Nine characters start off as available to use in Musou Mode / Free Mode. As you clear certain objectives (either targets in battle, or by completing musou’s) you will unlock more characters. Remember, not all characters can be used in Musou Mode (story mode). Only 5 characters per kingdom and 2 ‘Other’ characters (Diao Chan and Lu Bu).
Note that the PS2 version of DW6 added more musou modes – Ling Tong, Taishi Ci, Zhang He, Cao Pi, Ma Chao and Yue Ying.
Shu (Musou Mode – Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei)
Zhang Fei
– Starting character for Shu. Has his own musou mode
Guan Yu
– Starting character for Shu. Has his own musou mode
Zhao Yun
– Starting character for Shu. Has his own musou mode
Zhuge Liang
– Complete Musou Mode with 1 Shu character. Has his own musou mode.
Huang Zhong
– Complete target one at Mt Ding Yun Wei Side. Watch Xiahou Yuan at all times to make sure he doesn’t get in trouble, and of course take out Huang Zhong to complete the target.
Pang Tong
– Complete target 3 at Pacification of Cheng Du Shu Side. You need to keep Pang Tong alive despite repeated ambushes by Li Yan, Zhang Ren and Yang Huai. Either stay by him or race to him (especially when ambushed by Zhang Ren).
Yue Ying
– Complete target 1 (Defeat Guan Ping and Yue Ying within 10 minutes) at Wu Zhang Plains Wei Side. You’ll want to clear the bases out of the initial wave of Shu officers and then head south into Guan Ping’s camp. The good thing is Guan Ping and Yue Ying are in side by side bases.
Liu Bei
– Complete musou mode with 3 Shu characters. Liu Bei has his own musou mode.
Guan Ping
– Complete target 2 at Fan Castle Shu Side. Make sure Guan Ping does not die.
Wei Yan
– Complete target two at Wu Zhang Plains Shu Side. Make sure Wei Yan (southeast part of the map) survives.
Ma Chao
– Complete target two at Han Zhong Battle Wei Side. You need to defeat Ma Chao, Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei within 15 minutes. Zhao Yun should start just northeast of you, and then you’ll see Ma Chao in the south and Zhang Fei to the east. Remember to be patient with the 15 minutes because if you rush Ma Chao or Zhang Fei you may find trouble. That said, neither are powered up.
Wei (Musou Mode – Sima Yi, Dian Wei, Xiahou Dun, Zhang Liao, Cao Cao)
Sima Yi
– Starting character for Wei.
Dian Wei
– Starting character for Wei.
Xiahou Dun
– Starting character for Wei.
Zhang Liao
– Complete Musou Mode with one character from Wei.
Xiahou Yuan
– Complete target one at Mt Ding Yun Shu Side. Help Huang Zhong take Mt. Cha Qi in the northwest. After taking Mt. Cha Qi, Xiahou Yuan should come after your forces and meet with Huang Zhong. Xiahou Yuan is powered up but defeat him and then make sure Huang Zhong survives the rest of the way.
Xu Huang
– Complete target two at Fan Castle Wei Side. Ensure Xu Huang’s survival by beating the nearby officers and then keeping and eye on him the rest of the way.
Zhang He
– Complete target two at Han Zhong Battle Shu Side. Zhang He appears on the cliff in the mid-south and jumps on Guan Xing shortly after the battle starts. Defeat him, and then Cao Pi and Sima Yi are in the north part of Han Zhong. You have 15 minutes to defeat all three generals.
Xu Chu
– Kill Xu Chu and Cao Ren at He Fei Wu Side. Cao Ren is at the northwest castle while Xu Chu is in the center of the map. Since you have to do this in 10 minutes you may wish to go straight to Cao Ren’s base to kill him, take it over, and then head for Xu Chu.
Zhen Ji
– Complete target one at Xu Du Castle (Invasion of Xu Chang) Lu Bu Side. You have 15 minutes to defeat Zhen Ji, Cao Pi, Xu Chu and Cao Ren. This is a six star difficulty stage so be prepared. Cao Ren is just north of you, and after defeating him you’ll want to take the west and then north route (going through the front gate takes too long to siege) . This way you can enter Xu Chang from the west side and work your way to the area where Zhen Ji and Cao Pi are. Taking them out simultaneously is the hard part, and then you can finish off Xu Chu just north of there.
Cao Ren
– Complete target two at Fan Castle Lu Bu Side. Capturing all the bases is more of a tedious task than anything else, and even more annoying is when Xu Huang appears in the northwest and you’ll have to go back if you wins any bases over by the time he makes his way to Fan Castle.
