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Heroes of the Three Kingdoms - Episode I v 1.02
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File Description |
Tsunami Studios |
Posted on 07/16/01 @ 12:00 AM (updated 08/11/08)
File Details |
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The Conquerors 1.0c |
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Number of scenarios: |
6 |
Episode I: Rise of the Heroes
By: Tsunami Studios Team -
http://scnpunk.heavengames.com/tsunamistudios
Head of Project: The Conquistador
Head Researcher: The Conquistador
Sounds Technician: The Conquistador (90%), General_Zhaoyun (10%)
Scenario Designers: The Conquistador (97%), Mythie (3%)
Modpack Designers: Ballista_Turtle (92%), Cian McGuire (4%), The Conquistador (4%)
Intro Bitmaps: The Conquistador
Playtesters: Christopher, Inquizative, The_Conqueror, General_Zhaoyun, Emperor_Vishruth, TNK, Phenix Sunflame, Shiva, The Vampire Slayer, Ballista_Turtle, IrishStag, The Ztolk, Brave Sir Robin
Intro to Story: Heroes of the Three Kingdoms is based on the Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The story begins at the Battle of Ke Zhou in 187 AD, where Liu Bei, the main character of the story, leads a small army of militiamen to aid in the attempt to destroy the Yellow Scarves, a group of rebells that have been plaguing China for almost one decade. Cao Cao, the commander of the reinforcing cavalry, comes in soon and together they defeated the Yellow Scarves. Then, Liu Bei went to Gong Sun Zhan, one of the great nobles of the north, and Cao Cao took a position at Luo Yang.
However, the destiny of the two men was to meet each other again. Soon, in 189 AD. Gong Sun Zhan and Liu Bei both joined the Eight Duke Alliance, which Cao Cao organized. Together they shall challenge Dong Zhuo, the most powerful man in China. This is where the story of Three Kingdoms began.
Characters:
Liu Bei (Xuan De) - The descendant of the Prince of Jing Shan and the founder of the Shu Han Empire. Although of noble birth, he was actually very poor for most of his youth. He made his fame when he defeated the Yellow Scarf army in 189 AD. He is the adopted brother of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.
Guan Yu (Yun Chang) - The adopted brother of Liu Bei and a symbol of honor and loyalty in Chinese history. In fact, a miniature statute of him is often found in Police stations in Hong Kong. He was the head of the Five Tiger Generals of the Shu Han.
Zhang Fei (Yi De) - The adopted brother of Liu Bei and Guan Yu. When Guan Yu was serving in Cao Cao's army, he said: "My brother Yi De is a much better fighter than me. He can take the head of a general in a battle like he can take a coin out of his wallet.". Zhang Fei's ferocity is very menacing. He was the third of the Five Tiger Generals.
Zhao Yun (Zi Long) - One of Liu Bei's most trusted generals and would later become one of the Five Tiger generals of the Shu Han. He is both cunning and brave.
Cao Cao (Meng De) - The founder of the Wei army and was dubbed the "Hero of Chaos". What he did was nothing short of amazing. He was the son of a middle class merchant and volunteered himself to destroying the Yellow Scarves. After attempting to assassinate Dong Zhuo, he organized the Alliance of Eight Dukes that almost succeeded in destroying Dong Zhuo. After that, he built his army and eventually conquered all of Northern China.
Xiahou Dun (Yuan Rang) - Cao Cao's cousin and most loyal follower. He is dubbed "blind Xiahou" because he is blinded on one eye. He lost his eye during a conflict with Lui Bu's army in 197 AD. Xiahou Dun is one of the fiercest generals in the Wei army and was given the title commander-in-chief after Cao Pi came to the throne.
Lui Bu (Feng Xian) - "In warriors, there is Lui Bu. In horses, there is Chi Tu". Lui Bu was perhaps the greatest warrior in the entire Three Kingdoms period. A master of the bow and horse riding, the great warrior is just as great and fierce as his steed, Chi Tu. However, Lui Bu had a poor sense of honor and loyalty. He served three masters before founding his own army. He was eventually defeated by an alliance formed by Cao Cao and Liu Bei.
Yuan Shao (Ben Chu) - Lord of Northern China. His family has been amongst the ranks of the "Three Ancestors" (three highest positions in the Han court) for four generations. Yuan Shao himself was a proud and arrogant man. He left Luo Yang in 187 AD because he did not recognize Dong Zhuo as the chancellor nor the new emperor, and went to northern China to build an army of his own. In 189 AD, Yuan Shao responded to Cao Cao invitation to forge an alliance against Dong Zhuo, and was named the commanding general.
