Handbook in the Art of War

for Tiger Knights

Table of Contents
Table of Contents 1
Changelog 3
Goals 3

Basic Combat 4
How to: 4
Combat Tips: 4
Weapons: 4
Armour: 5

Commanding Troops 6
How To: 6
Command Tips: 6
Troop Types 7
Troops 7
Wei Intermediate 7
Zhongyuan Heavy Pikemen 7
Qingzhou Glaive Infantry 8
Wei Heavy Halberdiers 8
Zhongyuan Heavy Cavalry 8
Qingzhou Elite Cavalry 8
Bingzhou Heavy Cavalry 9
Zhongyuan Rangers 9
Wei Crossbow Riders 9
Zhongyuan Horse Archers 9
Shu Intermediate 10
Xuzhou Heavy Infantry 10
Jingzhou Heavy Infantry 10
Shu Tiger Infantry 10
Jingzhou Light Cavalry 10
Shu Skirmisher Cavalry 11
Shu Crossbow Riders 11
Shu Light Crossbowmen 11
Jingzhou Elite Crossbowmen 11
Shu Repeating Crossbowmen 12
 Wu Intermediate 12
Sailors in White 12
Danyang Infantry 12
Danyang Green Turbans 12
Jiangdong Pikemen 13
Jiangdong Heavy Infantry 13
Danyang Elite Halberdier 13
Jiangdong Archers 13
Wu Professional Archers 14
Wu Elite Archers 14
Rome Intermediate 14
Iberian Auxilia 14
Legionaries 14
Imperial Legionaries 15

Strategy 16
Siege 16
In General 16
Battle of Mount Dingjun 17
Battle of Xiapi 18
Conquest 19
In General 19
Skirmishes on the Border 19
Battle of Jieqiao 20
Yun-meng Lake 21
The Fire in Redcliff 22
City in the Flood 23
Battle of Guandu 24
Battle of Weinan 25
Battle of Bowangpo 26
Battle of Nanzhong 27
Yangzhou 28
Gaul Suburb 29
Oasis 30
Black Forest 31
Telamon 32
Changelog
2-5-2017 Started document, setup basics for Basic Combat and Commanding Troops.

2-5-2017 Added all the conquest and siege maps, including their pictures. No details added
yet.

8-5-2017 Resize Maps.

Goals
If you wish to help, you can make suggestions on information you feel is missing, or you could
select something from this list and add that as changes.
Goal 1 Add Tactics details: good combinations of troops to use on those and tactics to
apply for each map.

Goal 2 Add Troops details: Fill out stats of each unit. Later: How to effectively use each
troop available in the game, which weapon to have them equipped with, the use of
their skills.

Goal 3 Edit map images to have Base Recruit Site, Marshals and Strategic Points
locations. PLSPLSPLS I dont know all the locations from heart.
Basic Combat
How to:
Stun: press Q
Charge: double-tap W
Parry(Parry weapons only): Click right mouse button.
Block(Melee weapons): Move mouse in block direction and hold right mouse button.
Combo: Click Left mouse button, at the moment the strike ends, click again. The biggest
combo is 3 clicks. The 3rd attack will be a double strike.
Neutralize: Hit simultaneously from opposite side of the enemys attack.
He hits from his left, you hit from your left.
Neither your nor their attack deals damage.
Counter: Hit slightly after the opponent from same side of the enemys attack.
He hits from his left, you hit from your right.
Their attack deals no damage, yours deals some damage.

Combat Tips:
- Stun followed by charge is an excellent way to knock down an opponent.
- When fighting 1 against 2, equip a shield and a fast weapon. Or a parry weapon.
- When fighting 1 against 3, run away.
- When fighting 2 against 1, get close enough and use stun. Your ally can hit him while he
cant move.
- When fighting 2 against 1, charge swiftly after each other from two sides.
- Get as close as possible to opponents who use long (2.00+ Weapon Length) weapons,
Stay as far as possible from opponents with short weapons.
- If you are faster moving than your opponent, you decide how close or far to be.
- If you are slower moving than your opponent, you have to change your weapons
depending on the range they choose to engage at.

