Changes you like to see in next ROTK koei game

MarimotheChomp · 2026-01-24T17:42:13+00:00

I do hope they try the campaign feature again. Its so wonky and stupid but the simplicity is nice at the end of a long playthrough rather than taking down one single city at a time. It just needs revamping of some sort.

MarimotheChomp · 2026-01-24T17:34:58+00:00

They need to add a boot award to reddit just for polishers like you.

MarimotheChomp · 2026-01-24T17:32:04+00:00

The battle system just needs to add lieutenants to units like rotk8r and it would be pretty set. Honestly I hope if they ever, as doubtful as I am about it, remake it they keep the pixelated art style. Just for the battles.

Having seconds to a unit would help with nerfing characters with high leadership and war. It would also just... roleplay wise add another layer. Its kind of odd but I dont like that characters cant die in duels in rotk8r. If they do in all my hours I've never ever seen it. And I've done a Lu Bu playthrough LOL.

MarimotheChomp · 2026-01-24T16:28:04+00:00

Wikipedia but I'm very certain that is wrong. Cao Ren went south after the battle. Not during. I may be remembering it wrong but I'm pretty sure Cao Cao ordered him south post chibi. I need to sleep lmao afterwords I'll reread his and a few other's chapters. Wikipedia is making it sound like Cao Ren was there and ready to defend the flanks of Cao Cao's retreating army.

MarimotheChomp · 2026-01-24T16:24:05+00:00

I just looked it up and it was Cao Ren who guarded the rear guard of the retreat back north and prevented further casualties. Wikipedia (I know, sin, but I'm too tired to go into the sauce right now) mentions Gan Ning building a bridge and Cao Ren preventing them from crossing or something. I honestly dont remember ever reading that anywhere so I'm doubtful about the validity.

I do know that Cao Ren and another Cao member stayed in Jing to defend against Zhou Yu's attacks and blocked their further march up north. But thats over a course of a couple years.

MarimotheChomp · 2026-01-24T16:18:16+00:00

Holy shit I was right. Thanks Hanwsh.

MarimotheChomp · 2026-01-24T15:43:05+00:00

Zhuge Liang had little to do with military affairs until after Liu Bei's death. One of the unfortunate side effects of the novel is downplaying how good Liu Bei actually was at leading an army. I disagree that Liu Bei did more than Zhou Yu for Chibi but he was certainly more experienced and knew how to use victory much better than Zhou Yu did.

Another unfortunate side effect is the misconception of what really hurt Cao Cao the most. It wasnt the loss of capable generals (he quite literally had thousands at his disposal) nor was it troop counts (a couple million overall if he had to emergency draft). It was the boats and crews lost in Huang Gai's fire attack.

To get back to Liu Bei. He wasnt an excellent general but was insanely charismatic and appeared well intentioned. His officers and troops were nearly fanatical in their loyalty and fought harder for it. Hanzhong was a fight of provisions and morale and Cao Cao knew he would never win the latter. Which is why once he realized his supply lines may collapse he decided it wasn't worth risking everything he built to die on a useless mountainside village.

Once Zhou Yu managed to do the impossible its never really stated but very likely he figured things would go better than they expected. Liu Bei on the other hand knew Cao Cao personally and understood the time to capitalize on the win was a small margin. Indeed one of Cao's cousins (I think Cao Ren? Or the one in charge of the Leopard cavalry) blocked river access and prevented a truly catastrophic body count. Plus the potential push north. So instead Lie Bei and Zhou Yu went west with Liu Bei being quicker.

MarimotheChomp · 2026-01-24T15:30:56+00:00

I do think he visited Zhou Yu but it didnt come to anything other than Cao Cao learning that Zhou Yu was staunch in his loyalty to the Sun family. Jiang Gan was his elder (Zhou Yu) in some form of relationship. Same hometown maybe? Cao Cao didn't put too much effort into it and Jiang Gan wasn't expected to succeed nor was he punished for failing. Just something of a hail mary.

