Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI - "Liu Bei Flees", Session 1

Time to show what I've been doing in my extended break from rhythm games. This has been one favorite of mine lately, and I never went around to enjoy strategy games before.

Scenario: Liu Bei Flees (Preset Scenarios)
Deaths: Normal
Difficulty: Advanced (more resources to the enemies, less to you, enemies attack you more oftenly than on Beginner)
All settings are Historical.

Year of 207. After losing to Cao Cao at Ru Nan, Liu Bei had no choice but to seek help from Liu Biao and go to Xin Ye. From here, Liu Biao would die of illness and pass his sovereign condition to Liu Cong, who would surrender to Cao Cao and leave Liu Bei on his own, thus leading to the legendary Battle of Chang Ban. This just looks like a tough situation, as there are some methods to get out of this.

1. Dispatch a cavalry unit with a ship towards the empty city of Yong An; while it goes there, you must defend Xin Ye. Not only you'll have the ally Liu Biao as one of the neigbors, but the other one who will attack you (Liu Zhang's army) is feeble in comparison to the HORDES of men in blue under qualified lead by the likes of Zhang Liao, Xiahou brothers, Xu Huang, etc, etc, etc. The one I'll choose, it's much easier IMO.
2. Do the same, but with Shang Yong. Not recommendable. As small as Xin Ye, and surrounded by two enemy forces: Zhang Lu from Han Zhong (weak), and Cao Cao fiercely attacking from Wan.
3. Break alliance with Liu Biao, and destroy his army, recruiting useful officers like Ma Su, Ma Liang and Wen Pin, and having a large city (Xiang Yang) to raise your forces masterfully. Pretty tough on Advanced IMO, because you'll need to make the double of the preparations, and divide your first-string officers in two to defend Xin Ye while you get Xiang Yang. Not enough time.

You'll have to flee, literally. Although you have some of the best warriors in the game, Cao Cao's resources are nearly infinite, and the attacks won't cease. Yours are limited, and you'll be defeated eventually, so you'll need to get another city to avoid the Game Over.

Basic session content:

- Development of the small city of Xin Ye
- Zhuge Liang and his wife Huang Ying (a.k.a. Yue Ying) recruited. For some reason, the Three Visits event didn't happen here. o_O
- A few more officers, some useful, found.

Enjoy! :)

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[5H4K490]

at the start of this scenario you should try hiring gan ning xu shu will recommend guan yu, iv always got him doing this

[TidusOfSH]

@5H4K490 That'd be awesome, but I hadn't the luck to have Gan Ning in Xin Ye or any of the empty cities after he resigned upon Liu Qi's sucession after Liu Biao's death. Otherwise, I'd make much more deal of this specific session. ;)

Speaking of kind, coincidentally, I'll be uploading the Session 37 in a few hours - that's when I'll finally get Gan Ning and enjoy his Majesty skill in combo with Bao Sanniang's Chain Attack. xD

[5H4K490]

@TidusOfSH no gan ning is in jiang xia at the start but his loyalty is low even though it takes 2 turns to get him liu biao dosnt reward him so you get him easily, as for the chain attack, majesty combo id recommend chain attack with god command and majesty complete carnage btw you should use xu shu with zhang fei masterful can be a good way of building tech points and it would cover zhang feis low int

[TidusOfSH]

@5H4K490 I made a test, and Xu Shu recommended 3 officers: Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Mi Zhu. I picked Guan, because that's the officer you used. On Beginner, I did employ Gan Ning. However, I tested on Advanced, doing the same exact thing, but failed.

So, the fuzz here is exactly the Beginner vs Advanced differences. More resources = higher chances of the enemies rewarding their officers. Gan Ning won't get rewarded in 2 turns on Beginner, while he'll get rewarded and with 98 of loyalty on Advanced.

[TidusOfSH]

@5H4K490 As for the battles, I gave preference in have all of the first-string officers leading the units. Xu Shu is good enough to lead an unit by himself, and I used Yue Ying to cover Zhang Fei's low INT instead, especially because I don't have siege weapons. Building up TP's will be a worry later, when I make a fresh start to my army. My priority was to defend, and defend alone. ;)

[ThesunfanSH]

I only had X, not XI. wish i still had a PS2.

LOL at "Cao Cao's resources are basically infinite." So true, even when not really fighting. I remember towards the latter part of the game, he (well technically his son)

had around 3/4ths of all the cities. Pretty ridiculous

[TidusOfSH]

@ThesunfanSH You can still play it on PC, like me - if you can, of course.

As for the Nanman Rebellion scenario in 225 (I presume), fighting against Cao Pi can be tough. In Shu Han's case, it's due to the loss of warriors like Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun and Ma Chao are on their last months. In Wu's case, you'll lack muscles, if you know what I mean. You can count mostly on numbers and Lu Xun's brain. Fighting FOR Wei is even worse - few strong officers for so many frontline cities.

[Wishyut]

Nice!