Cao Pi
– Within 5 minutes, defeat Cao Pi at He Fei Castle Sun Jian Side. Cao Pi is holed up in the northwest base – you should have no trouble getting to and defeating Cao Pi in 5 minutes.
Wu (Musou Mode – Sun Shangxiang, Lu Xun, Zhou Yu, Sun Jian, Gan Ning)
Sun Shangxiang
– Starting character for Wu.
Lu Xun
– Starting character for Wu.
Zhou Yu
– Starting character for Wu.
Zhou Tai
– Complete target number 3 at Yi Ling Shu Side.
Sun Jian
– Complete three Wu Musou Modes.
Sun Ce
– Finish battle of Xia Pi with Sun Ce alive.
Sun Quan
– At battle of Chi Bi Lu Bu Side, defeat Sun Quan and Cao Cao within 10 minutes.
Lu Meng
– Complete target 2 at Battle of He Fei Wei Side. You’ll need to defeat Lu Meng and Sun Quan but you have 20 minutes to do so, and Sun Quan isn’t even powered up. Lu Meng’s forces will work their way east all the way and then north, along with Zhou Fang. Take him out and then finish the stage, 20 minutes should suffice.
Taishi Ci
– Defeat Taishi Ci at Conquest of Wu Sun Ce Side. Nothing too complicated though he is powered up and at this early of a stage your character probably isn’t too developed (unless you have a powered up character in Free Mode to use).
Xiao Qiao
– Complete target 3 at Battle of Shi Ting Wu Side. You need 7 total units to survive including Xiao Qiao.
Ling Tong
– Defeat Gan Ning, Ling Tong and Xiao Qiao at Shi Ting Wei Side. This is target 1. This can be difficult as Ling Tong and Gan Ning early on will attack Cao Xiu and they are powered up. Fortunately it’s a small stage so 10 minutes should be more than enough if you don’t get yourself killed.
Huang Gai
– Complete target 3 at Battle of Chi Bi Allied Side. You will need to make sure every unit survives so have a fast horse and aid all your ally generals.
Gan Ning
– Complete one Wu Musou Mode.
Other (Musou Mode – Diao Chan, Lu Bu)
Diao Chan
– Complete musou mode with a Shu character, Wu Character and Wei Character.
Zhang Jiao
– Complete the third target at Yellow Turban Rebellion Allied Side. This is kind of a silly and trivial target, having Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun at the Yellow Turban Main Camp at the time in which you defeat Zhang Jiao.
This all needs to be done in 20 minutes but that should be plenty of time.
Lu Bu
– Complete musou mode with all the rulers (Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Sun Jian) and Diao Chan.
Dong Zhuo
– Complete Lu Bu’s musou mode.
Yuan Shao
– Complete all three targets at Guan Du Wei Side. Now this is one of the harder characters to unlock. Defending Yan Jin and Bai Ma requires you to kill the officers attacking these bases FAST. Start off by heading to Bai Ma to wipe out Shen Pei and Xun Chen. They aren’t powered up so hopefully this can get done before Yuan Tan comes in. He is powered up and his tough defense will make him a bit difficult to put away. It is essential you don’t lose too much time here because Yuan Shang isn’t too far behind, and then Yan Liang / Yan Rou / Chen Zhen run in. Yuan Shang and Yan Liang have the same defensive boost as Yuan Tan so you’re going to have to be good and quick. After they are defeated, head to Yan Jin (if it’s not too late) and take out Wang Xiu / Han Meng / Yuan Xi and then Wen Chou and friends. You’re still not out of the clear as you have to make sure Gao Lan or Cui Yan don’t make their way to Yan Jin to take it over.
You can’t lose either Yan Jin or Bai Ma! Worse yet, you need to be fast enough so that Guan Du West or Guan Du East castle gates are not breached. So once Yan Jin and Bai Ma are safe, make haste to Wu Chao to take it and then defeat Yuan Shao. All that work for Yuan Shao unlocked! You may want a built up character for this because doing it in a Wei musou mode without building a character up would be extremely difficult.
Awesome!this really helped!
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How do u find lu bu horse red hare?u
are these avalible to play with in musuo mode
Downtownbrown12 – You cannot find ‘Red Hare’ for Lu Bu. Instead, just look for an Ultimate horse that is red. That is as close as you are going to get. Or use the PS3 horse time cheat – http://www.lordyuanshu.com/dynasty-warriors-6-unlocking-guide
Mitch – Only some of these characters have a musou mode.
