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This means he can start a war using his influence with a faction he's friendly with to start a war he is not involved in, getting them to attack you for him. He's a good example of someone to take down quickly.Ĭao Cao's faction mechanic includes the ability to start proxy wars. Yuan Shao is relatively weak near the start, but even weak once others start fearing destruction he can pull a coalition of 7 countries out of nowhere in just a couple of turns as they band together to try to survive. Learning which factions like to build coalitions and alliances to come after you later is key as well. Executing a general after a tough fight may seem like a wise move in the short run to not have to fight them again, but often letting everyone go will keep their neighbors from jumping in the fight too. Individual factions have their own special features to go along with the main faction stuff and maybe a couple unique units each, but the big difficulty is in manipulating the politics to make more friends than enemies on your borders. There's all the normal Total War goodness in here, but more consistent balance since there's only really 3 major factions for different armies and all the armies work roughly the same way. Unlike other Total War games, a lot of the difficulty is learning to manipulate the factions politically. If it went like in books then it would be entirely scripted gameplay. I think you got the 'immersion edition' as their betrayal made you feel so badly betrayed.Ĭan say lot of the movies and other forms of entertainment go exactly like in the books? This is video game with lot of random elements, hence anything can happen.

Even description says they will betray friends and foes alike. While untrustworthy ones will betray you eventually, you are just gullible to trust them simply cause green numbers say so. Even Lu Bu needed to be prodded to betray Dong Zhuo via a smoking hot honeypot.ĭid you ever bother to read the personality traits of the faction leaders you are dealing with? Cause so far all honorable leaders are holding on to their deals with me. Read the text, get some context and stop using a Japanese hack-and-slash game as your reference source for mythical stories and furthermore for the actual historical sources. betrayals in the Records and in the book were not THAT rampant.

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Even CA has said the vassal system is not working right and it's clear as day that the diplomacy system isn't working either.Īnd before anybody throws in with the 'well, ackchyually *satisfied snort while adjusting glasses*, the Three Kingdoms era was full of betrayal because I have a doctorate in the story after four years of attending Dynasty Warriors on PS3 University', no. The game is still great and I even gave it a positive review, but you can't honestly think that the diplomacy right now is in a good spot with this bipolar mentality it has towards treaties.

Get out of here, non-aggression treaties and all treaties right now are broken as all hell. Originally posted by JuX:None-Aggression pacts are actually really strong when you use them correctly.Yeah, like when you have a trade agreement, military access, non-aggression pact, green in liked and they break all the treaties the next turn it's actually the players fault.