Yuan Shu (Gong Lu) - A lord at southern China and half brother of Yuan Shao. Yuan Shao was a buffoon and had always been a midget in ability compared to his brother. He tagged along his brother and joined the Eight Duke Alliance, only to be a mere food transport manager. Yuan Shu became sour because of this, and contributed to the eventual failure of the Eight Duke Alliance.
Dong Zhuo - The chancellor of China and ruled China with an iron fist. Because his reign was so cruel, all the nobles in China rallied together to fight him. Defeated by the Eight Duke Alliance, Dong Zhuo burnt Luo Yang and fled to Chang An.
Instructions:
This campaign requires 2 speed settings. For the first scenario the cutscene, you need to play on normal (unless of course you don't download the music files) or the music will overlap. For the rest of the scenarios, it is recommended to play on the fast setting because the gap between each repition of the music will be rather big if played on normal or slower.
Unzip the campaign file into the campaign folder in your Age of Empires II directory. If you have music files (each music file is available for individual download), you must unzip them into the scenario folder under the sound folder in your AOE2 directory. The only exception the the music files is the "Intro Music", which you must put into the "stream folder" under the "sound" folder in your AOE2 directory.
Features:
- very accurate to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms novel
- RPS gameplay
- Interesting bitmaps
- The new "upgrade" units system, where you click on towers and pay gold to receive massive unit upgrades
- New upgrade heroes system
- Special weapon bonuses
- Gain an aura by gathering relics
- Unique music files from the game "Legend of Cao Cao" by Koei
- Custom modpack that changes the portraits of heroes and the initial viewing screen (extracted from "Fate of the Dragon")
Misc.
This campaign is made by Tsunami Studios. We are an Asian civ based team that specializes in making Asian campaigns. We would like to prefer that you ask us before posting our campaign at your site. You can contact me, The Conquistador, the head of the project, at stan_the_conquistador@hotmail.com. Thank you for your cooperation.
Music Files:
Edit: 08/11/08 The .zip includes Music File 1 to 9 and Intro Music.
Custom modpack:
Please download it from the link below and extract all files to your AOE2 directory.
Heroes of the Three Kingdoms modpack
Edit: The above link does not work anymore. If you have the Heroes of the Three Kingdoms Mod Pack please contact the Blacksmith Administrator.
FAQ:
Q: What is the upgrade system?
A: The upgrade system consists of 6 "upgrade towers" and money. Each time you click an upgrade tower (separated into 6 categories: infantry, cavalry, archers, buildings, towers, and siege weapons), that specific category gets upgraded. With the exception of archers, each click will cost you 1000 gold and will improve your units substantially.
Q: What are "Auras"?
A: Auras are hero generated magical effects. Only two heroes generate auras in Heroes of the Three Kingdoms - Episode I: Rise of the Heroes. These two are Cao Cao and Liu Bei. Liu Bei generates the Aura of Deprivation, which drains all resources from all enemy players every 5 seconds. Cao Cao generates the Aura of Famine, which drains food from all of HIS enemy players every 5 seconds. Auras require relics to activate and upgrade. In other words, the aura is activated when you obtain one relic and will upgrade to level 2 when you have 2 relics. You will be notified when it is activated or upgraded.
Q: In "Taking Xu Zhou as an Obligation", I die when I am savin the purple town! What gives?
A: You must rush to the ORANGE town (revealed on mini-map) and save its castle. There are some villagers you will get outside the city, use them to repair the orange castle.
Q: In "The Eight Duke Alliance", the game crashes when it change view to the fat guy!
A: Turn off the music by removing the music files from your sound/scenario folder.
Q: I can't download any of your stuff... I get a 403
A: Right click the link, and then select "save target as".
Signed,
The Conquistador, Tsunami Group Emperor
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Big Travis |
Posted on 08/01/01 @ 12:00 AM
This campaign was great, much worth the download
heres some music
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GO TSUNAMAI STUDIOS!!
Finish Him
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Big Travis |
Posted on 08/01/01 @ 12:00 AM
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Park (id: Angel Park)
Official Reviewer |
Posted on 08/11/01 @ 12:00 AM
Ok, upon request I decided to try out this campaign. For those that don't want to read the whole review, lets just you have a very good chance of enjoying this campaign.
