Questions about a couple of things

[Wolf Renegade]

I have a general understanding of the game but i still have questions about the game much apreciated to anyone who can answer them.

1- i was doing a game with jia xu and was thinking of defecting to another army, can you defect to another army as the player ?

2- As for Warn i understand what it means but even if my army is huge they still refuse to surrender and the enemy only controls 1 castle to my 7-8, is there a way to trigger this or do you need to do something specific for it to work?

3- does someone know all the Bond 5 Characters or is there a way to check it out?

4- what is your favorite Prestige in the game?

[heinous won]

1 - There are two options but one is far more common. You can leave your current force (free command under gate button in city) and then go request to join a new force. Or you may get asked to defect by another force, but I have not seen this happen too often.

2 - It won't work on the major factions like Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Suns, Yuan Shao, etc. All you can do is keep checking as you grow bigger or the target grows smaller, but 7-8 cities isn't enough to get it to work, you probably need at least double that. Boosting relations might help a little bit.

3 - You can probably see all those bonds in one of the scenarios like Gathering of Heroes, no one has put together a full list in English to my knowledge.

4 - Personally I like Illustrious General because it comes with Local Troop tactic. Sun Jian's seems good. And I noticed in my last game as Zhou Yu (under Sun Ce) that our deployed units would lose morale very very slowly, to the point it seemed broken. But a lot of them are good, you just have to know how to utilize the bonuses well.

I haven't found anything redeeming about Adamant Guardian, though.

[Wolf Renegade]

Thank you for the reply i really apreciate it.

[carlon89]

I will just answer the last question as heinous as answered he others. I like the prestige where you have higher stats when using private troops I think it could be illustrious general. I currently have unparalleled warrior on to help in my duels and the military drill with officers is really good improving their LEA and WAR. Plan on experimenting with some others like strategy master and firebrand soon as they sound fun.

[Virsia]

simply being firebrand triggering coalition, that way you can easily wreck anyone in the game.
any prestige is good as long you're capable utilizing it.

warn doesn't work if you play hard difficulty the AI refuse to surrender it usually cap at 79% negotiation rate.

[Gulskjaeren]

1. I've only ever experienced being asked to defect once, during my very first year serving a force and never again since.

2. Warn works best if you go it alone and have a high orator skill. Pay attention to the expected result, anything other than loss decided is fair game. You can still delegate yourself to the task even if your strategist does not recommend you.

3. Unique bonds are mostly limited to rulers. Some exceptions being Yan Liang and Wen Chou, Guan Yu and Zhang Liao, The two Zhangs of Wu. No i havent seen a list either.

4. Mastermind, it comes with a unique tacticsthat lets you GAIN troops when attacking. Combine that with a debilitating strategy and you can gain up to 300 troops per hit. You can even go beyond the number of troops your rank+title allows. Only allowed to command 9000? No problem have 1000 more, heck have 30000 in the command of each general for a total of 300,000. Once you gain these troops, they are reflected in your city, they are yours until death or plague. Veey useful when the population is not giving you enough troops.