Wei Forces Scenario – ****** Difficulty
Target 1 – The North Fire Pit is not taken out by enemy forces
Target 2 – The Belt Trap is not taken out by enemy forces.
Target 3 – The East Fire Pit is not taken out by enemy forces.
Strategy – Wow, could the targets be any more annoying? There is really no strategy other than defeat the groups of officers in front of the three targets that cannot fall. How you should start largely depends where you start off; this is done with Sima Yi who is in the northwest.
Xue Zong will be right in front of you, and then Zhuge Jin just north by the northwest target. Shortly after getting there Gan Ning will drop in, and then Sun Shao a little later. If you can defeat Gan Ning quick just head to the next target to clear (southeast).
Lu Xun, Gu Yong and Lu Fan are by the floor ramp. Don’t fight them here or else you’ll fall in the lake. Once they are done you’ll want to aid your allies in the far east who are fighting Zhuge Luo, Zhang Cheng, Sun Shang Xiang, Sun Lang, and Ma Zhong. Once these three main attacking enemy forces are dissolved, you’ll see little around the map except for the mass of Wu in the southwest.
The enemy sends some reinforcement armies but they are smaller. Zhu Huan heads to the very southeast, so take him out and then Pan Zhang / Lu Dai just west of here. By this time, Zhang Zhao will be mounting an attack in the northwest and Ding Feng and Zhou Tai won’t be too far behind him.
This should leave Xu Sheng, Quan Zong, Cheng Pu and Yu Fan north of the docks. Zhu Ran and Taishi Xiang will be by Sun Quan but that is all that is left. If you survive the initial onslaught, accomplishing all three tasks is not that hard.
Wu Forces Scenario – ****** Difficulty
Target 1 – Open any Castle Gate in 10 minutes.
Target 2 – Get through the Central Passage
Target 3 – Lu Xun and Gan Ning do not withdraw
Strategy – Obviously you will want to support the above two generals when they are in need. To begin, you should go through the central gate, defeating the Defense Captains and Zhang Qiu after you climb the ladder up. Destroying the gate will net you Target 1 and then you can head to the Central Passage for Target 2.
Xiahou Hui is guarding this ramp. It will go faster and faster as you take off more damage to the door. Once the door is almost broke, it’ll go so fast your character will have no shot even with a horse to stay on. And after you defeat Xiahou Hui you’ll have Wen Qin from the south and Man Chong, Liu Ye, and Guo Huai come from the west. This will take you some time to take down but it nets you Target 2. Lu Xun goes through here so he is taken care of but you may want to check on Gan Ning if he needs help in the east.
More enemy forces are in the west though. From the central passage you should go north (not up the stairs but north so you can go northwest) and you’ll run into Jia Kui. Further to the west is the large mass of Wei soldiers with Cao Rui, Cao Zhang, Sun Li and Liu Shao.
About this time, Cao Pi appears as reinforcements in the far east so you’ll have to hurry and go there next to protect Gan Ning. However, Lu Xun has probably gotten ahead of himself and ended up towards Zhang Liao.
By Zhang Liao is Zhang Hui, Chen Jiao, and Dai Ling. Cao Zhi runs up here too. You should go here and clear this out first because Cao Pi seems to go off in the south and conquer meaningless bases of yours. So go in further, taking out Xu Zhu, Xiahou Shang, Xiahou Wei and then you’ll be able to enter Cao Cao’s main area. Wen Pin, Xiahou He, Cao Yu and Cao Cao himself are here.