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More Info About the Weapons and Armors!!!!!!!!!!
Regular weapons can be bought in the shops. They can only level up 3 times. The special weapons I listed can be leveled up 9 times and can’t be sold. while the most powerful normal weapon at level 3 at the end of the game is about 10 points higher, the special weapons make up for it with their special powers. The same applies to armor. You gain weapon experience by attacking and armor experience when you get hit. Pretty simple.
This is not a real secret (but you’ll need chinese knowledge to know about it), but if you max a regular weapon’s level and sell it, you’ll get a status boosting bean. Let me show you how it works.
This is Dian Wei’s stats. Notice the numbers next to his protrait? While those numbers kind of acts as historical ratings, they actually have another meaning. Dian Wei has Power: 100 Reflex: 98 Intelligence: 52 Luck: 72 Leadership: 80. These are actually their growth rates! Power and Intelligence are pretty much self explainitory. I have NO CLUE what Luck does (but might be related something I’ll cover below) and Leadership is Defense growth. Reflex covers many things. It covers your accuracy, your ability to dodge attacks, and your critical rate.
*Edit* This information I provided previously was incorrect, please see page 4 in this thread for a better explaination. The letters and corresponding numbers below are correct, but they are not the whole story. Again, check out page 4 of this thread for the correct explaination.
S = 4 Point
A = 3 Point
B = 2 Point
C = 1 Point
That means Dian Wei will gain 4 points of strength when he levels up, not 2. But the numbers don’t have to be 100, anything from 90-100 is S rank growth.
S = 90-100
A = 70-89
B = 50-69
C = 0-49
This is how you can tell who rocks and who sucks. Although all the tactican in this game rocks so they don’t really have to worry about the stats.
But wait, there’s a way to boost those numbers to make them grow better! Remember I mentioned beans that you can get by selling maxed out equipment? Those beans increase your growth rate numbers by 2 points. And when used in battle, they act as a stats booster for a random number of turns. Different types of equipment gives you different types of beans. Check your inventory whenever you sell a maxed out equipment. You’ll see a bean appear in it. don’t worry, I’ll tell you what gives you what.
Lance = Power Bean
Sword = Experience Bean (just more experience for leveling up)
Bow = Luck Bean
Staff = Luck Bean
Catapult = Power Bean
Fan = Intel Bean
Magic Sword = Intel Bean
Armor = Leadership Bean
Clothing = Reflex Bean
So, let say you have a Power Bean, if you use it on Cao Ren, his 88 strength will increase to 90, thus making his strength growth into S rank. Naturally, the lower the number, the more beans you need. It’s not wise to try and make someone with low intelligence and boost them to 90. It’s much better and easier to boost someone with moderately high stats to make them even better.
Look at the Dian Wei picture again. Let me explain the stats to you in those blue bars. The first one is power. The second one is defense. The third one is critical rate, but it also figures into accuracy, and ability to dodge attacks. The last stat is morale, which I know is based on luck growth. As to what morale does? I have no freaking clue. I never had to worry about this stat to beat the game anyway, so it’s probably not really that important. But if you got some Luck Beans to spare, might as well put them to use anyway. No sense in letting them go to waste.
Here Taishi Chi, let me give you a hand.
Gameplay basics
Foot > Archer
Archer > Mounted
Mounted > Foot
Mounted archer counts as archers.
Tactics are based on the 4 elements. Yellow is wind, red is fire, brown is earth, and blue is water. Wind can hit anywhere provide the enemy’s not on a fort, in the forrest, of behind a wall (doesn’t matter if the wall is brick of stick). Fire can be used anywhere as long as it’s not raining. Earth can by used on mountains or rocky terrain. Water can be used if the enemy is standing next to a body of water, or standing in snow.
You can check what tactics you can use when you click on any square on the map. The ones can’t be used are greyed out.
Unit movement is a little weird. You can’t move in between 2 enemy units. Let me show you an example
E = Enemy
C = Cao Cao
0 = nothing
E
0C
E
Cao Cao’s movement is 5, but if he wants to move through those 2 enemies, it’ll take you 2 turns to do it.
E
C
E
This is about as far as you can move. You’ll only be able to escape that in the next turn. The same applies to your enemies. Actually the 4 square around anyone can block someone
0x
xCx
0x
Those X’s are places that causes movement to be reduce around the character. It applies to all unless they are riding the Red Hare.
Special Weapons List
Twin Blades – Liu Bei’s sword. They allow you to double attack. You hit your enemies once, they counter and hit you, then you hit them again.
Sword of Light – Extra damage on mounted enemies.
Sword of Heaven – This is Cao Cao’s default equipment. It lowers damage by 15%. When things lower damage, it doesn’t increase your defense, it lowers the amount of damage you take when you get hit.
Ancestral Sword – It boosts your critical rate by 10 points.
Black Dragon – Guan Yu’s default equipment. This weapon prevents enemies from counter attacking you when you strike first.
Serpent Halbred – This weapons can attack 2 enemies at once. Let say there are 2 enemys next to each other, if you hit the one in the front, the second guy behind him will also take damage. Critical attacks will only hit the first guy, the second guy takes regular damage. It also works diagonally.
Lu Bu’s Halberd – It allows you to attack a second time (provided you have another enemy in your attack range) if you killed someone in your first attack.
Lu Bu’s Bow – This bow will paralyze your enemies if they’re hit by it.
Li Guan’s Bow – This weapon silence tactians, preventing them from using tactics.
