The lack of 3D model for Sun Ce baffles me

[Dweller Beyond the Threshold]

i get it that Koei might want to slack off a bit coz he and his tiger dad die really early. But Taishi Bloody Ci has his own unique model, and as far as Im aware, All Taishi Ci's presence in ROTK (the novel) is tied to Sun Ce except his brief appearance (and immediate death) in the battle of Hefei. It really sucks when Sun Ce stands next to his two lv5 buddies (Zhou Yu and Taishi, both of whom have their unique models) and the ruler looks like a little pawn compared to his two subordinates.

For the love of Merlin, Sun Ce is the pioneer and founder of Wu, how on earth is he not more iconic than Xu Zhu who also has a unique model?

This sucks so much for me because Sun Ce is my go-to character since he has two amazing lv5 buddies and IMO the most gorgeous wife in ROTK XIII from the get-go.

Damn i would love a unique model DLC for Sun dad and son, Jiang Wei, Deng Ai, Cao Ren, Li dian, Yue Jin, sima yi, Lu Meng, Lu Xun, Guan Pin, Two Qiaos...damn you Koei for not overloading us with so many DLCs for once

[Motrini]

It probably all comes down to the characters popularity in Japan.
Taishi Ci also worked with Liu Bei to save Kong Rong in a chapter of the novel, so there's that.
But yes, they have made some pretty weird choices when choosing the characer models and the overall selection is extremely limited.

God forbids Koei from selling anything other than useless alternate portraits for the same four officers who already have dozens of them apparently (and it's not like they let you use more than one portrait at a time either...).

[Midnight Fenrir]

Originally posted by Motrini:

It probably all comes down to the characters popularity in Japan.
Taishi Ci also worked with Liu Bei to save Kong Rong in a chapter of the novel, so there's that.
But yes, they have made some pretty weird choices when choosing the characer models and the overall selection is extremely limited.

God forbids Koei from selling anything other than useless alternate portraits for the same four officers who already have dozens of them apparently (and it's not like they let you use more than one portrait at a time either...).

Yeah they seem really into giving us portraits for some reason. The recent watercolor portraits were nice though.

[Vin362]

They did the same thing in Nobunaga’s Ambition Sphere of Influence (ascension as well) where only Nobunaga Oda, Shigen Takeda, Kenshin Uesugi basically the officers who have a unique voice had a unique battle model as well. While some one like Tadakatsu Honda gets a generic battle model.

In Koei’s defense Nobunaga’s Ambition has always had 1,000-1,200 (in NASIA the office count is just over 2,000 at 2,076) officers so unique models could be difficult to make from every officer, while in Romance of the Three Kingdoms there are battle models used for debates, duels and seen during negotiations so even with a smaller officer count it requires a lot of work.

[heinous won]

^ The weird thing is, Sun Ce has a unique voice. (I find it amusing that these are character creation options because they constantly say their name when talking.)

Anyway they really dropped the ball with models in particular in this, the generics almost never look fitting.