Easy items
When you complete the game you may receive a permanent unlockable item if you are compared to somebody good by the old man. If you save the battle just before you kill the last person in the final battle then continuously complete the game and resuming the battle, the old man will keep giving you new items and your craft will also increase. After awhile he will no longer give you any more items. However, your craft will continue to increase so you could start a game with as much as 15,000 craft, if you repeat it enough times.
Getting Shu forces as Wu early
You have two options to do this. Attack Cao Cao while he is at war with Yuan Shao. The other way is to Attack Liu Biao to avenge Sun Jian (recommneded). You will then do the "The First Battle For Jing" chapter. This chapter will not last long and you will get Gan Ning. Then, Cao Cao will send forces to He Fei, and that is the next chapter "Surrounded At He Fei". If you use a good Army (Sun Ce, Sun Quan, Shang Xiang, Cheng Pu, Zhou Yu, Huang Gai and perhaps Zhou Tai). You can easily rout his forces. Then, you will get the next chapter, "The Second Battle For Jing". As you know, in the last chapter Liu Bei was destroyed and left to Liu Biao. He does not do much yet. Just take Jiang Ling for Liu Biao to run to Xiang Yang. This is the next chapter, "Assault On Di". Take Mount Xing, defeat then to get Ma Chao make a campaign north to the territories of Ma Teng. Conquer them and use the army with the Shu forces led by Pang Tong which includes Zhuge Liang, Guan Yu, Zhliu Bei, and flood Xiang Yang. You are now on the chapter "The Night Before". Use Gan Ning to begin recruiting forces from Liu Biao. Try to get Xiang Lang because he can recruit Ma Liang, Ma Su, and Xu Shu. Then, defeat Liu Bei's forces and you will go on to the next chapter, "A Plan To Raid". Defeat Cao Cao's forces. Then the final chapter-"Wei vs. Wu" begins. You have 40 turns to recruit Shu's forces. They are at the city of Jiang Zhou. You should be able to get Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong. Then on the next turn, make either a army with the both of them or as spies go back there and slowly recruit the Shu forces. You will get most of the main ones (Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, and men like Guan Suo, Guan Xing, Guan Ping, Zhang Bao, and most of the officers from former Liu Zhang, Ang Fei, Zhao Yun, Guan Suo, Pang Tong, and Zhang Bao. After the elimination of Ma Teng's forces, Ma Chao should immediately join you, and possibly Ma Dai. If not, set him in the army of Pang Tong and you should get some of Ma Teng's officers. To get Wei Yan and Huang Zhong, defeat Han Xuan and use the Pang Tong army again, because they will immediately join you. If desired (just for conquering the land), defeat Zhang Lu. Take over Chang An, Luo Yang, Xu Chang for the road to Ye to be open. By now you should have all of China except for the region of He Bei, which includes Ye, Bo Hai, Ping Yuan, Jin Yang, Jen Ding, Yan, and Bei Ping. Take over Ye and watch the FMV sequence.
Morale Boosts For Wei Generals
When forming an army, put Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Ren, and Cao Hong into the same unit. At the start of battle a dialogue will intiate with the four and each will receive a morale boost of 10. Keep these generals in the same unit for this to repeat every battle.
Special Tactics
Whenever you have two or more people that are friends in an army, they will do special tactics together if you set them up correctly (such as a Double Blade, Family Bond, and Triple Strike). Others will have tactics that will do other things. For example, if you have Sun Ce and Sun Quan together in a tactic combo, they will do the tactic Conqueror. If you have Lu Ling Qi and Lu Bu together, you will do the special tactic Warrior's Blood. Note: Conqueror and Warrior's Blood can only be used once in a battle.
