Very good guide videos sir, one of the best ones I've came across so far, thank you very much. Got a question which I have yet to find an answer anywhere. I appointed an Administrator (Admin) at a Commandery, after a while, I would like to move him to a different Commandery to apply his Commandery bonus to it... however I couldn't find a way to do so, have you tried and know if/how it can be done? I tried the followings: 1) At the destination commandery, ensure no appointed Admin, use the appoint Admin button - it brings up a list of all characters, but the Admin who is currently appointed to another commandery can't be selected to appoint. 2) If I dismiss that Admin from there (or from the Court UI), it is considered dismissing him from the Admin position completely, and he becomes massively unhappy about it - no I don't want that. 3) I clicked everywhere which seem to be relevant on the Court UI, no luck either. 4) I raised an Army with the Admin in concern, at the destination Commandery, tried 1) above - with the same result. 5) If I then recall said army, the Admin and his retinue goes back to his original commandery.

please put this in your description add 0:00 as your intro (I know it sounds dumb) and then it will give a cool feature to your video were your viewers can see on the timeline of the video the different parts of the video

so happy to hear that man :) glad i could be of help!

bro please i need some help how do i grow more food i am almost emperor of china please

@@tlpcompany3688 how did your campaign go bro hope u had fun

Thank you for taking the time to watch and then comment man! I appreciate it :) glad they helped

Did it work out? 😂

Awesome to hear brother. Glad I could be of help!! :D

One of the other really big things that isn't mentioned is that when you assign a administrator to a commandery the retinue of that administrator is added to the garrison of the capital building. Which is big for me, I was always shocked at how easy capitals were to take from the AI because they had a terrible garrison (the dang outlying territories get better garrisons!), but then I checked the garrison of a city I had an administrator in just to realize that the administrators retinue is added to the total garrison. (edit) If you are adding the Military Infrastructure (Patrols building to eventually become a Fortified Garrison) you don't really need to worry too much about having a Granary. The additional siege time is nice, but kind of overkill. The reforms you have to drop to get the thing are also better spent for almost every faction, other than Cao Cao, on other early game reforms. No army that is going to siege a capitol is going to be that stealthy. Also if you are putting Sentinels in your Commandery capitols (which I highly recommend) by the time you gotta really worry about the capitol you should have their two perks that increase ranged damage while also switching their retinues out for the high rank Defenders of Earth or some other archer unit. The AI will almost always bottleneck itself trying to get into a city, so you want plenty of archers or a unit that can just hold out forever (hence why I choose Sentinels).

@@repo445-d4h That is correct. I try to give my administrators 6 cheep archers, its another addition to the defense that helps allot.

Thanks for the tips!

If you’re good enough and utilize Archer Towers properly you can defend a city with the smallest garrison even against full armies.

Upgrading garrison to level 3 takes around 15 turns which will sap your ability to do other stuff via taking your valuable first turn moneys and preventing the generation of additional funds through economy buildings during that time. One might say that building economy grants you a mobile garrison in the form of an army. The building slots are too valuable for barracks chain buildings since you need 2 to 3 slots for your primary income, be it commerce industry or pesantry, 1 slot for public order and another for corruption mitigation(later in game). Garrisons are still useful for holding mountain passes to the rich farmland valleys.

No worries dude I'm happy to help /)

Yayayayaya great to hear man!! Hope you have a blast

ohhhh no they didntttttt! ;) Press "F1" and then right click any of those dialogue boxes.. you'll get a video.. recognize the voice?? mwhahahah

Happy to help brother :)

you want to use sentinels as administrators, the have the buffs for commerce and industry like the strategists however the more expertise they have the more cost they can reduce to build your commandaries

just put up the third!

hahahah happy to help man :)

The Faction variation in Three Kingdoms puts Warhammer to shame. The unit variety isn't the same, but the shear difference in that EVERY faction plays differently and has different focuses is incredible.

Brian Stone you are right, the way factions play on the campaign is impressive. Still though unit variety and distinctiveness is a big part of faction variation, and adds a large amount of interest to the battles themselves. My idea was for modders to make something that is “the best of both worlds”.

