Eh, recruit them of course. Every single officer is helpful.
Sigh, bye Chinaman.
Must've been your charms.
Oh well. Next!
Nice to meet you too. What a waste. They had 11,000 men under their command. Now we have to dismiss them.
What! Why?!
Ask KOEI. Dumb design. Let's settle down and plan our next move.
Plenty of gold and food supply for another invasion. We lost roughly 10,000 men. Gotta recruit and retrain them, it will take a month or two.
Well, let's not forget that Liu Biao is probably on full retreat now. We shouldn't delay. Corvus!
Yes?
We'll move out next month to secure the invasion route. You stay here and train the men.
Fine.
The next month...
Well, let's go. Let's hope they don't bother sending anyone to defend.
Now what kind of warlord wishes that?
We're ready.
Awww, fuck. Why do they have to send 22,000 on a border defense? For fuck's sake.
What's the problem?
Cavalry. man. It's a delaying action. They want us to pay a high price for taking this battleground. Just aim for the leader. Ignore the rest.
Assuming we can find the leader in this fog that is.
Dude, do you see where the otherunit went?
I have no fucking idea, they must've hidden themselves in the forest.
Asshole kept outmaneuvering us...
C'mon punk! You wanna piece of me?!
OH FOR FUCKS SAKE BOTH OF US LOST HIM!?
Derp. Casualty at 50%. This is a Pyrrhic victory.
Not yet, ...ENEMY COMMANDER! LET'S DUEL!
Fuck you and your pussy-ass gay shit. Shd've brought corvus along, would've quicken this up. Sigh.
Didn't even capture anyone...
...well, at least we got the corridor to invasion cleared.
The two heroes return home exhausted.
Next month, in China...
Holy shit. Learn to sewage, ya damn chinks.
We're lucky we're not in Chang Sha anymore.
Yeah, my acute sense of danger saved us once again.
Hey guise, welcome back, how goes the battle?
Shut up, corvus. We need to recruit and retrain our men, their morale is in the toilet.
Okay lah.
Uh, Steve. Messenger from Cao Cao, it sounded important.
Huh?
LOLWUT
1141 Gold is no small amount.
You tell Cow Cow he can sh-
Might not be a good idea to break alliance yet.
This isn't alliance, this is blackmail!
I'll imprison and then cut his balls off, Steve. Just say the world.
No wait, do we have any spare crossbows in storage?
Uh, yeah you want me to shoot him?
No, just give him a stack. That'll pacify him.
Phew.
That was shrewd. Even a useless gift is a gift, after all, eh?
The next month...
Give this fucker a crossbow.
Another month passes...
We got mail from Tzaero.
Awesome, gold?
Oh wow. It's something alright.
I feel
stronger.
One day I'll kill him. And feed his organs to the pigs. Then roast the pig and have a nice cubed sweet and sour pork with rice.
Say the word Steve. JUST SAY THE WORD!
Give him a crossbow. We've got no time for this nonsense.
Next year...
Let's do this!
Odds looks good... 8 months ago. Now all intel is outdated, but at least we got our troops back.
General Corvus, how are the men?
Tolerable, sir.
Morale?
Good at central, poor on the front.
Firing squads?
20 today, 12 for cowardice in the line of duty.
Baneblade production?
Tank crew, munitions and parts are arriving by convol on sche-
Yo, wrong game BROs!
I know.
K, just so you know - let's not delay thi-
Look at
this.
Sigh. Tzaero would murder you if he's here.
Once this was a fine city. Gleaming beacon of the Emperor's light - a center of industry, now look at it.
Uh...very good, milord.
Corvus, I would like to see this city built up again. I would like to see towers and spires of gleaming white. I would like to see our men on parade routes, not tours of duty. I would like to see every city, every stronghold in this besotted, miserable country turned to the service and industry of the Steve Imperium, in the Emperor’s name.
In the Emperor's name, Sir.
But to see my dreams fulfilled, first we must wipe the central plains clean of the blasted Liu, Cao, and Lu. Our troops are ready. Tell me Corvus - are we prepared? Or will we be lambs taken to slaughter?
Okay lah.
Then we march! For the Emprah!
Dat larping.