Sun Ce’s Forces Scenario – * Difficulty
Target 1 – Sun Quan and Zhou Tai do not withdraw.
Target 2 – Score 500 or more K.O.’s in 10 minutes.
Target 3 – Take North Camp and South Watchpost in 10 minutes.
Strategy – This is probably my favorite * difficulty stage for starting off new characters (building up Free Mode characters). There really is not much risk of difficult officers besides Taishi Ci and he’s not exactly Lu Bu either. Yuan Shu provides enemy reinforcements but half the time he dies before I even get to him.
Generally you start in the southeast, which case I usually jump in with a horse and surprise Yan Baihu and Yan Yu, kill them, and take their base. Then generally Zhang Ying in the northeast is left for your allies to defeat while Xue Li, Ou Xing, Dong Xi and Chen Heng are mopped up by you. Also, take the southwest watchpost when you get a chance.
Sure enough Yuan Shu comes as reinforcements with his massive army of Yuan Yin, Yuan Yao, Liu Xun, Yan Xiang, Ji Ling, Li Feng, Zhang Xun, Lei Bo, Chen Lan and himself Yuan Shu. Fortunately the Shu army comes as backup for your army. You may wish to go over here because you need to take the North Camp base within 10 minutes for Target 3.
Once they are dealt with (or you can ignore them and let Shu deal with it for now) go west towards Zhou Xin’s base. Yu Mi is north of there and then Taishi Ci and Taishi Xiang even further north. Taishi Ci is the biggest issue on this stage, as his defense is up really high and if he gets a few attacks in on you he’ll be doing massive damage. Making matters worse Taishi Xiang does a good job of backing him up so make sure you have allies with you. You may wish to take out Wang Lang in the west first to clear up some of your allies.
Now depending on what’s happening with Yuan Shu you can either go back and clear out his forces (plus Ji Ling’s and Yuan Yin’s) or you can take out Liu Yong / Yu Fan in the northwest. Yuan Shu is dangerously just because of the sheer amount of officers surrounding him, and because of his lightning arrow special.