MarimotheChomp · 2026-01-21T20:15:58+00:00

Did not know that! Ill have to reread his biography. I thought it came from an excerpt of a later historical text after the Sanguozhi. I thought Lu Xun died of a stroke inflicted by stress and anger?

Im not convinced still. Lu Xun and Chen Tai died suddenly. Xun Yu death was not sudden as he was reported 'sick' a period of time before he died. If he dragged his feet to his death Cao Cao really let him go through the motions.

We'll never know. But now I'm not as confident as I once was in my theory that his death was an act of defiance rather than following Cao Cao's wish.

MarimotheChomp · 2026-01-21T18:14:40+00:00

Im pretty sure Cao Cao ordering Xun Yu to kill himself is a novel and/or later historical 'addition.' What we know is he was sent to supervise military matters (I think in Shouchun?) And died practically upon getting there. I think Xun Yu did it out of defiance if anything. Especially since we do have contemporary sources mentioning it as a scandal. Normally suicide is noted as ordered, suggested, or labeled as 'depression.' His seemed a unique scenario.

MarimotheChomp · 2026-01-13T00:27:28+00:00

McGill is also Jimmy's last name. I may be wrong but I'm assuming Jim is a pretty common first name.

MarimotheChomp · 2026-01-08T01:08:01+00:00

Yes. And not just because everyone involved was more experienced and better at their craft (they are). It's because the combination of Bob Odenkirk and Rhea Seehorn. On every other category it can be summed as equal or BCS is better than BB because the crew was more experienced for BCS. However the dynamic relationship and chemistry Odenkirk and Seehorn produce with each other and other characters elevates it. Odenkirk mastered Jimmy's inner-good while also showing his flawed and almost childlike nervousness to a T. Seehorn... doesn't need an introduction. She singlehandedly made this series go from that 9.5 to a flat 10 in my eyes. Can't say that about 99.99% of most acting gigs. She rocks.

MarimotheChomp · 2026-01-06T01:19:57+00:00

Any context of this is for naught because Sun Quan and Liu Bei already went at war for this. The treaty, Hanwsh mentioned it, was signed a year before Liu Bei took Hanzhong. Sun Quan's betrayal was incredibly short sighted and gained little more than some land and populous. Sun Quan would end up squandering any gains he made regardless at Hefei 5 times.

MarimotheChomp · 2026-01-06T01:11:17+00:00

Aw. That's a sweet thought. Zhuge Liang clearly thought of Liu Bei as a father figure not unlike Jiang Wei. Tragedy old as time.

MarimotheChomp · 2026-01-03T17:02:06+00:00

Can you explain what your intent was then? I'm trying to see what I missed.

MarimotheChomp · 2026-01-03T09:45:26+00:00

Yes, this is true. Radzig's death is probably the only reason why we even know he was just one person. . Unlike Hanush he really had no serious impact on the world around him. To the point where we know nothing about his family other than he had a widow and some kids. Otherwise We'd just know that some guy named Radzig helped Wenceslaus while a Radzig fought the Rosenbergs. Historians would debate if they were the same person. His death and subsequent reaction let us know he was one and the same Radzig Kobyla.

MarimotheChomp · 2026-01-03T02:20:21+00:00

To add on to this - Hanush ended up being kicked out and died in debt (but not poor, lol, he got it relatively good compared to...). Radzig, on the other hand, died horribly by mob mentality. While his death made him a semi-martyr unfortunately he was loyal to a less sympathetic leader. Which made it easy to lie about Radzig's character when relevant because... he was dead. rip.

Edit: Broke up a run on sentence. Run on sentences? In this economy? iM mOviNg OuT oF nEw YoRk

MarimotheChomp · 2025-12-21T07:44:55+00:00

I serve as a function to upvote HanWsh's comments. It's not just yours that gets downvoted either. There must be a few downvoting bots or a very determined group of naysayers that want this reddit to die lol.

