ROTKX owns

Right now, I'm playing as a created character (Qin Pei) working for a created faction (Cai Huang's army, probably soon to pass to his son, Cai Yuan). Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, Dian Wei, Zhou Yu, and Huang Gai are the most notable out of the 34(!) officers working under me. I'm sworn brother to Dian Man (Dian Wei's son), Li Dian (one of Cao Cao's original followers), and Sun Yu (a cousin of Sun Jian), and I lead what is probably the finest military unit in all of China- a horsebow troop with nearly 1000 experience. I've been personally responsible for the defeats of Liu Bei, Tao Qian, Cao Cao, and Lu Bu. And I just kicked Liu Biao (master of all of Chu) out of Jiang Xia without a fight. Life is grand.

And yes, I am playing on Fictional :P

Jesus, right when you think the game's a cakewalk, it turns around and starts kicking your ass. Yuan Shao conquered Gongsun Zan, then died and left his kingdom to Gongsun (wtf?), who then siezed He Nei and Luo Yang. I kicked him out of Luo Yang and transferred my government over there to deal with Zan. Right when I leave, my old base of operations gets taken back by Liu Biao, and two of my prefects try to take Chang Sha and fail miserably. In the meantime, Zan takes Xiao Pei, Xia Pi, and Pu Yang while I'm trying to sieze all the gates around Luo Yang. Cai Huang himself got taken prisoner after a skirmish outside Pu Yang, but was released.

Dayum.

Yeah, when you start to get larger and border more kingdoms, you've got to start forming alliances, or oyu'll find your borders slightly decaying to enemy nations.

I try to keep all my enemies on one front, and have allies at the places where I don't feel like going to for fighting (like far southern borders), usually, I keep my enemies on the northern front, since I usually have my main bases in the Southland and Jingzhou region.

Hmmm.... I usually serve myself if I'm my created person, but I served Sun Jian the first time I played with the created officer.  I was the reason Sun Quan eventually conquered China, haha.  I shoulda revolted against his ass, I was the viceroy with two times more territory than him, and in the end, I was exiled by some kinda plot they had against me for being to powerful.

The file I'm playing most right now I AM Sun Jian, and my roster is stacked, I have everything in the south, and the riverlands besides two cities (Liu Zhang's cities, his father submitted them to me when I campaigned and defeat his scholar in a debate).  The only people I have to worry about are Yuan Shao and Li Jue, Jue's forces tried to attack me once, so now we're constantly having skirmishes.  When I campaign for the heartland (Luo Yang and its surrounding area), that will be the decisive battle as to whether or not I'll have a swift conquering.  I'm already allied with Ma Teng, so I'll cooperate with him in taking out the remainder of Li Jue's people once I get Luo Yang and its province.

Yan Yan?  Who died for him to be a ruler?  lol

One time Huang Zhong was ruler of Liu Biao's territory because Liu Biao was my officer's mortal enemy, and became the victim of clan-wide extermination when I took Jiang Ling, Jiang Xia and Xiang Yang (my favorite little area, it's like a tripod of power, it has the river, and many bases around it, plus Jiang Ling can raise a hell of a navy).

Yan Yan?  Who died for him to be a ruler?  lol

One time Huang Zhong was ruler of Liu Biao's territory because Liu Biao was my officer's mortal enemy, and became the victim of clan-wide extermination when I took Jiang Ling, Jiang Xia and Xiang Yang (my favorite little area, it's like a tripod of power, it has the river, and many bases around it, plus Jiang Ling can raise a hell of a navy).

bastards12345

Exactly when and where do you use your navy? I've personally never had much use for one.

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Yan Yan?  Who died for him to be a ruler?  lol

One time Huang Zhong was ruler of Liu Biao's territory because Liu Biao was my officer's mortal enemy, and became the victim of clan-wide extermination when I took Jiang Ling, Jiang Xia and Xiang Yang (my favorite little area, it's like a tripod of power, it has the river, and many bases around it, plus Jiang Ling can raise a hell of a navy).

taisho_rolyat

Exactly when and where do you use your navy? I've personally never had much use for one.

Whenever there is a dam or something, I destroy it aand let the land get flooded, because I know I have a superior navy being from the Southland, and will not be defeated on water.

That's why the whole Jiang Ling area is nice to have, if someone attacks it, there's a pathway of like three rivers they're fighting on.  After you expand past the great river though, a navy is not much needed, as there is hardly any water to fight on up north.  If I find a dam though, I definitely destroy it, because northerners, as Chi Bi depicted, suck when it comes to naval power.

