehow, we managed to escape from Chang Ban and then joined forces with Sun Quan. Together, we pounded Cao Cao into the ground. That should shut him up for a while. But brother still has a problem. Without a land to call his own, he can never realize his ambitions. Therefore, we have decided to attack the land of Cheng Du which is controlled by Liu Zhang. Brother doesn't look very good. I guess it's because he's stealing the lands of another person. But, simply overlooking his problems will never allow him to build a land of virtue. We've got no choice!" -> Battle of Cheng Du ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Brother has obtained the lands of Shu. Now he'll be able to stand on equal footing with Cao Cao and Sun Quan. I think this calls for a drink! But we can't just sit and celebrate. Guan Yu has taken some troops from Jing in an effort to attack Fan Castle in Xiang Yang. Normally, we'd have nothing to fear, but this time, Cao Cao and Sun Quan have joined forces against us. I must use my strength to help brother!" -> Battle of Fan Castle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Zhang Fei's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Zhuge Liang [SM04] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Zhuge Liang ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am Zhuge Liang. Eager to prove my worth against the great strategists of old, I studied the ancient texts and lived a quiet and peaceful life in the land of Long Zhong. One day, Master Liu Bei, famous across the land for being a man of virtue, came and paid me three visits. So impressed was I with his virtue and politeness, that I agreed to serve as his strategist. In the midst of this chaos, I devised a strategy to divide the land in three. Master Liu Bei, a man of truth and honor, shall be the one to realize this plan I have entrusted him with..." -> Battle of Chang Ban ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Conquest of Nan Zhong ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of Tian Shui ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of Chen Cang ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Having occupied Chen Cang, we have brought an end to our longstanding battle with Wei. In order to bring an end to the chaos, we advanced our army to the Wu Zhang Plains. The Three Kingdoms strategy that I proposed to Master Liu Bei... One of those three Kingdoms, Wu, was destroyed at the hands of Wei. Now if we just defeat Wei, the strategy shall finally be realized. Master Liu Bei is no longer with us, and my destiny also draws near... Before everything is swept away with the times, I must bring an end to this chaos." -> Battle of Wu Zhang Plains ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Zhuge Liang's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Liu Bei [SM05] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Liu Bei ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am Liu Bei, descendant of Liu Sheng, prince of Zhong Shan. With my two sworn brothers, I have pledged to bring order to this chaotic world. As I speak, the land is suffering from an insurgency led by Zhang Jiao known as the Yellow Turbans. I have taken rank in an army that will fight these traitors. My goal is to defeat all evil-doers and restore the great Han empire. This is the path I have chosen, and I will stop at nothing to return virtue to this land!" -> The Yellow Turban Rebellion ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of Hu Lao Gate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "We have defeated Dong Zhuo, but our great army disbanded, and its heroes went their separate ways. Does no one else care about restoring the Han...? It became clear that I must take the matter into my own hands. I set out to seek the guidance of the brilliant strategist Zhuge Liang. According to Zhuge Liang, I must escape the grip of Cao Cao and defend myself from the Sun Family to establish my own kingdom. By winning the hearts of the people, I will one day rule the land!" -> Battle of Chang Ban ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Thanks to Zhuge Liang's strategy, we were able to drive Cao Cao from Chang Ban. We then formed a pact against Cao Cao with Sun Quan. Our combined army came face to face with Cao Cao at Chi Bi. Thanks to the heroic efforts of officers from both our Kingdoms, we managed to lay waste to his great fleet. Right now, Cao Cao is attempting to flee from the battlefield that burns around him. At last, we have the upper hand. If I am to realize my ambition, I must catch and kill Cao Cao!" -> Escape from Chi Bi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "After the battle of Chi Bi, we made a firm stand by quickly subduing the area of Jing. These are the lands from which I will form a great kingdom. Zhuge Liang has advised that I spread my rule by leading my army into Shu. This move will be the catalyst that splits the land into three divisions. But Shu is currently under the rule of my fellow clansman Liu Zhang. I can't help but question the virtue of stealing land from a member of my own family..." -> Battle of Cheng Du ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "How can this be? Guan Yu has been killed in a sinister plot by Wu! Zhang Fei, too, has been murdered - killed by his own men as he prepared to avenge Guan Yu. Responsibility for these tragedies falls directly on Wu! They shall feel my rage... and pay for my brothers' deaths with everything that they own! Nothing else matters now! I can hear only the beating of my angry heart, and it is screaming for revenge! Revenge against the Sun Family for Zhang Fei and Guan Yu!" -> Battle of Yi Ling ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "I fought Wu at Yi Ling, but was unable to slay their lord, Sun Quan. I rushed into that battle driven purely by hatred... and completely ignoring my true purpose. Now, Wu has regrouped and come to attack me at Bai Di Castle. Just by looking at their formation, I can tell that they have come here seeking my head. Since we parted ways after the battle at Chi Bi, I have come into conflict with Wu a number of times. Now I must end this rivalry, and defeat Wu once and for all!" -> Battle of Bai Di Castle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Wu is no more... and the Three Kingdoms have become two. I have reached the final leg of my journey, and at last my destiny is near. The legacy of my greatest enemy, Cao Cao, still remains. Only be defeating his vast kingdom of Wei can I realize my dream and create a new age of righteousness. This past age has been long and painful, but soon it will all be over. For the forces of good, I will conquer the chaos, and under my rule there shall be no tears!" -> Battle of Wu Zhang Plains ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Liu Bei's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Ma Chao [SM06] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Ma Chao ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am Ma Chao, son of Ma Teng, a clan leader from the land of Liang. Under my father's guidance, I have spent my life training to be a great warrior. My father recently raised and led a coalition with other regional lords to overthrow Dong Zhuo, a tyrant who was threatening to invade our land. But now those who helped us defeat Dong Zhuo are fighting each other and things are even worse. Whatever happens, though, I won't let them touch my homeland of Liang!" -> Battle of Liang Province ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of Tong Gate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "I secured victory at Tong Gate, but was unable to capture Cao Cao. After that, I suffered the loss of many of my friends. Some died, while others simply abandoned me... I was both injured and tired when I encountered Master Liu Bei, who was fighting in Cheng Du. He took me in as one of his officers, and my life found a new direction. Now Liu Bei is setting out for battle with Wu to avenge the death of his sworn brother. I know the pain he feels myself all too well. I must do all that I can to help!" -> Battle of Yi Ling ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Master Liu Bei passed away shortly after the Battle of Yi Ling. He was a great man, and it's a terrible shame that he died before he could realize his destiny. Now his Kingdom has passed on to his son, Master Liu Chan. Liu Bei's dream of unifying the land lives on, and now more than ever we must all work with Zhuge Liang to make it happen. To survive this age of three rival Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang has unveiled a master plan to subdue our enemy Wei in the north. At last! A chance for me to take revenge!" -> Battle of Jie Ting ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "After defending Jie Ting with our lives, we led several attacks on the north. Sadly, we never managed any significant progress. Meanwhile, our Kingdom has dwindled and grown weak. Now, in our time of need, the Kingdom of Wu is sending an army to try to conquer us. But I won't let that happen. In the name of my late master, Liu Bei, I will protect Shu! What is this strange feeling? I find myself gripping my spear not out of anger or hate; I am driven by something else entirely. What is it that makes me feel such passion...?" -> Battle of Bai Di Castle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Ma Chao's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Huang Zhong [SM07] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Huang Zhong ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am Huang Zhong! I was serving under Han Xuan in Chang Sha until I met Liu Bei during his campaign to subdue southern Jing. And now, I serve the virtuous and heroic Liu Bei as one of his officers. Along with my mighty bow, I will follow him to the far corners of the land to help him realize his destiny! Together, we will find a land to serve as the basis of a kingdom that shall be just as virtuous and prosperous as he is. Warriors of Cheng Du, I challenge you!" -> Battle of Cheng Du ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Liu Bei obtained the lands of Yi and joined in the struggle for control of the land. Apparently, this was all thought out by the strategist Zhuge Liang. Simply amazing! So, now we're going to make our way to Mt. Ding Jun in Guan Zhong. That Zhuge Liang... He's saying I'm too old for this and should stay home. How dare he criticize me! I'll prove him wrong by showing him that my bow and fighting spirit are unmatched on the battlefield! There is still some life in these old bones yet!" -> Battle of Mt. Ding Jun ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "After conquering Guan Zhong, Wei, Wu and Shu became bitter rivals. Will this chaos that plagues the land and its occupants ever come to an end? It was during this time that Liu Bei passed away. Perhaps the pain of losing his sworn-brothers was too much for him. Such a pity to have died so young... Liu Bei, you just watch... We will carry on your will and create the kingdom built upon the foundations of virtue and humanity that you dreamed of making!" -> Conquest of Nan Zhong ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of Chen Cang ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Everyone, including our enemies, is becoming fatigued by this chaos. Perhaps this would be a good time to go and put an end to it once and for all. Zhuge Liang must be thinking the same thing. He prepared a large army and led them to attack Wei. At that moment, however, Wu came and attacked Bai Di Castle. How dare they attack while our backs are turned! No matter! They are simply rushing to their deaths. Let us destroy them and bring an end to this chaos!" -> Battle of Bai Di Castle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Huang Zhong's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Jiang Wei [SM08] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Jiang Wei ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "My name is Jiang Wei. I was born in Tian Shui and now serve as an officer and advisor for Governor Ma Zun of Wei. Right now, Tian Shui is being attacked by the forces of Shu. We are in a dire situation... Unfortunately, Ma Zun's abilities alone will be inadequate to achieve victory here... No, as a Wei officer, I cannot say such things! I must use my skills and abilities to do what I can to save this land, if only for my mother's sake!" -> Battle of Tian Shui ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "I have lost all desire to serve Wei after this last battle. Impressed with Zhuge Liang, I decided to leave Tian Shui and join the ranks of Shu. Naturally, Shu's immediate enemy is Wei. The next battle will take place at the strategic location of Jie Ting. We must do everything possible to defend it from the coming Wei invasion. Zhuge Liang, you believed in me when nobody else would... I must win this battle and live up to your expectations!" -> Battle of Jie Ting ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of Chen Cang ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "While we had been fighting with Wei, Wu was quietly building up their strength. And now, they have raised an army to come and attack Bai Di Castle. If we defeat Wu here, only the weakened Wei will remain. We must do whatever it takes to win this battle so that Shu may emerge as the victor in the battle for the land. Prime Minister, although you were absent during this battle, it is times like these that I must try to live up to your expectations. I shall protect both Shu and Lord Liu Chan!" -> Battle of Bai Di Castle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Prime Minister, you look a bit pale. Perhaps... No, I must refrain from thinking such things. Now is the time for us to destroy Wu and unite the land beneath Shu. We shall engage Wei at Wu Zhang Plains for the final battle. This era of grief and sadness has gone on for far too long. May the light of hope guide our path once the fighting has ceased. Prime Minister, I shall embody your spirit and all that you have lived for... Let us go. Now is the time that Shu shall bring peace to all the land!" -> Battle of Wu Zhang Plains ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Jiang Wei's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Wei Yan [SM09] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Wei Yan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I... Wei Yan... Liu Bei's... officer... Wei Yan. Land... in three... Liu Bei... Cao Cao... Sun Quan... Liu Bei... attack... Cao Cao. Battlefield... Mt. Ding Jun... I... fight... Enemies... die..." -> Battle of Mt. Ding Jun ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Shu... Mt. Ding Jun... defeat Wei... But... Liu Bei... die... Me... sad... Now... Wei... attack... again... Next... battlefield... Tian Shui... Zhuge Liang... Shu army... leads... Zhuge Liang... me... not trust... Why... I... don't know..." -> Battle of Tian Shui ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of Jie Ting ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "I... fight... Enemy... die... But... battle... doesn't end... Chaos... continues... Zhuge Liang... northern campaign... continues... Troops... provisions... necessary... Soon... Shu... Tire... Liu Bei... Not wish... that... I... Must hurry... Quickly... destroy... enemy..." -> Battle of Chen Cang ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Zhuge Liang... Wu Zhang Plains... Troops... advance... Wei... Large army... at... Wu Zhang Plains... Perhaps... this battle... last... If victory... Shu... rule... land... Liu Bei... dead... but dream... realized... I... Liu Bei's officer... Realize... dream... I... fight! Defeat... enemies! Destroy... them... all!" -> Battle of Wu Zhang Plains ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Wei Yan's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Pang Tong [SM10] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Pang Tong ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am Pang Tong. I studied together with Zhuge Liang. Some people call him the Sleeping Dragon and call me the Fledgling Phoenix. I think they might be going a bit too far. Liu Bei took an interest in my somewhat clever mind and allowed me to join as his officer. In my first battle, I'm going up against Cao Cao. Wow, I sure am nervous about my first battle being so large. If one of my plans is successful, we should be able to win. Well, here goes nothing." -> Battle of Chi Bi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "We had a great victory at Chi Bi. Well, the threat of Cao Cao has been weakened somewhat and now Liu Bei can focus on taking the lands of Shu. But Shu is currently ruled by Liu Zhang. Liu Bei is clearly worried about him. It seems that he thinks it would not be virtuous of him to invade Shu. The land is in chaos. There is no justice or virtue here. If we do not overcome his hesitation, Liu Bei's vision for the land shall crumble and fall. I must do something." -> Battle of Cheng Du ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "The Battle of Cheng Du is over. We were successful in our attempt to make Liu Bei the ruler of Shu. Okay, now Liu Bei's struggle for the land is really getting started. First, I suppose we should get rid of Cao Cao. The best way to shut him up is to attack his weak point. So let's go and take Han Zhong. Wei also knows the value of Han Zhong, so it is safe to say that it will not be easy. I suppose that's my cue to go and do something amazing." -> Battle of Mt. Ding Jun ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "We won the battle of Mt. Ding Jun and captured Han Zhong. But the struggle between Wei, Wu, and Shu does not look like it will be over any time soon. Despite our success, we have lost our leader Liu Bei. And just when we were so close to realizing our goals... The heavens sure have a strange way of determining one's fate. Liu Bei, I shall realize your dreams. The formation of a land of virtue, between Zhuge Liang and I, should not be too difficult. You may rest in peace." -> Conquest of Nan Zhong ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "After a recent battle, the Nanman finally pledged their loyalty to us. Thank heavens... Now, if we can just defeat Wei and Wu, the land will at last be ours. Zhuge Liang set out for the Wu Zhang Plains in order to defeat Wei. Meanwhile, it seems that Wu has set their sights on Bai Di Castle. Bah, I should be able to handle this okay. When this battle is over, a land of peace will be waiting for us. When I think of that, I get so excited. Well, one last job to take care of before we're done!" -> Battle of Bai Di Castle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Pang Tong's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Yue Ying [SM11] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Yue Ying ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am Yue Ying. I study the martial arts and pursue knowledge through my studies in order to better aid my husband, Zhuge Liang. My husband was asked by our lord Liu Bei to help him fight to end the chaos. The time has come for the Sleeping Dragon to awaken! I know that the battles we are about to fight will undoubtedly be difficult, but I shall do my best to carry out my husband's wishes!" -> Battle of Chang Ban ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Just as my husband predicted, the land divided into three kingdoms following his victory in the Battle of Chang Ban. However, our lord did not survive and have the chance to fulfill his ambitions. Liu Chan became the next Shu ruler, aided by my husband. Our new lord would take the next step and begin the southern campaign. I hear the south has many savage beasts lurking about. I sincerely hope that my inventions can be of good use..." -> Conquest of Nan Zhong ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "The campaign was a success; the territories swore their allegiance to Shu. My husband then said we must attack Cao Pi of Wei and we marched to Tian Shui. Tian Shui, located on the western part of Wei, was a strategic location. My husband says we must conquer this area if we are ever to defeat Wei itself. I am more than happy to carry out my husband's wishes. No matter how tough the battle, it is my way of assisting him in his time of need!" -> Battle of Tian Shui ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "My husband met a bright young warrior named Jiang Wei at Tian Shui. He would be worthy enough to take over for my husband and lead Shu to even greater heights. Our next target is Chen Cang. This territory is defended by the strategist Sima Yi. He is constantly trying to kill my husband with his wicked schemes. I will not allow anyone to stand in my husband's way. I shall act as my husband's sword and destroy our enemies!" -> Battle of Chen Cang ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "After the attack on Chen Cang, we destroyed Wu at Bai Di Castle. All that remained in my husband's plan for the Three Kingdom's was to defeat Wei at the Wu Zhang Plains. The supply routes will determine the fate of this battle. I have labored long and hard in order to protect them. I hope that we may be able to overcome any adversities... I will give everything I have in the Wu Zhang Plains. Witness the glory of the dragon's wife. I shall ascend to the skies like my husband!" -> Battle of Wu Zhang Plains ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Yue Ying's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Guan Ping [SM12] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Guan Ping ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am Guan Ping. I have trained in the martial arts since I was young so that I may put an end to the chaos. One day, I met the legendary Guan Yu and became his adopted son. This next battle will be a difficult one for our lord. He must escape Cao Cao's pursuers while escorting his people to safety in Jiang Ling. Father, please allow me to assist Lord Liu Bei. I am aware that my skills are meager compared to yours, but I will do my best not to let you down!" -> Battle of Chang Ban ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Lord Liu Bei survived his ordeal at Chang Ban and later allied with Sun Quan. Together, they successfully destroyed Cao Cao's fleet at Chi Bi. Now, we just need to chase Cao Cao down... However, my father feels a sense of obligation to Cao Cao. I can understand how difficult it is for father to attack him... For my father values honor as much as he does strength. But, Cao Cao is Shu's enemy and must be defeated. If my father cannot kill him, then I will have to do it for him!" -> Escape from Chi Bi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "The Kingdom of Shu was formed after the Battle of Chi Bi, bringing us one step closer to realizing my father's dreams. Our next battle will be against Wei at Mt. Ding Jun. Rumors say that Zhang Fei's daughter, Xing Cai, will be at the battle as well... I wonder if she can really fight... Well, she is the daughter of Zhang Fei after all... I suppose it is only natural for her to be well-versed in the martial arts. At any rate, I can't let her get the best of me out there!" -> Battle of Mt. Ding Jun ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Our victory at Mt. Ding Jun struck fear not only in the hearts of Wei, but We as well. So they decided to join forces and attack my father who was stationed in Jing. After the last battle, I was sent to serve under my father. In order to secure our position, we were sent to Xiang Yang to attack Fan Castle. Father, it has been a long time since we last fought together... I will do my best not to hold you back..." -> Battle of Fan Castle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "My father died from the wounds he suffered at Fan Castle. So this is the price of victory... Despite my grief, I forced myself to ask how I could become stronger. I now fight for the good of the people. I will fight at Yi Ling not only to prove my strength, but to aid in the creation of the new world that my father had longed to see! Father... I will do my best to honor you by leading Shu to victory. I shall not rest until this chaos has ended!" -> Battle of Yi Ling ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Guan Ping's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Xing Cai [SM13] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Xing Cai ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am Xing Cai. My father is none other than Zhang Fei. Although this is my first battle, my father and the others have been fighting for quite some time. We are about to attack Cheng Du in order to establish Shu. However, I am a little unsure about Liu Bei's virtue as he is about to attack one of his own kin. However, one cannot avoid fighting while living in a land of chaos. I must be like my father and use my abilities as best I can in order to return the land to a time of peace." -> Battle of Cheng Du ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Upon obtaining the lands of Shu, we became one of Three Kingdoms beneath the Heavens. The only ones left in our way now were Wei and Wu. Before long, we set out to Mt. Ding Jun in order to attack Wei. Guan Yu's adopted son Guan Ping and I are marching together for this battle. With the experience of many battles under his belt, the boy I once knew has become a man. So many battles... The world we live in is constantly at war. I will do my best to put an end to this chaos." -> Mt. Ding Jun ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Guan Yu and Guan Ping died at the Battle of Fan Castle. No sooner did I receive word that my own father had been killed... Sometimes reality can be cruelly harsh... Our lord, enraged about losing his sworn brothers, ordered his armies to attack Wu. Little did he know that his actions are contradicting his own principals... However, I must win this battle... I must aid in the creation of the kingdom that my father had dreamed of." -> Battle of Yi Ling ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "After the battle of Yi Ling, our lord passed away. Before his death, he asked me to take care of his son, Liu Chan. I am trying my best to help him, but I must say that it is very tiresome. However, people change. Just like Guan Ping, Lord Liu Chan must change as well. I feel this kind of thinking is the most important. The next battle is at Jie Ting. My father, Zhao Yun, not even Guan Ping will be there... There is no one there who I can rely on, but I must go and fight nonetheless." -> Battle of Jie Ting ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Our miraculous victory at Jie Ting was enough to make even Sima Yi give up. With this victory, Wei was destroyed and vanished into the chaos. The day when Liu Chan shall rule the land grows ever nearer. The future that my father, Zhao Yun and Guan Ping fought for will soon be realized. Our final opponent is Wu. I have been entrusted with the hopes and dreams of many people. For their sake, as well as my own, I will protect and guide Shu to the very end." -> Battle of Bai Di Castle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Xing Cai's musou mode] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- WEI [WEIM] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Xiahou Dun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WM01] Dian Wei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WM02] Xu Zhu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WM03] Cao Cao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WM04] Xiahou Yuan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WM05] Zhang Liao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WM06] Sima Yi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WM07] Xu Huang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WM08] Zhang He . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WM09] Zhen Ji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WM10] Cao Ren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WM11] Cao Pi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WM12] Pang De . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WM13] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Xiahou Dun [WM01] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Xiahou Dun ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am Xiahou Dun. To bring order to the chaos, I shall follow Cao Cao in his quest to realize his ambitions. Due to his achievements during the Yellow Turban Rebellion and the campaign against Dong Zhuo, Cao Cao's name spread throughout the land. However, there is still one who wishes to challenge him - Lu Bu. Under the leadership of Cao Cao, we joined forces with Liu Bei and attacked Lu Bu at Xia Pi Castle. We shall put a quick end to this..." -> Battle of Xia Pi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Having defeated Lu Bu, Cao Cao overcame yet another hardship and continued to amass his strength. Cao Cao truly is a hero without equal in this land. Finally, Cao Cao decided to face his old friend and the current greatest threat to his power, Yuan Shao, in battle. This final battle shall take place at Guan Du. Guan Yu, who recently joined Cao Cao, will participate in this fight. Humph! I shall prove just who Cao Cao's number one general is!" -> Battle of Guan Du ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Guan Yu's Escape ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Guan Yu just barely escaped my grasp... It doesn't matter. I can kill one such as him any time I want. Although he let Guan Yu escape, Cao Cao calmly sent his army to attack Liu Bei. I should have known better than to doubt Cao Cao. My worries have proved to be unfounded. With our army continuing to march, we followed Liu Bei and his group of followers to Chang Ban. However, upon closer inspection, it was simply a group of commoners. Must I kill these innocent people as well..." -> Battle of Chang Ban ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of He Fei ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "The land has been divided in three between Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Sun Quan. These chaotic times are about to approach their final chapter. The day of a land under Cao Cao's rule is rapidly approaching. Currently, everyone is fighting for the land of Jing. Additionally, Fan Castle in Jing, which is being guarded by Cao Ren, is under attack by Guan Yu. Damn you, Guan Yu! How long will you persist in standing in Cao Cao's way?! My blade shall put an end to your constant meddling!" -> Battle of Fan Castle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Xiahou Dun's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Dian Wei [WM02] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Dian Wei ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I'm Dian Wei. Not long ago, I was chasing after a tiger when Xiahou Dun saw me and asked me to join him. Now I serve as one of Lord Cao Cao's personal bodyguards. It would seem that the land is facing troubled times. And on top of that, these fools calling themselves the Yellow Turbans have been plaguing the land. I can't believe this. In order to quell this chaos, Cao Cao has decided to lead an army and participate in the campaign to defeat the Yellow Turbans. Alright! Finally, I get to go out and have a little fun!" -> The Yellow Turban Rebellion ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "I crushed those pathetic Yellow Turbans. Impressed with my deeds, my lord declared me a match for the heroes of old. I am honored to be viewed so highly. But, I cannot just sit and bask in all my glory. Now it seems that a pig named Dong Zhuo is running wild in the capital. Drunk with power, he is ruling with an iron fist. My lord joined forces with his old friend Yuan Shao, and together, we marched towards Luo Yang with the rest of the Anti-Dong Zhuo Alliance. Okay! Now is the time for Dian Wei to show his strength!" -> Battle of Hu Lao Gate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of Wan Castle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "We managed to endure Zhang Xiu's surprise attack and barely escaped with our lives. Next time, I will ensure that he does not live to see another day! After regrouping his army, my lord joined forces with the whining Liu Bei, who had been defeated by Lu Bu, and together we marched on Xia Pi to defeat Lu Bu once and for all! There was no clear victor at Hu Lao Gate, but there's no way I'm going to lose to scum like that. My lord! Give us the order to march!" -> Battle of Xia Pi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of Chang Ban ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "We almost had Liu Bei, but he managed to escape. Pleased with himself, Liu Bei joined forces with Sun Quan and has come to attack my lord. My lord fought them in a large battle at Chi Bi, but due to their cheap tactics, our army was defeated. If only we had managed to capture Liu Bei when we had the chance... But I have no time for regret! I must help my lord escape to safety!" -> Escape from Chi Bi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Dian Wei's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Xu Zhu [WM03] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Xu Zhu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I'm Xu Zhu. I got into a fight with Dian Wei and Cao Cao was impressed with my abilities, so I went to join him. At the capital, this fellow named Dong Zhuo thinks he's bigger than the Emperor and has been causing trouble for the land. We're not going to let him get away with that. Cao Cao joined with his friend Yuan Shao and together they formed an army to defeat Dong Zhuo. Okay, I have to work together with Dian Wei and all of them and do my best." -> Battle of Hu Lao Gate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "We defeated Dong Zhuo at Hu Lao Gate and the name of Cao Cao spread across the land. However, there are just as many people who would be his enemy as well. Previously, Zhang Xiu attacked us in the middle of the night. Cao Cao managed to escape, but Dian Wei gave his life to help ensure that he did. I'm lonely without Dian Wei here... And worried. But, this is not the time to cry. We have to keep working hard and protect Lord Cao Cao." -> Battle of Chang Ban ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "We managed to chase down Liu Bei, but somehow he managed to escape. Don't worry Cao Cao, we'll get him next time. This time, our opponents are Ma Chao and Pang De of Guan Zhong. They're afraid of Cao Cao, so they are trying to team up and defeat him. Also, it seems that Ma Chao thinks of Cao Cao as an enemy to his family. But, as long as we are around, we will not let him touch our lord." -> Battle of Tong Gate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of Mt. Ding Jun ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Shortly after the battle of Mt. Ding Jun, Cao Cao died... Apparently he was not feeling so well... We all miss him. Having taken over for his father, Cao Pi prepared a large army at the castle in He Fei to defeat an army from Wu. Although both Cao Cao and Dian Wei are gone, everybody's sacrifices were not for nothing. It is up to us to see this through to the end!" -> Battle of He Fei Castle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Xu Zhu's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Cao Cao [WM04] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Cao Cao ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am Cao Cao. As of now, the people across the land are suffering and the glory of the Han Imperial Court has faded. The land is doomed... to chaos. A world of chaos is like a living hell. However, beyond the chaos lies a new world. I must follow my ambitions and create a new land of my own design! First, I must join the campaign against the Yellow Turbans who are plaguing the land. Let us go! This is to be the first step on my path to conquest!" -> The Yellow Turban Rebellion ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of Hu Lao Gate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of Xia Pi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of Guan Du ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Escape from Chi Bi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of He Fei ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "I emerged victorious from the Battle of He Fei. Afterward, the land split into three divisions between myself, Sun Quan and Liu Bei, with each of us struggling to gain the advantage. But everyone must die sooner or later. The only other person I deemed a hero of the land, Liu Bei, has already left this world, leaving behind Zhuge Liang to govern things in his place. Shu is nothing without Liu Bei and I shall soon put an end to it personally. It is the least I can do for Liu Bei, who I knew from the dawn of this age of chaos!" -> Battle of Wu Zhang Plains ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Shu has fallen by my hand. Now, my own adversary in my quest to rule the land is the Sun Family of Jiang Dong. The Sun Family... They have only grown larger and stronger throughout this chaos... Perhaps I underestimated the strength of the tiger's bloodline. However, the time for me to realize my ambition is close at hand. I shall not back down from the tiger. I shall face him! This shall be our final battle!" -> Battle of He Fei Castle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Cao Cao's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Xiahou Yuan [WM05] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Xiahou Yuan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am the mighty Xiahou Yuan. I'll destroy anything or anybody that gets in our lord's way on his quest to bring an end to the chaos! ...Or something like that. Word of our lord spread after defeating the Yellow Turbans and Dong Zhuo. This time, he is allying himself with Liu Bei in order to defeat Lu Bu. He's going to become even more famous! Lu Bu is a dangerous man who betrayed his own lord and is a general nuisance to the rest of the land. We can't let one such as this just run free!" -> Battle of Xia Pi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "The defeat of Lu Bu improved our lord's reputation throughout the central plains. Of course this was going to happen! Were you expecting something else?! But that annoying Yuan Shao still remains in control of Hua Bei. Although he and Cao Cao were childhood friends, he apparently is jealous of our lord's success and sent his armies to attack us. My lord... Is it really okay for us to right him? I feel bad fighting this guy simply because compared to you, he's so... weak." -> Battle of Guan Du ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Well, there's no way our lord will ever lose to this guy. Oh how the ability of a ruler makes all the difference. Our lord soon took over Jing, which is known for its granaries. He then decided to get rid of the meddling Liu Bei and Sun Quan and we marched towards Chi Bi along the Chang Jiang. The Chang Jiang... That means we'll be using ships. I guess it won't really matter where we fight. Me and my bow will take out anybody that gets in my way! Let's get going!" -> Battle of Chi Bi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "We won the battle at Chi Bi, but we couldn't finish off Liu Bei or Sun Quan. I'm sorry my lord, if only I'd tried harder... Well, I'm not going to get anywhere if I don't stay positive. I just have to focus on bringing victory to my lord! The next battle will be at Guan Zhong to crush that annoying Ma Chao and Pang De. Alright, let's get down to business!" -> Battle of Tong Gate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "After taking care of those punks at Tong Gate, I realized that the land was divided into three between us, Liu Bei and Sun Quan... Well, I guess it doesn't really matter because our lord'll be the last one standing. I guess Liu Bei isn't aware of this yet because the fool's coming to attack me at Mt. Ding Jun. Ah, these guys are so hopeless. Xiahou Yuan'll teach that Liu Bei a thing or two! I'll make sure that this battle will be his last!" -> Battle of Mt. Ding Jun ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Xiahou Yuan's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Zhang Liao [WM06] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Zhang Liao ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am Zhang Liao. I was born and raised amongst this chaos, which has led me to choose to live the way of the warrior. The only home I have ever known is that of the battlefield. I am currently serving as an officer under my lord Dong Zhuo in Luo Yang alongside another warrior who goes by the name of Lu Bu. Lu Bu is truly one of the greatest warriors I have ever encountered. Hopefully, one day I'll be just as great a warrior as he is..." -> Battle of Si Shui Gate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "I successfully defended Si Shui Gate, but the allied forces went past the mountains and have managed to reach Hu Lao Gate, which lies just before the capital of Luo Yang. Although I serve him, my lord's actions are indeed distasteful. I cannot help but agree with the allied forces' intentions. But, as long as I am a warrior, I must remain loyal to whom I serve! I pray that I be blessed with a worthy opponent in the coming battle..." -> Battle of Hu Lao Gate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "We managed to save Hu Lao Gate, but our lord was killed... by the hands of Lu Bu and Diao Chan. For a lord to be killed by his own trusted vassal... As a result, Lu Bu was branded a traitor and forced to leave the capital. I joined him and we wandered about aimlessly until he managed to seize Xia Pi Castle from Liu Bei and made it his new home. I do not think Lu Bu's actions are just. However I still yearn to test myself. To see how far I can go and how much more powerful I can become. I must continue in search of my path..." -> Battle of Xia Pi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Though we were victorious at Xia Pi, Lu Bu fell victim to Cao Cao's strategy and was killed. From that moment on, I became an officer in Cao Cao's army. Though I change masters, I will still continue to pursue the way of the warrior. By serving my new lord, I am sure that I will have many opportunities to do so. We have just lost the Battle of Chi Bi to the combined forces of Sun Quan and Liu Bei. A true warrior learns from his defeats to become stronger and so shall I!" -> Escape from Chi Bi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Although we suffered heavy losses at Chi Bi, our lord rebuilt his forces with amazing speed... So be the strength of one who is driven by the Heavens... Control of the land is now under contest by Liu Bei, Sun Quan and our lord. Sun Quan has begun marching his troops toward my position at He Fei. The enemy's numbers are overwhelming, but there is nothing to fear. I have seen that sheer numbers mean nothing in this time of chaos. I have no choice but to destroy this Wu army!" -> Battle of He Fei ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Zhang Liao's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Sima Yi [WM07] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Sima Yi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am Sima Yi. I have trained in the arts of strategy since I was a mere boy. Normal people cannot begin to comprehend the depths of my talent. Cao Cao recognized my ability and asked me to serve him. Although I have no interest in petty things like the imperial court, I saw this as a good opportunity and agreed. This could be the perfect time to test my skills. I shall see how capable this Cao Cao - I mean, my lord - is and guide him towards the goals that he seeks." -> Battle of Fan Castle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "The Battle of Fan Castle ended in our favor, and we defeated Guan Yu there as well. Of course, this feat was only possible because I was there. One shouldn't expect anything less from me. Not long after that battle, Cao Cao passed away. I had expected him to accomplish so much more. His son Cao Pi took over as our new lord. I sense that this Cao Pi and I are actually quite similar... This is most interesting. I will serve him for the time being and see what becomes of it..." -> Battle of Jie Ting ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "The Battle of Jie Ting also ended in a victory for us. It was a dull battle but I was able to get a glimpse of the Shu strategist known as Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang, the man who guides Shu. They would cease to exist if not for him. Who could have known that there would be one to rival me beneath the Heavens... This is most interesting. All the more reason to demonstrate my talents. Attack me if you dare, Zhuge Liang. I shall prove to you who is mightier!" -> Battle of Chen Cang ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "We emerged victorious from the Battle of Chen Cang. Zhuge Liang, was that the best you could do? I expected so much more from you! However, that fool refuses to learn and continues to attack us. Could he truly be so stupid? Or is his mind concerned with something else...? Very well, I shall accept his challenge. Zhuge Liang, I shall destroy you on the fields of Wu Zhang Plains!" -> Battle of Wu Zhang Plains ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Zhuge Liang perished and Shu fell along with him. Now we need only to finish off Wu and our lord Cao Pi will dominate the land. Cao Pi's dominance of the land... This shouldn't be bad at all, considering what Wei has accomplished so far. It would be a world worthy of my talents. Very well, Cao Pi. I shall serve you for as long as you remain alive. But when the day comes that you're gone, it will be my turn to rule in your place..." -> Battle of He Fei Castle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Sima Yi's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Xu Huang [WM08] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Xu Huang ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am Xu Huang. I have dedicated my life to refining and honing my skills in battle in order to discover my true inner strength. I currently serve beneath Lord Cao Cao and assist him in his efforts to end the chaos. I believe that only true strength can create the world of peace that he seeks. Our lord has decided to face Yuan Shao, who happens to be his childhood friend. He's even willing to sacrifice friendship in order to realize his ambitions... Very well, I shall follow him anywhere!" -> Battle of Guan Du ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "We were victorious at the Battle of Guan Du. To defeat a much larger army with a smaller one... I am most impressed with my lord's abilities. That makes our lord's greatest enemy Liu Bei in Jiang Ling. However, Liu Bei is fleeing alongside his people... Must I really attack innocent peasants as well... Is Liu Bei a great leader guiding his people, or is he merely a coward using his people as a shield? Well, I guess there is only one way to find out." -> Battle of Chang Ban ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "I almost had Liu Bei at Chang Ban, but he managed to get away. He was within my grasp and I failed... This is most regrettable. Afterwards, we lost the Battle of Chi Bi to Sun Quan and Liu Bei. The damages were great, but our lord managed to regroup and immediately set out for Guan Zhong. If we can capture the lands of Guan Zhong, the advantage will shift in Wei's favor. We must do this as quickly as possible in order to bring an end to the chaos!" -> Battle of Tong Gate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Our victory at Tong Gate was brief, for Liu Bei established the land of Shu in the Yi province. The land is now divided into three between our lord, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan. And now, Sun Quan has advanced his army on He Fei. Our defenses there are weak. This will surely prove to be a difficult struggle... However, I have trained for situations such as this. I shall overcome its adversity and lead the forces of Wei to victory!" -> Battle of He Fei ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Following the Battle of He Fei, fighting in Jing began to intensify. Meanwhile, Shu advanced their troops to make an attack on Fan Castle. The Shu attack was led by Guan Yu, whom I had fought with at Guan Du. The chaos had indeed made him even stronger than before. He truly deserves the title, God of War, which has been bestowed upon him. It is a warrior's duty to fight his lord's enemies, whomever they may be. This includes old friends... Guan Yu, prepare yourself, for I shall spare you no mercy!" -> Battle of Fan Castle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Xu Huang's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Zhang He [WM09] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Zhang He ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am Zhang He. Yes, the same beautiful warrior that everyone is talking about! My heavenly good looks and refined fighting style make a gorgeous combination! I currently serve beneath the nobleman Yuan Shao and assist him in his quest to quell the chaos. I trust that he of all people can make the land a beautiful place. After the Yellow Turbans and the defeat of Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao decided to rise and conquer all the land for himself. May my beauty serve him!" -> Battle of Guan Du ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Although we won the Battle of Guan Du, I made a startling discovery. Lord Cao Cao radiates even more beauty than Yuan Shao... I must go and join him! Beauty will search out beauty. I left Yuan Shao to join Cao Cao and consequently had to destroy my former master. Oh, sometimes it hurts to be so beautiful. Lord Cao Cao built up his armies and has sent them to conquer Guan Zhong. This is the perfect opportunity to prove myself... May our lord witness my prowess!" -> Battle of Tong Gate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Not long after our victory at Tong Gate, our lord managed to conquer Han Zhong as well. Oh, how beautiful the empire is becoming... I was left to guard Mt. Tian Dang in Han Zhong but soon discovered that even beautiful people can experience tragedy... I was forced to flee from Shu's attack. How dare they humiliate me! I cannot let this insult to my beauty stand! I shall have my revenge at Mt. Ding Jun and will become more beautiful than ever!" -> Battle of Mt. Ding Jun ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "I won the battle at Mt. Ding Jun. However, we lost the gallant Xiahou Yuan to an injury he suffered on the battlefield. We will miss him greatly. Our lord passed away after some time as well. Amidst our grief, Lord Cao Pi assumed the throne as his successor and we vowed to renew our quest to unite the land under Wei. Lord Cao Cao and Xiahou Yuan... A shame such beautiful people had to pass away. I shall do my best to make up for their lost beauty!" -> Battle of Jie Ting ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Long have I fought against the chaos that plagues this land... I have witnessed the loss of many beautiful warriors. Ah... A land of chaos is truly a land of tragedy... This constant tragedy only serves to make the world a dark place without beauty. It is about time someone stood up and put an end to this nightmare! I shall make this my purpose in life... I shall bring an end to the chaos myself and return the land to the beauty it once knew!" -> Battle of Chen Cang ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Zhang He's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Zhen Ji [WM10] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Zhen Ji ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am Zhen Ji, wife of Yuan Shao's son, Yuan Xi. One day, the world became engulfed in chaos and my husband left to fight. I was forced to stay home and await his return. However, my days of boredom will soon come to an end. My husband has asked me to accompany him to the next battle. I refuse to let my husband have all the fun in this marriage. I shall do my best at the Battle of Guan Du and show the world exactly what I am capable of!" -> Battle of Guan Du ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "After the battle, Yuan Shao passed away and the Yuan Family was no more. I went and joined Lord Cao Pi, whom I had met at Guan Du. I have finally found a man worthy of my love. With his cool composure and piercing eyes, I found Lord Cao Pi to be my perfect match. In the near future, Wei will experience the greatest leader in all of its history. And I keep seeing myself standing by his side..." -> Battle of Chi Bi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "After the Battle of Chi Bi, the land was divided into three kingdoms between us, Liu Bei and Sun Quan. Soon after, my father-in-law passed away. My husband, Cao Pi, became the ruler of Wei. The land will be blessed to have my husband as ruler, for I am certain he will forge a new era of strength and prosperity. However, the impudent Shu army has begun launching attacks on the north and threatening the Wei territories. These wretched souls shall receive a punishment befitting their actions." -> Battle of Jie Ting ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Shu attacked again, despite their defeat at Jie Ting. I cannot help but feel strange about the enemy's persistence. It's as if they are in some kind of a hurry. From what I have gathered, Zhuge Liang's life may be nearing its end. That would explain why they are so desperate to attack us. Although his efforts are admirable, they are all pointless in the end. Let me be the one who sends him on to the afterlife!" -> Battle of Wu Zhang Plains ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Shu was finally destroyed at the Wu Zhang Plains. Now, only Wu stands in the way of our path to dominance over the land. We have already lost many a proud warrior in this time of chaos. In the end, it will be Wei, not Wu, that emerges as the victor... The ruler of all the land shall be decided here at He Fei. My dear husband, I shall win this victory for you, and for all our kingdom!" -> Battle of He Fei Castle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Zhen Ji's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Cao Ren [WM11] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Cao Ren ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am Cao Ren. I consider my enemy to be none other than chaos itself. I shall do whatever it takes in order to protect this land and its inhabitants. Our army is currently retreating after losing the battle at Chi Bi. It was our arrogance, the false confidence in our numbers, that caused our defeat... This shall not happen again... Now, we must do our best to not let our lord be captured. If that were to happen, the chaos would only become worse. I must protect my lord at all costs!" -> Escape from Chi Bi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Our lord immediately began rebuilding the kingdom after the loss at Chi Bi. His efforts paid off as we discouraged attacks from both Liu Bei and Sun Quan. As a result, the land stood divided amongst our lord, Liu Bei and Sun Quan. The era known as the Three Kingdoms had begun. Our lord created his kingdom in an effort to bring an end to the chaos. I shall assist him in his goal by defeating all those who oppose him!" -> Battle of He Fei ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "The Battle of He Fei ended in victory for Wei, but the struggle between us, Wu, and Shu continues with no sign of letting up. Amongst it all, Guan Yu of Shu has come to attack me in Jing. His skills as a warrior are legendary. The oncoming battle will no doubt be a struggle. Lord Cao Cao has entrusted me with the defense of Fan Castle and its men. I must protect them at all costs for the sake of my lord!" -> Battle of Fan Castle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "What awaited me after the victory at Fan Castle was our lord's death. My lord... How I wish you could've lived to see the day when your kingdom will rule all. In the midst of our mourning we accepted Lord Cao Pi as our ruler and took the necessary steps towards rebuilding our kingdom. I must continue fighting until the chaos has ended. The next battle will take place in Wei's home territory of Chen Cang. I shall be the shield that protects Wei from its attackers!" -> Battle of Chen Cang ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "The end of the chaos is near. We received word that Wu was defeated at the Battle of He Fei as we repelled Shu from Chen Cang. All we must do now is eliminate Shu, who are approaching the Wu Zhang Plains. The enemy appears anxious to attack, but I must remain calm and carry out my duties. The fighting has lasted much longer than expected... But, with this battle, the chaos will come to an end. I shall fight for peace, so that a new future can be born." -> Battle of Wu Zhang Plains ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Cao Ren's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Cao Pi [WM12] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Cao Pi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am Cao Pi. Like my father, Cao Cao, I too have ambitions for ruling the land. After all, it is my duty to carry on his legacy. First, we must exterminate Yuan Shao. Such a pathetic, pretentious man. I shall get rid of him along with his pathetic fantasies of power. Father... I cannot believe you were once friends with such an ordinary individual. You and he stand at completely different levels. I, however, shall rise above you both." -> Battle of Guan Du ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "After defeating Yuan Shao at Guan Du, my father saw Liu Bei and Sun Quan as major threats to his power. Just as he predicted, the two armies appear to have joined forces and wish to attack us at Chi Bi. The enemy remains calm despite the presence of our giant fleet approaching them... They must have some kind of trick up their sleeve if they chose to engage us here at Chi Bi... No matter. We will address whatever ploy they come up with the moment we notice anything strange. Besides, it's only Liu Bei and Sun Quan." -> Battle of Chi Bi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "After the Battle of Chi Bi, the land was divided among three powers, with Wei being one of them. However, despite this glorious moment, my father would not live to see it. Father, it appears you were unfit for unifying the land. Watch me accomplish what you could not from your seat in the heavens... First, we must destroy those fools of Shu to the north. Those who oppose me shall suffer the consequences of my wrath." -> Battle of Jie Ting ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "The victory at Jie Ting is only the beginning. We shall finish Shu off at the next battle. We share a long history with Shu, since the days of my father... I shall see to their demise myself. The enemy appears confident... We must be careful when fighting those who know they will not live to see tomorrow. We, too, must fight with everything we've got. The fate of Wei and Shu shall be decided here at the Wu Zhang Plains. Father, I shall bring about your long-standing obsession for conquest here." -> Battle of Wu Zhang Plains ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "The Three Kingdoms once foreseen by Zhuge Liang have been destroyed along with Shu. An era has come to its end... while a new one has just begun. Only one enemy remains and that is Wu. We shall destroy them, and the sound of our triumph shall resonate throughout the land. With victory here, the land will belong to Wei. Wait and see, father... I shall show you what true greatness really is..." -> Battle of He Fei Castle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Cao Pi's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Pang De [WM13] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Pang De ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am Pang De. I intend to bring peace back to my land of Liang along with the mighty Ma Teng and Ma Chao as my allies. We recently fought alongside Dong Zhuo to rid the land of the Yellow Turbans. However, that same Dong Zhuo is now a bigger problem for Liang than the Yellow Turbans ever were. Although he may have been our friend in the past, he has now turned against us. We have no choice but to eliminate him." -> Battle of Liang Province ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Dong Zhuo fled Liang and disappeared. Later, we heard he began his reign of terror anew in Luo Yang, but was soon ousted by a coalition of powerful regional lords. Thus is the fate of a warrior who indulges in his desires and abuses his power. A warrior must be able to take control of himself and perform as best as he possibly can. Now, Cao Cao has come to Guan Zhong seeking to destroy us. I shall see just how he fares against me and my twin halberds." -> Battle of Tong Gate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "We were victorious at Tong Gate along with the other warriors from Guan Zhong. However, I saw just how powerful Cao Cao was and decided to join his army. This move has made Ma Chao and me enemies, but a warrior must be true to his feelings and follow wherever they lead. I have no other choice. A new life as a Wei officer has begun for me. Our next battle will take place at He Fei. The time to fight Wu has come as I set foot down this new and uncharted path." -> Battle of He Fei ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "The Battle of He Fei ended in victory for Wei. With the strength of Wu diminished, I was sent to Mt. Ding Jun to fight against Shu. The land was now divided into three: Shu led by Liu Bei, Wu led by Sun Quan and Wei led by Cao Cao. It is believed that one of these men will eventually conquer all of the land. It is hard to tell what the future holds. However, my purpose remains unaffected as long as I serve Wei. I am to destroy my enemies and win my battles." -> Battle of Mt. Ding Jun ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "The Battle of Mt. Ding Jun also ended in a Wei victory. However, Shu refused to yield and proceeded to attack Fan Castle in Jing. Finally, Liu Bei's trusted Guan Yu came to Jing, leading the attack. At last, the God of War himself has come to face me. In order to aid Cao Ren at Fan Castle, I have marched night and day. We must hurry. I shall take my twin halberds and protect my allies, while defeating my enemies." -> Battle of Fan Castle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Pang De's musou mode] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- WU [WUMS] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Zhou Yu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UM01] Lu Xun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UM02] Taishi Ci . