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Hanzhong castle has fallen to Liu Bei. Even with the gate trick it was quite the battle, as each general did a large amount of damage. Halfway through, Pang Tong is killed, and as he is my strategist and has all my revives, things become understandably harder. But I managed to pull through, with everyone in the battle dead except Ma Dai.
Now at level 24. Something tells me this is the turning point of the challenge difficulty-wise.
The order is Xia Meng (Ma Chao and Ma Dai), Yangping (Yang Ang, I think), the mountain pass, Nanzheng (Yang Bai), and then Hanzhong.
On that note, I think the link from the Hanzhong walkthrough page to the Hanzhong general analysis is broken; I can’t seem to get to that page from the walkthrough, although I can from going forward from the Jingzhou general page.
Well, going through Emperor Jing’s tomb was certainly exciting, what with running into strong generals half the time and running out of TP for YanDun.
And fighting two generals with strength over 200 who consistantly go before everyone except Meng Da=ULTIMATE HAPPINESS!
On the plus side, I now have two generals with strength over 200 who should consistantly go before most of the enemies, although I wish their troops counts didn’t fall by 3000.
On to Nanzheng!
Edit: There is a battle at Yangping citadel. You have neglected to specifically mention this on your html walkthrough, although it is pretty easy.
It’s certainly unusual…has she got hooks in her face in that picture?
And lordyuanshu, I like the new avatar. Hopefully you won’t change it again in two days or so like you tend to do.
With whimsical caprice, I smote Lu Bu and settled Southern Jing. He did a lot of damage, but his weakness to tactics and lack of great support spelled his doom.
Went back to Xinye, and recruited Chen Deng and the rest of the deadweight. The enemy troops have taken another jump in size, now even the outlaw armies are doing ~150 damage a hit.
Now in Fushui at level 22. I got Zhang Lu through the glitch and, although I won’t use him for Hanzhong, I’m contemplating using him for Wei and maybe Shu if the enemies are just too strong. I’ll just to wait and see how I hold up.
One final thing of interest: if you leave the game at the title screen, it will show pictures of the major characters and give a little description of each. In Xu Chu/Zhu’s description it mentions he was a protege of Guan Yu…I don’t remember hearing anything about this. Thoughts?
Famous last words: "Liu Bei’s dogs will never seize Changsha!"
So Changsha has fallen to my blade. I was just going to do a test run, to see which array I wanted to work with. I make the line-up Zhang Fei, Guan Ping, Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, and Zhuge Liang as tactition. Upon entering battle, Zhang Fei and Guan Ping attack Huang Zhong, Guan Yu sets up BaiMa array, and Zhao Yun and Zhuge Liang YanRe Wei Yan. Huang Zhong tries to use JieCe a lot, but keeps failing. I think Wei Yan misses his first turn. I take the damage from the others. Second turn, the enemy assumes what I think was the YuLin array (middle three move up), which goes in my favor, as Han Xian and Yan Ling now do ~30 damage. I kill off Wei Yan with YanRe, then assualt Huang Zhong until he is no longer a threat. Before I kill him, I whittle down Han Hao’s health so he’ll be easier to kill. Once Huang Zhong dies, the formation breaks and I quickly attack Yan Ling before he does too much damage. I take out Han Hao and Yan Ling in the same turn, then all-out Han Xian. Zhang Fei goes down in the process, but the others manage to finish off Han Xian for the win.
So, wow. Quite lucky, I should think.
Lu Bu’s up again, but he’ll have to wait until tomorrow.
Alright, Ling Ling and Wu Ling are settled and the western cave raided.
Here is my current status going into Chang Sha:
Level 20
Tactics: YanRe, ShuiXing, LiuMu, TongXian, CeJian, YiXin, ChaoMa, WeiTui, XueLu, YanDun
Arrays: SanKai, HeYi, BaiMa, HengFang
Troop Count:
Guan Ping-1588
Zhang Fei-1258
Guan Yu-970
Zhao Yun-1085
Zhuge Liang-915
Max TP-92
Most of my gear is iron. I have around 21000 gold, which I will probably use on steel gear and potions and revives.
Any idea what those arrays do? They could help me out some.
The guys disappeared from the cave after Han. They were at Ma Liang’s house, but they moved when they saw Yi Ji.
Forgot to rest the first time I went for Han, so I had to start over. But the next time, I demolished Lu Bu. For some reason, Guan Yu was getting criticals EVERY SINGLE TURN. Makes me wonder if Pang Tong didn’t slip some steroids into that brocade sack…
Took Guiyang since there’s only one real battle there. Now at level 19, I need to settle Ling Ling and Wu Ling, raid the western cave, and then see if I stand a chance at Chang Sha.
If DOAE2 counts, then:
Zhuge Liang: "Ah, INCREDIBLE HAPPINESS!"
If not…I dunno, I guess the girl in one of the towns with a tiger named Wang.
I walked through the cave between Han and Southern Jing, at the end are two people who tell me to see Ma Liang for some reason. I would guess they stand there until I settle all the cities beforehand, but it could just be Han since you have to go through Nanjun anyway.
I haven’t gotten there yet, it was just on my mind. I picked up a Youyuu bow from a random battle in my last game and I was wondering if I could use the cave bow.
I fought Xiahou Dun at Xiangyang, Cao Hong at Yiling, and Cao Ren and Cao Ang at Nanjun. Each battle was actually pretty easy, but I’m not sure whether it’s because of the level boost or the Tally Order, although Xiahou Dun did get in a 915 attack his first turn.
Come to think of it, is Yiling mandatory? I got a couple thousand experiance from it, although with all the experiance needed for the later levels, I guess it’ll level out.
Level 18. Time for Lu Bu and the governers.
A quick question, is the Youyuu bow from the Changsha cave an equipable bow? If so, is there another decent bow user besides Huang Zhong I could give it to to save some money?
Zhuge Liang: "Ah, ULTIMATE HAPPINESS!"
Just keep living the dream, Zhuge…
Level 17 after picking up the Tally Order, and I now have TongXian.
Chen Jiao’s increased troop count and YanRe make him formidable as an enemy, but luckily he has no real support (although the outlaw armies are getting stronger).
