Romance of the Three Kingdoms/Combat

If you choose to go into combat from the list of things you can do, you will get to select who is going to fight the combat, how much gold you'll use for the battle, and how much rice you'll use for the battle. The advisor will tell you your approximate odds of winning.

After you've prepared for the battle, you get to place your units. You can place them on any of the squares with black dots on the bottom of the screen. After the person in command is placed, you can choose for each general whether you want to control them directly or indirectly. Controlling them directly allows you to select their exact moves, whereas selecting indirectly causes the computer to control them.

You can control whoever you choose to control directly and your leader with all of the following options:


 * Move: There are two types of moving, entire unit and divide unit. When you select entire unit, you will get to move the unit spaces equal to your current mobility.  Moving onto plains counts as one move, onto hills counts as 4, and you cannot move onto mountains.  When you divide a unit, you can choose a direction for half of the unit to move and the other half will stay in the space where it already is.  Use this for defensive measures.  When your unit is divided, your only options for moving will be to regroup.
 * Attack: By using this command, you can attack a neighboring enemy unit. You can choose from three types of attacks. You can get advantages based on where your unit is located.  If you are defending or attacking from a hill and the enemy is not on a hill, you have better chances.  If you are inside a city, you have better chances of winning the combat.  After the combat, one unit will have been reduced to 1 strength.  One side can also be reduced to zero strength. If they are, you will capture them.
 * Flee: Use this command to run away to another state.
 * Pass: Causes the unit to not take an action that turn.
 * View: Allows you to view statistics of your generals and of the enemy.
 * Recon: Allows you to view the full map of the battleground.

Through the combat, your mobility will increase. This means you can travel farther lengths with the move command in one

If your rice is taken, you lose the battle. If you conquer the enemy's castles, you win the battle and get the new state. If either side kills the other side's commander, the battle ends in favor of the side with the remaining commander.

If you are being attacked by an enemy, everything is the same as above, except you set up forces around your castles and you will lose if your castles fall, and you will then lose the state to the enemy.