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I've moved on from Total War Warhammer and on to total war 3 kingdoms.
Lü Bu's gimmick in total war is kinda cool.
Everyone hates you (because you're a dick^1^), you're shit at ruling (Because you're a dick^2^), all your generals are sharpening their knives to stab you in the back (because you're such a dick^3^), but also you literally can't lose combat (No seriously, if you lose with Lü Bu you messed up somewhere, he can personally kill a full army and a reinforcing full army just by charging into) and your main way of doing diplomacy is reminding people that you just personally slaughered the population of a small european state. If you're ever not reminding everyone that you're the biggest baddest guy around by winning battles, all your generals defect and everyone declares war on you.
1: You get a gradually increasing diplomacy malus, which ends up being worse than if you declared war on someone.
2: You get a unique penalty that takes away income, makes all buildings cost more and lets you appoint fewer generals to posts because "Ruling is for weaklings and eunuchs"
3: You get a gradually stacking "satisfaction" penalty up to -50 out of a possible 100, at like 30 your enemies can turn your generals into spies and make them change sides, below that they have like a percentage chance of ditching you or something, and at 0 they automatically turn on you.
Hey, I just went the opposite direction, lol. I stalled out on Total War 3K because the sheer number of battles I was experiencing each turn in my Legendary Yellow Turban campaign was too much to handle. It's like 4 battles a turn with myself owning half the map and Cao Cao owning the other.
Thought I'd dip into Warham 3 and been bouncing around campaigns a bit but kind of waiting for the SFO update coming out next week too.
Lu Bu sounds pretty solid for a "This is Total War" campaign, since everyone hates you already anyway and you're so strong. I've been working on trying to accomplish hard stuff like that and Legendary campaigns, which I've only recently started playing on.
Warhammer 3 has a nice variety of campaigns. If you're doing mods anyway I'd check out the victory conditions overhaul mod..
If you have the dlc and you want to fight a bunch of varied enemies you should play the wood elves/Orion. And dont listen to the game or your intuition telling you that they're a ranged faction. By the mid point of the campaign you can store full stacks led by a treeman in each of the forests and you do not give a shit about any other territory so you can hand that over to allies, leave it burned to the ground, or just let the enemy take it with autoresolve and come back to it later. And if you get overwhelmed and bogged down on a far away continent you can just do like a tree and leave, you have two separate "teleport me out of this" mechanics.
Do not pursue Lü Bu
I like how if/when lü bu betrays a faction he joins (Pretty easy for that to happen since he gets like -90 satisfaction if he's not in charge) you get a pop up that basically says "duh".