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So I decided to play something totally different from Gongsun Zan (always at war) and play as Kong Rong.
Decided that I wanted to max. trade and max. spies.
I currently have 7 ongoing trade agreements and 5 spies (more coming once the faction levels up again)
Spies are at: Liu Bei - Dong Zhuo - Lady Wu (Sun Ce died) - Cao Cao - Yuan Shu
Liu Biao´s heir (my spy) killed the old fart and Liu Bei got all of his territory (I totally forgot about Liu Bei getting it - I was a bit sad)
Yuan Shao decided to attack me early and I wiped the floor with him due to my fury of behai units.
Im currently discrediting a lot of factions / characters to snipe some nice generals (gotta catch em all)

My thoughts: Its a lot different from my usual playstyle but I think this has a LOT of potential. I think you can do some crazy things with enough time and spies.
Youre basically destroying and destabilizing the other factions from within - without fighting much yourself.

I play tons of other total war games but only try 3K for like 60 hours, I tried a "historical" Liu Bei campaign, migrate to Jingzhou region, conquer it then march on Yi and Hanzhong provinces, declare myself emperor

Sun Quan and Cao Cao became alliance so I stuck defending Jing regions for like 30 turns before going to Yi provinces, only when I declare myself emperor that their alliance broke down

My plan is following historical route, conquer Nanman lands, then swing north to Chang'an/ Louyang then move to Cao Cao

Is my tech tree good as Liu Bei ? I focus on red for campaign movement range, replenishment rate and cataphract for Zhang Fei, and a bit on blue and yellow for reduce salary

I spent prestige points on army first, then admin then assignment last, is it a good move ?

I abuse the ambush stance a lot against Sun - Cao, it works perfectly but is this a good tactic ?

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My biggest problem is Yuan Shao and his 10 avengers.
For a long time I was stuck at my start (Youbeiping - Guangyuan - Bohai)
I slowly build up my economy and army. Kept defending and also got Pingyuan.
Then Ive had an idea. I saw all of Yuan Shaos territory (Spy) and decided to "create" a defensive fortress in the middle of his lands.
So I went from Henei to Wei to Shangdang and finally to the mine in Taiyuan. I raided all the farmland in between and got the mine.
This mine has a lot of benefits for me

1. Its EASY to defend IMO
2. Its in the middle of his territory
3. I can basically attack everything from here

2 (and a half) Armies were capturing a lot of Yuan Shaos territories while 1 took over the remaining territories of Gongsun Kang

I play with a few mods but this one is the biggest (Records Mode Classic Total War)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2229620309
Basically more relationships. More events (good & bad). Dead units stay dead etc.

vassalised and annexed his bitch ass before turn 50 as sunjian and it wasnt even something i was trying to do. just went to fight yuan shu cuz he attacks me with liu biao that old cock

butas i railed through them i saw big dong and his army. and i chased his ass all the way to chang'an and just as im about to get him over the turn Zheng juiang comes in 3rd parties him outta nowhere then tries to capture the emperor whose still a baby and loses.

i attack her in my anger and now get spies through li jue and his his wife who like any good wife hated his fat ass. and i start discrediting. and then im like man too slow way to get lu bu.

then he sends me na offer of peace next turn giving 1200

im like huh let me try something

and boom i give his ass 4 horses and told him to make a chariot to save his horses back from such tyrany of his fat ahh

and then im impatient so 5 turns in i annex him. but also cuz i feared lu bu might kill him. and yea now look at the lil shit.

I like those for example
- Respec Character Skills when they join you (If the AI took weird skills I can choose the path I want him to have)
- Unique Units in Faction Garrison (Gongsun Zan has 3-4 Horse archers in a fully upgrades Port for example)
- Recruited unique character can use their special units (similar to the one below)
- Recruited Character Can Use Original Units (Bandit character can use bandit units even tho I play a Han Faction)

In all of my commanderies, I have the same issue (or maybe it's just supposed to be this way). While playing as Yan Baihu, I build the second structure on my first resource settlement with no issues. I then try to build in the second slot in the second resource settlement in the same commanderie, and I can't seem to build anything there.

If I right click on the empty plot that the red arrow is pointing to, it automatically circles the secondary building in the other resource settlement with a green circle, as if that other building was what I right clicked, instead of the empty plot. After that, for all of the bandit buildings on the bottom, they all only have a conversion button, allowing me to convert the black market in the other settlement to something new, but I don't have any build buttons for the empty plot that I just right clicked.

Is there always supposed to be one empty slot in a commandery; maybe just for bandits; or is there something I'm missing?

RESOLVED: Following the advice of Soggy_credit, I just hovered over it, and then I chose the building option from the popup.

Really, after this it's just gravy.

I reinstalled the game this week and downloaded several mods, everything worked fine until today. The game does not start after pressing "Play" in the launcher, instead nothing happens for a while, then an error appears saying that the game can't connect to server which then opens this.

Seems more than a little suspicious to me, but if workshop mods really are to blame, then why did this happen now, days after i downloaded or updated them? I also reinstalled the game, verified files, deleted mods, nothing helps.

I love the start as it lets you experience the start of all the war lords, and fend off the yellow turbans, but sadly it's just so buggy and so unbalanced that it's hard to find enjoyment in it.

Weakening the yellow turbans, and fixing the bugs would be a massive help if you want to give 3k a passover with the new initiative. It would be amazing!