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Ojetor posted:Anyone know how to use Sun Jian's mercenary camp? It says it provides Mercenary Captain recruitment charges but I don't see any way to actually recruit Mercenary Captains. If you already have an army, without three generals already, on the screen to add another general you can switch to a page that let's you add on a full six units that are already up to full strength, for a shitload of money.
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VietCampo posted:I'm gonna try this poo poo now, god drat. Sun Jian's significant characters are just his kids that are underage at game start too.
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May 27, 2019 22:19
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:Do you get to keep items and ancillaries when one of your characters dies? Assuming the enemy faction doesnt steal or it something. Just wondering if all the fancy unique gear of characters will disappear if they die from old age or war or whatever A lot of the unique gear can literally only be worn by the character in question anyway.
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May 28, 2019 04:46
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Just had Yuan Shao vote against every single person that wanted to join our coalition for like 50 turns before suddenly turning around and going "you know who I really want to join our coalition? Gongsun Zan, who I spent 2/3 of this game fighting."
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Jun 16, 2020 23:09
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In the 190 start, if Yan Baihu doesn't get off the ground that area ends up as basically Unimportant Faction Thunderdome. Some good luck coming out on top and I can see it snowballing a little.
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Jul 1, 2020 22:03
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Once you've actually gotten to a prestige rank, dropping in prestige doesn't actually drop you out of being marquis or whatnot, so you can basically immediately rush to all the high rank features with legitimacy and then proceed to spend it all down to the second level that doesn't give you public order penalties like the first one.
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Jul 25, 2020 23:20
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Dramicus posted:I agree about the campaign. I doubt Troy will have the same legs as Warhammer or 3k, but I'll probably get a good 20 hours out of it at least. And it's free, to boot, so I can't complain. They're getting paid by epic for each download, IIRC the same as their cut of what an actual purchase would be. So from the perspective of Their Finances, it's not free.
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Aug 7, 2020 23:08
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:who else here just downloaded Epic today because they are a shameless whore? Not me, because it turns out you can redeem the free copy on the website along and I don't particularly feel like downloading anything at the moment.
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Aug 13, 2020 14:41
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Dramicus posted:A variation on the theory is that chariots were very expensive to build and maintain, and it wasn't any technological advantage that the Sea peoples had that did in the great powers, it was just the sheer volume of battles that were fought. Inevitably, they started incurring chariot losses that were unsustainable and that combined with the complete sacking of the developed coastal cities meant that the ruined economy combined with losses of skilled laborers eventually broke the camel's back, so to speak. Generally I've seen that theory stated more about attrition to the Charioteers.
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Aug 18, 2020 07:40
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Flipswitch posted:I kinda hope when Cao Ren gets his unique portrait he's changed into a Vanguard, Cao Cao has a severe shortage of them for his T&L Cav. Wu could do with a champion or two too, not sure who though? Honestly I kind of enjoy going into a Wu game knowing that I'm going to have to be on the hunt for good champions.
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Aug 19, 2020 00:37
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3K's staying power is fine, warhammer is just an absurd outlier.
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Aug 20, 2020 01:09
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From my understanding of the historical chain of events, Yuan Shao under Dong Zhou isn't actually that weird, although yeah the fact than Dong Zhou is somehow still alive while Yuan Shao took over IS weird. Yuan Shao is part of He Jin's clique at the capital, He Jin asks Dong Zhou for help against the Eunuchs but is killed before Dong Zhou shows up, it seems like a reasonable action to flee over to the guy who's coming to "help."
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Aug 24, 2020 18:33
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In a way the problem is that it's basically too easy to make useless territory useful.
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Jan 21, 2021 00:04
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Anno posted:Looks like some embargoes are up. Serious Trivia posted a DLC Deep Dive video that I assume is comprehensive because it’s over two hours long, somehow. The man used up all of his permitted time on this one video. Jesus christ (in a good way.)
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Mar 2, 2021 16:30
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History it turns out is written by whoever wrote the history and by historical accident writing about the three kingdoms has been dominated by a long line of people with various reasons to be extremely pro-shu, not Pro-Winner.
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Mar 7, 2021 00:16
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Some people think there's a chance we're eventually going to be getting more significant vassal systems to solve that exact problem once we have the actual three kingdoms so in that case you'd be able to play an actual smaller start as like, Sima Yi UNDER the giant Wei kingdom.
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Mar 11, 2021 23:02
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I don't think the emperor becomes an actual character until you abdicate to him so that would be a problem for that aspect.
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Mar 12, 2021 06:44
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drat, i'm playing through as Lu Bu because I don't have the DLC i'm just wanting to experience the patch and incidentally it seems like it's straight up impossible to get the He Yi and Gong Du greatest warrior kills. If you keep killing off generals he eventually brings Huang Shao out but that's it.
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Mar 13, 2021 06:48
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That's exactly what I'm doing, but in the current patch he gets destroyed in his first fight against Liu Biao and then never gets brought out again every single time, as far as I can tell.
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Mar 13, 2021 08:00
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Verviticus posted:i think theres a mod that prevents named characters from getting killed/executed in AI battles so maybe he could show up elsewhere after that? If this is about He Yi, the problem there is that he's the last Yellow Turban faction on the map and absent bugs yellow turbans are only going to show up in the yellow turban pool. So you're on a strict time limit to get his greatest warrior bonus before Liu Biao wipes the faction out. I guess maybe it's possible if you immediately pick a fight with Liu Biao to give He Yi some breathing room?
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Mar 13, 2021 23:18
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MiddleOne posted:Really not liking the structure right now where you're very quickly forced into a choice between declaring war on Cao Cao or taking some kind of big handicap. Only tried Ma Teng and inheritance-boy so I hope it's not all the scripted characters. Snaking your way along the yellow river while having 10 plus armies conga-lining towards you is a very samey experience. It's definitely poorly balanced right now. Positive food seems to give too much rep for how common it is.
