Liu Zhang and Liu Biao isn't surrounded by strong faction and has many empty cities to expand.

Zhang Lu has many officials at start so the difficulty isn't that bad.

Gongsun Du is pretty hard because he had to face Gongzun Zan which is a very strong faction. White Raider trait + S rank calvary + Kin relation multi attacks. Choking tactics won't work well on them, definitely you will take some significant loses before taking Bei Ping. Plus you only have 3 officials. But the good thing is, you don't have worry about back stab by Yuan Shao because he doesn't have a port.

This post has been edited by LittleBro: Sep 17 2008, 10:47 AM

I see.

I think officers play big part on this game, if you don't have any, it is hard for you to expand. So, when the start of the game, remember to search around and recruit more officers no matter they are well known one or ordinarily one.

I like to start with Ding Yuan or using Sun Jian but historically i like Cao Cao.

I only played ROTK3 English version on PS1, finished the game twice. War is my fav part of the game haha

I like any game that gives me the opportunity to feel like an evil warlord with lots of minions under me to conquer the world. Basically strategy games


Zhao Yun is my fav officer. Pure talent

I always start my own force, twist the history and take over China for myself

argh crap.
one of my city Chen Liu is constant bombarded by CaoCao from Ye city
never ending armies from the sea.
even though i'm confident in defending every waves but this is not getting anywhere at the moment
any strategy? or shall i just wait till SunQuan eats into his territories? but i afraid SunQuan might be too strong and hard to fight off later

hmm, ceasefire with Cao Cao and use the time to rebuild your force?
or else, send supplies from your southern cities (if u have..) to Pu Yang (Ping Yuan??), move your officers there and try to counterattack him when he attacks from Ye?

as for me

Currently I eliminated Sun Quan's forces and executed many of his high WAR officers including both Sun Jian and Sun Ce (Attacking me non-stop hence I keep making ceasefires with He Jin so they cannot gang-bang my force together)

Now, to retake Shou Chun from He Jin due to not enough Archer Turrets and troops defending (the path that leads to the port west of Jian Ye, big weakness..)
While Dong Zhuo is busy expanding his force from the west...

You playing as who? What scenario? Advance or beginner?

Anyway, i usually let them capture the empty port. Fight them on land (archer tower isn't good build drums) and set fire to the port. Divide your army and send some forces and invade weaker factions like Kong Rong and Tan Qian. Cao Cao can't sustain attacks unless he got 5 cities vs your 1 city. War deplete resources and soon he will run out officers, food and troops if he keeps losing to you.

If you are playing as Liu Bei, is pretty easy. Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei sworn brothers assisting each other. Also create many team of officers with only 1 troop assign to it and spam perturb(0 troop lost plus no need to retrain depleted soldier's will). Cao Cao keep invading you good mah, save food, new officers and still gets lots of TP point .

I don't like ceasefire if he is attacking me, cause that is the best way to generate lots of TP point without using AP point early in the game.

You guys still playing this? With PC or PS2? I thought this game is old. Waiting for ROTK12.

i'm playing the rise of heroes scenario i think.
with liubei, liu zhang, ma cao, cao cao and sun quan.
i think shouldn't be a problem, just need to keep on defend, capture his high war generals and EXECUTE

now my other big problem is...how do i avoid bandits from appearing?!?! they're so annoying
they even appear at some cities with order higher than 80. is it because i need to have more than 3 generals or more than 10k troops guarding it? somehow they only target my lousy cities

Use sovereign>district command. Let AI handle, you'll be surprise how well the manage for you without using your AP points. I always keep my cities above 92++ order if I manage them myself. That is the reason I do not execute enemy generals. You try give Lou Yang/Xiang Ping to AI control, they will give you a big OMFG if you do not ask them to attack or transport! 100000 troops, 50000 gold and 500000 provision after a year or two.

oh crap.
so thats what sovereign>district command is all about...argh so noob
so if they manage will bandits appear?
hehe

how to enable the chinese character, I can view chinese character in Firefox and IE but cannot during the game in win xp.

ha???
this is english version or chinese version you talking about???
i thought the recently released 1 is for europe and north america market, got chinese language pack mer?

they even make archer towers, blockades and other fortifications too.

Fortunately, the spawn at a predetermine spot. They can help you defend if you deliberately reduce order to 0. They will bang who ever come close to them.

Lol, using bandits as temporary defense units?
Never tried it but sounds effective

but usually your AI opponents are better and seems to ignore it. bandits don't have any weapon, mind you.

i play as cao cao on rise of heroes... very hard to conquered other castle when everytime ---every turn someone especiallly liubei and Gongdun, lubu : they always attack me... any tip on fighting them. cao cao map place is at middle so it is very hard to expand. always get attack by land and water.... any tip on this campaign "rise of heroes"..
someone.. thanx

I think you didn't expand fast enough. Expand faster and try to steal city if they are going to win(last hit cities). Always have one offensive team to concentrate on the weaker front. To generate enormous amount of resources early in the game, make use of City>Merchant command and buy low and sell high. Early rush other cities and make them your own. Sovereign > district command helps a lot. Try to capture large cities, make your life easier.

Also when defending, try not to lose troops. Make full use of every single command. Cao Cao has many excellent officers to begin with, with many S rank, high INT and good traits making battle so much easier than many other faction.

This post has been edited by LittleBro: Sep 26 2008, 04:16 PM

the sovereign > district command roxs !
now i only concentrate on few front line cities and the rest behind are all well handled and constantly transporting troops, weapons, resources to the front lines

now all i do is just build up and wait for SunQuan forces attack another CaoCao's city and i just gotta last hit it
muahaha .... they do all the hard work and all i do is just last hit