r/TotalWarThreeKingdoms

The Prince of Chen is on his way to unleash chaos upon those who seek to destroy the Han! What could have happened, if Yuan Shu did not assassinate him.

So I’ve done around 10 or so runs where they all go kind of to shit after I agree to help defend Tao qian(I think is the name). Cao Cao just tends to be way stronger. I had one run where I did defeat him in an insane battle where I was ambushed and another where I beat him and like 2.7k soldiers in an actual battle, but after those I ended up getting fried by other different factions, some guys to the north I forgot the names. And in the runs I beat him it took forever and just feels like a massive road block, so advice would be helpful, I’d also like to ask on the migrate south strategy I’ve heard about, I’m currently in a run where I did that after losing to Cao Cao again and I demolished all the stuff in all my settlements to come up with 30k to colonize the south, and it’s actually doing well. I like it but after this hopefully goes well I want to actually defeat the enemies in the north. But in case I wanna do the southern strat again I wouldn’t mind advice on that either, I only did it after I started losing so I wasted time before doing it and was wondering the optimal Strat.

Hey there,

I'm debating getting one of these DLC in the sale. Can't decide on which one. I'm drawn to the time period and new set up of Eight Princes but also drawn to the generational gameplay of Liu Yan in Fates Divided. Reviews for Eight Princes are bad but seems to be running fine in 1980x which is okay with me since that's all my tv is.

Any advice on which one is better? I've only beat the game once with Shi Yie but had a great time with him.

They're both so cheap I could get both but I'll only commit to one at a time anyway.

Thoughts?

I confederated Liu Bei as Cao Cao and got him and Zhang Fei, but strangely Guan Yu was missing.

Looking at him in the all Characters tab from Court, he still has Liu Bei's flag, but all his items are greyed out.

Loading a save from a turn earlier to check, Guan Yu was on farm Assignment for Liu Bei when I confederated. Is this a known bug? Characters on Assignment during confederation kind of get stuck in a limbo forever? I kept passing Turns to see what happens but Guan Yu remained in that state.

Hi, last year I got the game because Epic was giving it for free, but every time that I try to play I get overwhelmed with all type of information, and I have no idea of how to progress. I have played games like Age of Empires, and a little bit of Civilization VI, and thought it would be similar. But I do not understand the game mechanics very well. I alwasy seem to be losing some resource, my armies are not strong enough, or it seems that I have nothing to do in the turn.

So, I wanted to know if there is a place where I can read or watch videos that slowly explain the game mechanics to someone not familiar with the Total War franchise. I have watched some videos but I still have not fully understood the game and wanted some help.

Hi guys this is a stupid question, but for the achievement I can declare peace right? All it says is to declare war on everyone the second I meet them. I’ve been fighting all of northern china and itd really help if I could close a front and focus on other fights.

TLDR: can I declare peace?

Despite being the economic and cultural center of China for the past thousands of years, all you can do is farm and fish which makes pitiful amounts of money compared to going south of the Yangtze and capturing the powerhouses of Danyang and Poyang.

If real life was like this game, Sun Wu would've have an entire army decked out with the most advanced armor and weapons and rolled over Shu Han and Cao Wei in 2 years.

Kind of suffering from success after restoring the Han as I find myself unable to use some of the Schemes that increased Credibility. Need some help in activating these Schemes!

Character

1. Flatter The General - have character with Salary greater than 300

I have a total of 40% salary reduction from the Reform tree, but my highest ranked characters have salaries of only 69 Gold. Is it bugged?

2. Knowledge of the Ambitious - have character with less than 10 Satisfaction

I have huge amounts of Satisfaction from Liu Xie & Court Position staff bonuses, even those with -60 Desire higher position combined with -30 from other malus still have like 80 Satisfaction....

Faction

The two Faction ones (free Reform & +20 Relations) I can use off cooldown.

Commandery

1. Tiger over the Mouse - have Commandery with Public Order below 0

Again, the huge bonuses to Public Order I already have makes it impossible to get, even with Taxation jacked up to maximum. I probably can build the Peasant building that reduces PO, but it will still take many turns to get it negative.

2. Trapped Fish above the Retreating Tide - have Commandery with decreasing reserves

How do I accomplish this? I have high positive food.

Army

1. Hawk & Tiger Manouever - can use this off cooldown

2. Arrows from the Enemy - Force is at or below 25 military supplies

Do I just create a army and let it walk around in March stance until the supplies run out?

Playing as Cao Cao, captured Chang An and immediately became King from the Prestige. Chose to restore the Han.

Liu Xie's skill bonuses are pretty powerful, but he can only go on Assignments. Is there any way to level him up faster? From what I read he usually starts at level 7, but he started at 5 for me. I have level 5 Schools in many of my cities already.

There is one Title in the Imperial Court that requires a relative to fill. Liu Xie's Family Tree is empty, is there a way for the Cao clan to become kin with him?

I think I had two daughter births rather early in 191, 192. Will they come of age eventually and be marriageable to Liu Xie? Or is Cao Cao's family tree gone since he is no longer my Faction leader? Cao Pi, my default heir who has not come of age yet, still shows as Liu Xie's heir.

I was playing a campaign as Ma Teng and after conquering most of Dong Zhuo's land I "rescued" the emperor. This directly made me the overlord of the Han empire. A great boon for your campaign right? Guess not with the way diplomacy is programmed. When the AI (with a lot of vassals) decides to declare war on the han empire and I am obligated (you can't say no unlike other vassals) to help them, the game looks at MY peace treaties and considers ME the irrisponsible party guilty of breaking them. Now I'm at -98 credibility. Just lovely. Really broke my willingness to continue the campaign.

Also fuck losing imperial favour for killing looters. Guess I should let China get pillaged and colonized by outsiders.