Weapons:
Each weapon has 1 or 2 attack sets, and each attack set deals a specific type of damage.

The damage types are Piercing, Slashing and Blunt damage:

- Piercing Damage: strong against Cloth, average against Metal and weak against
Leather.
- Slashing Damage: strong against Leather, average against Cloth and weak against
Metal.
- Blunt Damage: strong against Metal, average against Leather and weak against Cloth.

Attack Set Examples:

- Iron Shovel(*) =
(Left/Right attacks only, they deal blunt damage, only 1 attack set)

- Zhongyuan Glaive(**) = and

(Left/Right/High attacks that deal slashing damage, and Low attack piercing damage, 2 attack
sets.)

Armour:
Each Armour has a set of coverage areas and each coverage area has an armour type.

Coverage areas are: Head, Shoulders, Upper Arms, Lower Arms, Chest, Stomach, Waist, Upper
Legs, Lower Legs.

The armour types are Cloth, Leather and Metal:

- Cloth Armour: strong against Blunt, average against Slash, weak against Pierce.
- Leather Armour: strong against Pierce, average against Blunt, weak against Slash.
- Metal Armour: strong against Slash, average against Pierce, weak against Blunt.
Commanding Troops
How To:
Switch between Formation and Engage-within-radius: ~
Units stay near your current location: F1
Units follow you: F2
Units move towards enemy camp and engage enemies on the way: F3
Cycle between formations: F4 (cycles through available formations)
Troop Skills: F5-F8
Morale Skill: F9

Command Tips:
- Units in formation mode will only attack enemies within their melee range. You have to
ensure that enemies are close enough.
- Formation or Engage-within-radius still applies in F1-F3 modes. F3 on Radius means they
attack anyone within the radius (the one you normally see; it moves with the soldiers invisibly)
and F3 on Formation means they only attack those near the formation.
- Formations boost and debuff certain stats like damage, defense, attack speed, shooting
speed, etc.
- Adjutants determine which formations are available. Make sure you equip an a troop with
an Adjutant with useful formations for that troop.
- Use of Troop Skills is crucial for the usefulness of your soldiers.
- Use your Morale Skill whenever you are in active combat.
Troop Types
The following is a list of all the types of troops in the game. Each troop type has a very distinct
role on the battlefield, and they each play very differently.

Infantry
Anti-Cavalry
Heavy Infantry (Tank)
Shock Infantry (DPS)
Ranged
Archers
Crossbowmen
Cavalry
Ranged Cavalry (Raiders)
Bow Cavalry
Crossbow Cavalry
Skirmisher Cavalry (Javelins)
Shock Cavalry

Troops

Wei Intermediate

Zhongyuan Heavy Pikemen

Type: Anti-Cavalry Infantry/Heavy Infantry
Armour Types: 7/9 Metal, 1/9 Cloth, 2/9 unprotected
Damage Types: Slashing(Standard Weapon) OR
Piercing(Upgrade weapon)
Melee Attack: 3.5
Ranged Attack: 0
Melee Defense: 3.5
Ranged Defense: 1
Mobility: 2.5
Qingzhou Glaive Infantry
Type: Heavy Infantry
Armour Types: 9/9 Metal, 1/9 Cloth
Damage Types: Slashing & Piercing(Standard Weapon) OR
Slashing(Upgraded weapon).
Blunt(Secondary Weapon).
Melee Attack: 3.5
Ranged Attack: 0
Melee Defense: 4
Ranged Defense: 1
Mobility: 2

Wei Heavy Halberdiers

Type: Anti-Cavalry Infantry/Heavy Infantry
Armour Types: 9/9+2 Metal, 1/9 Cloth
Damage Types: Slashing & Piercing(Standard Weapon) OR
Piercing(Upgraded Weapon).
Blunt(Secondary Weapon).
Melee Attack: 3.5
Ranged Attack: 0
Melee Defense: 4.5
Ranged Defense: 1
Mobility: 1.5

