"Total War: Three Kingdoms" "South man" evaluation: hit south man, sliding shovel useless fire

After the release of the last DLC "The World of Abandoned Judgment", for half a year, CA did not make any updates and changes to Total War: Three Kingdoms. Instead, Legend of Total War: Troy is available and free for a limited time. However, shortly after the release of "Total War: Troy", CA released the trailer for the latest DLC of "Total War: Three Kingdoms" in time - "Nanman", which can be regarded as the first large-scale DLC in the true sense of "Total War: Three Kingdoms".

It is different from the three DLC of "The Chaos of Eight Kings", "Being ordered by Heaven" and "The World of Renunciation". In addition to the addition of new playable factions and new available units, "Nanman" also made large-scale changes to the map and existing factions. Maps and faction changes aside, the main course of "Nanman" is naturally the tribes of Nanman in the 72 holes of South Central.

Today's southwest Hunan and most Yunnan-Guizhou areas were the main living areas of various parts of Nanman during The Three Kingdoms period. Despite being called "seventy-two holes in South Central," CA did not design so many towns. In the "Nanman" DLC, CA released a total of four usable Nanman factions, namely Meng Wei, Lady Zhu Rong, King Mu Lu and Shamoke. Meng Huo and Madame Zhu Rong are familiar to all of you. The couple is also a regular guest of The Three Kingdoms game, can be regarded as the representative of Nanman. King Mu Lu appears in the Romance of The Three Kingdoms as Meng Huo's ally who can drive the beast; Shamoke, an ally of Shu Han, shot the general Gan Ning with an arrow at the Battle of Yiling.

The player chooses the South Man faction in the campaign, and the winning condition is not the Han Clan faction and the Thief faction, which require first declaring themselves emperor and then destroying the other two contenders for the throne. The Nanman faction has a unique campaign victory rule, which is similar to the Yellow Turbans faction in "ordered by Heaven". The first step in the victory of the Nanman faction campaign was the unification of the various Nanman tribes. However, the Nanman tribe is fierce and aggressive, and will not hesitate to declare war on the player as soon as it borders the player's territory. This attaches great importance to the player's ability to "do diplomacy", otherwise it is easy to become "King Xuan of Qi" and be attacked from the back and the belly. At the same time, it also encourages players to carry out force expansion in the early stage, rather than relying on an acre of three points of the field.

"War freak" players exulted, "farming" players shed tears. Moreover, the benefits of uniting the clans, in addition to the increase in territory and economic sources, can also obtain a considerable number of faction bonus effects.

The most eye-catching is the unlocking of various featured arms. In other words, when a player unites a faction with a special class, they can recruit that faction's own class.

Nanman's most impressive soldiers are rattan armor soldiers and various beast troops.

In the Romance of The Three Kingdoms, Teng Jiabing claims to be invulnerable, but he is particularly afraid of fire. When designing the infantry of the South Man faction, CA did not specifically design "vine armor soldiers", but generally equipped the South Man infantry with vine armor - a small increase in defense, a small increase in movement speed, at the cost of taking double the fire damage. In addition to reflecting the weak fire of rattan armor, there is no such strong defense capability that makes Zhuge Liang feel headache.

This, coupled with the low armor damage of the Nanman faction's infantry, meant that most of the Nanman infantry quickly collapsed in front of the intermediate or advanced infantry of the Han faction. However, the only bright infantry in the South Man faction, is the "Vulcan believers" under the Zhu Rong lady, because of the hand flame weapons, and can cause splash damage, so that the Vulcan believers in hand-to-hand infantry combat is particularly strong, belongs to the civil war expert, foreign war also expert.

Man, do you pass fire?

Compared with the Nanman infantry's stretching and impractical, Nanman's beast troops are too supermodel.

The beast forces of the Nanman faction are mainly divided into two types, one is the elephant soldiers, belonging to the cavalry; One is the Tiger army, which is kind of infantry. The design of the Beast army was introduced in Rome: Total War. In Total War: Rome 2, both "war dogs" and "war elephants" are impressive to players. Therefore, the tiger soldiers and elephant soldiers in the "Nanman" DLC trailer are important reasons for players to pay attention to the Nanman faction.

Nanman's elephant soldiers have a fairly high charge bonus, but in contrast, they are very weak in melee. Therefore, the elephant soldier requires the player to repeatedly pull manually and maintain the state of charging at all times. However, in contrast to the war elephants in Total War: Rome 2, the South Elephant soldiers do not go crazy because of their injuries, so they do not attack friendly troops. In combat, the player wants to minimize the damage as much as possible, and it is crucial to control the soldiers.

If the hand operation elephant soldiers are still a little difficult, then the tiger army, is fully automatic can play an "epic victory" of strength, without a hint of reason. Whether in charge or hand-to-hand combat, the tiger is second to none. Can easily cut through enemy lines. Even if they encounter an elephant soldier, they can quickly kill the war elephant after holding a charge from the elephant soldier. It can be said that it is the beast forces of the supermodel that have pulled up the strength of the entire South Man faction and made the South Man faction able to play. Otherwise, only this weak "rattan armor soldier", Nanman would have been next door Shi Xie to a pot.

By the way, whether it is the top "fire God believers" in the southern man infantry, or the Tiger troops, are the characteristics of Mrs. Zhu Rong. So who is the strongest faction in Nanman? I don't need to say more.

Although the beast forces are strong, players who have seen the Romance of The Three Kingdoms know that Zhuge Liang invented the "fire-breathing wood beast" and wiped out the beast forces in one stroke. In the "Nanman" DLC, CA added a new class of "wood Beast" to the Han forces. However, although the wooden beast has a very strong attack force, it also has great limitations, and it is easy to hurt teammates, so that players need to be very cautious when controlling the wooden beast.

In addition to the featured classes, the Nanman faction also has a unique technology tree, and needs to unlock more advanced technology by constantly completing missions. This also encourages players to "gallop" on the road to unify Nanman. In addition to the technology tree, the Nanman military generals have also adopted a new design mechanism - five attributes of the heart point, additional skills rely on doing tasks. In short, playing South brute faction, full of two words - mission.

In addition to the new Nanman faction, the map changes mentioned above are a major project. The first is the expansion of the map, adding a number of new towns in South Central. Moreover, the towns in the south are no longer undeveloped in the previous version, but are occupied by various departments of the South Man, and these South Man towns also have an additional bonus effect on the South Man faction, and the Central Plains troops enter the South, it is difficult to move a single inch, and there will be corresponding punishment after occupying the city. It perfectly embodies the difficulties of the Central Plains army in attacking Nanman. In addition, the Nanman forces needed to unlock certain technologies before they could conduct normal diplomacy with the Han forces, further increasing the cost and difficulty of diplomacy for both sides.

The other point is that the "region name" that players have been clamored for is finally online. Consider that in the "Legend of Total War: Troy", even a small town, CA is very elaborate design of the regional name, and "Total War: Three Kingdoms" is full of the map of "farms", "rice fields", "blacksmith", really some violation. Moreover, with the addition of the pass system, some areas were as easy to defend as they were historically difficult to attack. Such as Hanzhong and Yizhou, and the famous tiger prison pass of The Three Kingdoms.

In general, CA's degree of restoration in the design of the South Man faction is still quite high. Not only are the factions full of characteristics, but there are also many innovative and interesting places. However, what I value more than the South Man faction is the expansion of the map and the implementation of the "region name", including the pass system. All of this proves that CA is really working hard to improve this game.

If the frequency of updates were faster, it would be even better.