Actually RTK IX can be played if you wish to create special character by typing chinese word.

I have done that before by using Chinese Star in Windows ME. When you type the pinyin, you won't see what you are typing but when you hit enter, the particular word will pop out from the screen.

I'm using notepad to type in all the name first, then inside game -> switch tab and copy those chinese character and paste inside game ~~ It works !!

and I'm super duper ROTK fans ! from San3 -> San11 all play ! even something KOEI side product like 英杰专 or kong ming zhuan or watever zhuan, DW from 2 -> 5 , all played ~~

San11 I also got only half C half J version, damn !! but then still can understand lor... unless u really a banana, but then I check out the forum got some patch can make an English translation. I wonder ~

oh yeah ! Good Game !

Oooh, RTK series - one of my favourite series ever!

Is RTK11 strategy-based like 1,2,3,4,9 or character-based like 7,8? I haven't seen it for sale here, but will probably have to search the net for it, or ask New Era if they can bring it in for me.

The last one I played was RTK9 (the last before that RTK4). Thankfully after so many years of Jin Yong Online I was already used to Chinese interfaces and Chinese input. I used Chinese Star XP to input my characters and they worked fine. However, I found that later versions of Chinese Star XP (like CS2006) did not work with many games (including Jin Yong Online), and so I have all these original CS boxes, but install from the same old CD over and over again.

I'm also looking for another copy of RTK9, but I can't find it. I can't even remember where I bought my first copy years ago...

Hope someone can translate it.. it would be cool to be able to play it again.

Hi Brinkc, have you found anymore hidden building in the map?

Is the hidden building located somewhere among the mountains??

If anyone knows it, please share your info as well.

For those of you who want good tips on the game, but can't read Chinese websites, here's a good link:-

http://the-scholars.com/viewforum.php?f=2

The Scholars of Shen Zhou are very knowledgeable about the game, and are even working on a Jap-English patch.

I got my Chinese version (with PUK) in Suntec City, Singapore and it cost me over $100 Sing.. quite expensive, but really worth it. It's a really good game. I'm playing Yuan Shao as usual, and Gongsun Zan is quite scary now - no more walking over everyone in Hebei. By the time I've conquered Hebei either Liu Bei or Cao Cao will have established a foothold in central China.

It's hard to say which is best - all the RTK games are so different. The strategies for IX will not work in XI - and the choice of which general is good and which is lousy also changes a lot now. My favourite tip - have one "Bai Chu" and one "Gui Men" general in the same team - then you can cast almost unlimited lightning bolts. Better if you can get a girl with the energy-recovery skill.. then really unlimited! Downside is unless you play early scenario (or Rise of Heroes) you can't find generals with "Gui Men" as only Zhang Jian and Zhang Bao of the Yellow Turbans have the skill, unless you use the custom officers.

I play scenario starts from 194. Using a custom made warrior & located in Chang Sha.

In this San 11, I found out that comps are very aggressive. So I quickly expand my territory to those empty city and then focus in internal development.

Make sure more money rolls in, food, plenty weapons, battleship available and army of course.

I also build a lot of defensive arrow towers around my cities.

Sun Ce and Liu Biao kept on attacking me wave after wave.

I just stayed defence and counter. Ironically I have beheaded Sun Ce when he led his first wave attack. After that, it was all about Sun Quan kept on attacking me.

I found out that they became weaker & weaker after keep attacking me.

Then at last I destroyed all Liu Biao's troops and seized his last city.

Now Sun Quan only has 2 cities left. One of the cities is going to be seized by me soon as I am counter attacking his attacking troops.

Talking about counter attacking troops, I always let them come first so that I can know what type of troops they are coming to my cities.

So it will be very easy to counter and weaken them in short period.

This is how I play.

Please share if you have any other ideas.

I normally play the last scenario, Rise of Heroes, because I like playing Yuan Shao, and he gets to meet everybody including Meng Huo, Deng Ai and Sima Yi. Apart from the "Gui Men"/"Bai Chu" combo, I also find the trio of Zhuge Liang (100% chance of confuse/mislead), Pang Tong (chain effect to all surrounding units) and Ma Su (all strategies cost only 1 energy to use) makes for a VERY superpowered unit, limited by the fact you can only make 1 action per turn. Being able to confuse 7 units at once makes up for it, though.

I love how the shortcuts are made - being able to move troops from Tian Shui to Mianzhulin via the mountains like Deng Ai did is just so fun!

Where you all buy the game from?

I got mine in Suntec City Singapore - have yet to see it in Malaysia. you can try ordering from Yesasia - they sell online. Here's a link to a forum thread which has links to the yesasia sites.

http://the-scholars.com/viewtopic.php?t=17...97143593d365e02

Hope it works out for you. It really is a wonderful game.

Anybody experienced in finding the secret place to upgrade your military skills level?

IMHO, this is the best 三囯志 of its entire series. i am jz so addicted to it!!! especially when it comes to the knowledge battles, where hero vs hero using the spells the have. damn cool~

FYI - i have the half chinese, half Jap version as well. took me a while to understand them all but it was learning them

i played this game a few times. very fun at first. but after the 3rd , 4th time. it gets boring coz it's the same "you have the most number of troops = you win"

but i didn't play through the specific senerios. i heard it's very fun and you really gotta think strategy.

anwyay. for those that want a translation patch, go here

http://www.kongming.net/11/english/#download_puk

i found out they did a few translation. personaly i've never tried it out, so i don't know anything about that. I don't think you can download the game there either. they're legit. just the patches to translate.

examples of screenshot






it's not 100% translation, but it definately helps

This post has been edited by Sylpheed: Jul 18 2007, 10:26 AM

It's not really a knowledge battle with spells, but a debate system (although it works like spells - reminds me of the card game in the Might and Magic series.. armitage or something like that). It's arguably the most annoying part of the game for me, though, as sometimes the computer just refuses to give me the options I need.

Could somebody explain how the anger works? When I'm totally angry and flaming, what are the benefits and handicaps? I noticed that I tend to win rounds which are normally equal, and sometimes something happens and I get to hit the opponent three times for free. Downsides I've noticed is that I can't use the special options.

hello...is this topic still alive??
i played rotk 6-11... but on ps1 and ps2 coz i can't find english versions for PC.

u can download the english version from koei website

thanx u sir.... why didn't i think of that
btw anyone heard when is rotk12 gonna come out?? sorry if this is out of topic

Why does the KOEI website say that Romance of 3 Kingdoms XI is only coming to PC on 29 July 2008???

I thought the game has been out for some time liao...

http://www.koei.com/company/pdfs/Press_RTK...03_approved.pdf

This post has been edited by darthbaboon: Apr 25 2008, 04:56 PM

chinese and japanese have been already out since long time ago
but this time they're releasing an english version for the PC

I hope it's the PUK version, since I love altering officer's stats and how many soldiers they're marching out.