Romance of the Three Kingdoms/Gameplay

When you start Romance of the 3 Kingdoms, you will get to customize your game if you choose to start a new game as opposed to loading a previously saved game. You will get to choose from a series of options. The options you get to choose from are described here.

The first option you get to select is which scenario you will play. There isn't much difference in the scenarios. The only difference in them is the locations of kingdoms.

The second option you get to choose from is the number of people that will be playing. If you want to observe how the opponent plays, you can choose to play with zero human players. Or you can play with up to seven people, a rare thing you can do in most games that makes the game rather fun.

After choosing the number of human players, you will get to choose which leaders the players will play. You will also get to take a chance game at getting statistics for your leader, which help determine your leader's condition and battle outcome. You'll be able to retry at the chance game if you wish, but proceeding with what you have is recommended. The game revolves more around strategy then around how good your leader is.

Following choosing leaders for characters, you will get to choose the difficulty of the computer. You will also get to choose whether the computers are warlike or rational. Choosing warlike will make them attack a neighboring area that has gone into unrest almost all the time, whereas making the opponent rational causes them not to try to engage in combat as much as the prior option did.

After this, you'll get to select whether you want to watch the detailed battles that do not involve you. If you're trying to learn strategies for the game, it is recommend that you watch the computers fight each other. It's a good way to learn how to win battles and how to lose.

Now you get to confirm all your selections and then you can get on with the real part of the game.