Start off, this campaign completely has an Asian theme. The story rotates between many different main characters.
Playability:
This was a pretty hard thing to judge. After playing so many games and campaigns, scenarios tend to get boring. This campaign mostly deals with either building mass units and than attacking/defending or using your highly trained heroes to kill the enemy. Therefore it wasn't too fun or unique but still was greater than most scenarios. The author also included a unit/building upgrade system that spends gold. I found this almost useless. Although the author could of found ways to make this scenario much more funner, I cannot say that it was bad.
Balance:
This was sort of a touchy part. Some people might disagree with me about this score. When I review a campaign I look overall if there were easy and hard scenarios. In this campaign, the starting scenarios are pretty easy. All you really need to do is create a large army to destroy the enemy's starting large army. Than you just use heroes to waste everyone else. I remember one scenario I used my 2 heroes to kill all the skirmishers that the computer were making and 2 trebs to destroy buildings. Another scenario where you must protect an allied town only requires you to use the 4 heroes they provide. The later scenarios became harder with larger armies and weaker heroes.
Creativity:
Well the asian based campaign was a nice touch. Some of the additional music, mod pack, and name changing was a nice touch although not all really needed. Only thing that really looked great were the Asian Icons for heroes and some music they played.
Map Design:
They weren't any new things in the scenario. But overall the scenary looked great. Perhaps not the best but really up there.
Story:
The story sounds like something great for a long book, and this scenario was based on a book/story. Still scenarios in general are very hard to put long stories in. I felt lost many times in the plot and characters and only knowing what my basic objectives were. Perhaps some people will understand the story and have fun but there are still many out there that won't.
Note this campaign also comes with a modpack and music to download. I personally didn't find the music to help very much. The modpack while it was good, it didn't help the fun level of this game.
Pretty much a pretty good scenario. I'ld suggest downloading it and having some fun. |
SunTzuX |
Posted on 09/02/01 @ 12:00 AM
Well, after downloading and playing through the campaign I can say it was worth it. Though I did not download the music, I am a huge fan of the novel romance of the three kingdoms, as well as the RTK series of games by KOEI.
For any fan of RTK, this is a great download, and you'll enjoy seeing the events unfold and taking part. For those who think Romance of the Three Kingdoms sounds like some crazy romance novel, I would still recommend giving it a try, without the music at the least. To truely understand what's going on (without prior knowledge from the novel) you should read the doc included, as well as the instructions/hints. Once you learn who is who, you will have no problems.
The scenarios themselves play well, I admit the latter ones are a slight too deathmatch like. Many of the heros have thousands of hp, yet this is true to the story as they are indeed legendary warriors, but the balance is maintained nonetheless as standard units are kept upgraded as well.
I did encounter some lag issues in a few scenarios (450 k62, 128mb ram) but I'm a bit outdated. I would disregard the negatives above, and try it for yourself. What's there to lose? |
snavedogg |
Posted on 09/28/01 @ 12:00 AM
I think you both should stop whining like kids, If you want to do that go into a forum, I have to agree with blueman for the most part, but some people don't like RPG and preger a little more choas and action. If you are that kind of person than by all means dload it. If you are more RPG oriented than I would save the dload time and grab something else. |
Moogle |
Posted on 10/26/02 @ 12:00 AM
I just want to say that none of the sound files can be downloaded. |
NedmadOhcet |
Posted on 12/03/02 @ 12:00 AM
Please do something about the music file, it cannot be downloaded, i will download this game when the music file is fixed.. |
dk_kng_2 |
Posted on 05/14/03 @ 12:00 AM
Cooooooooool. Watching out for the sequel |
Sultan Muammer |
Posted on 03/01/04 @ 12:00 AM
HHHHHHHHHHHHHMMMMMMMMMMMM IT LOOKT LIKE DYNASTY WARIORS |
Lord_Hideyoshi |
Posted on 03/18/05 @ 02:39 PM
when is the sequel coming
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HGDL v0.8.2 |
Rating |
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4.7 | Breakdown |
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Playability | 4.8 | Balance | 4.8 | Creativity | 4.8 | Map Design | 4.8 | Story/Instructions | 4.3 |
Statistics |
Downloads: | 10,809 |
Favorites: [] | 2 |
Size: | 19.91 MB |
Added: | 07/16/01 |
Updated: | 08/11/08 |
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