Shooting Star – If it hits, it confuses the enemy!
Twin Whips – Same abilities as Liu Bei’s swords.
Golden Catapult – Poisons anyone it hits.
Leaf Fan – Boosts the power of wind based tactics.
Fire fan – Boosts the power of fire based tactics.
Zhuge Liang’s fan – Lowers the amount of MP needed for tactics.
Sword of the 7 Stars – Increase tactic’s accuracy by 15%.
Sage’s Sword – Increase Max MP by 20 points.
Mirror Armor – Arrows and catapults will NEVER EVER be able to hit you.
Golden Armor – Anyone equipped with this armor will not receive any damage from critical attacks.
Chain Mail – No one can perform consecutive attacks on you.
Silver Armor – Reduces damage from tactic by 15%.
Dragon Scale Armor – When you get hit, your MP goes down instead of your HP. You will lose HP only when your MP bar is completely gone. Even if you have 1 MP left, you won’t take damage until it’s gone.
Flying Dragon Robe – Increase critical rate by 10 points.
Zhuge Liang’s Robe – Increase tactical power by 10 points.
Black Taoist robe – Increase Max MP by 20 points.
Phoenix Robe – Recovers a bit of HP at the beginning of each turn.
Silver Mirror Shield – Reduces damage from tactic by 15%.
Wind God’s Shield – Reduces BOTH tactical and physical damage by 15%.
Wheel – Increase movement of catapults by 2 points.
Flying Lightning – Increase movement by 2 point.
Shadow – Increase movement by 1 points.
Chi Tu – Allows you to move in between units.
Di Lu – Ignores terrain reductions allowing you to walk anywhere without losing movement.
Iron Helmet – Increase Max HP by 45 points.
Zhuge Liang’s Hat – Increase Max MP by 45 points.
Featherless arrow – Allows you to attack enemies from one space away like an archer.
Sun Tze’s Art of War – Gives you a little extra exp at the beginning of each turn.
New treaties of Meng De – When you fight, you get a little more exp than normal.
Blue Pouch Book – Recovers a little HP at the start of each turn.
Way of Peace – Recovers from any and all status effects at the beginning of your turn.
Peaceful Technique – Recovers a little MP at the beginning of each turn.
Heaven’s Book – Allows you to mimic the tactics of anyone next to you.
Six Arts of Wars – Gains a bit of weapon exp at the beginning of each turn.
Three Ploys – Gains a bit of armor exp at the beginning of each turn.
Bean Bag – Automatically uses a healing bean when you’re attacked. So if 4 enemies surround you, it’ll use a heal bean everytime one of them attacks you. Won’t work if you run out of beans though.
Imperial Seal – ALWAYS critical attack.
Green Dragon Jade – Allows you to use a super lightning tactic that randomly attacks one or multiple enemies with lightning multiple times. Can only be used when there’s a storm and the Dragon Jade Equiped. One of the 4 all powerful tactics.
Red Phoenix Jade – Allow you to use a super fire tactic when it’s bright and sunny. one of the 4 all powerful tactics.
Dark Warrior Jade – It causes status boost, and other random affects on EVERYONE (you and your enemies). That means it can actually boost your enemies while lowering your stats, or other weirdness. I don’t even know how to use it. I only tried it out once for fun, but it didn’t work for some reason. Probably gotten meet some requirement like the other 2 above. Who cares, I doubt you’ll want to risk it with this crap anyway.
White Tiger Jade – The final jade can heal all your guys completely, including whatever status affects that’s affecting you. No requirements.Thank god I read this message while I was typing. I’ll leave out the secrets for now, but I’ll provide you with some basic gameplay info.
Right now though I’m working on my Legend of Cao Cao guide since it seems like an English guide for that game is in more demand.
Would you also like some help on that? I’ve beaten the game and found every single secret within the game. I know quite a bit about this game.
Also, taking screen shots is not hard at all. If you’re using the emulator Gens, just click on "graphics" and select the last option to take screen shot. Most emulators have the ability to take screen shots easily.
Oh, I got an idea, since I’m still very early in the game, why don’t you guys grab some screen shots with the general’s name and post them here for me to see. That way, you don’t have to wait for me to get there and still have the names quickly. I still haven’t gotten Zhao Yun yet.
Also, I could probably translate the items for you as well. I don’t know the equipments very well though. Besides, it’s not like there’s anything special about the equipment, just equip the ones that causes the numbers to go up. If you go to the inventory and point the cursor at the item, the description will show up. That way, I can probably explain a few of the items to you as well.
Anyone got codes? That’ll speed up the process and allow me to get the names faster.
That game has the same avatars as on Romance of the Three Kingdoms 3, I noticed with Liu Bei Zhang Fei and Guan Yu there…and the same battle music as Final Fantasy 4, I think.
This is not an official game so to speak. It’s a pirate game made in China. They have tons of these games for the Sega Genesis because Sega didn’t crack down on pirating like Nintendo did.
Also, the picture CommieCatGirl posted in the first page has a picture of a boss with a sword. That guy is Zhang Liao.
Oh and I have no idea why threekingdoms.com translated Zhang Jiao to Zhang Jue, but it’s the same guy.
I’m not so good with the locations, but I should be able to provide you with a few boss names. My Chinese is far from perfect, but I know the character names well enough.
1st Boss: Zhang Jue
2nd Boss: Yuan Shu
3rd Boss: Che Zhou
4th Boss: Lu Qian
And that’s about as far as I got.
