text: Dynasty Warriors 4 FAQ Dynasty Warriors 4 By: TogeraTwo Email: email@example.com Version: 1.2 Started: June 19, 2003 Last Updated: August 10, 2003 ----- Updates History ----- August 10th: I edited some Lv. 10 Weapon info, I added 1 Dim Sum location at Eliminate Zhang Jiao!, Updated the Tales Unlocks, Added a Walkthrough for Wei, and added some more info on Dw4:XL. August 29th: Added some pics of DW4XL Level 11 Weapons. Thanks fully to clementchong! Link: http://www.chongwanhsing.per.sg/lv11weapon/index.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1). INTRODUCTION AND COPYRIGHT 2). CONTROLS I. Basic Controls II. Bow Controls III. Mounted Controls IV. Advanced Controls 3). MENU INFO I. Main Menu II. Character Selection Menu III. Pre-Game Menu IV. In-Game Menu(Start) 4). UNLOCKING CHARACTERS I. Wei II. Wu III. Shu IV. Other 5). CHARACTERS I. Wei II. Wu III. Shu IV. Other 6). LEVEL 10 WEAPONS I. Wei II. Wu III. Shu IV. Other 7). ITEMS I. Orbs II. Regular Items III. Special Items IV. Harnesses 8). DIM SUM AND FAIRY WINE LOCATIONS 9). EASY ITEMS TRICKS 10). MUSOU YELLS I. Wei II. Wu III. Shu IV. Other 11). UNLOCKING TALES STAGES I. Wei Tales II. Wu Tales III. Shu Tales 12). WALKTHROUGHS I. Wei Musou Mode II. Wu Musou Mode III. Shu Musou Mode IV. Lu Bu Musou Mode V. Dong Zhuo Musou Mode VI. Yuan Shao Musou Mode VII. Yellow Turban Musou Mode VIII. Nanman Musou Mode 13). CREDITS 14). INFORMATION ON KOEI I. Dynasty Warriors Series II. Dynasty Tactics Series -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1). INTRODUCTION AND COPYRIGHT -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello, I'm Togera, a hugh fan of the Koei Co. and the Dynasty Warriors and Dynasty Tactics Series'. This is my 6th FAQ and my 1st major FAQ I've ever made. I hope my information helps you know what you need to know, and remember all this information I have written is from my own experiences and some content may be from the Dynasty Warriors 4 Manual, if I need anyone's information I will email you and ask permission, otherwise all the information is my own doing. This FAQ may not be reproduced under any circumstances except for personal, private use. It may not be placed on any web site or otherwise distributed publicly without advance public display is strictly prohibited, and a violation of copyright without written permission. (Copyright Kros Brazil 2003) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2). CONTROLS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- I. Basic Controls -------------------- These are the basic controls you'll need to know in order to play the game. D-Pad - Move character Left Analog Stick - Move character Right Analog Stick - Push in to taunt L1 - Block(hold) L2 - Life gauge/Officer names On/Off R1 - Bow Attack(hold) R2 - Complete Map/Zoom In Map X - Jump Square - Basic Attack Triangle - Charge Attack Circle - Musou Attack(when Musou gauge is full) Select - Switch Bodyguards orders(Shield - Defend, Sword - Attack, Hand - Hold position) Start - Menu(see MENU INFO for more info) -------------------- II. Bow Controls -------------------- While in the bow attack position there are a few attacks you can do. Square - Weakest, but quickest arrow attack. Triangle - Charged arrow attack, most powerful but takes longer to shoot. Circle - A series of arrows shot out. -------------------- III. Mounted Controls -------------------- Not that many characters are useful on a horse, but it's always helpful to get around on a horse, either way here's the Mounted Controls. Horse Square - Basic left/right attacks, some characters only attack one side though. Triangle - Charged attack, same as a basic Square attack, but a more powerful. Circle - Quick Left/Right attacks, the most powerful of mounted attacks Musou gauge must be full to perform. Elephant Square - The elephant will charge forward, it's not too accurate. Triangle - A hugh stomp causing a shockwave on the ground, great damage. Circle - Elephant charges repeatedly charges forward and then a hugh stomp at the end of the attack. Musou gauge must be full to perform. -------------------- IV. Advanced Controls -------------------- These are some advanced controls, a few more things to do but not much. X + Square - A basic jumping attack, not really advanced. Square + Triangle - Creates a combo attack the following are what you may perform: S - Square, T - Triangle. ST, SST(TT), SSST(T), SSSST(T), SSSSST(T). X + Triangle - A jumping charge attack where the character hits the ground in his/her own way, a good attack to clear some crowds although not powerful and hard to hit. Holding L1 + Triangle - Parry, if timed right, you will counterattack the enemies attacks Holding R1 + L1 + Directional - You can move while in the bow and arrow position and that helps to dodge some incoming arrows. Select + Start - This will initiate a soft reset returning you to the main menu with the game not saved. The worst thing to happen is when you're just about to complete Nanman Campaign and you Soft Reset, very common, beware of this. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3). MENU INFO --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is just all the modes you may play and all the information screens. -------------------- I. Main Menu -------------------- Musou Mode - Play through a Kingdom's story leading them to total conquest. Free Mode - Select any level that you've played through in Musou Mode. 17 areas and 50 levels in all. Versus Mode - Face a friend, sibling, or yourself in one of these unique one-on-one battles: Showdown - Basic One-on-One combat, Encounter - One-on-One combat in a dark area, Influence - Find the Imperial Seal in a crate and Lu Bu will arrive as reinforcements for you, beware, your enemy may find the Seal again, it's possible, Escort - Destroy the enemy carriage before yours is destroyed. Challenge Mode - Take anyone of these challenges(One Player): Endurance - Kill as many enemies as you can before you get defeated, Time Attack - Defeat 100 enemies as fast as you can, Bridge Melee - Knock enemy soldiers and officers off the platform, Demolition - Destroy objects like Rams, Wooden Oxen, Pots, Crates etc. before time runs out. Edit Mode - Create a Warrior(CAW) or create new BodyGuards(BG). You can have 4 separate CAW's and 4 separate BG units. Encyclopedia - Read a bit about the Three Kingdoms, View officer BIOS, check Items and Weapon info that you have attained. Options - Set difficulty, view Ending scenes(only after you've beaten Musou Mode), view movies and more. -------------------- II. Character Selection Menu -------------------- This is where you select a character to begin the mode you have selected. The characters are split up in Kingdoms(Wei, Wu, Shu, and Other) to select a character's alternate costumes press Circle and depending on the characters Rank change the costume to the one you like or hate, you will have more costumes as your Rank goes up(lower rank like 1 is better than 10). -------------------- III. Pre-Battle Menu -------------------- This is before you begin the level, you can only change certain things before battle and not during. Equipment - Select from the following to change or add anything: Weapon Info - view weapon lvl. how much weapon exp. you need to the next level, power, or just plain admiring it, Equip Item - Equip any Orbs, Items, or Harnessed you may have earned, Set Bodyguards - adjust what weapon to use, what unit etc. Objectives - What you need to do for victory and what you need to protect to avoid defeat. Unit Info - View Enemy officers, his/her current morale, troops, and sub-generals(if any). Change Character - If you selected the wrong character or your friend who hasn't ever played selected Zhang Jiao(very common) then just select this and change your or his/her character. Start - Begin the battle -------------------- IV. In-Game Menu(Start) -------------------- Personal - View all your data in case you forgot what you set in the first place. Objectives - Same as above. Unit Info - Same as above. History - View in-game messages like "Liu Bei's unit's morale is dropping" or "Cao Cao's unit's morale is rising". also good to look over if you've missed the ultimate weapon message for Yue Ying and just do soft reset(killer). Quit - If you're getting canned by Lu Bu and just about to die, just go to "Quit" and save then load it up and Lu Bu will be on his horse and you can make a quick getaway. Resume - Continue to the battlefield. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4). UNLOCKING CHARACTERS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Most characters are easy to unlock, but others are somewhat difficult. I have all the information you need to know to unlock all characters. -------------------- I. Wei -------------------- Cao Cao - Initially available Xiahou Dun - Initially available Xiahou Yuan - Initially available Xu Huang - Clear Wei Act One Dian Wei - Clear Wei Act One Xu Zhu - Clear Wei Act Two Zhang Liao - Defeat Zhang Liao in the Battle of Xia Pi in Act Three Cao Ren - Clear Wei Act Three Zhen Ji - Clear Wei Act Three Sima Yi - Clear Wei Act Four Zhang He - Clear 11 Wei Musou stages -------------------- II. Wu -------------------- Sun Jian - Initially available Sun Shang Xiang - Initially available Huang Gai - Initially available Lu Meng - Clear Wu Act One Sun Ce - Clear Wu Act Two Zhou Yu - Clear Wu Act Two Taishi Ci - Defeat Taishi Ci in Assault on the Wu Territory in Act Three Sun Quan - Clear Wu Act Three Zhou Tai - Clear Wu Act Three Lu Xun - Clear Wu Act Four Gan Ning - Clear Wu Act Four Da Qiao - On at least your second Wu Musou Mode, on Act One choose Yellow Turban Fortress first, then Yellow Turban Rebellion, you should get Wu Tales - The Two Qiaos after Act One, in that level rescue Da Qiao. Xiao Qiao - On at least your second Wu Musou Mode, on Act One choose Yellow Turban Fortress first, then Yellow Turban Rebellion, you should get Wu Tales - The Two Qiaos after Act One, in that level rescue Xiao Qiao. -------------------- III. Shu -------------------- Liu Bei - Initially available Guan Yu - Initially available Zhang Fei - Initially available Zhao Yun - Clear Shu Act Two Pang Tong - Clear Shu Act Two Zhuge Liang - Clear Shu Act Two Huang Zhong - Clear Shu Act Three Wei Yan - Clear Shu Act Three Ma Chao - Defeat Ma Chao at the Campaign for Cheng Du in Act Four Yue Ying - Clear Shu Act Four Jiang Wei - In Act Three choose the Battle of Chi Bi first and make sure the fire attack is NOT successful. Play on HARD difficulty and the fire attack may never succeed unless you defeat Zhen Ji, so put the difficulty on hard and don't go after Zhen Ji until she's defeated Huang Gai. Then after Act Five, if the fire attack did NOT succeed then the level Shu Tales - Tian Shui's Prodigy will come up. Defeat all the enemy officers outside both castles, then when Jiang Wei charges out of his castle, decline if he challenges you to a duel and defeat his two sub-generals, then make a path for Zhuge Liang to meet with Jiang Wei and when they meet Jiang Wei will surrender and you've unlocked Jiang Wei. I recommend using Zhuge Liang to unlock Jiang Wei because Zhuge Liang may not make it to Jiang Wei or visa versa. -------------------- IV. Other -------------------- Diao Chan - Clear Lu Bu Musou Mode Act One Lu Bu - Clear Musou Mode once with any kingdom Dong Zhuo - Clear Lu Bu Musou Mode Yuan Shao - Clear Musou Mode once with the Wei kingdom Zhang Jiao - Clear Musou Mode once with every kingdom Meng Huo - While playing the Final Act or Act Five with Shu or Wu on Musou Mode, playing the Nanman Campaign make sure YOU defeat Meng Huo all seven times including once in a duel. At the end of that Musou Mode, Meng Huo will be unlocked. Zhu Rong - While playing the Final Act or Act Five with Shu or Wu on Musou Mode, playing the Nanman Campaign defeat Zhu Rong in a duel. Zhu Rong will be unlocked at the end of that Musou Mode. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5). CHARACTERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's all the characters with a link to a picture of them and a little biography of them. Example: (Character Name) (Link to picture of character)THANKS TO KONGMING.NET FOR PROVIDING THE LINKS. (Attack Power ranked 1 to 5) (Musou Power ranked 1 to 5) (Characters Speed ranked 1 to 5) (The way they Pronounce the characters' names in the game) (My personal short biography) -------------------- I. Wei -------------------- Cao Cao http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/caocao.jpg Attack: 4/5 Musou: 2/5 Speed: 4/5 Name Pronounciation: "Cow Cow" Biography: The leader of Wei, possibly the most effective leader of his time, he merged over other leaders with his intelligence, power, and eye for battle. Cousin to the great Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan. Cao Cao died of a stroke at the age of 65 years old. Xiahou Dun http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/xiahoudun.jpg Attack: 4/5 Musou: 3/5 Speed: 3/5 Name Pronounciation: "Shya-hoo-Doon" Biography: Xiahou Dun, key in so many battles, has been with Cao Cao ever since he first took up arms. Also the cousin of Cao Cao and brother of Xiahou Yuan. Although loosing his left eye due to an arrow in a battle with Lu Bu, he continued to fight on the front lines. Xiahou Dun died of old age at an unknown age. Xiahou Yuan http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/xiahouyuan.jpg Attack: 3/5 Musou: 3/5 Speed: 3/5 Name Pronounciation: "Shya-hoo-Yuawn" Biography: Xiahou Yuan, known as a master of archery. Brother of the great Xiahou Dun and cousin to the leader of Cao Cao. Xiahou Yuan along with Xiahou Dun both served Cao Cao since he took up arms. Xiahou Yuan was key to many battles including the battle of Mt. Ding Jun. Xiahou Yuan died in the battle of Mt. Ding Jun at an unknown age. Sima Yi http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/simayi.jpg Attack: 1/5 Musou: 5/5 Speed: 4/5 Name Pronounciation: "Sima-Yee" Biography: Sima Yi was known to man as the genius of Wei and arguably the best mind of his time. While him and Zhuge Liang had many furious battles where there minds exceeded mans limits. At the Battle of Wu Zhang Plains Sima Yi's rival Zhuge Liang had finally died of sickness and grieve. Sima Yi died at the age of 72 of old age. Xu Huang http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/xuhuang.jpg Attack: 4/5 Musou: 4/5 Speed: 2/5 Name Pronounciation: "Shoo-Huwang" Biography: Xu Huang was a key man for many battles, known as one of Wei's Five Great Generals. Xu Huang known to use his authentic Battle Axe in battle, was feared among men. His most important battle though would be at the battle of Tong Gate. Xu Huang died by wounds of arrows at the age of 57. Dian Wei http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/dianwei.jpg Attack: 5/5 Musou: 4/5 Speed: 1/5 Name Pronounciation: "Deeaw-Way" Biography: A giant of a man, not only physically but mentally as well. It was said his roommates and him got into an argument and Dian Wei furious, killed his roommates. Fleeing to the mountains, there he chased wild animals and killed then with his bare hands. There he met Xiahou Dun of Wei and Xiahou Dun introduced him to Cao Cao and Cao Cao wanted proof of Dian Wei's strength, and there was a flagpole that was blowing down by the vicious winds with men trying to hold it up, so when Dian Wei arrived he shouted at the men to leave the flagpole and simply held it up with one hand. Cao Cao impressed with this immediately made him one of his own. Dian Wei died in effort to allow Cao Cao to escape from Wan Castle after a surprise fire attack by Zhang Xiu. He died at the age of 37. Cao Ren http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/caoren.jpg Attack: 4/5 Musou: 4/5 Speed: 2/5 Name Pronounciation: "Cow-Ren" Biography: Relative of Cao Cao and fought with him since the beginning. Along with Xiahou Dun, Dian Wei, and Xu Zhu he held off Li Jue and Guo Si's much larger unit for weeks with only 400 troops until Cao Cao was to arrive. Cao Ren died at the age of 55 by old age. Zhang Liao http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/zhangliao.jpg Attack: 4/5 Musou: 4/5 Speed: 2/5 Name Pronounciation: "Jhawng-Leeow" Biography: Originally served under Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu until Cao Cao had captured Lu Bu along with Zhang Liao, and then was it when Zhang Liao offered his presence to Cao Cao. Cao Cao knowing his abilities on the battlefield gradually accepted. Later at the battle of He Fei, Zhang Liao held of the massive unit of Wu with only 800 men and a heart full of ambition. Zhang Liao died at the age of 53 of natural causes. Zhang He http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/zhanghe.jpg Attack: 2/5 Musou: 3/5 Speed: 5/5 Name Pronounciation: "Jhang-Hay" Biography: Zhang He, a man who found beauty in the art of battle. Originally served under the esteemed Yuan Shao, but when he fell to Cao Cao, Zhang He began his services to Cao Cao. Main man at the battles of Jie Ting, Mt. Ding Jun, and Shi Ting. Zhang He died at the age of 64 while pursuing Zhuge Liang's forces and was ambushed and shot and killed with arrows. Xu Zhu http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/xuchu.jpg Attack: 5/5 Musou: 3/5 Speed: 1/5 Name Pronounciation: "Shoo-Zoo" Biography: Xu Zhu was a massive man and was usually a calm man, but on the field of battle he was savage and that earned him the name "Raging Tiger". Cao Cao's main general at the battle of Tong Gate. Also a close friend to the mighty Dian Wei. The death of Xu Zhu is unknown and his age of death are also unknown. Zhen Ji http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/zhenji.jpg Attack: 1/5 Musou: 4/5 Speed: 4/5 Name Pronounciation: "Zen-Jee" Biography: A beautiful women of Wei. When Cao Pi, son of Cao Cao, first laid eyes on Zhen Ji he immediately made her his wife. She was known as Lady Zhen and never appeared in battles as the only women to fight in a battle was Zhu Rong Nanman king Meng Huo's wife. There is no info on Zhen Ji's death or age of death. -------------------- II. Wu -------------------- Sun Jian http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/sunjian.jpg Attack: 3/5 Musou: 2/5 Speed: 4/5 Name Pronounciation: "Soon-Jeeawn" Biography: Sun Jian, leader and founder of the Wu Kingdom, with his sons, Sun Quan and Sun Ce, following in his footsteps, the future of the Wu Kingdom was bright. Sun Jian himself found the Imperial Seal while traveling back to home land. Sun Jian was killed by a surprise attack by Liu Biao, he died at the age of 37 years old. Sun Shang Xiang http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/sunren.jpg Attack: 2/5 Musou: 3/5 Speed: 5/5 Name Pronounciation: "Soon-Shang-Shyawng" Biography: Sun Shang Xiang served as a member of the Wu