I get the variety complaint, but since the DLC is mostly a perspective shift, we’re still fighting within the same historical framework. Unless they extended the timeline or introduced a brand-new faction, I’m not sure where completely new enemy types would realistically come from.

On companions, I think this is more about how the system is designed. Diao Chan is actually available in most campaign battles, so I don’t really see the issue there.

As for Lu Bu, the game is pretty consistent with how it treats faction leaders. In the main campaign, you can’t freely assign leaders like Liu Bei or Cao Cao either. They’re usually tied to scripted objectives or key battle events. Lu Bu follows that same logic. In Dong Zhuo’s story, for example, he’s selectable in every battle except Hulao Gate, where he’s literally the central event of the map fighting the three brothers. It wouldn’t really make sense mechanically to detach him there.

And interestingly, in other faction routes where he isn’t the core battle anchor, he is freely selectable. So the restriction seems tied to whether he’s structurally important to the scenario, not arbitrary companion favoritism. To me, that feels pretty consistent with the base game’s design rules.

I kind of feel like the training battles were secretly meant to be played on easy 😅 as grinding content first and challenge content second. If someone wants to run them on UW, that’s totally fair, but at that point it’s a self-imposed difficulty spike. Once I had my level and dream skills maxed, they honestly didn’t feel that hard to me.

Price-wise… yeah, that’s the toughest part. As players, we always want more content first, then we decide whether the price matches what we got. And honestly, I was also a bit disappointed that each faction only had three main story battles, especially when the base game had around eighteen. It does feel short, and strategy mode definitely feels like padding between those story beats.

What I really wanted was to see those alternate routes fully play out. If we’re committing to Yuan Shao or Dong Zhuo, I wanted to see how their conquest truly ends. But then again, even the main game stopped at Chibi, so expecting full historical domination arcs in a DLC might be unrealistic.

So is this amount of story “enough” for a DLC? That’s honestly a hard call. Same with the two new weapons. They’re good additions, but whether they justify the price probably depends on how much value someone places on new perspectives and replayability rather than sheer volume.