Allied Forces Scenario – * Difficulty
Target 1 – Take Central Watchpost and Northeast Watchpost in ten minutes.
Target 2 – Open Hu Lao Gate North or Hu Lao Gate South in 15 minutes.
Target 3 – Defeat Lu Bu.
Strategy – First off, if you’re just starting a Musou mode with a fresh character you can forget about Target 3. You need well built up character (20’s in level at least) to contend with Lu Bu especially on harder difficulties. Starting off it’s impossible to do damage to him and even once you are able to, only the Renbu / Charge attack does a good job of keeping him off balance. Of course all bets are off if you have a really good horse – you can just trample Lu Bu to his death regardless of your character’s level then :(
Anyway, onto the fight. You’ll be in the southwest starting off either way, but either through the northeast or southeast path. The southeast will take you through Li Jue, Li Su and Guo Si while the northeast has Wei Xu, Li Meng, Li Ru and Gao Shun. Since the northeast path goes through more officers and wraps around faster I tend to take that more often.
After you take out Gao Shun you’ll want to look for that first watchtower – kill some archers there to take it over quick and continue north. Your first real challenge is the base where Fan Chou / Jia Xu / Zhang Liao meet you. Since Zhang Liao is the last of those generals to come out be wary of him because he can kill you quick if you’re not watching.
Fortunately once that trio is gone the coast is almost clear to Hu Lao Gate. Take out the northeast watchtower and target 1 will be finished. Hu Lao Gate is in the northwest and you’ll see Wang Fang and Niu Fu guarding the walls with a bunch of Defense Captains. You’ll need to clear all these guys out and the Defense Captains keep coming from the other side. Also there are Ballistas on the walls and you can get at them via ladders (climb up them and destroy the ballistas on top of the gates so that you can lay siege to the castle. While you’re doing this, Hu Che Er and Dong Cheng jump over to attack you. Zhang Ji a little later also.
Eventually you’ll break through either the north or south Hu Lao Gate, hopefully within 15 minutes for Target 2. At this time, Lu Bu comes out! If you don’t have a built up character or horse, especially on harder difficulties, you will die. So head in and look for Wang Yun and Diao Chan in the north. Then there is a bunch of generals in the center before Dong Zhuo like Hou Cheng, Zang Ba, and Dong Min. Finally, Song Xian, Hu Zhen and Dong Zhuo in the final base.
A couple things to note about Lu Bu. Once you breech Hu Lao Gate and then begin attacking Dong Zhuo, he’ll call Lu Bu to his side. You’ll need to hurry to take out Dong Zhuo at this point because Lu Bu makes this situation very ugly.
What’s worse is that if you attack Dong Zhuo before Hu Lao Gate is taken down, he’ll call Lu Bu to his side and Lu Bu will appear RIGHT by Dong Zhuo. So you won’t get a chance to kill him quick because Lu Bu will be on top of you. Which case you’ll have to flee and take Hu Lao Gate down and hope Lu Bu gets distracted away from Dong Zhuo. Keeping in mind Dong Zhuo is no slouch either.
In summary this is an exciting battle but much more difficult than the one * it gets, mostly because of the Lu Bu variable – chances are, starting off you’ll die here if you aren’t careful.
Dynasty Warriors 6 Hu Lao Gate
Lu Bu’s Forces Scenario – ****** Difficulty
Target 1 – Defeat Liu Bei, Sun Quan, Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao and Zhang Jiao in 15 minutes.
Target 2 – Do not allow Hu Lao Gate North or Hu Lao Gate South to be breeched.
Target 3 – None of your units withdraw
Strategy – Okay, this is Lu Bu’s final musou mode stage and the ultimate in his quest to kill as many officers as possible at once. All of his enemies have gotten tired of being destroyed by him so they are all teaming up. This is not just the playable characters. This is Liu Biao, Kong Rong, Wang Lang, Yuan Shu, Tao Qian, Liu Zhang, etc.
There is not much for strategy. Lu Bu should be built up well by this time in the musou mode (and make sure you use a very well built up character if you’re doing this in Free Mode). Basically there are 40 or so officers as you make your way clockwise this time around Hu Lao Gate‘s stage. Make note to kill Liu Bei / Sun Quan / Dong Zhuo / Yuan Shao / Zhang Jiao within 15 minutes for that first target. As far as your troops withdrawing, so long as you’re killing officers fast enough you should not have to worry about this.
The biggest trick is on you, at the very end. Every enemy reappears and you’ve got to defeat them all a second time! This part can be annoying because of the slowdown but it’s still amusing nonetheless.