Help (building other cities)

[LedLoaf]

Hello,

So I have been going through hero mode and just got out of the tutorial. I just beat the first scenario after it from someone from this community (thanks!).

I have a couple questions though going forward.

I can command 2 officers to do tasks and 3 more can recommend tasks through the 3 minsters.

1. When I get a new town I distribute a few officers and assign a govener. What does the CPU do as governor? Do they just upkeep the city while I'm away?

2. When I travel to a new city I own, how do I assign workers there from the 2 officers I command? I go to my new city and the assignments are still for the first city. I could probably just transfer them there, but then they won't be upgrading the other city.

3. Is it beneficial to swap out minsters every so often to gain other officers merit up to be more productive when I spread them out among the new cities I capture?

4. I haven't got the ability to make districts yet. Is this something worth doing? When exactly would you decide it's time to do so? In NA the districts seem to hurt you in the long run and I avoided doing it (maybe I was doing it wrong).

5. Just curious, because I see you can marry someone. I don't see like an arrange marriage feature. What exactly does it do? Can you produce off spring or something?

6. I'm not familiar with Japanese (NA) or Chinese history. I never was a fan and prefer European medieval era. Are these fictional people? I know this is a book. A lot of people say you won't understand unless you read the book or followed the series. Is the story made up or is it really based off real factual history with a bit of exaggeration to make it good?

Really starting to get into this game. I find the story to be rather interesting. The names confuse me, but I'm learning. I remember reading something about the way Asian names were presented back then (maybe still). Like one part of it is their clan and other part is their name. Maybe that was just for Japanese territories haha, I'm not sure.

Anyways, I'm starting to get into the history and loving it. I can't wait to be done with hero mode and start my own game. I don't think I'm confident to make my own guy yet haha. I bought all the DLC. I kind of didn't even read what I was buying, but $10 is whatever. I think it just expands hero mode and gives you some portraits.

Once again sorry for all the questions and the long ramble of irrelevant stuff nobody cares about. Wish more games like Crusader kings or Europa came to PS4 as well. What a disappointment from Grand Age Medieval (totally abandoned) :-( .

Thanks everyone!

PS: I hope there is a difficulty setting, because as of now in hero mode the AI is absolute atrocious. I guess I shouldn't expect in depth AI from these people unfortunately.

[Saenimaux]

There is a "City Council" feature that tasks Governors to focus on domestic policy or military policy as well as a capture city option.

[erobotan]

1. To add what Echoshot1 said, If you appoint the governor, I think you also can benefit from the ministers that the governor appoint.
5. You marry someone by upgrading your relationship to lvl 4. You can't have offspring at the moment (unless you set it in the original officer) but I heard the upcoming expansion pack will have offspring feature.
6. The story is probably around 70% facts and 30% fiction

The game do has difficulty setting, so far i only play easy mode here but Hard Mode in Nobunaga's Ambition is really hard & smart.

[heinous won]

1. The governor will just develop the city overall unless you call a city council and therefore give it specific orders.

2. Just like your officers, your ruler is stationed in a specific place and just moving around doesn't change that. If you want to move Sun Ce from Lujiang to Yuzhang you actually have to order his (your) transfer with the command. When you move to a city where you are not stationed, all you can do is visit people and buy specialties, you can't develop or launch attacks. This might sound weird but trust me, when you are doing some friendship errands and running all over the country, being able to assign orders without clicking back to home base is nice.

What's funny to me is, when I did Sun Quan hero mode, I did not understand these concepts, so I had no idea how to make Sun Quan do things and he sat around a lot haha

3. I never bother but swapping ministers does help raise rapport to the basic max of 80. It is also worth noting that changing ministers also cancels assigned orders. I guess yeah they get a small merit boost from suggesting orders (?) but that's really unnecessary micro-managing.

4. In my experience districts are only useful if you want the viceroy to be able to move officers around freely between cities. It also adds another layer of those "minister" bonuses. So if minister R(uler) has spear training and minister V(iceroy) with Hanzhong in the district has horse training and minister G(overnor) of Hanzhong has bow training, then all the guys in Hanzhong get a boost to their troop aptitudes (same doesn't stack though).

Also, if your goal is to conquer an entire region, a district is better than a bunch of governors because it will handle deployment from all cities.

5. No offspring but yes you can marry, you just keep raising your relation level with someone of the opposite gender. Then you can choose marriage, or so no and do sworn siblings. Same gender is sworn siblings only. Side note, unless it's the scenario goal there isn't much point in bothering in Hero Mode, takes too much time.

6. It's exaggerated history. I picked up ROTK III before knowing anything about the period and got into it, so it's fine to play without knowing the story (plus the key bits are events in the game) but it doesn't hurt to dig further at some point. The novel might be West-comparable with something like Camelot, there are a lot of superhuman feats and magic and some political intrigue. Actual history comes off a little drier at first but then you realize some of these dudes were legit amazing.

It's worth noting that Hero Mode is going to start getting more challenging at an exponential rate, after Sun Ce there is a kind of bland one with his brother Sun Quan, and then I stopped on the next one which is Cao Cao I think in the battle of Guandu. It wouldn't be hard now because I have been playing the main game for a while but at the time I would have been very frustrated. My point is, don't feel compelled to complete Hero Mode before trying out the main game, it's not necessary.