Can anyone tell me in which order should I play the campaign so that I can experience the events Chronologically. I want to experience the campaign most historically accurate as possible. So if anyone can list the scenarios according to timeline of events would be helpful
None. They are all simultaneous.
Best you can do is play each first level of all three, then each second etc. But you might lose the thread of it.
Oh dearâŠ
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Having just finished playing it, I can say your intention does not fit the way these campaigns were designed.
Everyone meets at the same place in the last scenarios, but before that each character deals with their own matters most of the time. Liu Bei meets Cao Cao here and there, their campaigns even share a hero. But thatâs all.
I suggest you play them in the order they are presented.
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Donât worry about these, because the plot is not written according to history or novels, it is a fictional history created by the production team themselves, which is also one of the important reasons why there are many negative comments about the plot on Steam.
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I didnât buy the DLC but I watched videos,
The campaign give you have different choices of action during scenario, If you picked the âwrongâ decision will bring you to the âalternative historyâ events and ending, all without notification.
You might need to do some research and reading after finishing the campaign, if thatâs what you want.
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Kindof sad that they chose to pursue a campaign not historical but fictional. but lets see how it works out
Honestly, I was expecting gameplay and map design to be more creative since they opted to introduce so many new features. Instead, itâs core, traditional AOE2 through and through. Not saying itâs bad (Iâve found it fun) but itâs pretty conservative when they definitely could go and try new stuff.
Youâre gonna be impressed with how well-researched the story is. It even has magicians controlling the wind and everything, they really got their history facts right.
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The best order is not playing at all /s
Honestly if they wanted to make a 3K campaign with magic, AoMR was RIGHT THERE. It even already covered the relevant time period.
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Maybe it can be compared to the Trojan War : still based on real events but heavily romanticised with heroes as strong as an entire army which is an obvious exageration and outright supernatural elements.
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Havenât played it yet but as the 3 converge to the same battle, Iâd say it doesnât matter much.
Start with the one with the earliest start date, thatâs how Iâd choose.
Usually the campaigns are narrated by people who are supposed to be eye witnesses or come from that respective timeframe. So itâs not out of the ordinary to expect them to tell a story involving magic and the supernatural, in fact itâs to be expected.
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Some of it was willful exagerations, if you say a commander can command the wind, it may not be litterally saying he can conjure a storm but rather heâs so charismatic even the elements seem to obey him when he gives an order.
Similar to how in a movie youâd hear an inspiring music that matches his pre-battle speech
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They literally have âZhuge Liang perform a ritual to change the wind directionâ in Battle of Red Cliff, which is a fictional plotline from the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms written 1300+ years after 3K. Thatâs outright supernatural elements. And of course player will need to defend the holy place where the ritual is hold from Caoâs army, just like in Dynasty Warriors
Zhuge Liang didnât even participate in the actual fighting of that battle in real history, but diplomatic and administration work.
I only watched Ornluâs video, but I thought a DLC defender like you would have played and know all about this.
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And I feared giving An Lushan an absurdly high armour value as he was so fat the assassin couldnât stab him deep enough, might have been be over the topâŠ
(yes, Iâm once again asking to put the Chinese campaign during the An Lushan Rebellion)
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Cmon man, he just, uh⊠He guessed when the wind would shift, because heâs the worldâs first climatologist. And, uhhhhh⊠Everyone just attributed it to magic, but itâs not magic! See, itâs that simple, you just have to interpret his magic pagan rituals and sudden shifts in the wind in a more creative way.
Now you might be wondering why this event isnât mentiones in the Records of the Three Kingdoms, and only appears in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms novel, which has wizards, and is also the text the devs based the entire campaign on. My answer is that you should stop asking questions.
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Itâs pretty hard. While someone has provided the chronical order (he cooked good), I think the best way is experiencing each one as a time. Doesnât matter whose you choose first.
The game deviates not only from reality (Using Romance, which is just more myths than reality) but also its own source materials. Lots of details will be skipped over that you wonât recognize.
The campaign will probably end before real 3 Kingdoms things (Battle of Red Cliff). From there itâs just alternative history.
donât try to play âmost historically accurateâ in a campaign that more fiction than its original novel based
Montezuma is also more fantasy than reality tbh
But I hate Bari and a lot of people hate Yodit (for similar reasons to why the 3K campaigns are hated)