Thank you!! It's up!! :D

Thank you so much! Did you see the other tutorials linked at the end?! They might help! :)

@@italianspartacus I will definitely check those out. I just relied on youtube to give me the next suggestion and it failed me. So I apologize :D

BASTARDS! hahah yeah, at the end, in the last 15 seconds, you should see a link to ALL of the tutorial videos

YUSSSS happy to be of help man!

awesome to hear man! :) glad it could be of some help brother. welcome to the family hehe

I'm working on it right now :)

Oh man totally. I don't think I enphasize food enough. That's my bad. You really need to focus on it OR get a faction that has a ton to trade with reliably

It's a cycle. You need to upgrade your cities to get good income, but bigger cities require more food. So just make sure to include in your plans capturing a commandary that has good farm/livestock land. Otherwise you'll be wasting some building slots for food production in cities that would be better used for income. I like how in early game, everything seems to be hard to get (money, food, public order, good units). It really makes you think about your next steps.

Yeah always build food first before upgrading city. I learned the hard way. Iv been playing total war since the original shogun. This is soooo different.

Lmao same I suck at the battles

hmmm i'll see what i can do about that- you're the first person to tell me that, so i wasn't aware that was an issue! I'm so sorry. i'll see what i can do in premiere :)

I’m struggling to read the text as well, but I think it’s just this game in general. I’ve watched other reviews specifically complain about all the text size.

ohhh great point!! when there's another DLC drop, i might do just that :)

@@italianspartacus keep it up buddy! Love your vids on the game.

Here's my copypasta from an above comment I made. Enjoy! Corruption is tied to overall faction size and overall commandery population it seems. You can reduce corruption via 3 different buildings (the Grand Treasury Mint, the Administration lines Grand Judiciary or the Office of Seals and archives) and 1 commandery territory building (the Copper Mine max building reduces by -4% faction wide). You need to keep an eye on what you build though. There is no point building a Grand Judiciary if you have a Grand Trasury Mint, you should build an Office of Seals and Archives instead so you max out that adjacent corruption bonus. Corruption level can be found when you select a Commandery and then hover your mouse over the left of the screen where the income for the commandery is. After a second a detailed breakdown of how much money the Commandery is making will be displayed along with a corruption level displayed in a percentage. If you really want to crack down on Corruption your best bet is to use a mix of one of the two AOE (or as I call the CAoE, Commandery Area of Effect) buildings in conjunction with a Commander that has the Crack down on Corruption assignment unlocked. The Assignment will reduce Corruption by a flat 50% in whichever Commandery they are deployed in. This negative STACKS with whatever else is in play for that Commandery. The max Corruption -% modifier you can get from reforms is -19% corruption, but getting there is very long and not really worth it until extreme late game (turn 150+). To break everything down here's an example of what I am talking about; Lets just say you have Commandery A and it is sitting at a cool 65% corruption (which can happen). To reduce this you have built the Court building (Administrative Office building T3 requires Capitol of Commandery to be T7 city) which reduces corruption by -10%. So now your local Corruption is 55%. You can further reduce this by getting the reform The Five Punishments (which allows you to build higher tier Rural Tax offices and gives a -5% Corruption Faction wide). Now your local Corruption should be sitting at 50%, which is still a lot. Fear not though, just Assign a Commander unit that you choose to give the skill Stability during a level up. This skill gives you +8 Authority, +5 Public order for the Administered Commandery, but what we really want is that Assignment it unlocks. Stability unlocks 'Counteract Corruption' which reduces Corruption in a Commandery by 50%. So by Assigning the Commander General with that specific Assignment you can reduce your total local Corruption to 0% for a few turns. Unfortunately there is no real way to reduce/eliminate all corruption entirely though. At least, not that I've found, and I've got around 70 hours in game so far (honestly around 45, I've left the game running a couple times while taking a break or running errands).

@@repo445-d4hYes there is no way to reduce it entirely for all fo your lands but you can get it down to 0% with out assignemnt in chosen cities. Where I am not sure is if the adjacent corruption bonus does stack on a commandery from the different commanderies. Administrator apply -30% corruption as well. In my play through with Liu Bei in the late game in my larger cities I had corrutpion dow to 0%-15 because off adminstrator, reforms and buildings with out assignment.

Oh and forgot to sub; 36595th! :P

hmmm! i'll see what i can do.. is there any type of question you have in specific to them that i might be able to answer for you?

