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[Total War]: 3 Kingdoms is out! Rats and Lizardman fight it out in WH2.
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Is there even a single one of the top warlords in three kingdoms that isn't into side-switching and backstabbing? I mean, Liu Bei pretends he isn't...but everyone seems to conventiently die to prepare the way for Liu Bei.
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I swear on the honor of Yuan, I will tear out Cao Cao's eyes and throw him from the summit of Mount Wudang, that my precious Anyang may smile once more
Certainly plenty of treachery to go around.
But Cao Cao in popular culture has the (infamous) distinction of being a cunning and deceitful Magnificent Bastard.
In the ancient plays the actor portraying Cao Cao would wear white makeup to signify his treacherous personality.
So might grab 3K and hope they add some of these improvements to WH3.
On Legendary at least the Sun always seems to be the last boss since they blob over the entirety of south east China. I haven't checked it out yet but it seems like one of the easier starts to run away with.
The north east in contrast very crowded. Almost all the major factions start up there. The cities up north are more developed though.
"Orkses never lose a battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fightin so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't die neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see!".
The game is likely glitched. Yuan Shao should not be able to vassalize everything he sees. CA is "aware" of this and is asking for save files to see what's going on. It does make the game a bit one sided when he can maintain a four stack standing army.
I actually restarted my Cao Cao campaign (again) and am focusing on trade and spy networks, with agriculture providing the backbone of my economy again.
. . .also something that I hadn't seen; if you've got excess Public Order, turn that into taxation profit. I didn't realize there was a dedicated button for this, and just assumed it was static and fixed.
I think its just that every vassal he gets snowballs his alliance strength level which is part of what the AI uses to determine whether they should submit or not.
"Orkses never lose a battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fightin so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't die neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see!".
3K combat isn't as delightful or varied as what you get in warhammer, but it's also obvious that CA invested a whole lot of time on the campaign side of things. It's really the first ever TW game I've played where the campaign aspect really feels like it stands on its own.
Also now I have a 3 day weekend, so time to really nerd out and try to get deep into a campaign
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For some reason though, the battles in this shit looks absolute fucking toilet tier which is bizarre and I can’t figure out what’s wrong
Are you playing Records or Romance? Romance has more vivid colors, Records has a more washed out palette like Attila
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someone will mod that pretty soon i imagine
Is it Yuan Shao as a faction? or just him as an individual, because it's not fun fighting his doomstacks
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This is what I've been doing and it's been working so far
On the other hand this kind of means you're kinda screwed on defense if you don't build any watchtowers (the only building that provides additional garrison troops which kinda sucks) if you don't also have an army there to defend your shit, plus there are some reforms that require you to build specific buildings to even develop them
There are also some buildings that seem kinda useless, or don't provide enough benefit (the branch of farm stuff that costs you food but gives you more peasant income, also some commerce buildings don't feel as useful)
Oh, can we talk about the reform system?? Because I actually really love it! No more fucking around with bumping up your research to go down some tech tree, now it's a literal tree that you get a new branch on every five turns! It's very elegant, keeps everyone at the same pace, and feels more like a skill tree where you spec into different branches rather than just hitting the next "get better swords" tier
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"Orkses never lose a battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fightin so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't die neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see!".
It's a bit of a build wide strategy since you don't have the food available to upgrade tall.
Unless you're a Yellow Turban faction, in which case you have a more traditional Total War tech list that you research from.
This is pretty much where my Sun Jian campaign currently is. I fought off Liu Bei and Yuan Shu (fucker turned on me) long enough to scrap up some (kind of shitty for me, I had to give up my best farm province) peace terms, and am now going through the southeast mopping up the Han Empire commanderies. I’m starting to snowball my wealth, generating like 1.7k money a tun right now.
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