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UM03] Sun Shang Xiang . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UM04] Sun Jian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UM05] Sun Quan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UM06] Lu Meng . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UM07] Gan Ning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UM08] Huang Gai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UM09] Sun Ce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UM10] Da Qiao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UM11] Xiao Qiao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UM12] Zhou Tai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UM13] Ling Tong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UM14] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Zhou Yu [UM01] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Zhou Yu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "My name is Zhou Yu. Many people jokingly refer to me as the Handsome Zhou Yu. I simply enjoy music and honing my skills on the battlefield. I have a dream that my beloved lord, Sun Ce, and I may one day realize a world free from the chaos and united in a new era of peace under the Kingdom of Wu. As a first step towards that goal, today we decided to join the alliance against the evil Dong Zhuo. I shall be as the wind and strike down this evil traitor!" -> Battle of Si Shui Gate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "We defeated Hua Xiong and took control of Si Shui Gate without difficulty. Sun Ce, whom we left in charge of Wu, seemed rather envious of us when we told him about the battle. But, a land of peace is still far away. It appears that the various regional lords used this as an opportunity to try to seize power for themselves. Now, I serve Sun Jian and have been sent to do battle with Liu Biao of Jing. This time, Sun Ce will participate in this battle. If Sun Ce and I are together, there is no way we can lose to the likes of Liu Biao, but... why do I feel so uneasy..." -> Battle of Jing Province ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "We emerged victorious from the battle for Jing, but we lost Sun Jian to an arrow attack. I have learned the reason for my uneasiness, but it is alas too late... However, Wu still has Sun Ce. He shall carry on the will of his father and assume the great undertaking that the land requires of him. I am prepared to give my life in order to realize the ambitions of Wu. Let's go, Sun Ce! Now is the time for our ambitions to resound across the land!" -> Battle of the Wu Territory ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Urgh... How could this happen now? With the Wu territory under our control, our time was just beginning, but apparently the Heavens disagreed and Sun Ce was taken by illness... No matter how much I cry, it will not bring back Sun Ce. Now, I must serve Sun Quan as my new leader and work to help build up the Wu kingdom. First, we must go and get our revenge on the despicable Huang Zu at Jiang Xia for killing Sun Jian. The Kingdom of Wu shall yield to no man!" -> Battle of Xia Kou ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "After overcoming various hardships, Wu was able to make a play at bringing the land under its power. Now is the time for us to establish control over the central plains. The biggest obstacle in our way is Cao Cao. There are some amongst us who fear his strength and advocate surrender. But I am different. I say we go and face Cao Cao head on! My friend Sun Ce would never recommend yielding to Cao Cao. It is the obligation of all of us within Wu to continue the fight and carry on the will of Sun Ce's spirit!" -> Battle of Chi Bi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Zhou Yu's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Lu Xun [UM02] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Lu Xun ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am Lu Xun. Although I am still young, I shall give my best and continually strive to better myself for the glory of the Wu Kingdom. The other day, in the showdown with Wei and Shu, I said that we should not overly involve ourselves and instead focus on controlling the south. My lord agreed with me and we set out on a campaign to invade the south. If we want to rule all three divisions of this land, we must first suppress these foreign enemies and absorb them into our own forces. Let us show the land the extent of our power!" -> The Invasion of Nan Zhong ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Having conquered the south, it was time to wholeheartedly engage the three- way struggle between us, Wei and Shu. We decided to make our move with the capture of Jing. Just then, Guan Yu advanced his army on Wei's Fan Castle. Taking advantage of this opportunity, I proposed to Lu Meng that we join forces with Wei to defeat Guan Yu. The mere presence of heroes is enough to alter the threads of fate. I must use all of my wisdom to defeat the God of War, Guan Yu, and lead the people towards a land ruled by the Sun Family and Wu!" -> Battle of Fan Castle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "After defeating Guan Yu, things were just starting for Lu Meng, but he took ill and left this world. And there was so much more that I had hoped to learn from him... Based on a recommendation by Lu Meng, I was appointed to the role of commander. I have quite a legacy to fulfill, with Zhou Yu and Lu Meng having come before me... The responsibility is overwhelming. In my first battle as commander, I participated in the battle against Shu at Yi Ling. Certainly, Master Zhuge Liang has some sort of ingenious plot waiting for us. We must go and crush them with all of our might!" -> Battle of Yi Ling ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Following the battle at Yi Ling, Liu Bei departed this world without realizing his dreams. I foresee the strength of Shu crumbling without its virtuous leader to hold things together. Shu is trapped. So, our best move is to attack Wei. We shall go forth and strike the giant castle they built at He Fei and defeat Cao Pi. If the land is split in two between Wei and Wu, then it will be difficult for us to proceed. Now, while the land is still divided in three, is the time to defeat the looming threat of Wei!" -> Battle of He Fei Castle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "We, the people of Wu, emerged victorious at the decisive battle at He Fei. The Hero of Chaos, Cao Cao, along with the army that the built to realize his ambitions, have disappeared for good. Finally, we have come to the final battle for the land against Shu. Even though the enemy is certain to be planning strategies against us, there is no way that they can stop us now. If we can win this battle, the chaos that has long plagued the land shall come to an end. For the sake of those people that shall follow us, we must not lose this battle!" -> Battle of Bai Di Castle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Lu Xun's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Taishi Ci [UM03] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Taishi Ci ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am Taishi Ci. My lord Liu Yong controls these lands of Wu, but a man known as Sun Ce is after them for himself. The enemy is spread all around us. They appear to be intent on expelling us from these lands. I know what I must do. I must go and destroy them all. I hear that the enemy leader Sun Ce is very brave, and that he has a certain natural appeal that wins over anyone he meets... I must go and see if these rumors are true." -> Battle of the Wu Territory ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "In the midst of all the fighting, I met Sun Ce and decided to join him and help him realize his ambitions. However, shortly thereafter, Sun Ce was killed in battle. We must save the grieving for later... First, we must realize the ambitions that Sun Ce left behind. We must show those ambitions to a new world! Sun Ce's younger brother, Sun Quan, has taken over as ruler and I have started down a new path. With my might, I shall lead Wu towards unifying the land!" -> Battle of Xia Kou ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "We solidified our position at Jiang Dong and, together with Liu Bei, defeated Cao Cao's army at Chi Bi. We formed our own kingdom to fight for control of the land with Liu Bei and Cao Cao. And now, as per our agreement with Liu Bei, we are marching on He Fei. The Wei army is stationed there, so we can defeat them and take the land. Taking the lands of He Fei will be just as if we were launching a strike on Wei's main base. We must win this battle and realize Sun Ce's ambition!" -> Battle of He Fei ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> The Invasion of Nan Zhong ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "After numerous battles, the time when Wu shall rule over the land is near. With Shu gone, all that remains is our largest foe, Wei! Looking back, the time I spent with Sun Ce was quite short. However, Sun Ce's ambition and spirit continue to drive me forward even stronger than ever! Watch this, Sun Ce! Now, I shall use all of my might to build a new world! I shall be victorious in my quest to unit the land under Wu!" -> Battle of He Fei Castle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Taishi Ci's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Sun Shang Xiang [UM04] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Sun Shang Xiang ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am Sun Shang Xiang, daughter of Sun Jian. Growing up, I studied the martial arts right alongside my brothers. That surprises most people, but I'm very proud of my skill. These days, wars are breaking out all over the land. It's a tough time to live in, but it's also the perfect time for me to prove myself! I'm not going to just stay home any more while my father and brothers go off to fight. They raised me like a warrior, and that's exactly what I'm going to be!" -> Battle of Jing Province ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "First, my beloved father was fatally wounded in a battle with Liu Biao. And just as I was about to finally put it behind me, my brother Ce also passed away from this world... Luckily, my brother Quan was able to overcome his grief and become the next to lead our family. He joined forces with Liu Bei and defeated Cao Cao's fleet at Chi Bi. Now it's time to head for the battlefield again. I wonder who this Liu Bei is that is fighting alongside us? I hope I get the chance to meet him." -> Escape from Chi Bi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "After the battle at Chi Bi, my marriage was arranged to Liu Bei. He was a big help in saving us from the invasion by Cao Cao. I'm sure he and I would get along great together. However, just after I left to go to him, I was suddenly called back home. Then it occurred to me; I was being used in a plot against Liu Bei. I hope you can forgive me, Liu Bei. I really did have true feelings for you. I hope we can still meet again. I really do..." -> Battle of He Fei ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "We won the battle at He Fei. It was then decided that we should subdue the barbarian king Meng Huo in the south. Another battle... but I feel a little relieved. At least tensions have subsided with Shu, so we won't be fighting against Liu Bei for a while. Meng Huo's barbarians are said to share a strong sense of unity, but no one's as unified as we are here in Wu. They'll be no match for the Sun Family's strength!" -> The Invasion of Nan Zhong ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "We have settled the southern lands, so we will renew our conflicts with Shu and Wei. Once again, I will be forced to fight against my dear Liu Bei... Liu Bei has declared war on us over the death of his brother, Guan Yu. I understand the anger and pain he must feel, for I, too, have lost members of my family... We have no choice but to fight. I wish I didn't have to face Liu Bei, but no matter how I feel about him, my family will always come first!" -> Battle of Yi Ling ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Sun Shang Xiang's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Sun Jian [UM05] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Sun Jian ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "My name is Sun Jian. I have come from Jiang Dong, in hopes that I can help stop the chaos that has spread since the Han fell from power. A zealot named Zhang Jiao has started a rebellion with a gang he calls the Yellow Turbans. I have joined an army that was created especially to oppose him. But even if we defeat these rebels, I fear the land cannot return to the peace it once knew. If that is so, then I, Sun Jian, will create a new empire of my own!" -> The Yellow Turban Rebellion ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of Si Shui Gate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of Jing Province ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Just when we won a decisive battle in Jing, my family has been struck by tragedy. My son, who was watching over Jiang Dong, suddenly passed away. I've never known such pain as this. But I cannot let my grief overcome me. For the sake of my other two children, Quan and Shang Xiang, I must raise my spirits and continue to fight. We are currently hosting Liu Bei, a warrior of strong virtue. At his request, we are joining forces against our common enemy, Cao Cao. Soon we will be locked in combat at Chi Bi!" -> Battle of Chi Bi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "The battle at Chi Bi ended in victory for us. Cao Cao's power has been diminished, and Liu Bei took control of Shu. Thus the land has been divided among us three. Now, as we all vie for each other's territory, Liu Bei wants us to join him again in an attack on Wei at He Fei. I must admit, he is very cunning. There must be an ulterior motive behind his words. Still, Wu cannot pass up the chance to take He Fei. We'll continue to cooperate with him, at least for now!" -> Battle of He Fei ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "My army has achieved victory again at He Fei. However, we were unable to wipe Wei out completely, and ultimately we failed to gain any new ground. On the other hand, relations with Liu Bei have worsened. In a struggle for control of Jing, my army caused the death of his sworn brother Guan Yu. Enraged, Liu Bei is leading a vast army against us. Some man of virtue... He ignored his own principals to gain his land, and now he does it again to seek revenge. Alright then, Liu Bei... I shall put an end to your righteousness!" -> Battle of Yi Ling ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Liu Bei has died, possibly from the shame we dealt him at Yi Ling. Without its virtuous leader, Shu is sure to plunge into chaos. It will be left wide open to attack. We can conquer Shu now whenever we want. Therefore, the time has come to focus all of our energy on the last remaining threat, the Kingdom of Wei. Control of Wei has been passed on to Cao Pi, but he is said to be just as crafty as his father, Cao Cao. We're as ready as we'll ever be. Let's take Wei down for good!" -> Battle of He Fei Castle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "We have defeated Cao Pi, bringing our long conflict with Wei to an end. All that remains now is to clean up what's left of Shu, and the age of Wu will begin! Unfortunately, Shu has unexpectedly rebounded under the guidance of Zhuge Liang. Their defenses are strong, and they will be ready for our attack. Then again, I guess the final battle wouldn't be any fun if it wasn't a challenge! My family has fought hard to make it this far, and we won't give up until the entire land is ours!" -> Battle of Bai Di Castle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Sun Jian's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Sun Quan [UM06] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Sun Quan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "My name is Sun Quan. I entered this world as the second son of the powerful Sun Family from Jiang Dong... but all too quickly, I have become my family's leader. Both my father and brother passed away before their time... Thus I have become the head of the family, with no time even to mourn their passing. It is up to me to continue their legacy. My brother once told me that I was destined for greatness, and now, I must honor him by living up to his words!" -> Battle of Xia Kou ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "I have killed the wretched Huang Zu, thus taking my family one step closer to ruling the land. Father, brother, please guide us as we proceed down this ambitious path. Cao Cao is ahead of us in this race for power, and will probably attack our territory soon. He is dangerous, but Zhou Yu and I have decided to engage him in battle. We will also be assisted by Liu Bei, who has come to us on the run from Cao Cao. We will meet our common enemy and etch the name of the Sun Family into the annals of history!" -> Battle of Chi Bi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "By devastating Cao Cao's fleet at Chi Bi, we have managed to survive the greatest crisis of this chaos. News of our victory will surely spread to the far corners of the land. Following the battle, Liu Bei used our territory in Jing to launch an attack on Yi. He's a crafty one, alright. Now he wants us to help him strike He Fei. It looks like he's still terrified of Cao Cao. Well, he's come to the right place for help! We're not afraid of Wei, and we'll fight them anyway we can!" -> Battle of He Fei ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "We defeated Cao Cao again, but we were unable to gain any new territory. Now, Wei is increasing their defenses by building a great castle in He Fei. It was at this time that Cao Cao left this world. He was quickly replaced, however, but his son Cao Pi, who seems intent on restoring the kingdom's power. We must strike Wei again before it's too late. I am the son of a ferocious tiger, and I will take the central plains from the son of that snake Cao Cao!" -> Battle of He Fei Castle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "It was a long, difficult battle, but we have taken the castle at He Fei and delivered a crushing blow to Wei. The long conflict that started at Chi Bi is at least over. Only Shu stands in our way now, and they are led by Liu Bei's son, Liu Chan, a ruler known far and wide for his foolishness. Before long, all the land will belong to Wu! Father, brother, watch over me in battle! For you will see that your dreams have no died, but are on the verge of becoming reality!" -> Battle of Bai Di Castle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Sun Quan's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Lu Meng [UM07] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Lu Meng ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I'm Lu Meng. I'm currently serving beneath Lord Sun Ce. I've worked long and hard on improving my military skills and am always eager to prove myself in battle. Recently, Sun Ce has been doing his best to bring an end to the chaos that plagues the land. His ambition to unite the land under one rule is originally that of his father, the late Sun Jian. It is the duty of an officer to support the goals and ambitions of his lord! I have dedicated my life to help Sun Ce realize the land that his envisions." -> Battle of the Wu Territory ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "We established a base of operations after conquering the Wu territory. However, Lord Sun Ce passed away without fulfilling his ambitions. It is indeed a great pity, but we do not have time to mourn his loss. Sun Quan took over as our new lord and it was decided that we will fight Cao Cao at Chi Bi. This normally would be a tough battle, but it should be okay since we're teaming up with Liu Bei. The battle turned in our favor due to several complicated tactics which I still can't understand. I simply fight whoever they put in front of me, no matter what the odds!" -> Battle of Chi Bi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "We won the battle of Chi Bi! However, our commander, Zhou Yu, passed away shortly following the battle. After Zhou Yu's death, I was somehow put in charge of the army. I don't know if I'm capable of handling such important duties... I'm simply gonna have to train my mind as well as my body. Just as my lord requested, I read books and began to study. A true warrior must strive to improve himself in all aspects of life!" -> Battle of He Fei ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "I learned many things from the Battle of He Fei. In order to utilize one's strength properly, strategy is necessary. They are not opposing forces, one compliments the other. With this in mind, we proceeded to invade Nan Zhong. It was necessary for us to conquer these neighboring territories in order to defeat the two other kingdoms. It was Lu Xun who proposed this attack. He'll surely be the one to lead Wu once I am gone. I hope to teach him everything I know before then." -> The Invasion of Nan Zhong ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "The land of Jing is the most important territory among the three kingdoms. Whoever controls Jing will surely emerge victorious. We asked Liu Bei to return three of the territories in Jing that we loaned to him. However, Guan Yu denied our request and refused to leave. How dare they break the solemn oath between us?! Guan Yu is no God of War! He is simply a vile demon who has been tainted by the greed and chaos of the land! I shall deal with him myself!" -> Battle of Fan Castle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Lu Meng's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Gan Ning [UM08] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Gan Ning ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I'm Gan Ning. I used to be a pirate, but now I've decided to try and make an honest living and have gone to serve under Huang Zu. A while back, Huang Zu killed Sun Jian. Now his son Sun Quan is heading to Xia Kou to try to avenge his father's death. Huang Zu is scared and ordered me to go attack him. I know I'm being bossed around, but he does pay me quite handsomely, so I suppose this is the least I can do. Gan Ning to the rescue!" -> Battle of Xia Kou ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "I beat the pants off Sun Quan but that Huang Zu refuses to acknowledge it. I don't have to put up with this. I've decided to go and join Sun Quan. This Wu isn't such a bad place after all! The good thing is that there's always some kind of fight going on. Looks like our next opponent is Cao Cao. We pretty much won the battle at Chi Bi, so now all we have to do is chase down and capture Cao Cao. I'll go and trap him like the rat he is!" -> Escape from Chi Bi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "The land has been divided into three and each kingdom is looking for a chance to attack the other guy. I hate all this waiting. Can't we just go and finish this already? Now Liu Bei has come and asked our lord to attack He Fei. I'm pretty surprised though, since just looking at him, he doesn't seem like the type that likes to fight. Lu Meng, leave this one to me! I'll finish off both Wei and Liu Bei! I can't stand all this waiting, I'm just itching for a fight!" -> Battle of He Fei ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] ""We won big at He Fei. Next, we've decided to ally ourselves with Wei and attack Shu at Fan Castle. Yesterday's enemy is today's ally! Anything goes in times like this! But, I wonder if anything can be done about Ling Tong. He tried coming after me when we were fighting at He Fei... Well I guess it can't be helped. I did kill his father after all. But we're both Wu officers now. Maybe I should talk to him about this..." -> Battle of Fan Castle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "We won the battle at Fan Castle, but Lu Meng died. Even though we defeated Guan Yu, I don't feel like celebrating our victory... Looks like Lu Meng's hand-picked successor, Lu Xun, is finally ready. If we're going to be successful, we're going to have to fight harder than ever before. Our next battle is at Yi Ling. We just need to destroy Liu Bei and ride that wave of momentum towards unification of the land! Nobody can stop us now! Let's go!" -> Battle of Yi Ling ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Gan Ning's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Huang Gai [UM09] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Huang Gai ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am Huang Gai. Calling me a veteran is just a polite way of saying I'm old. Still, I'd like to see somebody younger than me try to accomplish half of what I can do. We live in turbulent times now. Those Yellow Turbans are causing unrest throughout the land with their looting and pillaging. This is where we come in. Let's go beat some sense into those bandits! If not to create a better world for future generations, then because it's still too early for me to retire!" -> The Yellow Turban Rebellion ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "We took care of those Yellow Turbans but a new menace soon revealed itself. This time it's a tyrant named Dong Zhuo who's causing trouble in the capital. Our lord quickly joined the coalition against Dong Zhuo and led us into battle. The result: Dong Zhuo was defeated and the name of our lord spread throughout the land. However, the chaos soon forced our lord into yet another battle. Let us go, my lord! We must bring an end to the chaos in the name of the Sun Family!" -> Battle of Jing Province ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Our lord was slain on the battlefields of Jing... His son eventually suffered the same fate while this old bag of bones still lives on... Fate can be truly cruel sometimes. However, I mustn't let despair overcome me. I shall carry on the spirit of Wu and make sure it's inherited for generations to come. I will defeat Cao Cao here at Chi Bi and lead the way to the central plains! Zhou Yu has entrusted me with an important role in this battle. I must live up to his expectations and bring victory to Wu with a wall of fire!" -> Battle of Chi Bi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "The victory at Chi Bi divided the land into three parts between us, Liu Bei and Cao Cao. We are making progress! However, the chaos soon forced our lord into yet another battle. We are about to attack the barbarians living in the south. The promising Lu Xun will be leading this attack. May this young new leader guide Wu to victory!" -> The Invasion of Nan Zhong ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "After conquering the south, we used that momentum to go on and defeat Wei. All that remains in our oath is the broken-down kingdom of Shu! Sun Jian, Sun Ce, and Sun Quan. I am proud to serve three generations of such fine warriors. There is no other officer more fortunate than I. Let us make the Sun Family's dream a reality by winning here at Bai Di Castle. My lord, let us get going. The land will soon be ours!" -> Battle of Bai Di Castle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Huang Gai's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Sun Ce [UM10] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Sun Ce ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I'm Sun Ce. I came up here with my father so we could take care of those Yellow Turbans. This is pretty bad... All the people are going crazy because of them. So this is what it means to live in chaos. I have to say I don't really like it, but it does give the Sun Family a chance to make a name for ourselves throughout the land! If we're going to fight, I'm not going to lose! Father and I are going to make it big together! Sun Ce's tired of waiting: let's go get 'em!" -> The Yellow Turban Rebellion ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "I took care of the Yellow Turban leader, Zhang Jiao! He he, now the world's sure to hear about the Sun Family. But the capital is still going crazy. That Dong Zhuo guy is running wild over there. We can't be having that, so my father and some others formed a coalition to bring him down. A battle wouldn't be complete without me in the middle of things. I'll take out that Hua Xiong at Si Shui Gate and make our family even more famous!" -> Battle of Si Shui Gate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "After we defeated Hua Xiong at Si Shui Gate, Yuan Shao and the others went on to the capital and eliminated Dong Zhuo. Man, why'd they go without me? After we all went back to Wu, we went and attacked Liu Biao in Jing. The fact that Yuan Shu asked us to do this for him bothers me, but oh well. I'm always more than happy to join a fight, but I've got a weird feeling about this one. Father, we might want to be a little careful this time." -> Battle of Jing Province ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "My father died due to an injury he suffered during our attack against Liu Biao... But I don't have time to be sad over this. I've got to lead Wu now that he's gone. I decided to make the Wu territory the foundation of our kingdom. I'm going to go after Liu Yong and, while we're at it, everyone else around there! My best friend Zhou Yu is helping me out big time. He's got more energy in him now than he did in Jing. Let's go Zhou Yu, the land will soon be all ours!" -> Battle of the Wu Territory ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> The Trials of Sun Ce ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Now that we've taken care of Yu Ji, we can begin our campaign anew. Our target is Jiang Xia and the coward who killed my father, Huang Zu. He'll pay for what he did! But my body hasn't been acting right lately... Ever since I fought with Yu Ji... It must have cursed me or something... But I don't have time to be whining about things like this. I have to get everything ready for my brother Quan to look after Wu when I'm gone!" -> Battle of Xia Kou ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Sun Ce's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Da Qiao [UM11] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Da Qiao ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am Da Qiao, daughter of Qiao Xuan. Right now, a group called the Yellow Turbans are terrorizing the land. Every day, I'm scared to even go outside. But, these days of living in fear are about to come to an end. All of the regional lords have met and decided to rid the world of the Yellow Turban leader, Zhang Jiao. I'm also going to fight in this battle to aid Sun Ce. I'm kind of scared, but I'll do anything I can to help him!" -> The Yellow Turban Rebellion ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Thanks to everybody's efforts, we put an end to the Yellow Turbans. On the battlefield, Sun Ce was so strong and fought bravely against them. He seemed to be having fun out there. Just when I thought we could relax, Sun Ce and all the rest have to go to battle again. This time, it's to stop the tyrant Dong Zhuo in Luo Yang. I couldn't bear to be separated from him any longer, so I begged him to take me along with him. I'll do whatever it takes to be with my Sun Ce!" -> Battle of Si Shui Gate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "We defeated a man named Hua Xiong at Si Shui Gate and saved Luo Yuang. Afterward, Dong Zhuo was defeated by the other regional lords. Just when we returned home to Wu, Yuan Shu asked us to slay Liu Biao for him. Yet another battle... It fills me with sorrow. Sun Ce is very serious about this next battle... It must be a really big one. I must be sure to do my best for him!" -> Battle of Jing Province ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Although we won the battle, our lord Sun Jian died from the wounds he suffered. He was such a nice man... It makes me so sad. Sun Ce overcame the death of his father and took over as the ruler of Wu. I always knew that Sun Ce was stronger than your average man. I wish I was stronger so I could help Sun Ce more. I want to end all this suffering... I will fight hard and do my best for him!" -> Battle of the Wu Territory ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Sun Ce conquered the Wu territory and has gone to attack Jiang Xia. The defender of Jiang Xia is none other than Huang Zu, the man who killed Sun Jian. He shall pay for what he did! But, there's something wrong with Sun Ce. He seems to be in a lot of pain... Perhaps he is tired from all of these battles he has been fighting. It's during times like these that I must be strong and support him! I will do everything I can to help him!" -> Battle of Xia Kou ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Da Qiao's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Xiao Qiao [UM12] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Xiao Qiao ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I'm Xiao Qiao. Um, my beloved Zhou Yu says he has to go to the capital to take care of some bad guy named Dong Zhuo. That's my Zhou Yu! He's so cool beating up all those bad guys. But whenever there's a war to fight, I'm always left behind. This is so boring... I know! This time I'll go with him! I'll go after him no matter what he says! He'll wish he had taken me along more often!" -> Battle of Si Shui Gate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Because everyone fought so hard at Si Shui Gate, that bad guy Dong Zhuo is gone. But it looks like there's still someone else we need to beat. Even though Zhou Yu looks serious about this battle, I think he's really happy... Because this time, Sun Ce's coming along with us! It's so fun working together with everyone! I'm going to go along and fight hard for Zhou Yu again! Right?" -> Battle of Jing Province ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "We managed to beat Liu Biao, but Lord Sun Jian died during the battle... I'm so sad. Everyone is so sad... Zhou Yu is so strong. When everyone is still feeling down, he was the first to overcome his grief and give his support to Sun Ce. I have to go help him cheer everyone up! Sun Ce says we're going to take back the lands of Wu that once belonged to his ancestors. I'm going to show everyone what I can do!" -> Battle of the Wu Territory ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "I can't believe Sun Ce is dead... He was okay during the battle... Zhou Yu isn't showing any tears, but he looks so... sad... Zhou Yu is working way too hard. He says he and Sun Quan are going to attack Huang Zu in Xia Kou. Huang Zu was the one who killed Sun Jian... Zhou Yu, I'm going to stay by your side. I know you're really feeling sad, but I'm going to cheer you up. So get better, okay?" -> Battle of Xia Kou ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Zhou Yu, you've always helped Sun Quan and now our kingdom is huge! That's why we're going to fight that man Cao Cao. According to Zhou Yu, this Cao Cao is a really mean guy that can't be left ignored. He was really mad... I wonder what happened? I'm not really sure, but anyone who makes my Zhou Yu mad makes me mad too! Let's go, Zhou Yu! Let's do this together!" -> Battle of Chi Bi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Xiao Qiao's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Zhou Tai [UM13] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Zhou Tai ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am Zhou Tai... I live to serve my lord Sun Ce with unwavering loyalty. I must set out for the Wu territory... Our enemy is Liu Yong... Shall we...?" -> Battle of the Wu Territory ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Liu Yong has been defeated. But afterwards, we lost Lord Sun Ce... We must overcome our grief. It is up to Sun Quan to carry out Sun Ce's will now... The battle will begin again... Shall we go for the sake of Lord Sun Quan..." -> Battle of Chi Bi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Wu has defeated Cao Cao... Now the land has been divided into three kingdoms... We must strengthen Wu's defenses... This has been decided by our strategist, Lu Xun. Now we are to attack the south..." -> The Invasion of Nan Zhong ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "The south has been won. Liu Bei is our next target... The battle will take place at Yi Ling. Lu Xun intends to execute a fire attack and wants us to hold out until then... He relies too much on strategy. If I must... I will open a path myself..." -> Battle of Yi Ling ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "We have won the Battle of Yi Ling. And afterwards, we defeated Wei at He Fei... With Wei eliminated, only Shu remains... This is the final battle... We will attack Bai Di Castle. If we are victorious, then the land will belong to us... I... will bring an end... to the chaos..." -> Battle of Bai Di Castle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Zhou Tai's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Ling Tong [UM14] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Ling Tong ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I'm Ling Tong, son of Ling Cao. Together, we joined Wu and now serve our lord Sun Ce. I'm here to fight for the unification of the land. The chaos is part of the reason why I chose to fight. I figured it'd be better to have a world of peace than a world of chaos, and I also figured we'd be the best ones to make it happen. Our first battle is going to be recovering the Sun Family's ancestral lands of Wu. We sure can't leave an important place like that all alone for others to take. Alright, let's go." -> Battle of the Wu Territory ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Just when we recovered the lands of Wu, suddenly Lord Sun Ce just up and died. How can he just go and die after forcing his dreams on us like that...? Well, you can't get anything done if you just sit around and be depressed. Sun Quan, our late lord's younger brother, became our new ruler. He took over where his brother left off, giving us a fresh start. The next battle is Xia Kou, home to Huang Zu, the man who killed Lord Sun Jian. Of course, he won't be alive after long... I'll make sure of that." -> Battle of Xia Kou ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "It was nice that we could avenge Lord Sun Jian, but now my father died during the battle. I'm not too happy about this at all. It's like one big sick joke. To make things worse, Gan Ning, the guy who killed my father, has joined Wu as well. I hope they don't expect me to get along with this guy! No one cares about how I feel and now we're getting ready for the next battle. It seems that we joined forces with Liu Bei and will be attacking Cao Cao at Chi Bi. Hooray." -> Battle of Chi Bi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "After the battle of Chi Bi, the land was divided in three, between Wu, Wei and Shu. Everyone's saying that it's going to be a three-way fight from now on. That's when that good-for-nothing Liu Bei asked us to attack Wei at He Fei. I don't know why, but our lord agreed to it. Why should we go and help them? Fighting battles for other people. To make things worse, Gan Ning is fighting in this one too. I don't feel too good about it but I guess there's nothing I can do about it either." -> Battle of He Fei ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "The Battle of He Fei ended in victory for us. But, I think something may have changed in me while I was out there. I was actually impressed with Gan Ning's efforts. He uses his head out there while he's fighting... Which makes me look even worse, I guess. I don't care for that too much either, but... I think I'm going to move on and forget about the past. It might even help my cause... Alright, it's time to get going and fight for the sake of our future!" -> Battle of Yi Ling ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Ling Tong's musou mode] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- OTHER [OTHM] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Diao Chan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [OM01] Lu Bu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [OM02] Dong Zhuo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [OM03] Yuan Shao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [OM04] Zhang Jiao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [OM05] Meng Huo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [OM06] Zhu Rong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [OM07] Zuo Ci . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [OM08] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Diao Chao [OM01] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Diao Chan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am known as Diao Chan. My adopted father, Wang Yun, is worried about Lord Dong Zhuo controlling the Imperial Court, so I have come to serve him as part of a plan. Father's plan... He is hoping to drive a wedge between Lord Dong Zhuo and his adopted son, Master Lu Bu, and get them to fight each other. This may be a slightly immoral path to take. But, I must repay the kindness that father has shown me over the years. I must go in spite of the darkness ahead..." -> Battle of Si Shui Gate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Eager off of their victory at Si Shui Gate, the allied army against Dong Zhuo advanced to Hu Lao Gate. Angered, Lord Dong Zhuo himself has marched out to battle. If Dong Zhuo is defeated in this battle, then my role shall be complete. But... that would remove Master Lu Bu's path of escape, and he would surely be killed by the enemy... Ahh, what have I done? This was all supposed to be part of father's plan... but now, I'm scared to lose Master Lu Bu." -> Battle of Hu Lao Gate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Following the Battle of Hu Lao Gate, I told everything to Master Lu Bu and together we defeated Lord Dong Zhuo. At last, father's plan has been realized. I have tricked Master Lu Bu... But he forgave me and told me that together, we could set out on our own path to find a life amongst the chaos. Perhaps Master Lu Bu is not the traitorous villain everyone makes him out to be, but rather, he is just too pure for his own good... In my eyes, I can see him in no other way." -> Battle of Chang Shan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "Together, Master Lu Bu and I wandered about and eventually stole Xia Pi Castle from Liu Bei. While it may not be just, Master Lu Bu did manage to get his own castle. Despite the fact that we defeated the villain Dong Zhuo, Master Lu Bu and I are being hunted down. Will we never be able to live a life of peace and quiet...? But I refuse to lament over this. In fact, the only thing that I wish for is a life together with Master Lu Bu." -> Battle of Xia Pi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Diao Chan's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Lu Bu [OM02] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Lu Bu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I'm Lu Bu! Right now I'm under the service of Dong Zhuo in order to prove myself as a warrior. He's taken me in as his son, but I'm not really sure I trust him. Currently, an entire army formed by the puny regional lords is trying to come and overthrow Dong Zhuo. So I've been ordered to go and take them out at the Si Shui Gate. I'm getting kind of sick of that guy always telling me what to do, but hopefully I'll get to fight someone who actually gives me a challenge. Well, I better get going." -> Battle of Si Shui Gate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of Hu Lao Gate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of Chang Shan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of Xia Pi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Lu Bu's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Dong Zhuo [OM03] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Dong Zhuo ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I'm Dong Zhuo. Right now, I'm trapped as a worthless imperial minister of the Han Imperial Court, but I got big dreams. I'm gonna rule this land and turn it into my own personal paradise! In my town of Xi Liang, some weird cult called the Yellow Turbans has sprung up and is making everybody crazy. I'll teach them to try and move in on my territory! They might try to use their stupid magic on us, but all we have to do then is get rid of their magicians. They'll all die eventually, so I don't care who goes first!" -> Battle of Xi Liang ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of Liang Province ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of Si Shui Gate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of Hu Lao Gate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Dong Zhuo's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Yuan Shao [OM04] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Yuan Shao ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am Yuan Shao, head of the famous Yuan Family. This land has grown wild and is rife with suffering. Therefore, I have taken it upon myself to restore the land to peace. First of all, I must defeat the heretic Zhang Jiao, who has stirred up trouble in my beloved land of Ji. I will crush him and all those who follow his wayward teachings. I am concerned about this large altar they have erected on the battlefield. We will have to destroy that before we attack their camp. Now, noble warriors, let us move!" -> Battle of Ji Province ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of Si Shui Gate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of Chang Shan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of Guan Du ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Yuan Shao's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Zhang Jiao [OM05] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Zhang Jiao ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am Zhang Jiao, leader of the Way of Peace. I shall guide my people with the teachings of the Heavens! Gather my children! Let us ring in the era of the Way of Peace! Dong Zhuo, you filthy beast. How dare you oppress my children in Xi Liang? I shall show you infidels the miracle that is the Yellow Turbans! Rise my children! This battle is but a trial given to test our resolve! With the Heavens on our side, we shall not know defeat!" -> Battle of Xi Liang ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of Ji Province ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of Nan Zhong ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> The Yellow Turban Rebellion ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Zhang Jiao's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Meng Huo [OM06] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Meng Huo ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I'm Meng Huo. Lately, the clouds to the north have been behaving a bit strangely. It seems that somebody wants to try and steal our lands of Nan Zhong. We must unite and be as one and protect our lands against these invaders from the north. Despite this, the southern kings are refusing to join together. We don't have time for this. I'll use brute strength to shut up those stubborn kings. I'll become the Great King of Nanman and get all of you to join together as one!" -> Struggle for Nan Zhong ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of Nan Zhong ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> The Invasion of Nan Zhong ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Conquest of Nan Zhong ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Meng Huo's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Zhu Rong [OM07] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Zhu Rong ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "My name is Zhu Rong. I am a descendant of the Goddess of Fire. Lately, I have heard rumors that the people to the north are planning on invading our land of Nan Zhong. Here in the south, we have always had separate kings for each region. There is no way we can join as one and oppose these invaders from the north in such a short amount of time. Dear, this is when you need to stand up for yourself! Be a man! You must strengthen your position and become a Great King to lead us all!" -> Struggle for Nan Zhong ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "My husband went and declared himself Great King. Ha ha... I knew he had it in him. Now if he would just carry himself with a little dignity... Anyway, yet another strange group of people have come to invade us. What is this? They all have yellow scarves wrapped around their heads. Do they think they're a bunch of baby chicks? Whatever the case, I don't care for 'em. It makes me burn with fury that these people just walk right in to another person's land and try to take it as their own!" -> Battle of Nan Zhong ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "It appears that we've gained a little fame after defeating those Yellow Turbans. But now, some folks calling themselves Wu have decided to come down and face us. Sure, I've heard of the great lands of Wu. If we win here, then my husband shall be known as a Great King without equal. We have to somehow make it through this! So, I wonder how Wu would like themselves cooked? Charbroiled over an open flame? I think I can arrange that for them!" -> The Invasion of Nan Zhong ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After battle] "After defeating Wu, we did have a moment's peace... But now, Shu has come from the north leading a large army to attack us. I'm sure that this battle will prove difficult to handle. But we have the greatest King of all time, my husband, on our side. The Great King of Nan Zhong, Meng Huo. Now that's a husband a girl can be proud of! Together, we'll protect this land from all those that would try and take it!" -> Conquest of Nan Zhong ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Zhu Rong's musou mode] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Zuo Ci [OM08] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ -> Legend of Zuo Ci ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am Zuo Ci. Following the suppression of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, I have come to the battlefields looking for a hero worthy of leading the land to a new era. From what I have seen, Liu Bei is capable of such a task. However, it appears that there is an even stronger individual out there... He is the one named Cao Cao. Is he the one that I have been searching for? I must meet him and find out for myself..." -> The Yellow Turban Rebellion ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of Hu Lao Gate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of Guan Du ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of Chang Ban ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Escape from Chi Bi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of He Fei ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of Yi Ling ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No after battle text] -> Battle of Wu Zhang Plains ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End of Zuo Ci's musou mode] _______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 06. FREE MODE [FREE] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Free mode allows you to play individual stages that you play as you progress through each characters musou mode. There are 34 total free mode stages, not all of which are available from the start. In order to unlock new stages on free mode you must play them in a musou mode. There's a few advantages to free mode. For one, it allows you to play any battle you want without having to go through several others if you wanted to play it in a musou mode. You can also select your difficulty before entering the battle - either easy, normal, hard, or chaos. This provides you with a better opportunity to get better items or bodyguards, as you have to option to choose harder stages and you can raise the difficulty level. Free mode is also a good way to improve on your characters stats and to max them out. Each stage has a difficulty rating - one to five stars. Obviously a one star stage is the easiest, and a five star stage is the hardest. Generally speaking the later stages in the game have higher difficulties, but this is not always the case. Use these difficulty ratings as a guide to what stages would be best for maxing stats and getting the best items and bodyguards. Most stages have two playable sides, some have only one, and only one stage has three playable sides. In this section of the guide I will cover basic strategies to easily beating each free mode stage. I'll include all information about what officers are in the battle, as well as the winning and losing objectives. One thing you'll need to realize is exactly where you start out on the map depends on what character you choose to play as. The way I'll walk you through each battle, it doesn't really matter where you start out, I'll tell you what your main objective will be and where to go from there. In case you're wondering though, when writing this section, I played all battles using Ma Chao, and on battles where Ma Chao was a designated officer I played as Lu Bu. Officers that have a star (*) next to their name under the enemy forces section are officers that are not there at the start of the battle, but either arrive as reinforcements or after certain criteria is met. O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | 180 A.D. - Battle of Xi Liang [XILI] | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | | | DONG ZHUO'S FORCES | YELLOW TURBANS | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | "The Yellow Turbans are terrorizing | "Aid your allies and protect the | | Xi Liang. Go defeat Zhang Jiao!" | altar from Dong Zhuo's Army!" | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DIFFICULTY | DIFFICULTY | | 2 stars (**) | 2 stars (**) | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | TIME LIMIT | TIME LIMIT | | 45'00"00 | 45'00"00 | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | VICTORY | VICTORY | | Defeat Zhang Jiao | Defeat Dong Zhuo | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DEFEAT | DEFEAT | | Dong Zhuo is defeated | Zhang Jiao is defeated or the altar | | | is lost | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | ENEMY FORCES | ENEMY FORCES | | Zhang Jiao | Dong Zhuo | | Zhang Liang | Hu Zhen | | Zhang Bao | Dong Min | | Deng Mao | Niu Fu | | Cheng Yuanzhi* | Xu Rong | | | Hua Xiong | | | Li Ru | | | Ma Chao* | | | Li Jue* | | | Guo Si* | | | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O DONG ZHUO'S FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This battle is pretty straightforward. Go towards the attack base right in front of you and capture it. Going inside will trigger a cutscene of a large log rolling in front of the bridge near your area. You'll see a battle message saying "Zhang Liang's sorcery is impeding our march!" So basically you can't use that bridge right now, but no big deal. Go over and approach Deng Mao and kill him. Now go over to the hill leading up to the next area. Once you get near it, Cheng Yuanzhi will appear and will start dropping rocks down the hill. Just dodge the rocks, run up and kill Cheng Yuanzhi. This will stop the rocks from falling down the hill, plus it will open up a path to the next area in front of you. Secure the enemy checkpoint while you're up there and continue towards Zhang Liang's unit. Take out Zhang Liang, this will cause the log to disappear and Dong Zhuo's unit will cross the bridge. Might as well take out the enemy base and checkpoint in this area as well. Now continue through the small connecting tunnel to the north and a phantom army will appear. Take out Zhang Bao to get rid of these guys, then secure the checkpoint and enemy base also. Now the only thing left to do is go kill Zhang Jiao, and you've won the battle. Ma Teng and Han Sui will join you after a little while to help you out, although I doubt you'll really need it. YELLOW TURBANS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ok first of all forget about the three enemy officers that are near where you start (Hu Zhen, Dong Min, and Niu Fu.) Head straight for the neutral base and run inside it to claim it as your own. Now you should see a message appear saying that Zhang Liang has been isolated and to lead him to the base that you just claimed, so let's do just that. Head over to Zhang Liang and enter the enemy base that he's in front of. Kill the guard captain to take the base, and you might as well kill Li Ru while you're there too. Taking the base will make Zhang Liang head back to your base, so follow him and escort him there. Once Zhang Liang makes it inside the rolling log will now appear, cutting off that route for the enemy. Now take out Hu Zhen, Dong Min, and Niu Fu. They shouldn't be too difficult. Ma Chao will probably show up as reinforcements right about now, he'll be in the same area as the last three you just took out. Let him suffer the same fate, and now make your way over to the other side of the map. Kill Xu Rong and Hua Xiong, and make your way up the hill towards Dong Zhuo. As you get near the enemy camp Li Jue will show up in the one enemy base, just take him out. Now go and take down Dong Zhuo to win. After a while Guo Si will arrive as reinforcements for Dong Zhuo, but the battle should be over before that even happens (unless your character is rather weak.) O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | 180 A.D. - Battle of Ji Province [JIPR] | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | | | YUAN SHAO'S FORCES | YELLOW TURBANS | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | "Capture the altar while defending | "Defend the altar and assist your | | against the sorcery of Zhang Jiao!" | brothers to defeat Yuan Shao!" | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DIFFICULTY | DIFFICULTY | | 1 star (*) | 3 stars (***) | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | TIME LIMIT | TIME LIMIT | | 60'00"00 | 60'00"00 | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | VICTORY | VICTORY | | Defeat Zhang Jiao | Defeat Yuan Shao | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DEFEAT | DEFEAT | | Yuan Shao is defeated | Zhang Jiao is defeated | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | ENEMY FORCES | ENEMY FORCES | | Zhang Jiao | Yuan Shao | | Zhang Bao | Yan Liang | | Zhang Liang | Tian Feng | | Pei Yuan Shao | Wen Chou | | He Yi | Guo Tu | | Bo Zhang | Ju Shou | | Cheng Yuanzhi | Yuan Xi | | | Yuan Shang | | | Zhao Yun* | | | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O YUAN SHAO'S FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For starters take down the enemy base to the left of the central path. Now go down the center path and kill both He Yi and Bo Zhang. Zhang Jiao will be praying at the altar, and will soon succeed in summoning a tornado on the hill leading up to the altar. Once that's done he'll start retreating to the main camp, just let me retreat for now. The tornado is small and easy to out run, so just run past it and make your way up the hill and to the altar. Once you approach the altar Pei Yuan Shao will increase the defenses around the altar, but all that means is just a few more easily dispatched soldiers. Kill Pei Yuan Shao to capture the altar and put a stop to the tornado. Now let's go help your buddies who are attacking along the other route. Make your way down the right path from the altar and head towards Cheng Yuanzhi. Might as well capture the two enemy bases along the way (the first one can be avoided, the second one you must at least go through.) Kill Cheng Yuanzhi and secure the enemy checkpoint. Eventually Zhao Yun will show up at the checkpoint here, take him down once he does. The quickest way to the enemy camp now is straight up and to the path on the right, where Zhang Liang is. But if you want Zhang Bao's dropped item, you can always go defeat him too. Either way just cut your way to Zhang Jiao and kill him to finish the battle. YELLOW TURBANS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Head straight to the alter and kill the defense captain to reclaim the alter. Now head up and defeat Yuan Shang and clear the northern area of enemies. Take down the enemy base while you're there as well. Soon you'll get a message saying that Zhang Bao is struggling, so head over to him to help him out. By this time Zhang Jiao should reach the alter and will start praying. Go defeat Yuan Xi to secure Zhang Bao's unit. Around this time Zhang Jiao will finish his prayer and summon a tornado at the central path leading up to the alter. However Yuan Shao's army will continue marching, and Zhang Jiao will have Zhang Bao come to the alter for more power. Just head down the central path and start taking out enemies while Zhang Bao heads for the alter. You'll run into Tian Feng; take him out. Keep advancing forward, taking out Yan Liang, Guo Tu, and Wen Chou. Soon Zhang Bao will increase the strength of the tornado, but at this point it shouldn't really matter much. You can either continue forward and just kill Yuan Shao to put an end to the battle or you can go finish off Ju Shou if your allies haven't by now. Either way the battle should be coming to an end fairly quickly. O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | 181 A.D. - Battle of Liang Province [LIAN] | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | | | DONG ZHUO'S FORCES | ALLIED FORCES | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | "Capture Ma Teng's base while | "Take Dong Zhuo's base and put a | | defending your own from the enemy!" | stop to the enemy army!" | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DIFFICULTY | DIFFICULTY | | 3 stars (***) | 1 star (*) | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | TIME LIMIT | TIME LIMIT | | 45'00"00 | 45'00"00 | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | VICTORY | VICTORY | | Defeat Ma Teng | Defeat Dong Zhuo | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DEFEAT | DEFEAT | | Dong Zhuo is defeated or the main | Ma Teng is defeated | | camp is taken | | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | ENEMY FORCES | ENEMY FORCES | | Ma Teng | Dong Min | | Ma Chao | Zhao Cen | | Pang De | Xu Rong | | Han Sui | Guo Si | | Yang Qiu | Wang Fang | | Liang Xing | Hua Xiong | | Cheng Yin* | Niu Fu | | Hou Xuan* | Li Meng | | Cheng Yi* | Dong Zhuo* | | | Li Su* | | | Li Ru* | | | Fan Chou* | | | Li Jue* | | | Zhang Ji* | | | Hu Zhen* | | | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O DONG ZHUO'S FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The first two things you'll want to do are take the enemy bases on the northeast and southwest corners of the map. This will prevent Cheng Yin and Hou Xuan showing up as reinforcements. While you're at the southwest base you might as well take out Liang Xing as well. Now all you really need to focus on is just defeating the remaining enemy officers in the middle and taking the last three enemy bases. Han Sui and Yang Qiu go down easy, so take them out first. Then get rid of the bases to lower enemy morale. Now it's time to take out Ma Chao and Pang De, who, annoyingly enough, are both in hyper mode. However neither of them get any kind of STAT+ perk or go into musou rage mode, so they aren't too hard to take out. After a little while Fan Chou and Li Jue will arrive as reinforcements for Dong Zhuo, which will help boost some morale in case you're having any trouble. Shortly after Cheng Yi will show up in Ma Teng's camp as reinforcements, so quickly take him out, which shouldn't be too much trouble. Now all that's left is to kill Ma Teng. ALLIED FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ma Chao will head for the southwestern base, and Han Sui will head for the northeastern base, but forget them, just do it yourself. Do take those two bases so your reinforcements can arrive. Take down Niu Fu and Guo Si while you're at it. Shortly after that's done Ma Teng will order you to secure Dong Zhuo's checkpoints to prevent their two reinforcements, Fan Chou and Li Jue, from showing up. So go do just that. Dong Min and Xu Rong are also near each of the checkpoints so kill them in the process. Now all that's left to do is take the two remaining enemy bases and defeat Hua Xiong. Dong Zhuo's main unit will arrive shortly. And then, shortly after that, Zhang Ji and Hu Zhen will show up in the southwest and northeast corners of the map. Quickly go take them out before they cause any trouble, then go finish off Dong Zhuo to end the battle. O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | 182 A.D. - Struggle for Nan Zhong [NANS] | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | | MENG HUO'S FORCES | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | "Defeat the opposing kings and unite the lands of Nan Zhong!" | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DIFFICULTY: | | 2 stars (**) | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | TIME LIMIT | | 45'00"00 | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | VICTORY | | Defeat Wu Tugu, King Duosi and King Mulu | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DEFEAT | | Meng Huo is defeated or the main camp is taken | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | ENEMY FORCES | | Wu Tugu | | King Duosi | | King Mulu | | Jinhuan Sanjie | | Dong Tu Na | | Ahui Nan | | Yong Kai* | | Gao Ding* | | Zhu Bao* | | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O MENG HUO'S FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Go forward and defeat Dong Tu Na and take the enemy base that he's right next to. Forget about Ahui Nan for now, we'll get him later. Go to the left side of the map and take out King Mulu. Be careful though because he has elephant and beast units all around him; in fact he's on an elephant himself. Once he's been taken care of go north and take out Wu Tugu and secure that enemy checkpoint. By now King Duosi will have pushed down to the area where Ahui Nan is, so let's circle around and hit them from behind. You might as well also secure that northern checkpoint on your way there. Take out both Ahui Nan and King Duosi while you're there. Thought it was over? Not yet. Now the Governor of Nan Zhong will attack you from the north. The victory conditions have now changed: now you must defeat Yong Kai, Gao Ding and Zhu Bao to finally win. So let's do just that. Go and defeat Yong Kai first, then Gao Ding, and finally Zhu Bao. Or in whatever order you wish, it doesn't really matter. O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | 183 A.D. - Battle of Nan Zhong [NANB] | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | | | YELLOW TURBANS | NANMAN FORCES | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | "Defeat the enemy and spread your | "Put a stop to the invading Yellow | | teachings to the Nanman people!" | Turbans once and for all!" | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DIFFICULTY | DIFFICULTY | | 4 stars (****) | 3 stars (***) | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | TIME LIMIT | TIME LIMIT | | 45'00"00 | 45'00"00 | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | VICTORY | VICTORY | | Defeat Meng Huo | Defeat Zhang Jiao | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DEFEAT | DEFEAT | | Zhang Jiao is defeated | Meng Huo is defeated for too much | | | respect is lost | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | ENEMY FORCES | ENEMY FORCES | | Meng Huo | Zhang Jiao (x2) | | Meng You | Zhang Bao | | Zhu Rong | Cheng Yuanzhi | | Dailai Dongzhu | Zhang Liang | | Wu Tugu | He Yi | | Jinhuan Sanjie | Bo Zhang | | King Duosi | Zhang Man Cheng | | Ahui Nan | Pei Yuan Shao | | King Mulu | Guan Hai | | Dong Tu Na | | | | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O YELLOW TURBANS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You don't really have much of a choice in the beginning except to go and defeat King Duosi in order to open up the two gates leading to the rest of the map. There is a small patch of land right where King Duosi is, go there to fight him, don't fight him in the poison swap (for obvious reasons.) His sub-general, Ahui Nan will be right there with him too, so be careful. After this is done Zhang Jiao will cure you and your allies of the poison and you will now be immune to it, and a few Nanman soldiers will join you. Also, the north and south gates will open. Let's take the south gate. When you enter the southern area Zhang Bao will convert some more enemy troops. Secure the two checkpoints in this area and take down King Mulu, but be careful because he's on en elephant and is surrounded by a few more elephant units. Now move forward and take the enemy base, and continue towards Dailai Dongzhu. Once Dailai Dongzhu is defeated, Zhang Bao and the units still at the poison swamp will probably be struggling, so let's backtrack and go help them out. Zhu Rong will be pushing them by this point. Defeat Jinhuan Sanjie, who should be hanging out up around there by now, and now let's go through the northern gate. Make your way through the north part of the map now, defeating Zhu Rong and Wu Tugu as you make your way back down to the enemy camp. Defeat Meng You and then Meng Huo to end the battle. NANMAN FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The first thing you have to do is go north and defeat Pei Yuan Shao and Zhang Jiao, who will be attacking your enemy camp along with some phantom soldiers. This is annoying because Zhang Jiao has commander defense, meaning he's going to take a lot of hits to kill. Luckily though, one of the soldiers in that ground with them will drop a musou rage token, so you can use that against him. Once Zhang Jiao is defeated the phantom army is disappear, and Zhang Jiao will show up back in the enemy camp. Then he will convert a bunch of allied soldiers near your camp, just quickly dispose of them. Once the area outside the main camp is mostly clear of enemies, let's head north and rescue Wu Tugu. Do this by simply killing Zhang Bao. Once that's taken care of continue along the path into the poison swamp area. Ignore pushing into the enemy camp for now, and continue through the south gate to go and save King Mulu, who is probably neck-deep in enemies right now. Kill Zhang Liang to rescue King Mulu, and if the enemy took control of the neutral base down there before you could get to it then take that down too. Now it's King Duosi who needs to be rescued up at the swamp. Must you have to do everything? Bo Zhang should be pushed out into the swamp area by now, so run up to him and hack him down to rescue King Duosi. Now it's finally time to push the enemy camp. Go through the enemy base and take it while you do. Zhang Jiao and Guan Hai will be right next to each other, so take down Guan Hai first, then Zhang Jiao to finish things up. O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | 184 A.D. - The Yellow Turban Rebellion [TYTR] | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | | | HAN FORCES | YELLOW TURBANS | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | "Defeat the evil sorcerer Zhang Jiao | "Protect the altar and defeat the | | and quell the rebellion!" | allied commander, He Jin!" | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DIFFICULTY | DIFFICULTY | | 1 star (*) | 5 stars (*****) | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | TIME LIMIT | TIME LIMIT | | 60'00"00 | 60'00"00 | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | VICTORY | VICTORY | | Defeat Zhang Jiao | Defeat He Jin | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DEFEAT | DEFEAT | | He Jin is defeated | Zhang Jiao is defeated | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | ENEMY FORCES | ENEMY FORCES | | Zhang Jiao | He Jin | | Pei Yuan Shao | Tao Qian | | Bo Zhang | Cao Cao | | Guan Hai | Dian Wei | | Han Dang* | Li Dian | | Zhang Bao | Sun Jian | | Deng Mao | Huang Gai | | Yan Zheng | Cheng Pu | | Zhang Liang | Liu Bei | | Gao Sheng | Guan Yu | | Zhang Man Cheng | Jiang Yong | | Cheng Yuanzhi | Huangfu Song | | He Yi | Zhu Jun | | Huang Shao | Gongsun Zan | | Zhang Yan | Gongsun Yue | | | Dong Zhuo* | | | Hua Xiong* | | | Dong Min* | | | Li Ru* | | | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O HAN FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Depending on where you start, you'll either take the left, middle, or right path first. It doesn't really matter, but basically you want to defeat these three enemy officers first: Zhang Bao, Zhang Liang, and Zhang Man Cheng. Zhang Bao will order a rockslide as you come up the left path towards the altar, Zhang Liang will summon a tornado that patrols the right path leading to the altar, and Zhang Man Cheng will turn Han Dang against you if he finishes his prayer. To stop all of these events, simply kill each individual enemy officer. Once those three are dealt with go take out He Yi. Kill one of the gate captains outside of the main castle to open the door. Once you step foot inside the castle you'll be greeted by a friendly phantom army. To get rid of these guys just go up onto the altar and destroy the four glowing goblet-like shrines. Now the phantom army is gone and all that is left to do is to go up to the platform above the altar and kill Zhang Jiao. YELLOW TURBANS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Since you'll probably start up by the main castle, the first thing you'll want to do is go forward and find Gongsun Yue. Defeat him so Zhang Man Chang can start dropping rocks along the western path. Now keep going forward and swing down through the area where Gongsun Zan is (ignore him for now) and head towards Zhang Bao. Kill Zhu Jun along the way. When you get to Zhang Bao, go onto the altar and stay up there with him for a few minutes. Clear our any enemy soldiers that come up onto the altar. After a minute or two Cao Cao will defect to your side. Now to do the same to Sun Jian's forces. Head down to Zhang Liang and do the same thing - remain on the altar with him for a few minutes until Sun Jian's unit is brainwashed. By now Huangfu Song's unit has probably pushed up pretty far to your castle, and may even be inside. So head north and wipe out his entire unit to take pressure off your main camp. After he's taken care of go hunt down and finish off Liu Bei and Gongsun Zan (Gongsun Zan might even be dead by this point depending on how well your morale has held up.) Once that's taken care of head down to the enemy camp to kill He Jin. However once you enter the enemy camp Dong Zhuo will appear by the enemy base on the western side of the map. In order to finish the battle you must defeat both He Jin and Dong Zhuo, so go do just that. O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | 191 A.D. - Battle of Si Shui Gate [SHUI] | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | | | ALLIED FORCES | DONG ZHUO'S FORCES | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | "Secure your supply route and defeat | "Crush the allied leader, Yuan Shao,| | Hua Xiong at Si Shui Gate!" | and shut up the allies for good!" | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DIFFICULTY | DIFFICULTY | | 1 star (*) | 1 star (*) | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | TIME LIMIT | TIME LIMIT | | 60'00"00 | 60'00"00 | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | VICTORY | VICTORY | | Defeat Hua Xiong | Defeat Yuan Shao | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DEFEAT | DEFEAT | | Yuan Shao is defeated | Hua Xiong is defeated or the Si | | | Shui Gate is taken | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | ENEMY FORCES | ENEMY FORCES | | Hua Xiong | Yuan Shao | | Niu Fu | Ju Shou | | Wang Fang | Sun Jian | | Zhao Cen | Huang Gai | | Li Jue | Zhu Zhi | | Li Su | Han Dang | | Guo Si | Liu Bei | | Xu Rong | Guan Yu | | Li Meng | Yuan Shu | | Hu Zhen | Ji Ling | | Fan Chou | Gongsun Zan | | Jia Xu | Cao Cao* | | Dong Min | Xiahou Dun* | | Lu Bu* | | | | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O ALLIED FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First, go up to the northeastern corner of the map and defeat Hu Zhen and take down the enemy base there. This will secure the supply line and raise morale. From here go down and clear out the center area of enemies. Guo Si, Jia Xu, and Dong Min should be here. Take all of them down as well as the enemy base right in the middle, and you might as well also secure the two enemy checkpoints. If Sun Jian's unit hasn't taken down the enemy base in the south, take it down for them so they can join the rest of your units in advancing to Si Shui Gate. Advance towards Si Shui Gate, and kill Li Jue sitting outside of it. Once you get close to the gate it will open, and Lu Bu will appear. You don't really have to fight him, you can always go down and around on the southern path to get into Si Shui Gate that way. But Lu Bu really isn't that hard. He is in hyper mode, and once his health is about halfway gone he'll get an attack x2 bonus. And finally when he has about 1/4th of his health left he'll go into musou rage mode, just run around and don't engage him during this time as he will be rather strong then and can easily kill you. Once his musou rage is worn off he should be easy to finish off. Li Ru's unit will show up a little later on in the south, go take him down if you want to. If not, all that's left to do is to push into Si Shui Gate and finish off Hua Xiong. DONG ZHUO'S FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Head straight to the base that protects the supply line (the base in the northeastern corner) and take it down. While you're up there you might as well take out Yuan Shu then. Now head back down to the central area and clear it out of any soldiers, sub-officers, and the enemy base that's there. Head south towards Sun Jian's unit, taking down the base that's blocking your path there. Then kill Sun Jian and his sub-officers, and secure the enemy checkpoint down there. Now go kill Liu Bei and Gongsun Zan, and take the remaining two enemy bases to decrease their morale even more. All that remains now is to go and defeat Yuan Shao. Eventually Cao Cao's army will show up in the southern path leading behind Si Shui Gate, but the battle can easily be won before this happens, unless you're not on a horse. O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | 191 A.D. - Battle of Hu Lao Gate [HLAO] | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | | | ALLIED FORCES | DONG ZHUO'S FORCES | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | "Evade the fearsome Lu Bu and defeat | "Prevent the Allied Forces from | | Dong Zhuo at Hu Lao Gate!" | invading Hu Lao Gate at all costs!"| |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DIFFICULTY | DIFFICULTY | | 1 star (*) | 3 stars (***) | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | TIME LIMIT | TIME LIMIT | | 90'00"00 | 90'00"00 | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | VICTORY | VICTORY | | Defeat Dong Zhuo | Defeat Yuan Shao | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DEFEAT | DEFEAT | | Yuan Shao is defeated | Dong Zhuo is defeated | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | ENEMY FORCES | ENEMY FORCES | | Dong Zhuo | Yuan Shao | | Dong Min | Ju Shou | | Zhang Ji | Tian Feng | | Jia Xu | Cao Cao | | Zhang Liao | Li Dian | | Li Jue | Cao Hong | | Wang Fang | Yue Jin | | Li Meng | Liu Bei | | Guo Si | Guan Yu | | Hu Zhen | Zhang Fei | | Zhao Cen | Jian Yong | | Xu Rong | Sun Jian | | Niu Fu | Han Dang | | Li Ru | Zhu Zhi | | Li Su* | Cheng Pu | | Gao Shun | Gongsun Zan | | Lu Bu* | Gongsun Yue | | Fan Chou* | Yan Liang* | | | Wen Chou* | | | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O ALLIED FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Where you start the battle with effect which path you initially take towards Hu Lao Gate. Either way, if you want to kill all of the officers here, you'll need to do a bunch of running around. If you start with Liu Bei's troops take the northern path up and kill Xu Rong and then take down the two enemy bases you'll encounter along your way. If you start with Gongsun Zan's troops then take the middle path and kill Niu Fu, go through the northern base and get to Hu Lao Gate that way. If you start with Cao Cao's troops, take the southern path to Hu Lao Gate, disposing of Li Ru along the way. Take not that if you take the southern path, once you enter the open area past the first enemy base you'll be ambushed by Li Ru's sub-officer, Li Su. Whichever way you get to Hu Lao Gate, once you're there you can go down the other paths to finish off any remaining officers and help lead all of your allies up to Hu Lao Gate with you. Outside of Hu Lao gate is Li Jue and Guo Si, so take them down. Catapults will start attacking you from up top on the castle walls, but there's nothing you can do about this. Once the gate captain guarding Hu Lao Gate is killed the gate will open and Lu Bu's unit will appear. Lu Bu is a bit stronger here then he was at Si Shui Gate, but he's still not that difficult to kill (at least not compared to prior DW games.) Lu Bu will be in hyper mode, will get an attack x2 and defense x2 bonus when about half of his health is gone, and will go into musou rage once about 1/4th of his health is left. Killing Lu Bu will open up the second gate leading you into Hu Lao Gate, but if you don't feel like killing him or aren't able to, then you can go around the path to the north and get into Hu Lao Gate that way. You'll run into an enemy base and Zhang Liao on this path, but he's much easier to defeat then Lu Bu. Once you're inside Hu Lao Gate just kill Dong Zhuo's sub-officers, secure the two gates, and then kill Dong Zhuo himself to end the battle. DONG ZHUO'S FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At the start of the battle you'll be outside Hu Lao Gate, being swarmed by enemies from all sides. There will be no officers here right now, but there are plenty of sub-officers that must be killed. Kill the following sub-officers: Cao Hong, Cheng Pu, Jian Yong, Zhu Zhi, and Han Dang. Check your unit info list if you're unsure of their current locations. By this point Yuan Shao will declare the gate impregnable and the allied forces will temporarily pull back. Now finish off clearing out soldiers in front of Hu Lao Gate, and make sure you secure all the checkpoints in the area to prevent an endless supply of enemy soldiers. Which path you take now to advance the enemy is up to you. You can take the southern path and take out Cao Cao, you can take the northern path and take out Liu Bei, or you can go through the central path and take out Sun Jian and Gongsun Zan. Either way, if you want to kill all of these officers you'll have to do a bunch of running around and some backtracking. Yan Liang and Wen Chou will show up as reinforcements for Yuan Shao later on in the southern area. By now most of all the other officers should be defeated, so add them to that list as well. Now just go march into the enemy camp and defeat Yuan Shao to win. O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | 192 A.D. - Battle of Chang Shan [SHAN] | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | | YUAN SHAO'S FORCES | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | "Keep pace with your allies and crush Gongsun Zan and Zhang Yan!" | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DIFFICULTY: | | 4 stars (****) | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | TIME LIMIT | | 45'00"00 | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | VICTORY | | Defeat Gongsun Zan and Zhang Yan | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DEFEAT | | Yuan Shao is defeated or the main camp is taken | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | ENEMY FORCES | | Gongsun Zan | | Zhao Yun | | Liu Bei | | Guan Yu | | Zhang Fei | | Zhang Yan | | Yu Du | | Zuozi Zhangba | | Gongsun Yue | | Yan Gang | | Qing Niujiao | | Huang Long | | Li Damu | | Guo Daxian* | | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O YUAN SHAO'S FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shortly into the start of the battle Lu Bu will charge into an enemy ambush along the western path. Once he does go kill Guo Daxian and Zhang Yan to rescue him. Now that you don't have to worry about Lu Bu running away let's go and clear out the middle path leading up to the main castle. There are three gates that you must make it through to get to the castle, each which has an officer guarding it. Kill Huang Long, Gongsun Yue, and Yan Gang to open the three gates. Take out any other sub-officers or officers that you run into along the way. Inside the main castle is Liu Bei and his two sub-officers, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. Take them all down as well, and then kill the gate captain who is guarding the final door leading to Gongsun Zan. Once the inner gate is open rush in and kill Gongsun Zan to end the battle. O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | 192 A.D. - Battle of Jing Province [JING] | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | | SUN JIAN'S FORCES | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | "Attack Xiang Yang Castle from three sides and defeat Liu Biao!" | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DIFFICULTY: | | 1 star (*) | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | TIME LIMIT | | 60'00"00 | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | VICTORY | | Defeat Liu Biao | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DEFEAT | | Sun Jian is defeated or the main camp is taken | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | ENEMY FORCES | | Liu Biao | | Lu Gong | | Kuai Liang | | Huang Zu | | Cai Mao | | Zhang Hu | | Chen Sheng* | | Su Fei* | | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O SUN JIAN'S FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This first thing you'll want to do is immediately rush Huang Zu and kill him. This will prevent Sun Jian from dying in an ambush. As long as you have a horse reaching him in time should be no problem. If not, then Sun Jian will fall into Huang Zu's ambush when he reaches the western gate of the castle. Not a huge morale crusher, so it's not really that big of a deal. Once that's been dealt with, go back to the central area and take out the two enemy bases. Now go take out Cai Mao to open up Xiang Yang Castle's main gate. Now go inside and kill Kuai Liang, Zhang Hu, and Lu Gong, all of whom are inside the castles main wall. If Sun Shang Xiang's unit hasn't pushed up along the eastern path and taken the enemy base by now go do that for them so they can join the rest of your allies in the castle. Kill the two gate captains guarding the castles inner gates, one is on the south side and one is on the west side. Now just go and kill Liu Biao to finish the battle. Eventually Chen Sheng and Su Fei will show up at the two checkpoints on the top eastern and western parts of the map. If you want their drops then go and kill them, if not I'd just head straight for Liu Biao. This battle is so easy you might even finish it before they show up. O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | 197 A.D. - Battle of the Wu Territory [WUTE] | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | | | SUN CE'S FORCES | ALLIED FORCES | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | "Use the neutral bases to gain | "Defend the lands of Wu from the | | complete control of the lands of Wu!"| invading Sun Ce Army!" | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DIFFICULTY | DIFFICULTY | | 1 star (*) | 1 star (*) | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | TIME LIMIT | TIME LIMIT | | 60'00"00 | 60'00"00 | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | VICTORY | VICTORY | | Defeat Liu Yong | Defeat Sun Ce | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DEFEAT | DEFEAT | | Sun Ce is defeated | Liu Yong is defeated | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | ENEMY FORCES | ENEMY FORCES | | Liu Yong | Zhou Yu | | Taishi Ci | Sun Quan | | Zhang Ying | Zhou Tai | | Yu Mi | Cheng Pu | | Chen Heng | Han Dang | | Xue Li | Dong Xi | | Yan Baihu | Jiang Qin | | Yan Yu | Sun Ce* | | Wang Lang | Sun Shang Xing* | | Zhou Xin | | | Fan Neng* | | | | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O SUN CE'S FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take the neutral base on the left, then go take down Chen Heng and Wang Lang in the fort to the south of it. Next go kill Xue Li and Yan Baihu in the fort on the right. Eventually Sun Quan will head towards Niu Zhu Fortress, and once he arrives inside he will be ambushed by Fan Neng. Quickly go defeat Fan Neng to save Sun Quan. Yu Mi will also head for Sun Quan, so take him down as well once he comes into the fortress. Now all that's left is to take the last fortress. Once you enter the fortress Liu Yong will abandon it and put Taishi Ci in command. So now in order to win you have to defeat Taishi Ci. Once you approach Taishi Ci you'll see a cutscene and he'll now be in hyper mode. Once about only 1/4th of his health is left he'll get an attack x2 bonus, but he still shouldn't be too hard to take down. Finish him off to win. ALLIED FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First go take out Cheng Pu, who is in the lower left hand corner of the map. Next head north and take out Han Dang and Jiang Qin. Now go and take down the enemy base in the middle connecting area. Clear out the group of enemy soldiers that are advancing towards the main fort through the central area. By this time Zhang Ying should have lured Sun Quan into the eastern fort and trapped him there. Zhou Tai will go try to help out Sun Quan, so kill him before he can reach him. Then take down Sun Quan while you're over there too. Sun Ce should show up around now. But first, go kill Dong Xi and Zhou Yu. Then once they're taken care of finish off the level by defeating Sun Ce. Pretty easy. O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | 197 A.D. - Battle of Wan Castle [WANC] | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | | CAO CAO'S FORCES | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | "Assist Cao Cao at Wan Castle and escort him to safety outside!" | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DIFFICULTY: | | 3 stars (***) | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | TIME LIMIT | | 45'00"00 | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | VICTORY | | Cao Cao manages to escape | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DEFEAT | | Cao Cao is defeated or the escape fails | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | ENEMY FORCES | | Hu Che Er* | | Jia Xu* | | Zhang Xiu* | | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O CAO CAO'S FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This map is just a very small castle, with two main parts separated by a wall that runs down most of the middle. When you start the battle there won't be any officers to defeat, and Cao Cao will be on the other side of the castle. Ignore the enemy soldiers and go meet up with Cao Cao. Once you do you'll get a battle message that says to head for the escape route with Cao Cao. Clear out all enemy soldiers in the area. Once Cao Cao advances south a little bit Hu Che Er will appear. Just kill him and all of the soldiers that he brings with him. At this point enemy soldiers will keep coming into the castle through three different entry ways, and there are no gate captains to kill so the supply is endless. As Cao Cao approaches the escape point Jia Xu appears to stop him. Cut him down so Cao Cao can go through the escape point. Once Cao Cao is through the escape point you'll see a message saying to hold off the enemy task forces until Cao Cao has escaped. What you're looking for is a regular enemy soldier who has the words "Task Leader" above his head. Two of them will appear at a time, one will always show up in the entry point at the very north section of the eastern half of the castle, and the other one will either show up in the southern entry point on the eastern half or the southern entry point on the western half. Either way, just wait around the entry point on the western half, this way you'll be able to see the task leaders coming no matter which one they come from. They'll make their way right to the escape point, ignoring you, so you need to take them out quick. It's actually not that hard to end up letting one slip through, especially if you're playing on a harder difficulty setting. If you let too many through, they will capture Cao Cao and you will lose. If you let at least one through, Zhang Xiu's unit will appear. Defeating him does not end the battle, however; Cao Cao must still have time to escape. After a dozen or so waves of enemy task forces you'll get a message saying that Cao Cao has successfully escaped and the battle will be won. O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | 198 A.D. - Battle of Xia Pi [XIAP] | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | | | CAO CAO'S FORCES | LU BU'S FORCES | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | "Surround Lu Bu at Xia Pi Castle by | "Break through the siege on Xia Pi | | taking the nearby bases!" | Castle and defeat Cao Cao!" | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DIFFICULTY | DIFFICULTY | | 1 star (*) | 3 stars (***) | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | TIME LIMIT | TIME LIMIT | | 60'00"00 | 90'00"00 | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | VICTORY | VICTORY | | Defeat Lu Bu | Defeat Cao Cao | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DEFEAT | DEFEAT | | Cao Cao is defeated | Lu Bu is defeated | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | ENEMY FORCES | ENEMY FORCES | | Lu Bu | Xiahou Dun | | Diao Chan | Yu Jin | | Chen Gong | Xiahou Yuan | | Zhang Liao | Li Dian | | Cao Xing | Liu Bei | | Gao Shun | Guan Yu | | Hou Cheng | Zhang Fei | | Song Xian | Cao Cao* | | Wei Xu | Zhu Ling* | | Yin Li | Guo Jia* | | Zhang Ba | Cao Hong* | | Yuan Shu* | Yue Jin* | | Yuan Yin* | Man Chong* | | Lei Bo* | | | Chen Lan* | | | Chen Ji* | | | Ji Ling* | | | Yue Jiu* | | | Liang Gang* | | | Li Feng* | | | Liu Xun* | | | | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O CAO CAO'S FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The main objective here is to break the flood gate, flooding Xia Pi Castle. To do this all you have to do is defeat Gao Shun, who is reinforcing the flood gate. At the start of the battle you'll see a soldier saying that Yuan Shu's army is on its way to the southern gates. Yuan Shu's army will show up as reinforcements only if you don't break the flood gate. But don't rush to do this, you have plenty of time. It takes about 12 minutes for Gao Shun to fully reinforce the flood gates, so you don't need to go rushing straight to him. If you start at the southern area by Liu Bei, head forward and capture the two enemy bases and secure the three checkpoints. Yin Li is also down there, just waiting to be slain. Once that's taken care of head back up north by Cao Hong and Xiahou Dun and take down that enemy base and the checkpoint. Unless you want an extra attack +2 stat boost, don't even bother crossing that bridge and defeating Song Xian and all those enemies on the west side of Xia Pi Castle. You'll see why in a minute. Instead, just head north up to Xiahou Yuan and help him out by killing Zhang Ba. Now head east and take out Cao Xing, Zhang Liao, the enemy base and the two checkpoints. If you're nearing the 10 minute mark just head for Gao Shun first, but unless you're doing this on foot that shouldn't be an issue. Once all that is done, however, there isn't much left to do except take out Gao Shun. You won't be able to gain access to Xia Pi Castle if the flood gates are being reinforced. So kill Gao Shun and flood the castle. This will cause soldiers from Lu Bu's army to open the north gate. Time to storm the castle. When the castle floods, any units in the western portion of the castle will be killed. This includes allied units. That's why I told you not to even bother going for Song Xian and that enemy base - they just get wiped out anyway. Hou Cheng should also be killed by the floods. Shortly after, Wei Xu will surrender to your forces. So that just leaves Lu Bu and his two sub- officers to kill. Lu Bu isn't too tough, but he is in hyper mode. Also, he will go into musou rage after about half of his health is gone. Once he has about 1/4th of his health left he'll attempt to flee. Don't let him escape, just cut him down. LU BU'S FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Once you start the battle the castle will be flooded, how lame is that? Oh well, head south and kill Zhang Fei for starters. Now continue to the west and take the southern bridge to meet up with Guan Yu. Kill him, and then secure the checkpoint that he was near. Around this time Hou Cheng will start crying out for someone to come rescue him. Before you do that, quick take the enemy base in front of your position. Now go find Xiahou Yuan, who will be charging Hou Cheng's unit, and kill him to rescue Hou Cheng. Now the only other people left to kill are Liu Bei and Xiahou Dun. Once all of those enemy officers are dead, Cao Cao and Cao Hong will arrive. Cao Cao will show up in the southwestern corner of the map and Cao Hong will show up in the northeastern corner. If you want some additional points then go and defeat Cao Hong, but since you're most likely already right by Cao Cao's location you could just go over to him and finish the battle right away. O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | 200 A.D. - Battle of Guan Du [GUAN] | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | | | CAO CAO'S FORCES | YUAN SHAO'S FORCES | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | "Wait for an opportunity to attack | "Use your military strength to | | and defeat Yuan Shao!" | defeat your nemesis, Cao Cao!" | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DIFFICULTY | DIFFICULTY | | 4 stars (****) | 1 star (*) | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | TIME LIMIT | TIME LIMIT | | 90'00"00 | 90'00"00 | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | VICTORY | VICTORY | | Defeat Yuan Shao | Defeat Cao Cao | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DEFEAT | DEFEAT | | Cao Cao is defeated or Guan Du | Yuan Shao is defeated | | Castle is taken | | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | ENEMY FORCES | ENEMY FORCES | | Yuan Shao | Cao Cao | | Tian Feng | Guo Jia | | Guo Tu | Jia Xu | | Ju Shou | Cheng Yu | | Zhang He | Xiahou Dun | | Gao Lan | Cao Zhang | | Zhen Ji | Cao Pi | | Liu Bei | Yu Jin | | Jian Yong | Guan Yu | | Yan Liang | Li Dian | | Han Meng | Song Xian | | Wen Chou | Wei Xu | | Lu Wei Kuang | Yue Jin | | Yuan Tan | Zhu Ling | | Gao Gan | Liu Yan | | Xun Chen | Xun You | | Yuan Xi | Cao Hong | | Lu Kuang | Han Hao | | Yuan Shang | | | Lu Xiang | | | Chunyu Qiong | | | | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O CAO CAO'S FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Focus on taking out the three enemy bases on your side of the river first. Guan Yu will kill Yan Liang's unit on the right side of the map, so don't worry about that. After seeing Liu Bei Guan Yu will withdraw from the battle, but it's no big loss, at least he actually killed someone and was useful. Start pushing across the river into the enemies territory. Take down the enemy base on the front line on the left side of the map, and then take out Zhen Ji, who is near that base, as well. Wen Chou, Yuan Xi, and Yuan Shang will start advancing on your lines. Go kill them all to eliminate their threat. After a little bit Yuan Shao will open up Wu Chao to deliver supplies to the front line. Now is your time to strike. Rush into Wu Chao and slay Chunyu Qiong to set fire to the supplies. This will turn the tide of battle in your face, and Cao Cao will order his army to start marching. Now all that there is left to do is to kill Zhang He, Liu Bei, Yuan Tan, and finally Yuan Shao. YUAN SHAO'S FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This first thing I suggest you do is head straight for Guan Yu right away and kill him. If you allow him to run around and do his thing he'll end up killing Yan Liang and Wen Chou. Now go over to the right and kill Liu Yan and Cao Hong to take Bai Ma Castle. Now when you go approach the castle Siege towers will appear. Go take the remaining four enemy bases so your units can start advancing towards the castle. Siege towers will probably start getting destroyed, but don't worry about it. Just kill the remaining officers hanging around outside of the castle - Xiahou Dun, Cao Pi, Li Dian, and Yue Jin. After all this, soldiers from inside the castle will open the east and west gates. Now storm inside and kill Cao Cao to finish the battle. O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | 200 A.D. - Guan Yu's Escape [ESCP] | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | | | CAO CAO'S FORCES | GUAN YU'S FORCES | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | "Do not let Guan Yu and the carriage | "Clear each of the gates and escort | | escape from your grasp!" | the carriage to safety!" | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DIFFICULTY | DIFFICULTY | | 3 stars (***) | 4 stars (****) | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | TIME LIMIT | TIME LIMIT | | 45'00"00 | 45'00"00 | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | VICTORY | VICTORY | | Defeat Guan Yu | Carriage reaches the escape point | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DEFEAT | DEFEAT | | Xiahou Dun is defeated or Carriage | Guan Yu is defeated or Carriage is | | reaches the escape point | destroyed | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | ENEMY FORCES | ENEMY FORCES | | Guan Yu | Zhang Liao | | Zhou Cang | Xu Huang | | Liao Hua | Xu Zhu | | Zhao Yun | Kong Xiu | | Guan Ping | Han Fu | | Zhang Fei | Wang Zhi | | Liu Bei | Bian Xi | | Carriage | Qin Qi | | | Xiahou Dun* | | | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O CAO CAO'S FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This battle can be won very quickly, considering that Guan Yu starts out pretty close to you. As long as you're on a horse you'll be able to reach him before he starts advancing through the second gate. You'll run into Liao Hua and Zhou Cang before Guan Yu, it's up to you if you want to defeat them or not. Guan Yu will be waiting by the second gate along with the carriage. Just take Guan Yu down right away, he'll be in hyper mode but he isn't too tough. He'll get an attack x2 bonus once his health is knocked down far enough. One last tip: if you're not going to go straight for Guan Yu and you wish to take out all of the other officers first, do NOT destroy the carriage. Doing so will send ALL of the other officers into hyper mode, and they'll be just that much more annoying to dispose of. GUAN YU'S FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This map is very straightforward, all you really have to do is just go through a series of gates, each of which is guarded by an enemy officer. To open the gate, just defeat the officer. There is just one thing you must be aware of: the carriage. Make sure you protect it, and if you're going off ahead and leaving Guan Yu and the carriage behind, make sure you kill ALL enemies on your way, that way they don't damage the carriage while you're 50 miles ahead of it. It's actually not that hard to lose this level via the carriage being destroyed, especially on harder difficulties as it doesn't take many hits to take it down. And do NOT count on Guan Yu to protect the carriage (if you're not playing as him, obviously) because he won't. Ok first go kill Zhang Liao. After you knock down about 1/4th of his health he'll start to run away, kill him before he can get through the southern gate for a nice +4 attack boost. Now go kill Kong Xiu to open up the first gate. Go kill the first guard captain, he'll drop a musou rage token. Now go take down Han Fu to open the second gate. Take down the next guard captain, and go kill Bian Xi to open the third gate. Xu Huang will be behind this gate, so use your musou rage token and take him out. The reason I'm telling you to use the token now is because you see that next guard captain just a few feet ahead? Killing him will drop you another musou rage token. Pick it up and go kill Wang Zhi to open the fourth gate. Once the fourth gate is open Xiahou Dun's unit will appear all the way back at the starting point, just ignore him for now and continue forth. Xu Zhu will be behind the fourth gate, use your musou rage token and quickly kill him. Now go secure the last checkpoint and go kill Qin Qi who is by the last gate. But what is this, killing him doesn't open the last gate? Xiahou Dun yells at you to go face him, so in order to open this gate that's just what you'll have to do. But before you do, smash open the crates to the left of the last gate, right by the archer tower. In here is another musou rage token, let's use this one for Xiahou Dun - you'll need it. Backtrack and meet up with Xiahou Dun. He will be in hyper mode, and once he's at about 50% health he'll go into musou rage. Just dodge him while he's in musou rage mode, then once he's returned to normal go back to pounding on him. If you get low on health there's plenty of urns scattered about the map, usually by the gates. But he isn't too difficult, despite this being a four star stage. Kill him to open the fifth and final gate, and let the carriage reach the escape point to win. O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | 200 A.D. - The Trials of Sun Ce [SUNC] | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | | SUN CE'S FORCES | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | "See through the mystic Yu Ji's trickery and illusions to defeat him!" | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DIFFICULTY: | | 4 stars (****) | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | TIME LIMIT | | 45'00"00 | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | VICTORY | | Defeat Yu Ji | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DEFEAT | | Sun Ce is defeated | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | ENEMY FORCES | | Yu Ji (all phantoms except for his last appearance) | | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O SUN CE'S FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a weird one. You're inside a small castle with the odd Yu Ji, who will summon a bunch of phantoms of himself as well as an endless supply of soldiers. First kill the phantom Yu Ji that's right behind you when you start the battle. After he's dead three more phantoms will appear. Go kill one of them, I usually just rush the guy to the left and kill him. After he's dead another Yu Ji will appear to the south, this time with a phantom army surrounding him. Obviously you can't kill the phantoms, so just gun for Yu Ji. Once you start hitting him he'll disappear and declare that "the real me is over here". So go hit the new Yu Ji only to have the same thing happen again. Go try to kill him one last time. Yet again another phantom Yu Ji will appear, go kill him to get rid of the phantom army. Now Yu Ji will turn Sun Ce's army against him, and from now on you'll be facing an endless horde of Wu soldiers. Kill 50 soldiers for a new batch of phantom Yu Ji's to appear. Kill all three of them. Now Yu Ji will use his "secret weapon" - which is apparently summoning a fake Sun Jian and Da Qiao to attack you. Dispatch of these two illusions and now 8 (!) phantom Yu Ji's will appear. As you kill these phantoms Yu Ji will make any remaining ones