Each version of DW6 allows you to play these musou modes:
Shu – Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, Zhuge Liang, and Liu Bei
Wu – Lu Xun, Zhou Yu, Sun Shang Xiang, Gan Ning, Sun Jian
Wei – Dian Wei, Xiahou Dun, Sima Yi, Zhang Liao, Cao Cao
Other – Diao Chan, Lu Bu
The PS2 Dynasty Warriors 6 added musou modes – Zhang He, Cao Pi, Taishi Ci, Ling Tong, Ma Chao and I think Yue Ying. Also note that these characters received their original weapons back instead of their cloned weapons (Zhang He has claws, Taishi Ci has his pole, Ling Tong nunchucks, etc)
actually taishi ci has wolf slayer’s which are i don’t know but basically there sticks
This game is awesome. Unfortunately, It’s truly a bummer that you’re unable to use all of the characters for Musou mode. I guess this means that I’m almost finished with the game. I thought I had a ways to go…
Lol. Well anyways, thanks a bunch!
hahaha!! you almost finished it?!
maybe youre playing musou mode in normal mode only..
why don’t you try the CHAOS difficulty?
you can unlock it by finishing Diao Chan’s musou..
then try repeating other musou modes in CHAOS mode..
(hope you will enjoy it.. >:D)
nyahahaha!!
You can play on Free Mode! Ha. I know that gets kind of boring. The only 18 musou modes or whatever bothered me too. That was always the funnest part of DW’s for me, ever since DW3 at least. Playing through all the musous, seeing all the unique content and how each character works. I would have probably put the time in to play all the character’s musous in DW6 but…
At the same time, there just needed to be more stages to have more musou modes. Otherwise, everyone in their kingdom would be playing the same musou mode levels for the most part. They can only switch it up so much. With only 5 characters per kingdom they were able to keep the relatively few stages in DW6 fresh.
I was hoping for some downloadable content in the form of more musou modes / maps / etc for PS3. Doesn’t sound like that’s happening. I don’t feel like paying 30$ to get DW6 for PS2 and just the added 6 musou stages (Zhang He, Cao Pi, Yue Ying, Taishi Ci, Ma Chao and Ling Tong I believe). Those six are also ‘de-cloned’, meaning they get their initial weapons back (Taishi Ci gets his pulls, Ling Tong the nunchuks, Zhang He the claws, etc). So that’s kind of cool but they should have made all of that downloadable for those that already bought it for PS3. Hopefully they put a more complete effort (all musous) into DW7 now that they’ve got their feet way on the Current gen systems.
is unlocking cao cao the same as any other commander? (3 musuo’s in army/name)
Actually, you just need to complete two musou modes for Wei. But yea I’ll have to post this in the article I see I forgot to list how to unlock Cao Cao
is it a certain 2 musuo modes? cuz i already have sima yi and xaihou dun’s musuo’s completed and im on dian wei’s
Whoops. My bad. I meant any THREE Wei musou modes. So once you complete Dian Wei’s, you should have access to use Cao Cao in Musou Mode and Free Mode.
thats not how you unlock dong zhuo, you have to complete the battle of Hu Lao Gate on lu bus side and complete target 1
Oh good to know. I guess I just assumed it was finish Lu Bu’s musou since after I finished the battle I got Lu Bu (I didn’t know you had to complete target 1, but I must have did that both times I’ve went through and unlocked Dong Zhuo).
I think you got Yuan Shao’s unlocking wrong. :) I just used Zhen Ji at Battle Of Guan Du Wei Scenario Easy and charged straight to Yuan Shao without having 1 KO, until I got to Yuan Shao, and killed him. That is all. :) And I unlocked him. PS2 btw.
And I actually got Ling Tong, Yue Ying and some of the other characters you have to unlock, as a starting character… :o
Hello Julie, welcome to lys.com….
Yea someone else reported just what you said about Yuan Shao. You don’t have to complete all three targets to unlock Yuan Shao in battle – you just need to preserve Bai Ma Fortress and Yan Jin Fortress. You can do this the hard way by defeating every enemy general that goes to attack those forts, or just go straight for Yuan Shao and defeat him ( though you’d have to be quick in beating him before you lose the forts).