Kingdom, but then moved onto being the guardian of Liu Bei's son, Liu Chan. She later became his wife. Her lifespan or death is unknown. Sun Quan http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/sunquan.jpg Attack: 3/5 Musou: 2/5 Speed: 4/5 Name Pronounciation: "Soon-Quawn" Biography: The most successful of Sun Jian's sons, respectively. After his Father and Brotherm Sun Ce's death, he took Wu beyond success. He lead the battle of Chi Bi while allied with the Shu Forces to fight against Cao Cao, and successfully defeated Cao Cao at He Fei. Sun Quan's successes are matched that of Cao Cao and Liu Bei's. Sun Quan died at th age of 70 years old after a life of success. Sun Ce http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/sunce.jpg Attack: 4/5 Musou: 3/5 Speed: 3/5 Name Pronounciation: "Soon-Say" Biography: Sun Ce paved the way for his brother Sun Quan to create the successful Wu Kingdom. Sun Ce was torn apart about his father, Sun Jian, being killed. Sun Ce died at the age of 25 when he was hunting and was ambushed by rival Xu Gong's soldiers and shot in the jaw with an arrow. Although he lived to make it back to the camp, when he saw his mutilated face he grieved with anger causing the wounds to grow and eventually causing death. Huang Gai http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/huanggai.jpg Attack: 5/5 Musou: 2/5 Speed: 2/5 Name Pronounciation: "Huawng Guy" Biography: Huang Gai was a big man, although an older general he was just as effective on the battlefield as any young general. Huang Gai was with Sun Jian since he took up arms. The key to the fire attack plan at the battle of Chi Bi against Cao Cao. Huang Gai died of natural causes at an unknown age. Zhou Yu http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/zhouyu.jpg Attack: 3/5 Musou: 2/5 Speed: 5/5 Name Pronounciation: "Zho-Yoo" Biography: Close friend of Sun Ce. A genius with a mind as deadly as his sword. He is also said to have been an exceptionally attractive man. Appears in key battles including the mastermind behind the Chi Bi victory. Zhou Yu died while planning an attack on the Yi Province. He was a young age of 35 when he died. Lu Xun http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/luxun.jpg Attack: 2/5 Musou: 3/5 Speed: 4/5 Name Pronounciation: "Loo-Shoon" Biography: Lu Xun was a key factor in the Wu army and the reason for plenty of their victories, including the defeat of Shu at Yi Ling where Lu Xun had instructed a fire attack that succeeded and was the reason for Wu's victory. Lu Xun had died shortly after his position of Prime Minister at the age of 62. Lu Meng http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/lumeng.jpg Attack: 4/5 Musou: 3/5 Speed: 2/5 Name Pronounciation: "Loo-Mehng" Biography: Lu Meng a man of physical strength and mind prowess. He commanded and defeated the mighty Guan Yu in the battle of Fan Castle. After this victory and the defeat of Guan Yu Lu Meng had received the rank prefect of Nan prefecture and received sums of money, but refused as Lu Meng was not a selfish man, but Sun Quan insisted. Lu Meng died at the age of 42. Gan Ning http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/ganning.jpg Attack: 3/5 Musou: 5/5 Speed: 3/5 Name Pronounciation: "Gahn-Ning" Biography: A former pirate of the sea under the command of Huang Zu, but after an attack and defeat by Wu, Gan Ning surrendered and became a general of Wu, he would move onto a higher rank when he arrived as reinforcements and ensured victory for Wu. Gan Ning died by an arrow shot by Shamoke at Yi Ling who later was tracked down by Zhou Tai and killed. Taishi Ci http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/taishici.jpg Attack: 4/5 Musou: 3/5 Speed: 2/5 Name Pronounciation: "Tie-Shee-See" Biography: Taishi Ci originally served under Liu Biao and joined Sun Jian after the Assault on Liu Biao was a success. Taishi Ci served as a top general for Wu until He Fei where Zhang Liao shot him down with arrows, although Taishi Ci did not die he was in no position to fight and died of natural causes at the age of 40. Zhou Tai http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/zhoutai.jpg Attack: 3/5 Musou: 5/5 Speed: 3/5 Name Pronounciation: "Zho-Tie" Biography: Officer of Wu. Zhou Tai joins Sun Ce with his former comrade in piracy, Jiang Qin. Despite a serious injury, he succeeds in rescuing Sun Quan when Xuan Cheng is attacked by bandits. For this act, he received a meritorious scar across his face. At the Battle of Yi Ling, he kills the barbarian Shamoke. Zhou Tai was about 59 years old when he died. Da Qiao http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/daqiao.jpg Attack: 1/5 Musou: 3/5 Speed: 5/5 Name Pronounciation: "Da-Keeow" Biography: Beautiful wife of Sun Ce, sister of Xiao Qiao. Appears only in the game at the Two Qiaos stage, Fan Castle, Xu Chang, and Cheng Du. They of course appear in more battles. Xiao Qiao http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/xiaoqiao.jpg Attack: 1/5 Musou: 3/5 Speed: 5/5 Name Pronounciation: "Sheeow-Keeow" Biography: Beautiful wife of Zhou Yu, sister of Da Qiao. Appears only in the game at the Two Qiaos stage, Fan Castle, Xu Chang, and Cheng Du. They of course appear in more battles. -------------------- III. Shu -------------------- Liu Bei http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/liubei.jpg Attack: 2/5 Musou: 3/5 Speed: 4/5 Name Pronounciation: "Leeu-Bay" Biography: The mighty ruler of the populated Kingdom of Shu. A very charismatic, smart, and willing young general when he first started out as a warrior and met Zhang Fei and Guan Yu who later would all make an oath and become brothers of oath. Liu Bei served in the Han Empire and tries, with Shu, to restore the Han Empire. Liu Bei died of sickness at the age of 62. Guan Yu http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/guanyu.jpg Attack: 4/5 Musou: 4/5 Speed: 2/5 Name Pronounciation: "Guawn-Yoo" Biography: Known as the "God of War" and also known to ride the infamous steed, Red Hare, at lightning speed through the battlefield. Guan Yu served under Cao Cao against Yuan Shao as him and his oath brothers got separated, so Guan Yu was to return to his brothers' side and took off, and Wei generals tried to stop him, but he slashed his way through 5 gates to his brothers and was free from Cao Cao. Guan Yu was surrounded at Fan Castle along with his son Guan Ping, and executed by Lu Meng. Guan Yu was 57 years old when he died. Zhang Fei http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/zhangfei.jpg Attack: 5/5 Musou: 3/5 Speed: 1/5 Name Pronounciation: "Jhang-Fay" Biography: Zhang Fei was a big man with short temper which would usually result in a lose in a battle as he would charge the enemy mindlessly. Still, along side Guan Yu and Liu Bei, they were a destructible force. Zhang Fei also loved the drink. Zhang Fei died at the age of 54 and was killed by his own men. Zhuge Liang http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/zhugeliang.jpg Attack: 1/5 Musou: 5/5 Speed: 4/5 Name Pronounciation: "Zhoo-Gay-Leeawng" Biography: Zhuge Liang, a long time rival of Sima Yi and arguably the greatest mind of his time. Zhuge Liang led Shu to many victories including the dominance of Bo Wan Po. Also was visited by Liu Bei three times to ask him of his presence and brains to Shu, and on the third visit Zhuge Liang accepted the position of Shu's strategist. Zhuge Liang died of sickness grieving about Wu Zhang at the age of 53. Zhao Yun http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/zhaoyun.jpg Attack: 3/5 Musou: 3/5 Speed: 4/5 Name Pronounciation: "Zhao-Yoon" Biography: Zhao Yun served under Gongsun Zan before joining with Shu, but all that changed when Gongsun Zan died, Zhao Yun went to serve under Liu Bei. Zhao Yun fought in Chang Ban holding off hundreds of enemies for Liu Bei to escape, but Zhao Yun was destined to die at the age of 61. Ma Chao http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/machao.jpg Attack: 4/5 Musou: 3/5 Speed: 3/5 Name Pronounciation: "Ma-Chaow" Biography: Ma Chao meaning "Superior Horse" was a tiger of a man, as well as one of the five Tiger Generals of Shu. Ma Chao went head-to-head against Cao Cao at Tong Gate, seeking revenge Ma Chao did not falter, but instead seeked revenge full heartedly. Ma Chao passed away at the age of 47. Jiang Wei http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/jiangwei.jpg Attack: 2/5 Musou: 3/5 Speed: 4/5 Name Pronounciation: "Jeeawng-Way" Biography: Jiang Wei, former Wei general, but during the battle of Tian Shui he was locked out of his own city thus arriving at Zhuge Liang's own camp, Zhuge Liang saw Jiang Wei as a talented young man and took him up like his own son. Jiang Wei along with his own family was executed by Wei. Jiang Wei was 59 years of age. Huang Zhong http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/huangzhong.jpg Attack: 4/5 Musou: 3/5 Speed: 2/5 Name Pronounciation: "Huawng-Jhong" Biography: Huang Zhong, the master at archery and the most successful old age warrior beside Huang Gai. He appears in such important battles as Mt. Ding Jun where he killed the infamous Xiahou Yuan. Huang Zhong was honored one of Shu's 5 Tiger Generals. Huang Zhong fought in the battle of Yi Ling and died in that battle at the age of 73. Wei Yan http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/weiyan.jpg Attack: 4/5 Musou: 2/5 Speed: 3/5 Name Pronounciation: "Way-Yawn" Biography: Wei Yan was always a demoralized human and never followed anyone's orders. Later while defending Changsha with comrade, Huang Zhong, they were surprised by an attack by Liu Bei. Huang Zhong in this battle did not wish to fight against Guan Yu and let him pass. The commander Han Xuan was enraged by this and was to have Huang Zhong executed, but Wei Yan killed Han Xuan and Huang Zhong and Wei Yan then defected to Shu. Wei Yand due to his stubbornness died at the hand of Ma Dai due to Wei Yan not respecting Zhuge Liangs death wish and did not retreat from Wu Zhang. He was 59 years old at his death. Yue Ying http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/yueying.jpg Attack: 3/5 Musou: 3/5 Speed: 3/5 Name Pronounciation: "Yuay-Ying" Biography: Yue Ying, the wife of the famous Zhuge Liang. She bore one child to Zhuge Liang who's name was Zhuge Zhan, not a famous man of his name, but kept the Zhuge name going by having three sons of his own. Yue Ying's death is unknown as is her age of death. Pang Tong http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/pangtong.jpg Attack: 1/5 Musou: 5/5 Speed: 4/5 Name Pronounciation: "Pang-Tong" Biography: Pang Tong, an intelligent man who was hated by Sun Quan, lord of Wu due to the disrespect spoken by Pang Tong toward the deceased Zhou Yu. Pang Tong left Sun Quan and joined Shu, where he died at the Luo Cheng. He was only 35 when he died. -------------------- IV. Other -------------------- Lu Bu http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/lubu.jpg Attack: 5/5 Musou: 3/5 Speed: 5/5 Name Pronounciation: "Loo-Boo" Biography: Lu Bu, the most powerful warrior of his time and possible of all time. He warded off the three brothers Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei at Hu Lao Gate where Dong Zhuo later was killed by Lu Bu himself and left on his own. Lu Bu later allied with Yuan Shu and sought to fight against Liu Bei and Cao Cao who he had earlier betrayed both of them, there at that battle Lu Bu's own troops stole his weapon and tied him up and gave him to Cao Cao where he was ordered to be strangled to death. He was 44 at the time of his death. Dong Zhuo http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/dongzhuo.jpg Attack: 5/5 Musou: 3/5 Speed: 1/5 Name Pronounciation: "Dong-Jhuo" Biography: Dong, Zhuo, a self-centered and miserable man who only cared for his own needs and not of others. He adopted the powerful and mighty Lu Bu as his son only to fight for him against Yuan Shao and the allied forces, but later was killed by his own son Lu Bu. Dong Zhuo's age and cause of death are unknown at this time. Diao Chan http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/diaochan.jpg Attack: 2/5 Musou: 2/5 Speed: 5/5 Name Pronounciation: "Deeow-Chawn" Biography: It's not a certainty that Diao Chan even actually exist. Many say she was the love of Lu Bu and many doubt that, I do not have a certainty so I can't say anymore. Yuan Shao http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/yuanshao.jpg Attack: 3/5 Musou: 3/5 Speed: 3/5 Name Pronounciation: "Yooawn-Shaow" Biography: Yuan Shao, a proud man of his families name and rightfully so. He led the attacks on Dong Zhuo and succeeded in this. With the most feared force in China at the time he found his own personal friend Cao Cao in his way from conquering Northern China. They paired off at Guan Du and slowly Yuan Shao was loosing the battle, loosing supplies, and loosing momentum. Later he would realize Wu Chao, his main supply depot was in flames, at this point he knew he had lost the battle to the much smaller forces of Cao Cao. Yuan Shao died of illness at the age of 48. Meng Huo http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/menghuo.jpg Attack: 5/5 Musou: 4/5 Speed: 1/5 Name Pronounciation: "Mehng-Huoh" Biography: Meng Huo, king of the tribe of Nanman. He was peacefully living at the North of China when invaders started attacking his village. Never backing down from a battle, he attacked the invaders who were none other than Zhuge Liang and Shu. Meng Huo would fight in 7 different battles and loose in all seven, he then finally admitted his lose and surrendered. His death and age of death are unknown. Zhu Rong http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/zhurong.jpg Attack: 4/5 Musou: 3/5 Speed: 3/5 Name Pronounciation: "Zhoo-Rawng" Biography: The lovely wife of Meng Huo and also known as the "Goddess of Fire". She was also the only women in China(as far as we know) to be involved in a battle. She was a fierce warrior and a loving wife. Her age and cause of death are unknown. Zhang Jiao http://www.kongming.net/i/p/dw4/zhangjue.jpg Attack: 1/5 Musou: 3/5 Speed: 4/5 Name Pronounciation: "Jhang-Zheeow" Biography: Zhang Jiao, also known as Zhang Jue was the leader of a religious sect known as the Yellow Turbans. He had numerous members in this sect that were willing to fight for Zhang Jiao to restore the peace, but Zhang Jiao would later die before the battle with Huangfu Song. Zhang Jiao was 48 when he died. His brothers Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao were also killed. Zhang Liang died in a battle with Cao Cao and Zhang Bao died by Yellow Turbans own general Yan Zheng by being stabbed to death thus ending the time of the Yellow Turban Rebellion. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6). LEVEL 10 WEAPONS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- All weapons must be lvl. 9 and the difficulty MUST be on HARD in order to attain a level 10 weapon. Here's the Name, Attack power, and requirements to get all the Level 10 Weapons. -------------------- I. Wei -------------------- Cao Cao Name: Wrath of Heaven Attack Power: +56 Level: Battle of Chi Bi Forces: Cao Cao's Forces Difficulty to get: Medium Requirements: First see through Pang Tong's ploy by going over to his location, defeating him is not required. Quickly, after that, defeat Zhuge Liang before he summons the wind. After Zhuge Liang is defeated, you must defeat Gan Ning and Lu Meng BEFORE Huang Gai arrives. Do this quickly and get over to where Huang Gai will arrive, and defeat him before he starts the fire attack. Cao Cao earns ultimate weapon Wrath of Heaven. Xiahou Dun Name: Kirin Fang Attack Power: +56 Level: Battle of Xia Pi Forces: Cao Cao's Forces Difficulty to get: Easy Requirements: Defeat Zhang Liao, wait for the cut-scene with Xiahou Dun getting shot in the eye with an arrow. Go defeat Diao Chan. Xiahou Dun earns ultimate weapon Kirin Fang. Note: To trigger the Xiahou Dun getting shot in the eye cut-scene, just travel down to the southeast part of the river. (Thanks to Philip Moore for this tip) Xiahou Yuan Name: Enforcer Rod Attack Power: +55 Level: Battle of Mt. Ding Jun Forces: Wei's Forces Difficulty to get: Easy Requirements: Defeat Chen Shi before he returns to enemy front lines, do this by defeating him at the first 30 seconds of the battle. After Chen Shi, defeat Huang Zhong immediately. Xiahou Yuan earns ultimate weapon Enfocer Rod. Sima Yi Name: Dark Feather Attack Power: +50 Level: Battle of Wu Zhang Plains Forces: Wei's Forces Difficulty to get: Easy Requirements: Defeat Zhang Yi then Wei Yan. Ride or run over to the other side of the map and defeat Guan Xing and then Ma Chao. Zhuge Liang fake death cut-scene, Wei will begin an all-out attack. Sima Yi earns ultimate weapon Dark Feather. Note: It does not matter if you defeat any of the required generals after or before the fake death cut-scene. Just required that you yourself, defeats them all. Xu Huang Name: Marauder Attack Power: +57 Level: Battle of Guan Du Forces: Cao Cao's Forces Difficulty to get: Medium Requirements: First defeat Wen Chou and Yan Liang, then Yuan Shao's main force arrives, Guan Yu will charge the enemy and meet with Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Liu Bei both retreat. Now retreat back to Cao Cao and wait until both of the fortresses fall, then when the enemy gets close to Guan Du Castle(bottom castle where Cao Cao is) a cut-scene will occur, in this cut-scene ramming vehicles should appear and will start to knock down Guan Du Castles walls. When the food supply(Wu Chao) is discovered, Cao Cao will personally attack it himself, follow him exactly to where he goes and when you come to the food supply fort let Cao Cao enter it first and then enter it after him and defeat Chunyu Qiong and then Lu Wei Kuang will arrive as reinforcements for Yuan Shao, defeat Lu Wei Kuang. Xu Huang earns ultimate weapon Marauder. Dian Wei Name: Mad Bull Attack Power: +58 Level: Battle of Wan Castle Forces: Cao Cao's Forces Difficulty to get: Medium Requirements: First make your way left from your initially position and you'll come to Zhang Xiu, attack Zhang Xiu until he either retreats or you defeat him. Now make your way back to Cao Cao by going back the same way. When the Dian Wei meets Cao Cao event occurs follow Cao Cao and clear a path all the way to the where you defeated Zhang Xiu first. Wait for the Xu Zhu or Dian Wei break through the wall cut-scene. Dian Wei has earned the ultimate weapon Mad Bull. Cao Ren Name: Roc Attack Power: +56 Level: The Siege of Fan Castle Forces: Wei's Forces Difficulty to get: Hard Requirements: Destroy the Siege Ramp that is moving to the East side of the castle and the one moving to the West side of the castle. Also you must destroy the Catapult to the North