>>545425110
Same. I like the later games for its lawn mowing and being able to take out 17,000+ but do you know what game I go back to every time and play the most? dw3:xl. Koei could do tons of things but chooses not to for to me dumb reasons. And to them they think it's progress when it's not. they could easily do more than minimum to fix things but they wont.. they even implied its the fans fault the series almost died.
I like bases in dw5xl. but I want bases AND gate captains you replace with yours and them dropping +1-2 def again. while bases also have their purposes and can be taken and uses in battle ala dw5xl/dw5e. while being dw3xl built and evolved. and any bodyguards not dw3xl bodyguards are inferior to me.

dw8xl's 3 bodyguards aren't bad with commands and stuff but I think of all the things the bodyguards had over the games after 3 and go well just add some of that to the dw3xl bodyguards and make them better. hell for bonus let us have a side personal bodyguard from dw5xl also and a few other things we can assign to our officer.

still no generic officer/npc playing unless in empires and it doesnt cover the npcs just generic officers. so no empires peasant run unless you make it as an edit and that doesnt count. I can use mods to play as the peasant or nanman elite or my goto Gate Captain (being a gate captain and having a gate you're keeping open in dw3xl never gets old and it was forged in me as a thing in my repeated battles over and over at Assault on Wu Territory on allied side and constantly having to defend that gate captain right next to taishi ci when he switches side since liu yong cant stay alive unless you play as him personally. So playing as THAT gate captain is fun AF and builds more lore for me with the game. But tbf I treat dw3xl as a pocket dimension and things in it going on and stuff. so I play as peasants and nanman elite and gate captains and other npc and generic officers now more than the actual playable officers.