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Mar 14, 2021 08:23
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Huh, since when does Kong Rong start off at peace with Dong Zhuo? Extra weird since the current character select system sorts him as part of the coalition instead of the empire where all the other governor types are.
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Mar 15, 2021 08:38
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:I think since always? He is technically an imperial governor because if I remember correctly he was appointed to where he is by Dong Zhuo (because Dong Zhuo wanted to get rid of him from imperial court). I won a campaign as him and I didnt get to form my own emperor seat. Nah I can definitely confirm at one point he started out at war with Dong Zhuo.
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Mar 16, 2021 00:10
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Yeah I personally think it's good that your characters' kids won't be as good as the original generations, but I do think there needs to be some sort of unique independents show up or come into their own or something to add SOME interest to longer lasting game.
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Mar 17, 2021 23:09
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Flipswitch posted:I say as I kick Yuan Xi out of my faction. Kind of why if I was running things in that aspect I'd do it less about the specific characters and instead come up with more of a dynamic system, so it feels more like a separate thing and less like "why are you spending time on characters some people will never even play long enough to meet instead of [my preferred 190 character]?"
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Mar 18, 2021 02:12
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Think I've figured out how to semi-consistently get He Yi to show up in an army to fight in a Lu Bu campaign. I think the AI seems to be consistently sending him on assignment after the initial army is smashed, but if you take the Runan iron mine to block Liu Biao and then Jianxia's city to kick him off the assignment, he'll finally be available to be put into an army.
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Mar 19, 2021 14:45
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Captain Beans posted:Depending on how it all shakes out I might not need to make that art only version now. I have not had a chance to look at their new setup, but I'm hopeful the events mod split off basically does all the work I was doing before. It's definitely weirdly horny about the concubine poo poo, but it being referred to as MILF in the code doesn't really seem like that and more a joke about Cao Cao's love for already married women.
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Mar 20, 2021 03:23
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That hasn't really been my experience with Lu Bu in this patch. I smashed him up on my way down to fight yellow turbans for He Yi's greatest warrior's buff and after that only got a couple odd moments where I was the target before he eventually declared me Enemy of the Han so I wiped him out. I don't think I got hit with a single scheme during that first war with him.
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Mar 23, 2021 07:03
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It's explicitly intentional yeah, it's part of the "vengeful tyrant" diplo personality.
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Mar 26, 2021 02:29
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Funky See Funky Do posted:I'm not sure I fully understand the latest 3K DLC. It just seems to add a new start date? What's this FLC people were talking about? New start date, Liu Yan faction, and new units + the northern army mechanic. Free patch without any strictly speaking FLC had a bunch of overhauls.
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Mar 29, 2021 03:42
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Kazzah posted:I'm playing Medieval 2, as Milan. The ideal medieval christian king, as far as the pope is concerned, is unfortunately one who stays the gently caress out of italy because that's the pope's playground.
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Apr 2, 2021 21:35
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Funky See Funky Do posted:This is generally a problem with any historical TW title. There's not a lot of periods in history where groups that were right next to each other were all that different in terms of warfare. Let's say they did a 100 Years TW. Historically speaking both sides fielded exactly the same kind of troops. The story that gets told is Agincourt was a triumph of English archery vs Frech mounted knights so any TW game is going to exaggerate that and give England really good ranged units and France really good heavy cav but that's about as different as they're going to get. The solution is to have never played total warhammer and thus have the status quo feel perfectly fine. 
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Apr 27, 2021 20:32
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Charlz Guybon posted:Yeah, but CA's a business. An ancient world game with two dozen playable factions from China to the Mediterranean sells copies in all those place, plus the Americas. It's a business but it's a business that is in the business of DLC. Business. Selling copies of the base game is good but if the base game is so shallow that not enough people stick around to buy future dlc, that is not good.
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May 17, 2021 04:51
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Ballista are useful when you really really need to take a settlement when you've got a strategist with only flaming arrows and not flaming shot. You will presumably give them flaming shot soon after that though and swap out the ballista for trebuchets.
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May 18, 2021 04:44
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Alchenar posted:Aaaaagh where in three kingdoms does it tell you that replenishing troops after a battle is an atrocity that will make everyone on the planet furious with me? Nowhere but the good news is it will only make people who like that faction furious with you, replenish away whenever you fight yellow turbans, it'll actually make the factions you can actually conduct diplomacy with like you more. (Apparently it's partly legacy code from warhammer where the choice is frequently explicitly "enslave them" or "eat them" or whatnot.)
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Jul 9, 2021 11:45
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I don't think I ever even downloaded it, and absolutely never played it and didn't really intend to, but i still signed up an epic account and got troy added to my epic storefront library because that meant slightly more money transferred from epic to CA and I was riding high on being happy about three kingdoms at that point.
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Jul 23, 2021 16:20
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As a guy who has never played the warhammer total war I straight up never noticed it at all
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The actual three kingdoms era is Kinda Eh in the way the most total war late games are, which is more disappointing than usual given it's, you know, a three kingdoms game, but if you go into it with the right expectation (which, to be clear, that right expectation is "this didn't fix the flaw shared by every single total war game") it is really really good. As to the fantasy question, it does have a fully historical mode, and even otherwise the fantasy aspect is still more "generals are cinematic war movie badasses who can mow down hundreds on their own"
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I would recommend romance mode, because the super-cavalry squads you get instead in records mode always feel like they homogenize the experience. Or more sincerely i'd just recommend trying both out and seeing what you like instead of taking what yahoos on the internet say on gospel.
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