- Dong Zhuo is a Chinese name; the family name is Dong.
- For the faction, see Dong Zhuo
Dong Zhuo is a unique legendary Vanguard hero in Total War: Three Kingdoms. He leads his own faction, Dong Zhuo, in 182 and 190.
Description[]
Dong Zhuo is the warlord for anyone who's up for the challenge of keeping a crumbling realm together, ruling with authority and by inciting fear – for those willing to step into the shoes of a true tyrant.
General Information[]
Attributes[]
Main Article: Attributes (Total War: Three Kingdoms)
- Expertise: 40
- -3% construction cost (administered commandery)
- +6 melee evasion
- Resolve: 41
- +7% general's health
- +1k population growth (administered commandery)
- Cunning: 40
- +7% ammunition (own retinue)
- +2 military supplies (own army)
- Instinct: 121
- +26% melee damage
- -7% recruitment cost (this army)
- Authority: 125
- +8 satisfaction (faction-wide)
- +6 unit morale (own retinue)
Background[]
Main Article: Background (Total War: Three Kingdoms)
Cruel Tyrant
- +10 cunning
- +20 instinct
- +30 authority
- +1 resilience
- +50% post-battle loot income (faction-wide)
- +50% income from family estates
- -15% recruitment cost for shock cavalry (faction-wide)
- +15% melee damage for all shock cavalry (faction-wide)
Supports Cruelty, Disregards Kindenss.
Unit Statistics[]
- Morale: 40
- Melee Toughness: 28
- Ranged Toughness: 37
- Melee Power: 35
- Hit Points: 18k
- Melee Charge Bonus: 221
- Melee Attack Rate: 32
- Base Melee Damage: 2.2k
- Armour-Piercing Melee Damage: 429
- Base Melee Evasion: 6%
- Base Armour: 80%
- Speed: 97
Traits[]
Main Article: Traits (Total War: Three Kingdoms)
Cruel
- +6 instinct
- +2 authority
- -4 public order (faction-wide)
- +5 military supplies (own army)
- +10% income from peasantry (faction-wide)
Supports Cruelty, Disregards Kindness.
Greedy
- -4 resolve
- +6 authority
- 50% desire for higher office
- +10% corruption (administered commandery)
- Increases ambition to gain independence as administrator
Indulges Greed, Disregards Charity.
Arrogant
- +2 instinct
- +6 authority
- -15% chance of evading capture post-battle
Loathes Arrogance.
Skills[]
Main Article: Skill (Total War: Three Kingdoms)
- Reach
- +8 instinct
- +1 available armies (if prime minister, heir or leader)
- +25% campaign movement range (when commanding)
- Flexibility
- +8 resolve
- -25% redeployment cost (if prime minister, heir or leader)
- +5% replenishment (when commanding)
- Fury
- +8 instinct
- +2 morale in enemy territory (when commanding)
- +25 charge bonus (own retinue)
- Reign of Terror
- +4 instinct
- +4 authority
- Ability: Reign of Terror
- Passion
- +8 instinct
- Unlocks Assignment: Conscription
- +25% melee damage for all shock cavalry (own retinue)
- Mobility
- +8 authority
- +2 morale when attacking (when commanding)
- +25% battle running speed (own retinue)
Abilities[]
Main Article: Ability (Total War: Three Kingdoms)
- Scare
- Reduces nearby enemy morale. Does not stack.
- Reign of Terror (Active Buff)
- Can use if:
- Not on Elephant
- +100% Base Melee Damage
- +100% Armour-Piercing Melee Damage
- -50% Melee Evasion
- Unbreakable
- Range: 50m
- Duration: 30s
- Cooldown: 120s
- Can use if:
Ancillaries[]
Main Article: Ancillary (Total War: Three Kingdoms)
- Blade of Xiang Yu
- Base Melee Damage: 1.7k
- Armour-Piercing Melee Damage: 429
- Melee Attack Rate: 30
- +18 authority
- -25% enemy armour
- Enables: Scare
- +40 charge bonus
- Dong Zhuo's Armour
- Base Armour: 80
- +15 instinct
- +6 authority
- +5% melee attack rate
- Brown Horse
- Speed: 97
- Mass: 1.5k
- +2 resolve
Guanxi[]
Main Article: Guanxi
- Family
- Dong Peishan (wife)
- Dong Min (brother)
- Dong Li (daughter)
- Friends
- Acquaintances
- Negative Acquaintances
- Rivals
- Nemeses
Overview[]
Dong Zhuo is a powerful vanguard general. He has two unique skills that replaces Final Rush and Roar of the Beast: Reign of Terror and Blade Breaker. The former massively increases the damage output of Dong Zhuo and his nearby allies at the cost of having worse melee evasion, while the latter gives him 100% armor when his health falls below 50%, making him immune to normal damage. Dong Zhuo retains the Flames of the Phoenix ability from generic vanguards, making him great at clearing out mobs of units.