@@italianspartacus thanks for responding! Well, after watching your basic and advanced tutorials I restarted a campaign with Cao Cao where I put the focus ( like you advised) on peasantry and diplomacy. Now I arrived at the level of Marquis (never got there before with a steady income and all that) but now I have to choose excellencies and all that. The main question is who would you put in those different positions? What type of character (sentinels, commanders) or doesn't that matter? Would you choose one of the characters with the highest levels or the one with the best relationship between your faction leader? It's a lot but hopefully you understand what i'm trying to get at. Thanks ItalianSpartacus!

effectively! :D hahah any time man, glad it helped :)

Hahaha I do more NOW but when this video was made? Not as much hehe sorry

Yes it SHOULD work, but it might have changed with time so I apologize if I mislead you!! Also thank you very much for watching :)

@@italianspartacus not misleading at all, i saw the vid was a year old and patches happen lol. thank you for the response, i'll do some digging on my end and see if i can find a definitive answer

@@italianspartacus If it says faction wide bonus as heir/etc, you only activate them when the character is at that court position. Your Lu Su had 15% bonus to industry cause of its ability perk!

He's incorrect on this. You lose the spy/character if you 'disown' them. You need to 'recall' them if you want to keep the character.

facts, I thought I'm gonna get bored of 3K since Warhammer had so much faction and unit diversity, but it was the complete opposite.

ohhh that's a real good one.. and i don't know if i have an exact answer as to some hidden buff... but it more pertains to their innate bonuses to stats, followed by the weapons and armor they have access to that tends to make them better in specific roles either from the damage stats or passive buffs given. For example, Champions get a lot of Resolve, increasing their Health %, and having access to certain weapons, plus armor that gives them further bonuses in that situation. Then their SKILLS increase their innate potential further - THEN THEIR BACKGROUND increases it again haha, so it just really depends on each character :)

to be honest the first third of this video is really all about settlements and economy

let me reword that in what buildings are best to prioritise when dealing with a border settlement with an enemy that you know will be a battleground vs what buildings to prioritise for more protected settlements.

stormraven8484 ah good point, I often struggle with military buildings myself. They just don’t seem very worth it too me

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Hover over the income if your specific commandery to find out which you make the MOST of. Take a look at what's available to that commandery too - so lets say you have a lot of farms/livestock, then you'd want to focus on green. The settlements your commandery has access will dictate the best source of income :) Prego, fratello!

@@italianspartacus The quality of your accent is so impeccable that it prevents me from clearly understanding if you are actually Italian. On the other hand the name of the channel could be a simple tribute ... Well anyway from now on I have an "Italian" youtuber that I appreciate. ( the italian arumba of TWTK) ;) Post Scriptum When CA makes grand strategy with the typical elements of Paradox games better than Paradox itself ...(yes Imperator Rome, i'm looking at you....)

Turning grass down to low (looks exatly like Ultra, probably only effects battles), shadows off and I think filtering on 4x made the biggest difference for me. (Aside from Screen Space Reflections/Shadows). Everything else sadly doesn't really matter much, so can be on Ultra, if you are not desperate to gain fps. Turning resolution scaling to 90% also helps. No idea about the performance in battles, though.

Thank you very much man! I'm the same person that narrates the voice in-game if you press "F2" :) Welcome to the family!! Absolutely, so to do this you first need to understand the Classes. Lets group them by combat and non-combat Vanguard/Sentinel/Champion are your combat classes. Shock Cav/Infantry/Character killer respectively. Followed by.. Commander/Strategist. These two are MEANT to stay behind your army and bolster the army using their abilities. In line with this, you'll have units that each can recruit. Want archers? Get a strategist. Want Cav? Get a Vanguard. Now when it comes to the tiers, EVERYTHING is X Militia on the bottom. As you progress through both character ranks and reforms, you unlock better units. As far as how they kind of mesh together.. Sword infantry make up your backbone, with Halberd/Spears forming your flank defense as they can counter cav. Axes are meant more as "assault infantry" able to do shock damage to your oponents infantry force. Lastly, archers and siegecraft support your army from the rear. Cav of course will be used to do damage to the backline. Spear cav is shock cav, vs. the other is more meant for perpetual combat. What I do is create armies with one non-combat, like a commander or strategist, then two combat. I go with Vanguards and Champions most of the time. Then supplement as needed, having them build what THEY thrive in. does that help??

@@italianspartacus Thank you VERY much for your reply! That helped immensely! I usually went with a "Jack-of all trades" approach, trying to give each general a somewhat balanced entourage. So, focus more in the respective generals strengths, support them with matching units and then mix them in an army. And i think focusing more on a respective units "weapon type" rather than comparing them all against each other also helped quite a bit :D And you actually voiced parts of the game? Well, although it's one of the rare instances of a good german localisation, i think i need to switch to english now :D Again, thank you very much for your amazing videos and your great reply! I think i got the gist now.

