Sentinel: Hold the line! These guys can plant their feet and take a charge, outlasting any other hero type in a protracted brawl. You want to sick them on the enemy’s most important generals right away. They also allow you to recruit higher-tier spearmen and give combat bonuses to spearmen. They’re not as good in a chaotic melee as Vanguards, but are peerless in one-on-one combat. These are the heroes that kill other heroes. You want to throw them at the weakest part of the enemy line and watch the sparks fly.Ĭhampion: Dueling. They can also recruit higher-tier shock cavalry and give combat bonuses to shock cavalry. These heroes are the best against normal, everyday troops and have a strong offensive focus. Since you can only include three heroes in any army, you won’t have access to every possible utility in any given one. Total War: Three Kingdoms adds a clever layer of personality and tactical consideration with its five hero classes. Also, each general has a class, so you’ll want to compose forces around complementary generals with regiments that take the best advantage of their bonuses. Diversity in army composition is encouraged in other ways, however, as troops are recruited to a specific character’s retinue and armies are made up of one to three of them. And there aren’t competing ethnic groups to shake things up on the level of Huns vs Romans in Attila since all the action takes place between factions that are decidedly Chinese. We’re back in the land of swordsmen, spearmen, archers, and cavalry in various configurations maneuvering to best exploit the rock-paper-scissors relationships between different troops. The campaign really comes alive in Romance mode.Spotlighting named characters helps make up for the fact that the armies themselves aren’t quite as diverse or interesting as, say, the Warhammer Total Wars’ or even Thrones of Britannia’s.
But some of the fun and character is definitely lost if you’re sticking closer to the history books in Records mode. Both modes put a strong emphasis on the larger-than-life characters driving the action, including quippy banter both before and during battle that helps bring them to life. This turns your generals into demigod-like kung fu action heroes who engage in dramatic duels and can take on hundreds of normal soldiers single-handedly.
The campaign really comes alive in Romance mode, which is based on the semi-historical novel about the era, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
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