Dong Zhuo's excellent abilities are supplemented by his superb items. He starts with the Blade of Xiang Yu, an excellent unique sword, and his armor provides the highest armor value in the game and increases his melee attack rate. Dong Zhuo is one of the few vanguards that can use any weapon. While his starting weapon is already incredibly powerful, this means that he has the flexibility to switch to other weapons should the need arise.
Dong Zhuo's great abilities, stats and items are tempered somewhat by his undesirable traits: Cruel, Greedy, and Arrogant. While the former can be useful for his faction, as lower public order means that he can farm rebels to generate his faction resource more easily, Arrogant makes him easier to capture, and Greedy only has a net +2 to stats. Rerolling Dong Zhuo's traits, if given the opportunity, is often a good idea.
Unfortunately for most other factions, Dong Zhuo is near-impossible to obtain: he very often dies early in the 190 campaign due to his scripted event with Lü Bu and Diaochan, and wiping out his faction quickly (a prerequisite for employing any former faction leader) is difficult considering the size and remoteness of his starting position. Even if he does survive the destruction of his faction, Dong Zhuo starts the campaign in his 50s, and is liable to die of natural causes. Those who are able to catch fight him before he dies have the opportunity to capture and execute him for his valuable items.
Biography[]
- Main article: Timeline (Total War: Three Kingdoms)
Despite his reputation, Dong Zhuo was a chivalrous youth with a talent for horseback archery who spent his earlier years travelling the Qiang region and befriending many great men of valor.
As an adult, he returned to his birthplace of Longxi Commandery and took up farming, inadvertently discovering a blade bearing the inscription Slices through jade, like so much logging that the scholar Cai Yong claimed was the blade of Qin dynasty warlord Xiang Yu.
After a very successful period of service in the imperial guard that included several promotions, Dong Zhuo was sent to snuff out the Yellow Turban Rebellion – but was ultimately defeated and demoted. The Liang Province Rebellion saw Dong Zhuo reinstated and sent to suppress the rebels, and while he failed to defeat them his unit was the only one to escape unscathed thanks to a cunning deception involving damming a nearby river.
Dong Zhuo was subsequently promoted to General of the Vanguard and Inspector of Bing Province, but refused to take up his new post as he didn't want to leave his forces back in Liang Province. With the power of the Han dynasty waning, he settled In Liang Province to build up his own, with Sun Jian's suggestion that Dong Zhuo's arrogance and insubordination was worthy of a death sentence going unheeded.
Following the death of Emperor Ling of the Han, He Jin ordered Dong Zhuo to lead troops into Luoyang in order to eliminate the Ten Attendants. However, the latter assassinated He Jin before Dong Zhuo arrived, with the capital falling into turmoil as a result.
The Ten Attendants took the child Emperor Shao hostage and fled Luoyang – only to be intercepted by Dong Zhuo, who returned the young emperor to the palace.
Taking advantage of the ongoing chaos in the capital to offset his lack of popularity as a potential regent, Dong Zhuo took command of the He family's leaderless forces and soon established himself as a tyrant, ruling through fear and intimidation.[1]
Other Languages[]
| Language | Name |
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| English | Dong Zhuo - Zhongying |
| French | Dong Zhuo - Zhongying |
| German | Dong Zhuo - Zhongying |
| Italian | Dong Zhuo - Zhongying |
| Spanish | Dong Zhuo - Zhongying |
| Portuguese | Dong Zhuo - Zhongying |
| Polish | Dong Zhuo - Zhongying |
| Czech | Tung Čuo - Čung-jing |
| Turkish | Dong Zhuo - Zhongying |
| Chinese (Simplified)
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董卓 (仲颖) Dǒng Zhuó (Zhòngyǐng)
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| Chinese (Traditional)
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董卓 (仲穎) Dǒng Zhuó (Zhòngyǐng)
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| Korean | 동탁 (중영) Dong-tak (Chung-yeong)
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| Russian | Дун Чжо - Чжунъин Dun Chzho - Chzhuniein
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Trivia[]
- Dong Zhuo was featured in Stories from the THREE KINGDOMS, an official comic for Total War: Three Kingdoms.
Gallery[]
Reference[]
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