@@italianspartacus How often do you mix units in your retinues? Like for instance if I had a vanguard, strategist, and Sentinel in my army. Would you try to only recruit vanguard units for the vanguard, sentinel units for the sentinel, and archers for the strategist? Or would you mix in some yellow units into your vanguard's retinue, some cav into your archers retinue as needed and so on.

Its not "just better". Commerce/ Ind has larger base values on buildings (like +250commerce vs +75 from peasantry) but food economy gives you 3 sources of income - from peasants, from population, and from option to sell excess food. Any one of those can make you filthy rich if done right. Happy gaming!

@@petrmiros9908 i guess the downside with peasant economy is reliance on higher population numbers which can take a while to grow

MacTavish also the public order penalties from high pop

Yeaaa the public order is so bad Confucius cant get them to be good :(

basically just build towards what their colors are.. healers should be like vanguard/champions, scholars are strategists/commanders and veterans are sentinels/.... i can't remember that color!

Pa Lei Wa that doesn’t make sense if the person isn’t cheating. Sky Scorcher plus 200 instinct bonus isn’t even close to 12k. No other bonuses can give that much extra dmg

Corruption is tied to overall faction size and overall commandery population it seems. You can reduce corruption via 3 different buildings (the Grand Treasury Mint, the Administration lines Grand Judiciary or the Office of Seals and archives) and 1 commandery territory building (the Copper Mine max building reduces by -4% faction wide). You need to keep an eye on what you build though. There is no point building a Grand Judiciary if you have a Grand Trasury Mint, you should build an Office of Seals and Archives instead so you max out that adjacent corruption bonus. Corruption level can be found when you select a Commandery and then hover your mouse over the left of the screen where the income for the commandery is. After a second a detailed breakdown of how much money the Commandery is making will be displayed along with a corruption level displayed in a percentage. If you really want to crack down on Corruption your best bet is to use a mix of one of the two AOE (or as I call the CAoE, Commandery Area of Effect) buildings in conjunction with a Commander that has the Crack down on Corruption assignment unlocked. The Assignment will reduce Corruption by a flat 50% in whichever Commandery they are deployed in. This negative STACKS with whatever else is in play for that Commandery. The max Corruption -% modifier you can get from reforms is -19% corruption, but getting there is very long and not really worth it until extreme late game (turn 150+). To break everything down here's an example of what I am talking about; Lets just say you have Commandery A and it is sitting at a cool 65% corruption (which can happen). To reduce this you have built the Court building (Administrative Office building T3 requires Capitol of Commandery to be T7 city) which reduces corruption by -10%. So now your local Corruption is 55%. You can further reduce this by getting the reform The Five Punishments (which allows you to build higher tier Rural Tax offices and gives a -5% Corruption Faction wide). Now your local Corruption should be sitting at 50%, which is still a lot. Fear not though, just Assign a Commander unit that you choose to give the skill Stability during a level up. This skill gives you +8 Authority, +5 Public order for the Administered Commandery, but what we really want is that Assignment it unlocks. Stability unlocks 'Counteract Corruption' which reduces Corruption in a Commandery by 50%. So by Assigning the Commander General with that specific Assignment you can reduce your total local Corruption to 0% for a few turns. Unfortunately there is no real way to reduce/eliminate all corruption entirely though. At least, not that I've found, and I've got around 70 hours in game so far (honestly around 45, I've left the game running a couple times while taking a break or running errands).

@@repo445-d4h You my dude are a life saver, got to say though it's mental that you actually can't reduce your corruption by 100% via buildings in the commandery itself and need to leave it to getting and levelling up a specific character (who may not live long) so you can actually combat corruption. See the final tier building that boosts adjacent commanderies by -20% corruption does that stack with other adjacent ones? so say my capital for instance is surrounded by 4 will that give me a -80% corruption modifier on my capital or just the 20%? I've about 44 hours pumped in to the game myself but I keep getting my ass kicked lmao furthest I've got is conquering South China with Sun Jian then wa bam I ran in to the corruption problem and was to far gone with war and my armies to fix it.

Yeah I'd definitely go peasantry :)

Resilience is the trait you're looking for.. And it'll be very hard for him to die. They'll almost always get wounded if they're legendary. Think of it as immortality from Warhammer

@@italianspartacus Thankyou, You Are Very Helpful, This is the First Proper Indepth Overview I have seen since the trailers. One Last Question, if you Are playing a Coop Campaign, But In Kind of a head to head scenario, Surely It wouldnt make sense to kit your spy out with spy enhancing gear, As when they recruit them, they will see all that and be immediately Suspicious? Or does the game hide that some way?