of the castle and the Catapult to the South of the castle. You must destroy these four Siege Weapons before any other Siege Weapons arrive. Cao Ren earns ultimate weapon Roc. Zhang Liao Name: Gold Wyvern Attack Power: +56 Level: Battle of Hu Lao Gate Forces: Lu Bu's Musou Mode Difficulty to get: Easy Requirements: First, in Act One, play Si Shui Gate and defeat Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Jian in any order. Then play Hu Lao Gate and do not defeat any general or sub-general until Yuan Shao and the allied forces set Luo Yang on fire, after this defeat Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Jian in any order. Zhang Liao earns ultimate weapon Gold Wyvern. Note: This weapon must be earned on Musou Modem otherwise there would be no fire attack. Zhang He Name: Pheonix Talon Attack Power: +52 Level: Battle of Jie Ting Forces: Wei's Forces Difficulty to get: Easy Requirements: Defeat Gao Xiang, Liao Hua, and Wang Ping. Ma Su will be surrounded, defeat Ma Su, Zhao Yun, Wei Yan, Yue Ying, and Zhuge Liang. Zhang He earns ultimate weapon Pheonix Talon. Note: You won't get the message, but after the level you'll have the weapon. Xu Zhu Name: Stone Crusher Attack Power: +59 Level: Battle of Tong Gate Forces: Cao Cao's Forces Difficulty to get: Medium Requirements: First defeat Pang De and Ma Dai, then do not defeat any of Han Sui's sub-generals or soldiers(just stay away from Han Sui) until cut-scene with Cao Cao meeting with Han Sui, after this defeat all Han Sui's sub-generals and all his troops until morale is lowered to one star. Han Sui will then defect to Wei and you must wait for the following message "The Shu forces have begun an all-out attack". Xu Zhu earns ultimate weapon Stone Crusher. Zhen Ji Name: Dark Moon Flute Attack Power: +51 Level: Battle of Chang Ban Forces: Cao Cao's Forces Difficulty to get: Easy Requirements: Defeat Zhao Yun in a duel, approach Zhang Fei after Liu Bei has passed the Chang Ban Bridge, Zhang Fei bridge yell cut-scene, defeat Zhang Fei in a duel. Liu Bei's fleet will arrive, defeat Mi Zhu, Liu Qi, Guan Yu, and Zhuge Liang. Zhen Ji earns ultimate weapon Dark Moon Flute. -------------------- II. Wu -------------------- Sun Jian Name: Savage Tiger Attack Power: +54 Level: The Imperial Seal Forces: Sun Jian's Forces Difficulty to get: Easy Requirements: Defeat Li Jue, Diao Chan, Zhang Liao, and Lu Bu before finishing the stage. Note: It's said by some that defeating all enemy generals is required and not opening certain amount of crates before attempting to get the weapon. Sun Jian earns ultimate weapon Savage Tiger. Sun Shang Xiang Name: Sol Chakram Attack Power: +51 Level: The Race for the Nan Territory Forces: Wu's Forces Difficulty to get: Easy Requirements: Defeat Wang Lang, event where Zhou Yu gets hit with an arrow, Cao Ren charges, defeat Cao Ren. Sun Shang Xiang earns ultimate weapon Sol Chakram. Sun Quan Name: Master Wolf Attack Power: +53 Level: Battle of He Fei Forces: Wu's Forces Difficulty to get: Medium Requirements: Get over to Sun Jian as soon as possible and when Zhang Liao retreats the bridge will break and Li Dian will ambush Sun Jian, defeat Li Dian, and now try to push Sun Jian toward the center of the bridge, Sun Jian will jump the bridge and then Zhang Liao will appear to the southwest near Sun Jian so you must hurry there, once there, defeat Zhang Liao, then defeat Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Dun. Sun Quan earns ultimate weapon Master Wolf. Sun Ce Name: Overlord Attack Power: +54 Level: Unification of Jiang Dong Forces: Sun Jian's Forces Difficulty to get: Medium Requirements: Defeat Liang Gang, and wait for the supply depot to be taken over by the enemy, to have this happen wait for Zhou Yu to be defeated. Then defeat Chen Ji, then Yue Jiu. Lower Li Feng's life as low as possible(Do not defeat him yet). Defeat Yuan Shu, approach Ji Ling, Liu Xun announces to go to the supply depot, you must defeat Li Feng before Liu Xun arrives at the supply depot. Since his life is lowered, it will be easy. Sun Ce earns ultimate weapon Overlord. Huang Gai Name: Dark Shadow Attack Power: +56 Level: Battle of Chi Bi Forces: Allied Forces Difficulty to get: Medium Requirements: Defeat all enemy Gate Captains before the fire attack succeeds, then defeat Cao Hong, Cao Ren, and Cao Pi in any order. Huang Gai earns ultimate weapon Dark Shadow. Zhou Yu Name: Ancients Sword Attack Power: +54 Level: The Siege of Fan Castle Forces: Wu's Forces Difficulty to get: Medium Requirements: At the 10:20 minute mark into the game, the Supply Team will appear to the top right of the map, defeat the Supply Captian before he reaches the right entrance of Fan Castle. Zhou Yu earns ultimate weapon Ancients Sword. Note: The trick is Lu Meng will most likely die before you go and defeat the Supply Captain and get back to babysit him, so I recommend you get this in Musou Mode, and play Shi Ting before Siege of Fan Castle and make sure the Zhou Fang ploy is successful and Cao Xiu gets surrounded, to do this, defeat Jia Kui before he catches up to Cao Xiu. After finishing Shi Ting and the Zhou Fang ploy is successful play Siege of Fan Castle and Zhou Fang will come as reinforcements. This will help the morale and Lu Meng will stay alive longer. Lu Xun Name: Falcon Attack Power: +52 Level: Battle of Yi Ling Forces: Wu's Forces Difficulty to get: Medium Requirements: Head straight for Zhu Ran's location, when he appears protect him until he successfully triggers the fire attack. Now you can pass through the Stone Maze, save before you enter and now when you enter you have 3 minutes to pass through successfully, so make sure you remember to save before you enter. Once you're through in 3 minutes or less the message will appear. Lu Xun earns ultimate weapon Falcon. Lu Meng Name: White Tiger Attack Power: +54 Level: Battle of Mai Castle Forces: Wu's Forces Difficulty to get: Medium Requirements: Defeat all enemy generals and sub-generals before Guan Yu escapes or retreats. Reinforcement and ambush generals are required as well. Lu Meng earns ultimate weapon White Tiger. Gan Ning Name: Sea Master Attack Power: +56 Level: Battle of Xia Kou Forces: Sun Jian's Forces Difficulty to get: Medium Requirements: Defeat Su Fei and Chen Sheng before the enemy ships move. Ling Cao and Ling Tong must both survive this battle. Gan Ning earns ultimate weapon Sea Master. Note: If this is earned in Free Mode, Chen Sheng will be replaced by Gan Ning, so you must defeat Su Fei and Gan Ning before the ships move. Taishi Ci Name: Tiger Slayer Attack Power: +56 Level: Campaign for the Wu Territory Forces: Sun Jian's Forces Difficulty to get: Medium Requirements: Catch up to Yu Mi before the fort gates close, a horse will be required to do this. Defeat both Yu Mi and Zhang Ying before they retreat. Taishi Ci earns ultimate weapon Tiger Slayer. Zhou Tai Name: Dusk Attack Power: +55 Level: Nanman Campaign Forces: Wu's Forces Difficulty to get: Easy Requirements: Defeat Wu Tugu before the fire attack on his army is able succeed. Enter the Nanman main base before the climate effects Wu soldiers' morale. Zhou Tai earns ultimate weapon Dusk. Da Qiao Name: Qiao Beauty Attack Power: +50 Level: Battle of Xu Chang Forces: Wu's Forces Difficulty to get: Easy Requirements: Defeat Hu Zhi and Deng Ai, then defeat Dian Wei. Da Qiao earns ultimate weapon Qiao Beauty. Xiao Qiao Name: Qiao Grace Attack Power: +50 Level: Battle of Cheng Du Forces: Wu's Forces Difficulty to get: Medium Requirements: Defeat Ma Su, then defeat forest ambush general Guan Ping and forest ambush general Guan Yu BEFORE Ma Chao arrives at Luo Castle as reinforcements. Xiao Qiao earns ultimate weapon Qiao Grace. -------------------- III. Shu -------------------- Liu Bei Name: Gold Moon Dragon Attack Power: +52 Level: Battle of Ru Nan Forces: Liu Bei's Forces Difficulty to get: Medium Requirements: Defeat Xiahou Yuan within 3 minutes of starting the stage. Join with Zhao Yun, then join with Zhang Fei, then join with Guan Yu in that order. Defeat all of Cao Cao's generals before reinforcements arrive. Liu Bei earns ultimate weapon Gold Moon Dragon. Note: You must defeat Li Dian after you've met up with Zhao Yun, Xiahou Yuan must be defeated before Guan Yu appears, and the other generals can be defeated in any order, anyway you want. Guan Yu Name: Blue Moon Dragon Attack Power: + 57 Level: Battle of Fan Castle Forces: Shu's Forces Difficulty to get: Hard Requirements: Before defeating Lu Meng, Lu Xun, or Zhou Tai allow all Shu soldiers to defect. To know this has happened just listen for the line "Curses! We've been surrounded!" that's when you know all Shu soldiers have defected that can defect. After all Shu soldiers have defected, defeat Lu Meng, Lu Xun, and Zhou Tai. Guan Yu earns ultimate weapon Blue Moon Dragon. Note: Why this is so difficult is that it does not support much time to allow everyone to defect plus defeating all three Wu Generals, also you and Guan Ping(who will not last long) will be the only two on the map not including Bodyguards. Zhang Fei Name: Viper Blade Attack Power: +58 Level: Battle of Chang Ban Forces: Liu Bei's Forces Difficulty to get: Medium Requirements: Defeat Xiahou Dun, then defeat Xiahou En and Xiahou De, accompany Liu Bei down the path and pass the Chang Ban bridge after him, if any enemy soldiers are near the bridge when you're on it, a cut-scene with Zhang Fei yelling at the enemy will occur. Message saying Liu Chan is still in the castle, go and rescue Liu Chan, remember the location by going to "History" in the In-Game Menu and looking for that same message. When you arrive at the location on a horse, break open the box, cut-scene with woman soldier handing Liu Chan to Zhang Fei, Liu Chan rescued. Defeat Xiahou Yuan. Zhao Yun must stay alive for the whole level. Zhang Fei earns ultimate weapon Viper Blade. Zhuge Liang Name: Peacock Feather Attack Power: +50 Level: Wu Zhang Plains Forces: Shu Musou Mode Difficulty to get: Medium Requirements: First while playing the Fall of Wei Act(5 or Final Act), clear the Battle of Jie Ting, then while playing Wu Zhang Plains approach Zhang He to the northwest of the map, multiple enemy crossbow units appear, Zhuge Liang instructs to use the Arbalests, Arbalest units appear. Defeat Zhang He. Approach enemy castle, Zhuge Liang taunts Sima Yi cut-scene, Supplies appear(Wooden Oxen), Xiahou Dun appears, defeat Xiahou Dun, escort Supplies to the Supply Depot safely, Supplies successfully reach Supply Depot. Zhuge Liang earns ultimate weapon Peacock Feather. Note: To trigger the supplies to appear you must play Jie Ting first, therefore this must be earned in Musou Mode. Ma Chao Name: Stallion Fury Attack Power: +57 Level: The Campaign for Cheng Du Forces: Shu Musou Mode Difficulty to get: Easy Requirements: Reach the left side of the map to trigger Pang De and Ma Dai's enemy reinforcements. Defeat Pang De and Ma Dai before you defeat any other general or sub-general. Ma Chao earns ultimate weapon Stallion Fury. Note: This Weapon must be earned in Musou Mode otherwise, Ma Chao and Ma Dai would be the enemy reinforcements. Huang Zhong Name: Oracle Sword Attack Power: +54 Level: Battle of Jian Ye Forces: Shu's Forces Difficulty to get: Hard Requirements: Follow these directions exactly otherwise you might have some trouble. Defeat Huang Gai, Sun family attacks, defeat Sun Ce, Sun Shang Xiang, and Sun Quan in any order. Huang Zhong earns ultimate weapon Oracle Sword. Note: The hard part about this is Liu Bei will be attacked from all sides. Zhuge Jin, Taishi Ci, Zhou Tai and all the Sun kids, so that's the hardest part is keeping him alive, especially if Huang Zhong is not maxed. You can also defeat Zhou Tai or Taishi Ci instead of Huang Gai I just recommend to defeat Huang Gai. Zhao Yun Name: Fierce Dragon Attack Power: +55 Level: Battle of Bo Wan Po Forces: Lie Bei's Forces Difficulty to get: Medium Requirements: Follow Zhuge Liang's orders to lure Xiahou Dun to the designated area, cross the bridge in front of where you start to get him to begin to chase you. After the fire attack succeeds if you've lured him correctly, defeat Xiahou Dun. Then lure Han Hao to the ambush to the north of the map. Defeat him after the ambush is successful. Lure Yu Jin ONTO the bridge in front of him and Guan Yu's ambush will be a success, then defeat Yu Jin. Zhang Fei attacks supply depot, Zhuge Liang must also meet with Cao Cao for the cut-scene to appear, try luring Cao Cao near Zhuge Liang for this to happen. Zhao Yun earns ultimate weapon Fierce Dragon. Jiang Wei Name: Blink Attack Power: +55 Level: Battle of Tian Shui Forces: Shu Musou Mode Difficulty to get: Medium Requirements: Defeat Cao Ren and Wang Lang in the northern castle and then defeat all enemy generals and sub-generals outside the castle. Defeat Yin Shang and Liang Xu in the eastern castle. Jiang Wei earns ultimate weapon Blink. Note: Enter all four gates of the two castles from the outside. You will need to trigger all the enemy ambushes. Yue Ying Name: Oblivion Attack Power: +53 Level: Nanman Campaign Forces: Shu's Forces Difficulty to get: Hard Requirements: First approach Wu Tugu and Zhuge Liang will announce he has an idea to defeat the Nanman armored troops and stall the enemy a while. Now you must waste enough time until Zhuge Liang's plan against the Nanman armor is a success, defeat Zhu Rong(required) while waiting, which will have Dong Tu Ne and Ahui Nan defect to Shu(required?). Wait until the fire attack succeeds against Wu Tugu's unit. Defeat Meng Huo all seven times yourself, you should save the game every time you encounter Meng Huo as your allied soldiers may get the last hit on him when he's on low life and you don't want to take the chance. Yue Ying earns ultimate weapon Oblivion. Note: Zhuge Liang will most likely be in trouble during all this and a good way to keep him alive is to keep several high ranked Bodyguards with him also to get 1000 KOs will raise morale full, so that is also recommended. Wei Yan Name: Comet Strike Attack Power: +57 Level: The Campaign for Jing Forces: Liu Bei's Forces Difficulty to get: Medium Requirements: Defeat Han Xuan before Xiahou Yuan and Cao Ren arrive as reinforcements. Wei Yan earns ultimate weapon Comet Strike. Pang Tong Name: Tornado Staff Attack Power: +51 Level: Battle of Luo Castle Forces: Liu Bei's Forces Difficulty to get: Medium Requirements: Defeat all enemy generals east of the enemy castle to the top left of the map. After this Zhang Ren should attack, refuse his duel and lure him down south of the enemy castle past the bridge and fight him there until the Bridge cut-scene. After the bridge is destroyed, defeat Zhnag Ren. Pang Tong earns ultimate weapon Tornado Staff. -------------------- IV. Other -------------------- Lu Bu Name: Sky Scorcher Attack Power: +60 Level: Lu Bu's Revolt Forces: Lu Bu's Forces Difficulty to get: Medium Requirements: Defeat every enemy general and sub-general yourself, and make sure every enemy soldier is defeated including ambush troops leaving only Dong Zhuo alive, if there is still no message saying you've earned the weapon run around the West and North part of the level a bit, there may be some ambush troops you missed. Lu Bu earns ultimate weapon Sky Scorcher. Dong Zhuo Name: Horror Attack Power: +57 Level: Lu Bu's Revolt Forces: Dong Zhuo's Forces Difficulty to get: Easy Requirements: Unlike Lu Bu's Level 10 Weapon, there are no ambush troops, making it a lot easier. Still you, Dong Zhuo, must defeat all generals and sub-generals. Defeat all enemy soldiers leaving only Lu Bu on the map. Dong Zhuo earns ultimate weapon Horror. Diao Chan Name: Diva Attack Power: +51 Level: Battle of Si Shui Gate Forces: Dong Zhuo's Forces Difficulty to get: Hard Requirements: Don't defeat any enemy generals or sub-generals until the enemy Messanger appears, wait until he successfully delivers the message, then wait until Hua Xiong is defeated and then defeat in order Sun Jian then Cao Cao. Diao Chan earns ultimate weapon Diva. Note: The hard part is after Hua Xiong is defeated Li Jue prepares to retreat and you must defeat Sun Jian and Cao Cao quickly, then make your way all the way north to defeat Yuan Shao to end the level. This may take you a few tries to earn this weapon as you may not make it to Yuan Shao in time before Li Jue retreats. An easy way of avoiding Li Jue from retreating just play Two-Players and equip them both with an elephant, place both elephants by the Gate where Li Jue retreats through and when he tries to retreat, the elephants will block his path. 2nd player must stay by the elephants though. (Thanks to email@example.com for this tip) Yuan Shao Name: Sword of Kings Attack Power: +53 Level: Battle of Guan Du Forces: Yuan Shao's Forces Difficulty to get: Medium Requirements: Make your way all the way south to the bottom castle, ramming vehicle appears, protect the ramming vehicle until the castle walls fall. Yuan Shao earns ultimate weapon Sword of Kings. Note: I recommend to wait for your allies to make there way down there too, because you and the ramming vehicle will be ambushed from all sides and probably won't be able to protect the ramming vehicle. Meng Huo Name: King of Beasts Attack Power: +58 Level: Battle of Cheng Du Forces: Nanman Forces Difficulty to get: Medium Requirements: Defeat all enemy generals and sub-generals, including forest ambush generals. After defeating all generals and sub-generals defeat Zhuge Liang. Meng Huo earns ultimate weapon King of Beasts. Zhu Rong Name: Inferno Attack Power: +53 Level: Battle of Xu Chang Forces: Nanman Forces Difficulty to get: Medium Requirements: Defeat Cao Xiu, then defeat Cao Zhen, Siege Ramp appears, set up the siege ramp by defeating Cao Hong. Defeat Xiahou Dun, Hu Zhi, Man Chong, Sima Zhao, and Cao Zhang. Explosion within castle, Cao Cao cut-scene where he seals off his own Gate. Zhu Rong earns ultimate weapon Inferno. Zhang Jiao Name: Volcano Staff Attack Power: +52 Level: Yellow Turban Rebellion Forces: Yellow Turban's Forces Difficulty to get: Medium Requirements: Defeat all generals and sub-generals until He Jin is the only one left(soldiers are not required), defeat He Jin. When Dong Zhuo's unit appears, defeat Dong Zhuo's sub-general, Hua Xiong. Also Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang must both survive the entire battle. Edit Character Sword Name: Pheonix Tail Attack Power: +54 Level: Yellow Turban Fortress Forces: Allied Forces Difficulty to get: Medium Requirements: You must defeat Cheng Yuanzhi, He Yi, and either Pei Yuan Shao or Bo Zhang and Zhou Cang in under 6 minutes. You have earned the ultimate weapon Pheonix Tail. Edit Character Spear Name: Typhoon Attack Power: +55 Level: Si Shui Gate Forces: Allied Forces Difficulty to get: Easy Requirements: Defeat Li Su, Gao Shun, Niou Fu, Guo Si, and Li Ru. Sun Jian will pull back. Hua Xiong charges out, defeat Hu Zhen, Zhao Cen, Hua Xiong, Li Meng, and Yang Feng. Zhang Liao arrives as enemy reinforcements, defeat Zhang Liao, enter the supply fort from the back passageway, defeat Wang Fang and Fan Chou. You have earned the ultimate weapon Typhoon. Edit Character Pike Name: Eclipse Attack Power: +56 Level: Battle of Hu Lao Gate Forces: Allied Forces Difficulty to get: Easy Requirements: Defeat Lu Bu(duel not required). You have earned the ultimate weapon Eclipse. Edit Character Big Sword Name: Fu Xi's Sword Attack Power: +57 Level: Yellow Turban Rebellion Forces: Allied Forces Difficulty to get: Medium Requirements: You, yourself, must defeat all enemy generals and sub-generals. You have earned the ultimate weapon Fu Xi's Sword. Edit Character Thin Sword Name: Nu Wa's Rapier Attack Power: +52 Level: Yellow Turban Menace Forces: Allied Forces Difficulty to get: Easy Requirements: Defeat ambush general He Yi inside the castle, kill Deng Mao and Huang Shao and there will be a cut-scene, and Huangfu Song will charge the enemy getting ambushed. Then when Huangfu Song exits the castle, Yan Zheng will ambush him, defeat Yan Zheng. You have earned the ultimate weapon Nu Wa's Rapier. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7). ITEMS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- All the information on the regular level up items to the requirements on getting all the Special Items and Harnesses. -------------------- I. Orbs -------------------- Orbs are elemental attacks added to all your charge attacks. Your Musou gauge must be full in order to perform the elemental attack or if you have your level 10 weapon you may perform elemental attacks anytime. All Orbs' max level is 4 and here are the description of the different Orbs. Fire Orb - Adds a Fire element that burns the enemy slowly taking damage from your enemy. Level effect - The Higher the level the more damage the Fire will do to the enemy. Lightning Orb - Adds a Lightning Bolt in the middle of the attack, the closer the enemy is to the middle bolt, the more damage done. Level effect - The higher the level the more damage the middle bolt will do. Vorpal Orb - Adds a Death attack that can instantly kill an enemy soldier in one single blow, adds powerful damage to enemy officers. Level effect - The higher the level the more chance the death attack will take place on an enemy, more damage to officers too. Ice Orb - Adds an Ice attack that will freeze an enemy if hit by a charge attack, opponent stays frozen for a certain amount of time no matter the level. Level effect - The higher level the more chance of freezing an enemy goes up, now it will freeze an enemy about 75% of the time. Blast Orb - Adds a Blast attack to your charged attacks that will break through blocks. Level effect - The higher the level the more chance of breaking through a block, a hint using this Orb is while using Cao Cao, Sima Yi, Zhou Yu, Lu Xun, Lu Meng, Da Qiao, Zhuge Liang, Jiang Wei, or Pang Tong playing at Hu Lao Gate, you can easily defeat Lu Bu if you use your T attack over and over and over, but make sure your musou gauge is full. Thanks to Joe The Gamer for that tip. Poison Orb - Adds a Poison Attack to your charged attacks that while the enemy is Poisoned the damage the enemy is doubled, not very useful, but works perfect for Lu Bu's SSSSSTTT. Level effect - The higher the level you have the longer the enemy will stay Poisoned. -------------------- II. Regular Items -------------------- All these items can be gained to a maximum of level 20 and rated from 1 to 3 Peacock Urn - Life Up (3/3) Dragon Amulet - Musou Up (3/3) Tiger Amulet - Attack Up (3/3) Tortoise Amulet - Defense Up (3/3) Speed Scroll - Speed Up (2/3) Wing Boots - Jump Up (1/3) Huang's Bow - Arrow Attack Up (2/3) Nanman Armor - Arrow Defense Up (1/3) Horned Helm - Mounted Attack Up (2/3) Cavalry Armor - Mounted Defense Up (1/3) Seven Star Sash - Luck Up (3/3) Elixir - Musou Gauge Fills Up Faster (2/3) Herbal Remedy - Charge Attack Up (3/3) -------------------- III. Special Items -------------------- Art of War (2/3) Effect: Ability boost item have longer effect Level: Campaign Against Sun Jian Forces: Dong Zhuo's Forces Difficulty to get: Hard Requirements: Enter the top castle before any reinforcements arrive, Dong Zhuo's Forces realize Sun Jian isn't in the castle, now defeat 4 generals out of Lu Meng, Zhou Tai, Gan Ning, Sun Shang Xiang, and Sun Quan. After you've defeated the fourth outta five of those generals, a supply team will appear just south of the top castle and moves to the entry point just left of the top castle, so you only have about 1 minute, so I suggest killing Sun Quan as your 4th general. Survival Guide (2/3) Effect: Attack x 2 when near death Level: The Two Qiao's Forces: Wu's Forces Difficulty to get: Easy Requirements: Rescue Xiao Qiao then Da Qiao, Valuable Item just south of the bottom center bridge. Bodyguard Manual (2/3) Effect: Bodyguards become stronger Level: Guan Yu's Escape Forces: Liu Bei's Forces Difficulty to get: Medium Requirements: Don't attack Xiahou Dun head on, instead wait for him to approach and time it so you defeat the 5th Gate general when Xiahou Dun is just passing through the 4th Gate. Xiahou Dun will catch up and when he comes through the 5th gate the Valuable Item report will be right near the 5th gate. Way of Musou (2/3) Effect: Can use true musou attack regardless of health Level: Guan Yu's Escape Forces: Cao Cao's Forces Difficulty to get: Medium Requirements: When you pass through the 5th gate a supply team will appear just outside the 4th gate, so you must backtrack to get this, what I suggest is catch up to Guan Yu and don't kill him just hold him in the position until Xiahou Dun catches up, leave Xiahou Dun and Guan Yu fighting until you get the item then defeat Guan Yu. Power Scroll (1/3) Effect: Won't loose weapon deadlocks Level: Yellow Turban Menace Forces: Yellow Turban Forces Difficulty to get: Easy Requirements: Defeat Guan Yu and Zhao Yun, Supply Team Appearance in front of the small square area at the top left of the map, moving towards and around the top area towards the entry point at the right of the top area. Wind Scroll (3/3) Effect: Attack range increases Level: Battle of Xu Chang Forces: Shu Forces Difficulty to get: Medium Requirements: Succeed in both protecting Yue Ying for her to successfully set up the Siege Ramp by defeating Cao Hong and succeed in protecting the ally base by defeating Xu Zhu, after you succeed in both these requirements Sima Yi will say a line and the Valuable Item Report will be to the north of the middle fort near Man Chong's initial position. Fire Arrows (2/3) Effect: Can use fire arrows Level: Unification of Jing Forces: Sun Jian's Forces Difficulty to get: Easy Requirements: Before the enemy joins forces message, defeat Wang Lang's sub-general Zhou Xin. Supply Team Appearance at the right of the left fort, moving to the top right. Charge Bracer (2/3) Effect: Withstand attacks while performing Charge Level: Campaign Against Sun Jian Forces: Yuan Shao's Forces Difficulty to get: Hard Requirements: Enter the top castle before any enemy reinforcements arrive, Supply Team Appearance south of the castle, moving to the entry point to the bottom left of the castle. This supply team will disappear very quickly, so reach it as fast as possible. -------------------- IV. Harnesses -------------------- Red Hare Saddle (3/3) Effect: Fastest horse Level: Battle of Xia Pi Forces: Lu Bu's Forces Difficulty to get: Hard Requirements: Don't kill any enemy generals or sub-generals until Guan Yu has met with Red Hare. To get Guan Yu to meet with Red Hare just lure him over to where Red Hare, after he's mounted Red Hare he'll be super strong so be ready, now defeat Guan Yu and the Valuable Item message on the little island where Guan Yu mounted Red Hare. Hex Mark Saddle (2/3) Effect: Luck up Level: Campaign Against Liu Bei Forces: Yellow Turban Musou Mode Difficulty to get: Medium Requirements: Defeat Guan Yu and Zhao Yun before ALL enemy reinforcements arrive. Then deplete Liu Bei's life about halfway and the Valuable Item message will appear on the same little island where you got Red Hare, to the bottom right of the map. Storm Runner Saddle (1/3) Effect: Mounted attack up Level: Campaign Against Cao Cao Forces: Lu Bu's Forces Difficulty to get: Medium Requirements: First go to the top of the circled area to the right of the map, and defeat Cao Zhang. Xu Huang will appear as an ambush party, defeat Xu Huang, now after Chen Gong says to look out for more ambush parties, go and enter the left fort from the back entrance, you will see through Yue Jin's ambush party and he will retreat, then wait until Xiahou Dun appears as reinforcements, defeat Xiahou Dun. The Valuable Item message at the very bottom left of the map, outside the castle. Shadow Runner Saddle (3/3) Effect: Can't fall off any horse Level: Battle of Tong Gate Forces: Shu's Forces Difficulty to get: Hard Requirements: First defeat all 4 generals to the southeast of the map, then the Ice Castle cut-scene appears and the Ice Castle is discovered. Wait until Cao Cao meets with Han Sui cut-scene, defeat Yu Jin and Xu Huang, then defeat Cao Cao's sub-generals and deplete his unit's morale to at least one star, then wait until the Lots of horses cut-scene and Han Sui refuses to defect message. Valuable Item message to the bottom right of the map. Note: To trigger to Lots of Horses cut-scene wait for Han Sui to go acoss the brige to Cao Cao then you go to the entrance of the Ice Castle and then Han Sui will refuse to join Cao Cao. So you then go back to were Han Sui and Cao Cao are fighting and you then get the Lots Of Horses cut-scene, so you get the saddle and kill Cao Cao. You have to kill Cao Ren to get into the Ice Castle. (Thanks to Tyler Rives for this information) Elephant Saddle (2/3) Effect: Begin stage mounted on an elephant Level: Nanman Campaign Forces: Nanman Forces Difficulty to get: Medium Requirements: Ride on an elephant into the enemies base. Note: The difficult part is to get an elephant from an ally, try using Huang Gai in Free Mode as his bombs can knock allies of there elephants. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8). DIM SUM AND FAIRY WINE LOCATIONS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's all the locations in all the levels to increase your Life and Musou, but some levels contain more than one Life/Musou or some don't even carry a Life/Musou. Yi Ling Battle of Yi Ling Dim Sum - Inside the Stone Maze, in the second row from the left and second row from the bottom. Fairy Wine - After Zhuge Liang's reinforcements appear with the linked ships, the wine is on the little island. Campaign for Jing Dim Sum - South of the Wu Ling fort. Fairy Wine - South just outside the Guei Yang fort. Unification of Jing Dim Sum - None Fairy Wine - None Wu Zhang Plains Battle of Jie Ting Dim Sum - Bottom right area, top right corner. Fairy Wine - Top right fort, top right corner. Battle of Wu Zhang Plains Dim Sum - Bottom left area(supply fort). Appears after Wooden Ox appear and make it through. Fairy Wine - Right side of the map, area North of the bridge, top right corner, to the right of the fort gate. Battle of Tian Sui Dim Sum - Left bridge, south shore, right corner. Fairy Wine - Right bridge, south side, dead end to the bottom right. He Fei Battle of He Fei Dim Sum - Inside top Castle, on the higher level of the castle. Fairy Wine - In the middle of the map, the left side of the lake, parallel to the left gate. Battle of Shi Ting Dim Sum - Just south, outside the top Castle. Fairy Wine - Inside top Castle, bottom right corner. Campaign Against Sun Jian Dim Sum - Map bottom left corner, North of the river. (Musou Mode only) Dim Sum Snack - South part of the map. (Free Mode only) Fairy Wine - Top right corner of the map. (Musou Mode only) Fairy Wine - Top left corner of the map. (Free Mode only) The Two Qiaos Dim Sum - Just south of the bottom center bridge. Fairy Wine - Top left corner, bottom right corner of that area. Han Zhong Battle of Mt. Ding Jun Dim Sum - Top center area, beside the middle Gate Captain. Fairy Wine - Bottom left area, in the fort area, top left corner of that area. Battle of Han Zhong Dim Sum - Beside the left center Gate Captain. Fairy Wine - Top left corner, at the beginning of the stone staircase. Eliminate Zhang Jiao! Dim Sum - Top center area(where Zhang Jiao is), on the second platform, bottom right corner. Dim Sum - Southwest corner where Zhang Lu appears. (Thanks to the person who supplied that info) Fairy Wine - Top right area, more south, on the hill going down the stone staircase. Guan Du Battle of Guan Du Dim Sum - Bottom left corner, outside the castle walls. Fairy Wine - Inside Wu Chao, the small fort to the left of the map, top left corner. Campaign Against Cao Cao Dim Sum - In front of the very top Gate Captain. Fairy Wine - Inside bottom castle, bottom right corner. Yellow Turban Fortress Dim Sum - Inside the left fort, bottom left corner. Fairy Wine - At the top of the circled area to the right of the map. Ji Province Battle of Ji Province Dim Sum - None Fairy Wine - Left of the map, just north of the castle wall. Yellow Turban Rebellion Dim Sum - Top area(where Zhang Jiao is), top right corner. Fairy Wine - Top right corner(where Zhang Liang should be), very right of that area. Dong Zhuo in Ji Dim Sum - Top left corner. Fairy Wine - Inside bottom fort, about three quarters of the way down, a little bit to the right. Xu Chang Guan Yu's Escape Dim Sum - Top left area, bottom right corner of that area, just past the 4th gate. Fairy Wine - Dead end left after exiting the 1st gate. Battle of Xu Chang Dim Sum - Inside the top castle, directly in the middle of the top part of the castle. Fairy Wine - Rectangular area to the bottom left of the map, the bottom left corner of that area. Battle of Si Shui Gate Dim Sum - Inside the middle fort(supply depot), bottom left corner. Fairy Wine - Very bottom of the map, on the other side of the small fort wall beside Niou Fu's initial position. Wu Territory Battle of Jian Ye Dim Sum - Center two layered fort, in the middle layer, top wall, it's up the stairs. Fairy Wine - Bottom fort, on the right side of the middle building. Unification of Jiang Dong Dim Sum - Inside bottom fort, to the left of the center building. Dim Sum Snack - Inside top fort, to the left of the bottom entrance. (Musou Mode only) Fairy Wine - Inside left fort, in the smaller center fort, bottom left corner. Fairy Wine - Inside top fort, to the right of the bottom entrance. (Musou Mode only) Campaign for the Wu Territory Dim Sum - Big castle to the left of the map, in the inner layer of that castle, in the bottom wall, up the stairs. Fairy Wine - Bottom right fort, top right corner. Luo Yang The Imperial Seal Dim Sum - Bottom right area, bottom right corner. Fairy Wine - Bottom right area, bottom left corner. Battle of Hu Lao Gate Dim Sum - Center castle gate(Hu Lao Gate) South part of the gate, climb the stairs to reach. Fairy Wine - Center castle gate(Hu Lao Gate) North part, climb the stairs to reach. Battle of Tong Gate Dim Sum - Beside the top left Gate Captain. Fairy Wine - Left part of the map, in the river that you can cross. Xu Province Battle of Xia Pi Dim Sum Snack - In the castle, at the North end of the water duct. Fairy Wine - Little island at the bottom right of map. Yellow Turban Menace Dim Sum Snack - Top triangular area, bottom left corner, on the lower level. Fairy Wine - Top triangular area, bottom right corner, on the lower level. Campaign Against Liu Bei Dim Sum Snack - Top left of the bottom entry point, between two houses. Fairy Wine - From the lower right gate of the center castle, go East, there is a pot beside a building. Lu Bu's Offensive Dim Sum Snack - None. Fairy Wine - Just outside the top left entrance to the castle. Fairy Wine - A bit north of the bottom left entry point. Cheng Du Campaign for Cheng Du Dim Sum Snack - Under the top left entry point is a square-ish rock, there's a path to the bottom right of that rock, the snack is at the Southern tip of that path. Fairy Wine - From the intersection at the bottom of the map, there are 3 paths going left, the wine is in the middle path. Battle of Cheng Du Dim Sum Snack - After Wei Yan defects to Wei, the blocked mountain path top left of the left intersection will open up, the snack is in that path. Fairy Wine - From the star shaped intersection at left bottom of map, there are 3 paths going left, the wine is along the middle path(Beware of land mines). Battle of Luo Castle Dim Sum Snack - Bottom right area, outside the castle, at the top left corner of that area. Fairy Wine - Dead end within Luo Feng Po after the falling rock trap. Chi Bi Battle of Xia Kou Dim Sum - None Fairy Wine - Inside the walled area in the middle of the map, bottom right corner of that area. Battle of Chi Bi Dim Sum - Big ship where Cao Cao is, top right corner of that ship. Fairy Wine - From the middle ship where Sun Jian is go up one ship, then go left one ship, the Fairy Wine is at the top right corner of that area. Battle of Chang Jiang Dim Sum - In front of the bottom right entry point is a small fenced camp area, the snack is inside the camp beside an archer tower. Fairy Wine - Alcove to the bottom right of the top entry point, the wine is among five pots gathered together. Xiang Yang Siege of Fan Castle Dim Sum - Inside the Castle, top left corner, up on the castle wall. Fairy Wine - Inside the Castle, bottom right corner, up on the castle wall. Battle of Fan Castle Dim Sum Snack - Near the center of the castle, to the top right. Fairy Wine - Near the center of the castle, to the bottom left. Assault on Liu Biao Dim Sum Snack - Beside the bottom right entry point. Fairy Wine - Inside top left fort, top right corner. Ru Nan Battle of Bo Wan Po Dim Sum - Inside the right castle, the top left room, top right corner of that room. Fairy Wine - Inside the right castle, the top left room, bottom left corner of that room. Battle of Ru Nan Dim Sum - Inside the middle castle, the top left room, left side of that room. Fairy Wine - Inside the middle castle, the top left room, right side of that room. Nan Yang Battle of Wan Castle Dim Sum Snack - Bottom row with 2 squares, right square. Fairy Wine - Second row from the bottom with 4 squares, left square. Lu Bu's Revolt Dim Sum Snack - Bottom right corner. Fairy Wine - Left bottom square. Nan Zhong Nanman Campaign Dim Sum Snack - Left poison pond, near the center slightly to the right. Fairy Wine - Near the top right of the map are 2 horizontal paths parallel to each other, the wine is at the right end of the bottom path. Defense of Nanman Dim Sum Snack - Top fort, near the center slightly to the bottom right, beside an archer tower. Fairy Wine - The two parallel paths at the right of map, at the right end of the bottom path. Nan Territory Battle of Chang Ban Dim Sum Snack - Inside the center castle, bottom left corner. Fairy Wine - Inside the center castle, within the walled area at the bottom right corner. Race for Nan Territory Dim Sum Snack - From the top right corner of the castle, go South, the snack is on top of the first staircase you run into. Fairy Wine - Inside the castle, within the walled area near the bottom right corner. Battle of Mai Castle Dim Sum Snack - Inside the castle, South of the right entry point. Fairy Wine - Directly South of the top entrance in the castle is a walled area, the wine is at the top left corner within that walled area. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9). EASY ITEMS TRICKS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's some tips on getting higher level items and orbs faster. I got all lvl. 20 items and lvl. 4 orbs except Elixir, Wing Boots, and Vorpal orb in two days using these tricks(mostly Wu Zhang Plains), so good luck and here are the tips. Wu Zhang Plains (Shu Forces) Ok, there are five item boxes in this level and they are: #1. Southeast corner, top right corner of that circled area. #2. Outside of Zhuge Liangs fort, along the left wall. #3. By Zhang He's initial position, going up the path to get to the top castle. #4. Along the center path, South of Xiahou Yuan's initial position. #5. Right beside Cao Cao after he arrives as reinforcements. Ok, the main trick is to collect them in order, #1 and #2 doesn't matter which one you do first. Then go to #3. and after the Sima Yi enraged cut-scene, Zhuge Liang will fake his death that will cause Sima Yi to charge and all the gates will open, get #4. Then wait at the very top of the map, and when Sima Yi returns after he sees Zhuge Liang is still alive, Cao Cao will arrive as reinforcements. Defeat all the soldiers as necessary, then deplete Cao Cao's life as low as you can and save it BEFORE you get #5. Load it up again and get the item and finish off Cao Cao. If nothing that you receive pleases you then soft-select(Select + Start) and load it up again. Repeat until you receive an item that you need or want. Note: If you deplete his life low enough then after you load it up again just knocking him off his horse will kill him. Yi Ling (Wu Forces) There are 5 items from five different generals or sub-generals, but to finish this fast just do the requirements. I actually don't find this trick as useful as Wu Zhang Plains, but that's just me. Ok, Ride your horse or run to Ma Liang, kill Ma Liang, and clear out all Liu Bei's guards or anyone else in that area. Deplete Liu Bei's life as low as possible. Go to Wang Ping and kill all his guards, lure him as close to Liu Bei as possible, then defeat Wang Ping, save BEFORE getting the item, load the game up and get the item, finish of Liu Bei, if what you get doesn't please you, just soft reset(Select + Start) and load it up again and so forth. Jie Ting (Shu Forces) This seems to be the level that gives the most Orbs, now that's just a random thought so don't take it seriously. Ok, Go to Sima Yi and kill all his guards and any troops that may be in the way, then deplete his life as low as possible. Go back and lure Xu Huang down to where Jia Kui is. Defeat Jia Kui but don't get his item box he dropped yet! Then quickly defeat Xu Huang, save the game, continue it and pick up both items, proceed to Sima Yi and defeat Sima Yi. Note: This may be a good choice as it provides two different items each time you re-load it. Also try to get Xu Huang and Jia Kui as close as possible so it makes it quicker. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10). MUSOU YELLS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are the things they say during there Musou attacks, if I can't figure any out please help me in figuring out what that character is saying, thank you. -------------------- I. Wei -------------------- Cao Cao Musou: "Die!" True Musou: "Parish!" Xiahou Dun Musou: "Aaaaargh!" True Musou: "Away with you!" Xiahou Yuan Musou: "Arrrrrgh!" True Musou: "No more games!" Sima Yi Musou: "Hahaha!" True Musou: "Fools!" Xu Huang Musou: "Eat this!" True Musou: "I'll show you strength!" Dian Wei Musou: "Aaaaargh!" True Musou: "Evil comes!" Cao Ren Musou: "Arrrggh!" True Musou: "This ends here!" Zhang Liao Musou: "Arrggghhh!!" True Musou: "Arrrrrgh!" Zhang He Musou: "Shall we dance?!" True Musou: "Beauty! Come to me!" Xu Zhu Musou: "Uggggh!" True Musou: "Fly away!" Zhen Ji Musou: "Withdraw!" True Musou: "You shall pay..." -------------------- II. Wu -------------------- Sun Jian Musou: "It's time!" True Musou: "My sword will prevail!" Sun Quan Musou: "Aaaaargh!" True Musou: "You will pay!" Sun Ce Musou: "Waaatch out!" True Musou: "Check this out!" Sun Shang Xiang Musou: "Aaaarrggha!" True Musou: "You won't get away!" Huang Gai Musou: "Eeeergh!" True Musou: "I will crush you!" Zhou Yu Musou: "errrgh!" True Musou: "Be gone!" Lu Xun Musou: "Take this!" True Musou: "My powerrr!" Lu Meng Musou: "Arrrrgh!" True Musou: "Take this!" Gan Ning Musou: "Here we go!" True Musou: "Ohh ya!" Taishi Ci Musou: "Aaaaargh!" True Musou: "Hold together!" (Thanks to Boush for this tip) Zhou Tai Musou: "Let's go!" True Musou: "Iiit's overrr!!!" Da Qiao Musou: "Move please" True Musou: "I can do it!" Xiao Qiao Musou: "Supermove" (???) True Musou: "Here comes trouble" -------------------- III. Shu -------------------- Liu Bei Musou: "Argh" True Musou: "I shall prevail!" Guan Yu Musou: "Be gone!" True Musou: "Roar Blue Dragon!" Zhang Fei Musou: "Arrrrgh!" True Musou: "Hurry up and die!!" Zhuge Liang Musou: "This ends now!" True Musou: "Arrrrgh!" Zhao Yun Musou: "Attack!" True Musou: "Stand back!" Ma Chao Musou: "Uuuggghhh!" True Musou: "Feel my wrath!" Huang Zhong Musou: "Arrrrgh!" True Musou: "You're not dead yet!?" Wei Yan Musou: "Die" True Musou: "Diiie!" Yue Ying Musou: "Right!" True Musou: "Prepare yourself!" Jiang Wei Musou: "Take this!" True Musou: "Now or never!" Pang Tong Musou: "Carrreful" True Musou: "Yeeaaa!" -------------------- IV. Other -------------------- Lu Bu Musou: "Die!" True Musou: "Worthless scum!" Dong Zhuo Musou: "Die!" True Musou: "Eat this!" Diao Chan Musou: "Stay back!" True Musou: "This ends now!" Yuan Shao Musou: "Insolence!" True Musou: "Bow your head!" Meng Huo Musou: "Aaaaarrrrgh!" True Musou: "I'm the king!" Zhu Rong Musou: "Get outta here!" True Musou: "Burrrrn!" Zhang Jiao Musou: "Heavens!" True Musou: "Witness the miracles!" --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11). UNLOCKING TALES STAGES --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This entire guide of unlocking tales stages is made by Javelina, thanks to him full heartedly. Sorry for editing it a bit Javee I hope that was alright. -------------------- I. Wei Tales -------------------- Wei Tales: Eliminate Zhang Jiao! [Appears after Act 2] Requirement 1: In Act 1, SKIP Yellow Turban Menace, Clear Yellow Turban Fortress, Clear Yellow Turban Rebellion. Requirement 2: In Act 1, Yellow Turban Rebellion you must defeat all enemy generals except Zhang Jiao, then eliminate the entry point beside him and let him escape. Wei Tales: Guan Yus Escape [Appears after Act 3] Requirement 1: In Act 1, Clear Yellow Turban Menace, SKIP Yellow Turban Fortress, Clear Yellow Turban Rebellion Requirement 2: In Act 2, Clear both Si Shui Gate and Hu Lao Gate. Wei Tales: The Yuan Familys Pride - Battle of Ji Province [Appears after Act 3] Requirement 1: In Act 2, You must SKIP The Battle of Si Shui Gate Requirement 2: In Act 3, Battle of Guan Du in this battle you must defeat all enemy generals except Yuan Shao and let Yuan Shao escape. Wei Tales: The Stalwart Ma Chao- Battle of Tong Gate [Appears after Act 4] Requirement 1: In Act 4, you must SKIP Battle of Chang Ban Wei Tales: Lu Bus Revenge - Lu Bus Offensive [Appears after Act 4] Requirement 1: In Act 2, Battle of Hu Lao Gate, in this stage you must defeat Lu Bu(Not necessary to do so in a duel). Good luck if you try to duel Lu Bu! Requirement 2: In Act 3, you must SKIP Battle of Xia Pi. Requirement 3: In Act 3, Battle of Guan Du, make sure you defeat Lu Bu. Requirement 4: In Act 4, Do NOT skip Chang Ban (you will get Tong Gate instead if you do). Wei Tales: Dong Zhuo Lives! - Dong Zhuo in Ji [Appears after Act 5] Requirement 1: Clear Wei musou previously. Requirement 2: In Act 2, Hu Lao Gate You must defeat all enemy generals except Dong Zhuo and let him escape. Requirement 3: In Act 3 you must SKIP Battle of Wan Castle. Requirement 4: In Act 5, Select the Battle of He Fei(Fall of Wu) or Wu Zhang Plains(Fall of Shu) first. -------------------- II. Wu Tales -------------------- Wu Tales : Eliminate Zhang Jiao! [Appears after Act 1] Requirement 1: In Act 1 Clear Yellow Turban Menace, SKIP Yellow Turban Fortress, Clear Yellow Turban Rebellion Wu Tales : The Two Qiaos [Appears after Act 1] Requirement 1: Clear Wu previously Requirement 2: In Act 1 SKIP Yellow Turban Menace, Clear Yellow Turban Fortress, Clear Yellow Turban Rebellion Wu Tales : The Symbol of the Mandate -The Imperial Seal [Appears after Act 2] Requirement 1: In Act 2 SKIP Si Shui Gate and play Hu Lao Gate first. Wu Tales : The Unification of Jing [Appears after Act 3] Requirement 1: In Act 3 Play Unification of Jiang Dong first. Wu Tales: Guan Yu the God of War - Battle of Mai Castle [Appears after Act 5] Requirement 1: Clear Wu musou previously. It may also be necessary to reach this Tale by the 10th stage. I have not tested this. Requirement 2: In Act 4 SKIP all other battles and play Battle of Chi Bi first. Requirement 3: In Act 4 Battle of Chi Bi Ensure Zhuge Liangs prayer for wind. Allow fire attack. This will cause Act 5 to be the Fall of Shu. Requirement 4: In Act 5 play Yi Ling first. Skip all other battles. Requirement 5: In Act 5 Battle of Yi Ling Protect Zhu Ran till the fire attack is successful, then clear the stage. (Some FAQs say to let Guan Yu survive in this battle, but popemobile's FAQ correctly says that he will only appear if you have played Nan Territory and occupied all three cities in it. If he appears, don't kill him, but if you skipped straight to Yi Ling as suggested, he shouldn't appear, and you do not need him to). Wu Tales: Dong Zhuo lives! - Battle of Chang Jiang [Appears after Act 5] Requirement 1: In Act 3, Select the Unification of Jiang Dong first Requirement 2: In Act 4, SKIP the Defense of Nanman -------------------- III. Shu Tales -------------------- Shu Tales : Eliminate Zhang Jiao! [Appears after Act 1] Requirement 1: In Act 1 Clear Yellow Turban Menace, SKIP Yellow Turban Fortress, Clear Yellow Turban Rebellion Shu Tales: Guan Yus Escape [appears after Act 2] Requirement 1: In Act 2 Si Shui Gate Do not find the enemy food supply by the hidden route. Fight until Yuan Shao(your commander) shouts Is there no warrior here who can defeat Hua Xiong? Go defeat Hua Xiong and get the cut-scene where your character announces to Yuan Shao that it was you who defeated him. Finish the stage. Requirement 2: In Act 2 Hu Lao Gate Defeat Diao Chan and Lu Bu and allow Dong Zhuo to escape. Shu Tales : Heroes of the Han - Battle of Ru Nan [Appears after Act 2] Requirement 1: In Act 2 SKIP the Battle of Si Shui Gate and select Hu Lao Gate first. Requirement 2: In Act 2 Hu Lao Gate, In this battle you DO NOT defeat Lu Bu, but you MUST DEFEAT Dong Zhuo. Do not let him escape. Shu Tales: The Fury of Ma Chao - Battle of Tong Gate [appears after Act 4] Requirement 1: In Act 4 you must SKIP the Battle of Luo Castle Requirement 2: In Act 4 Campaign for Cheng Du In this battle, if you have not previously unlocked Ma Chao, fight until Ma Chao appears as general of enemy reinforcements. Defeat him. If you have already unlocked Ma Chao, then Pang De will appear as general of enemy reinforcements. Defeat him. Clear the stage. Shu Tales: Tian Shuis Prodigy - Battle of Tian Shui. [Appears after Act 5] Requirement 1: In Act 3 you must SKIP Battle of Bo Wan Po Requirement 2: Act 5 must be the Fall of Wu. This is done in Act 3 Battle of Chi Bi PREVENT Zhuge Liangs prayer for wind in this battle. DO NOT allow Huang Gais fire attack to succeed. Finishing this stage prior to both events also satisfies this requirement. Shu Tales: Dong Zhuo Lives - Battle of Han Zhong [Appears after Act 5] Requirement 1: You must have cleared less than 10 stages up to this point. Requirement 2: In Act 2 Battle of Hu Lao Gate In this battle you must defeat all enemy generals except Dong Zhuo and let Dong Zhuo escape (retreat). This would include killing Lu Bu hah hah hah hahhh .! Requirement 3: In Act 5 The Fall of Wei (Chi Bi fire attack successful) You must SKIP the Battle of Mt. Ding Jun. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12). WALKTHROUGHS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a new added section that I got the insentive to do while reading some feedback from readers of my FAQ. I hope this information or help will aid you in anyway needed. Also, this is all my own written info and not from any other FAQ, Guide, Walkthrough, Website or any other source. All difficulties are set one Normal. For Hard Difficulty, add one *, for easy Difficulty subtract one *. Any list of items, saddles, or level 10 weapons in any levels of that Musou Mode will be listed inside of these: { } In case of any requirements to change a level that you did not know of, I will list them as a category. I have also added the total amount from all generals and sub-generals of Attack and Defense pickups, as well as Items. -------------------- I. Wei Musou Mode -------------------- ---------- -Act I- A Hero of Chaos ---------- The Yellow Turban Menace (Han Forces) Difficulty: ** Level Changes: None Attack/Defense/Item pickups total: Attack +4, Defense +4, Items x1 My Method: At the start you will start at the left side of the map. Your commander is Huangfu Song inside the middle castle and the enemy commander is Zhang Liang. There are many ways to completed this level in many different methods. It will take a lot of speed to both defeat all enemy generals and to get to your commander and protect him, here's what I recommend you do for this battle when playing on Cao Cao's East side of the map. Ok, go South and defeat Gao Sheng guarding the South Gate to the castle. Now the South gate is cleared of enemies, now go and defeat Guan Hai at the East side of the castle, and move north to defeat Liu Pi afterward. Now, travel back to the West of the map and defeat Deng Mao and Huang Shao, now during this, a rainstorm will be summoned by Zhang Liang(enemy commander) inside the castle. Huangfu Song will announce he will join the battle and the first minute will get ambushed by He Yi inside the castle. You must assist Huangfu Song right away by locating him on the map and travelling to him. Defeat He Yi once there and accompany him outside the Northeast entrance to the castle. Once Huangfu Song exits the castle another ambush led by Yan Zheng will be afoot. Defeat Yan Zheng and now Huangfu Song will be safe without your presance. You may now make your way up towards Zhang Liang, once in the top area, you might as well get the Life up and Musou up. Each one is at the bottom left squared area and bottom right squared area. Now, if you wish to have Zhang Liang presant at The Yellow Turban Rebellion not not defeat him and defeat his sub-general, Han Xian. If you wish to defeat Zhang Liang now, he will not appear at The Yellow Turban Rebellion. The Yellow Turban Fortress (Han Forces) Difficulty: ** Level Changes: None Attack/Defense/Item pickups total: Attack +3, Defense +3, Items x1 My Method: You will begin this stage inside the Northeastern castle when playing as a Wei character. In this level your commander is Zhu Jun and enemy commander is Zhang Bao. In this level there aren't many generals, but this level does provide lots of KOs. Again, there are lots of different ways to completed this level, but I find the way I am about to describe the most helpful. First, defeat as many soldiers as you please before defeating He Yi(your decision to defeat the soldiers). Once you've defeated He Yi, there is a Musou up right beside the Gate Captain beside him, so you might as well get that. Now that you've finished that area near He Yi, don't advance down that path, instead make your way to the West part of the map. There will be a cut-scene showing Pei Yuan Shao starting powerful winds with windmills and your allies(Cao Cao's troops and Liu Bei's troops) will hold there position until you've destroyed all three windmills. So go to the West side of the map, when there defeat Bo Zhang and the West forts North entrance will open. When any allied troops reach the middle of the fort a cut-scene showing a Phantom soldier. Now there will be Phantom troops that cannot be attacked, nor your allies be able to attack them. To stop these Phantom troops, just destroy the giant pots infront of Zhou Cang and the other at the Southeast corner of that fort. You must destroy both pots and defeat Zhou Cang in order to open the South gates. After you've defeated the giant pots and Zhou Cang the gates will open, proceed down the path and defeat any soldiers you please. This is a good place to build up KOs cause loads come from the bottom left entry point. After you're done getting enough KOs(or not) just defeat Cheng Yuanzhi, run over to Pei Yuan Shao at the Eastern side of the loer part of the map and defeat him. You can go north and destroy the windmills and free your Allies or you can leave them there. Once all that is done you have the choice to defeat Zhang Bao and he won't appear at The Yellow Turban Rebellion or you can defeat the Gate Captain inside the bottom castle after you've defeated all generals and Zhang Bao will retreat and he will appear at Yellow Turban Rebellion. The Yellow Turban Rebellion (Han Forces) Difficulty: ** Level Changes: If you defeated Zhang Liang or Zhang Bao in the previous stages then they will not appear in this battle. Attack/Defense/Item pickups total: Attack +6, Defense +6, Items x5 My Method: There are numerous ways to complete this level, but I can only mention one, otherwise I'd probably be able to make an entire FAQ on this level. Anyway, you're starting to the Southeast of the map if you're playing as a Wei character. Ok, first ride(you'll need a horse) over to the middle, where Liu Bei's Forces will be and defeat He Yi and Yan Zheng, Pei Yuan Shao's sub-generals. Now Gao Sheng, Chang Yuanzhi's sub-general, will be coming along the right wall of the area where you defeated He Yi and Yan Zheng. Defeat Gao Sheng and then go North and defeat Cheng Yuanzhi. Move left and defeat Pei Yuan Shao. Now that you're at the West side of the map quickly defeat sub-general of Zhang Man Cheng, Guan Hai. Then when you enter the Northwestern