Additional mechanics added to your favourite factions.Over 20 new units, including formidable Northern Army units.A new cross-generational faction playable in 190 CE, 194 CE, and 200 CE.These childhood friends have borne witness to each other’s growing ambition, but Yuan Shao’s patience with Cao Cao is fast coming to an end – a childhood bond is about to break.Īs well as including significant improvements to several existing mechanics, this brand-new Chapter Pack also includes: Additionally, the new faction and new units are a great addition for the low asking price of this whole chapter pack.In the Fates Divided Chapter Pack you begin at 200 CE, a period that finds Yuan Shao and Cao Cao at a crucial turning point. While you’ll get all the new mechanics for the game and the pre-existing faction as part of the free-lc, buying the actual DLC will bring you a new, shiny and fun campaign that mixes the card on the table and feels fresh in terms of initial setting, factions and gameplay. The Fates Divided DLC brings many new features to an already rich game. The council is now a more important aspect of the game, with new interactions between your characters, which also helps in making them more realistic and “alive”. Liu Zhang hasn’t the most interesting start position-wise, but the interesting faction mechanics make for a fun faction to play.Īnother really welcome change in the game’s mechanics is a revamp for the council, which in the past felt more like a side aspect of the game, with the main problem of being really passive with respect to other game mechanics. Aspiration then allows your faction to gain new powerful inheritance bonuses that will make you stronger throughout the game. Liu Zhang can gain aspiration by either conquering new lands or passively by strengthening its cities. By starting in 200CE, Liu Yan has already died and passed the inheritance. Unlike other factions, the newly added Liu Zhang plays around cross-generation mechanics rather than empowering the faction leader.
Yuan Shao has less problem, especially at the start of the campaign, thanks to its protected borders on the east and north. While I preferred Cao Cao’s new scheme mechanic, Yuan Shao’s can be exploited in the late game in order to make your opposition tremble in front of your military power. The latter allows him to spend lineage to empower his faction with powerful bonuses and get captain retinues: these are improvements to the lower-ranked officers that Yuan Shao can recruit in the place of heroic characters, making for a good power spike in the late part of the campaign. Schemes allow Cao Cao to play around the rules of the game, exploiting their effects to get additional movements for its armies, instantly unlocking technologies or using subtle diplomatic actions against its enemies… Cao Cao starts in a difficult position and with many territories to defend.Īs opposed to Cao Cao, Yuan Shao focuses instead on a more militaristic gameplay style, using lineage to unlock tiers in the captain armoury. Cao Cao has received a new scheme mechanic to highlight the diplomatic cunning of the character. Factions MechanicsĪlso included as part of the free-lc, both Cao Cao and Yuan Shao have been revamped with new faction mechanics. Cao Cao’s instead a harder time in the early game, with many territories to defend and more war fronts to take care of. Yuan Shao is a relatively safe pick, as it has control – direct or through vassals – over the whole northern region, effectively leaving only two war fronts on the south and the west. The difficulty is not only depending on the campaign though, as choosing different factions leads to big changes, especially for the early game. Fates Divided’s campaign puts a huge number of territories under the player’s control from turn 1.
This also makes for a campaign that could result overwhelming for new players, that should instead be introduced to Three Kingdom’s mechanics before delving into Fates Divided. This makes for a campaign that starts immediately in the heart of the action, without the need for the game to guide players through the first steps of their reign. 200 CE is an interesting pick as starting year for the campaign which, unlike the others, allows players to immediately gain control of well-established regions of China.
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