

Using low-tier militia units, owing to huge upkeep discounts is also imperative.

Keeping your generals loyal and happy, and therefore increasing your Unity gains each turn, will rapidly boost your prestige and income, all while gaining new administrators. In any case, as long as you can hold off Cao Cao and Yuan Shao early on, you’re on your way to succeeding as Liu Bei in your Total War: Three Kingdoms campaign. He spent one turn being a bachelor again until he met a new partner in SSX. In my playthrough, I had Liu Bei divorce his wife. Try to have good relations with the leader of Wu so that Sun Ren can be married to Liu Bei instead. Watch out for this since Sun Jian might end up marrying her off to some random lord one turn later. Note: Also in 207 AD, Sun Ren (Sun Shangxiang) will come of age. Around turn 90, there’s also a chance for the Fledgling Phoenix Pang Tong to get recruited via another event. Kongming, the most brilliant mind in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms setting, will end up joining you by 207 AD in Autumn (turn 86). Don’t worry, Xuande can still lead an army while he’s doing that. If Cao Cao is no longer in the game as a separate faction (such as the case in my playthrough after I annexed him), then this decision is skipped and you can start the Three Visits event proper.įrom 206 to 207 AD, you’ll be notified that Liu Bei is visiting Zhuge Liang. Shortly after he joins, a new event will fire where you need to give him up to Cao Cao if you want to continue the story. Sadly, Xu Shu won’t be in it for the long haul. The strategist Xu Shu will join your faction and he’ll tell you of wise men in need of a liege. Much later in the game, you’ll even get the Three Visits event where you get to recruit the Sleeping Dragon Zhuge Liang, and maybe even Pang Tong as well. The Lords Of Shu-Han And The Three Visits
