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IIRC, I had less than half the final weapons unlocked. After all, Bahamut is 255 strength and 255 defense, so why bother?
…aside from the fact that the memcard with that was lost forever…
Keep in mind that Zhang Xiu’s "Do everything Jia Xu says!" tactic soundly thrashed Cao Cao, killing Dian Wei, Cao Ang, and Cao Anmin even though Cao Cao had a better army, more land, and more officers. But if you think that Cao Cao, Cheng Yu, Guo Jia, Xun Yu, Xun You, and Yang Xiu are Jia Xu’s intellectual inferiors, I understand.
Just edit the story a bit; the anti-dong zhuo coalition, for example, could be a round of smashing Leander for not fighting Eselred or something.
After all, Leander DOES tend to get beaten up by Ander, Tate, Eselred, and even Erik…
Finally, keep in mind that SOME chnages have to be made no matter what. Your suggetsions, for example, moves Tudoria, Lyle, Flax, and Coryll to the opposite sides of the map!
Okay, there are three ways to determine who sucks so much they should be a generic: (note that for each general we use the highest of each stat they get in any scenario — Pender "Lu Bu" Blanche, for example, uses the 96 war and 80 int form scenario 4, and the 32 charm from scenario 1.
(1) Sort by by each general’s highest stat.
(2) Sort by the sum of the three stats.
(3) Sort by a weighted sum of the three stats (I use [best*4]+[mid*2]+[worst*1]). This reflects how Li Ru (18/200), for example, gets much more from +50 int (which’d let him stay in the party until Zhuge Liang!) than +50 str (which, well, doesn’t really do anything!).
Worst by highest stat:
(1) Arkin
(2) Aigle
(3) Francis
(4-8) Andrew
(4-8) Kneulf
(4-8) Seagal
(4-8) Lenne
(4-8) Eselred
(9) Nicolay
(10-11) Randal
(10-11) Cairn
(12) Eustace
(13) Sarthe
(14) Esok
(15) Garth
Worst by sum of stats:
(1) Arkin
(2) Seagel
(3) Francis
(4) Andrew
(5) Kneulf
(6) Eselred
(7) Randal
(8) Sarthe
(9) Walther
(10-11) Bradley
(10-11) Aigle
(12) Nicolay
(13) Elias
(14) Lenne
(15) Veen
Worst by weighted sum:
(1) Arkin
(2) Francis
(3) Seagal
(4) Andrew
(5) Kneulf
(6) Eselred
(7) Aigle
(8) Randal
(9) Sarthe
(10) Nicolay
(11) Lenne
(12) Cairn
(13) Walther
(14) Esok
(15) Elias
It is assumed that Eselred keeps his face (due to being an Elvis wannabe and such) and that Garth also keeps his face (how can we turn down Huo Hu’s request!?), so even those lists give only 17 names! So I did some fooling around with excel; since two faces are used by Gem & Dragon, and two more are used by generics, that means 26 of the 64 officers get genericized. These are the ones I recommend based on sorting of the average of their three rankings in those categories:
Shabard
Carlyle
Galford
Gerard
Jerras
Alain
Anise-F
Fuster
Veen
Aiden
Bradley
Eustace
Esok
Elias
Cairn
Walther
Lenne
Nicolay
Sarthe
Randal
Aigle
Kneulf
Andrew
Seagal
Francis
Arkin
Yes, we’re about four shy of including Raith (who has 94 war, but 39 int and 40 charm, meaning he’s 8th ranked in max stat and 49th in total max!)
Taking another look at DoaGemfire…
Here’s the number of generals per side in a scenario, along with the number who serve them in at least one scenario and the scenarios they show up in:
*Lankshire: 9-17 (22) [1234]
**Blanche: 5-9 (13) [1234]
**Lyle: 4-8 (13) [1234]
*Tudoria: 5 (5) [4]
*Tate: 4-5 (5) [234]
*Flax: 3-4 (5) [123]
Divas: 4 (4) [4]
*Chrysalis: 2-3 (3) [12]
*Molbrew: 3 (3) [12]
Tordin: 3 (3) [3]
*Coryll: 3 (3) [1]
So my suggestions:
Turbans = *Coryll
Dong Zhuo = *Molbrew
Yuan Shu = *Chrysalis
Yuan Shao = *Flax
Jing = *Tate
Shu = Divas
Wu = **Ander
Wei = *Lankshire
Jin = *Tudoria
And now for who to genericize…. comes in the next post!
Speaking of hacking notes, Guo Si (or whoever’s in his slot) is shy and often fails to appear as an enemy in combat even if they’re programmed for their slot. Anyone up fopr examining it?
Behold! The Dong Zhuo area has been redone by request. Some features:
* Five of the eight battles have been redone!
* One of the Dong Zhuo’s officers has been completely replaced with a noticeably more competent one!
* The text has been improved in multiple places!
* Gratuitous shots of Diao Chan and the Qiao sisters mud wrestling!¹
Unfortunately, there are two problems:
(1) Guo Si seems to be bugged. Even if he’s moved to a different battle, he often fails to appear.
(2) A certain new general (I’m sure you can guess who when you see him in battle) has his stats much lower as an enemy than they should be.
If anyone can solve one or both of those, we will be quite grateful. I am currently emailing the latest copy to LYS.
¹ Not really, but one can dream, right?
Actually, that part is still work-in-progress; I assigned new names to all the generals that get replaced, but haven’t perfected their stats. And, to be honest, the changes (aside form recruits, of course) don’t really pick up until Yuan Shao & Jing…
Keep in mind, however, that the last three areas will certainly be different!
TABLE OF EDITED BATTLES: (name fixes [such as Zhu Ge Liang -> Zhuge Liang] don’t count!)
Yellow Turbans: 3/6
Dong Zhuo: 1/8
Yuan Shu: 0/7 (I probably should do SOME juggling…)
Yuan Shao: 3/(7 or 8 )
Jing: 4/6
Shu: 10/11
Wu: 7/14
Wei: 7/7
Jin: 9/9
Once again, only up to the dong zhuo area has been done. Areas after that are not playable yet >_>
Also you spouted many spoilers! :(
Unfortunately, this for all (well, most of) the minor force characters, so Gong Zhi will probably go the way of vanilla’s Liu Feng. Sorry. :(