stronger. Eventually, after you've killed enough of the phantoms the real Yu Ji will appear at the southern area of the map. Any remaining phantoms still alive will now be put into hyper mode. Ignore the remaining phantoms and head straight for the real Yu Ji to put an end to this annoying battle. O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | 208 A.D. - Battle of Xia Kou [XKOU] | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | | | SUN QUAN'S FORCES | HUANG ZU'S FORCES | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | "Use the docks to defeat Huang Zu | "Protect the docks and Cai Mao so | | along the Chang Jiang!" | that your fleet may crush Wu!" | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DIFFICULTY | DIFFICULTY | | 1 star (*) | 1 star (*) | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | TIME LIMIT | TIME LIMIT | | 60'00"00 | 60'00"00 | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | VICTORY | VICTORY | | Defeat Huang Zu | Defeat Sun Quan | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DEFEAT | DEFEAT | | Sun Quan is defeated | Huang Zu is defeated | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | ENEMY FORCES | ENEMY FORCES | | Huang Zu | Sun Quan | | Deng Long | Lu Su | | Kuai Liang | Zhou Yu | | Chen Jiu | Xu Sheng | | Su Fei | Taishi Ci | | Cai Mao | Ling Tong | | Liu Qi | Zhou Tai | | Zhang Hu | Chen Wu | | Lu Gong | Dong Xi | | Chen Sheng | Han Dang | | Wen Pin | Cheng Pu | | Li Yan | Ling Cao | | Gan Ning* | | | | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O SUN QUAN'S FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Start advancing up either the left or right side, whichever side you start on. Your first objective here is to kill Cai Mao and Wen Pin before the head off on the boats. Since it takes a good deal of time for them to do this, this isn't a very hard task. When Ling Cao steps foot on the small island area on the left side of the map he will be ambushed by Gan Ning's unit and instantly killed. There is nothing you can do to prevent this. Gan Ning will be in hyper mode and will advance on Ling Tong; kill him before he can do any more damage to your forces. Gan Ning will get an attack x2 and a speed x2 bonus when he gets low on health, and when he's really low he'll go into musou rage. You should have Ling Tong's unit there to help you out though, so at least you'll have some help. Once that's taken care of go kill Wen Pin and Cai Mao. Take the two enemy bases in the central area as well. Now go help your forces push up on whatever side you didn't start out on. Advance on the castle on the right side of the map, killing Lu Gong and Li Yan. Su Fei will move up to guard the short cut (the right side) so kill him along the way. Now kill Kuai Liang and the gate captain on the right side of the castle to gain entrance. Once you're inside just kill Huang Zu to win. HUANG ZU'S FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First clear out the units pushing your main camp. This includes Cheng Pu, Dong Xi and Taishi Ci. I suggest going for Cheng Pu first. Once he's dealt with take down the enemy base that he starts near. By this time Taishi Ci should have pushed up to you, so go kill him. Now go down to the middle area and clear it out of all enemies so Cai Mao can launch the boats. Kill Ling Cao, and take the enemy base. Now it's time to clear out the enemies on the left side. First take out Dong Xi and the enemy base that's in front of him. Don't worry about the wimpy soldiers that have pushed up beyond the base, your allies will take care of them so long as Dong Xi is dead. Now head south and kill Ling Tong. Since his poor daddy is dead he'll be in hyper mode, so it will take a little extra work to kill him. When about 1/4th of his health is gone he'll get a defense x2 bonus, which makes killing him even more annoying. And then once he has about 1/4th of his health left he'll substitute the defense x2 with an attack x2. Once he's dead continue south and kill Zhou Tai, then head into the main camp and take down Sun Quan to win the battle. If you want you can skip over Quan for now and go kill Han Dang and Zhou Yu for some extra stat boosting items. If not then just head straight for Sun Quan. O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | 208 A.D. - Battle of Chang Ban [CBAN] | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | | | CAO CAO'S FORCES | LIU BEI'S FORCES | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | "Crush the pathetic enemy officers | "Delay the enemy pursuit and allow | | and defeat the fleeing Liu Bei!" | Liu Bei to escape to safety!" | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DIFFICULTY | DIFFICULTY | | 2 stars (**) | 3 stars (***) | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | TIME LIMIT | TIME LIMIT | | 60'00"00 | 60'00"00 | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | VICTORY | VICTORY | | Defeat Liu Bei | Defeat Cao Cao or Liu Bei reaches | | | the escape point | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DEFEAT | DEFEAT | | Cao Cao is defeated or Liu Bei | Liu Bei is defeated | | reaches the escape point | | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | ENEMY FORCES | ENEMY FORCES | | Liu Bei | Xiahou Dun | | Mi Fang | Wen Pin | | Mi Zhu | Yu Jin | | Zhao Yun | Xiahou En | | Zhang Fei | Li Dian | | Zhuge Liang | Zhu Ling | | Sun Qian | Cao Hong | | Liao Hua | Liu Yan | | Zhou Cang | Xu Huang* | | Guan Yu* | Han Hao* | | Jian Yong* | Cao Zhang* | | Liu Qi* | Cheng Yu* | | | Jia Xu* | | | Jia Kui* | | | Yue Jin* | | | Cao Cao* | | | Xun Yu* | | | Xun You* | | | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O CAO CAO'S FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First go kill Zhao Yun before he can meet up with Liu Bei, he'll be at your base and will be completely separated from his allies. He is in hyper mode, but is completely by himself, so he shouldn't be too hard to kill. Now go head over to Zhang Fei and kill him (he'll probably have given up his post at the bridge by now.) You'll fall into Zhuge Liang's ambush, but that's no big deal. Kill Zhang Fei and the two sub generals, Sun Qian and Mi Fang, in the area. Now go over and defeat Liao Hua. Make your way south and take out the enemy base as you pass through it. In this center area of the map is where Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang are probably currently waiting. Zhou Cang will probably be pushed up a little further by the one enemy base straight ahead of you. Liu Bei will wait in this area until Guan Yu arrives with reinforcements at the docks. It's up to you if you want to wait to defeat Liu Bei or take him out now. If you continue to wait to defeat him even after Guan Yu appears, eventually Liu Qi will appear with the escape point and Liu Bei will start heading to it. That's when you have to start moving quick to kill Liu Bei before he reaches the escape point. When you decide to kill him is up to you, just don't wait too long. LIU BEI'S FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unless you're playing as Zhao Yun and you've spawned all the way back in the enemies main camp, I suggest you start taking some of those neutral bases. Do not worry about the north-most neutral base, as Zhuge Liang's unit will occupy that base. Go take the southern base right below that one, and the next two bases as the path splits into two. The enemy will take the other two western bases, and don't worry about the two bases along the southern trail for now. Once this is done head over to Cao Hong and defeat him, then head north from there and take that enemy base. Now continue heading north to the area where Zhuge Liang's task unit is preparing the fire attack. Li Dian will be in pursuit of them, so defeat him before he can kill them. Hang around this area and protect the task leaders. Might as well secure the enemy checkpoint while you're here. Once the area is cleared and the task leaders look safe, you can head over to the right to the enemy base and take that down awhile. Yu Jin will probably have pushed down into this area by now, so kill him as well. After a little while Zhuge Liang's fire attack will be successful. By this time Xiahou Dun should have pushed up to the northeastern corner of the map, so head up there and kill him. If you've been following me so far then all of the enemy officers will be dead now, and Xu Huang and Cao Zhang will show up as reinforcements. Cao Zhang will be near where Xiahou Dun was and will come right to you if you just stay where you are, so just wait there for him and once he comes take him out. I suggest leaving Xu Huang alive for now, and head down to the south and take the last two neutral bases. The reason I say to leave Xu Huang alive is because if you kill him now then Jia Xu will arrive at the south and will take the two neutral bases before you can. Guan Yu should arrive as reinforcements shortly, if he hasn't by now. Now Liu Bei will start moving and once he arrives at the docks near where Guan Yu is he will wait for the peasants to flee. With the two southern neutral bases now yours you can go and kill Xu Huang while you wait. This will cause Jia Xu to arrive at the south, so go down and kill him now. Might as well wipe the whole area down there clear of enemies to provide a nice and easy path for Liu Bei. After all of the peasants have fled Liu Qi will appear with the escape point. Now Liu Bei will start heading for the escape point. Shortly after this Cao Cao's main force will arrive in the north. If you want you can go kill him, or you can just wait for Liu Bei to reach the escape point and win that way. Depending on where you are on the map and how strong your character is, he might just end up escaping before you can kill Cao Cao anyway. O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | 208 A.D. - Battle of Chi Bi [CHIB] | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | | | CAO CAO'S FORCES | ALLIED FORCES | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | "A battle on ships. Overcome their | "A battle on ships. Use a variety | | trickery and defeat their leader!" | of tactics to defeat Cao Cao!" | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DIFFICULTY | DIFFICULTY | | 2 stars (**) | 5 stars (*****) | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | TIME LIMIT | TIME LIMIT | | 90'00"00 | 90'00"00 | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | VICTORY | VICTORY | | Defeat Sun Quan | Defeat Cao Cao | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DEFEAT | DEFEAT | | Cao Cao is defeated | Sun Quan is defeated | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | ENEMY FORCES | ENEMY FORCES | | Zhou Yu | Cao Cao | | Ding Feng | Jia Xu | | Zhang Cheng | Xiahou Yuan | | Zhu Zhi | Zhu Ling | | Zhou Tai | Cai Mao | | Zhu Ran | Zhen Ji | | Han Dang | Yu Jin | | Chen Wu | Xu Shu | | Zhuge Liang | Cao Pi | | Cheng Pu | Yue Jin | | Quan Zong | Cheng Yu | | Zhu Huan | Zhang Liao | | Pan Zhang | Wen Pin | | Xu Sheng | Xun You | | Jiang Qin | Cao Hong | | Pang Tong* | Wang Lang | | Huang Gai* | Man Chong | | Zhuge Jin* | Chao Zhen | | Dong Xi* | Cao Xiu | | Sun Quan* | | | Lu Su* | | | | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O CAO CAO'S FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The main thing you have to do here is prevent the fire attack. First wait for Pang Tong to defect to the enemy forces, then go kill him. He'll defect after just a few seconds into the battle. Next go over to Zhuge Liang and kill him; might as well kill Pan Zhang while you're over there too. Killing Zhuge Liang will prevent the wind from being summoned. Now head along the southern chain of ships to where Zhou Yu is and kill him. Go a few ships forward to the large ship where Zhou Tai is and Huang Gai will appear. Now all you have to do to prevent the fire attack is kill Huang Gai. This is easier said than done, however, since Huang Gai is in hyper mode, will be surrounded by a large group of soldiers, and Zhou Tai will most likely come join in on the fun. Zhou Tai won't be much trouble so quickly dispose of him, and focus the rest of your attacks on Huang Gai. Probably the most annoying thing is that Huang Gai will keep trying to just ignore you can head for his destination, so make sure you have a horse so you can quickly track him down if he gets out of your range. Once Huang Gai is dead the fire attack will have been prevented. Shortly after Huang Gai's defeat Zhuge Jin and Sun Quan will appear. Zhuge Jin will be over on the area of land to the left and Sun Quan will appear at the same spot Huang Gai did. If you want you can go around and finish off all remaining officers before taking down Sun Quan, because once you do the battle will be over. ALLIED FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Your main goal here is to make sure the fire attack is successful. Clear out the area where you start of enemies, and after a few minutes Pang Tong will suggest knocking down the two bridges that join Cao Cao's main fleet with your fleet. To do this you have to go defeat Wang Lang and Cai Mao, who happen to each be on one of the two bridges. Cai Mao will be on the western bridge and Wang Lang will be on the eastern bridge. Go defeat both of them to knock down the two bridges. After that's been done head over to the strip of land on the west and kill Zhang Liao's two sub-officers Wen Pin and Xun You. Clear out the rest of that area to make sure Zhuge Liang is kept safe while he summons the wind. By this time Huang Gai will be moving towards the central ship, go find him and escort him there - make sure he gets there alive! Once he gets there keep protecting him as he prepares the fire ship. After a little bit of waiting Huang Gai will embark and set fire to the enemy fleet and Zhuge Liang will summon the wind. With Cao Cao's fleet in flames the battle is pretty much yours. Just go kill off any remaining officers and then kill Cao Cao to end the battle. O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | 208 A.D. - Escape from Chi Bi [ECHI] | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | | | CAO CAO'S FORCES | ALLIED FORCES | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | "Stop the Allied Forces and allow Cao | "Defeat the enemies in your way and | | Cao to escape safely!" | prevent Cao Cao's escape!" | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DIFFICULTY | DIFFICULTY | | 4 stars (****) | 2 stars (**) | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | TIME LIMIT | TIME LIMIT | | 60'00"00 | 60'00"00 | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | VICTORY | VICTORY | | Cao Cao reaches the escape point | Defeat Cao Cao | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DEFEAT | DEFEAT | | Cao Cao is defeated | Sun Quan is defeated or Cao Cao | | | reaches the escape point | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | ENEMY FORCES | ENEMY FORCES | | Cheng Pu* | Cao Cao | | Dong Xi* | Cheng Yu | | Han Dang* | Xun You | | Zhu Zhi* | Xiahou Dun | | Chen Wu* | Liu Yan | | Zhao Yun* | Han Hao | | Mi Zhu* | Zhang Liao | | Zhang Fei* | Li Dian | | Jian Yong* | Yue Jin | | Guan Ping* | Cao Ren | | Zhou Cang* | Niu Jin | | Sun Quan* | Man Chong | | Zhuge Jin* | Jia Xu* | | Lu Su* | Xiahou Yuan* | | Jiang Qin* | Zhu Ling* | | Guan Yu* | Cao Zhang* | | Liu Bei* | Yu Jin* | | Sun Qian* | Cao Hong* | | Mi Fang* | Wen Pin* | | | Xun Yu* | | | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O CAO CAO'S FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You have to lead Cao Cao to the escape point, all the while defeating enemies that show up along the way. Head forward from the start and Cheng Pu will show up. Kill Cheng Pu, and his sub-officer Dong Xi, so Cao Cao can resume marching. After this Han Dang will show up on the ship behind you, just ignore him since he's not in Cao Cao's way, plus Xiahou Yuan will appear to fight him. The next ambush will be Zhu Zhi's unit, just a little bit ahead. Kill Zhu Zhi and Chen Wu and continue forward. Up around the next turn is Zhao Yun. Kill him once he appears so Cao Cao can continue his march. Cao Cao will continue along the southern path and run into Zhang Fei. Take him out once he appears. Guan Ping will show up in the next area, kill him once he does. Getting the idea of how to do this by now? Shortly after Guan Ping is defeated Sun Quan's unit will appear all the way down at the southern part of the map. Don't bother going down to kill him unless you want what he drops, just continue on head. Guan Yu will show up next, but he will withdraw and let Cao Cao pass. After that Liu Bei will show up right in front of the escape point, go kill Liu Bei to secure the passage for Cao Cao. Let him run through the escape point and you will have won the battle. ALLIED FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This battle can actually be won very quickly if you have a horse. Right when the battle starts just head straight for Cao Cao, ignore everyone else. You should catch up with him by the time he's about to cross the bridge - instead of fighting him now cross the bridge first. Once he's crossed it as well it will get knocked down (this is why I suggested crossing the bridge first, if Cao Cao gets away from you and crosses the bridge before you do then it will get knocked down and separate you.) Now just kill Cao Cao. The annoying thing about this is Cao Cao won't actually attack you, he'll just keep trying to run away. And if you get hit by just one enemy while you're trying to attack him, he'll probably be able to make a break for it. Just get back on your hose and ride back up to him if this happens. If you don't have a horse or you just don't want to do it that way you'll have to make your way around the map killing enemy officers who are trying to block your path. Technically you don't have to kill them, you can just head straight for Cao Cao, but if you're going to do that anyway you might as well just refer to what I said in the above paragraph. Just make sure Cao Cao is dead before he reaches the escape point. He'll periodically stop to wait for reinforcements, the longest time being when he's waiting near the northern part of the map for Xun Yu to arrive. It takes a really long time for Xun Yu to arrive, so I wouldn't worry too much about Cao Cao escaping. Unless the character you're playing as is very underpowered. O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | 211 A.D. - Battle of Tong Gate [TONG] | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | | | CAO CAO'S FORCES | ALLIED FORCES | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | "Close in on Tong Gate and silence | "Beware of the enemy while you | | the enraged Ma Chao for good!" | protect Tong Gate from Cao Cao!" | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DIFFICULTY | DIFFICULTY | | 2 stars (**) | 2 stars (**) | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | TIME LIMIT | TIME LIMIT | | 60'00"00 | 60'00"00 | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | VICTORY | VICTORY | | Defeat Ma Chao, Han Sui and Pang De | Defeat Cao Cao | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DEFEAT | DEFEAT | | Cao Cao is defeated | Ma Chao is defeated or Cao Cao's | | | officers invade North Gate and East | | | Gate | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | ENEMY FORCES | ENEMY FORCES | | Ma Chao | Cao Cao | | Han Sui | Jia Xu | | Zhang Heng | Xiahou Yuan | | Pang De | Xu Zhu | | Yang Qiu | Zhang He | | Ma Dai | Cao Hong | | Li Kan | Zhu Ling | | Hou Xuan | Xu Huang* | | Cheng Yin | Han Sui* | | Cheng Yi | Cao Ren* | | Liang Xing | | | Zhang Lu* | | | | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O CAO CAO'S FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First push forward, take the enemy base, defeat Liang Xing, and then take the next enemy base as well. Cao Cao and Xu Zhu will cross the river and start heading into the northern area. Shortly after that Xu Huang should arrive as reinforcements. Head back to the river and attack Li Kan, who should be pushed up to your units. Ma Chao will start rushing Cao Cao through the river, so stand your ground and get ready to kill him. Ma Chao is in hyper mode, and once a bit of his health is knocked down he'll get an attack x2. By this time Han Sui will push up to the north of Tong Gate, and he'll tell you to isolate Han Sui by killing all of those around him. So go around and through Tong Gate (ignore Pang De and others for now) and go kill Hou Xuan and Cheng Yin. The allied forces will become suspicious of Han Sui and will withdraw back into Tong Gate. Once Zhang Lu arrives behind you, go kill him. Now I don't know about anybody else, but I've never gotten Han Sui to defect. I've just sat around and eventually he'll just die, but he'll never defect. If there is some extra step I'm missing here, someone let me know... but it seems like all you're suppose to do is isolate Han Sui and then let him defect. But like I said, I've never had it happen. So honestly you can just kill Han Sui if you want, after killing the other two up north. Save yourself the time. Once all that is taken care of go kill Pang De to win. He's in hyper mode, and after taking a bit of damage will regenerate his health. Once half of his health is gone he'll get a defense x2 bonus, and once he has about 25% health left he'll go into musou rage mode. Finish him off after that. ALLIED FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Head forward and kill Cao Hong and take down the enemy base. Now turn around and go kill Zhu Ling, who is advancing on your from the central river. When Cao Cao starts heading to the north push forward and kill Xiahou Yuan and take the other enemy base. Now start advancing north. Xu Zhu will be in the river area, go kill him. Cao Cao's forces will capture the three neutral bases, and Xu Huang will arrive as reinforcements in the north. Don't worry about either of these things though, it's no big deal. Just go kill Zhang He and Xu Huang. Then push into the northern area of Tong Gate. After Cao Cao meets with Han Sui he will defect once you approach him. Cheng Yin and Cheng Yi will then withdraw once he defects. Really the only way to prevent this is to kill Cao Cao before they meet. After a little bit Cao Ren's unit will arrive as reinforcements up in the north. Kill him and Cao Cao to finish the stage. O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | 214 A.D. - Battle of Cheng Du [CHDU] | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | | LIU BEI'S FORCES | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | "Defeat Liu Zhang at Cheng Du in order to obtain the lands of Shu!" | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DIFFICULTY: | | 1 star (*) | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | TIME LIMIT | | 60'00"00 | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | VICTORY | | Defeat Liu Zhang | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DEFEAT | | Liu Bei is defeated | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | ENEMY FORCES | | Liu Zhang | | Meng Da | | Yan Yan | | Wu Lan | | Li Yan | | Liu Xun | | Lei Tong | | Fei Guan | | Deng Xian | | Zhang Ren | | Liu Han* | | Leng Bao* | | Zhang Yi* | | Gao Pei* | | Yang Huai* | | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O LIU BEI'S FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On this map you can either start in the north or the south. If you start in the north, push forward a bit into the forest and Liu Han, Leng Bao, and Zhang Yi will appear. Liu Han and Leng Bao will be near the southern checkpoint, and Zhang Yi will be near the edge of the forest to the left. Kill all three and secure the lower checkpoint, then go secure the two northern checkpoints. The next thing you should do is head straight for Zhang Ren, and make sure you get there before Pang Tong does. If Pang Tong advances on Zhang Ren first he'll be killed in an ambush. If you start in the south you'll want to push forward and kill Lei Tong to open the first gate. Once inside the castle, kill Fei Guan, Deng Xian and Liu Xun to take it. Don't go through the north gate just yet, go through the western gate and secure the enemy base and kill Li Yan. Push inside the castle. In order to open the castles main gate you have to surround it. Go push forward and kill Meng Da and the gate captain to open the eastern gate. Then go north and kill the gate captain to open the northern gate. If you haven't yet, go outside and finish off Wu Lan and Yan Yan and secure the enemy checkpoint. Once the castle is surrounded Liu Zhang will open up the inner gate. Now rush inside the kill him to end the battle. O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | 215 A.D. - Battle of He Fei [HFEI] | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | | | WEI FORCES | WU FORCES | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | "Use the neutral bases to hold Wu at |"The enemy is awaiting reinforcements| | bay until help arrives!" | Hurry and finish them off!" | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DIFFICULTY | DIFFICULTY | | 3 stars (***) | 3 stars (***) | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | TIME LIMIT | TIME LIMIT | | 60'00"00 | 60'00"00 | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | VICTORY | VICTORY | | Defeat Sun Quan | Defeat Cao Cao | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DEFEAT | DEFEAT | | Zhang Liao is defeated | Sun Quan is defeated | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | ENEMY FORCES | ENEMY FORCES | | Sun Quan | Cao Cao | | Zhuge Jin | Jia Xu | | Jiang Qin | Cao Zhen | | Sun Shao | Cao Xiu | | Taishi Ci | Pang De | | Chen Wu | Niu Jin | | Zhu Ran | Man Chong | | Lu Meng | Li Dian | | Xu Sheng | Yue Jin | | Zhang Cheng | Cao Zhang* | | Pan Zhang | Xu Huang* | | Ma Zhong | Yu Jin* | | Ding Feng | Zhang Liao (4 times)* | | Zhu Zhi | Xiahou Dun* | | Zhou Fang | Cao Hong* | | Zhu Huan | | | Gan Ning* | | | Dong Xi* | | | | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O WEI FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take one of the neutral bases, whichever one is closest to you when you start. Once that's done head back to the middle and clear it out - take down the enemy base and secure the two lower checkpoints. Then go kill Pan Zhang and push into the next smaller area, taking the enemy base and the one checkpoint. Go north here and kill Zhu Huan, then use the bridge up north connecting this area to the northern area and cross it. Taishi Ci's unit should be up here by the neutral base that they probably captured. Go kill Taishi Ci and take down the two enemy bases in this area. By this time Zhu Zhi will have pushed up into the smaller area of land in the middle, so go back and cross the northern bridge again back down to where you just were and go kill him. Zhang Liao should have isolated Sun Quan by now, and will be fighting on his own. He should be fine for now, but your southern units are probably struggling against Lu Meng's unit. Go down south and help them out, then push forwards from there into the enemy main camp. Go help out Zhang Liao when you arrive there - kill Zhuge Jin, Sun Shao and Jiang Qin. Lu Meng will be hiding right next to Sun Quan. Cao Cao's main forces will appear around now, and now Cao Cao will take over as the commander so you no longer have to worry about Zhang Liao dying. Shortly after Cao Cao shows up, Gan Ning will show up to the very north, near Cao Cao. You can either quickly go kill Sun Quan and end the battle, or if you think that is going to take you a while, I suggest go killing Gan Ning first. Gan Ning will have high morale and will head straight for Cao Cao, so don't let him kill him. Gan Ning is in hyper mode and he gets an attack x2 bonus, and will also go into musou rage when low on health, so he takes a bit to kill. But once he's dead head all the way back down to the enemy camp and kill Lu Meng and Sun Quan to end the battle. WU FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Start by pushing into the middle area and taking the two enemy bases, the two checkpoints, and Pang De as well as his two sub-officers. Shortly into the battle Cao Zhang's unit will arrive as reinforcements. He will push into the middle area with you, so once he does kill him. Push across the bridge and head south, taking down the first enemy base and as well Yue Jin. Push towards the southern enemy base and Xu Huang will arrive in that area as reinforcements. Kill him once he does. By now Zhang Liao will have shown up to ambush Sun Quan. Quickly head back to the middle area to where Zhang Liao is and kill him. Yu Jin should be there as well, kill him first. Zhang Liao will of course be in hyper mode, making it a little tougher to kill him. He will get an attack x2 bonus once enough of his health is gone. Once that threat is taken care of use the bridge to the north to advance on Li Dian. Take the two enemy bases up in the northern corner first, then head west and kill Li Dian and take the other enemy base and checkpoint. Zhang Liao will reappear up here in the northern central checkpoint. Kill him again once he does. Annoyingly enough, he'll be in hyper mode still and he'll have an attack x2 bonus right from the start. Shortly after Zhang Liao shows up Cao Hong and Xiahou Dun will show up in the same area as reinforcements as well. Kill them both before they start to advance on your main camp. Zhang Liao will show up a third time down at the bottom left corner of the map. And - you guessed it - he's in hyper mode with an attack x2 bonus. Go kill him again, only to have to "temporarily withdraw" yet again. When will he just give him? Gan Ning will show up as reinforcements for Wu shortly after. Shortly after Zhang Liao will show up one final time at the very top right corner of the enemy castle. Go kill him to put an end to this nonsense. Then once that's taken care of go kill Cao Cao to finish the battle. O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | 215 A.D. - The Invasion of Nan Zhong [NANI] | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | | | WU FORCES | NANMAN FORCES | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | "The Nanman tribes are no match for | "Wu has invaded Nan Zhong. Go and | | Wu. Go and defeat Meng Huo!" | drive them from your land!" | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DIFFICULTY | DIFFICULTY | | 1 star (*) | 4 stars (****) | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | TIME LIMIT | TIME LIMIT | | 60'00"00 | 60'00"00 | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | VICTORY | VICTORY | | Defeat Meng Huo | Defeat Sun Quan | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DEFEAT | DEFEAT | | Sun Quan is defeated | Meng Huo is defeated | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | ENEMY FORCES | ENEMY FORCES | | Meng Huo | Sun Quan | | Meng You | Zhuge Jin | | Zhu Rong | Sun Shang Xiang | | King Duosi | Pan Zhang | | Jinhuan Sanjie | Ding Feng | | Ahui Nan | Lu Meng | | Dong Tu Na | Lu Xun | | King Mulu* | Zhou Tai | | Mang Yachang* | Xu Sheng | | Yang Feng* | Zhu Ran | | Wu Tugu* | Zhu Huan | | | Gan Ning* | | | Jiang Qin* | | | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O WU FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Start off by clearing out the middle area where you start. Take down the enemy base and close off the checkpoint. Push downward a little bit to find Dong Tu Na and Ahui Nan; kill them both. Next go kill Jinhuan Sanjie and Zhu Rong, but be careful because Zhu Rong is on an elephant. Take both enemy bases before advancing into the enemy main camp. Once you advance into the enemy main camp Meng Huo's unit will disappear and will reappear in the upper right hand corner of the map, above the river. Two Nanman beast units (King Mulu and Mang Yachang) will also show up to the right and left sides of Sun Quan. Mang Yachang's unit will occupy the neutral base if you have not previously done so. Also, a Nanman task force will appear by the northern bridge and will attempt to destroy it. Quickly head back up to the bridge and kill the task leader. Now go kill King Mulu and Mang Yachang to save Sun Quan. Then kill King Duosi and Meng Huo to finish the battle. Yang Feng and Wu Tugu will show up as Nanman reinforcements later on in the battle, but this is such an easy battle that you should be able to win long before they show up. NANMAN FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First get rid of the small group of enemies along the southern path leading up to your main camp. Zhu Huan is there, so kill him once you find him. Next take the enemy base, then push up into the middle area, ignore the left side of the map for now. As you push into the middle area you'll find Xu Sheng in the small little area to the right, so take him down first. Once you've push into the central area take out Zhou Tai, Zhu Ran, the enemy base, the enemy checkpoint, and then push towards the bridge and take out Lu Xun. You probably heard Meng Huo say something earlier about taking down the bridge, well to do that all you need to do is simply approach the bridge and it will be destroyed. This will probably happen as you go to fight Lu Xun since he's near the bridge. Now you can either take the paths to the east or the west into the enemy main camp. Sun Shang Xiang's unit is on the western path, and you'll want to kill her I'm sure. However the annoying thing about going that way is sometimes the gate to the base will be closed because the enemy will be attacking it. If the gate captain is killed and the enemy is in the base you can simply ride your horse on through, but if not you'll have to get off your horse and continue up the path on foot. Of course once you close the enemy checkpoint and clear the area of enemies the gate will open again, but it's still annoying to have to do all of that on foot. Either way, go kill Sun Shang Xiang and Lu Meng. Now all that's left is Sun Quan. Gan Ning and Jiang Qin will eventually show up as reinforcements, but that takes a LONG time to happen, and the battle will probably be won before that happens. O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | 219 A.D. - Battle of Mt. Ding Jun [DJUN] | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | | | WEI FORCES | SHU FORCES | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | "Protect Mt. Ding Jun from Shu and | "Take Mt. Tian Dang and use it as | | hold out until help can arrive!" | a base to defeat the Wei Army!" | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DIFFICULTY | DIFFICULTY | | 3 stars (***) | 2 stars (**) | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | TIME LIMIT | TIME LIMIT | | 60'00"00 | 60'00"00 | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | VICTORY | VICTORY | | Defeat Liu Bei | Defeat Cao Cao | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DEFEAT | DEFEAT | | The main camp is taken | Liu Bei is defeated | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | ENEMY FORCES | ENEMY FORCES | | Liu Bei | Xiahou Yuan | | Fa Zheng | Zhang He | | Huang Zhong | Yue Jin | | Yan Yan | Li Dian | | Lei Tong | Cao Xiu | | Zhao Yun | Xiahou De | | Liu Feng | Xiahou Shang | | Zhang Yi | Guo Huai | | Wei Yan | Cao Zhen | | Meng Da | Han Hao | | Guan Ping | Cao Cao* | | Li Yan | Yang Xiu* | | Wu Lan | Cao Zhang* | | Chen Shi | | | | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O WEI FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hold out in the middle area there and just wait for the Shu army to start advancing on you. In the meantime just kill the hordes of mindless soldiers. This will also help to lower the morale of several of the enemy officers. Wu Lan will probably be the first officer you'll encounter, so hack him down once you do. It's also not a bad idea to go secure the enemy checkpoint to the north while you're waiting for the rest of the Shu army to advance. Li Yan will probably be the next officer to push you, kill him once he does. Now I suggest you go south a bit and kill Liu Feng and secure the one enemy checkpoint down there. If Shu has stopped advancing from the mountain, then you can push up it and kill Huang Zhong and Guan Ping, who are probably the only two remaining officers on it. Huang Zhong is very annoying to kill. For one he's in hyper mode, and once enough of his health is knocked down he'll regain some of it and get a defense x2 bonus. Then, once his health is about halfway gone, he'll go into musou rage mode. Once Huang Zhong and Guan Ping are dead secure the two enemy checkpoints on the mountain and take the enemy base to finally take the mountain itself. Cao Cao's unit should be arriving right around now, and when he does the losing conditions of the battle change: you'll lose if Cao Cao is defeated, obviously. Zhao Yun is probably pushing up the mountain right about now, so track him down and kill him. All that's left then is Wei Yan to the north and Liu Bei in the lower left hand corner of the map. Kill Liu Bei to end the stage. SHU FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No matter where you start on the battlefield, the first thing you'll want to do is take the mountain. So advance up the mountain, take the two enemy checkpoints, the enemy base, and kill Xiahou De. Once the mountain is taken Huang Zhong will charge the enemy. Let's go follow him to make sure he stays alive. He'll charge down into the valley where Xiahou Yuan is. There will be a lot of archers' down here, so sweep around the area taking them all out first. Otherwise they'll become quite annoying. The first officer you'll run into down here will probably be Xiahou Yuan, and he's the first one you'll want to kill. He's pretty much the Wei equivalent of Huang Zhong on this map. He's in hyper mode, and once a bit of his health is knocked down he'll regain most of it and go into defense x2. If you don't have a musou rage token by now there is always an enemy around here who drops one, I believe it's one of the soldiers with Xiahou Yuan. So focus on killing a bunch of soldiers as well as keeping Xiahou Yuan at bay until you kill the one who drops the token, as you'll probably need it against Xiahou Yuan. Once his health is about halfway gone Xiahou Yuan will go into musou rage mode. Once his musou rage is gone, bust out some musou rage of your own and take him down. Once Xiahou Yuan is dead finish cleaning up the rest of the officers, they're all around your general vicinity anyway. Zhang He and Yue Jin should be directly to the south of you, and Li Dian is by himself up north. Guo Huai and Cao Zhen are both up in the enemy main camp. After about five minutes or so Cao Cao will show up. Now all you have to do to end the battle is kill him, so go do that once you're ready. O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | 219 A.D. - Battle of Fan Castle [FANC] | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | | | WEI FORCES | WU FORCES | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | "Protect Fan Castle from Guan Yu and | "Go and put a stop to Guan Yu's | | wait for help to arrive!" | water attack against Fan Castle!" | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DIFFICULTY | DIFFICULTY | | 4 stars (****) | 2 stars (**) | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | TIME LIMIT | TIME LIMIT | | 90'00"00 | 90'00"00 | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | VICTORY | VICTORY | | Defeat Guan Yu | Defeat Guan Yu | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DEFEAT | DEFEAT | | Cao Ren is defeated | Lu Meng or Cao Ren is defeated | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | ENEMY FORCES | ENEMY FORCES | | Guan Yu | Guan Yu | | Guan Ping | Ma Liang | | Guan Suo | Guan Ping | | Zhou Cang | Guan Suo | | Liao Hua | Guan Xing | | Mi Fang | Zhou Cang | | Fu Shi Ren | Liao Hua | | Liu Feng | Mi Fang | | Meng Da | Fu Shi Ren | | Ma Liang | Meng Da* | | Zhang Fei* | Liu Feng* | | Zhang Bao* | Zhang Fei* | | | Zhang Bao* | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | | | | SHU FORCES | | |---------------------------------------| | | "Guard the floodgate so that you can | | | surround and take Fan Castle!" | | |---------------------------------------| | | DIFFICULTY | | | 4 stars (****) | | |---------------------------------------| | | TIME LIMIT | | | 90'00"00 | | |---------------------------------------| | | VICTORY | | | Defeat Cao Ren | | |---------------------------------------| | | DEFEAT | | | Guan Yu is defeated | | |---------------------------------------| | | ENEMY FORCES | | | Cao Ren | | | Yue Jin | | | Niu Jin | | | Pang De | | | Dong Heng | | | Dong Chao | | | Jiang Ji | | | Man Chong | | | Sun Li | | | Yu Jin | | | Xu Huang* | | | Li Dian* | | | Lu Meng* | | | Lu Xun* | | | Jiang Qin* | | | Xu Sheng* | | | Zhu Ran* | | | Mi Fang* | | | Fu Shi Ren* | | | Pan Zhang* | | | Ma Zhong* | | | | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O WEI FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At the start of the battle you'll be pretty much surrounded at Fan Castle, vastly outnumbered by the Shu forces. The first thing you should do is head on over to the floodgates and kill Guan Ping to prevent the water attack. Next kill Meng Da, who should have pushed to your location by now. After that's done I suggest just going around beating on the enemy. Kill officers, take bases, and secure checkpoints. Focus on the enemy units near Fan Castle first, then I suggest going down to the southern area and starting to clear out that area next. Xu Huang should show up as reinforcements in the south later on. A little after that Wu will show up with some reinforcements in the south as well. The battle is pretty much yours at this point, as most of your army has probably pushed forward and there won't be much left of the Shu forces. Advance towards Guan Yu's camp. Zhang Fei should show up soon in the enemy main camp, and Guan Yu will order a counter attack. But at this point it'll be useless, just defeat Zhang Fei and then kill Guan Yu to finish the battle. Killing them both will probably be the hardest thing about the battle, since they're both in hyper mode (Guan Yu will get an attack x2 bonus and will also go into musou rage.) WU FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When you start the battle Fan Castle will already have been flooded, but it's no big deal. Get rid of the units near the castle first, namely Guan Xing and Liao Hua, as well as the enemy checkpoints and bases. After a little bit Lu Xun will say that morale is low between Mi Fang and Fu Shi Ren, and Lu Meng will order you to make the defect. So take the southern path down to Fu Shi Ren and hit him just ONCE - this will cause him to defect. Now go do the same to Mi Fang. Fu Shi Ren will go north and attack Guan Ping, go help him out and Kill Guan Ping before he kills Fu Shi Ren. Now cross through the center of the map and kill any remaining forces outside of Fan Castle. Xu Huang will arrive as reinforcements, but by this point the battle is pretty much over. Clear out the remaining Shu forces in the north and kill Guan Yu to end the battle. SHU FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First go take down the enemy base in the center of the map and in the southern area of the map. After that head up north to where Guan Ping is to defend the floodgate. Niu Jin will be pushed up there by now with a bunch of enemy soldiers, slay all of them. Once they're all taken care of head north and you should run into Yue Jin and a bunch of soldiers rushing you. Kill all of them as well. After that keep going forward and take the northern enemy base. Then go kill Yu Jin who is probably outside of it by now. The river should overflow shortly, and one it does you'll get a good morale boost, and almost all of the enemy soldiers in Fan Castle will be dead. Now go around killing any remaining units and closing off some of the enemy checkpoints. Eventually Xu Huang will arrive as reinforcements for Wei, so kill him when he does. The only annoying thing about flooding Fan Castle is that the only way to get into Fan Castle and kill Cao Ren is to kill Pang De. This reason that this is annoying is because Pang De is, of course, in hyper mode. Never the less, once he's dead a path will magically appear leading up to Fan Castle. If you haven't killed Cao Ren by now and ended the battle yet, Wu will arrive with Lu Meng and Xu Sheng as reinforcements in the south. Xu Sheng's forces will advance to the west towards the main camp, and once they run into Mi Fang and Fu Shi Ren they will both defect. This will make Guan Yu enraged, and he will run down to kill them. He will be ambushed on his way there and will die, and Zhang Fei (who will have recently shown up as reinforcements) be named Commander. Once Cao Ren is dead the battle is still not over yet; you must kill Lu Meng as well to end the battle. So quickly go do that before Zhang Fei dies, since he's surrounded by troops to the south (but it's still unlikely that this will happen.) O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | 222 A.D. - Battle of Yi Ling [YLNG] | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | | | Wu FORCES | SHU FORCES | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | "Prevent the Shu advance and use a | "Attack the Wu camp and defeat the | | fire attack to defeat Liu Bei!" | enemy commander!" | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DIFFICULTY | DIFFICULTY | | 3 stars (***) | 3 stars (***) | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | TIME LIMIT | TIME LIMIT | | 90'00"00 | 90'00"00 | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | VICTORY | VICTORY | | Defeat Liu Bei | Defeat Sun Quan | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DEFEAT | DEFEAT | | Sun Quan is defeated | Liu Bei is defeated | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | ENEMY FORCES | ENEMY FORCES | | Liu Bei | Sun Quan | | Ma Liang | Sun Shang Xiang | | Chen Shi | Zhuge Jin | | Zhao Yun | Lu Xun | | Zhang Bao | Zhu Ran | | Lei Tong | Gan Ning | | Ma Chao | Ling Tong | | Ma Dai | Cheng Pu | | Wu Lan | Xu Sheng | | Yan Yan | Pan Zhang | | Guan Xing | Zhu Huan | | Guan Suo | Ding Feng | | Liao Hua | Ma Zhong | | Li Yan | Han Dang | | Sha Moke | Zhu Zhi | | Zhuge Liang* | Jiang Qin | | Ma Su* | Quan Zong | | Wang Ping* | Zhang Cheng* | | Zhang Yi* | Zhou Fang* | | | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O WU FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is no bridge yet in the middle, so you have to enter the main Shu camp through either the northern or the eastern path. Advance along whichever one you start closest to. If you go the northern route take down Sha Moke, the enemy base, and the enemy checkpoint, then advance into the center. If you take the eastern path then take the enemy base and the checkpoint, then advance to the center towards Ma Chao. Once you're in the central area start killing officers, soldiers, taking bases and securing checkpoints. Just wait for the preparations for the fire attack to be complete. Once it's ready the bridge will lower, connecting the Shu and Wu camps. Zhu Ran will run across, escort him to his destination and make sure no one tries to mess with him. Once he gets to that little fort-like thing on the right hand side of the map the fire attack will go off as planned. Kill any remaining officers in the area. Liu Bei will retreat down to the main camp in the south through his little maze there. You could either go through the central maze there or you could just go through the longer paths on the left and right that also lead to the main camp. The maze isn't really that much of a shortcut because it's rather annoying; your minimap disappears once you go inside in (it will reappear once you're out of it, however) and every path looks pretty much the same, so it can be pretty easy to get lost. You can still bring up the main battle map by pausing the game to get a general idea of where you are. You basically need to just keep heading south and stick to one of the sides, try not to find yourself in the middle of the maze. Zhuge Liang and Wang Ping will eventually show up later down in the main camp by Liu Bei, then they will advance along the right and left paths. This won't happen for a little while, and unless you get lost in the maze you should be able to kill Liu Bei before they arrive. SHU FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Start out by clearing out the Wu forces pushed up in the south. Go take down the two enemy bases, kill Pan Zhang and take the enemy checkpoint. Now head up north to where Zhao Yun is and take that enemy base and secure the one checkpoint right there. If you have time, continue just a bit farther north and kill Han Dang. Once the Wu army starts pulling back, watch Ling Tong's unit. Wait for him to push up right where the bridge is. Go over to where the bridge is going to be and you'll notice that you can see him across the river just standing there. Here's a tip to make things a bit easier for you: kill him with charged arrows. It doesn't take that many to kill him; I counted four on normal difficulty. If he's surrounded by soldiers you may need to kill a few of them in order to hit him, but this will make things easier in the future as you won't have to deal with him after the bridge is laid out (plus he'll be in hyper mode then too.) Don't bother advancing for now, just wait in this area for the bridge to be laid out. Once the bridge goes down cross it and head straight for Zhu Ran - he should be by himself for now since Ling Tong is dead. Hurry up and kill him before Gan Ning can come to his aid. With Zhu Ran dead the fire attack will have failed. Now all that's left to do is advance on the enemy camp and finish off all of the other Wu units. Once that's done go kill Sun Quan to end the battle. O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | 225 A.D. - Conquest of Nan Zhong [NANC] | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | | | SHU FORCES | NANMAN FORCES | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | "Defeat Meng Huo and subdue the | "Shu has invaded Nan Zhong. Show | | exotic lands of Nanman!" | them the unity of your people!" | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DIFFICULTY | DIFFICULTY | | 2 stars (**) | 5 stars (*****) | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | TIME LIMIT | TIME LIMIT | | 60'00"00 | 60'00"00 | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | VICTORY | VICTORY | | Defeat Meng Huo | Defeat Zhuge Liang | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DEFEAT | DEFEAT | | Zhuge Liang is defeated | Meng Huo is defeated | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | ENEMY FORCES | ENEMY FORCES | | Meng Huo (7 times) | Zhuge Liang | | Meng You | Ma Su | | Zhu Rong | Zhang Yi | | Wu Tugu | Wang Ping | | Mang Yachang | Yue Ying | | Jinhuan Sanjie | Liao Hua | | King Duosi | Zhang Bao | | Ahui Nan | Huang Zhong | | Dong Tu Na | Yan Yan | | King Mulu | Wei Yan | | Dailai Dongzhu* | Ma Dai | | Yang Feng* | Lu Kai | | | Guan Xing | | | Guan Suo | | | Ma Chao* | | | Dong Tu Na* | | | Ahui Nan* | | | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O SHU FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Head out into the first open area to be greeted by a Nanman beast unit. You'll then get a message saying to take down the first enemy base so Yue Ying's weapon can repel the beast unit. So go do just that to unleash some juggernauts into the area. Then go kill King Mulu. Meng Huo will appear out of a hidden path in the lower left hand portion of this area, go kill him once he does. Advancing through this shortcut will make it appear on the minimap, although there is no point in going through that area right now. Instead head south along the main path and kill Ahui Nan and Dong Tu Na's units. There is another shortcut here that you can find if you simply head straight instead of turning right at the first turn. This shortcut can connect you over to the area where Wei Yan is, avoiding the poison marsh. But for now just head south towards the marsh anyway. Meng Huo will appear again in front of the marsh, kill him once he does. Once you enter the poison marsh Zhuge Liang will tell you that an enemy base is preventing the transport of the materials needed to overcome the poison. Go forward and take down the base so some logs can be spread out along the marsh that you can use to traverse it (even though your allies don't...) Take out the enemy checkpoint in this area and continue forward. Around this time Meng Huo should appear again in the very upper left portion of the map. Don't bother turning around just yet, we'll use that shortcut you found earlier in just a minute to get to him quicker. But first, continue forward and defeat King Duosi and Jinhuan Sanjie. Enter the next big area to encounter the armor troops, ignore them for now and use that hidden northern path to go back up to the first area and kill Meng Huo. Now go back down to where the armor troops are and kill Wu Tugu to get rid of the armor troops. Secure the checkpoint and take out the enemy base as well. Meng Huo will appear yet again in this same area, so go kill him once he does. Zhu Rong will then push into this area from another hidden path to the south. She's on an elephant, which is pretty annoying, but other than that she's easy to deal with. Meng Huo will appear again in the hidden path to the north, and he will come down into the area where you are. Kill him yet again once he does; he just doesn't give up, does he? Continue south and take the enemy base. Meng Huo will appear again at the checkpoint in this area, and this time he'll promise no more retreating. So go and kill him, and what does he do? He retreats again. Big surprise. Around this time Dailai Dongzhu and Yang Feng will arrive as reinforcements, each on opposite sides of the map. It's up to you if you want to backtrack and kill them, or just continue forward and storm the enemy camp. I'll just keep going forward, if you want to kill them just turn around and do so. Go forward and take down the final enemy base. After you push through the base you'll hear Meng Huo say that he better get back out there. Keep pushing into the main camp and he'll do just that. Meng Huo will appear for the seventh and final time in the main camp. Kill him this last time (of course he has commander strength and defense) to finally end the battle. NANMAN FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The first thing you want to do is clear the southern area of the enemy troops that are advancing on your main camp. Since you're on the Nanman side now all of the hidden paths are viewable on your minimap, regardless of if you're traversed them or not. So if you start out in the northern area take the one hidden path to the south and take out the enemy checkpoint and base. Kill Wei Yan, both of his sub-officers, and all of the enemy soldiers down there. Continue forward into the next area and take the enemy base and checkpoint. Head over to the left area where Wu Tugu is and kill Wang Ping and Zhang Yi. The Shu army will fall back and Wu Tugu will follow them. Once Wu Tugu enters the large area an enemy task force will appear with exploding pots. Kill the four task leaders to rescue Wu Tugu's unit. Now head over to the poison marsh, which will not affect you now since you're on the Nanman forces. Kill Yan Yan and Huang Zhong, then head over to the area on the right and kill Guan Suo and secure the checkpoint. This will allow some reinforcements to join the battle from here. Now head north and kill Yue Ying and destroy her juggernauts to save Jinhuan Sanjie's unit. You'll then get a message saying that enemy reinforcements are about to arrive at the checkpoint all the way at the west, quickly go and secure that checkpoint to prevent them from coming. If you fail to secure it in time then you'll have to deal with Ma Chao's unit. Once all of that is taken care of go secure any remaining bases and march into the main camp and kill Zhuge Liang to end the battle. O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | 227 A.D. - Battle of Tian Shui [TIAN] | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | | | WEI FORCES | SHU FORCES | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | "Defend An Ding Castle and Nan An | "Take the An Ding and Nan An Castles| | Castle from the Shu Army!" | to realize Zhuge Liang's plan!" | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DIFFICULTY | DIFFICULTY | | 1 stars (*) | 2 stars (**) | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | TIME LIMIT | TIME LIMIT | | 60'00"00 | 45'00"00 | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | VICTORY | VICTORY | | Defeat Zhuge Liang | Take Tian Shui Castle, Nan An | | | Castle and An Ding Castle | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DEFEAT | DEFEAT | | Ma Zun is defeated | Zhuge Liang is defeated | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | ENEMY FORCES | ENEMY FORCES | | Zhuge Liang | Ma Zun | | Wei Yan | Cheng Wu | | Liao Hua | Yin Shang | | Zhao Yun | Liang Xu | | Yue Ying | Jiang Wei | | Li Yan | Xiahou Mao | | Wang Ping | Han De | | Guan