Zhongyuan Heavy Cavalry

Type: Shock Cavalry
Armour Types:
Damage Types:
Melee Attack:
Ranged Attack:
Melee Defense:
Ranged Defense:
Mobility:

Qingzhou Elite Cavalry

Type: Shock Cavalry
Armour Types:
Damage Types:
Melee Attack:
Ranged Attack:
Melee Defense:
Ranged Defense:
Mobility:
Bingzhou Heavy Cavalry
Type: Shock Cavalry
Armour Types:
Damage Types:
Melee Attack:
Ranged Attack:
Melee Defense:
Ranged Defense:
Mobility:

Zhongyuan Rangers
Type: Bow Cavalry
Armour Types:
Damage Types:
Melee Attack:
Ranged Attack:
Melee Defense:
Ranged Defense:
Mobility:

Wei Crossbow Riders

Type: Crossbow Cavalry
Armour Types:
Damage Types:
Melee Attack:
Ranged Attack:
Melee Defense:
Ranged Defense:
Mobility:

Zhongyuan Horse Archers

Type: Bow Cavalry
Armour Types:
Damage Types:
Melee Attack:
Ranged Attack:
Melee Defense:
Ranged Defense:
Mobility:
Shu Intermediate

Xuzhou Heavy Infantry

Type: Heavy Infantry
Armour Types:
Damage Types:
Melee Attack:
Ranged Attack:
Melee Defense:
Ranged Defense:
Mobility:

Jingzhou Heavy Infantry

Type: Heavy Infantry
Armour Types:
Damage Types:
Melee Attack:
Ranged Attack:
Melee Defense:
Ranged Defense:
Mobility:

Shu Tiger Infantry

Type: Shock Infantry
Armour Types:
Damage Types:
Melee Attack:
Ranged Attack:
Melee Defense:
Ranged Defense:
Mobility:

Jingzhou Light Cavalry

Type: Crossbow Infantry
Armour Types:
Damage Types:
Melee Attack:
Ranged Attack:
Melee Defense:
Ranged Defense:
Mobility:
Shu Skirmisher Cavalry
Type: Skirmisher Cavalry
Armour Types:
Damage Types:
Melee Attack:
Ranged Attack:
Melee Defense:
Ranged Defense:
Mobility:

Shu Crossbow Riders

Type: Crossbow Cavalry
Armour Types:
Damage Types:
Melee Attack:
Ranged Attack:
Melee Defense:
Ranged Defense:
Mobility:

Shu Light Crossbowmen

Type: Crossbowmen
Armour Types:
Damage Types:
Melee Attack:
Ranged Attack:
Melee Defense:
Ranged Defense:
Mobility:

Jingzhou Elite Crossbowmen

Type: Crossbowmen
Armour Types:
Damage Types:
Melee Attack:
Ranged Attack:
Melee Defense:
Ranged Defense:
Mobility:
Shu Repeating Crossbowmen
Type: Crossbowmen
Armour Types:
Damage Types:
Melee Attack:
Ranged Attack:
Melee Defense:
Ranged Defense:
Mobility:

Wu Intermediate

Sailors in White
Type: Shock Infantry
Armour Types:
Damage Types:
Melee Attack:
Ranged Attack:
Melee Defense:
Ranged Defense:
Mobility:

Danyang Infantry
Type: Shock Infantry
Armour Types:
Damage Types:
Melee Attack:
Ranged Attack:
Melee Defense:
Ranged Defense:
Mobility:

Danyang Green Turbans

Type: Shock Infantry
Armour Types:
Damage Types:
Melee Attack:
Ranged Attack:
Melee Defense:
Ranged Defense:
Mobility:
Jiangdong Pikemen
Type: Anti-Cavalry Infantry/Shock Infantry
Armour Types:
Damage Types:
Melee Attack:
Ranged Attack:
Melee Defense:
Ranged Defense:
Mobility:

Jiangdong Heavy Infantry

Type: Shock Infantry(Ironic isnt it)
Armour Types:
Damage Types:
Melee Attack:
Ranged Attack:
Melee Defense:
Ranged Defense:
Mobility:

Danyang Elite Halberdier

Type: Anti-Cavalry Infantry/Shock Infantry
Armour Types:
Damage Types:
Melee Attack:
Ranged Attack:
Melee Defense:
Ranged Defense:
Mobility:

Jiangdong Archers
Type: Archers
Armour Types:
Damage Types:
Melee Attack:
Ranged Attack:
Melee Defense:
Ranged Defense:
Mobility:
Wu Professional Archers
Type: Archers
Armour Types:
Damage Types:
Melee Attack:
Ranged Attack:
Melee Defense:
Ranged Defense:
Mobility:

Wu Elite Archers
Type: Archers
Armour Types:
Damage Types:
Melee Attack:
Ranged Attack:
Melee Defense:
Ranged Defense:
Mobility:

Rome Intermediate

Iberian Auxilia
Type: Shock Infantry
Armour Types:
Damage Types:
Melee Attack:
Ranged Attack:
Melee Defense:
Ranged Defense:
Mobility:

Legionaries
Type: Heavy Infantry
Armour Types:
Damage Types:
Melee Attack:
Ranged Attack:
Melee Defense:
Ranged Defense:
Mobility:
Imperial Legionaries
Type: Heavy Infantry
Armour Types:
Damage Types:
Melee Attack:
Ranged Attack:
Melee Defense:
Ranged Defense:
Mobility:
Strategy

Siege

In General
In the grand strategy of unit selection and how to play, there are a lot of things that depend on the
situation. However, there are still a few things that give a higher win chance in any match.

- Keep your army balanced. Make sure you have 1 Anti-Cav, and make sure you have a
mix of leather and metal armour infantry as well as a mix of damage types (blunt/slash
mostly). Even on non-cav maps, the opponent might pick a cavalry unit, and anti-cav
can still be useful in infantry combat if they dont.
- Cavalry is useless, Ranged Cavalry is even more useless.
Battle of Mount Dingjun
Medium sized Siege map.
Battle of Xiapi
Large sized Siege map.
Conquest

In General
In the grand strategy of unit selection and how to play, there are a lot of things that depend on the
situation. However, there are still a few things that give a higher win chance in any match.

- Keep your army balanced. Make sure you have 1 Anti-Cav, and make sure you have a
mix of leather and metal armour infantry as well as a mix of damage types (blunt/slash
mostly). Even on non-cav maps, the opponent might pick a cavalry unit, and anti-cav
can still be useful in infantry combat if they dont.
- Never have more than 1 ranged cavalry.
Skirmishes on the Border
Small sized Conquest Map

Unit Compositions
- Infantry Only.
- 1x Anti-Cavalry in case the opponent does take cavalry.
Battle of Jieqiao
Medium sized Conquest Map.
Yun-meng Lake
Medium sized Conquest Map

Unit Compositions
- No Crossbows due to their short range.
- 1x Heavy Cav for archer/light infantry hunting.
- 1x Raiders for scouting.
- 1-2x Archers.
- 2x Infantry (Preferably Heavy, 1 Leather, 1 Metal)
The Fire in Redcliff
Medium sized Conquest Map.

Unit Compositions
- Infantry Only.
- 1x Anti-Cavalry in case the opponent does take cavalry.
City in the Flood
Medium sized Conquest Map.

Unit Compositions
- Infantry Only.
- 1 Anti-Cav in case the other team doesnt go infantry only.
Battle of Guandu
Large sized Conquest Map.
Battle of Weinan
Large sized Conquest Map.
Battle of Bowangpo
Large sized Conquest Map.
Battle of Nanzhong
Large sized Conquest Map
Yangzhou
Large sized Conquest Map.
Gaul Suburb
Large sized Conquest Map.
Oasis
Large sized Conquest Map.
Black Forest
Large sized Conquest Map.
Telamon
Large sized Conquest Map.