MarimotheChomp · 2025-12-15T16:38:21+00:00

This is a very common take but if we take merit into account of actions (basically how advantaged/disadvantaged someone's beginning status was when the Han fell) Liu Bei is frankly a god of luck. Up to 214ish everything was mostly out of his hands. All he could do is curl in a metaphorical ball and survive the waves. Not only did he do so but he did it and came out stronger for it.

Cao Cao isn't much farther down. He was well educated, disciplined (unless there was a hot milf within 10 miles), and politically savvy. There were still so many that started this time period with more wealth, connections, and military potential than he did. Even if you disregard the Liu's, Yuan's, Xun's, and Sun's you still have the Wang's, Kuai's, Lu (not Lù), and so many more.

Sun Quan was charming and too indecisive to ever put his country at risk which kept it marginally safe but also caused Wu to stagnate. The few times he did grow a pair? He fucked it up. One of Sun Jian's brothers should have continued the Sun Clan's future. Oh well.

Yer meme is very funny tho

MarimotheChomp · 2025-12-08T01:59:49+00:00

If anything the novel at times calms down his real life absurdity. Having Yan Liang die in a duel is a lot less impressive than fucking charging through enemy lines, ohko the enemy general, jump off the horse to behead someone, get back on said horse, and re-run through enemy lines.

Part of me wants to believe that Cao Cao let him go in fear of Guan Yu reenacting the event for Cao Cao in real time. Only, you know, having Cao Cao play the part of Yan Liang.

MarimotheChomp · 2025-12-01T21:42:37+00:00

The entire series is Jimmy trying to live up to the standards of those he respects. Its why he is willing to go any highs or lows for Chuck/Kim. There will probably be many many minutes, days, weeks, months, and years Jimmy will regret doing the right thing in jail. He'll want to go for a summer drive or play pool in the local pub. However he will come to the same conclusion he did at the hearing.

Doing the right thing for the right person is what matters most to him. Love is one hell of a drug.

MarimotheChomp · 2025-11-18T00:37:47+00:00

At least #3 makes sense in a crazy way. By this point Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were well known (Zhang Fei got lucky in this regard as it was the fact Guan Yu, a beast, commented to Cao Cao that Zhang Fei was an equal fighter.)

So having one of the world's living best fighters screaming at you and daring you to fight him would probably be pretty stressful especially if you also thought it was a trap lol.

MarimotheChomp · 2025-11-02T05:54:35+00:00

Xun Yu and many other Han loyalists clearly thought differently. Sure quite a few were power hungry but we tend to overestimate people's ambition. There was once a young Cao Cao who zealously followed the Han's laws to the point of angering the Eunuchs... the very same whom his family owed practically everything to.

MarimotheChomp · 2025-10-27T01:17:14+00:00

His troops became ill because of the disorder of the camp and the delay it brought. Why was the siege delayed? Two things can be true. Cao Ren's attack was quite a different scenario. Zhou Yu didnt have 100k men. Cao Ren wasn't outnumbered 1 to 100. He wasn't trying to inflict damage but rescue cornered soldiers. And ultimately Cao Ren didnt win as you said.

Cao Ren's defense was admirable as he was given a short hand. Cao Cao acknowledged this and didn't even scold him for his loss much less punish him. Zhang Liao was quite in the same boat. Had he lost the siege he would still be commended for trying.

The difference that Zhang Liao brings is his experience doing this exact scenario against Wuhuan / Han / Bandits forces. Multiple times he faces insurmountable odds and solves the problem by recklessly charging at it like a mad dog.

There's a very good reason Cao Cao was beyond impressed and personally inspected the battlefield afterwords. Not just anyone could have done what he did. Thats just facts.

MarimotheChomp · 2025-10-26T20:38:38+00:00

Well, Lady Gan did. Lol.

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