
Player equipping Ancillary items in Total War: Three Kingdoms
Ancillaries or Ancillary items can be gained by the player over the course of a campaign in the Total War: Three Kingdoms. Similar to Ancillary system in previous games, Ancillaries can be attached or equipped by characters. When equipped to characters, they provide various bonuses and enable abilities.
Each character can have one ancillary of the five different types available. All characters come with at least a weapon, an armour and a steed with them.
Overview[]
Ancillaries are items and followers that may be equipped by characters in players' faction. These can improve character's performance in battle and campaign in a variety of ways. To assign Ancillaries, select a character and open their character panel, and clicking on the ancillary categories to the left. Ancillaries can be traded in diplomacy as negotiation items, looted at the end of a battle, or gained through confederation.
Ancillaries come in four levels of quality – Common, Refined, Exceptional and Unique – and fall into five different categories: Weapons, Armour, Mounts, Followers and Accessories. Hover the cursor over an ancillary to see the effects it grants to a character when equipped.[1]
Quality[]
Items are categorised according to how likely they are to appear.
- Common
- Refined
- Exceptional
- Unique
Obtaining Ancillaries []
There's a few ways to get ancillaries; player accrue them over time. Players can take them from defeated characters and can find them in random events. Certain provincial buildings create them as well[2] such as the Weapon Craftsmen, Armour Craftsmen and Forge building chain.
Types of Ancillary[]
Weapons[]
- Main article: Weapon Ancillaries (Total War: Three Kingdoms)
Some characters of legendary repute can wield a greater variety of weapons than their contemporaries.
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Bladed weapons Type Wielder Axe Champion
Sentinel
ScholarDual Axes Champion
ScholarGreat Axe
(two-handed axe)Champion
VanguardJian
(double-edged sword)Sentinel
Commander
ScholarDual Jian Sentinel
Commander
ScholarSabre
(single-edged sword)Sentinel
Commander
Strategist
Scholar -
Polearms Type Wielder Spear Champion
Vanguard
Sentinel
HealerGlaive Champion
Vanguard
VeteranJi
(halberd)Champion
VanguardDual Short Ji Champion
Vanguard -
Blunt weapons Type Wielder Dual Chuí
(dual-wielded clubs)Scholar Two-handed Mace Veteran Gun
(quarterstaff)Healer
Armour[]
Mounts[]
- Main article: Mount Ancillaries (Total War: Three Kingdoms)
There are many different steeds or mounts of varying speed and strengh depending on their quality and rarity.
Followers[]
- Main article: Follower Ancillaries (Total War: Three Kingdoms)
Followers can be attached to accompany characters. Each of them have a distinct skill, profession or background which provide benefits to the character according to the follwers' expertise.
Accessories[]
- Main article: Accessory Ancillaries (Total War: Three Kingdoms)
Accessories include various books, scrolls, statuettes, tools, ceremonial and ranged weapons that characters carry on their person that provide various bonuses and abilities. Bows and crossbows can be used as secondary ranged weapons during battles.