Ling Tong and Yue Ying and Zhang He and so on are available at first for you because you have the PS2 version. Those characters got their initial weapons back (Zhang He’s claws, Ling Tong’s Nunchuks, etc). They also have musou modes. They didn’t have musou modes / their old weapons in the Dynasty Warriors 6 for PS3 or Xbox360 – so be glad, they are like extra storyline characters in the PS2 version :)
how to unlock red hare king on PS2?
set time to 4/8/2008 then use 2 player option and first player have to have ladyluck second player same(e.g this people have ladyluck xu zhu and liu bei)then go battle of Guan Du select wei on easy when in map scren first player choose a horse with find saddle secend player same then start then rush to yuan shao camp kill him then repeat the people you choose like example up there and horse with find saddle repeat it till you get ultimate dream use guan yu level 50 to train to become red hare king lubu can train it to
If I had a dime for each Red Hare or any Horse question regarding DW6 I would be so fucking rich.
you get red hair by going on the leavel with yansho and co co dumy
haha, yea…what he said.
Is it possible to unlock some of these characters using Free Mode to meet the criteria?
-thanks
Hey Mike. Yea, with DW6 most of the time I was unlocking characters in Free mode anyway. I’m pretty sure everyone can be recruited in Free Mode.
Hey, can u unlock yuan shu?
no yuan shu is a npc
is pang de, jaing wei, meng huo, zhu rong, da qiao, and xing cai not in dynasty warriors 6?
thanks
Fitz – Derek is right. Unfortunately, still no Yuan Shu character. I am confident though (with his role becoming more prominent in the DW’s) that he will be added as an ‘Other’ character in Dynasty Warriors 7. Who knows when that game is coming out…but hopefully Yuan Shu will be a character in DW soon.
Michael Salzman – Yea, they took out Pang De, Jiang Wei, Meng Huo, Zhu Rong, Da Qiao, Xing Cai and Zuo Ci. I can understand some of the cuts (Xing Cai, Zuo Ci) but Pang De and Jiang Wei were integral generals for their respective kingdoms in the real story and I don’t see how they could be cut out…but I do have a feeling they’ll be re-added in a future DW, where they hopefully have more stages (and more stages that go later into the time period with Deng Ai, Jiang Wei, etc..)
you know i think every character should have a musou mode then it’d be more fun don’t cha ya think
Yea I agree. But they would need more stages than the 18 or so that are on DW6. Otherwise, every officer will be playing the same stages. Hopefully they think of this for DW7.
To unlock red hare you just need to get northern moon horse and you must grow up the horse lv to lv 5 with all of the speed(500),jump(500),attack(500),destruction(500) and all of its specials(to get all specials you must to kill 1000 or more and your horse must always near you). And it title will change to red hare king also it body its will be red hare.
I tell you that way because I have red hare, with that way.
Awesome!!! TYVM!!!
i was wondering, when you go to unlock Pang Tong on the battle of Chang Du, is there any specific person you use? and also, these cheats are for the ps2 right?
Hello there, very nice place
For the guys who didn’t complete cao pi’s story got a chance to get the red hare complete the 1st battle in cao pi’s story (xia pi) 3targets u will get western devil that is red hare if u skiped that farm at guan du wei side easy use lvl 50 liu bei with find saddle horse(if u wanna play with 2 make the other guan ping)
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DW6 is the first DW´s series im ever playing, i pretend getting the previous versions after i work my chars to some decent lvl and get DW6´s maximun fun.
Thanks for this guide on how to unlock those chars, but i got 2 questions:
1 – What is the ‘general’ of the “Other” side? like, cao cao, sun jian?
2 – What are and where can i see the new weapons for these chars that got their old weapons in PS2´s version?
By the way, what a stupid question, i just saw its Liu Bei, but still could you guys tell me where can i see what are the new weapons for these characters? i got PS2 version, would love to see what are their weapons in new Gen consoles, thanks again.
hey how do I unlock XingCai???
hey uh i have 2 changes. yue ying from shu and zhang he from wei are already unlocked at the beginning of the game. u dont have to unlock them
gud 2 here but s dere another way to get sun quan perhaps
thank you for the tricks, but mine in fan castle batle, there is no Shu scenario, so I can not get Guan Ping, can you help me?
btw, I already had yue ying in the beginning, maybe the info could help a little.
To unlock Shu scenario you have to do Fan Castle through a Shu musou mode first. I’m assuming Guan Yu is the only Shu character who does Fan Castle in Musou Mode, though maybe Zhang Fei. Not sure but I think only Guan Yu.