@@devil12280 yes absolutely! they will gain different ancillaries when they get recruited though.. and they won't see what ancillaries they HAD on them. it will show previous allegiances though, and that's the real tip

Hahahaha it's true.. This save is from. An earlier build of the game, so I noticed that and thought, "welp.... Let's see how the chips fall" hahaha

@@italianspartacus well done sir well done :) again nice vid :)

I'd have to. Jump. Into. The game to fully. Explain as I can't remember off the top of of my head, but it has to do with population as a result of certain buildings! Hover over the provincial capital building and it should have an entry for peasantry income!

Ywah absolutely, if your economy can support it, do it! Just make sure you've got enough food that you're building a surplus across the entire faction. That builds your reserves

No! Own army will work if they are NOT commander. There are three types... Own retinue, if commander, and own army! Own army doesn't require you to be the commander

When they are a general ie, deployed on the map.

@@taylornox Oh.. Thanks. I was under the assumption the character's administrator buff wouldn't be available while they're deployed as a general outside the commandery. But I guess this means I was wrong about that as well. Thanks a lot for clearing that up.

@@nithingirish9752 Correct, your administrators still gain the buff while deployed, its just obviously riskier because they could get sliced and diced

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End of the red tree :) Ruby Dragons I think? Commanders benefit from a lot of "back line" buffs - like strategists. They buff up units with charge defense and the such. Commanders are also able to mix a lot of units. They get melee cav (yellow) as well as sword infantry! All classes can only have specific units, so you might think Strategists suck BUT they're the only ones with access to high tier archers

ItalianSpartacus I love strategist they are the best in my opinion I would put one in every single army and Jade Dragons are for vanguards. They gave every color besides yellow an elite unit afaik which is dumb purple has two units. Then the emperor units are for blue and green. So I know the commanders get a 25 percent block buff on melee cavalry but is that all? Is there an innate bonus for putting the same color unit with the same color general? I started out doing that just putting same color units with each general which means I only use champions strategists and vanguards since they have the best units and cover their weaknesses.

well certain generals can only recruit certain troops :)

It isn't. I'm sorry at one point they were different, and I assumed it was still that way. My bad brother!

the AI is good at recognizing opportunity like that, so i'd be offensive on one front - keep either both of your armies attacking or one attacking, while the other defends! :)

@@italianspartacus maybe I need to improve my battle skills. I can only do 1.5 times armies size right now from enemies. So I need 2 troops for attacking. 2 for defending. Maybe that's why I can't occupy more cities

@@leonchang462 If you're forced to trade, make sure you take big things like lvl7 cities while he takes something insignificant. You'll cripple its ability to fuel a strong army

No he can do fine in battles.. He's a commander I believe, yes? So he gives passive bonuses!

@@italianspartacus Okay thanks. I find Cao Cao weird because he benefits archer and calvary so not sure which to specialize in for his retinue.

Ryan Vu depends on how you want to fight, you could go with either or split the retinue between cav and archers. If you want the bonus that is.

From my one day gameplay Veterans and Scholars are the spine of the army healers not so much, unless you go for those hybrid bow/spear units Build Veterans like Strategist/Champion Scholars like Sentinels Healers like 2nd rate strategists/Shock cavalry (they're still weak on combat)

Look at the flag in the upper right of the character panel. That should give you an idea of their previous faction allegiances if any. Then look at their relationship, if they aren't mad at that previous allegiance, there's a chance it's a spy.. Now that's not gojng to root them out, you need to use the assignment and ancillaries that help defend against spies. There's a building line as well in the blue tree

Also, if the candidate is willing to spy for you it means they aren’t an enemy spy.

What Warlord/faciton are you playing!? :D

@@italianspartacus Sun Jian

Ohh that's tough because Sun Jian is really strong, especially alongside Sun Ce. Wait until Sun Qian is born and then place Sun Qian and Zhou Yu together!

Hahaha I'm not sure to be honest.. I've never dealt with that scenario. I'd have to sandbox it. Anyone able to weigh in??

@@italianspartacus I had a bit more of a look into possible avenues and I'm thinking I need to go to war with yuan shu need to either fight and capture sun ce or I can try and cause a device between sun ce and yuan shu through subterfuge. Neither are quick or guaranteed unfortunately lol. My campaign is going pretty interestingly so just gonna play it out and see what I can do

Escape > Interface > right column, last option, "Alternate Unit cards! :)