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.
Ancillaries are items and followers that may be equipped by characters in players' faction. These can improve characters' 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
All characters start with common level items. These items cannot be traded with other factions. Only one of each unique item can exist; if they are equipped on a character when they die, then they are lost from that campaign forever.
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.
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 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.
