How To Make Money In Total War: Three Kingdoms 

Nice guide are you going to be making more I hope.

It seems all his videos are on Twitch.

Thanks! I had to learn how to use Premiere to make this so I'm glad it came out well.

Thanks! The best advice is there's no need to go above a level 8 Regional City, which will keep your population capped at 3M rather than 7.5M for the Imperial City. Much easier to manage that way. Not every city needs to be that high, either. Some are only worth getting to level 5 or 7, depending on their output. You only need to upgrade the ones that are worth the trouble. So long as you keep those cities fed with a surplus food of +10 or so, public order should be fairly easy to control. I'll usually dedicate one slot to a shrine or military infrastructure (grain storage works too, but gives you less), and put an administrator with a public order boost in the more troublesome cities. That should sort you out. That way, even the cities that trend down should only do so at a trickle. It'll take years to descend into the negatives, and you can easily offset it with a few turns of tax exemption to max them back out. At that point, you should be more than big enough for your economy to handle it.

how do you do that ? how do you balance army spending in early game ?

I don’t understand how? The entire Han empire is my vassal and i barely make a grand a turn 😂 they dont do shit! And if i annex them i make even less 😅

@@jamesschaller753 LOL, I am talking about late game of course. It depends on the city or settlement/commandary they are holding and the level of the city/buildings etc. A fully max level city and buildings make around 5k or higher per turn. Just like the video has explained, what and which commandary do. What you build dictates your income. Some fraction/warlords has particular buildings and traits that increase tax income without suffering corruption etc. Both you and the vassals heir, master, generals who is overseeing the city, would have big impact on the income and production etc too. Some characters gives you extra 25% income from vassals, commandary etc. Generally, The most important or number 1 factor that makes a difference in the game is the character traits and stats. How you maximise their traits to benefit yourself the most, IE battle, loyalty, income etc. Next is how well you manage your relationship with other fractions, get the most benefits to yourself and avoid getting killed. I would say the least you should worry about was combat. Even if you start off with a really bad and terrible trait characters, with the right political manuvers and surviving the battlefield. Eventually you can grow and obtain better characters. It does not matter if you only can play well in the battles, 3 generals and only a handful and beating an entire army that is much bigger than you with the ratio of 1 to 10 or even more sounds awesome. I tired that LOL, in romance mode of course. You can do this all the way from early to mid game. but late-mid game to late game when you are facing a higher tier units like imperial armys, protector of heaven, elephants etc make it hard and rough to do it. There are not many character in the game can pull this off despite the gears and weapons you got. With the right generals, positioning and type of army you can always fight off a battle and win against the odds. The best game that i have achieve was 3 generals with 65 units vs over 3815 and 2 generals + 1 captain at Ruyang, i was on the attackin side LOL. A bigger scale one was 6 generals with 2227 including a captain units vs 11,719 units with 12 generals at Anning as a defender. they came in 2 waves. from 2 sides.It feels really good when you pull it off even though the PC thought you would suffer a complete defeat. However, if you can't manage your politics properly, you just get constant attack and swarm by neighbouring fractions. Eventually you fall behind in those who are more powerful/ IE richer than you hence more vassals and army to attack you. at the end you will just end up being stuck in a loop trying to defend or expand just to a few settlements lol.

@@DasboardTVDE in early game is very rough, it really depends on your starting location, the warlords you choose and the characters available to you at the time. Most of the time i work out which neighouring faction can give me good deals like giving them food in and trade them for income, sacking generals gives you income depending on their level, but the rest of your generals loyalty will fall the more do you it, so do it adequately. Sometimes i recruit those with good gears and then sack them later on and trade those gears for income LOL. You have to make sure to make good relationship with your neighbours or a powerful fraction, be their vassal so you wont get attacked and finished off by someone who was more powerful than you. In that way you don't need a large army sitting around and consuming your food and income. Its easier in romance mode because you can use generals only to hold on an entire army of 3. Only if you are legendary general like Liu bu, Zhang fei, Ma chao etc of course. It gets easier the further down when your relationships/politics gets better with more faction. Better political relationship, better trade offers. Especially the powerful ones. You get the hang of it the more you play and familiarise the game mechanis. There are a lot of tricks here and there which you can find on youtubes, this one in particular of course with the income and what to build. That was how i learn my way lol. My first 3 tries all ended up got defeated in less than 30 rounds and eventually stuck in a loop where i could not grow any further and getting constant attacks as i neglect the political side of things. Have to quit and restart the game LOL as i was too messy and too far off to ever catch up with the warlords like caocao and liu bei. They were already almsot half way through the emperor and i was still on the first rank. Once you done that you slowly know what commandary to build first, what settlement benefits you, who to recruit, balancing your units, income, loyalty, commandaries, public order etc. battle is also one of the things to get around to like the positioning and type of units compositions.

Food trade was nerfed since the game's release, but is unaffected since the video was made. It's still a solid situational early game income. You just can't conquer China with rice alone like you could in 2019. The biggest changes since this video's release is the nerf to ancillary hoarding and the faction council economy buffs making industry far more powerful than commerce and peasantry. I considered putting out a revised video when CA dropped support for 3K, but ultimately didn't feel the changes to be too significant. I still stand by this video with a few small caveats.

Sorry for the late reply! 3K is a game where you can build tall and have a very strong economy with a small territory if you play right. So expansion isn't as important as other Total Wars. The important thing is to have the income to support your war and develop the land you own. If that's covered, expand away. Know your limits, though. It's easy enough to gobble up the little factions, but try not to get embroiled in war with too many big boys at once.

If there are specific things people are looking for guides on, I'll see what I can put together. I made this one because people often ask in my Twitch chat. So I'll keep an ear out!

Hey, Francisco!