area, if you did not defeat Zhang Bao at Yellow Turban Fortress, a cut-scene where Zhang Bao is given power and summons winds and ground explosions. This will hold off your Allies moving in that area, Zhang Bao will most likely not be defeated. Anyway get back on track and defeat Zhang Man Cheng and go all the way back to the East side of the map. Defeat sub-general Deng Mao and then move into the Northeastern area. If you did not defeat Zhang Liang at the Yellow Turban Menace, Zhang Liang will summon rockslides. Boulders will come from all angles and this may be a problem. Get the Musou up at the very right of that area and defeat Zhang Liang "as quick as possible". Then when the summon stops, defeat Bo Zhang and move up toward the path to Zhang Jiao. Defeat his sub-generals Han Xian and Zhou Cang. You can run over to Zhang Bao, if he's still alive, and run back to the main path towards Zhang Jiao. Defeat Huang Shao and Liu Pi then to get Zhang Jiao to retreat defeat the Gate Captain beside him. If you don't want him to retreat just quickly defeat him and the level ends. ----------- -Act II- The Alliance against Dong Zhuo ----------- Battle of Si Shui Gate (Allied Forces) Difficulty: *** Level Changes: None Attack/Defense/Item pickups total: Attack +4, Defense +6, Items x3 My Method: This is a rather easy level to complete, your Commander is Yuan Shao and the enemy Commander is Li Jue. As a Wei character you will start at the very right of the map. You can use any method you choose, but I recommend using this method. Ok, first defeat Li Su, after that Gao Shun will take off up towards Sun Jian. You can chase after him and defeat him or just leave him. Then defeat Niou Fu and right near his initial position there is a wooden wall that you can jump over, jump over the wall and right there, there'll be a Musou up, get that if desired. Move up that path, do not jump back over the wall, instead continue up towards the area Li Jue is at. Sun Jian will announce that he needs supplies and his Morale will decrease. Now defeat in that area the following sub-generals: Yang Feng, Li Meng, Hu Zhen, and Zhao Cen. Now after Sun Jian announces without supplies his force must retreat, he will begin to retreat and Yuan Shao will ask if there is anyone who can defeat Hua Xiong, now defeat Hua Xiong in a duel or not. After you defeat him there will be a cut-scene that has Yuan Shao asking you has slain Hua Xiong. Your character will announce that he/she has defeated Hua Xiong in there own way. Now enemy reinforcements will arrive, the general is Dong Min. Defeat him and if Gao Shun is still alive, you might as well defeat him. Now move up to the Northwest area where enemies Guo Si and Li Ru are. When there defeat Guo Si and leave Li Ru alive for now. Hope of the wooden wall beside Li Ru's position and you have discovered a backroad to the supply depot. There is a Life up to the bottom left of the depot. Now defeat Wang Fang and then Fan Chou. Your character will say a phrase and the supply depot will be taken. Now run back to Li Ru and defeat him. You will probably not have enough time to defeat Li Jue, besides it's said that if you defeat him, he will not appear at Hu Lao Gate. Li Jue will retreat about a minute after you defeat Li Ru. Note: To trigger Li Jue to retreat you must defeat Hua Xiong, Dong Min, and Li Ru. Once all have been defeated Li Jue will retreat. Battle of Hu Lao Gate (Allied Forces) Difficulty: *** Level Changes: If you skipped Si Shui Gate then Hua Xiong will appear with 2 sub-generals. Attack/Defense/Item pickups total: Attack +7, Defense +6, Items x0 My Method: This can either be a difficult level or an easy level to complete and here is my method of completing it. Yuan Shao is your Commander and Dong Zhuo is the enemy Commander for this battle. Wei characters will start at the Eastern part of the map, to the South. The first few minute or so there will be an archer ambush that is not a difficult thing to control, so break through the ambush and defeat Li Ru's sub-general, Xu Rong. Now defeat Li Ru, the gates will open and about 5 seconds after the gates open the allied Ramming vehicle will appear. Do not protect it 'cause it will break the gates down regardless, but not yet so go to the Northern part of the East side of the map where Liu Bei is. Defeat Gao Shun in there and Dong Min afterwards. Now, Hu Lao Gates gates will most likely be broken down by now. Just ignore Lu Bu's appearance beyond Hu Lao Gate for now and move East and where Sun Jian is and defeat Li Meng and then Guo Si. Now move towards Hu Lao Gate(West) and there will be a Gate Captain, this Gate Captain will appear constantly until Lu Bu is defeated. When you've arrived at Hu Lao Gate, decline Lu Bu's duel unless you want to die. At the North and South top parts of Hu Lao Gate(the actual Gate) there is a Musou up and a Life up. Get those if desired and ignore Lu Bu for now. Move and defeat the two Gate Captains at the North and South beyond Hu Lao Gate if you feel the need and after that move to defeat Diao Chan. After she's been defeated, if you did not play Si Shui Gate, Hua Xiong will appear near Yuan Shao with two sub-generals, Li Meng and Hu Zhen. Yuan Shao will die very quickly, so get back there and assist him. If you did Si Shui Gate, Hua Xiong will not appear. Now, continue from where you were, you were at the entrance of Luo Yang. Once you enter Dong Zhuo will burn the city and retreat if you defeated Lu Bu, so do not defeat Lu Bu yet. Now continue downward from your current position and you'll reach Wang Fang, defeat him move North again and defeat Jia Xu, who should be at the very North of that area. Now defeat Li Jue and continue to the next area where Dong Zhuo will be. Defeat Fan Chou there and ignore Dong Zhuo. Instead move West into the next area and defeat Niou Fu who is at the far West of that area. Now all sub-generals and generals are defeated except Lu Bu and Dong Zhuo. You can choose to ignore Lu Bu and defeat Dong Zhuo or you can defeat Lu Bu and Dong Zhuo will begin to retreat. I suggest to defeat Lu Bu, use any strategy you desire and defeat Lu Bu, once you've defeated him Dong Zhuo will begin to retreat, he retreats all the way to where you defeated Niou Fu so it's a fair distance there. You can try to catch up to him and defeat him or you can allow him to retreat. Note: If the clock reaches 72'00 before you've(or an ally) defeated Diao Chan then Dong Zhuo will say "I'll teach you not to defy me!" and his forces will charge, whiping out my entire strategy. Don't worry though as everyone will charge for Yuan Shao, so you can just defeat them before the reach Hu Lao Gate. ---------------- -Wei Tales- Eliminate Zhang Jiao! ---------------- Eliminate Zhang Jiao! (Cao Cao's Forces) Difficulty: *** Level Changes: None Attack/Defense/Item pickups total: Attack +3(+5), Defense +1(+3), Items x1(x2) My Method: Your allied generals will be Xu Huang and Xiahou Dun. Your Commander is Cao Cao. The enemy Commanders are Zhang Jiao and Zhang Lu. At first your allies will attack the Southwest corner. Xu Huang will attack from the South of the fort and Xiahou Dun will attack the North. Go over with Xu Huang and Xiahou Dun and defeat He Yi and Bo Zhang at that fort. Zhang Lu's unit will appear and there are a lot of Zhang Lu troops. If you defeat Zhang Lu he will appear over and over and over until you defeat all of his troops. If you have defeated all of his troops then the real Zhang Lu will appear at the path that goes from the left all the way to the right side of the map. He will appear in the middle part a bit more to the right. If you defeat the real Zhang Lu then Zhang Jiao will do a ritual and all your soldiers except Xu Huang and Xiahou Dun will betray Cao Cao. Back to the Southwest fort, if you do not defeat all of Zhang Lu's troops and he makes it to Zhang Jiao then they will both complete a ritual causing all your troops, including Xu Huang and Xiahou Dun, to betray Cao Cao. Just defeat Xu Huang and Xiahou Dun, then when at the top of the rockslide area, defeat Pei Yuan Shao and Zhang Bao. Then move toward Zhang Jiao and you should meet with Zhang Lu, defeat Zhang Lu and in that area there is a Musou up South of the Northeast entry point. Now move up the stairs and defeat Zhang Liang and move into the area where Zhang Jiao is. At the top area of the center area, at the bottom right corner there is a Life up. Now only Zhang Jiao is left so finish him off and the level is complete. ---------- -Act III- The Rise of Cao Cao ---------- Battle of Xia Pi (Cao Cao's Forces) {Level 10 Weapon - Xiahou Dun} Difficulty: **** Level Changes: None Attack/Defense/Item pickups total: Attack +8, Defense +6, Items x0 My Method: This battle can end up in so many different ways and here is my method of going about this level. Your Commander is Cao Cao and the enemy Commander is Lu Bu. In this level any Gate Captains you defeat, they will appear again with no end. Your character starts at the Northeast corner. Either West or South of Cao Cao. Either way start by going West and defeating Zang Ba. Now Gao Shun's unit will have appeared by now South of Xiahou Dun's position. Move down to defeat him and continue South. If Xiahou Dun is still alive and he makes it to the Southeast river, there will be a cut-scene showing Xiahou Dun getting shot in the eye with an arrow and continuing the battle. After this cut-scene continue down past the river, Hou Cheng is the enemy general there and within 10 seconds of meeting with him he will abandon Lu Bu's Forces and begin to retreat. You can try to defeat him and he will still surrender to Cao Cao, so I recommend trying to defeat him. Now, move West and you'll meet with Song Xian. Again, he will begin to retreat unless you defeat him. Now, moving North(West of the castle) you will encounter Wei Xu and he will also retreat unless you defeat him. After you defeat him and few seconds later, Lu Bu will realize that he is outnumbered and will exit the Northwest entrance of the castle. After he's out a Carriage will appear. If you do not defeat it before it reaches the Northwestern entry point, then Yuan Shu's unit will appear later in the battle. If you do defeat it, Lu Bu's entire armies' morale will decrease twice. I recommend to allow the Carriage to clear the battlefield and let Yuan Shu to appear because he supplies 3 sub-generals. Now a cut-scene should appear any minute showing the river that goes down and shows Red Hare on a small island. After this go to the Northern area a bit more West and a boulder should be there. Encounter it and another cut-scene will appear showing your character jumping on a bunch of boulders and announce victory is near. After this the stream in the castle will be easier to walk in and you can now move North against the tide. So move into the entrance where Lu Bu exited. Ignore Lu Bu. Now at the very North end of the stream there is a Life up, get that if desired and continue to Chen Gong, defeat him and move down to Diao Chan, defeat her. After you defeat Diao Chan, Lu Bu will go ballistic and starts yelling and ranting. His morale rises. Around this time or maybe a bit before Red Hare will be discovered on the little island Southeast of the map. Before you weren't able to get there due to the heavy water coming down the stream, but now you blocked off the water making Red Hare accessable. By this time Yuan Shu would have appeared but ignore him for now and move to the little island. Once there get the Musou up on the island and mount Red Hare. Lu Bu's morale decreases and move all the way Southwest where Yuan Shu's sub-general, Lei Bo will be. Defeat him and move North from there. Ji Ling, another Yuan Shu sub-general will be there, defeat him. Now move North and another sub-general, Chen Lan will be lurking around that area with Yuan Shu. Defeat them both and find Lu Bu and defeat him to end the stage. Battle of Wan Castle (Cao Cao's Forces) {Level 10 Weapon - Dian Wei} Difficulty: **** Level Changes: If you selected Xia Pi first in this Act and Lu Bu retreated successfully, than in this level Lu Bu will come as reinforcements. Attack/Defense/Item pickups total: Attack +6, Defense +4, Items x2 My Method: This stage is rather small and can be confusing sometimes if you don't know what's going on, here's my description of completing this level with ease. First off, Cao Cao is your Commander and Zhang Xiu is the enemy Commander which does not appear until later. If you are Dian Wei it will be more complicated to follow these directions so you'll have to come up with another way of completing the level. When you're a Wei character besides Dian Wei you'll start at the Southeast hall. Cao Cao is at the very bottom right shrine where there is a Life up. Backtrack and get that if you please or if you're Cao Cao it'll be much easier to get. Now move up the hallway and you'll see most of the paths are cut off from fire and trashed doors. Most of the level will be like this making only one path available unless you are Dian Wei. Once you reach the very North of the East hallway there is a Gate Captain and sub-general Zhao Cen. Defeat him and once Cao Cao exits that hallway the door to Dian Wei will be blocked off from fire. A Dian Wei cut-scene appears showing him fighting off troops and telling Cao Cao to escape. Stay with Cao Cao all the time and follow him to his destinations. He will now move South of this hallway, Hu Zhen will be there who is sub-general under Jia Xu. Defeat him and continue South. You'll come to a path leading left(map). Jia Xu will be there, defeat him, and beyond him will be sub-general Fan Chou. Defeat him and clear out all the troops for Cao Cao. Once he reaches Zhang Xiu's current position be there with him, and either defeat him or let him retreat, either way he'll arrive again at Cao Cao's escape point. Cao Cao will walk into two rooms and both the exits in those rooms will be blocked off. A few minutes later cut-scene showing Dian Wei(Xu Zhu) breaking through the door where Cao Cao and Dian Wei cut-scene appeared. Now Cao Cao will backtrack all the way back, but Zhang Xiu's army will appear in different areas of the level. Lu Bu will appear if he retreated successfully at Xia Pi. Moving back now check where Cao Ang is. In that room where he is there will be a Musou up, get that and guide Cao Cao back to where Dian Wei is. Once back there defeat Hu Che Er in that main area and Lu Bu in the next room if he appeared. Finish off Zhang Xiu and Cao Cao will announce to retreat. Note: Both defeating Zhang Xiu and Cao Cao reaching his Escape Point are required for victory. Battle of Guan Du (Cao Cao's Forces) {Level 10 Weapon - Xu Huang} Difficulty: **** Level Changes: If you skipped Xia Pi earlier in this Act, than Lu Bu will appear as reinforcements. Attack/Defense/Item pickups total: Attack +12, Defense +7, Items x3 My Method: This battle can end up in so many different ways, I will write two ways it can end up. Your Commander is, again, Cao Cao and the enemy has Yuan Shao as their Commander. First off, you will most likely start above the Bai Ma fort(Left fort). If you desire to have Wu Chao(supply depot at the very left of the map, in which contains a Musou up) to be discovered than wait for both forts to fall and the ramming vehicles appear(happens when enemy troops get close to Cao Cao's bottom castle. After this the supply depot will be discovered and Cao Cao will attack the depot. Follow him there and defeat Chunyu Qiong and Lu Wei Kuang who comes as reinforcements, Wu Chao taken causing Zhang He, if this is your first time playing as a Wei character in Musou Mode, to defect to Wei. If you do not desire to uncover Wu Chao than follow these directions to victory; First move to the East part of the map, defeat Yan Liang, Guan Yu will charge the enemy. Now move into the East castle and defeat Han Meng and Guo Tu, who are sub-generals of Yuan Xi. Then defeat Yuan Xi. Yuan Shao's main force will arrive and his army will charge. Guan Yu will have attacked Wen Chou by now, so go to where Wen Chou is and defeat him before Guan Yu does. Move North to defeat Yuan Shang, Xu Chen, Yuan Shao's sub-general, will be there and defeat him as well. Guan Yu will meet with Liu Bei and they will both retreat from battle. If you desired to defeat Liu Bei and Zhang Fei than do it after you defeat Yuan Xi in the East castle. Now if you did not play Xia Pi, Lu Bu will appear North of the East castle as reinforcements for Yuan Shao. Get over there and defeat him. Now move North again and clear out Yuan Shao's troops if desired. Now Yuan Tan is at the East side of Yuan Shao's main army, defeat him and Yuan Shao will retreat from battle. ---------- -Wei Tales- Guan Yu's Escape ---------- Guan Yu's Escape (Cao Cao's Forces) {Valuable Item - Way of Musou} Difficulty: **** Level Changes: None Attack/Defense/Item pickups total: Attack +6, Defense +6, Items x0 My Method: This level will take at most 12'00 minutes to complete, at least it should. Now, your Commander is Xiahou Dun and the enemy Commander is Guan Yu. In this level Guan Yu is trying to escape through 5 Gates and at the end(Yellow River) he will meet with Liu Bei and they will retreat causing you to loose the battle. Guan Yu is also escorting a Carriage that must make it to the Yellow River as well with Guan Yu there. Your objective is to defeat Guan Yu before he reaches the Yellow River with the Carriage. At the beginning, you'll start at the very top of the Northwestern castle. Guan Yu will start at the entrance of the castle. Now, once you enter the next room, Sun Qian's unit appear will appear at the 1st Gate. Defeat Sun Qian and his troops will flee. Now move out of the castle and if desired pick up the Musou up to the left of the castle entrance, at the end of a deadend. Continue along the path towards the Carriage and Guan Yu. Oh ya, once you exit the castle, Zhou Cang's unit will appear at the 2nd Gate. Defeat Zhou Cang and his troops will flee. Now, move past the 2nd Gate and Liao Hua's unit appears at the 3rd Gate. If you've moved fast, this is where you'll catch up to the Carriage. If you defeat the Carriage, Guan Yu still will not stop. Once you reach Liao Hua, he will challenge you to a duel, I recommend accepting because it saves time on the clock. Once you've defeated him, clear the 3rd Gate, and once you do Guan Ping will appear infront of the 4th Gate. Move to defeat him. Now Liu Bei and Zhang Fei's unit appear at Yellow River once Guan Yu passes the 5th Gate. beyond the 4th Gate, in that area there is a Life up at the bottom right of that area. Now, Liu Bei and Zhang Fei will charge after you. Defeat them both and another Carriage will appear beyond the 4th Gate. Defeat it if desired and move to defeat Guan Yu. Note: There is an easier way to complete this level and that is to catch up to Guan Yu as soon as possible and Fight him, but do not defeat him, until Xiahou Dun appears and they will fight non-stop. This is a chance to continue the level, defeat all generals and get the Valuable item, Way of Musou. When done all this get back to Guan Yu and defeat him. Stage complete. ---------- -Wei Tales- The Yuan Family's Pride ---------- Battle of Ji Province (Cao Cao's Forces) Difficulty: **** Level Changes: None Attack/Defense/Item pickups total: Attack +6, Defense +6, Items x3 My Method: There are a few ways of going about this level and here is an advised one that I'd like to share that works fine for me, by doing this method I usually get around 300-400 KOs and all Worthy Opponents in less than 15'00 if you're fast, so I think it's helpful. Your Commander in this battle is Cao Cao and enemy Commander is Yuan Shao. First no matter where you start(Center, Left, or Right) go to the center of the map and move up near Yuan Xi. Defeat Lu Xiang, sub-general of Yuan Shang, then defeat Yuan Xi who will be in that same area, maybe a bit more Northeast. Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang will be given words from their own sub-generals telling them that they do not need each other and Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang will begin to betray each other. Now move to the West side of the map and at the bottom left area, just North of the Wall there is a Life up, get that and defeat the general in that area, Lu Kuang. Move North into the Northwest fort where Yuan Shang is. Do not encounter Yuan Shang yet if you do then he'll betray to your side, so defeat both sub-generals, Feng Ji and Shen Pei. Now encounter Yuan Shang and he'll have some words for his brother and betray to your side. Now move along the North passway. Once in the Northeast area where Yuan Tan is, defeat his sub-generals Xin Ping and Guo Tu in that area. Now exit that area from the South and Xin Pi will be there, defeat him and continue South. You'll encounter Gao Gan. Defeat Gao Gan and get back to Yuan Tan, defeat Yuan Tan once there and Yuan Shao's main forces will arrive, he will be ashamed of Yuan Shang and Yuan Shang will defect back to Yuan Shao's Forces. Defeat Yuan Shang and move to Yuan Shao. Defeat Yuan Shao to end the stage. ---------- -Act IV- The War against Liu Bei ---------- Battle of Bo Wan Po (Cao Cao's Forces) Difficulty: **** Level Changes: None Attack/Defense/Item pickups total: Attack +6, Defense +2, Items x3 My Method: There are a lot of traps and ambushes early in the level so you must choose to Attack right away or to hold back and Defend. Your Commander is Cao Cao and the enemy Commander is Liu Bei. The first way of going about this level is to attack the enemy right away, defeating Zhao Yun will stop all the traps and ambushes, there is one trap and two ambushes that he leads your allies to. Follow my steps and you should be fine. First charge the Southwest side of the map, so this is the area where Jian Yong is. Go there and defeat Jian Yong. By this time the Fire Attack will have happened and Xiahou Dun will be isolated and his troops will all be whiped out by the fire. Once Zhao Yun reaches the very Left side of the map, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang will vanish from the frontlines. If you're fast enough you can defeat Liu Feng(General at the fire attack location) and hurry over to Zhao Yun before Guan Yu appears and defeat Zhao Yun. Now defeat the ambush general Guan Xing and Guan Yu if he appears, not sure if he does after you've defeated Zhao Yun before he triggered Guan Yu's ambush. Anyway, continue into the castle that contains Wei's main forces. In the top left corner of the castle there is a small room. In it there is a Musou and Life up in the top right and bottom left corners. Zhang Fei will have attacked the supply depot by now and Zhuge Liang with Liu Bei will appear. Go to Zhang Fei, beware he is strong, and defeat him. Find Zhuge Liang and defeat him as well. Now just get to Liu Bei and finish him off. The second way is a much more challenging way to go about completing the level and may take a bit more time than the other. Ok, first do not leave the castle, let all the traps succeed, while waiting you can get the Life and Musou up in the top left room of the castle. Once all traps and ambushes have succeeded all enemy forces will head your way, to the castle. Zhang Fei will also appear at the supply depot inside the castle. Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei will appear there after. Now all the generals surrounding you will be Zhao Yun, Jian Yong, Liu Feng, Guan Xing, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhuge Liang, and Liu Bei. So have some fun and clean them all out. After you've defeated them all defeat Liu Bei and that will end the stage. Battle of Chang Ban (Cao Cao's Forces) {Level 10 Weapon - Zhen Ji} Difficulty: **** Level Changes: None Attack/Defense/Item pickups total: Attack +6, Defense +6, Items x5 My Method: This can be a very difficult level to complete no matter how good you are at the game, so I have come up with a great solution to easily completing the level. Your Commander is Cao Cao and the enemy Commander again is Liu Bei. You must defeat Liu Bei before he reaches the very South where his fleet is and he will escape resulting in a lose meaning you gotta do that all over again, so follow these steps directly. First defeat Liao Hua at the Northwest entrance of the castle, do not enter the castle yet. Now move down the Western path until you meet Zhao Yun, he may challenge you to a duel, accept if desired, and defeat him. Move back again towards the Northeast entrance to the castle, Zhou Cang will be guarding that entrance, defeat him and move into the castle. Once in the castle all the doors will shut and you will be isolated and all of Zhuge Liang's troops including Sun Qian will attack you all at once. I recommend defeating all three Gate Captains in the castle very quickly. Settle in and defeat all Zhuge's troops and Sun Qian along with them, now the North entrances to the castle will open. A Life up and Musou up are in the bottom left and bottom right corners of the castle so get those if you need them. Move to the South of the castle where Zhuge Liang is, now be prepared to jolt it towards Liu Bei after you defeat Zhuge Liang cause Liu Bei will immediately try to run to his fleet. Defeat Zhuge Liang and the South entrances will open. Move quickly to Liu Bei who will come after you only once to once he spots you stay near him all the time or else he will retreat. Time and time Guan Yu and Liu Qi will arrive at your position with Liu Bei, defeat Liu Qi and Guan Yu. Mi Zhu may be arround that area too, if so defeat him. Zhang Fei will probably have to be left alone cause you can't leave Liu Bei or he will retreat. Besides, Zhang Fei is too far away from your position anyway. Now that everyone is cleared out in that area, defeat Liu Bei to end the stage. Battle of Chi Bi (Cao Cao's Forces) {Level 10 Weapon - Cao Cao} Difficulty: **** Level Changes: If you defeated Zhuge Liang at Bo Wan Po previously, he will become much easier to defeat. If you cleared Chang Ban first there will be less Shu soldiers that appear. Attack/Defense/Item pickups total: Attack +14, Defense +12, Items x5 My Method: Here are two ways of completing the level. Either the Fire attack succeeds or it fails, whatever path you choose I have a method for both. Cao Cao is your Commander and Sun Jian is the enemy Commander this time. If you want the fire attack to succeed, first ignore all battle messages and take one path(West or East) and by the time you're done clearing out one side of the map, the Fire Attack will probably have succeeded. I first recommend taking the East side of the map because you want the Prayer for Wind successful. Taking the East path, first defeat Zhuge Jin and Zhu Ran, clear out all troops if desired and move down passed the first gate. You'll meet with Xu Sheng, defeat him. By this time Pang Tong's "Linked ships" will have occured, Pang Tong will now retreat. Continue downward and defeat enemy general Cheng Pu, by this time Huang Gai's ship will have set sail. The Prayer for the Wind will have happened by now too, Zhuge Liang will now retreat. Defeat all the troops in that area to burn time and close both Gates in the area. Wait a while until Huang Gai starts the Fire attack and move towards the action. Defeat Zhou Yu's sub-general Ling Tong. Move up towards Huang Gai and defeat him. Move along the platform towards Gan Ning and his sub-general Han Dang. Lu Meng and Zhou Yu will have charged by now. Once you catch up to Gan Ning, defeat Han Dang and then Gan Ning, Zhao Yun will be there too, defeat him. When Lu Meng approaches, defeat him. Go to where Zhou Yu is and defeat his sub-general Pan Zhang and then defeat him. Now Cao Cao's Forces will all charge the enemy. Quickly defeat Sun Jian's sub-generals Jiang Qin, Zhu Huan, and Lu Su. There is a Life up near Cao Cao and to find the Musou up start from Sun Jian's main ship and go up one ship, go left one ship and it's on the Northeast part of that ship. Defeat Sun Jian to end the stage. If you desire to ruin the Fire attack here's my method of doing so. First encounter Pang Tong who is at the Northwest of the map. He will defect back to the Allied Forces and begin to retreat, now you have foiled the "Linked ships" ploy. Defeat him if you want to. Now go down to Zhuge Liang and defeat him before the Prayer for the Wind occurs(you have lots of time). Now when a Wei soldier announces that Huang Gai wished to surrender go to the place where he will arrive, it is indicated on the map if you watch closly. Go there and wait for him, if you're right where he will arrive then the Fire attack will not start right away, so be right there. Defeat Huang Gai once he arrives to foil the Fire Attack. Now defeat any generals or sub-generals that you please and defeat Sun Jian to end the stage. ---------- -Wei Tales- The Stalwart Ma Chao ---------- Battle of Tong Gate (Cao Cao's Forces) {Level 10 Weapon - Xu Zhu} Difficulty: ***** Level Changes: None Attack/Defense/Item pickups total: Attack +6, Defense +6, Items x3 My Method: In this Wei Tales stage your Commander is Cao Cao and the enemy Commander is Ma Chao. First you're gonna need to go to the Southeast area where Cheng Yin, Meng De, and Wei Yan will be lurking. Meng De is a sub-general of Wei Yan so if you defeat either Wei Yan or Cheng Yin, Pang De will charge out from Tong Gate. If you defeat him then Ma Dai will charge out from Tong Gate. Clean up that area by defeating all Meng De, Wei Yan, Cheng Yin, Pang De, and Ma Dai. Now move into Tong Gate and ignore Ma Chao and move to the river that is passable to the North of Ma Chao's camp, there is a Musou up in the river if you need that. Do not defeat any of Han Sui's sub-generals or soldiers until Cao Cao announces he will go meet with Han Sui while waiting there is a Life up near the Northwest Gate Captain, if you need it then go get it now. A few minutes after Cao Cao announces this he will encounter Han Sui. A cut-scene will appear and Han Sui will consider defecting. In order to get him to defect you need to deplete his morale to one star by defeating his sub-generals and/or soldiers. Once his morale reaches one star he will defect to your side. Now finish up the level by defeating Ma Chao. The Gate behind Ma Chao's initial position is a good place to get KOs if you're interested. ---------- -Wei Tales- Lu Bu's Revenge ---------- Lu Bu's Offensive (Cao Cao's Forces) Difficulty: ***** Level Changes: None Attack/Defense/Item pickups total: Attack +4, Defense +4, Items x1 My Method: I can't say I've played this level much, actually once, but I think I have a method on how to beat Lu Bu fast and farely easy. First off defeat Gao Shun right away. Then kill off as many soldiers as you please until you desire to defeat Diao Chan. Once you desire this, defeat her at once, then a while later enemy reinforcements, Zang Ba, will appear. Easily defeat him and move onto Lu Bu. Defeat Lu Bu. There is a Musou up just outside the Northwest entrance to the castle. There is also one North of the bottom right Gate Captain. These can be helpful if you're someone such as... Xu Zhu, who's Musou is tremendously low. ---------- -Act V- The Fall of Wu ---------- Note: If the Fire attack at Chi Bi was successful, then Act 5 will be "The Fall of Shu". If the Fire attack at Chi Bi was unsuccessful, then Act 5 will be "The Fall of Wu". I'll continue the Walkthrough as if the Fire attack was unsuccessful. The Siege of Fan Castle (Wei's Forces) {Level 10 Weapon - Cao Ren} Difficulty: ***** Level Changes: If you played the Battle of Shi Ting first and in that stage you Cao Xiu was isolated by Zhou Fang's defection, then Zhou Fang will arrive as Wu's reinforcements. If Cao Xiu was NOT isolated then Cao Xiu will arrive as Wei's reinforcements. Attack/Defense/Item pickups total: Attack +12, Defense +12, Items x2 My Method: If you are not playing as Cao Ren this level may be very hard. Your Commander is Cao Ren for this battle and the enemy Commander is Sun Quan. You will start at the very Southeast corner regardless of what character you are in the Wei Forces. I have to methods for this level, one is the hard way, the other is easier. If you choose to play the level with difficulty then choose this method. First go straight to Taishi Ci's position and defeat Zhu Ran then Taishi Ci. 'fend off any soldiers in that area if desired. Now go South of Fan Castle where Zhou Tai is, defeat Xu Sheng and then Zhou Tai. By this time many siege weapons may have been set up and Cao Ren may be under attack already. Go help him and keep him alive by killing the Sub-Generals and Generals attacking him, they are Ling Tong, Sun Shang Xiang, Ding Feng, Lu Xun, Jiang Qin, and Lu Meng. Defeat them all. Sun Quan and his Sub-General won't be too far behind either, so defeat Cheng Pu and Sun Quan to end the stage. The difficult part is Cao Ren will be in trouble before you defeat Zhou Tai so you have to be quick before Cao Ren is defeated. The easier way to complete the level is to defeat all 4 siege weapons before more arrive. So first go North and defeat the Siege Ramp quickly that is moving to the East side of the castle. Then QUICKLY go the the West side of the castle and defeat the Siege Ramp there, you should make it just in time to destroy it before it sets up. No destroy the North and South Catapults quickly. Now your entire army will have a morale boost and Cao Ren will not be defeated so easily. Now defeat Zhu Ran, Taishi Ci, Xu Sheng, Zhou Tai, Ling Tong, Sun Shang Xiang, Ding Feng, Lu Xun, Jiang Qin, Lu Meng, Cheng Pu, and finally Sun Quan. Battle of Shi Ting (Wei's Forces) Difficulty: ***** Level Changes: If you played Siege of Fan Castle first, then a Catapult will attack the castles main gate. Attack/Defense/Item pickups total: Attack +12, Defense +12, Items x3 My Method: In this level your Commander is Sima Yi and the enemy Commander is Lu Xun. In this level the main focus is the Zhou Fang defection. At first he will be on the Wei Forces, but later he will defect to Wu. It will be good for your allies if you prevent this. First off go up the middle right path. Once you reach enemy General, Ding Feng, defeat him. He will say "I leave the rest to you Zhou Fang" after he's defeated. Now quickly move North from there and defeat the General Quan Zong. Now Cao Xiu will most likely be isolated by now due to Zhou Fang's defection, and a General and Sub-General will appear for the Wu Forces in ambush near Cao Xiu. You must save Cao Xiu by defeating Zhou Fang, Xu Sheng, and Zhu Zhi. Cao Xiu will retreat back to Sima Yi and that will boost your allies' morale. Now move along the middle left path. You will encounter Zhu Huan, defeat him and the main castles gates will open. Ambushes from each corner of the middle part of the map will appear. They will all be heading for Sima Yi, so you might want to give Sima Yi a hand. After saving Sima Yi's ass, go back to the middle left path where Huang Gai will have made his way to. Defeat him there and move towards the ememies main camp. Defeat Lu Xun's sub-general Zhuge Jin and then finish him off. There is a Life up just outside the castle and a Musou up in the bottom right corner of the castle. Get those if you need them. Battle of He Fei (Wei's Forces) Difficulty: ***** Level Changes: None Attack/Defense/Item pickups total: Attack +24, Defense +32, Items x3 My Method: This level may take several minutes and maybe close to an hour if you like to destroy enemy units one by one, patience is required. Your Commander is Cao Cao and the enemy Commander is Sun Jian. Defeating Sun Jian before he jumps the bridge will not end the stage, instead it will trigger the Taishi Ci ambush and Sun Jian will arrive for the final time beyond the broken bridge. First off you'll start at the top right area regardless of who you are, excluding Zhang Liao. First, as anyone besides Zhang Liao, move Southward and defeat Xu Sheng, and then Pan Zhang. Clean out that area if desired and continue South to Ding Feng. Defeat him and soon enough Sun Jian will have jumped the bridge and announce a full-scale attack. Lu Su will charge you, defeat him. Now go to the center part of the map where two of Sun Jian's sub-generals will be, Jiang Qin and Ling Tong, defeat them and move West. By now Lu Xun will have arrived and Gan Ning along with him. Lu Xun will be at the West part of the map and Gan Ning the East. Taishi Ci will have arrived near the center of the map as well. First defeat Taishi Ci and then move to the West part. Defeat Dong Xi and Zhu Ran. Now Cheng Pu and Lu Xun will have begun an attack towards the Western entrance of the castle. Catch up to them and defeat them. Now go way East where Gan Ning and Sun Jian will attack. Defeat Gan Ning and Sun Jian's Sub-general Han Dang. Then defeat Sun Jian. End of stage. In this level the Life up is right where Cao Cao's main force is on that upper level of the castle, and the Musou up is right in the center of the map, parallel to the Left gate. ---------- -Wei Tales- Dong Zhuo Lives! ---------- Dong Zhuo in Ji (Wei's Forces) Difficulty: ****** Level Changes: None Attack/Defense/Item pickups total: Attack +6, Defense +6, Items x2 My Method: This is basically a simple level, just defeat one Dong Zhuo general after another until Dong Zhuo appears. The map is small in size, throughout the level Cao Cao may be under attack more than once, but he'll survive. The Generals on Dong Zhuo's Forces are Dong Min, Zhang Ji, Wang Fang, Zhao Cen, Hu Zhen, Li Meng, Li Jue, Li Ru, Guo Si, Fan Chou, Niou Fu, and Xu Rong. Your Commander is Cao Cao and the enemy Commander is Dong Zhuo. The Life up in this level is Around the top left corner of the map. Musou