DW4XL - Battle of Cheng Du Aggressive AI CLEAR (Expert difficulty) - Da Qiao

Описание: Aggressive AI on Expert difficulty CLEAR.
LET'S GO! I did it with Da Qiao, my beloved! q(≧▽≦q)

===== What is Aggressive AI? =====
Aggressive AI is a mod of DW4XL created by Michael ( ‪@MichaelMusou‬ )
AI becomes extremely aggressive.
A difficulty where a group of 5 privates is as scary as Lu Bu
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0:00 Rescuing Ling Tong, Xiao Qiao, and other allies
10:05 Defeating Zhang Fei
12:57 Helping allies into Ma Su's castle
17:05 Depleting Ma Su's morale to 1
27:54 Destroy Arbalests to create space for morale stalling
28:37 Morale Stalling Liu Bei (infiltrating Cheng Du, killing enemies at Ma Su's castle)
36:10 Find healing items
37:43 Morale Stalling Liu Bei Round 2
38:08 Ma Su's death, The Second Half has begun
39:24 Helping alllies killing soldiers
40:47 Defeating Zhang Yi to deplete Liu Bei's morale by 1
41:43 Kill more soldiers to deplete Liu Bei's morale
45:48 Wait for your allies to get to Liu Bei, Killing Ma Chao
50:31 Help Xiao Qiao killing soldiers to accelerate their advance
53:01 Defeat Zhuge Liang (who has 7 morale)
1:00:43 Defeat Jiang Wei and Liu Bei
1:07:31 Result

Mods used:
Aggressive AI v2
Disable Guard Breaks (e.g. enemy peons' guards will now withstand your charge attack)
No Subofficer Retreat
AI always uses their full musou attacks
Disable Turn Lock (e.g. you can turn around when attacking just like DW5)
Increase drawing distance
No interlacing patch
Increase max units rendered onscreen
High LOD (Level of Detail)
Vertical Lines Fix (DW4XL)
Disable Distance Based Model Disappearing
Message Box Upscaling Fix

Da Qiao's build:
Ice Orb
Tiger Amulet
Wind Scroll
Power Rune
Speed Scroll
Tortoise Amulet

I'll write more description later. I'm so tired right now and need to sleep.
For now, here's my thoughts:

1. Da Qiao's attack sequence is SO AMAZING. She can parry mid-size crowds (10-15 soldiers) safely. The trick is always arrange the enemy in front of you, and make her last attack in the direction that is safe. I am sad that Da Qiao won't get to use any charge attacks much in this challenge.

2. If "Disable Guardbreak" is not on, I will go Power Rune+Herbal Remedy+C6 to kill crowds of enemy soldiers instead.

3. The hardest part of this stage is the ending; defeating Liu Bei. The main problem is Jiang Wei's HUGE army standing next to him, and the peasant militias that will appear infinitely if you don't kill the Gate Captain quickly. (The army is SO LARGE. Even large number of your allies won't be any help in getting close to Liu Bei at all.)

Additionally, Battle of Cheng Du has overwhelming disadvantage for your army. For example, 4 of the 5 events in the stage either drops your army's morale and/or raise enemy's morale. To add the salt to the wound, the starting morale of your army is 4, while the starting morale of your enemy is 6. Aggressive AI not only increase enemy's aggressiveness, but also "the decisiveness" of the battle. In the original, it took about 4-5 minutes from the beginning before Xiao Qiao or the random playable officer will be defeat. However, in Aggressive AI difficulty, they die in 3 minutes max.

So, to beat this stage perfectly, you need to:
Defeat enemy officers fast to keep your allies alive long enough to join the final assault on Liu Bei at the end.
Be able to one-man-army at Jiang Wei and Liu Bei at the end.

I had 100+ retires trying to achieve that perfect victory. But to be honest, it's utterly impossible. Even with Lu Bu + Master of Musou build, I don't think it will be possible to breakthrough to Liu Bei on your own. You need allies AND the ability to defeat enemies that out-pace the enemy spawning. This is utterly impossible for Da Qiao. Without guard breaking, against 10-15 soldiers, she can just survive with hit-and-run tactics. Thus, she can never kill 20-30 soldiers quickly to outpace the spawning.

There was tons of attempts that I lost against Jiang Wei's army right at the finish line, which I either got swarmed to dead, or I ran out of healing.

In conclusion, this is impossible to beat without cutting down Liu Bei's morale, wait until your allies get to Liu Bei, let them kill his Gate Captain for you, and then you swoop in to kill Liu Bei.

BUT YOU KNOW WHAT. EVEN THAT IS ALREADY CHALLENGING AS HELL. You are constant at risk of getting swarm by multiple enemies from an unknown direction at all times when you try to stall and kill soldiers. There are really no safe way to do it.

To be honest, I never thought Da Qiao would be able to pull that off. She can parry 10-15 enemies on her own. I am so proud of being able to get her to beat this. T_T

The open question is whether it is possible to beat the stage without spamming kills on soldiers at Ma Su's castle like I did on the video. Hopefully someone can answer that for me. I am so tired....

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