Follow up to my last post about what I’d like to see come back to the empires. For me the event battles are really important and add a great deal of flavor whenever I do a play through in one of the scenarios.

Firstly you should be able to play as anyone who can be involved in the battle. When I first played 7:Empires that I could not play as Sun Jian and do hulao gate, couldn’t play as cao cao, liu bei, or Sun Quan for Chibi and other characters that were off limits. Now I have some suspicions as to why they’re doing this. Maybe it’s because these characters have a certain role to play in the event battle and if the player is that character. Example in the latest game sun Jian has his usual supplies issue if he doesn’t get them he will die quickly. If you’re sun jian well this loses strength because you’ll survive either way. Fair enough but it really takes away from the game and the whole forge your own path thing. Now I think the fix is simple just have it so that those objectives affect in a different way if you are playing as said character.

In the same line of thinking you can’t swap out certain officers for CAWs or battles won’t trigger. Now with the unique playable characters this makes total sense, should not be changed. But with the generics I don’t think it should be an issue. I should be able to replace Hua Xiong and Yan liang and still trigger hulao gate and guandu. I think the reason for this is somewhat similar to the last one. Said character has a special role in the battle and maybe some special dialogue which they don’t wanna re-record for all the edit voices. Fix: Just record it koei stop being so goddamn lazy... but that may be asking for too much(I guess). Another is to simply omit the special dialogue but have the special event play out with text boxes to guide you.

Both sides of the event battle should be playable in empire mode. Now I realize that the YT Rebellion and Hulao Gate battles have the difficulty of that when they’re won Dong Zhuo and Zhang Jiao die. You could however change this so that if you win loose the consequences are slightly different depending on which side you are.

Suggestions YT Rebellion. If you’re Zhang Jiao or in his faction and you loose you don’t die. You become a free officer or vagabond.

Hulao Gate. If you’re Dong zhuo or his faction. You loose everything except Changan, and your relationship with some of your officers deteriorates (Lu Bu 😏).

Guandu. Yuan Shao loss results in some territorial lose bad relationship with your officers and maybe some defections.

I also think some more battles should be Included in the base games. Must haves being Guandu, Chibi and Yiling (never should have been taken out), But also YT Rebellion and Hulao gate. Additionally I would add:

Campaign against Yuan shu

Tong Gate

Wu Zhang Plains.

After these any other would be gravy. The Sun ce one in the dlc was pretty cool, fall of cheng du, sima coup and others would be nice but I wouldn’t mind not having them.

What do you think, I am especially interested in your thoughts on my two points in the beginning about playable characters, and playable sides.