Xing | Cui Lang | | Zhang Bao | Wang Lang | | Ma Dai | Xiahou Mao* | | Jiang Wei* | Cao Zhen* | | Gao Xiang* | Cao Ren* | | | Zhang He* | | | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O WEI FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So you'll want to first rescue An Ding and Nan An, obviously. First head over to Cui Lang and save him first by killing Zhao Yun and Guan Xing. An Ding Castle is now saved, so let's go save Nan An by killing Wang Ping and Zhang Bao. Once that's done go finish off any stragglers, most likely Wei Yan, Yue Ying and Ma Dai. Then just go defeat Zhuge Liang to win. Easy one. SHU FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First thing to do is take both An Ding and Nan An Castle. It doesn't really matter which one you take down first, just go to whichever one is closest to where you start. To take both of the castles you will have to kill Xiahou Mao and Cui Liang. Guan Xing will most likely be killed by Jiang Wei, but don't worry about it. Go kill Wang Lang and Han De next. After a little bit Zhuge Liang will release Xiahou Mao back into Tian Shui Castle, and Wei will become suspicious of Jiang Wei. Once this happens head over to Jiang Wei. Jiang Wei will attempt to turn around and head back to Tian Shui Castle, don't let him. Cut him down while he tries to head back. He will be in hyper mode and he gets a defense x2 bonus as well as a musou rage bonus when enough of his health has been knocked down, so he's a bit annoying to kill. Now head back up to Tian Shui Castle. Kill some generic soldiers around the castle while you wait for Ma Zun to give up and flee from the castle. Once he does a new defeat condition will appear: if Ma Zun reaches the escape point. So simply kill him before he reaches the escape point and you'll win. He's not on a horse so it shouldn't be too hard. O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | 228 A.D. - Battle of Jie Ting [TING] | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | | | WEI FORCES | SHU FORCES | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | "Defeat the enemy bases and surround | "Protect Ma Su from the enemy as he | | the enemy general Ma Su!" | advances to the summit!" | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DIFFICULTY | DIFFICULTY | | 2 stars (**) | 2 stars (**) | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | TIME LIMIT | TIME LIMIT | | 60'00"00 | 60'00"00 | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | VICTORY | VICTORY | | Defeat Ma Su | Defeat Cao Pi | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DEFEAT | DEFEAT | | Cao Pi or Sima Yi is defeated | Ma Su is defeated or the main | | | camp is taken | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | ENEMY FORCES | ENEMY FORCES | | Ma Su | Sima Yi | | Li Yan | Sima Zhao | | Jian Yong | Xiahou Wei | | Chen Shi | Zhang He | | Jiang Wei | Zhen Ji | | Zhang Yi | Xu Huang | | Wang Ping | Jia Kui | | Guan Xing | Cao Zhen | | Gao Xiang | Zhang Hu | | Liao Hua | Xin Pi | | Ma Dai | Cao Hong | | Zhang Bao | Deng Ai | | Wei Yan* | Fei Yao | | Xing Cai* | Wang Lang | | Ma Chao* | Xu Zhu* | | Zhuge Liang* | Cao Pi* | | | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O WEI FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Isolate Ma Su by killing Gao Xiang and Wang Ping. Once that's done head back up to the mountain to attack Ma Su, and kill Zhang Bao on the way. Now go up and kill Ma Su, he'll be hiding in the base. Once that's done you'll have to wait for the rest of the Shu reinforcements to arrive and kill all of them. While you're waiting go kill Jiang Wei and Ma Dai. Jiang Wei is in hyper mode, but he doesn't get any bonuses or go into musou rage so killing him isn't too bad. Eventually Wei Yan will some up as the first reinforcement in the lower right hand portion of the map. Shortly after Xing Cai will show up in the enemy main base at the lower left hand portion of the map. Then after her Ma Chao will show up at the southern checkpoint in the middle of the map. And finally after him Zhuge Liang will appear in the enemy main camp. Note that Sima Yi says to kill all of the enemy reinforcements, but really all you have to do is kill Zhuge Liang once he shows up for the battle to end. SHU FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wait for Ma Su to take the neutral base on the mountain before advancing too far into enemy lines. If you start down on the southern road secure the enemy checkpoint and take out Deng Ai. Once Ma Su reaches the top of the mountain a Wei task force will appear and will collapse the bridge (this event is unstoppable.) Now let's go rescue this idiot. Go kill Cao Zhen and Zhang He. Now Sima Yi will say they're going to retake the foot of the mountain - stop this plan by killing Fei Yao, Wang Lang and Sima Yi. Now that all of that is taken care of just finish off the remaining units and go kill Cao Pi once he arrives to end the battle. O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | 229 A.D. - Battle of Chen Cang [CHEN] | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | | | WEI FORCES | SHU FORCES | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | "Defend Chen Cang Castle from Shu and | "Use your siege weapons in order to | | their siege weapons!" | take Wei's Chen Cang Castle!" | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DIFFICULTY | DIFFICULTY | | 3 stars (***) | 3 stars (***) | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | TIME LIMIT | TIME LIMIT | | 60'00"00 | 60'00"00 | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | VICTORY | VICTORY | | Defeat Zhuge Liang | Defeat Sima Yi | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DEFEAT | DEFEAT | | Sima Yi is defeated | Zhuge Liang is defeated | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | ENEMY FORCES | ENEMY FORCES | | Jiang Wei | Sima Yi | | Fei Yi | Sima Zhao | | Huang Zhong | Jia Kui | | Yan Yan | Cao Ren | | Wei Yan | Wang Shuang | | Ma Dai | Fei Yao | | Guan Xing | Zhang Hu | | Liao Hua | Zhang He | | Zhang Bao | Xiahou Hui | | Zhang Yi | Xiahou Ba | | Wang Ping | Sun Li | | Gao Xiang | Liu Ye | | Yue Ying* | Hao Zhao | | Chen Shi* | Xiahou Wei | | Jiang Wan* | Wang Lang | | Li Yan* | Hua Xin | | Zhuge Liang* | Cao Xiu* | | Yang Yi* | Cao Hong* | | | Cao Zhen* | | | Guo Huai* | | | Xu Zhu* | | | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O WEI FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First close off the two enemy checkpoints on the top, larger portion of the castle where you start off. Zhang Yi will also be up here to start by the lower checkpoint, so kill him once you see him. Go up to the northern checkpoint and also that as well. Gao Xiang should be up there also, so kill him once you see him too. Now go down the eastern path and kill Wang Ping. You can destroy the ram that should be there too if you want. Take down the enemy checkpoint halfway down the eastern slope, and then continue downward. You should run into Wei Yan who is heading up the slope, kill him once you do. Now head down to the eastern most base and take it capture the armory and stop the rams. Yue Ying will arrive in the central area of the map afterwards. There are four officers hanging out around the center base right now, so take on this area with caution if your character isn't very powerful. You should be able to deal with Zhang Bao in the north without any disruption, but Yue Ying likes to join in the fight when you go to take down Jiang Wei. Kill all of the officers around this area and then take down the central base to cut off their supply of siege ramps. After doing this Jiang Wan's unit will show up at the southeastern corner of the map as enemy reinforcements. Either go kill him or just ignore him and continue on. Now go take down the last enemy base, and Huang Zhong who should be hanging around it. After you take down the last base Zhuge Liang will appear at the main camp (right next to where you're at.) Go kill him to finish the battle. SHU FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clear out all of the enemy forces by the castles main walls (where the seige ramps are heading.) There are several enemy sub-officers here, so make sure you kill all of them. Don't bother waiting for the seige ramps to set up, since they take a long time, plus as long as the castles defenses are up they will probably just keep getting destroyed (not to mention you can't go up one on a horse...) So that leaves the only other route for getting inside the castle the eastern path, so go head on up it. As you advance up the eastern path you'll run into several enemy ambush units. Just ignore them and continue on up the path. Once you're inside the main castle kill Zhang He and his four sub-officers and secure the three enemy checkpoints. See those three defense captains lined up along the castles outer edge? You'll want to kill them, but not just yet! First, kill Cao Ren. If you kill even just one of the defense captains first, Cao Ren will go into hyper mode. So instead just kill Cao Ren first, THEN kill the three defense captains to put a stop to the castles defenses. Killing Cao Ren will open up the east gate. From here it's up to you if you want to go through the inner west gate and kill Hao Zhao and the defense captain that's stopping any allied soldiers into the western side of the castle. If not then head north and kill Hua Xin to open the inner east gate. Then finally kill Wang Lang to open the last castle gate leading to Sima Yi. Depending on how long it takes you to finish this battle you may see all or none of the enemy reinforcements. In total five officers show up as reinforcements, all of which show up near your three bases to the south. O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | 234 A.D. - Battle of He Fei Castle [HFCA] | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | | | WEI FORCES | WU FORCES | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | "Meet Wu's attack from within your | "Use superior strategy to overtake | | castle and wait for them to tire!" | Wei's mammoth He Fei Castle!" | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DIFFICULTY | DIFFICULTY | | 5 stars (*****) | 5 stars (*****) | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | TIME LIMIT | TIME LIMIT | | 90'00"00 | 90'00"00 | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | VICTORY | VICTORY | | Defeat Sun Quan | Defeat Cao Pi | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DEFEAT | DEFEAT | | Cao Pi is defeated | Sun Quan is defeated | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | ENEMY FORCES | ENEMY FORCES | | Sun Quan | Cao Pi | | Zhuge Jin | Zhen Ji | | Zhuge Luo | Xin Pi | | Lu Xun | Jia Kui | | Zhu Zhi | Sima Yi | | Han Dang | Sima Zhao | | Zhou Fan | Xu Zhu | | Taishi Ci | Xu Huang | | Quan Zong | Sun Li | | Zhu Huan | Xiahou Ba | | Zhou Tai | Xiahou Wei | | Cheng Pu | Cao Ren | | Ding Feng | Cao Zhang | | Xu Sheng | Cao Xiu | | Ma Zhong | Cao Hong | | Jiang Qin* | Xiahou Shang | | Chen Wu* | Wang Lang | | Pan Zhang* | Wen Pin | | Dong Xi* | Cao Zhen | | Sun Shao* | Xiahou Hui | | Zhang Cheng* | Cao Rui* | | | Man Chong* | | | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O WEI FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This castle is huge, and what you want to do first usually all depends on where you start out in the castle. If you start on the right side then make your way down to the bottom, killing Taishi Ci's two sub-officers along the way, and then finally Taishi Ci himself. Then make your way across the southern portion of the castle - all three of Lu Xun's sub-officers are scattered about down here, so kill them all. Find Lu Xun's ram, it should be in the castle by now nearing the main gate, if it isn't there already. Once you've found it destroy it. If you start out on left side then make your way down killing Cheng Pu's three sub-officers along the way. Quickly dip outside the castle and kill Cheng Pu once you're at the western gate, then go back inside the castle and make your way across the southern portion. Kill Lu Xun's three sub-officers who are scattered about down here, and find his ram and destroy it as well. Then make your way over to the east side of the castle and kill Taishi Ci. After about five minutes into the battle the Wu navy will appear over at the eastern gate, so make sure around the five minute mark you're there waiting for them. Since you destroyed the first ram Lu Xun will call up another one from the boat here. It will appear right on the first boat, which is where you should be, so just destroy it right away. Now go kill Jiang Qin and Pan Zhang who are part of the fleet. Shortly after the Wu navy appears enemy reinforcements will show up on the mountain at the top left corner of the map. Head straight up and kill Sun Shao's unit to remove this threat. Once that's done all that's really left to do is to kill any remaining officers and then Sun Quan himself to end the battle. Good luck. WU FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is pretty straight forward. You want to open all three of the main outer gates so your entire army can storm the castle. Once you open whichever one you decide to open first, go around and open the other two, just ignore the enemy officers for now. After that's done it's time to advance into the castle. Unfortunately killing Xu Huang won't open the main gate, but kill him anyway before advancing through the right or left side. Pick either the right or left side, and make your way into the castle. Kill all officers and sub-officers that you meet along your route. There are annoying fire spitting lions along each path, but they're easy to ignore just go straight through them. Head down to the main gate, which you are now on the other side of. Head up the stairs to the right and left of the gate to find the two defense captains. Kill both of them to stop the catapults, allowing your ram to break down the main gate (after... a long time.) After that all there really is to do anymore is to proceed through the castle killing the rest of the enemy officers until you get to Cao Pi. Finish off Cao Pi to end the battle victorious. O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | 234 A.D. - Battle of Bai Di Castle [BAID] | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | | | WU FORCES | SHU FORCES | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | "Surround Bai Di Castle from three | "Defend Bai Di Castle from Wu and | | sides and defeat the Shu ruler!" | hold out for victory!" | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DIFFICULTY | DIFFICULTY | | 5 stars (*****) | 5 stars (*****) | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | TIME LIMIT | TIME LIMIT | | 90'00"00 | 90'00"00 | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | VICTORY | VICTORY | | Defeat Liu Chan | Defeat Sun Quan | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DEFEAT | DEFEAT | | Sun Quan is defeated | Liu Chan is defeated | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | ENEMY FORCES | ENEMY FORCES | | Liu Chan | Sun Quan | | Jiang Wan | Zhuge Jin | | Fei Yi | Zhuge Luo | | Yang Yi | Lu Xun | | Ma Chao | Cheng Pu | | Ma Dai | Huang Gai | | Huang Zhong | Quan Zong | | Wang Ping | Zhu Huan | | Yan Yan | Zhou Tai | | Jiang Wei | Xu Sheng | | Li Yan | Chen Wu | | Gao Xiang | Zhou Fang | | Xing Cai | Ding Feng | | Zhang Bao | Han Dang | | Zhang Yi | Jiang Qin | | Guan Xing | Sun Shao | | Guan Suo | Zhang Cheng | | Liao Hua | Gan Ning* | | Yue Ying* | Pan Zhang* | | Jian Yong* | | | | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O WU FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Most of the main officers are over on the eastern side of the map, hanging out around Bai Di Castle itself. Huang Zhong is really the only one near where you start, so start off by killing him first. I suggest you take the two enemy bases to the north of your main camp as well. Some peasants will join to fight for the Shu army, and after a little bit Ma Chao's unit will head for the mountain pass and disappear from the map briefly. Push a little bit into the central path leading up to Bai Di Castle. Kill Xing Cai's two sub-officers, Zhang Bao and Zhang Yi, and take the enemy base in this area. But don't go any further than that, and don't engage Xing Cai just yet. Now I suggest going down to the southern path and helping out your forces there a bit. Take the enemy checkpoint and base, and defeat any sub- officers in the area. Continue up the southern path towards Bai Di Castle. Although this is the longest route, you don't have to deal with any annoying arbalests. The central path has the most arbalests, and the northern path is Jiang Wei's little stone maze. This isn't really a maze though, all you do is follow the path (you can only go one direction) until you get to the middle room, where there is a statue. Destroy the statue and some petty soldiers appear. Kill them all to open the door leading up to the castle. Don't venture to far towards the castle though, because Ma Chao will soon be reappearing at your main base near Sun Quan to kill him. Once he does head straight back and take him out. He will be in hyper mode, and gets an attack x2 bonus and also goes into musou rage mode. Once Ma Chao is taken care of continue your assault on Bai Di Castle. The castle is very annoying, as there are arbalests everywhere. As I said earlier, I suggest taking the southern route to Bai Di Castle. Even though it's long, there aren't as many annoying arbalests. Also when you're down there you'll want to secure the checkpoint at the right corner of the map so your allied reinforcements can arrive. From there head north and kill Guan Xing and take the two enemy bases. Kill Yang Yi to open the rear gate. You'll be greeted by an arbalest, so go inside the castle to find yet another arbalest right behind the first one. Destroy that one, then destroy the one facing the gate. Then go around the castle destroying all of the other arbalests inside from behind. The northern gate will be open, so go through it and kill Jiang Wei then return to the castle and go to the main gate (south). Kill Jiang Wan to open the main gate. Now kill Xing Cai. She'll be in hyper mode, so destroy the first arbalest on the hill leading up to the castle (the one right outside the main gate) to get an attack x2 bonus. Use that to help kill her. Once Yue Ying shows up go kill her as well. Now all that there is left to do is to kill Liu Chan, so go do that to finish the battle. SHU FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wu will be all around Bai Di Castle, so you'll want to focus on pushing them back. Kill Zhou Tai and Chen Wu to the north, then clear out the middle area of a bunch of soldiers and any sub-officers hanging around. From the middle go down to the southern path and hit Wu from behind: kill Sun Shao and Huang Gai. Make sure you push all the way up to Huang Gai and kill him, as he tends to lay waste to Huang Zhong pretty quickly. Once you see the battle message saying that Ma Chao is moving to rescue the peasant militia, meet up with him in the middle area of the town. This is all you have to do to rescue the militia. Kill Lu Xun and Ding Feng while you're down here. Eventually Gan Ning and Pan Zhang will show up as reinforcements. Once they do make sure you go kill Gan Ning first, because he tends to make quick work of Huang Zhong if he's still in the area. When you approach Sun Quan you'll fall into a trap of his, and his unit will disappear and an ambush unit will appear. He will reappear down at the real main camp, which is at the lower left hand corner of the map. So now head down there to find him and kill him. O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | 234 A.D. - Battle of Wu Zhang Plains [WUZP] | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | | | WEI FORCES | SHU FORCES | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | "Hold off the Shu onslaught and wait | "Hurry and defeat the Wei Commander.| | for a chance to strike back!" | Don't forget the supply route!" | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DIFFICULTY | DIFFICULTY | | 5 stars (*****) | 5 stars (*****) | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | TIME LIMIT | TIME LIMIT | | 90'00"00 | 90'00"00 | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | VICTORY | VICTORY | | Defeat Zhuge Liang | Defeat Sima Yi | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | DEFEAT | DEFEAT | | Sima Yi is defeated or the main camp | Zhuge Liang is defeated | | is taken | | |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | ENEMY FORCES | ENEMY FORCES | | Zhuge Liang | Sima Yi | | Jiang Wei | Guo Huai* | | Jiang Wan | Xiahou He | | Yang Yi | Xin Pi | | Yue Ying | Zhen Ji | | Gao Xiang | Cao Ren | | Chen Shi | Xiahou Hui | | Wei Yan | Xiahou Mao | | Li Yan | Xu Zhu | | Guan Xing | Cao Xiu | | Zhang Bao | Wen Pin | | Wang Ping | Sun Li | | Zhang Yi* | Cao Rui | | Liao Hua | Xiahou Wei | | Fei Yi | Wang Lang | | Ma Dai | Xiahou Ba | | Guan Suo* | Sima Zhao | | Jian Yong* | Zhong Hui* | | Zuo Ci* | Deng Ai* | | | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O | | O~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~O WEI FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At the start of the battle, all of the main Shu officers will be on the other side of the river. First go around and start taking down the enemy bases on your side of the river. Wei Yan's three sub-officers will also be lurking around the bases, so kill them as you run into them. Clear out any soldiers by the front of your three bases; try to prevent the enemy from advancing into any of your three bases. Once Zhong Hui and Deng Ai arrive as reinforcements they will be ambushed by Zhang Yi. Quickly run over to Zhong Hui and kill Zhang Yi to save him. You'll need to escort him into the first base there in order for him to start setting up the catapults. Problem is the gate will most likely be closed since enemies will be near the area. Clear out the area of all nearby enemies to open up the gate so Zhong Hui can go inside. By now Wei Yan and Ma Dai will have pushed across the river and will probably be close to each other in the middle of the map. Go over and kill them, but be careful as those two can quickly bring down an underpowered character. Around this time the enemy supply line will be spotted, so go over to the middle checkpoint on the right side of the map and kill the defense captain standing by it to cut off the supply line. Might as well close that enemy checkpoint while you're there as well. Your forces on the left will probably be getting pummeled by Wang Ping by now, so go help them out. Once Wang Ping is dead Zhuge Liang will pass away, and Jiang Wei will now become Commander of the Shu army. The Shu army will start to retreat, so now let's go push them back. Cross the river and kill Liao Hua. Once you've crossed the river Guan Suo will appear as reinforcements on the left side of the map, so go kill him. Another ambush will appear, this will consist of Jian Yong on the northern part of the map to the right, and a large enemy group of arbalests on top of the hill in the middle of the map. I say just push past them and ignore them and continue to the enemy main camp. If you wish to finish off Yue Ying and Jian Yong then go right ahead. Note that there are some exploding pots near Yue Ying, and you have to kill the two task leaders to disable them. There are also juggernauts both where Yue Ying and Jiang Wei are, which adds for some extra fun. Kill Jiang Wei to end the battle. SHU FORCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Advance across the river and take down the two front enemy bases to secure the supply line. Next you have to escort the wooden oxen to the front lines. So head over to the left side of the map and secure the central checkpoint, then start clearing out the area of enemies. Cao Rui and his sub-officer, Wang Lang, should be around this area, so kill them once you run into them. By now Cao Xiu and Zhong Hui are probably pushing down on the right side, so quickly run over and dispose of them. Close off the enemy checkpoint in the center on the right if you haven't by now. Now it's time to start advancing on the enemy bases. I suggest going to the base all the way on the left, and you'll see why in just a second. Kill the gate captain at the left base and enter it. Once you enter it, Deng Ai's unit till appear directly to your north, at the checkpoint on the left. He will start heading towards Cao Ren's location. If he reaches it, he will set up the catapults and go into hyper mode. Therefore you'll want to kill him before he can reach his objective. Killing him is kind of annoying though, because he won't really attack you he'll just keep trying to run to his objective. Don't let him get away, make sure you kill Deng Ai. Now that that's taken care of, go back to the left base and finish taking it. Then go take the other three bases and kill off all of the officers on the front line (Zhen Ji, Cao Ren, Xu Zhu.) If you advance towards Sima Yi on the left, Xiahou Ba will order a rockslide. Climb to the top of the hill and kill him to stop it. If you advance towards Sima Yi on the right side, Sima Zhao's ambush unit will appear. Just kill all of the soldiers and Sima Zhao himself to eliminate the threat. Whichever way you go, advance towards Sima Yi and kill him to end the battle. _______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 07. ITEMS [ITEM] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Much like the previous Dynasty Warrior games, you can buff up each officer by equipping different items to them. Each officer has 7 max slots available to equip items. One of the slots is for a "saddle" type of item only, another one of the slots is for an "orb" type of item only, and the other remaining 5 slots are for what I call "general" types of items. Of course when you first start playing as a new officer (as in he has no current experience) there will be only 2 general item slots available. The rest will become available as the officer gains experience. Now as for the type of different items in the game, I've broken them down into three different categories: in-game items, regular items, and rare items. Regular items and rare items are the types of items that can be permanently equipped to your character, like discussed in the above paragraph. In-game items are items that are dropped by dead enemies during the battle. These types of items offer some type of boost to your officer. This boost may be a permanent boost in your characters stats, or it can be just a temporary boost that only lasts for a short amount of time. For more information about all of these different types of items please refer to the respective sections below. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- IN-GAME ITEMS [INGM] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- In-game items are items that offer some type of boost to your character during the battle. Most of the time these boosts are temporary, lasting a small set amount of time. These types of in-game items can be found by breaking open crates or urns, or are dropped by dead soldiers. There are also some in-game items that offer a permanent boost to your stats. These are usually dropped by officers or sub-officers, but a few of them can also be found by smashing open some urns. More information on all of these types of items is listed below. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Recovery/Improvement | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Item | Effect | How to get it | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Meat Bun | Life +50 | Urns/Dropped by soldiers | | Meat Bun x2 | Life +100 | Urns/Dropped by soldiers | | Meat | Life +200 | Urns | | Whole Chicken | Life +400 | Urns | | Wine | Fills musou gauge | Dropped by dead soldiers/Dropped by | | | | Gate Captains | | Elixir | Fills musou and | Urns/Dropped by supply depot captains| | | life gauge | | | Quiver | | Crates/Dropped by archers | | Musou Token | Musou rage | Crates/Dropped by soldiers | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Temporary Ability Boosters | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Item | Effect | How to get it | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | War God's Axe | Atk x2 for 30 sec | Dropped by dead soldiers | | War God's Armor | Def x2 for 30 sec | Dropped by dead soldiers | | Speed Boots | Max speed 30 sec | Dropped by dead soldiers | | Imperial Seal | Unlimited musou | Dropped by dead soldiers | | | for 10 sec | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ability Boosters | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Item | Effect | How to get it | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Bronze Sword | Attack +1 | Dropped by officers & sub-officers/ | | | | Dropped by attack base captains | | Iron Sword | Attack +2 | Dropped by officers & sub-officers/ | | | | Dropped by attack base captains | | Silver Sword | Attack +4 | Dropped by officers & sub-officers | | Gold Sword | Attack +8 | Dropped by officers & sub-officers | | Privates Shield | Defense +1 | Dropped by officers & sub-officers/ | | | | Dropped by defense base captains | | Noblemans Shield | Defense +2 | Dropped by officers & sub-officers/ | | | | Dropped by defense base captains | | Generals Shield | Defense +4 | Dropped by officers & sub-officers | | Emperors Shield | Defense +8 | Dropped by officers & sub-officers | | Dim Sum | Life max +10 | Dropped by officers & sub-officers | | Large Dim Sum | Life max +20 | Dropped by officers & sub-officers | | Musou Wine | Musou max +10 | Urns | | Rice Wine | Musou max +20 | Urns | | Item Sack | Get an item | Crates/Dropped by officers and | | | | sub-officers | | Treasure Box | Get a weapon | Crates/Dropped by officers and | | | | sub-officers | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ **NOTE** Ability boosters effect your characters stats permanently. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- REGULAR ITEMS [REGU] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Regular items are items that you can equip to your character to give them a permanent stat boost/ability so long as the item is equipped. All regular items are equipped to a character via the "general" item slots. All of these items are found by collecting dropped item sacks in battle. All of these items have a level to them from 1-20. The higher the level, the greater the effect of the item. For example, a Level 20 Peacock Amulet will have a much greater increase to your health as opposed to a Level 5 Peacock Amulet. The level of the item is completely random, however playing a battle on a higher difficulty increases your chance of getting a higher level item. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Regular Items | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Item | Effect | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Peacock Amulet | Life MAX increases | | Dragon Amulet | Musou MAX increases | | Tiger Amulet | Attack increases | | Tortoise Amulet | Defense increases | | Speed Scroll | Character's speed increases | | Huang's Bow | Bow Attack & Defense increase | | Horned Helm | Mounted Attack & Defense increase | | Seven Star Sash | Luck increases | | Ginseng | Musou Gauge fills faster | | Herbal Remedy | Charge Attack strength increases | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- RARE ITEMS [RARE] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rare items act in the same way that regular items do: they are equipped to characters to give them a permanent ability/bonus/boost so long as the item is equipped. The difference is that rare items can only be found by completing certain requirements on specific stages. There are three types of rare items: harnesses, orbs, and general items. Each character can equip one harness item and one orb item. General items are equipped the same way regular items are. Rare items can be found on any difficulty EXCEPT for orbs. Orbs can only be found while playing on _HARD_ difficulty. When you successfully fulfill the requirements for a rare item, you will see the text show up that says "A valuable item has been discovered!" The words "valuable item" will be in green to make it stand out even more. If you forget where it is just go to the battlelog and find the valuable item message and highlight it. It will point to where it is. Go to that location and you'll find a crate that looks different then the regular wooden ones; it's red and gold. Smash it open to find a shiny bright red item sack. Then all you have to do is successfully complete the battle to nab the item for good. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Harnesses [HARN] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Red Hare Harness | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Effect : Begin stage mounted on Red Hare (fastest horse in the game) | | Stage : Battle of Chang Shan (Yuan Shao's forces) | | Requirement : Defeat Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, and Guan Yu within one minute of | | each other. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | For starters it's easiest to do this on easy difficulty, obviously. This | | makes it much quicker to kill the three officers. Zhang Fei and Guan Yu are | | sub-officers of Liu Bei, therefore you'll want to kill them before Liu Bei. | | Liu Bei guards the west gate of the castle, Zhang Fei guards the east gate, | | and Guan Yu guards the south gate. I suggest going through the east gate and| | defeating Zhang Fei first. That way you don't have to go running around back| | and forth. Kill the eastern gate captain to open the gate, then kill Zhang | | Fei who is standing right inside. Go down to the south gate and kill Guan | | Yu. Now head over to the west gate and kill Liu Bei. So long as you killed | | each of them within one minute of each other the valuable item report will | | appear near the outside of the western gate, by the enemy checkpoint. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Hex Mark Harness | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Effect : Begin stage mounted on Hex Mark (increases luck) | | Stage : Battle of Cheng Du (Liu Bei's forces) | | Requirement : Defeat Zhang Ren before he kills Pang Tong in an ambush. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | This is very simple, especially if you have it on easy difficulty. Once you | | start the stage just make a straight B-line for Zhang Ren. When you start | | going up the slope near him his ambush unit will appear. Just ignore them | | and go right up to Zhang Ren and kill him. The valuable item will appear | | towards the middle of the forest. If Pang Tong gets near Zhang Ren before | | you do and springs his ambush unit then he'll be killed and you won't be | | able to get the item. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Storm Harness | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Effect : Begin stage mounted on Storm Runner (increases mounted attack)| | Stage : Battle of Guan Du (Cao Cao's forces) | | Requirement : Defeat both Yan Liang and Wen Chou before Guan Yu does. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | All you have to do here is kill Yan Liang and Wen Chou before Guan Yu kills | | then. Guan Yu will kill them shortly after entering battle with them, so | | it helps if you already have another horse (preferably Red Hare, since that | | is the horse that Guan Yu has as well) so you can beat him to them. This is | | a four star stage, so I recommend you do it on easy mode also. Depending on | | what character you pick you'll start at a different place, but I suggest | | you kill Yan Liang first since that's who Guan Yu will head out for first. | | Once Yan Liang and Wen Chou are both dead the valuable item will appear up | | north by Yuan Shao's main camp, in the little strip of land to the right. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Shadow Harness | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Effect : Begin stage mounted on Shadow Runner (cannot fall off horse) | | Stage : Battle of Liang Province (Allied forces) | | Requirement : Defeat Zhang Ji and Hu Zhen within 45 seconds of their | | arrival. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | This requires a horse, preferably Red Hare. Zhang Ji and Hu Zhen will appear| | shortly after Dong Zhuo does. They appear at the checkpoints just past the | | enemy bases on the top right and bottom left corners of the map. To get | | Dong Zhuo to appear just kill all of the enemy officers. Once he's arrived, | | head out to one of those two bases, doesn't matter which. Just wait there. | | Once you hear Dong Zhuo say something about not coming with a plan, get | | ready, they're about to show up. Quickly kill one and then head down to the | | other (they'll start to make their way towards the middle area.) Obviously | | it helps if you have a buffed up character and are playing on easy. So long | | as you kill them within 45 seconds of their arrival you'll get the valuable | | item crate around the middle of the map. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Elephant Harness | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Effect : Begin stage mounted on Elephant | | Stage : Battle of Nan Zhong (Nanman forces) | | Requirement : Rescue Wu Tugu, King Mulu, and King Duosi within 5 minutes. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | For starters, kill Zhang Jiao and Pei Yuan Shao, who start off near your | | main camp. This will make the phantom army disappear and stop the threat of | | them attacking your main camp. Now to rescue your allies. Head north and | | kill Zhang Bao to rescue Wu Tugu. Head along the path and go kill Bo Zhang | | to rescue King Duosi. Now head south and kill Zhang Liang to rescue King | | Mulu. As long as you did all this within 5 minutes you'll receive the | | valuable item up in the middle of the poison swamp area. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Orbs [ORBS] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Fire Orb | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Effect : Add fire damage to attacks | | Stage : Battle of Si Shui Gate (Allied forces) | | Requirement : Get 200 KOs within 2 minutes of the battle start. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Even though it must be done on hard, this isn't too terribly difficult since| | Si Shui Gate is only a one star stage. You'll need a horse and a really | | buffed up character - a maxed out Lu Bu will work just fine. Head out to the| | middle area and you should have no problem racking up 200 kills there. I can| | usually get it by at least a minute and a half. Once you do the valuable | | item crate will appear in the supply depot at the top right corner of the | | map. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ice Orb | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Effect : Enemies may be temporarily frozen | | Stage : Battle of Guan Du (Yuan Shao's forces) | | Requirement : Defeat Cao Pi before Guan Yu kills Yan Liang and Wen Chou. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Guan Du on Yuan Shao's side is only a one star stage, so this isn't too | | difficult. Guan Yu will kill both Yan Liang and Wen Chou by 4 minutes, so | | you essentially have 4 minutes to kill Cao Pi. Simply rush Cao Pi and kill | | him as quickly as you can. The valuable item will appear inside Wu Chao. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Shadow Orb | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Effect : Empties Musou Gauge and enemies may be defeated in one blow | | Stage : Battle of Wu Zhang Plains (Wei forces) | | Requirement : Defeat Jiang Wei before Zhuge Liang dies. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | This will require the work of a very buffed (as in maxed out) character, | | since Wu Zhang Plains is a five star stage. The actual task itself is simple| | enough - just kill Jiang Wei before Zhuge Liang dies. So all you really need| | to do is rush Jiang Wei right at the start and you should have plenty of | | time to kill him, so long as you have a buffed up character. If Zhuge Liang | | dies then Jiang Wei will take control over the Shu army and once you kill | | him the battle will be over. Once you've done so the valuable item crate | | will appear a little south of Wei's central base, at the middle of the map. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Light Orb | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Effect : Attacks break through the enemy's guard | | Stage : Battle of Wu Zhang Plains (Shu forces) | | Requirement : Defeat Cao Ren, Xu Zhu, and Zhen Ji within 5 minutes of the | | battle start. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | You're going to need a really buffed up character for this since each of | | these guys takes quite a beating to go down. Cao Ren, Xu Zhu, and Zhen Ji | | are all behind Wei's three bases; Xu Zhu is near the left, Cao Ren is in | | the middle, and Zhen Ji is on the right. I suggest you either work from the | | left to the right or the right to the left, depending on which area you | | start at. If you go for Cao Ren first you'll have to run back and forth a | | bit to kill both Xu Zhu and Zhen Ji, and you'll need all the time you can | | get. Obviously a horse is also required. Once you've completed the | | requirements the valuable item will appear down on the Shu side of the | | river, a little to the left of the central plateau where the arbalests show | | up (it's on top of the mountain area, so you have to go all the way around | | and cross the river on the left side by where the Shu checkpoint is, then | | go up the hill there.) | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | General [GENE] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Art of War | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Effect : Ability boost items have longer effect | | Stage : Battle of Chi Bi (Cao Cao's forces) | | Requirement : Defeat Zhuge Liang as he's retreating. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | In order to get Zhuge Liang to retreat the fire attack must either be | | successful or prevented. To prevent the fire attack all you must do is | | defeat Huang Gai. This is the quickest way to make Zhuge Liang retreat since| | you don't have to wait around for the fire attack to succeed. To get Huang | | Gai to show up just go down to the boat where Zhou Tai is. Huang Gai will | | appear and start heading towards the one boat, kill him before he gets | | there. Once you've killed him start heading over towards Zhuge Liang. After | | a little bit you'll hear Zhuge Liang say that this fight no longer has any | | need for him, and you'll get a message saying that he's retreating. Now is | | the time to defeat him. Once he's defeated the valuable item will appear | | on one of the boats towards the center of the map. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Survival Guide | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Effect : Attack doubles when knocked down and health is low | | Stage : Battle of Hu Lao Gate (Dong Zhuo's forces) | | Requirement : Defeat Liu Bei, Cao Cao, Sun Jian, and Gongsun Zan. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | This is an easy one, all you have to do is defeat Liu Bei, Cao Cao, Sun | | Jian, and Gongsun Zan. Once you do the valuable item will appear on the | | eastern path leading towards Hu Lao Gate. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Bodyguard Manual | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Effect : Bodyguards become stronger | | Stage : Guan Yu's Escape (Guan Yu's forces) | | Requirement : Defeat Zhang Liao, Kong Xiu, Han Fu, Bian Xi, and Xu Huang. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | This is simple enough. All of these officers are along the path you must | | take, and you have to defeat them to open up the gates anyway. Just make | | sure you actually defeat Zhang Liao and he doesn't retreat, or else you | | won't get it. The valuable item appears near where you start, right before | | the first gate. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Demon Band | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Effect : Extends the length of the Musou Rage | | Stage : Battle of Xi Liang (Yellow Turbans) | | Requirement : Defeat Ma Chao after he arrives. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | First thing you should do is rescue Zhang Liang. Do this by first claiming | | the neutral base near your main camp. Then go and defeat the base that | | Zhang Liang is outside of. Once you do it should say that he's heading for | | the base. Once Zhang Liang is inside the base and has been rescued just | | wait around that area for a bit. Shortly after Ma Chao will show up. Now | | just quickly defeat him for the item to appear. The valuable items shows up | | on the alter at the main camp where Zhang Bao is. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Way of Musou | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Effect : Can use True Musou Attack regardless of health | | Stage : Battle of Mt. Ding Jun (Shu forces) | | Requirement : Defeat Xiahou Yuan before Cao Cao arrives. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | It takes about 5 minutes for Cao Cao to show up, so this isn't too hard. | | Still, Xiahou Yuan is in hyper mode, so unless your character is pretty | | buffed up it's best to do this on easy mode just to kill Xiahou Yuan | | quickly. As long as Xiahou Yuan is defeated before Cao Cao arrives the | | valuable item will appear at the Shu checkpoint on the top left corner of | | the map. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Wind Scroll | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Effect : Attack range increases | | Stage: : Battle of He Fei Castle (Wu forces) | | Requirement : Defeat Cao Ren within 5 minutes of the battle starting. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Five minutes is plenty of time to defeat Cao Ren, so this isn't too | | difficult. Don't bother waiting for the ram to destroy the central door that| | Cao Ren is behind, it takes too long. You have to go around one of the | | sides. You'll have to defeat one other officer to open one of the doors on | | either side, but other than that just ignore everyone else and go straight | | for Cao Ren. Once he's defeated the valuable item will appear in the next | | section of the castle along the right wall. Defeat Xu Zhu to gain access to | | the area and grab the item. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Fire Arrows | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Effect : Can use fire arrows | | Stage : Battle of Ji Province (Yuan Shao's forces) | | Requirement : Defeat Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang before defeating Pei Yuan | | Shao. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | This is easy enough, just make sure Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang are defeated | | before you defeat Pei Yuan Shao. Once Pei Yuan Shao is defeated then the | | valuable item will appear near the enemy base on the lower right corner of | | the map. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Arm Guards | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Effect : No damage taken during charge attacks | | Stage : Battle of Si Shui Gate (Dong Zhuo's forces) | | Requirement : Defeat Sun Jian before Cao Cao's unit arrives. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | It takes awhile for Cao Cao to arrive, so you have plenty of time to kill | | Sun Jian. You might as well just rush him, it doesn't take much to take him | | down. Once he's defeated the valuable item appears in the middle of the | | small strip of land to the north of Si Shui Gate. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Tiger Collar | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Effect : Being stage accompanied by a tiger | | Stage : Struggle for Nan Zhong (Meng Huo's forces) | | Requirement : Defeat 3 beastmasters within one minute of the battle start. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | The beastmasters are over by King Mulu's unit, so a horse is obviously | | required for this. It only takes a few seconds to get over there on a | | horse, and even less time to actually kill three beastmasters. Once you've | | completed it the valuable item will appear down in your main camp on the | | right side. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Green Scroll | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Effect : Attack increases but defense decreases | | Stage : Battle of Jie Ting (Shu forces) | | Requirement : Rescue Ma Su by defeating Cao Zhen, Zhang He, Xu Zhu and | | Sima Yi. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | When the battle starts wait for Ma Su to reach the top of the mountain. A | | Wei task force will appear and will collapse the bridge, isolating Ma Su. | | Now go and defeat Cao Zhen and Zhang He to secure the mountain foot. Sima | | Yi will say something about recapturing the foot, and will start to move to | | the center of the map. Ignore him for now, for Xu Zhu should have shown up | | by now and will be heading for the main camp. Go hunt him down and defeat | | him. Now go defeat Sima Yi to rescue Ma Sa and to get the item. The valuable| | item will appear down along the southern road near the enemy checkpoint. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Musou Armor | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Effect : Wearer not stunned by bow attacks | | Stage : Conquest of Nan Zhong (Nanman forces) | | Requirement : Destroy all 7 juggernauts within 5 minutes of destroying the | | first one. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | I would recommend doing this on easy since it doesn't take as much to | | destroy the juggernauts. To get the juggernauts to appear go up to the | | northern center of the map where Yue Ying is. There will be 7 juggernauts in| | total, and once you destroy one you have 5 minutes to destroy the others. | | They're all in that one little area so it shouldn't be too difficult. Once | | you've done this the valuable item will appear in the southern area of the | | base where Wu Tugu is. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Tribal Remedy | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Effect : Health recovers for every 100 enemies defeated | | Stage : Battle of He Fei Castle (Wei forces) | | Requirement : Destroy both rams and defeat Jiang Qin, Pan Zhang, and Sun | | Shao | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Head down to the main gate of the castle to find the first ram. Depending on| | how quick you get there it could still be near the gate to the left of Lu | | Xun which is where it comes from. Either way, once you find it, destroy it. | | Now head over to where the Wu navy shows up and wait for them there. Once | | they appear another ram will show up there on the boat, so destroy it. Then | | kill Jiang Qin and Pan Zhang. Soon after Sun Shao will show up near Cao Pi, | | so run up there and kill him as well. The valuable item will show up on top | | of the inner castle wall, to the right of the central door. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Serpent Earrings | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Effect : Attack increases for every 100 enemies defeated | | Stage : Battle of He Fei (Wu forces) | | Requirement : Defeat Xu Huang and Xiahou Dun within 1 minute of their | | appearance | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | As long as you have a horse, this is actually pretty easy (especially if you| | have the difficulty on easy.) Xu Huang appears in the southwestern corner | | of the map once you approach the area, so quickly go kill him once he does. | | Xiahou Dun shows up at the very top right corner of the map, shortly after | | Zhang Liao appears for the second time. He immediately starts making his | | way south, so make sure you're waiting for him. So long as you killed them | | both within a minute of their appearance the valuable item will appear by | | the southern left checkpoint near the middle of the map. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.0 FOURTH WEAPONS [WEAP] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ In Dynasty Warriors 5, each character has four different weapons. The first weapon is the characters default weapon, and the second and third weapon can both be found by playing various stages and collecting weapon crates that are either in boxes scattered throughout each stage or dropped by a defeated officer. Each weapon is better than its predecessor, with more attacking power and more attacks in general. Each character has one fourth weapon that is considered their "ultimate" weapon. Fourth weapons differ from the regular first three weapons in several aspects: - They have a set weight: either light, normal or heavy. The weight is not a random value set when you acquire the weapon. - They have set attributes. These also are not randomly assigned when you acquire the weapon. - After 100 kills, as long as the characters fourth weapon is equipped, you will be dropped a musou rage token. This is one of the best aspects of using a characters fourth weapon. - Every fourth weapon has evolution built into it. Much like special/rare items, fourth weapons can only be gotten on certain stages after certain criteria are met. For one, you must be playing on hard or chaos difficulty. Secondly, you must be playing as the character with which you're trying to acquire the weapon: meaning if you're trying to get Zhao Yun's fourth weapon, you must be playing the stage as Zhao Yun. As far as I know, no two player trick can be used to get the weapon (this was a favorite method for obtaining some of the harder ultimate weapons on previous DW games.) After you successfully meet all of the requirements you will get a valuable item report showing you where on the map the weapon can be picked up, much like with special/rare items. The crate that the weapon is in will look the same as the crate for special/rare items: gold with some red on it. And when you smash it open the weapon crate will be glowing a might brighter red then normal. I usually suggest you save after getting the fourth weapon, as some of these stages and requirements can be pretty damn difficult. Now whether or not some characters fourth weapons are actually an _improvement_ over possible third weapon combinations is up to debate. You see the attributes on the first three weapons are random and will be different for every weapon you find. Therefore some players have found that for some characters, who have what are considered rather poor fourth weapons, finding a good third weapon with better attributes is more desirable then just using their actual fourth weapon. Personally I just use every characters fourth weapon once I have acquired it. While I agree that some fourth weapons are pretty poor, I believe the fact that you get a musou rage token for every 100 kills plus the inherent evolution and extra power boost is worth it. But to each their own. In this section I will list the exact requirements for obtaining each characters fourth weapon as well as what stage it must be obtained on. I will list the info of the weapon, as well as what strategy I have found useful in obtaining the weapon. I will also rate the difficulty of obtaining the weapon from 1 to 5; 1 being very easy and 5 being very hard. This section will now be further subdivided into each of the three kingdoms. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- SHU [SHUW] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Zhao Yun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SW01] Guan Yu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SW02] Zhang Fei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SW03] Zhuge Liang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SW04] Liu Bei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SW05] Ma Chao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SW06] Huang Zhong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SW07] Jiang Wei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SW08] Wei Yan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SW09] Pang Tong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SW10] Yue Ying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SW11] Guan Ping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SW12] Xing Cai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SW13] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Zhao Yun [SW01] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ FIERCE DRAGON - Power: 36 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Medium - Attributes: Charge +16 Atk +17 Life +17 Def +17 Musou +17 Stage: Battle of Cheng Du (Liu Bei's forces) Requirement: Capture Luo Castle Strategy: This is pretty easy. Zhao Yun starts right near the southern fort, so go forward and kill Lei Tong to open the east gate. Now go kill Liu Xun, who is hiding in the southern corner of the fort. Next go and kill the two guard captains guarding the north and west gate. Once both of the gates are open you'll see a message saying that Luo Castle has been captured and the valuable item will appear right in the center of the castle, near the well. Grab it and then finish the stage to claim the weapon. Difficulty: 1/5 - This is very easy. Zhao Yun should have no problem tearing through these guys, especially since this is an easy stage and Zhao Yun is a pretty good character. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Guan Yu [SW02] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ BLUE MOON DRAGON - Power: 38 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Light - Attributes: Charge +16 Def +17 Life +18 Horse +16 Atk +18 Stage: Battle of Fan Castle (Shu forces) Requirement: Defeat Niu Jin and Yue Jin before the water attack, and then make sure the water attack is successful. Strategy: Yue Jin and Niu Jin are two sub-officers of Cao Ren who start off the battle at the very north section of the map. It just so happens that they are the ones who push Guan Pings unit, trying to prevent the water attack. So getting rid of them will essentially make the water attack successful here anyway, so you're pretty much killing two birds with one stone. So once the battle starts head north towards Guan Ping and you should run into Niu Jin first. Once you find him go ahead and kill him. Yue Jin will be hanging out near that base to the north (directly in front of you), so head over there and kill him also. Depending on how long it took you to kill Niu Jin he could actually be making his way over to you. Either way, just find him and kill him. Now you just have to wait for the water attack to succeed. In the mean time you can go and take down some enemy bases or defeat some officers. The hardest part of this level is probably killing Pang De after the water attack, but here's a little trick to make things much easier: first, make sure Guan Yu has Red Hare or at least some horse. Once Niu Jin and Yue Jin is defeated, go down to where Pang De is and knock him off his horse. Now just gallop around in a circle around Pang De. Wait until you hear a soldier say that the river is going to flood any second now. Keep going around in a circle. Once you see a message telling you to escape to higher group, quickly run up the slope onto land. The river will flood, and Pang De will still be in the ditch, therefore he will be dead! The bridge will appear, and the valuable item is inside Fan Castle all the way in the right corner. Difficulty: 2/5 - Finishing the stage is actually harder then getting the weapon itself. However it's much easier if you use the strategy I supplied above for killing Pang De; otherwise he's pretty annoying to kill. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Zhang Fei [SW03] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ VIPER BLADE - Power: 39 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Light - Attributes: Fill +16 Def +15 Musou +17 Horse +16 Atk +19 Stage: Battle of Chang Ban (Liu Bei's forces) Requirement: Defeat Xiahou Dun, Wen Pin, and Xiahou En, without any of three crossing the bridge Strategy: Go directly forward to find Wen Pin and kill him. Now continue forward to meet up with Xiahou Dun; kill him as well. Now just to kill Xiahou En, who is probably still all the way back on the far left corner of the map. Take a little trip down there and kill him once you find him. The valuable weapon will appear on the bridge. You'll have a little bit of a mess to clean up now in the south, seeing as how the enemy forces probably took most of the neutral bases, and the fire attack will probably fail as well. But it's not a very hard stage so this shouldn't be too difficult to finish. Difficulty: 1.5/5 - You have to be pretty lazy (or really bad) to let any of these three cross the bridge. Once you run into them they'll engage you in battle, so it's not like they keep running for the bridge and you have to run them down. Plus the only one who even spawns remotely near the bridge is Wen Pin, and he can be taken out easily. Overall very easy fourth weapon. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Zhuge Liang [SW04] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ PEACOCK FEATHER - Power: 32 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Medium - Attributes: Charge +18 Bow +15 Musou +20 Fill +15 Def +18 Stage: Battle of Tian Shui (Shu forces) Requirement: Capture Nan An Castle and An Ding Castle, and then defeat Jiang Wei before he can return to Tian Shui Castle. Strategy: To take An Ding Castle defeat Cui Liang, and to take Nan An Castle defeat Xiahou Mao. Now while you wait for Ma Zun to get suspicious of Jiang Wei go take out some of the enemies in the north, including Wang Lang and Han De if you have time. After a little bit Zhuge Liang will release Xiahou Mao back into Tian Shui Castle, and he will tell Ma Zun that Jiang Wei has defected to Shu, making Ma Zun suspicious of Jiang Wei. Now head over to the right path where Jiang Wei is and take down the enemy base and secure the checkpoint. Wait around a little bit longer until you get the message saying that Jiang Wei is heading back to Tian Shui Castle. Now go attack Jiang Wei and kill him before he reaches the castle. Jiang Wei is in hyper mode, so killing him will be a little difficult, especially if Zhuge Liang isn't very buffed up. Just spam his musou to make short work of Jiang Wei, and use any musou rage tokens if you have any. A good method to killing him quickly is to approach him with a full musou, and quickly use the musou on him before you get a cutscene (he won't go into hyper mode until after the cutscene.) If you can land all direct hits on him he should be dead even before he can go into hyper mode! The valuable item will appear in the middle of Nan An Castle. Difficulty: 2/5 - If you can kill Jiang Wei before he goes into hyper mode then I would consider it a 1.5/5. After Jiang Wei is dead the rest of the battle is a breeze. Just make sure you kill Ma Zun before he has a chance to escape! .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Liu Bei [SW05] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ GOLD MOON DRAGON - Power: 34 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Medium - Attributes: Luck +20 Spd +18 Musou +15 Horse +15 Def +18 Stage: Battle of Yi Ling (Shu forces) Requirement: Defeat Ling Tong, Gan Ning, Sun Shang Xiang, and Lu Xun Strategy: Ok this may seem pretty difficult since you're killing four main officers, but it's really not that bad, so long as your Liu Bei isn't too underpowered. First I suggest just going around and clearing out the central area of enemies while you wait. I usually secure the checkpoint and enemy base thats right by where Liu Bei spawns, and then head north a bit and defeat Zhu Zhi and Han Dang. What you want to be watching out for is Ling Tong's unit: wait until you see him start to move up to where the bridge layer is on the mini map. Ling Tong starts pushing up once you get the message that the Wu army is falling back. Once he does, run over to the bridge and position yourself so you can see him across the river. Now start shooting charged arrows at him. You may have to kill a few generic soldiers that are in front of him in order to hit him directly. It took me 9 charged arrows to kill him. Once that's done just wait for the bridge to fall down, then cross it and kill Zhu Ran (you don't HAVE to prevent the fire attack, but it certainly helps and you might as well just do it.) Next kill Gan Ning who should be pushing down to where you are. Now go over to the right side of the map which is where Sun Shang Xiang should be. Approach her to see a cutscene, after which she will try to flee. Make sure you kill her, don't let her flee! She won't attack you, but she'll keep trying to run away, so stay ahead of her. After that just go kill Lu Xun. The valuable item will appear on the narrow right hand path, just below the river. Difficulty: 2/5 - Not very hard. Perhaps can be a little difficult if you don't use my strategy and kill Ling Tong with arrows from across the river, as Zhu Ran may end up being successful in the fire attack since he has Ling Tong there to distract you. But taking down these four officers really isn't that difficult. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Ma Chao [SW06] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ STALLION FURY - Power: 38 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Medium - Attributes: Horse +20 Def +16 Life +15 Spd +15 Atk +17 Stage: Battle of Tong Gate (Allied forces) Requirement: Knock Cao Cao off his horse before he crosses the river Strategy: Ok this weapon is a joke, seriously. Here's what you have to do: once the battle starts, head straight to Cao Cao and hit him once so he falls of his horse. There you go, that's all you had to do. Obviously you'll need a horse for this since Cao Cao heads over to cross the river pretty early on in the battle, but this is so easy it's ridiculous. The valuable item will appear in the area to the north, to the left of the northern most base. Difficulty: 1/5 - There really is no difficulty to this weapon, it's probably the easiest one to get in the game. Then again, since Ma Chao is such a beast on Shadow Runner, I guess there really wasn't a point in making this a hard fourth weapon to get, since with Ma Chao you really _can't_ make it hard... .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Huang Zhong [SW07] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ ORACLE SWORD - Power: 36 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Light - Attributes: Fill +18 Bow +20 Musou +15 Horse +15 Def +15 Stage: Battle of Mt. Ding Jun (Shu forces) Requirement: Defeat Xiahou Yuan and Zhang He before Cao Cao arrives Strategy: Despite this being a two star stage, this weapon is very difficult. Cao Cao arrives in about five minutes into the start of the battle, so you'll want to waste no time here. Right off that start of the battle head straight down the mountain towards Xiahou Yuan. This guy is why this weapon is so damn tough to get. Xiahou Yuan will be surrounded by tons of enemy soldiers, many of them being archers, and Xiahou Yuan is in hyper mode of course. He will get a defense x2 bonus once some of his health is knocked down, and he will regain some of his health along with the defense x2. Then when even more health is taken down he'll go into musou rage mode. I suggest just running around and avoiding him while he's in musou rage, as he can kill you pretty quick. I suggest have Huang Zhong equipped with Huang's Bow as well as Fire Arrows. The best way to kill Xiahou Yuan quickly, I've found, is to spam your T(+T) charge against him. The fire arrows will burn his health down pretty quickly. This is the most reliable way I've found to kill him at least. Once Xiahou Yuan is dead quickly run to the south and kill Zhang He, who is not difficult to kill at all (thankfully.) The valuable item will appear at the base of the mountain (the slope that you went down in the beginning to get to Xiahou Yuan.) Afterwards, if Liu Bei is getting swarmed quickly go and assist him. Once he's free of danger go kill Cao Cao to end the stage. Difficulty: 5/5 - This is one of the hardest of the fourth weapons to get in my opinion. Xiahou Yuan is super buffed up, and Huang Zhong isn't exactly the most powerful character. You'll need to have Huang Zhong's stats really buffed for this one, and even then you'll need a little bit of luck to kill Xiahou Yuan quickly. However one thing that helps is that there is one soldier around Xiahou Yuan who always drops a musou rage token, so make sure you keep your eye out for that because you'll definitely need it! .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Jiang Wei [SW08] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ BLINK - Power: 36 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Medium - Attributes: Luck +15 Atk +16 Life +17 Spd +15 Musou +18 Stage: Battle of Tian Shui (Wei forces) Requirement: Defeat Gao Xiang after Ma Zun begins to flee Strategy: Once the battle starts just head up to the north and just stay there and wait for the enemy to slowly make work of your allies. Once things start to get bad a fake Jiang Wei will show up outside of Tian Shui Castle. Shortly after this Ma Zun will open up the castle gates and flee to the road east of Tian Shui Castle. Now Gao Xiang will show up at the northeastern checkpoint. Run over there and kill him for the valuable item to appear near the northwestern checkpoint. Now to finish the stage, let's go and clear out all of the officers outside of Tian Shui Castle. By now it's probably just you and Ma Zun, so make sure you don't let him die. Ma Zun will somehow get "lost" while attempting to flee, so you never actually have to worry about him fleeing since he never knows where to go. Go kill all of the other officers and once you feel that Ma Zun is safe on his own for a bit go finish off Zhuge Liang to end the battle. Of course don't forget to claim your weapon before doing this. Difficulty: 1.5/5 - Really all you have to do here is wait. This isn't a difficult stage so killing any officers isn't hard. You just have to make sure Ma Zun stays alive once things get hairy at the end. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Wei Yan [SW09] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ COMET STRIKE - Power: 36 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Medium - Attributes: Charge +16 Def +16 Musou +15 Luck +15 Atk +18 Stage: Battle of Chen Cang (Shu forces) Requirement: Defeat the four defense captains within 10 minutes Strategy: This is pretty simple. There are four defense captains: three of which are up on top of the castle wall to the right, and one which is behind the castle door on the left. Ten minutes is plenty of time to kill them, so before you head out for the castle get rid of the three sub-officers down on the ground in front of the castle, as well as some of the enemy forces. Then head up the eastern hill to get inside the castle. Kill Zhang He if you want, but DEFINITELY kill Cao Ren before you kill ANY of the three defense captains. If you kill any of the defense captains before you kill Cao Ren, he'll go into hyper mode and be much harder to kill. And in order to open the gate to progress into the next section of the castle, you have to kill Cao Ren. Therefore it is most wise to kill him first. Then kill the three defense captains alongside the castle wall. Go through the now opened gate and go to the gate to the left. Kill that guard captain to open it up, and go into the next area. Continue past Hao Zhao and go south to the castle door where the last defense captain is. Kill him for the weapon to appear on the one castle wall where Sima Yi is. Difficulty: 2/5 - Not too difficult. You'll probably have to do a lot of running around afterwards though, because a bunch of Wei reinforcements ambush you in the south. Make sure Zhuge Liang stays alive. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Pang Tong [SW10] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ TORNADO STAFF - Power: 32 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Medium - Attributes: Fill +18 Bow +16 Life +15 Luck +15 Def +17 Stage: Conquest of Nan Zhong (Shu forces) Requirement: Overcome the Nanman beast unit, the poison swamp, and the armor troops. Strategy: This is pretty straight forward. To overcome each of these things you basically just have to do what Zhuge Liang tells you to. When you start out you'll be over at the area to the right. Go down to the base that's right in front of you and occupy it. This will cause a bunch of logs to be laid out in the swamp, overcoming the poison. Now head up to the north, where King Mulu is. Once you enter the area you'll see a cutscene with some tigers and elephants. Go take down the enemy base to the right so some juggernauts can come in and repel the beasts. Now head back down through the poison swamp and take the path to the left to the next area where Wu Tugu and an enemy base are located. Once you go inside you'll be greeted by the armor troops. To get rid of these guys go and kill Wu Tugu. Once that's done the valuable item will appear in the small path leading to the poison swamp from the north. Difficulty: 3/5 - It's really not a difficult stage or anything, but Pang Tong sucks so that bumps up the difficulty a bit. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Yue Ying [SW11] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ OBLIVION - Power: 36 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Medium - Attributes: Charge +15 Bow +16 Life +16 Horse +15 Def +17 Stage: Battle of Wu Zhang Plains (Shu forces) Requirement: Defeat Deng Ai before he sets up the catapults Strategy: Ok this can be pretty tough, especially since this is a five star stage and Yue Ying isn't exactly an officer slayer. From her start you should go forward to run into Guo Huai. Now continue north and defeat Cao Rui's two sub-officers, Xiahou Wei and Wang Lang, both of who are outside the base. Cao Rui himself will push down and start attacking your wooden ox, so go and kill him to secure their safety. Help out any allies who are in danger, since you'll want to keep as many people alive for as long as possible to help you out. Once you feel that you're morale is high enough for your allies to hold their own, at least for a little bit, head into the LEFT base (note that you shouldn't go around slaying enemies for TOO long, because eventually Deng Ai will arrive within a certain amount of time anyway. You don't want to trigger his arrival like that though, you want to trigger it by entering the left base.) Once you enter the left base Deng Ai will appear at the checkpoint directly to the north of you. Run up there and start attacking him. He's going to try to run towards Cao Ren, and if he gets there he'll start setting up the catapults. Therefore you have to kill him before he makes it there. He isn't in hyper mode or anything, so killing him shouldn't be too tough. I suggest you have a musou rage token handy though, as it will make it easier if you're having a tough time killing him before he can set up the catapults. The valuable item will appear over on the hill overlooking the right base. Difficulty: 4.5/5 - This is a tough one. For one, Yue Ying sucks, I don't care what anyone says. So you'll need to have her stats pretty much maxed out for this. Wu Zhang Plains is a five star difficulty map, which doesn't help either. But the most annoying part of this is that Deng Ai will keep running away from you while you try to attack him. Add in the fact that he's surrounded by peons and officers (like Xu Zhu and Cao Rui, depending on how quickly you rush him) who like to hit you allowing him time to escape and this can become quite a headache to achieve. But it's certainly do-able. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Guan Ping [SW12] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ YOUNG DRAGON - Power: 36 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Light - Attributes: Charge +16 Bow +15 Life +15 Luck +15 Atk +17 Stage: Escape from Chi Bi (Allied forces) Requirement: Defeat all enemy officers Strategy: Take not that you need to defeat only officers, you do NOT have to defeat sub-officers as well if you don't want to. Ok for starters go forward and kill Cao Ren. He's in hyper mode so killing him is pretty annoying. After that's done continue forward and defeat Zhang Liao. Now head north towards Xiahou Dun and kill him next. Xiahou Yuan should be appearing just north of Xiahou Dun shortly, but don't go for him just yet. Wait for Cao Zhang to show up back around where Zhang Liao is. Run back and kill him. Jia Xu will also show up to the north, near the escape point. Just ignore him for now as well and go kill Cao Zhang. After killing Cao Zhang don't head back up north just yet; wait around a minute or two for Cao Hong to show up to the south. Now run down and kill him. After that you can start heading back up north again, and kill Jia Xu who you'll probably run into along the way. Then go up and kill Xiahou Yuan. After he's dead head over to the area around the escape point and just wait for Cao Cao's last officer to show up. It takes Xun Yu about 13 minutes to show up, so you'll probably have to wait around a little bit. Once he shows up quickly kill him. The valuable item will appear just north of where the bridge that Cao Cao destroyed was. You have to go down there and get it before Cao Cao reaches the escape point. But by now the entire allied forces should be surrounding Cao Cao, so he shouldn't be able to escape very easily. Difficulty: 2/5 - Not too difficult as long as Guan Ping is pretty buffed up. None of the officers are especially hard except maybe Cao Ren. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Xing Cai [SW13] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ ABMITION - Power: 34 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Medium - Attributes: Horse +15 Def +17 Life +15 Spd +16 Musou +17 Stage: Battle of Bai Di Castle (Shu forces) Requirement: Escort Liu Chan back into Bai Di Castle and rescue the peasant militia Strategy: Both of these requirements are pretty simple to fulfill within themselves, the hard part about this is just finishing the battle, really. It doesn't matter which one you do first, but I recommend escorting Liu Chan back into the castle. To do this what you need to do is just get your health get low (orange will do it.) I suggest just going down the hill once you start the battle to find Zhang Cheng. Stand amongst the crowd of enemies and let them just hack away at you. Once your health hits orange you'll see a message saying that Liu Chan is heading to Xing Cai's side. Once he's out of the castle run up the hill to meet him. A cutscene will occur, and after it's over run back into the castle and Liu Chan will follow. Now you'll want to go get some health: there's a +200 health in the urn by the checkpoint at the bottom of the hill, and a +100 health in the urn by the checkpoint where Ma Chao is. The peasant militia should be showing up shortly, after which Ma Chao will go down to rescue them. Once he does, follow him down. All you have to do is run into the middle of the area there to rescue the peasant militia. The valuable item will show up by the northern checkpoint in Bai Di Castle. Now it's time to go kill some officers to raise morale and turn the tide of this battle around, as I'm sure most of your units are struggling by now. Difficulty: 3.5/5 - Like I said, the two requirements to getting the weapon are pretty easy themselves; the tough part is just finishing the level. Bai Di Castle is five stars, and Xing Cai is no Lu Bu. You'll need to buff her up pretty good, and make sure you save after you're about half way! (I don't think saving after just getting the weapon is necessary here, since it's so easy to do. Unless you're not getting the weapon until after you've already slain a bunch of officers, of course...) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- WEI [WEIW] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Xiahou Dun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WW01] Dian Wei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WW02] Xu Zhu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WW03] Cao Cao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WW04] Xiahou Yuan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WW05] Zhang Liao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WW06] Sima Yi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WW07] Xu Huang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WW08] Zhang He . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WW09] Zhen Ji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WW10] Cao Ren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WW11] Cao Pi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WW12] Pang De . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [WW13] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Xiahou Dun [WW01] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ KIRIN FANG - Power: 36 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Medium - Attributes: Charge +17 Def +17 Musou +16 Horse +16 Atk +17 Stage: Battle of Fan Castle (Wei forces) Requirement: Stop the flood attack (aka Kill Guan Ping) Strategy: This is simple enough, all you have to do to prevent the flood attack from happening is kill Guan Ping. So once the battle starts head over to the area where Guan Ping is and start hacking away. Guan Ping isn't hard to kill, so this should be no problem so long as Xiahou Dun is moderately built up. The valuable item will appear down in the middle of the enemy main base at the lower left hand corner of the map. Just finish the rest of the battle like normal and make sure your claim your weapon before slaying Guan Yu. Difficulty: 1.5/5 - Very simple, hardly anything to this. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Dian Wei [WW02] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ MAD BULL - Power: 38 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Light - Attributes: Charge +15 Atk +18 Life +17 Fill +15 Musou +17 Stage: Battle of Wan Castle (Cao Cao's forces) Requirement: Do not let any task leaders through the gate as Cao Cao escapes Strategy: Ok to start off head over to the other side of the castle to meet up with Cao Cao. Start slaying all soldiers around him and make your way down the castle with him. Eventually Hu Che Er will show up, so kill him once he does. Now keep killing more soldiers until Cao Cao starts to finally retreat to the escape point. Once he nears it Jia Xiu will show up at the gate. Just kill him to let Cao Cao escape. Now is when the fun begins. Task leaders will show up two at a time and attempt to break through your guard and reach the escape point. Stand near the escape point and just hack them down as they come. They can only come at you from one direction, so this isn't really too hard. Make sure you don't let any slip by you, or else you'll have to try again. Sometimes they can be a little tricky and try to zig zag past you, so be careful. Also don't let any peons start slashing at you or else the task leaders might find some room to escape. But as long as Dian Wei is moderately buffed up task leaders should go down in just a few hits so this isn't too difficult. Difficulty: 1.5/5 - Very simple, just be wary of zig zagging task leaders. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Xu Zhu [WW03] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ STONE CRUSHER - Power: 38 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Light - Attributes: Fill +17 Bow +19 Life +20 Luck +15 Def +19 Stage: Battle of Tong Gate (Cao Cao's forces) Requirement: Defeat Pang De and Ma Chao before Han Sui Strategy: First of all, don't charge into where Ma Chao is, wait for him to charge you. Hang out in the river and kill Li Kan as well as his forces. One of his guards should drop a musou rage token, be sure to pick it up and use it against either Ma Chao or Pang De, you'll need it. Ma Dai's forces will also push into the river and attack you, so make quick work of him before Ma Chao gets to you. Once Ma Chao charges you, it's time to take him out. Of course Ma Chao is in hyper mode, gets an attack x2 bonus, and also will go into musou rage. Fun times. Once Ma Chao is taken care of let's go play with Pang De. And as I'm sure you could have guessed, Pang De is also in hyper mode. He gets a defense x2 bonus and will also go into musou rage. Once Pang De is dead as well the valuable item will appear in the middle of the river. Now you just have to kill Han Sui to finish the battle. Difficulty: 5/5 - This is a tough one. Xu Zhu is terrible, and you have to defeat two hyper officers who each get a bonus AND go into musou rage on hard mode. Not fun. The only saving grace is the fact that this stage is only a two star difficulty stage. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Cao Cao [WW04] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ WRATH OF HEAVEN - Power: 34 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Medium - Attributes: Charge +17 Bow +15 Life +17 Horse +17 Atk +17 Stage: Battle of Xia Pi (Cao Cao's forces) Requirement: Defeat Gao Shun before he reinforces the floodgate too much and defeat Zhang Liao Strategy: You have to defeat Gao Shun pretty quickly. He will head for the floodgate and reinforce it at least once before you can get to him, but don't let him do it anymore than that. Once he's defeated the castle will flood. Now head over to Zhang Liao and kill him next. The valuable item will appear right outside the southern portion of the castle, near the water. Difficulty: 2/5 - All you really need is a horse for this. Defeating Gao Shun and Zhang Liao is easy. I bumped up the difficulty .5 just for having to deal with Lu Bu, even though he isn't very tough either. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Xiahou Yuan [WW05] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ ENFORCER ROD - Power: 36 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Medium - Attributes: Charge +16 Atk +16 Life +17 Bow +19 Musou +17 Stage: Battle of Chi Bi (Cao Cao's forces) Requirement: Prevent all three parts of the fire attack Strategy: There are three parts to the fire attack: the ships being chained together, the summoning of the wind, and the actual fire attack itself. Technically the ships will be chained from the start of the battle, but you need to kill Pang Tong shortly after he defects. Conveniently enough you start the battle right behind Pang Tong, so follow him south a bit and wait for him to defect. Once he does bash his skull in. After that's done head over to Zhuge Liang and kill him to prevent the winds. Now head along the southern most chain of ships to the large ship where Zhou Tai is. Huang Gai will show up once you get there, and in order to prevent the final part of the fire attack you have to kill him. He's in hyper mode, but doesn't get any kind of stat bonuses so he isn't too difficult to kill. The valuable item will show up over on the strip of land to the left where Zhuge Liang was. Difficulty: 2/5 - Nothing hard here. Chi Bi is easy on Cao Cao's side, only thing here that might be kind of hard/annoying is killing Huang Gai since he's in hyper mode. But he still isn't hard, it just takes a while to kill him. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Zhang Liao [WW06] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ GOLD WYVERN - Power: 36 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Medium - Attributes: Fill +15 Horse +18 Life +17 Luck +15 Atk +17 Stage: Battle of He Fei (Wei forces) Requirement: Kill 9 officers or sub-officers before Cao Ren arrives Strategy: It takes Cao Ren about 10 minutes to show up, so you have plenty of time to do this. From where you start go forward and kill Ma Zhong who is just south of the base in front of you. Now go kill Ding Feng and Pan Zhang, who are both in between the enemy base and your base. Now cross the bridge into the next area and find both Zhou Fang and Zhu Huang and kill them. The bridge will be destroyed, so now head north and go kill Taishi Ci's two sub-officers, Chen Wu and Zhu Ran, and then Taishi Ci himself. Now all you have to do is defeat one more officer or sub-officer, so head south and kill one of Sun Quan's sub-officers or something. The valuable item will appear by the Xiao Shi Bridge. Difficulty: 2.5/5 - Not too bad, but you'll need a pretty buffed Zhang Liao to slaughter 9 officers quickly. And you'll obviously need a horse to get around. But still, not too much of a challenge considering that Zhang Liao is pretty good. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Sima Yi [WW07] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ DARK FEATHER - Power: 32 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Medium - Attributes: Charge +15 Def +16 Musou +19 Fill +15 Atk +15 Stage: Battle of Chen Cang (Wei forces) Requirement: Take all three enemy bases before any damage is done to the castle Strategy: This is pretty simple, you just have to occupy the three bases down below where the enemy supplies are coming from. First head down the eastern path and either kill Wei Yan or just ignore him. Head for the first base and take it down. Yue Ying will appear as reinforcements after you take down the first base, but just ignore her and continue on to the middle base. Take that one down next. Then finally move on to the last base and take that one down as well. As long as no damage has been done to the castle (unless you've really been poking around this shouldn't be a problem) the valuable item will appear up on the wall of Chen Cang, to the left. If you're having trouble and getting swarmed by enemies, don't feel the need to rush things. You can take your time and clear the area of enemy officers before moving on, but don't poke around too long. Difficulty: 2/5 - All you're doing here is taking down enemy bases. Nothing to it but to do it... yeah that was lame. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Xu Huang [WW08] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ MARAUDER - Power: 36 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Light - Attributes: Fill +15 Spd +15 Life +18 Luck +15 Atk +17 Stage: Battle of Chang Ban (Cao Cao's forces) Requirement: Defeat Guan Yu and Zhang Fei after Liu Qi arrives Strategy: Ok at the start of this battle go down south and take all of the neutral bases EXCEPT the one in the very middle, as that's the one that Liu Bei will go through and you want him to go through it. After that's done head back up north and start killing some enemy officers. Everyone is fair game except Zhang Fei and Guan Yu, obviously. If you can, try to get to Zhao Yun before he reaches Liu Bei. Eventually Guan Yu will arrive with reinforcements in the southwestern portion of the map. Zhang Fei will then retreat from the bridge, and Liu Bei should be around the middle area of the map. Keep going around killing soldiers to pass to time, or go get bake a pizza or something while you wait. Finally, after Liu Qi arrives, it's time to go kill Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. Liu Bei will start heading towards the escape point, but if you took my advice earlier and took the bases in the south at the start of the battle the one base will be blocking Liu Bei's path, and he will have to stop his advance and take it down (or at least the gate captain.) So go kill Guan Yu and Zhang Fei in the meantime, neither are especially difficult. Once they're dead the valuable item will appear down by the docks where Guan Yu showed up. Go grab it and then kill Liu Bei to finish the battle (who probably hasn't made any progress past that base by this point.) Difficulty: 2/5 - Neither Guan Yu nor Zhang Fei are in hyper mode, so both are pretty easy to defeat. Overall an easy stage as well. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Zhang He [WW09] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ PHOENIX TALON - Power: 36 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Medium - Attributes: Charge +15 Spd +19 Musou +19 Fill +15 Atk +16 Stage: Battle of Jie Ting (Wei forces) Requirement: Defeat Ma Su as he's retreating Strategy: To get Ma Su to retreat you have to surround him on the mountain. This is pretty easy to do. First go kill Gao Xiang, and you might as well secure that enemy checkpoint while you're there too. After that's done go down and kill Wang Ping. You can kill Zhang Bao on your way there too, if you wish. Once he's surrounded Ma Su's unit will stop attacking and will pull back to the summit. You have to wait a little bit until he starts retreating. In the meantime you might as well head south and kill Jiang Wei awhile. He's in hyper mode so he's just extra annoying to kill as usual. Ma Dai should be the only other officer left at this point, so you might as well go kill him too. Once you get the message that Ma Su is withdrawing to Shu's main camp go and kill him. The valuable item will appear on the northern most path leading up to the mountain. Now just wait for Zhuge Liang and the rest of the Shu reinforcements to appear to end the battle. Difficulty: 2/5 - Nothing difficult here. Ma Su is very easy to kill. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Zhen Ji [WW10] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ DARK MOON FLUTE - Power: 32 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Medium - Attributes: Fill +20 Bow +18 Life +17 Horse +17 Def +18 Stage: Battle of He Fei Castle (Wei forces) Requirement: Get 300 kills and meet with Cao Pi to trigger a cutscene Strategy: There is no time limit that you need to get these 300 kills, making this rather easy. To keep morale high, you should also be focusing on killing enemy officers and taking down objectives. I suggest you advance through the castle from your starting point towards Taishi Ci, killing all enemy soldiers along the way. Spam Zhen Ji's musou, as that will be your quickest method of killing massive amounts of soldiers. Once Taishi Ci is dead start clearing out the southern portion of the castle. Lu Xun has three sub-officers down here just begging to be killed, and the ram is also probably knocking on the front door by now. Go get rid of all of these threats while also laying waste to the regular peons. Once the Wu navy appears over at the eastern gate, head over there and deal with them. Destroy the second ram that Lu Xun calls up from the navy boats as well. A little bit later Sun Shao's until will show up over on the mountain near Cao Pi. By now you should have 300 kills, so let's go head up over there to kill Sun Shao and trigger the cutscene with Cao Pi. All you have to do is approach Cao Pi for the cutscene to appear. The valuable item will appear on Sun Quan's ship... gee, how convenient. Go finish the stage and claim your weapon. Difficulty: 2.5/5 - Even though this is a five star stage and the officers can be a little rough, there is no time limit to this so you can take your sweet old time. Basically just go through the stage as you would a normal battle. You'll have 300 kills in no time, plus you'll give Zhen Ji's stats a good boost. Just make sure she's somewhat buffed going into this battle so she can deal with Sun Quan at the end. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Cao Ren [WW11] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ ROC - Power: 32 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Light - Attributes: Fill +15 Def +18 Life +19 Bow +15 Atk +15 Stage: Escape from Chi Bi (Cao Cao's forces) Requirement: Defeat all enemy officers that ambush Cao Cao before your allies slow them down Strategy: Basically you just have to follow Cao Cao around and defeat all of the main officers (sub-officers are no included) that ambush Cao Cao before your allied officers slow them down to allow Cao Cao to continue marching. So follow Cao Cao into the first ambush who happens to be Cheng Pu. March forward towards him and kill him. Cao Cao will continue marching, and Han Dang will show up behind him. Quickly run back onto the burning ship and kill Han Dang while Cao Cao continues to march forward. Once he's dead head back to Cao Cao, who has probably run into Zhu Zhi by now. Go forward and kill Zhu Zhi. Follow Cao Cao north into Zhao Yun's ambush, and then kill him as well. Continue forward to run into Zhang Fei, and kill him. Guan Ping will be the next officer to ambush Cao Cao just up ahead; you know what to do. Now start to head back towards the south; see that little boat down by the ocean (not the one you started on)? Head down towards there. Sun Quan is going to appear there, so head straight for him and kill him. Once Sun Quan is dead the valuable item will appear up in the little path north of the bridge (the path doesn't lead anywhere.) Take note that you don't have to kill Guan Yu, who will retreat shortly after he appears. All you have to do is go kill Liu Bei who is guarding the escape point to win. Difficulty: 2/5 - Nothing too hard about this one. Sun Quan is a little tough, but that's about it. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Cao Pi [WW12] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ CHAOS - Power: 34 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Medium - Attributes: Fill +15 Def +15 Musou +19 Spd +19 Atk +15 Stage: Battle of Wu Zhang Plains (Wei forces) Requirement: Destroy all of the arbalests while Cao Ren is still alive Strategy: Ok this weapon is a pain in the ass. First of all I recommend that you do this level on his musou mode. The reason being is that this is his fourth stage on his musou, therefore this stage technically becomes a four star difficulty stage. If you do this in free mode, the difficulty is five stars. And believe it or not that one less star will be a BIG help. Now as for the actual methods of obtaining this weapon: You'll want to do this as quickly as possible, because your allies, including Cao Ren, get their asses kicked in pretty quick. First you want to cause Zhuge Liang to die, and to do this you need to kill three officers (NOT sub-officers.) I suggest Wei Yan, Wang Ping and Liao Hua, since they're all near each other in the center. A little bit after that's been done you'll get the cutscene where Zhuge Liang has died and Jiang Wei will become the enemy Commander. Now while you wait for the arbalests to appear there's a few things you can do. First of all, cut off the supply line. After that's done kill any other officers roaming about near the middle. Keep a close eye on Cao Ren, make sure you clear out any enemy soldiers that are pushing up on the central base. Believe it or not even these lousy soldiers will make quick work of Cao Ren if your morale starts to drop. Once the arbalests have been set up run up the hill in the middle of the map to reach them. There's a whole bunch of them along the edges of the mountain, and a few in the middle. Take them all out, and be careful because there's also a bunch of juggernauts roaming about up there. Once all of the arbalests have been destroyed the valuable item will appear right up there on the mountain where you're at. Grab it and go finish the stage; then pat yourself on the back! Difficulty: 5/5 - One of the hardest fourth weapons to get in the game. I would say that, if done in free mode, probably _the_ hardest weapon to get. Why? Well for one it's Wu Zhang Plains on hard, and secondly Cao Pi is a pretty craptastic officer. Not to mention the fact that you have to babysit Cao Ren and make sure he doesn't get killed, which happens a lot easier then you might think it would. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Pang De [WW13] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ HEAVENLY HALBERD - Power: 36 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Light - Attributes: Luck +15 Def +15 Life +18 Horse +17 Atk +16 Stage: Battle of Mt. Ding Jun (Wei forces) Requirement: Defeat all enemy officers (sub-officers need not be included) besides Liu Bei and Fa Zheng before Cao Cao arrives Strategy: Well Cao Cao will only arrive after either Huang Zhong or Xiahou Yuan is killed. Therefore you obviously need to kill Huang Zhong last. Another thing to consider is that if you charge straight up the mountain then Huang Zhong is going to charge Xiahou Yuan, which means a pretty quick death is in the near future for Xiahou Yuan. So what you need to do is work around the base of the mountain, staying away from going up to the top until you're ready for Huang Zhong. Go south and kill Zhao Yun, then head up the mountain just to get to Guan Ping. Make sure you don't go any further then Guan Ping; in fact it's a good idea to stop a little below him and let him come down to you. Once he's dead you have to go back down the mountain and all the way around the base of the mountain over to Wei Yan. On your way to Wei Yan check for Wu Lan - he should have pushed down to the base of the mountain now, around where Xiahou Yuan is. Kill him on your way over to Wei Yan. Now go kill Wei Yan to the north. Once he's dead head back over to where Xiahou Yuan is. By now Li Yan's unit also should've charged down the hill and are at the base of the mountain. Kill him next. Once Li Yan is dead it's time to finally take on Huang Zhong. Charge up the mountain and engage him in battle. Lucky for you Huang Zhong is super buffed up in this battle - yes I am referring to hyper mode. Plus he will regain all of his health after about 25% of it is done, and get a defense x2 bonus at the same time. And to make things even more fun he will go into musou rage mode. Once Huang Zhong is dead the valuable item will appear at the southern area of the map, where Zhao Yun was. Difficulty: 3.5/5 - The only difficult thing about this is killing Huang Zhong. As long as Pang De is pretty buffed up this shouldn't be too much of a problem though, seeing as how Pang De is a beast. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- WU [WUWP] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Zhou Yu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UW01] Lu Xun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UW02] Taishi Ci . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UW03] Sun Shang Xiang . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UW04] Sun Jian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UW05] Sun Quan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UW06] Lu Meng . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UW07] Gan Ning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UW08] Huang Gai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UW09] Sun Ce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UW10] Da Qiao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UW11] Xiao Qiao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UW12] Zhou Tai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UW13] Ling Tong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [UW14] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Zhou Yu [UW01] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ ANCIENTS SWORD - Power: 34 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Medium - Attributes: Charge +17 Def +15 Musou +18 Bow +16 Atk +16 Stage: Battle of the Wu Territory (Sun Ce's forces) Requirement: Defeat Wang Lang and Yan Baihu Strategy: Not really much to say here about this one, it's very easy. All you have to do is take the two forts. To do that you just need to kill Wang Lang and Yan Baihu. You start out closest to Yan Baihu, so go kill him first. After that is done go and kill Wang Lang. The valuable item will appear down in the enemy main castle on top of the western wall. Difficulty: 1/5 - Very simple. Taishi Ci is the only officer who might put up a bit of a fight, but it's nothing Zhou Yu can't handle. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Lu Xun [UW02] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ FALCON - Power: 34 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Medium - Attributes: Fill +15 Spd +20 Musou +19 Luck +18 Atk +15 Stage: Battle of Bai Di Castle (Wu forces) Requirement: Defeat Ma Chao and Jiang Wei before Yue Ying arrives Strategy: Yue Ying will only arrive if you do one of two things: either enter the castle, or kill Xing Cai. She will show up shortly after you do either one of these things. Therefore, on paper, this is an easy weapon to get because you can avoid getting Yue Ying to appear for as long as you like. I say "on paper" because this stage is actually hard as hell. For one, Lu Xun is not exactly what I would call... um... "good." Plus this is a five star difficulty stage - and you cannot cheat around with the difficulty setting by playing his musou like you can with Cao Pi; this battle is Lu Xun's last in his musou so it's five stars no matter which way you try it. Now before you go gunning straight for your two targets lets start off by killing a bunch of the enemies surrounding you to raise morale. Clear out the two enemy bases in the south and kill Xing Cai's two sub-officers, Zhang Bao and Zhang Yi. Just chill around this area killing soldiers. Eventually Ma Chao will head for the mountain pass and will disappear off the map. Continue fighting off any soldiers/peasants around Sun Quan while you wait for Ma Chao to reappear. When he does it will be near Sun Quan, so let's go take him out. He's in hyper mode, and also gets an attack x2 bonus, and will also go into musou rage. Fun times, eh? Use all you got and try to take down Ma Chao as quick as you can. Next let's head towards Jiang Wei, but lets kill Huang Zhong in the process. Head up north and enter the stone sentinel maze. This isn't really a maze as there is only one path you can follow. When you reach the central room smash the statue to reveal a bunch of soldiers. Kill all of them to open up the last room leading to Jiang Wei. Now go kill Jiang Wei, he's not nearly as difficult as Ma Chao. Once he's dead the valuable item will appear in the one corner of the stone sentinel maze. Difficulty: 5/5 - This is another tough one. Like I said, Lu Xun is not the best officer to be taking on five star battles on hard mode. You'll need to make sure he's really buffed up for this one. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Taishi Ci [UW03] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ TIGER SLAYER - Power: 38 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Medium - Attributes: Charge +15 Bow +15 Life +18 Horse +15 Def +18 Stage: Battle of the Wu Territory (Allied forces) Requirement: Defeat Sun Quan before Zhou Tai saves him from the ambush and then defeat Zhou Tai Strategy: This one is very easy. Once you start head over towards Sun Quan and start drawing him near Zhang Ying. After just a few moments Zhang Ying will taunt Sun Quan, and Sun Quan will threaten to "shut his mouth but good!" (...what?) Let Sun Quan follow Zhang Ying into the eastern fort. Once Sun Quan is inside he will be ambushed and will call to Zhou Tai for help. Quickly kill Sun Quan before Zhou Tai can get there. Now go run over to Zhou Tai and defeat him. The valuable item will appear up near the enemy ships in the north. Difficulty: 1/5 - Nothing hard about this one. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Sun Shang Xiang [UW04] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ SOL CHAKRAM - Power: 32 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Heavy - Attributes: Luck +19 Spd +19 Life +15 Bow +15 Def +17 Stage: The Invasion of Nan Zhong (Wu forces) Requirement: After Sun Shang Xiang meets with Sun Quan after being ambushed, defeat all enemy officers and sub-officers Strategy: The first thing you need to do is to get Sun Quan ambushed by King Mulu and Mang Yachang. To do this just go directly south to where Meng Huo is. Once you enter the enemy main camp Meng Huo will disappear and reappear more up towards the north, and King Mulu and Mang Yachang will break down the two walls closing in Sun Quan and ambush him. Return to Sun Quan for a cutscene. Now all you have to do is defeat all officers AND sub-officers. Start off by killing King Mulu and Mang Yachang. Then head down to the middle area and kill Ahui Nan and Dong Tu Na. Next go further south and kill Zhu Rong and Jinhuan Sanjie. Now head to the east and kill Meng You and King Duosi. Now just wait for Yang Feng and Wu Tugu to show up as enemy reinforcements. Once they do go kill them. The valuable weapon will appear in the river south of the western base. Difficulty: 1/5 - Very easy. If anything the hardest part might be killing everyone before your allies do. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Sun Jian [UW05] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ SAVAGE TIGER - Power: 34 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Light - Attributes: Fill +18 Def +16 Life +15 Horse +16 Musou +15 Stage: Battle of Si Shui Gate (Allied forces) Requirement: Defeat Lu Bu within five minutes of him appearing Strategy: Lu Bu is easy to defeat on this map (and in this game in general, compared to previous DW games) so this really isn't that hard. To get Lu Bu to show up you just have to get near the Si Shui Gate. Once he shows up you have to kill him within five minutes. It's a good idea if you can manage to find a musou token before you go to fight him. And it's also a good idea to kill Li Jue before approaching the gate so he doesn't decide to join in on the fight. Once you're ready approach the game for Lu Bu to show up and start unleashing your fury upon him. Lu Bu is in hyper mode, of course, and will get an attack x2 bonus as well as go into musou rage mode. Just evade him while he's in musou rage, as he _will_ make quick work of you. Once he's dead the valuable item will appear right by Si Shui Gate, near where Li Jue was. Difficulty: 2.5/5 - Lu Bu really isn't that hard to defeat. If you've played DW3 or DW4 you would know that he's a piece of cake in this version compared to those two. But none the less, you'll still want a pretty buffed up Sun Jian to kill him as quickly as possible. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Sun Quan [UW06] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ MASTER WOLF - Power: 34 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Medium - Attributes: Charge +17 Bow +15 Musou +18 Fill +15 Atk +16 Stage: Battle of Chi Bi (Allied forces) Requirement: Ensure the success of all three parts of the fire attack Strategy: This is another weapon that I recommend you get on his musou mode. In Sun Quan's musou mode this battle is only his second stage, making the difficulty a simple two stars. However in free mode, it's five stars... quite the difference. Now to get the actual weapon itself there are three things you need to make happen: knock down the two connecting bridges, make sure Zhuge Liang summons the winds, and make sure Huang Gai sets the fire. Once all three of these conditions are met you'll get the weapon. When you start the battle let's go knock down the two bridges first. Go directly forward from where you start until you run into Wang Lang; kill him. Now head over to the west and find Cai Mao (a sub-officer of Xiahou Yuan) who is on the second bridge; kill him as well. Eventually you'll hear Pang Tong come up with the great idea of knocking down the bridges. You're already a few steps ahead of him though, so after he says that THEN the bridges will finally go down. You don't need to wait for him to say that to go kill Wang Lang and Cai Mao. Once the two bridges are down head over to Zhuge Liang and help clear out that whole area of enemies. Zhang Liao's two sub-officers, Wen Pin and Xun You, will be down there, so kill them both. Secure that lone enemy checkpoint as well. I wouldn't worry about going up and killing Zhang Liao himself, as his morale should be low enough now that Zhuge Liang can handle him. By now Huang Gai has headed for the fire ship, so go find his location and make sure he stays alive. Xiahou Yuan will head over to Huang Gai and try to kill him, so make sure you kill Xiahou Yuan once he gets near. It's probably a good idea to secure the one checkpoint nearby, or else wave after wave of enemy soldiers will keep appearing. Once Huang Gai appears safe you can head back over to Zhuge Liang (who should've began his prayer for wind by now) and kill Zhang Liao, who has probably pushed down. Huang Gai should be embarking shortly. Once he does just go around slaying officers and helping out any allies who appear to be in trouble. Now you just have to wait for the wind to be summoned and for Huang Gai to set fire to the enemy fleet. It doesn't matter which order this happens in; the first time I got this weapon Huang Gai set fire to the ship before Zhuge Liang summoned the wind. The valuable item will appear on the ship where Cao Hong is. Difficulty: 4/5 - This is pretty hard on free mode, especially since this is a five star stage. Luckily Sun Quan is a pretty good character and should be able to hold his own. But if you do this on his musou mode I'd knock down the difficulty rating to a 2/5, it's that much easier. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Lu Meng [UW07] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ WHITE TIGER - Power: 36 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Medium - Attributes: Charge +15 Bow +15 Life +17 Horse +16 Def +17 Stage: Battle of Fan Castle (Wu forces) Requirement: Cause Fu Shi Ren and Mi Fang to defect, Xu Huang to appear, and then kill Zhang Fei and Zhang Bao with all three still alive Strategy: Ok for starters head north and start clearing out that whole area of Shu forces. Take down the enemy bases and defeat Liao Hua. Eventually Lu Xun will say something about morale being low between Fu Shi Ren and Mi Fang. Once he says this head down to Fu Shi Ren and attack him a few times to get him to defect. Now go do the same with Mi Fang. After this Guan Ping will move down to attack Fu Shi Ren, so go kill Guan Ping to make sure Fu Shi Ren stays alive. You should get a message shortly telling you to secure the one enemy checkpoint to allow the Wei reinforcements to arrive. So head over to that checkpoint and secure it, allowing Xu Huang to arrive. Wait around a little bit and Liu Feng and Meng Da will appear as reinforcements in the enemy main camp in the southwest corner. Kill them both. Continue waiting around for Zhang Fei and Zhang Bao to appear in that same place. It takes around 11 minutes. Kill Zhang Bao first as he's Zhang Fei's sub-officer, then kill Zhang Fei himself. The valuable item will appear all the way up at the very north part of the map, near the river. Difficulty: 2/5 - Nothing very hard about this one. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Gan Ning [UW08] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ SEA MASTER - Power: 38 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Light - Attributes: Charge +15 Spd +15 Musou +15 Luck +18 Atk +19 Stage: Battle of Xia Kou (Huang Zu's forces) Requirement: Defeat Ling Tong and Ling Cao within two minutes of the stage starting Strategy: This is a one star difficulty stage, so this is actually very easy to do. However you want to kill Ling Tong BEFORE you kill Ling Cao, because if you kill Ling Cao first then Ling Tong will go into hyper mode, making him much harder to kill. So once the maps starts head straight past Ling Cao and go to Ling Tong. Kill him, then double back and kill Ling Cao. The valuable item will appear down where Cai Mao is. Difficulty: 1/5 - Very, very easy. Hell a buffed up Gan Ning and kill Ling Tong and Ling Cao just with one hit from his musou. Just make sure you kill Ling Tong first... .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Huang Gai [UW09] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ DARK SHADOW - Power: 36 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Medium - Attributes: Charge +15 Def +17 Life +15 Luck +16 Atk +17 Stage: The Yellow Turban Rebellion (Han forces) Requirement: Defeat all officers and sub-officers that are outside of Zhang Jiao's castle Strategy: So basically you're killing all officers and sub-officers other than Zhang Jiao, Bo Zhang, and Guan Hai. I suggest you have Red Hare equipped because you have quite a bit of distance to cover as this map is fairly large. From your starting position go forward and kill Yan Zheng. Zhang Bao is just ahead of you, but you can't kill him yet because he has a sub-officer near Zhang Jiao's castle. So now head back down south and go to the right. Find Gao Sheng and kill him. Now go north past the tornado and kill Zhang Liang himself. Now head north to the castle's outer walls. There are three sub- officers out here to kill: Huang Shao, Cheng Yuanzhi, and Pei Yuan Shao. Kill them all. By this time He Yi and his remaining sub-officer, Zhang Yan, should be conveniently pushing down the western side of the castle. Go kill Zhang Yan and then kill He Yi. Ignore Zhang Bao and Deng Mao for now; head straight for Zhang Man Cheng as he seems to be the first one to die to your allies. Quickly get to him and kill him before anyone else can. Now go kill Deng Mao and then finally Zhang Bao. The valuable item will appear inside Zhang Jiao's castle near the altar. Difficulty: 1.5/5 - I actually bumped this up .5 in difficulty because it can actually be hard to kill everyone before your allies do (this stage is just THAT easy.) Zhang Man Cheng usually gets torn up by Sun Jian, so I really suggest you have Red Hare so you can get around as fast as possible. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Sun Ce [UW10] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ OVERLORD - Power: 36 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Medium - Attributes: Charge +15 Atk +18 Life +15 Spd +18 Musou +15 Stage: The Trials of Sun Ce (Sun Ce's forces) Requirement: Defeat the last set of phantom Yu Ji's (the ones that appear after Sun Jian and Da Qiao are defeated) within 5 minutes Strategy: **NOTE** Originally I thought in order to get this weapon, you had to defeat all of the phantom Yu Ji's within 10 minutes. After an email from Daryl Engel who stated that he got the weapon after 10 minutes, and some additional testing, I found out that you can indeed get the weapon after 10 minutes. It seems that, however, you must kill the last set of phantom Yu Ji's within 5 minutes of their appearance in order to get the weapon. If this _still_ isn't correct, or someone finds out otherwise, please email me. This weapon is very annoying to get. Once you start kill the Yu Ji that is directly in front of you. Now four phantom Yu Ji's will appear. Quickly go and kill three of them. The last one will disappear. Now another Yu Ji will appear, this time with a phantom army around him. Go start attacking the phantom Yu Ji, and he will disappear before you can kill him. Another fake Yu Ji will appear, and will disappear again once you start attacking him. Now another fake Yu Ji will appear to the north, and again will disappear while you're attacking him. Good god this is annoying. Yet another fake Yu Ji appears, except this one you can actually kill. Once he's killed the phantom army will disappear. Now Yu Ji will cause Sun Ce's army to turn against him, and soldiers will start pouring in from all directions. You need to quickly defeat 50 soldiers. Once that is done four more phantom Yu Ji's will appear. Go kill three of them. Now Yu Ji will cause a fake Sun Jian and Da Qiao to appear. Quickly go kill them both. Now four more phantom Yu Ji's appear. They will all start to swarm you. Once two of them are defeated Yu Ji will make the rest of the phantoms stronger. Once you've killed two more of these buffed up Yu Ji's the real Yu Ji will appear to the south, and the remaining phantom Yu Ji's will become even stronger! They will all be in hyper mode now... see why this is so annoying? Quickly finish the rest of them off, and use any musou rage tokens that you have (hopefully you have one. You pretty much NEED one, actually.) This is easier said than done, however, because these Yu Ji's just love to stand around freezing you. I wish you the best of luck at this, because you'll need it. Hopefully you can get an attack x2 drop as well to help you out. As long as you kill all of the fake Yu Ji's within ten minutes the valuable item will appear in the north west corner of the map. Go get it and then kill the real Yu Ji to put an end to this nightmare. Difficulty: 4.5/5 - I originally had this at 5/5 with (what I thought was) the original requirements. However since finding out that that was incorrect and finding what I believe to be the correct requirement, I bumped the difficulty down a bit. It's still very difficult, since killing a bunch of hyper mode, buffed up Yu Ji's in 5 minutes isn't too easy - but I don't think it's as hard as I originally thought. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Da Qiao [UW11] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ QIAO BEAUTY - Power: 32 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Heavy - Attributes: Luck +18 Atk +16 Life +15 Def +15 Musou +19 Stage: Battle of Xia Kou (Sun Quan's forces) Requirement: Defeat Cai Mao and Gan Ning before Ling Tong is defeated Strategy: This is pretty easy. Go forward from your starting point and make your way to Cai Mao. Gan Ning should appear around the time you get to the central area, and will kill Ling Cao. Ignore Cai Mao for now and head over to Gan Ning. He will have rushed Ling Tong, so make sure you kill him first. Gan Ning will be in hyper mode, and will get a speed x2 and attack x2 bonus once his health gets low enough. He will also go into musou rage mode. Once Gan Ning is dead go kill Cai Mao, who is much easier to kill. The valuable item will appear right to the north of where Cai Mao was. Difficulty: 2/5 - Gan Ning is a little difficult, but other than that this stage is a breeze. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Xiao Qiao [UW12] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ QIAO GRACE - Power: 32 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Heavy - Attributes: Charge +17 Spd +19 Musou +15 Fill +15 Def +15 Stage: Battle of Jing Province (Sun Jian's forces) Requirement: Defeat Cai Mao and Lu Gong before Sun Jian is ambushed Strategy: This is pretty easy, but you still have to work somewhat fast, as Sun Jian gets ambushed pretty early on in the battle. I suggest you have Red Hare equipped. Go forth and find Cai Mao in front of the first gate. Kill him to open it. Go inside the first gate and head to the right to find Lu Gong against the eastern wall. Quickly go and kill him. The valuable item will appear inside the next area of the castle, through the next gate. Difficulty: 1/5 - Very easy, as this is just a one star stage and you just have to defeat two really weak officers. I guess the somewhat strict time limit is supposed to make this difficult, but it doesn't. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Zhou Tai [UW13] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ DUSK - Power: 36 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Medium - Attributes: Fill +16 Atk +17 Life +15 Spd +15 Musou +18 Stage: Battle of Yi Ling (Wu forces) Requirement: Defeat Zhao Yun before the fire attack and then ensure that the fire attack is a success Strategy: Zhao Yun is all the way on the other side of the map, but you have plenty of time to reach him and kill him. Just head south and then go through Shu's main camp to reach Zhao Yun on the other side of the map. Once Zhao Yun is dead head back to Shu's main camp and start clearing out the area of soldiers and officers to make the next part easy. You have to wait anyway for the bridgelayer to get set up, so you might as well do something productive. Kill all of the officers around the area: Yan Yan, Liao Hua, Li Yan and Ma Chao. Once the bridgelayer has been activated drop whatever you're doing and head over to it. Follow Zhu Ran and keep him safe while he makes his way to his destination. Once Zhu Ran arrives at the fire attack site the fire attack will be a success. Your valuable item will appear in the south eastern corner of the stone sentinel maze. The most annoying thing here is trying to find the weapon, since your minimap disappears once you enter the maze. However you can use the battlelog to guide you there, as it shows you where about it is on the map. So just do that if you get lost. Difficulty: 2/5 - Pretty easy, even though it's a higher difficulty map. Zhou Tai is a beast, so he shouldn't have much of a problem sailing through this battle. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Ling Tong [UW14] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ DRAGON FURY - Power: 36 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Medium - Attributes: Charge +16 Spd +19 Life +15 Luck +16 Atk +16 Stage: Battle of He Fei (Wu forces) Requirement: Defeat Zhang Liao four times Strategy: At the start of the battle just go around defeating officers, soldiers, and taking enemy bases and checkpoints. Eventually after a little bit of fighting Zhang Liao will ambush Sun Quan and destroy the one southern bridge. Head back to Sun Quan and kill Zhang Liao. He will be in hyper mode and will get an attack x2 bonus. After you defeat him he will temporarily withdraw. Now continue going around killing some more officers and soldiers. I suggest you clear out the southern area where Xu Huang has arrived. After some more time passes Zhang Liao will appear again, this time up at the northern checkpoint in the center of the map. He's still in hyper mode, and will retain his attack x2 bonus. Kill him for the second time, only to have him withdraw again. Now head down to the southwestern part of the map, where Xu Huang appeared. Might as well kill any enemy forces you run into along the way (Xiahou Dun and Cao Zhen appear as reinforcements in the north shortly after Zhang Liao appears for the second time, so it's a wise decision to kill them as they'll head for your main camp.) Wait down at the southwestern corner until Zhang Liao shows up there for the third time. Again, he is in hyper mode with his attack x2 bonus. Kill him for the third time and he will yet again withdraw. Now head up towards the enemy main camp. Zhang Liao will appear one last time to the east of the castle, no doubt in hyper mode with attack x2. Kill him this one last time to get your weapon. The valuable item will appear on top of the castle wall on the southeastern side. Difficulty: 3/5 - This isn't too bad since Ling Tong is a pretty tough character, but Zhang Liao can be a pain, especially since he is in hyper mode each time and has an attack x2 bonus. Make sure Ling Tong is pretty buffed up before attempting this. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- OTHER [OTHW] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Diao Chan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [OW01] Lu Bu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [OW02] Dong Zhuo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [OW03] Yuan Shao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [OW04] Zhang Jiao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [OW05] Meng Huo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [OW06] Zhu Rong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [OW07] Zuo Ci . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [OW08] .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Diao Chao [OW01] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ DIVA - Power: 32 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Heavy - Attributes: Fill +18 Spd +19 Musou +18 Luck +18 Def +16 Stage: Battle of Xia Pi (Lu Bu's forces) Requirement: Defeat all officers and sub-officers before Cao Cao arrives and without Hou Cheng being defeated Strategy: Head south to run into the first officer, Zhang Fei, and defeat him. Hou Cheng will be crying for help by now, but just ignore him, he should be able to hold out for a little longer. Head west to run into Guan Yu; kill him once you do. Now quickly head over and kill Liu Bei. If it looks like Hou Cheng is really struggling and might be defeated, head up to rescue him first. But I was always able to kill Liu Bei without worrying about Hou Cheng dying. Once Liu Bei is defeated immediately head north to find Xiahou Yuan and Li Dian beating up on Hou Cheng. Kill Li Dian first, then Xiahou Yuan. Next head up north and kill Yu Jin before he kills Song Xian (although if he does kill Song Xian, it doesn't matter, you'll still get the weapon. You just can't let Hou Cheng be defeated.) Then head south and defeat Xiahou Dun. This will cause Cao Cao to appear, and it will also cause your weapon to appear. The valuable item will be down in the southern area, a little to the north of the enemy base. Difficulty: 3.5/5 - Diao Chan is pretty bad, so that bumps up the difficulty. None of the officers are super hard to kill, but you do have to be pretty quick if you want to save Hou Cheng. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Lu Bu [OW02] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ SKY SCORCHER - Power: 40 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Medium - Attributes: Horse +20 Atk +20 Life +19 Def +20 Musou +19 Stage: Battle of Chang Shan (Yuan Shao's forces) Requirement: Kill 1000 enemy soldiers Strategy: This is pretty straightforward and easy, you just need to kill 1000 people. Make sure you don't seal any checkpoints. In fact what you want to do is sit far enough away from the checkpoints that you're just out of the range of the guard captains. As long as they don't come running out to you to fight you, the enemies will keep pouring out of the checkpoints. If you're having extra trouble getting enough enemies you can go into the castle and just stay in the central area, and don't go near the checkpoints. If you're worried about your allies taking checkpoints for you, at the start of the battle instead of heading to the summit go down the path in the center towards the main gate. Lu Bu will be disobeying orders, and Yuan Shao won't send anyone out to help you. So now you can go around killing enemies at your own pace. Difficulty: 1/5 - First of all, it's Lu Bu, this isn't going to be hard for him. Second of all, this is mostly just time consuming. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Dong Zhuo [OW03] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ HORROR - Power: 36 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Medium - Attributes: Luck +17 Def +15 Life +15 Horse +17 Atk +18 Stage: Battle of Liang Province (Dong Zhuo's forces) Requirement: Take all five bases and defeat Ma Chao and Pang De Strategy: Seems simple enough. From the start of the battle make your way out and start taking down each of the bases. Taking the two corner bases will also cut off enemy reinforcements, which is a plus. Once all of the bases are taken lets go kill Ma Chao. He's in hyper mode, but he doesn't get any stat bonuses or go into musou rage, so he isn't too bad. After he's dead let's go kill Pang De. Pang De is also in hyper mode, but like Ma Chao gets no stat bonuses or anything. Once Pang De is dead the valuable item will appear in the middle of the southwestern section of the map. Difficulty: 2/5 - Ma Chao and Pang De can take quite a beating since they're in hyper mode, but since they get no added stat bonuses and both do not go into musou rage, it makes the stage much easier. Plus Dong Zhuo ain't half bad. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Yuan Shao [OW04] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ SWORD OF KINGS - Power: 34 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Medium - Attributes: Fill +15 Bow +15 Musou +17 Horse +15 Def +18 Stage: Battle of Guan Du (Yuan Shao's forces) Requirement: Have Cao Cao's soldiers open Guan Du's east and west gates with both Yan Liang and Wen Chou still alive Strategy: Yan Liang and Wen Chou will both be killed by Guan Yu if you don't kill him first, and all he really has to do is meet up with them to kill them. So right off the start of the battle, rush Guan Yu and kill him. Now you need to get Cao Cao's soldiers to open the two side gates to Guan Du castle for you. To do this you need to lower enemy morale by a lot. The easiest way to do this is to just go around killing officers and taking bases. Might as well go kill Liu Yan and Cao Hong, who will be right next to where you killed Guan Yu. Then go kill the rest of the officers and take the rest of the bases surrounding Guan Du. Once Cao Cao's morale is low enough the soldiers will open the two side gates. The valuable item will then appear on the northeast section of the castle wall. Difficulty: 1/5 - Nothing hard about this one, it's a one star stage and Yuan Shao is a hard hitter. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Zhang Jiao [OW05] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ VOLCANO STAFF - Power: 32 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Medium - Attributes: Charge +16 Luck +15 Musou +17 Fill +9 Atk +15 Stage: The Yellow Turban Rebellion (Yellow Turbans) Requirement: Brainwash both Cao Cao and Sun Jian's army as well as allow Zhang Man Cheng's rock attack to be successful, all without any allied officers or sub-officers dying Strategy: Ok this weapon is VERY hard to get, if you haven't figured that out by now. Now it doesn't matter if you brainwash the enemies first or if you allow the rock attack to succeed first, but the ONLY way I've ever been able to get this weapon is to do the rock attack first, and I'll explain why later. So right from your starting position go forward until you run into Gongsun Yue and kill him. Killing Gongsun Yue will allow the rock attack to be successful, but it takes a minute or so until after you've killed him for the attack to actually begin. So go kill Gongsun Yue and then head directly down to Zhang Bao. Now what we're going to do is brainwash Cao Cao's army. Get onto the altar with Zhang Bao and stay there. After a minute or so Cao Cao's army will defect to your side. Once that's done head down to Zhang Liang. Now lets brainwash Sun Jian's army. Do the same thing, get on the altar with Zhang Liang and stay there for a minute or so. As long as no one has died, the valuable item will appear on the altar where Zhang Bao is. Now for the really tough part: finishing the damn battle. Zhang Jiao is horribly bad, and your allies will probably start to get slaughtered. Not to mention the fact that Dong Zhuo's unit will arrive with even more enemies once you enter the main enemy camp, and then in order to finish the battle you have to kill everyone. Good luck with the rest of the battle, because you'll need it. Oh and the reason I say to do the rock attack first is because it takes a minute or so after Gongsun Yue is dead for the rock attack to actually begin. Whenever I did the brainwashing part first, I would then go and kill Gongsun Yue and wait for the rock attack to begin. However one of my allies would ALWAYS die before the rock attack would start. Therefore I find it's best to do the rock attack first, because then you can move on to begin the brainwashing part while you also wait for the rock attack to succeed. Difficulty: 5/5 - This one is a runner up with 'toughest fourth weapon in the game', along with Cao Pi's. Zhang Jiao is a very bad character, and this is a five star difficulty stage for the Yellow Turbans. Plus the requirements are very strict, and sometimes it's just plain luck if your allies can survive or not. You'll need a really buffed up Zhang Jiao, and expect to have to give multiple attempts for this one, as it's not easy. Oh and if you're thinking of trying to cheat the difficulty setting by doing this on Zhang Jiao's musou, think again; this is his five star stage in his musou as well. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Meng Huo [OW06] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ KING OF BEASTS - Power: 36 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Light - Attributes: Charge +15 Horse +15 Life +19 Fill +15 Atk +18 Stage: Conquest of Nan Zhong (Nanman forces) Requirement: Defeat Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, and Yue Ying without any of your allies defecting Strategy: Wei Yan is directly in front of you at the start of the battle, so go kill him first. Then move up to where Wu Tugu is and defeat Wang Ping and Zhang Yi. Eventually the Shu army will start to run away, and Wu Tugu will chase them. Once Wu Tugu enters the open area, a bunch of exploding pots will appear along with four task leaders. Kill the four task leaders to prevent Dong Tu Na from defecting. Now head east over to the poison swamp and kill Huang Zhong. After that's done head north and head straight for Yue Ying and kill her. The valuable item will appear down in the southern most hidden path, connecting the poison swamp with the area with the exploding pots. Difficulty: 3/5 - This one can be a little difficult since you got a lot of people to kill and they aren't exactly weak. The northern area can especially get a little hairy, with all of the officers running around as well as Yue Ying's juggernauts. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Zhu Rong [OW07] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ INFERNO - Power: 34 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Medium - Attributes: Charge +16 Bow +15 Musou +18 Fill +17 Def +15 Stage: The Invasion of Nan Zhong (Nanman forces) Requirement: Defeat Gan Ning and Jiang Qin without the bridge being destroyed Strategy: This weapon is easy to get, but takes a long time. At the start of the battle go down to your right and clear out the enemies down there: take the base and defeat Zhu Huan. After that head back up to the middle area and clear it of enemies. Take down the base, secure the checkpoint, and defeat Xu Sheng, Zhou Tai, Zhu Ran and Lu Xun. Be careful with Lu Xun though, don't get too close to the bridge. Meng Huo will tell you to "take care of it", and if you get too close to the bridge you'll knock it down, which will prevent you from getting the weapon. Now you have to wait for King Mulu to get frustrated and attack without the bridge being destroyed. It takes about 17 minutes for this to happen. Yes, I said 17 minutes. So let's go clear out the left side of enemies: go kill Sun Shang Xiang and take out the enemy base. You'll probably still have ten minutes left after this is all done, so go do your taxes or something. Eventually after a long wait King Mulu will get impatient and begin moving towards the enemy camp. Shortly after that Gan Ning and Jiang Qin will show up as reinforcements over on the left hand side of the map. Go and kill them both. The valuable item will appear right by the bridge, on the other side of the Wu camp. Difficulty: 1.5/5 - Not difficult at all. If anything it's the waiting that's difficult. .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Zuo Ci [OW08] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------´ TRUMP DECK - Power: 40 - Attacks: 6 (+Evolution) - Weight: Medium - Attributes: Charge +15 Bow +15 Musou +20 Fill +20 Def +15 Stage: Battle of Hu Lao Gate (Allied forces) Requirement: Defeat Lu Bu Strategy: This isn't as tough as it might sound. For one there is no time limit, unlike Sun Jian's weapon. Secondly Zou Ci is a beast, and shouldn't have much of a problem with defeating Lu Bu. Like I said about Sun Jian's fourth, Lu Bu isn't nearly as tough in DW5 as he was in previous DW games. Now I do believe that the Lu Bu on Hu Lao Gate is tougher then all of the other levels that he appears on in this game, but killing him is still very do-able. Especially with Zuo Ci. If you're having trouble bring a bodyguard, just make sure you land the killing blow. You can also bring all of your allies together to help distract him at the gate, but again, just make sure you're the one landing the final blow. Lu Bu is of course in hyper mode, and will get an attack x2 bonus as well as regain some health once a bit of it is knocked away. He will also go into musou rage, at which point you need to just completely avoid him as he will very quickly kill you no matter how strong you are. Once he's dead the valuable item will appear on top of Hu Lao Gate's front wall, over to the right. Difficulty: 2.5/5 - Lu Bu is probably his strongest in this level, but it still pales in comparison to how strong he was in the previous games. A buffed up Zuo Ci shouldn't have much trouble making quick work of Lu Bu. _______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 09. MISCELLANEOUS [MISC] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ There's a few odds and ends that I don't believe really fit into any other section so I just made this section and threw them all in here. This is mostly just additional information about the game and a few of its extras. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- CHARACTER UNLOCKING [UNLK] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- When you start up DW5 from fresh, most characters won't be available for you to play. You'll have to play through certain characters musou modes in order to unlock everyone. There are 48 characters total, and this is how you unlock them all: +-------------+ | Shu Kingdom | +-------------+ Zhao Yun -> Available from the start. Guan Yu -> Available from the start. Zhang Fei -> Available from the start. Zhuge Liang -> Complete 1 Shu musou mode with anyone. Liu Bei -> Complete 4 Shu musou modes with anyone. Ma Chao -> Available from the start. Huang Zhong -> Available from the start. Jiang Wei -> Complete 2 Shu musou modes with anyone. Wei Yan -> Complete Huang Zhong's musou mode. Pang Tong -> Complete 3 Shu musou modes with anyone. Yue Ying -> Complete Zhuge Liang's musou mode. Guan Ping -> Complete Guan Yu's musou mode. Xing Cai -> Available from the start. +-------------+ | Wei Kingdom | +-------------+ Xiahou Dun -> Available from the start. Dian Wei -> Available from the start. Xu Zhu -> Available from the start. Cao Cao -> Complete 4 Wei musou modes with anyone. Xiahou Yuan -> Complete Xiahou Dun's musou mode. Zhang Liao -> Available from the start. Sima Yi -> Complete 1 Wei musou mode with anyone. Xu Huang -> Complete 3 Wei musou modes with anyone. Zhang He -> Complete 2 Wei musou modes with anyone. Zhen Ji -> Available from the start. Cao Ren -> Complete Cao Pi's musou mode. Cao Pi -> Available from the start. Pang De -> Complete Ma Chao's musou mode. +------------+ | Wu Kingdom | +------------+ Zhou Yu -> Available from the start. Lu Xun -> Available from the start. Taishi Ci -> Available from the start. Sun Shang Xiang -> Available from the start. Sun Jian -> Complete 4 Wu musou modes with anyone. Sun Quan -> Available from the start. Lu Meng -> Complete 2 Wu musou modes with anyone. Gan Ning -> Complete Ling Tong's musou mode. Huang Gai -> Complete 3 Wu musou modes with anyone. Sun Ce -> Complete Sun Quan's musou mode. Da Qiao -> Complete Sun Ce's musou mode. Xiao Qiao -> Complete Zhou Yu's musou mode. Zhou Tai -> Complete 1 Wu musou mode with anyone. Ling Tong -> Available from the start. +--------------+ | Other Forces | +--------------+ Diao Chan -> Complete Lu Bu's musou mode. Lu Bu -> Complete 1 Shu, 1 Wei, and 1 Wu musou mode with anyone. Dong Zhuo -> Complete Diao Chan's musou mode. Yuan Shao -> Complete Cao Cao's musou mode. Zhang Jiao -> Complete Liu Bei, Cao Cao, and Sun Jian's musou mode. Meng Huo -> Complete Zhuge Liang, Lu Xun, and 1 Wei (anyone) musou modes. Zhu Rong -> Complete Meng Huo's musou mode. Zuo Ci -> Unlock all other characters. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- OFFICER DROP LIST [DROP] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This is a comprehensive drop list of all items dropped by officers on every level and every difficulty. These lists should be accurate, but please email me if you find any mistakes. One thing I will have to admit is that, while making this list, I only played through about half of the maps on chaos mode. The reason being is because after a few maps I noticed that, while the drops might change between easy, normal, and hard, the drops for chaos were always the same as the drops on hard. After playing through half of the maps and having this be the case every time, I'm assuming the drops for hard and chaos difficulty are the same for all maps. But of course, I cannot verify this completely. So if you happen to find out this is not true, please email me, and I suppose I'll have to go through the arduous task of going through every map on chaos mode. There are a few possible things enemy officers will drop after they're defeated; they are the following: - Atk: Sword, increases characters attack stat (+1, +2, +4, +8) - Def: Shield, increases characters defense stat (+1, +2, +4, +8) - Life: Dim Sum, increases characters max health (+10, +20) - Weapon: One weapon for the character - Item: One random item (non-rare) For officers that don't drop anything (mainly commanders) I simply put "N/A" down. Sub-officers are indented several spaces below their main officer. Also I should note that these are the default drops, there are no combos being used when I'm killing any officers. Obviously using a large combo will affect some of these drops. The battles are listed in the order that they're listed on the free mode menu. So with all that being said, on with the list: +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | BATTLE OF XI LANG | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | YELLOW TURBANS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Zhang Jiao | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Zhang Liang | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Zhang Bao | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Deng Mao | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Cheng Yuanzhi* | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | DONG ZHUO'S FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dong Zhuo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Hu Zhen | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Dong Min | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Niu Fu | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Xu Rong | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Hua Xiong | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Li Ru | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Ma Chao** | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Def +4 | | Li Jue*** | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Guo Si**** | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --NOTES-- * Cheng Yuanzhi shows up when you approach the slope on the left side and he starts throwing rocks down the hill. ** Ma Chao shows up shortly after Zhang Liang is rescued. *** Li Jue shows up as you approach the enemy camp. *** Guo Si shows up in battle later on. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | BATTLE OF JI PROVINCE | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | YELLOW TURBANS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Zhang Jiao | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Zhang Bao | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Zhang Liang | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Pei Yuan Shao | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | He Yi | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Bo Zhang | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Cheng Yuanzhi | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | YUAN SHAO'S FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Yuan Shao | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Yan Liang | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Tian Feng | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Wen Chou | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Guo Tu | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Ju Shou | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Yuan Xi | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Yuan Shang | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Zhao Yun* | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --NOTES-- * Zhao Yun shows up shortly into the battle. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | BATTLE OF LIANG PROVINCE | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | DONG ZHUO'S FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dong Min | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Zhao Cen | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Xu Rong | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Guo Si | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Wang Fang | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Hua Xiong | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Niu Fu | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Li Meng | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Dong Zhuo* | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Li Su* | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Li Ru* | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Fan Chou** | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Li Jue** | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Zhang Ji*** | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Hu Zhen*** | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | ALLIED FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ma Teng | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Ma Chao | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Pang De | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Han Sui | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Yang Qiu | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Liang Xing | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Cheng Yin**** | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Hou Xuan**** | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Cheng Yi***** | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --NOTES-- * Dong Zhuo shows up after all other officers are dead/after all of the bases are taken and a bit of time has passed. ** Fan Chou and Li Jue show up if you fail to secure the two checkpoints. *** Zhang Ji and Hu Zhen show up shortly after Dong Zhuo. **** Cheng Yin and Hou Xuan show up if the two corner bases are not taken. ***** Cheng Yi shows up later in the main camp. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | STRUGGLE FOR NAN ZHONG | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | ALLIED FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Wu Tugu | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | King Duosi | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | King Mulu | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Jinhuan Sanjie | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Dong Tu Na | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Ahui Nan | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Yong Kai* | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Gao Ding* | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Zhu Bao* | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --NOTES-- * These three appear after Wu Tugu, King Duosi, and King Mulu are defeated. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | BATTLE OF NAN ZHONG | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NANMAN FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Meng Huo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Meng You | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Zhu Rong | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Dailai Dongzhu | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Wu Tugu | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Jinhuan Sanjie | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | King Duosi | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Ahui Nan | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +20 | Life +20 | | King Mulu | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Dong Tu Na | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | YELLOW TURBANS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Zhang Jiao (1) | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Zhang Bao | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Cheng Yuanzhi | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhang Liang | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | He Yi | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Bo Zhang | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Zhang Man Cheng | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Pei Yuan Shao | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Guan Hai | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhang Jiao (2) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | THE YELLOW TURBAN REBELLION | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | YELLOW TURBANS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Zhang Jiao | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Pei Yuan Shao | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Bo Zhang | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Guan Hai | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Han Dang* | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Zhang Bao | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Deng Mao | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Yan Zheng | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Zhang Liang | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Gao Sheng | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Zhang Man Cheng | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Cheng Yuanzhi | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | He Yi | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Huang Shao | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Zhang Yan | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | HAN FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | He Jin | Life +10 | Life +20 | Life +20 | Life +20 | | Tao Qian | Def +1 | Def +1 | Def +1 | Def +1 | | Cao Cao | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Dian Wei | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Li Dian | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Sun Jian | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Huang Gai | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Cheng Pu | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Liu Bei | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Guan Yu | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Jiang Yong | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Huangfu Song | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Zhu Jun | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Gongsun Zan | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Gongsun Yue | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | | Dong Zhuo** | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Hua Xiong** | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Dong Min** | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | | Li Ru** | Def +1 | Def +1 | Def +1 | Def +1 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --NOTES-- * Han Dang will convert to the Yellow Turbans if Zhang Man Chang finishes his prayer. If you defeat Zhang Man Chang he will return to Sun Jian's forces. ** Dong Zhuo's unit shows up once you enter the enemy main camp (where He Jin is located.) +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | BATTLE OF SI SHUI GATE | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | DONG ZHUO'S FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Hua Xiong | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Niu Fu | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Wang Fang | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Zhao Cen | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Li Jue | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Li Su | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Guo Si | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Xu Rong | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Li Meng | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Hu Zhen | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Fan Chou | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Jia Xu | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Dong Min | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Lu Bu* | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Li Ru** | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | ALLIED FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Yuan Shao | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Ju Shou | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Sun Jian | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Huang Gai | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Zhu Zhi | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Han Dang | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Liu Bei | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Guan Yu | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Yuan Shu | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Ji Ling | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Gongsun Zan | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Cao Cao*** | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Xiahou Dun*** | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --NOTES-- * Lu Bu shows up once you open up Si Shui Gate. ** Li Ru shows up later on in battle. *** Cao Cao's unit shows up later on in battle. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | BATTLE OF HU LAO GATE | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | DONG ZHUO'S FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dong Zhuo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Dong Min | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Zhang Ji | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Jia Xu | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Zhang Liao | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Li Jue | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Wang Fang | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Li Meng | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Guo Si | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Hu Zhen | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Zhao Cen | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Xu Rong | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Niu Fu | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Li Ru | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Li Su* | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Gao Shun | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Lu Bu** | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Fan Chou**** | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | ALLIED FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Yuan Shao | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Ju Shou | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Tian Feng | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Cao Cao | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Li Dian | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Cao Hong | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Yue Jin | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Liu Bei | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Guan Yu | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhang Fei | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Jian Yong | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Sun Jian | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Han Dang | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Zhu Zhi | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Cheng Pu | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Gongsun Zan | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Gongsun Yue | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Yan Liang*** | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Wen Chou*** | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --NOTES-- * Li Su shows up in an enemy ambush in the south. ** Lu Bu shows up once you open up Hu Lao Gate. *** Yan Liang and Wen Chou show up later in battle. **** Fan Chou shows up later on in battle. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | BATTLE OF CHANG SHAN | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | GONGSUN ZAN'S FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Gongsun Zan | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Zhao Yun | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Liu Bei | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Guan Yu | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhang Fei | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Zhang Yan | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Yu Du | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +20 | Life +20 | | Zuozi Zhangba | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Gongsun Yue | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Yan Gang | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Qing Niujiao | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Huang Long | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Li Damu | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Guo Daxian* | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --NOTES-- * Guo Daxian shows up in an enemy ambush in the west. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | BATTLE OF JING PROVINCE | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | LIU BIAO'S FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Liu Biao | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Lu Gong | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Kuai Liang | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Huang Zu | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Cai Mao | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Zhang Hu | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Chen Sheng* | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Su Fei* | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --NOTES-- * Chen Sheng and Su Fei show up later in the battle. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | BATTLE OF THE WU TERRITORY | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | ALLIED FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Liu Yong** | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Taishi Ci** | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Zhang Ying | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Yu Mi | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Chen Heng | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Xue Li | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Yan Baihu | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Yan Yu | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Wang Lang | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Zhou Xin | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Fan Neng* | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | SUN CE'S FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Zhou Yu | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Sun Quan | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Zhou Tai | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Cheng Pu | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Han Dang | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Dong Xi | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Jiang Qin | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Sun Ce*** | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Sun Shang Xing*** | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --NOTES-- * Fan Neng shows up to ambush Sun Quan in the eastern fortress. ** Shortly after engaging Taishi Ci, Liu Yong will retreat and put Taishi Ci in charge as commander of the allied forces. Take note that it is possible to kill Taishi Ci before Liu Yong retreats, but either way neither of them will drop anything. *** Sun Ce's unit shows up later on in the battle. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | BATTLE OF WAN CASTLE | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | ZHANG XIU'S FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Hu Che Er* | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Jia Xu** | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Zhang Xiu*** | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --NOTES-- * Hu Che Er shows up shortly into battle. ** Jia Xu shows up when Cao Cao attempts to flee. *** Zhang Xiu will only show up if you let at least one task leader through the gate. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | BATTLE OF XIA PI | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | LU BU'S FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Lu Bu | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Diao Chan | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Chen Gong | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Zhang Liao | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Cao Xing | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Gao Shun | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Hou Cheng | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Song Xian | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Wei Xu | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Yin Li | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Zhang Ba | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Yuan Shu* | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Yuan Yin* | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Lei Bo* | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Chen Lan* | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Chen Ji* | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Ji Ling* | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Yue Jiu* | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Liang Gang* | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Li Feng* | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Liu Xun* | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | CAO CAO'S FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Xiahou Dun | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Yu Jin | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Xiahou Yuan | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Li Dian | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Liu Bei | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Guan Yu | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhang Fei | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Cao Cao** | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Zhu Ling** | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Guo Jia** | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Cao Hong** | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Yue Jin** | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Man Chong** | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --NOTES-- * Yuan Shu and Ji Ling's units will show up if you fail to stop Gao Shun from from reinforcing the flood gates by killing him. This takes a long time to happen (around 12 minutes or so.) ** Cao Cao and Cao Hong show up once you've killed all the other officers. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | BATTLE OF GUAN DU | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | YUAN SHAO'S FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Yuan Shao | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Tian Feng | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Guo Tu | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Ju Shou | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Zhang He | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Gao Lan | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhen Ji | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Liu Bei | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Jian Yong | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Yan Liang | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Han Meng | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Wen Chou | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Lu Wei Kuang | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Yuan Tan | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Gao Gan | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Xun Chen | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Yuan Xi | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Lu Kuang | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Yuan Shang | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Lu Xiang | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Chunyu Qiong | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +20 | Life +20 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | CAO CAO'S FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Cao Cao | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Guo Jia | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Jia Xu | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Cheng Yu | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Xiahou Dun | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Cao Zhang | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Cao Pi | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Yu Jin | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Guan Yu | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Li Dian | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Song Xian | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Wei Xu | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Yue Jin | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Zhu Ling | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Liu Yan | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Xun You | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Cao Hong | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Han Hao | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | GUAN YU'S ESCAPE | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | GUAN YU'S FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Guan Yu | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Zhou Cang | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Liao Hua | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhao Yun | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Guan Ping | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Zhang Fei | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Liu Bei | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Carriage | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | CAO CAO'S FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Zhang Liao | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Xu Huang | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Xu Zhu | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Kong Xiu | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Han Fu | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Wang Zhi | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Bian Xi | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Qin Qi | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Xiahou Dun* | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +20 | Life +20 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --NOTES-- * Xiahou Dun shows up once you clear the fourth gate. