- Fa Zheng is a Chinese name; the family name is Fa.
Fa Zheng is a unique legendary Strategist hero in Total War: Three Kingdoms. He is a member of Liu Yan in 194 and his successor, Liu Zhang, in 200.
General Information[]
Attributes[]
Main Article: Attributes (Total War: Three Kingdoms)
 Expertise |
 Resolve |
 Cunning |
 Instinct |
 Authority |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | 58 | 120 | 58 | 38 |
| -2% construction cost (administered commandery) +3 melee evasion +17% general's health +2k population growth (administered commandery) +52% ammunition (own retinue) +12 military supplies (own army) +8% melee damage -2% recruitment cost (this army) +1 satisfaction (faction-wide, if leader, heir or prime minister) +1 unit morale (own retinue) | ||||
Background[]
Main Article: Background (Total War: Three Kingdoms)
Vindictive Strategist
- +5 resolve
- +15 cunning
- +10 instinct
- +1 resilience
- +15% trade influence (faction-wide, if leader, heir or prime minister)
- Supports Intimidation, Supports War, Disregards Diplomacy
Traits[]
Main Article: Traits (Total War: Three Kingdoms)
- Cruel
- +6 instinct
- +2 authority
- -4 public order (faction-wide, if leader, heir or prime minister)
- +5 military supplies (own army)
- +10% income from peasantry (faction-wide, if leader, heir or prime minister)
- Supports Cruelty, Disregards Kindness
- Cunning
- Perceptive
- +6 cunning
- +2 instinct
- +10% chance of capturing enemy officers post-battle
- +10% campaign line-of-sight
- Commends Perceptiveness
Skills[]
Main Article: Skill (Total War: Three Kingdoms)
- Resourcefulness
- +8 cunning
- Enables: Flaming Shot (own retinue)
- +10 military supplies in enemy territory (when commanding)
- Mock
- Judgement
- +8 cunning
- +25% ranged damage (own retinue)
- +1 available trade agreement (if leader, heir or prime minister)
- Patience
- +8 resolve
- +25% chance of capturing enemy officers post-battle
- Increases rate of wall and settlement damage during sieges (when commanding)
Abilities[]
Main Article: Ability (Total War: Three Kingdoms)
- Mock (Active Debuff)
- Can target if:
- General
- Can use if:
- Not engaged in melee
- Not on Elephant
- -10 Morale
- -20% Melee Attack Rate
- Damage: 6k (over 60 seconds)
- Requires enemy target
- Duration: 60s
- Cooldown: 120s
- Can target if:
Ancillaries[]
Main Article: Ancillary (Total War: Three Kingdoms)
- Ceremonial Sword
- Base Melee Damage: 321
- Armour-Piercing Melee Damage: 80
- Melee Attack Rate: 30
- +6 authority
- Fa Zheng's Armour
- Base Armour: 11
- +9 cunning
- +15% ranged damage
- +5% character experience
- Black Horse
- Speed: 97
- Mass: 1.5k
- +2 cunning
Guanxi[]
Main Article: Guanxi
Biography[]
Fa Zheng was born in 176 AD in Youfufeng (modern-day Shaanxi). He was raised around Chang'an, which he left in the latter 190s thanks to the region's devastation from years of civil war and fighting over it. Instead, he reached Yi province, under the control of the pacifist governor Liu Zhang, and a relative beacon of peace and stability considering the chaos consuming China at the time. He joined Liu Zhang's staff, yet was nevertheless resentful due to a lack of recognition of his talent and insults hurled at him by his would-be colleagues.
Together with another official unhappy with Liu Zhang, Zhang Song, he plotted to rid himself of Liu Zhang. This was a slow process, as it would take the two men years of planning. After the Battle of Red Cliffs, with Cao Cao being seen as less of a threat, and with Liu Bei's power growing in the region, Zhang Song convinced Liu Zhang to send Fa Zheng as an emissary to Liu Bei. Liu Zhang unwittingly agreed, and Fa Zheng secretly offered his and Zhang Song's loyalties to Liu Bei. Liu Bei agreed and the two men effectively began acting as agents in Yi province for Liu Bei.
In 211, with the war between Liu Zhang and Zhang Lu, a former officer of his more warlike father, reaching a dead-end, the two agents convinced Liu Zhang to summon Liu Bei to Yi province for aid. Liu Bei marched into Yi, prodded on by the two officials to annex the area. The two men's betrayal became open knowledge, yet, for Liu Zhang, it was too little, too late. Yi province was annexed into Liu Bei's territory, and the two men entered Liu Bei's service.
Liu Bei, unlike Liu Zhang, did take note of Fa Zheng's talents and appointed him to numerous advisory positions as well as administrator of Shu commandery, Liu Bei's heart of power (hence, Shu-Han). With Fa Zheng now cemented into a position of power, he revealed that he had a very good memory. Notably, he began a string of assassinations and killings of old enemies against Liu Bei's wishes, yet Fa Zheng was so crucial to his administration that all he got was a request to please don't do it again in the future.
Fa Zheng also accompanied Liu Bei's forces on campaign, and his vital advice at the Battle of Mount Dingjun led to the death of Wei General and cousin of Cao Cao, Xiahou Yuan. When Liu Bei founded the Kingdom of Shu-Han, Fa Zheng is listed among those essential and close to him and having achieved the title of general. He was briefly put in charge of the imperial secretariat of Shu-Han before dying soon after in 220. Fa Zheng, for all his antics and controversial decisions, was dear enough to Liu Bei that he reportedly wept for him. Even Zhuge Liang, the famous general and eventual regent of Shu-Han admitted to missing Fa Zheng's advice in the years following his death.
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