I've moved way up north from there though, my capital is now Luo Yang, and I just took all of Li Jue's territory all the way over the Ma Teng's far west lands, because his dumbass decided to turn on me and join Li Jue instead of me in my campaign.  So, I obliterated his forces as if he was the traitor Li Jue himself, and executed those of his clan I got a hold of, but not Ma Teng himself (I somehow didn't capture him).  So now I feel like Cao Cao, the Ma family hates me and I am too powerful for Yuan Shao to mess with.  Him and Gongsun Zan are all that stand in the way to the final pieces I need in the far northern provinces of China.

The prospects for my force aren't nearly as good as yours, Ghost. We just lost Chen Liu and Xu Chang, so now I'm isolated completely from the rest of my forces, and Gongsun Zan owns nearly all of the Central Plains. My subordinates in Chu haven't made any headway at all against Kuai Liang, despite how weak he is. But the good news is that I've established good relations with Ma Teng, who now owns everything from Cheng Du to Chang An.

But, I'm still being a badass around Luo Yang. Just as Xu Chang fell, I sent half my army under Guan Yu to set up a camp in Chu and led the other half myself to build another (in preparation for a campaign in the Southlands), when Guan Yu's troop intercepted the Gongsun troop that had just fought for Xu Chang. I turned my troop right back around to reinforce him, and I managed to defeat a force of roughly the same size as mine (it was about 90,000 vs 85,000) with less than 10,000 casualties. But during the battle, all the gates surrounding Luo Yang had come under attack, so Guan Yu and myself cut off a reinforcement troop headed towards Hu Lao gate (about 80,000 strong), destroyed it, and then moved on to defeat the troop assaulting Hu Lao (around 70,000 men). I made it back to Luo Yang just as a troop left He Nei, giving me 2 days to prepare the defense (i.e., not enough time to do anything). Although I was initially outnumbered by around 10,000 men, I managed to kill around 30,000 of their troops in just a few days, then press a counterattack and rout them from the field. Throughout the course of 4 battles in about a month and a half (the battle outside Hu Lao lasted only 9 days), I captured and executed Yan Liang, Gongsun Du, and 2 other obscure vassals, and I hired Xu Huang.

I know what you mean about feeling like Cao Cao, because I've been forced to adopt an insta-execute policy with any and all captured Gongsun retainers who don't take my job offer. Zan is just too huge a threat for me to go easy on him.

I have several options in front of me- I can hold the line at Luo Yang until (a) Cai Huang gets off his ass and starts to retake ground or (b) I die in a blaze of glory. Or, I can sacrifice Luo Yang, sieze Xu Chang, and transfer my government and army into Jing Nan so I can unify the Chu region and have my ally Yuan Shu (who owns most of Wuyue) share the load of the southlands defenses. My third option is to resign now, form a rogue army, and fight a guerilla war against Gongsun Zan.

The first is the most noble, the second is the most realistic, and the third is the most badass.

The game is good, There're many challenges I haven't completed and I'm still working on those;

1) Learn Taunt using Zhao Yun and make him the best debater

2) Win Guan Yu's defense against Wei+Wu

3) Get weapon with ability War+10

4) Finish the game within 2 minutes

5) Build all fort

6) Liu Chan, greatest hero?!

7) Unite the land without battle

8) Get skill Doctor

Reading this thread has inspired me to start playing ROTKX again. I think I'm gonna set up a Scenario 2 game with two or three fictional factions, to keep things interesting.taisho_rolyat

Turn off events whilst your at it, otherwise Cao Cao will get tons of free power.

[QUOTE="taisho_rolyat"]Reading this thread has inspired me to start playing ROTKX again. I think I'm gonna set up a Scenario 2 game with two or three fictional factions, to keep things interesting.JeffSteel

Turn off events whilst your at it, otherwise Cao Cao will get tons of free power.

[QUOTE="taisho_rolyat"]Reading this thread has inspired me to start playing ROTKX again. I think I'm gonna set up a Scenario 2 game with two or three fictional factions, to keep things interesting.JeffSteel

Turn off events whilst your at it, otherwise Cao Cao will get tons of free power.

Cao Cao's force will fall itself(what I mean is you only need to make him surrender). Can you imagine what 100s officer in one small city such as Chen Liu can do? and small force such as Shi Xie may have chance to get glory, be carefull!

I have ever played fictional and let those weaklings ruled the game(but I still take over rule of Han Zhong Territory) as a result:Gongsun Zan and Shi Xie was promoted to the rank of prime minister, Cao Cao and Sun Jian surrendered to Liu Biao army... :))