Qookka Games' Sangokushi Senkiban Puts Tactical Battles Back Into Mobile Three Kingdoms
Mobile Three Kingdoms games have generally treated individual battles as something to skip past on the way to alliance strategy, so a title that builds out the tactical layer is aimed at PC series players who want the fights to matter.
Reporting from 1 source: Denfaminicogamer.
A Denfaminicogamer write-up of Sangokushi Senkiban, a mobile strategy and tactics game from Qookka Games, argues that its battles are the point. Where most mobile Three Kingdoms games resolve fights instantly to a result screen, this one runs grid-based tactical combat with unit movement, range, and troop counts that double as attack strength. A closed beta ran through October 3.
The closed beta ran through October 3, and the build's combat is grid-based in the manner of Koei Tecmo's Three Kingdoms games: units have movement and attack ranges, troop counts fall as damage lands, and troop counts also set attack power. Bows hit from outside retaliation range, cavalry can swing around the front line into softer back units, and zone of control and terrain matter enough that placement decides outcomes.
A separate PvP mode, Biaowu Zhengfeng, strips out territory fighting and runs only the tactical battles, with trained generals and tactics available to rent. The piece says the rentals are top-tier rather than filler, which puts new players on the same footing as veterans on the system level. It is a tie-up article with Qookka Games.
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