Destiny of an Emperor 2 Guan Yu Escape
Guan Yu’s quest starts with him getting word of Liu Bei’s current location and immediately he sets off with Gan and Mi. Now for your own good, go into Gan and Mi’s inventory and take out the horse ChiTuMa and give it to Guan Yu and EQUIP IT. Just like Destiny of an Emperor one again, right? If you forget to do this and leave it in the girl’s inventory I would nearly start over personally. But that’s just me, I appreciate the fast walking. Anyway, leave the empty city. The guards will try to resist but Guan Yu gets out eventually, and head to the shack next door if you need to rest. Heading south, the first gate with Kong Xiu is barring Guan Yu’s way. Now, Kong Xiu is not a very good general so attack him twice and he’ll be gone, then all out. Continue onward to see Han Fu who proves that the Destiny makers didn’t lose their brilliance in giving jobber generals classic lines. Personally, he surprised me this time that I played through, but still wasn’t an issue despite his agility. Also, don’t forget that during this one-man march, Guan Yu can also provide himself with tactics. Chi Xin is especially useful as he is by himself and it helps between battles so you don’t have to rest after each gate. Anyway, the following gate isn’t a fight, right away. Bian Xi greets you and wants to get trashed with you so Guan Yu follows Bian to the temple. You’ll see a bunch of guards. Bian offers you a drink, and you can take it or leave it. If you leave it you’ll fight Bian Xi with whatever amount of health you had. If you take it, you’ll lose a bit of health, and if you take another one you’ll lose more health and so on. If you take them all you’ll have like 50 soldiers or so. It is advised to not drink obviously but you can always Chi Xin yourself if you decide to kill him while drunk. You can go to the capital of Luo Yang now, to the right, and visit everyone. Buy weapons and armor for Guan Yu, and then continue on. Now at some point before the next gate, if you want to make it easy of course, go back to Hu Hua at the house. He will give you a Hu Ban letter, a letter for his son. When Hu Ban, who is at the next gate, is presented with this he will tell you to leave as there will be a fire. If you don’t give him the letter or choose not to heed his advice, you will end up staying at his “inn” and fighting Wang Zhi with fire knocking your soldiers down by 100 each turn. Sadly, this still shouldn’t be too hard of a battle even with that as Wang Zhi isn’t harder than the last few generals. Qin Qi hosts you at the final gate and again is no match. After heading into the boat and walking a few steps in the Ji Zhou area, you will encounter a battle with Xia Hou Dun.
He had been chasing you and caught up, and attacks you for a round or two. You can’t win obviously, as a messenger tries to stop Xia Hou Dun and then Zhang Liao successfully stops him. Walk north to the cottage. Rest up and you’ll learn of bandits dispersing everywhere. Head north to take on Zhou Cang. He is impressed and after a few turns gives in to the might of Lord Guan. Zhou Cang is not the greatest general you’re going to get, but he is a decent general at this stage in the game and you’ll have him for a while so get used to it. Continue eastwards now. Notice you can’t get to Ji Zhou castle yet, as you haven’t “quelled” the bandits yet. The castle to the east is populated by Zhang Fei. He will talk down at you and claim you to be a traitor, but tells you if you kill this usurper he will forget your deeds. Cai Yang is a decent general with a large soldier count, but alas is by himself and is overwhelmed by Guan Yu and Zhou Cang. Enter Qing Zhou and reap your rewards. Both Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei will join you. Now you have the best party you’ve had since the beginning of the game, Gan and Mi aside of course. Head west to the house again and Guan Ding will tell you that he’ll send Guan Ping to note Liu Bei of your arrival. Guan Ping does this and joins Liu Bei. Guan Ping is statistically very similar to Zhou Cang but better overall. Now SLOWLY walk to the weapon shop to load up Guan Ping (makes you appreciated the day you got Chi Tu Ma, right). Go to Yuan Shao and Liu Bei will suggest allying with Liu Biao. While this is somewhat of a ruse to get out of Yuan Shao’s estate, you do end up actually allying with Liu Biao shortly here.
But leave the city, but you have an ambush on your hands. Guo Tu is there to surprise you with Tian Feng. Guo Tu is a solid general, not as strong as Yuan Shao’s previous warriors you’ve seen but solid nonetheless. If you equipped Guan Ping that should make this easier although if you forgot this is suddenly a tough battle as you would have only Liu Bei as an offensive threat. At any rate, dispose of them and head south. Recruit your brothers and their recruits, and have Guan Yu adopt Guan Ping. Suddenly, your team is immense. I suggest having Liu Bei in battle still, so have Chen Deng be your tactician with either Zhou Cang or Guan Ping out. As you head out it fades as you make your way to Liu Biao’s Jing Zhou.