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | THE TRIALS OF SUN CE | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | PHANTOM ARMY | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Yu Ji (Phantom 1) | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Yu Ji (Phantom 8) | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Yu Ji (Real) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | BATTLE OF XIA KOU | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | HUANG ZU'S FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Huang Zu | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Deng Long | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Kuai Liang | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Chen Jiu | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Su Fei | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Cai Mao | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Liu Qi | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Zhang Hu | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Lu Gong | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Chen Sheng | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Wen Pin | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Li Yan | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Gan Ning* | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | SUN QUAN'S FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Sun Quan | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Lu Su | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Zhou Yu | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Xu Sheng | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Taishi Ci | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Ling Tong | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Zhou Tai | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Chen Wu | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Dong Xi | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Han Dang | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Cheng Pu | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Ling Cao | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --NOTES-- * Gan Ning shows up once Ling Cao enters the small strip of land between the two bridges on the west. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | BATTLE OF CHANG BAN | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | LIU BEI'S FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Liu Bei | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Mi Fang | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Mi Zhu | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Zhao Yun | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhang Fei | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Zhuge Liang | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Sun Qian | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Liao Hua | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhou Cang | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Guan Yu* | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Jian Yong* | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Liu Qi** | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | CAO CAO'S FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Xiahou Dun | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Wen Pin | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Yu Jin | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Xiahou En | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Li Dian | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhu Ling | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Cao Hong | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Liu Yan | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Xu Huang*** | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Han Hao*** | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Cao Zhang*** | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Cheng Yu*** | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Jia Xu**** | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Jia Kui**** | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Yue Jin**** | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Cao Cao***** | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Xun Yu***** | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Xun You***** | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --NOTES-- * Guan Yu shows up when Liu Bei nears the docking area. ** Liu Qi shows up once the peasants escape. *** Xu Huang and Cao Zhang show up once all other enemy officers are defeated. **** Jia Xu will show up after Xu Huang and Cao Zhang are defeated. ***** Cao Cao shows up shortly after Liu Qi. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | BATTLE OF CHI BI | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | ALLIED FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Zhou Yu | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Ding Feng | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhang Cheng | Def +1 | Def +1 | Def +1 | Def +1 | | Zhu Zhi | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Zhou Tai | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhu Ran | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Han Dang | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Chen Wu | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Zhuge Liang | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Cheng Pu | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Quan Zong | Def +1 | Def +1 | Def +1 | Def +1 | | Zhu Huan | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | | Pan Zhang | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Xu Sheng | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Jiang Qin | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | | Pang Tong* | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Huang Gai** | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhuge Jin*** | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Dong Xi*** | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Sun Quan*** | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Lu Su*** | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | CAO CAO'S FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Cao Cao | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Jia Xu | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Xiahou Yuan | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Zhu Ling | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Cai Mao | Life +10 | Life +20 | Life +20 | Life +20 | | Zhen Ji | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Yu Jin | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Xu Shu | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Cao Pi | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Yue Jin | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Cheng Yu | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Zhang Liao | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Wen Pin | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | | Xun You | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Cao Hong | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Wang Lang | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | | Man Chong | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Chao Zhen | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Cao Xiu | Item | Item | Item | Item | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --NOTES-- * Pang Tong defects shortly after the battle begins. ** Huang Gai shows up later on for the fire attack. *** Both Zhuge Jin and Sun Quan show up later on in the battle. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | ESCAPE FROM CHI BI | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | ALLIED FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Cheng Pu* | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Dong Xi* | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Han Dang* | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Zhu Zhi* | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Chen Wu* | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Zhao Yun* | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Mi Zhu* | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Zhang Fei* | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Jian Yong* | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Guan Ping* | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Zhou Cang* | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Sun Quan* | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +20 | Life +20 | | Zhuge Jin* | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Lu Su* | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Jiang Qin* | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Guan Yu* | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Liu Bei* | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Sun Qian* | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Mi Fang* | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | CAO CAO'S FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Cao Cao | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Cheng Yu | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Xun You | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Xiahou Dun | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Liu Yan | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Han Hao | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Zhang Liao | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Li Dian | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Yue Jin | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Cao Ren | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Niu Jin | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Man Chong | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Jia Xu** | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Xiahou Yuan*** | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhu Ling*** | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Cao Zhang**** | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Yu Jin**** | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Cao Hong***** | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Wen Pin***** | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Xun Yu****** | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --NOTES-- * All of these officers enter the battle as Cao Cao moves along the path towards the escape point. ** Jia Xu shows up when Cao Cao gets near Xiahou Dun. *** Xiahou Yuan shows up shortly after Jia Xu. **** Cao Zhang shows up later after Xiahou Yuan. ***** Cao Hong shows up later after Cao Zhang. ****** Xun Yu shows up later after Cao Hong. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | BATTLE OF TONG GATE | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | ALLIED FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ma Chao | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Han Sui | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhang Heng | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Pang De | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Yang Qiu | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Ma Dai | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Li Kan | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Hou Xuan | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Cheng Yin | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Cheng Yi | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Liang Xing | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhang Lu* | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | CAO CAO'S FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Cao Cao | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Jia Xu | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Xiahou Yuan | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Xu Zhu | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Zhang He | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Cao Hong | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Zhu Ling | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Xu Huang** | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Han Sui*** | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Cao Ren**** | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --NOTES-- * Zhang Lu shows up later on in the battle. ** Xu Huang shows up shortly after the battle begins. *** Han Sui will defect if he meets with Cao Cao. **** Cao Ren shows up later in the battle. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | BATTLE OF CHENG DU | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | LIU ZHANG'S FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Liu Zhang | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Meng Da | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Yan Yan | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Wu Lan | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Li Yan | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Liu Xun | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Lei Tong | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Fei Guan | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Deng Xian | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Zhang Ren | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Liu Han* | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Leng Bao* | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Zhang Yi* | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Gao Pei** | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Yang Huai** | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --NOTES-- * These officers show up as you advance through the forest. ** Gao Pei shows up shortly into the battle. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | BATTLE OF HE FEI | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | WU FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Sun Quan | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Zhuge Jin | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Jiang Qin | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Sun Shao | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Taishi Ci | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Chen Wu | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhu Ran | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Lu Meng | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Xu Sheng | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhang Cheng | Def +1 | Def +1 | Def +1 | Def +1 | | Pan Zhang | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Ma Zhong | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Ding Feng | Def +1 | Def +1 | Def +1 | Def +1 | | Zhu Zhi | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Zhou Fang | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Zhu Huan | Def +1 | Def +1 | Def +1 | Def +1 | | Gan Ning* | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Dong Xi* | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | WEI FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Cao Cao | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Jia Xu | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Cao Zhen | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Cao Xiu | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Pang De | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Niu Jin | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | | Man Chong | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Li Dian | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Yue Jin | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | | Cao Zhang** | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Xu Huang*** | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Yu Jin**** | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Zhang Liao (1st)***** | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhang Liao (2nd)***** | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhang Liao (3rd)***** | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhang Liao (4th)***** | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Xiahou Dun****** | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Cao Hong****** | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --NOTES-- * Gan Ning shows up later on in the battle. ** Cao Zhang shows up shortly into the battle. *** Xu Huang shows up shortly after Cao Zhang. **** Yu Jin shows up later after Xu Huang. ***** Zhang Liao shows up shortly after Yu Jin, then reappears three more times afterwards. ****** Xiahou Dun and Cao Hong show up shortly after Zhang Liao reappears for the first time. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | THE INVASION OF NAN ZHONG | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NANMAN FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Meng Huo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Meng You | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Zhu Rong | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | King Duosi | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Jinhuan Sanjie | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Ahui Nan | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Dong Tu Na | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | King Mulu* | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Mang Yachang* | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Yang Feng** | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Wu Tugu** | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | WU FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Sun Quan | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Zhuge Jin | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Sun Shang Xiang | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Pan Zhang | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Ding Feng | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Lu Meng | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Lu Xun | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Zhou Tai | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Xu Sheng | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhu Ran | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +20 | Life +20 | | Zhu Huan | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Gan Ning*** | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Jiang Qin*** | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --NOTES-- * King Mulu and Mang Yachang show up when you get near Meng Huo. ** Yang Feng and Wu Tugu show up later on in the battle. *** Gan Ning and Jiang Qin show up later on in the battle. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | BATTLE OF MT. DING JUN | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | SHU FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Liu Bei | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Fa Zheng | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Huang Zhong | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Yan Yan | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Lei Tong | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Zhao Yun | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Liu Feng | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Zhang Yi | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Wei Yan | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Meng Da | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Guan Ping | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Li Yan | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Wu Lan | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Chen Shi | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | WEI FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Xiahou Yuan | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhang He | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Yue Jin | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Li Dian | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Cao Xiu | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Xiahou De | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Xiahou Shang | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Guo Huai | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Cao Zhen | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Han Hao | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Cao Cao* | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Yang Xiu* | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Cao Zhang* | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --NOTES-- * Cao Cao and Cao Zhang show up later on in the battle. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | BATTLE OF FAN CASTLE | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | SHU FORCES (PLAYING AS WEI) | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Guan Yu | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Guan Ping | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +20 | Life +20 | | Guan Suo | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Zhou Cang | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Liao Hua | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Mi Fang | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Fu Shi Ren | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Liu Feng | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Meng Da | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Ma Liang | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Zhang Fei* | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Zhang Bao* | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | SHU FORCES (PLAYING AS WU) | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Guan Yu | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Ma Liang | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Guan Ping | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Guan Suo | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Guan Xing | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Zhou Cang | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Liao Hua | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Mi Fang | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Fu Shi Ren | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Meng Da** | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Liu Feng** | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhang Fei*** | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhang Bao*** | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | ALLIED FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Cao Ren | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Yue Jin | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Niu Jin | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Pang De | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +20 | Life +20 | | Dong Heng | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Dong Chao | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Jiang Ji | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Man Chong | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Sun Li | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Yu Jin | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Xu Huang**** | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Li Dian**** | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Lu Meng***** | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Lu Xun***** | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Jiang Qin***** | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Xu Sheng***** | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Zhu Ran***** | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Mi Fang****** | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Fu Shi Ren****** | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Pan Zhang******* | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Ma Zhong******* | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --NOTES-- * Zhang Fei arrives later on in the battle. ** Meng Da and Liu Feng show up later on in the battle. *** Zhang Fei shows up shortly after Meng Da and Liu Feng. **** Xu Huang shows up later on in the battle. ***** Lu Meng and Xu Sheng show up later in the battle, around 11 minutes in. ****** Mi Fang and Fu Shi Ren defect when Wu forces approach them. ******* Pan Zhang shows up shortly after Mi Fang and Fu Shi Ren's defection to ambush Guan Yu. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | BATTLE OF YI LING | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | SHU FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Liu Bei | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Ma Liang | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Chen Shi | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Zhao Yun | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Zhang Bao | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Lei Tong | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Ma Chao | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Ma Dai | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Wu Lan | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Yan Yan | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Guan Xing | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Guan Suo | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Liao Hua | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Li Yan | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Sha Moke | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhuge Liang* | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Ma Su* | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Wang Ping* | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhang Yi* | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | WU FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Sun Quan | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Sun Shang Xiang | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Zhuge Jin | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Lu Xun | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Zhu Ran | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Gan Ning | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Ling Tong | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Cheng Pu | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Xu Sheng | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Pan Zhang | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Zhu Huan | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Ding Feng | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Ma Zhong | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Han Dang | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhu Zhi | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Jiang Qin | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Quan Zong | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Zhang Cheng** | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Zhou Fang** | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --NOTES-- * Zhuge Liang and Wang Ping show up later, after Liu Bei goes through the Stone Sentinel Maze. ** Zhang Cheng shows up later on in the battle. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | CONQUEST OF NAN ZHONG | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NANMAN FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Meng Huo (1st) | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Meng You | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Meng Huo (2nd) | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Meng Huo (3rd) | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Meng Huo (4th) | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Meng Huo (5th) | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Meng Huo (6th) | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Meng Huo (7th) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Zhu Rong | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Wu Tugu | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Mang Yachang | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | | Jinhuan Sanjie | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | King Duosi | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Ahui Nan | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | | Dong Tu Na | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | | King Mulu | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Dailai Dongzhu* | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Yang Feng** | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | SHU FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Zhuge Liang | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Ma Su | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Zhang Yi | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Wang Ping | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Yue Ying | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Liao Hua | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Zhang Bao | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Huang Zhong | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Yan Yan | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Wei Yan | Life +10 | Life +20 | Life +20 | Life +20 | | Ma Dai | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Lu Kai | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Guan Xing | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Guan Suo | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Ma Chao*** | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Dong Tu Na**** | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Ahui Nan***** | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --NOTES-- * Dailai Dongzhu shows up later in the battle. ** Yang Feng shows up after Dailai Dongzhu. *** Ma Chao shows up later in the battle. **** Dong Tu Na defects if Wu Tugu isn't rescued. ***** Ahui Nan defects if Jinhuan Sanjie isn't rescued. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | BATTLE OF TIAN SHUI | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | SHU FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Zhuge Liang | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Wei Yan | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Liao Hua | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Zhao Yun | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Yue Ying | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Li Yan | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Wang Ping | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Guan Xing | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Zhang Bao | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Ma Dai | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Jiang Wei* | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Gao Xiang** | Def +1 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | WEI FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ma Zun | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Cheng Wu | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Yin Shang | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Liang Xu | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Jiang Wei | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Xiahou Mao | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Han De | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Cui Lang | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Wang Lang | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Xiahou Mao*** | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Cao Zhen**** | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Cao Ren**** | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhang He**** | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --NOTES-- * The fake Jiang Wei appears outside Tian Shui castle later on in the battle as long as Ma Zun is still inside. ** Gao Xiang will show up if Ma Zun tries to retreat from Tian Shui castle. *** Xiahou Mao will be released back into Tian Shui castle as long as he is captured (defeated) before Jiang Wei. **** These three units will show up as reinforcements as long as Jiang Wei is defeated before he tries to return to Tian Shui castle. They will arrive in the order listed: first Cao Zhen, then Cao Ren, and finally Zhang He. If Jiang Wei attempts to return to Tian Shui castle before he is defeated, Ma Zun will attempt to escape instead of calling for reinforcements. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | BATTLE OF JIE TING | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | SHU FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ma Su | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Li Yan | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Jian Yong | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Chen Shi | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Jiang Wei | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Zhang Yi | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Wang Ping | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Guan Xing | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Gao Xiang | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Liao Hua | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Ma Dai | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhang Bao | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Wei Yan* | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Xing Cai* | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Ma Chao* | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhuge Liang* | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | WEI FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Sima Yi | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Sima Zhao | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Xiahou Wei | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Zhang He | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhen Ji | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Xu Huang | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Jia Kui | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Cao Zhen | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Zhang Hu | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Xin Pi | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Cao Hong | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Deng Ai | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Fei Yao | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Wang Lang | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Xu Zhu** | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Cao Pi*** | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --NOTES-- * These units arrive as reinforcements once Ma Su is defeated. They arrive in the order listed: first Wei Yan, then Xing Cai, then Ma Chao, and finally Zhuge Liang. ** Xu Zhu arrives later on, once Sima Yi gives up on taking the mountain. *** Cao Pi arrives later on in the battle. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | BATTLE OF CHEN CANG | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | SHU FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Jiang Wei | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Fei Yi | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Huang Zhong | Atk+ 2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Yan Yan | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Wei Yan | Atk+ 2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Ma Dai | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Guan Xing | Atk+ 2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Liao Hua | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Zhang Bao | Atk+ 2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhang Yi | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Wang Ping | Atk+ 2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Gao Xiang | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Yue Ying* | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Chen Shi* | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Jiang Wan** | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Li Yan** | Atk+ 2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhuge Liang*** | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Yang Yi*** | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | WEI FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Sima Yi | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Sima Zhao | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Jia Kui | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Cao Ren | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | Life +10 | | Wang Shuang | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Fei Yao | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Zhang Hu | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Zhang He | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Xiahou Hui | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Xiahou Ba | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Sun Li | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Liu Ye | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Hao Zhao | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Xiahou Wei | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Wang Lang | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Hua Xin | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Cao Xiu**** | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Cao Hong**** | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Cao Zhen**** | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Guo Huai**** | Def +2 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Xu Zhu**** | Atk +2 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --NOTES-- * Yue Ying shows up later on in the battle. ** Jiang Wan shows up after Yue Ying is defeated. *** Zhuge Liang shows up after Jiang Wan is defeated. **** All of these units arrive as reinforcements later on in the battle. They arrive in the order listed: first Cao Xiu, then Cao Hong, then Cao Zhen, then Guo Huai, and finally Xu Zhu. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | BATTLE OF HE FEI CASTLE | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | WU FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Sun Quan | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Zhuge Jin | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Zhuge Luo | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Lu Xun | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Zhu Zhi | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Han Dang | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Zhou Fang | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Taishi Ci | Life +10 | Life +20 | Life +20 | Life +20 | | Quan Zong | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Zhu Huan | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhou Tai | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Cheng Pu | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Ding Feng | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Xu Sheng | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Ma Zhong | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Jiang Qin* | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Chen Wu* | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Pan Zhang* | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Dong Xi* | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Sun Shao** | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Zhang Cheng** | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | WEI FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Cao Pi | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Zhen Ji | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Xin Pi | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Jia Kui | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Sima Yi | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Sima Zhao | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Xu Zhu | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Xu Huang | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Sun Li | Life +10 | Life +20 | Life +20 | Life +20 | | Xiahou Ba | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Xiahou Wei | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Cao Ren | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Cao Zhang | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Cao Xiu | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Cao Hong | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Xiahou Shang | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Wang Lang | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Wen Pin | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Cao Zhen | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Xiahou Hui | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Cao Rui*** | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Man Chong*** | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --NOTES-- * Jiang Qin and Pan Zhang show up as part of the Wu navy later on in the battle. ** Sun Shao shows up later on in the battle. *** Cao Rui shows up later on in the battle. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | BATTLE OF BAI DI CASTLE | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | SHU FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Liu Chan | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Jiang Wan | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Fei Yi | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Yang Yi | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Ma Chao | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Ma Dai | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Huang Zhong | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Wang Ping | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Yan Yan | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Jiang Wei | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Li Yan | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Gao Xiang | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Xing Cai | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Zhang Bao | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | | Zhang Yi | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | Atk +1 | | Guan Xing | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Guan Suo | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Liao Hua | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Yue Ying* | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Jian Yong* | Life +10 | Life +20 | Life +20 | Life +20 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | WU FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Sun Quan | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Zhuge Jin | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Zhuge Luo | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Lu Xun | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Cheng Pu | Atk +1 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Huang Gai | Life +10 | Life +20 | Life +20 | Life +20 | | Quan Zong | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Zhu Huan | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhou Tai | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Xu Sheng | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Chen Wu | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhou Fang | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Ding Feng | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Han Dang | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Jiang Qin | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Sun Shao | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Zhang Cheng | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | Def +2 | | Gan Ning** | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Pan Zhang** | Item | Item | Item | Item | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --NOTES-- * Yue Ying shows up later on in the battle. ** Gan Ning and Pan Zhang show up later on in the battle. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | BATTLE OF WU ZHANG PLAINS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | SHU FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Zhuge Liang | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Jiang Wei | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Jiang Wan | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Yang Yi | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Yue Ying | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Gao Xiang | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Chen Shi | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Wei Yan | Life +10 | Life +20 | Life +20 | Life +20 | | Li Yan | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Guan Xing | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Zhang Bao | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Wang Ping | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Zhang Yi* | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Liao Hua | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Fei Yi | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Ma Dai | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Guan Suo** | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Jian Yong*** | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Zuo Ci**** | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | WEI FORCES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OFFICERS | EASY | NORMAL | HARD | CHAOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Sima Yi | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | | Guo Huai***** | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Xiahou He | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Xin Pi | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Zhen Ji | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Cao Ren | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | Weapon | | Xiahou Hui | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | Atk +2 | | Xiahou Mao | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Xu Zhu | Life +10 | Life +20 | Life +20 | Life +20 | | Cao Xiu | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Wen Pin | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Sun Li | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Cao Rui | Item | Item | Item | Item | | Xiahou Wei | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | Atk +4 | | Wang Lang | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | Def +4 | | Xiahou Ba | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Sima Zhao | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | Def +8 | | Zhong Hui****** | Atk +4 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | Atk +8 | | Deng Ai******* | Def +4 | Def +8 | Def +8 | Def +8 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --NOTES-- * Zhang Yi arrives in an ambush party when Deng Ai brings the catapults. ** Guan So appears when you advance a little bit past the river. *** Jian Yong arrives in an ambush party along with the arbalests. **** Zuo Ci will only appear if you're playing as Cao Cao. ***** Guo Huai will only appear if you're playing as Yue Ying. ****** Zhong Hui arrives later on in the battle. ******* Deng Ai arrives later on in the battle, or once you enter one of the three bases up front. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- CHAOS [CHAO] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Chaos is a new difficulty setting to the Dynasty Warriors games. It is not available from the start - you must clear Lu Bu's musou mode to unlock it. The name "chaos" is the proper way to describe it, too. This difficulty setting is much, much harder then even "Hard". You have to be very familiar with the game when playing on chaos, not to mention whatever character you're bringing better be maxed out and you better have mastered their play style. Chaos is so difficult due to the fact that your character will die in just several hits. Peons now post as much of a threat as an officer did in hard mode, perhaps even more of a threat. Officers now have their defense doubled and their attack quadrupled compared to their hard mode status. This means a very quick death for you. Chaos mode is very unforgiving, and there is little room for error. To make matters worse, health-restoring items are tough to come by, and if you do manage to find one don't expect anything more than a simple +50 meat bun. So what's the point of all this madness? After all, the stat boosting items dropped in chaos are the same value as those dropped in hard. So what reward do you get for playing chaos? Well other than bragging rights, nothing really. Chaos mode is simply there for an additional challenge, something to attempt when you feel you've really mastered the game. Let's face it, most characters when maxed out can take on any battle in hard difficulty with little problem. But if you're going to tackle chaos difficulty with them, you need to readjust your strategy completely. I highly suggest taking a bodyguard with you that has the ability to heal you, as well as equipping the Tribal Remedy. These two factors will help make up for the fact that you'll be finding only several meat buns max, and may in many occasions end up saving your life. Don't bother going into chaos with a character whose fourth weapon you don't have; musou rage will be your saving grace. It is also this reason that I suggest equipping the Demon Band - when in musou rage your attack and defense are doubled, and the Demon Band will double to amount of time you remain in musou rage. You'll need doubled attack and defense for as long as you can get, so this item is vital to surviving chaos. If you want a much more in-depth (and better) explanation of chaos mode and strategies for playing it, I suggest you take a look at calbee219's "Chaos Mode Guide". It's very informative and has much more information on the subject than you'll find here. So if you're serious about taking on chaos then I suggest you check out that guide. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- CHALLENGE MODE [CHAL] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Challenge mode is sort of like an arcade mode for DW5, where you just go around fulfilling a certain objective and then you get put on a 'High Scores' board to show off how well you did... even though you're putting much just competing with yourself. I never really paid much attention to this part of the game as this type of thing doesn't interest me, but I suppose it's fun for some. Personally I don't really see the point. There's several different types of things you can do in challenge mode, and I've listed them below: o RAMPAGE - Defeat as many enemies as possible in the time given Default: Zhen Ji, 1000 kills o SUDDEN DEATH - Defeat as many enemies as possible before being hit Default: Huang Zhong, 300 kills o BRIDGE MELEE - Knock off as many enemies as possible in the time given Default: Zhuge Liang, 100 kills o TIME ATTACK - Defeat 100 enemies as fast as possible Default: Zhao Yun, 3' 30" 00 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- FAQS [FAQS] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Q: How come I can't get "X" orb!? A: You need to make sure you're playing on hard or chaos difficulty in order to get the orbs. Q: Can you really not do the 2 player trick to get fourth weapons in this game? A: Well to be honest I'm not 100% sure. I've heard that you can, I've heard that you can't, and I've heard that it only works for some weapons. So I'm not sure which to believe, and I've personally never tried to do it myself. If someone could clarify this for me, that would be nice. Q: How much of this game is based off of actual history? A: Well technically this game is mostly based off the book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", a novel written by Luo Guanzhong in the 14th century. That book is based off of the Three Kingdoms era of Chinese history. However a lot of the events in the book are either exaggerated or fabricated. But still, many events in the game do seem to have some historical truth to them. Q: What do you mean when you refer to a character as being in "hyper" mode? A: "Hyper" mode is when the character has lightning surrounding them, as well as some type of "aura." This means they'll have doubled attack and defense, and a lot of the times they'll get some type of stat boosting bonus after a certain amount of their health is knocked down. Most of these officers also have the ability of going into musou rage mode. I remember when I first started playing this game I saw a lot of people, as well as guides, refer to this as "hyper" mode, so I just started calling it that myself. Q: Who are the new characters in this game? A: Guan Ping, Xing Cai, Cao Pi, Pang De, Ling Tong and Zuo Ci. Q: Are you going to write a guide for any of the other Dynasty Warriors games? A: Maybe. The only other Dynasty Warriors games I own are DW3, DW3:XL, DW4 and DW5:Empires. Honestly I'm _REALLY_ Dynasty Warrior'd out after writing this guide, and I'll probably never be able to even play DW5 again. But maybe sometime in the future (*FAR* future) I might do a guide for DW4 or DW3. Maybe... Q: How much time have you spent playing this game? A: I don't even want to know... Q: How do you do the internal time trick to get S/S bodyguards? A: I have no idea, I've never experimented with this method. There's an in-depth FAQ written about it on GameFAQs, I suggest you take a look at that because I won't be able to help you. Q: I own *insert gaming website address here*, can I host your guide? A: No. GameFAQs is the only website that has hosting rights to this guide, no exceptions. See the "Legal Info" section of this guide for more information. _______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10. CREDITS [CRDT] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Almost all of the information you've seen in this guide was gotten by me via countless hours of playing this game and testing certain things. I did get some information about chaos mode from calbee219's "Chaos Mode Guide", which I must thank. And I also got a few fourth weapon informations from EChang's fourth weapons guide. This was mainly weapons that I had gotten back when I first got the game, and upon loading it back up to do this FAQ I had forgotten what needed to be done to get their weapon, so I had to look it up. Thanks also go to Daryl Engel, who pointed out an error in Sun Ce's fourth weapon requirement. A lot of the specific names and dates from the history section was achieved through research of the Three Kingdoms article on wikipedia (direct url is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_kingdoms_era). Say what you want about wikipedia, but I have found that it is a good summation of the Three Kingdoms Era, and if you want an even more indepth and specific anaylsis, I suggest you read the article in full. With that being said, however, I'm sure there are many errors still in this guide. If you see something that is incorrect or a valuable piece of information that you see I'm missing, please send me an email and if I can verify that whatever you've told me is true, I'll put it in this guide and I'll give you credit. _______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11. LEGAL INFO [LGIF] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ This document is Copyright (c)2011 by Keith McMullen. It is for personal use only, and may not be reproduced and sold under any circumstances. I do not care if you post this guide on your website; you do *NOT* need to email me for permission. All I ask is you do not alter any information contained in this guide. All trademarks and copyrights contained in this document are owned by their respective trademark and copyright holders. For the most up-to-date version of this FAQ/Walkthrough please visit the version posted on GameFAQs.com - this is the only place I personally submit my works. Any other website hosting my guides hold the full responsibilty of keeping them up-to-date. _______________________________________________________________________________ ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Thanks for reading! ~KMFX24 DYNASTY WARRIORS 5 FAQ/Walkthrough Version 1.3 (Last revised 09/15/2012) End of document _______________________________________________________________________________