Dynasty Warriors 3: XL - Zhao Yun Musou Mode 3 | Assault on Cheng Du

Описание: This is one of DW3's short stages. They have quite a few breather stages like this that are on much smaller maps than usual and you can end relatively quickly. As such, we don't have many enemies nor many allies.

In fact, we just have Pang Tong and Liu Bei. And one of those will always be useless to us throughout the whole stage. Liu Bei won't advance unless Pang Tong dies, and since Pang Tong freaking dies that means we basically only have one allied officer advancing with us at all times.

You can actually prevent Pang Tong's death if you hang out beside him and defeat Zhang Ren before he reaches Luo Feng Po and gets ambushed. But it's sort of out of your way and there's really not much reason to. You'll mostly be doing everything yourself here anyways.

We start in a forest where we immediately lose access to the BGM and the mini-map. But, if you pause you get the BGM back and can see the entire map. So it doesn't really make it much harder to navigate. Not much strategy to this one, just defeat all the officers and especially the ones that go after Liu Bei. There's a lot of boxes with weapons here so it's not a bad place to try to pick up weapons.

Liu Zhang has his own commander intro, shared with Liu Yong and Liu Biao. (Which has just made me realize all the strategists with that intro have Liu in the name.) When defeated he has a unique death line where he incorrectly pronounces Cheng Du as Cheng "Do". Nevermind the fact he was already mispronouncing "Cheng" as well but...if I nitpick the proper pronunciations we'll be here all day.

I also managed to get Hex Mark by playing this stage. How? No idea. I just defeat all the officers before defeating Liu Zhang and it appeared.