up is in the fort where Cao Cao is(or starts), it's closer to the bottom and a bit to the right. ---------- -Final Act- The End of the Three Kingdoms ---------- Battle of Mt. Ding Jun (Wei's Forces) {Level 10 Weapon - Xiahou Yuan} Difficulty: ****** Level Changes: None Attack/Defense/Item pickups total: Attack +12, Defense +10, Items x4 My Method: I particularly don't like Mt. Ding Jun and I never have in Dynasty Warriors 3 either. Regardless of what I like I still have a method. In this level your Commander at first is Xiahou Yuan and then if he gets defeated or if a certain amount of time passes in the level, than Cao Cao comes as reinforcements and he is your Commander, and the enemy Commander is Liu Bei. First thing is that there are two prisoners and they make an exchange at the start of the level. Chen Shi(the Wei prisoner) will try to make it to the Shu Forces and Xiahou Shang(the Shu prisoner) will try to make it back to your forces. As a Wei character you start right behind Chen Shi, he has low life so you can defeat him or you can let him go and he will join the battle again with full life. First go right along the long path leading to the top of Mt. Ding Jun. When you get there Huang Zhong and his sub-general, Yan Yan. When you encounter Huang Zhong a cut-scene will appear and your character insults Huang Zhong in his/her own way. After this cut-scene just defeat Yan Yan and then Huang Zhong. Liu Bei will charge toward Mt. Ding Jun, move down the South path from Mt. Ding Jun. Zhao Yun will arrive around this time in that area. Defeat Zhao Yun. Keep along the South path and eliminate all the Gate Captains along the way if desired. Now the main Shu gates will open and Zhang Fei and Chen Shi will charge the Wei main camp. Pass by Liu Bei and defeat his sub-general Fa Zhang. Now move toward the main enemy camp where Liu Bei started and Zhuge Liang should be there. Defeat Zhuge Liang and go North from the main camp and Zhang Fei and Chen Shi will be attacking your forces, defeat Zhang Fei and Chen Shi. Now get to Liu Bei and defeat him. In this level Cao Cao will retreat if Yang Xiu is defeated. The Life up is along the North path leading to Mt. Ding Jun, it's beside the Gate Captain in the middle of the path. The Musou up is in the Shu's main camp, in the middle squared area, top left corner. Battle of Jie Ting (Wei's Forces) {Level 10 Weapon - Zhang He} Difficulty: ****** Level Changes: If you played Mt. Ding Jun first, Xiahou Yuan will arrive as reinforcements. Attack/Defense/Item pickups total: Attack +12, Defense +12, Items x2 My Method: This can be a rather enjoyable level, well it is to me. The initial enemy Commander is Ma Su, if you defeat him before Zhuge Liang arrives then the stage is over, if you do not defeat him in that time then Zhuge Liang will arrive as the enemy Commander after he's been surrounded or Ma Su has sent smoke signals(He will send smoke signals if you haven't defeated all three of his sub-generals in time). Your Commander is the highly Sima Yi. If you're playing as Zhang He then you will start at the Southern area of the map, if not, then you'll start within the Wei main camp in the Northern part of the map. First, head to defeat Wang Ping, you must hurry before Ma Su sends smoke signals. Then go South to defeat Liao Hua, and then South to defeat Gao Xiang, basically the idea is to first defeat all three sub-generals quickly. Now when Ma Su has been surrounded after you've defeated all three sub-generals, all the gates surrounding him will open. He will announce that he can't face the Prime Minister after this loss and he says he must lay at least one blow on Sima Yi and will charge towards the main camp. Seconds later, Zhuge Liang arrives with reinforcements, Zhao Yun and Wei Yan. Yue Ying also as his sub-general. Defeat Ma Su, then Wei Yan should charge right towards Ma Su's initial position, defeat Wei Yan. Zhao Yun is at the North part of the map, go towards him and defeat him. Now that all other units are destroyed, just go down near the main camp to the South. Defeat Yue Ying and then Zhuge Liang. The Life up is right in the very South area of the map, at the top right corner. The Musou up is in the Wei's main camp, top right corner of the fort, right near Sima Yi. Battle of Wu Zhang Plains (Wei's Forces) {Level 10 Weapon - Sima Yi} Difficulty: ****** Level Changes: If you defeated Chen Shi before he returned to enemy lines then Huang Zhong will arrive as enemy reinforcements. If you defeat Jiang Wei before Zhuge Liang arrives after the fake death then Yue Ying will arrive with Zhuge Liang to guard the Arbalests. If you played Jie Ting first before Wu Zhang Plains, then a supply team(Wooden Oxen) will appear. Attack/Defense/Item pickups total: Attack +24, Defense +16, Items x0 My Method: This will most likely be a long level if you play it the way I do. The enemy Commander is initially Zhuge Liang, but sooner or later there will be a cut-scene showing Zhuge Liang dying, but it's a fake death, then he arrives later after Sima Yi makes it to Jiang Wei. Then Zhuge Liang retreats back to the main camp and Liu Bei arrives, he is now the enemy Commander. Your Commander is Sima Yi and only Sima Yi. You will most likely always start off at the Western part or Eastern part of the map. Either way defeat Zhang Yi and Wei Yan on the Eastern, or Guan Xing and Ma Chao on the Western. Now go towards the enemies supply depot(Southwest). The general guarding the supply depot is Liao Hua, destroy your way through to him and at this time the Wooden Oxen will have appeared if you played Jie Ting first. Defeat all the Wooden Oxen to get a morale boost. Now defeat the supply captain, Liao Hua. A cut-scene showing your character slay Liao Hua and yelling something victory related will appear. Each character has an individual line in this cut-scene. Now go North from the supply depot and you'll meet Zhao Yun around there, defeat Zhao Yun to gain access to the enemies main camp. Zhuge Liang will have arrived from the fake death by now and Sima Yi will begin to retreat back to headquarters. Go to the East side of the map and defeat Gao Xiang and Ma Dai there, defeat Zhang Yi and Wei Yan if you did not beforehand. Now get to the center of the map and defeat Wang Ping, Jiang Wei's sub-general. When you approach Jiang Wei, Sima Yi will announce to defeat him because he controls the Arbalests. Defeat Jiang Wei or Yue Ying if you defeated Jiang Wei beforehand. Now enter the main camp and you'll meet Zhang Bao, defeat him and go to Zhuge Liang and defeat him then finish off Liu Bei. The Life up in this level is in the supply depot if the Wooden Oxen make it through battle lines safely, the Musou up is in the top East area, a bit South, beside the gate there. Battle of Cheng Du (Wei's Forces) Difficulty: ****** Level Changes: Wei Yan will defect if you leave him alone for a while in this battle. Attack/Defense/Item pickups total: Attack +25, Defense +24, Items x0 My Method: This WILL be a long level, so you must have patience. The enemy Commander is Liu Bei and your Commander is Cao Cao. First of all, Yue Ying and Zhuge Liang will tell Wei Yan not to attack yet and have patience. Start off by attacking from the South first. Defeat Mi Zhu, and then the general he's under, Ma Dai. Ignore going straight towards Wei Yan at this time, your allies won't attack him either. Go North instead when you reach the Bridge, Zhang Bao will arrive an ambush. Defeat Zhang Bao and get to your main camp. Wang Ping's army will be attacking Cao Cao by now. Defeat Wang Ping's sub-generals Liao Hua and Gao Xiang, then defeat Wang Ping. When you or your allies approach the castle Ma Su is located in an Arbalest unit will appear around that castle. Your allies' Ram will appear to knock down the walls. Defeat Guan Suo and Guan Xing. Now you will be allowed access to the castle, an ambush will appear when you enter the castle. Get to Ma Su and defeat him. Now Sima Yi will probably start to encourage Wei Yan to defect to the Wei forces. He will do so short after, now Wei Yan will charge towards Yue Ying. Get down there immediately. A new passway will appear in the area from where Wei Yan is to the main camp. Enemy forest troops will start to appear in the forest. Zhang Yi will appear there. Liu Bei's main unit will now appear. When you got to the South passway, defeat Li Yan and the Juggernauts will begin to attack. Defeat Yue Ying for them to stop. Now Go North and Mines will appear. Get to the main camp and defeat Jiang Wei and Ma Liang in that area. Now go towards the forest and Guan Yu will appear, defeat him. Now at the North part of the forest Guan Ping will appear if you go there. Defeat him and Zhang Yi. Ma Chao would have arrived by now at Luo Castle too. Backtrack and defeat him, for he is a threat to Cao Cao. Now get back to the enemies main camp and when you approach Liu Bei, a bunch of peasants will appear. Zhuge Liang will charge you too, clean out everything and defeat Zhuge Liang then Liu Bei. -------------------- II. Wu Musou Mode -------------------- Coming Soon... -------------------- III. Shu Musou Mode -------------------- Coming Soon... -------------------- IV. Lu Bu Musou Mode -------------------- Coming Soon... -------------------- V. Dong Zhuo Musou Mode -------------------- Coming Soon... -------------------- VI. Yuan Shao Musou Mode -------------------- Coming Soon... -------------------- VII. Yellow Turban Musou Mode -------------------- Coming Soon... -------------------- VIII. Nanman Musou Mode -------------------- Coming Soon... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13). CREDITS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have wrote this in my own writing and experiences, but I have used some peoples information and some people have helped me. Here are some people I owe a thanks to. Thanks to: Koei: Mostly for Koei, thanks for making this series an unforgettable one. I've been with this series since Dynasty Warriors 2 and I've seen a lot of progress through the games and I'd like to say thanks to Koei for their amazing ability to make the best of games. CJayC: For making this awesome web site with endless progression. My family: For allowing me to take the computer all this time writing up this FAQ. Muni Shinobu: For writing the Dim Sum and Fairy Wine locations. I used some of his information in that FAQ. Javelina: My good friend Javee for allowing me to use his very own Unlocking Tales Stages guide. And if you're looking for a different and fun way to play the game be sure to join one of our Comrades in Arms topics. Joe the Gamer: For supplying that awesome trick to kill Lu Bu at Hu Lao Gate faster(Check Orbs section under Blast Orb for more info). Kongming.net: For supplying the picture to all the characters shown in the link in the Characters section. Also for the date of all the characters' death age and cause. You: I thank you for reading my FAQ and I hope it has helped you in your problem(if you have one) in the game. If I haven't I'd like for you to email me at my email address at the beginning of the FAQ and tell me that I didn't help you with. I thank you anyway for reading my FAQ. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14). INFORMATION ON KOEI -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Any information I receive about upcoming titles or sequels from Koei I will post here. -------------------- I. Dynasty Warriors Series -------------------- Here are some pics of the Dw4XL Level 11 Weapons. Here's the link: http://www.chongwanhsing.per.sg/lv11weapon/index.html Now that Dw4:XL has been confirmed there has been a lot of rumors. These are some rumors that may actually be possible. They were posted by kukunu on GameFAQs stating he read all the info on www.Gameking.com.cn It's not confirmed so I can't fully believe it, but here are some rumored info. 1. Lv.11 Weapon 2. More valuable items 3. Two new difficulties: Beginner and Expert 4. You can select all 42 officers at the beginning 5. You can transfer you DW4 saves 6. Highly improved edit mode New Modes: 1. Musou mode for each character(I think this is what they say) 2. Battle in randomly created maps 3. New challenge modes Now Muni Shinobu has his website updated with some Frequently Asked Questions. Here is the questions with his answers. Note: I took out all the symbols he uses that are difficult to read as well. ---------- Start of Muni's info Legend Mode New game mode to replace Musou Mode. Character-specific mode, where each character gets his or her own storyline and stages. (Pretty similar to the Musou Mode in Dw2 and Dw3.) Each of the 42 characters gets his or her own storyline and stages. The stages and character-specific storylines will be closer to history (novel version). In each character's scenario, there will be one special episode unique to that specific character, the basis of which is based on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms novel. It's said that in Legend of Yue Ying, the special episode will be a battle against Zhuge Liang, who will be commanding a fleet of Tiger Tanks, and the map will be the Guan Yu's Escape map. (?) In Legend of Sun Ce, the special episode will be a battle against the dead spirit of the wizard Yu Ji. (?) And in Legend of Yuan Shao, the special episode will be a battle against an entire enemy army on horseback. (?). Battle Demon Mode New game mode to replace Free Mode. Players play in a randomly generated short scenario which keeps going until HP runs out. Results are recorded, for players to challenge their own high scores. It seems characters must start fresh in this mode. And all the character levelling up done in this mode will remain in this mode. Some new items will need to be unlocked in this mode. Continuous Battle New Challenge Mode, in addition to the original 4 challenge modes. Players fight consecutive Ikkiuchi Duel battles until HP runs out. The more you win, the stronger the next opponent will become, hence it's "super hard" reputation. Levelled up characters are playable in this mode. Characters can also equip items. Online ranking is planned, but not decided yet at this point. 1. Can I still play Musou Mode and Free Mode? If you have the original Dynasty Warriors 4 game disk, you will be able to swap and load the disk into Xtreme Legends, and still be able to play with the original Musou Mode and Free Mode. (Exactly the same as in Dynasty Warriors 4 Xtreme Legends.) 2. How many difficulty levels? Five. Novice Difficulty. Easy Difficulty. Normal Difficulty. Hard Difficulty. Expert Difficulty. 3. Can I use previous save files? Save file from Dynasty Warriors 4 will be recognized. Weapons can be transferred over. Items can be transferred over. Bodyguard names can be transferred over. (?) Bodyguard status can not be transferred over. (?) Character status can be transferred over. (?) Character rank point can not be transferred over. (?) 4. How many characters? Will there be new characters? Still 42 characters, all playable initially. No new characters are announced. 5. New Items? There will be 9 new items. Currently known: No Retreat Protective Spell. Meat Bun Sack. * The phrase "with one's back against the water (such as an ocean)" means to go into battle with no means of retreat prepared, hoping for this lack of a retreat route to turn into a driving force for the soldiers to fight with their lives, because there is no turning back. It's either win or die, losing is not an option. With that in mind, if I were to guess, I would say the effect of this item might be "Attack x2 When HP Critical". But since the original item "Explode Legend Book" already somewhat has this effect, the more probable guess might be "Defense x2 When HP Critical". 6. What is the highest level for ability items? Level 25? Level 30? 7. What is the highest level for elemental jades? Level 5? 8. What is the highest level for weapons? Level 11. Added effects are attached to Lv11 weapons. Lv11 weapons will presumably be unlocked in Legend Mode, so does that mean the Edit Characters get their own Legend Modes as well? 9. How many Weapon Experience Points does it take for weapons to level up? Lv1 = 0 Lv2 = 1000 Lv3 = 3000 Lv4 = 6000 Lv5 = 10000 Lv6 = 15000 Lv7 = 21000 Lv8 = 28000 Lv9 = 36000 Lv10 = need to unlock Lv11 = need to unlock 10. Do Lv10 and Lv11 weapons have their own graphics? Yes. Lv1 ~ Lv3 = simplest graphic. Lv4 ~ Lv6 = slightly cooler graphic. Lv7 ~ Lv9 = much cooler graphic. Lv10 = Coolest graphic. Lv11 = Super cool graphic. 11. Character Edit changes? Additional options will be added to Character Edit. (?) 12. Miscellaneous changes? Footsoldiers' actions are said to be re-programmed, to become more active. Winning duels will give you better items, although the luck (randomness) factor is still present. 13. Premium Pack? The Premium Pack is a package set containing both Dynasty Warriors 4 and Dw4:Xtreme Legends. Japan only(?) End of Muni's info. ---------- This series started on the PS1 where it was a regular fighter game like Street Fighter. They are still available at places like Gamestop or ebgames, so if you're looking to complete the collection or just try it out you should check it out. Dynasty Warriors 2 was a big hit in NA and Japan as it was a total different experience from the last Dynasty Warriors or any game at that matter. It also, in my opinion, supports the best in-game map designs in any Dynasty Warriors installment. Dynasty Warriors 3 was a bigger and better experience from Dynasty Warriors 3, it had different Weapon's and Item's added and tons more characters than Dynasty Warriors 2. It also supported Weapon and Item progression. Dynasty Warriors 4 changed the pace of the series with it's new style of Weapon progression, the addition of Orbs, and more saddles, items, and a few more characters. It was a hugh hit in Japan and is moving along at a fast pace in NA. From when I first popped in my Dynasty Warriors 4 disk to the time I take it out at night, I know it feels like a total different experience. I've been playing it now almost every day since it's Canadian release on the 27th of March and I don't seem to get bored. I still have much more to play for on Dynasty Warriors 4 and hope for a new installment soon. Dynasty Warriors 3 Xtreme Legends was an upgrade to Koei's Dynasty Warriors 3 and did "ok" in sales, it has also been confirmed that a new Dynasty Warriors 4 Xtreme Legends will be released sometime this Winter. -------------------- II. Dynasty Tactics Series -------------------- Dynasty Tactics is a great game full of strategy and patience. Although I don't have much to say about the series and I can't say I've played it much, but I recommend this game to anyone who's played Dynasty Warriors and liked it. It's newest installment is scheduled to be released in September and I know I'll be checking it out.