As far as having Yue Ying at the beginning, that makes me think you are playing the PS2 version. The guide is for the PS3 version (and Xbox360 too) but the PS2 version is a little different; different character’s are available at the start, more musou modes, original weapons (Zhang He’s claws), etc.
Im pissed that zhoa tai cant be in musou mode!
It is no good, I agree. I wanted to play Zhang He’s musou mode, Pang Tong, Xu Huang, Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao, etc. They really skimped on musou modes but at the same time with how few stages there were, it wouldn’t be worth having all those musou modes. They need more stages. In this way, DW6 reminds me of DW2. On a new system, decent game but lacking in stages and replay value. DW3 was then the best, second game on the system like DW7 would be, with lots of stages and side stuff (weapons, items) to unlock. I couldn’t believe how much fun unlocking all the 4th (and 5th weapons in XL) on Hard mode. So challenging but I was so addicted, the game was just perfect on Hard once you played for quite some time…
Shame i was kinda looking forward to having a musou mode with Ma Chao, Wei Yan, Xu Huang, Taishi Ci, and Cao Pi. What happened to Cao Cao’s unlock in the Wei section???
i like DW 1-6 my two favorite is #4 and # 5 ex. but the thing is i don’t understand is why do they got to Chang DW on the ps3 i mean it would be just as much fun as it would be for all the systems u know what i mean i guess they just really lazy and they are very desperate 4 $$$ so i don’t know about y’all but i like it and all but this is kinda cheap don’t u think very little access a very expensive game so im going to turn it back getting my money back and buying a new DW game that’s actually worth buying 4 one that has free mode,musou mode,challenge mode and v.s mode 4 all the charters that money worth spindling 4 am i write
and they Chang the names as well it’s dum in #4 cao cao was pronounced like cow cow now it sounds like soaw soaw why is that
couldnt agree more, the pronunciation of cao cao into sao sao is lame
Complete musou mode with a Shu character, Wu Character and Wei Character.
How do you get the horse of Lu Bu? Pls. Answer
Dynasty Warriors/Samurai Warriors is a top selling game in Japan. They are certainly not desperate nor disparaged on the grounds of funding. They just need a new team to create fresher ideas for the series.
I personally feel that they should make Dynasty Warriors 7 (Lucky number Seven) the last one. In doing so – they should go out with a bang.
They should make every character playable, and create a great deal of stages, along with each stages own personal theme/track. Etc etc.
Well Stacy Tan, what do you have DW6 for?
Does any1 know how 2 get all 4 main hores meaning coa coas lei buis sun juains and lu bus red hair
I like cheese
DW6 could use more musou modes and they should bring back most of the characters they deleted. Jiang Wei plays a huge role in the story line but they decided to cut him
Zuo Ci would be hell fun to play as
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i beat the game on hard easy and normal
On sun ce i get what you are saying but when i try to get him when im finish i didnt unlock him do i have to play musou mode?
Dynasty Warriors 7 coming out soon. Check it out.
yuan shu where can i find dynasty warriors 6 charecter cheat?
we must clear musou mode three times with 3 different character from each country to get sun jian ,cao cao and liu bei???
in musuo mode who character should i use to unlock shi ting area in DW6
i just want to ask in how to get the main horses, the horse of liu bei, cao cao, lu bu, or sunjian
i want to get lu bu , dong zhuo ,cao ren and zhen ji
wow!!!!!
hey I wanted to get zhou tai.How to get it?
its not fair, its just some of the characters have musou modes damn it
i just hope that KOEI will have another DW8,and it has all the characters.Most of all all the character has their own musou modes.And their weapons are like the weapons style like DW7.What i meant is per character can use two weapons and switch it.And of course its better if we can unlock all characters weapons and including usind other characters weapons.
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this dude/dudette (brrraaaooowww ;) ) is right on! Levels of difficulty don’t matter and with the right horse, running a developed character through the levels at an easy settingactually let me leave with some better weapon picks than what i went in with. Very Cool right!?! Anyway, i was disappointed (still am) to find out that after having explored everyone’s storyline (Musou Mode) several times at least, that it dosen’t include any more of the characters aside from the 5 per dynasy cept for the two Lu Bu and Diao Chan like dude dudette (meeow) said. in doing so however, putting these insights to the test i found that it was attainable and a fun way to pick up some overlooked peices to the dynasty warriors 6 experience. good lookin’ Mr. or Miss (purr purr) person! It was fun!
you easy to win wen you fight verry well wen you dosen’t have red hare horst and even a troops
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What are 3 shu / wei characters?