Total War: Three Kingdoms - I've been delving back into this recently, trying to complete my Lu Bu campaign. However, I keep borking the game and having to revert to scumsaves. It's not that I'm losing... as a matter of fact, I keep getting the nagging message from the game that I should consider raising the difficulty level (I've been playing on Normal difficulty). The problem is that a main feature of Lu Bu's faction is that corruption and discontent is super-high, but you can counteract it by continuously winning battles... so I have to keep warring non-stop, to raise the gold I need, to keep the expenses paid as keep my characters happy. I've also needed to do a good bit of sacking and looting for the same reason, which leads to damaged buildings that cost money to repair... and I also need to keep taxes high for the same reason... all of this in turn leads to even higher discontent and frequent rebellions, which require larger/more armies to control/defeat... it quickly turns into a hopeless death spiral that I don't feel like dealing with... so I restart to an earlier save to try again.
Anyway TIL (well yesterday/last night) that when a character's horse runs away in a battle, you can't chase it down and remount it. I also found out that Lu Bu is even more ridiculously powerful than I originally thought. My armies had gotten powerful enough where I had been auto resolving most battles, but I had a battle in my most recent session last night with Lu Bu's army where the enemy (Kong Rong) retreated close to his nearest city, which meant when I chased him down, the second army I had with Lu Bu's was too far away to reinforce, and Kong Rong's reinforcing army and city garrison were both close enough to join the battle. So the odds were greatly against Lu Bu's army. I attacked anyway on YOLO (scumsave) grounds. Total War lets you rematch battles you lose anyway, so you can just try again if you don't want to just reload from a prior save.
The point is that I ended up basically winning the battle... narrowly, by essentially just ignoring the rest of my army and just micro'ing Lu Bu to almost single handedly defeat all three of the enemy amies, including killing/defeating all 6 of the enemy generals. Lu Bu lost his horse towards the beginning, after routing several enemy units, but instead of continuing to fight, I tried to chase the horse (The Red Hare) down and ended up running far away from the battle. While Lu Bu was gone, most of my army was routed, however once Lu Bu came back to the battle on foot, I was able to systematically solo rout basically all of the opponents army. The "tide of battle" bar under the minimap went from about 1/5th green (meaning I was losing badly) to Lu Bu winning. I always knew he was really strong, but I didn't know he was that strong. He's about as close to invincible as it gets. By the end of the battle, he was on a tiny red sliver of health left, but still... he's pretty insane. I don't know how I am going to be able to do a campaign without him after I finish this one. I'm pretty spoiled playing such a powerful character in my first campaign in the game.
As an aside, I've noticed that Ma Teng's son (Ma Chao) is annoyingly strong as well. He solo kills my whole army every time I face him and I've learned that you have to surround him and focus on killing him first or he just routs all your units at the end of the battle.
Anyway TIL (well yesterday/last night) that when a character's horse runs away in a battle, you can't chase it down and remount it. I also found out that Lu Bu is even more ridiculously powerful than I originally thought. My armies had gotten powerful enough where I had been auto resolving most battles, but I had a battle in my most recent session last night with Lu Bu's army where the enemy (Kong Rong) retreated close to his nearest city, which meant when I chased him down, the second army I had with Lu Bu's was too far away to reinforce, and Kong Rong's reinforcing army and city garrison were both close enough to join the battle. So the odds were greatly against Lu Bu's army. I attacked anyway on YOLO (scumsave) grounds. Total War lets you rematch battles you lose anyway, so you can just try again if you don't want to just reload from a prior save.
The point is that I ended up basically winning the battle... narrowly, by essentially just ignoring the rest of my army and just micro'ing Lu Bu to almost single handedly defeat all three of the enemy amies, including killing/defeating all 6 of the enemy generals. Lu Bu lost his horse towards the beginning, after routing several enemy units, but instead of continuing to fight, I tried to chase the horse (The Red Hare) down and ended up running far away from the battle. While Lu Bu was gone, most of my army was routed, however once Lu Bu came back to the battle on foot, I was able to systematically solo rout basically all of the opponents army. The "tide of battle" bar under the minimap went from about 1/5th green (meaning I was losing badly) to Lu Bu winning. I always knew he was really strong, but I didn't know he was that strong. He's about as close to invincible as it gets. By the end of the battle, he was on a tiny red sliver of health left, but still... he's pretty insane. I don't know how I am going to be able to do a campaign without him after I finish this one. I'm pretty spoiled playing such a powerful character in my first campaign in the game.
As an aside, I've noticed that Ma Teng's son (Ma Chao) is annoyingly strong as well. He solo kills my whole army every time I face him and I've learned that you have to surround him and focus on killing him first or he just routs all your units at the end of the battle.