Game Overview
Starting a New Game
Save/Load Game
Controls
Lands
Government
Upgrading Lands
War
Military
Market
Bank
Casino
Game Overview
The basic ideas of the Millionaire of Three Kingdoms are imported from the Monopoly and a Chinese game called “Fu Jia Tian Xia” ( ???? ). Like the Monopoly, the game world will be on a game board. However, the setting and background of the game will be during the Three Kingdoms Period in China. Players will be choosing some popular characters at that period to play the game. The objectives of the game will be to occupy all the lands and conquer the “world,” or to eliminate all opponents. On the other hand, the losing condition of the game is when the human player is eliminated, or when all lands are occupied by one of the opponents.
Each player will throw 2 dice to decide how many spaces to move forward. When step onto a land without owner, the player will be prompt whether to buy the land. If step onto the player's own land, player can choose to upgrade the land to village, from village to town, from town to city, and from city to castle (if meet the requirements). The size and level of the land will determine the capacity of the population, and population will determine the capacity of the military (soldiers), the fee of the toll, and the tax you will be collecting each week (every 7 turns). When step onto other's land, the player will be prompt whether to pay the toll, to fight, or to attack. Paying the toll will prevent a war. Fighting will trigger a war, if the player win, he/she will not need to pay the toll, but if loss, he/she will need to pay double the fee. Attacking will fight offensively, the player will occupy the land if he/she wins, but will need to pay double if loss. On the other hand, if the player is attack by an opponent, he/she can choose to either to defend or abandon the land. All wars will be simulated randomly by the computer. If the player doesn't have enough money to pay the toll when step onto other's land, he/she will be forced to either fight or attack. Losing the war will be eliminated from the game.
There are also some places you can go, those places are Market, Casino, Bank, and Playground. Market is a place to hire soldiers who fight for money. Casino is a place where players can gamble. Bank is a place where players can save money for interest.
Besides having soldiers in each land to defend the lands, each player can also have soldiers with him/her traveling the world. This is how you can afford fight or attack opponents' lands.
Starting a New Game
You can start a new game by choosing "New Game" in the main menu. You will then need to choose 4 players from 10 available characters to start a new game.
Save/Load Game
To save a game, you can press the ESC key. You can then choose 1 of the 5 slots to save your game. Note that you cannot save game when in a war or buying a land, etc.)
To load a game, you can click on the "Load Game" button in the main menu, you can then choose the game slot you saved in before. Controls
You can play the game using only the mouse, but you can also select some menu using keyboard. If you see the choices with a number in front of it, you can select by either using the mouse or pressing the number on the keyboard. To throw dice, you can click on the dice with mouse, or press the space bar.
Lands
Just like the monopoly game, you can buy the land that has no owner. If the land is occupy, you will have to pay the toll, or you can refuse to pay and choose to fight.
Government
If you are the owner of a land, you will need to govern it. You can set the tax rate of the land, which is your primary income. You also need to put enough military in the land to defend it from enemy's attacks. The loyalty of the citizen will affect the population and volunteer soldiers of the land. You can also build/repair walls to defend your land. If the population almost reached the max capacity of the land, you can upgrade it to the next level.
Upgrading Lands
You can upgrade your land when the population reached 3/4 of the max capacity of the land's current level. You can upgrade the land to village, village to town, town to city.
War
If you refuse to pay the toll to an enemy's land, you can choose to fight or attack. To fight is abviously an easier war than attack, because when you attack the enemy, they will be defending over the defense wall. If you win a regular war (fight), you do not need to pay the toll. If you win an attack war, you will occupy the land. On the other hand, if you lose the war, you will need to pay double the price of the toll.
You can have at most 3 army in a battle. The intelligence of the character will be used to choose the 3 army types to fight. Look at the Military section for the strategy. Military
There are 5 types of army in this game, they are militia, swordmen, pikemen, cavalry, and archers.
Militia
This
is the weakest army. However, it is quite effective when used to fight the archers.
Swordmen
Swordman is the second weakest army in the game, but is stronger than the militia.
Pikemen
Pikeman is very effective when fighting the cavalry and other army types, but they have low defense against the archers.
Cavalry
Cavalry has the strongest
attack skill against any army types except the pikemen.
Archers
Archer has strong destructions, but they are weak.
Market
This is the place where you can hire soldiers.
Bank
This is the place where you can save your money to earn interest, the interest is earn every month (4 weeks).
Casino
This is the place where you can gamble. Try to win some lucky money in this play. The minimum bet is 50 gold. |
