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Musou Rage, which can be obtained by picking up a Musou Token in the game. This causes attack and speed to increase and your musou bar to max out. You will be practically invincible during the Musou Rage attack and you can do your True Musou attack even when your character isn't on red health, this is activated by pressing R3, formally the button used to announce yourself, a feature that's been removed

There are now 3 types of gates, called bases - Attack (peons there can do musou attacks), Defense (charge formation) and Supply (peons' stats are higher)

CAW and Versus modes have been removed from the series

The Bodyguard system has been radically changed though you can do a double musou with them similar to DW3:XL and DW4 with the officers who came to aid you

Fog of war has reportedly been drastically reduced

Each character now has a unique jump attack

There are more items

Orbs are now no longer randomly found, but have to be obtained like special items

The evolution attack gives you the ability to do a 9-hit combo

Each stage has its own unique map like in DW3

You can no longer save at any time you choose, you can save as many times as you like on Easy, three times on Normal, only once on Hard and none on Chaos per level

Weapons now come in 3 weights, heavy, medium and light, this affects how much damage you will do and how fast you can weild your weapon

The AI of the lesser units has been improved, they now use more tactics

New duel system, you aren't transported to a remote cage this time, you have to do battle on the field and if you go too far away you lose and your army's morale goes down

More siege weapons to add to the existing ones

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Orbs

In this game 4 different orbs will be used to bestow extra powers to your attacks. This is a decrease from the 6 orbs used in DW4 but the lightning element, which has also appeared in all games since element introduction like fire, is no longer present in the game. In a twist to the orb system, they are now no longer randomly picked up in battle. They are now more like the special items in that you must fulfil certain conditions in a particular battle to obtain them. These must all be obtained on Hard mode.

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Weapon Images

These pages will contain images of the 4 different weapons for each character. The weapons are shown as: 1st 2nd 3rd 4th

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Items

With this installment there are 5 harnesses and 23 items (counting the 4 new items) that alter and enhance the character's attributes. As well as that, there are items you can collect during a battle that take effect immediately, these are listed in the manual but they are listed here for convenience as well. War God's Axe - Attack x2 for 30 seconds War God's Armor - Defense x2 for 30 seconds Speed Boots - Speed max for 30 seconds Imperial Seal - Unlimited Musou Attacks for 10 seconds Meat Bun - Life +50 Meat Bun x2 - Life +100 Meat - Life +200 Whole Chicken - Life +400 Wine - Musou Gauge recovers to Maximum Capacity Elixer - Life and Musou recover to Maximum Capacity Quiver - Arrows +10 Musou Token - When collected Press R3 to activate Musou Rage Bronze Sword - Attack +1 permanently Iron Sword - Attack +2 permanently Silver Sword - Attack +4 permanently Gold Sword - Attack +8 permanently Private's Shield - Defense +1 permanently Nobleman's Shield - Defense +2 permanently General's Shield - Defense +4 permanently Emperor's Shield - Defense +8 permanently Dim Sum - Life Gauge Max +10 permanently Large Dim Sum - Life Gauge Max +20 permanently Musou Wine - Musou Gauge Max +10 permanently Rice Wine - Musou Gauge Max +20 permanently Item Sack - Contains a Unique Item Treasure Box - Contains a Weapon

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Fourth Weapons

This page will contain information on how to get each character's 4th weapon. Each 4th weapon must be obtained on Hard mode. The characters will be listed in Kingdoms and alphabetically within. Kingdom of Shu

Guan Ping - Chi Bi Retreat Battle - Defeat all the generals, then when the 2 reinforcements appear kill the general at the escape point.
Guan Yu - Battle of Fan Castle - Defeat Yue Jin and Niu Jin before Fan Castle is flooded, then carry out the water attack.
Huang Zhong - Battle of Mt. Ding Jun - Take the central mountain, then kill Xiahou Yuan in less than 3 mins and then kill Zhang He.
Jiang Wei - Battle of Tian Shui - When you're low on morale, your commander will try and run. Gao Xiong will arrive, kill him.
Liu Bei - Battle of Yi Ling - Once the Wu bridgelayer is in place, defeat Zhu Ran, Ling Tong, Gan Ning, Sun Shang Xiang and Lu Xun in that order.
Ma Chao - Battle of Tong Gate - Cross the river at the start of the map and knock Cao Cao off his horse before he crosses to the opposite side from where he starts.
Pang Tong - Battle Of Nan Zhong - Kill the gate troops near the center of the map to get the bridge event. Kill Wu Tugu and take the base next to Yue Ying to stop the beast unit.
Wei Yan - Chen Cang Castle - Kill the 4 guard captains that run the castle defenses.
Xing Cai - Battle Of Bai Di Castle - Wait for 3 minutes until the peasants show up, defeat all the generals nearby to save them and make Ma Chao retreat. Let Xing Cai's health fall into the orange section so Liu Chan gives you a message about courage. Defeat Zhou Tai only after you've obtained all of these events and then escort Liu Chan back to the Castle to get an item report.
Yue Ying - Battle of Wu Zhang Plains - Kill Deng Ai before he sets up the catapults.
Zhang Fei - Battle Of Chang Ban - Kill Wen Pin, Xiahou Dun and Xiahou En.
Zhao Yun - Battle of Cheng Du - Move to the west gate and kill Liu Xun and the gate captain there. Then take the North gate in the base.
Zhuge Liang - Battle Of Tian Shui - Occupy An Ding and Nanan. Then release Xiahou Lin and a defection will be reported. Go near Tian Shui and Jiang Wei will try and return to the castle. Stop him by killing him and you'll get an item report.

Kingdom of Wei

Cao Cao - Battle of Xia Pi - Go to the water gate and kill Zhang Liao and then Gao Shun. The water event will happen and you'll be notified about an item which is the 4th weapon.
Cao Pi - Battle of Wu Zhang Plains - Secure the Supply lines and destroy all the Automatic Crossbows.
Cao Ren - Chi Bi Escape Battle - Kill all reinforcments before your reinforcements tell Cao Cao to go ahead then kill Sun Quan before Liu Bei.
Dian Wei - Battle of Wan Castle - Meet with Cao Cao and then defeat Hu Che Er and Jia Xu. Then kill 10 troop leaders without letting any of them get past you.
Pang De - Battle of Mt. Ding Jun - Kill all officers except Liu Bei and his sub-general Fah Zheng before Cao Cao appears. Huang Zhong should be killed last.
Sima Yi - Battle of Chen Cang - Control 3 of the weapons storage locations without losing control of the castle.
Xiahou Dun - Battle of Fan Castle - Kill Guan Ping to prevent the water attack.
Xiahou Yuan - Chi Bi - Prevent the fire attack.
Xu Huang - Battle of Chang Ban - Defeat Zhang Fei and Guan Yu after the last batch of reinforcements for Liu Bei shows up. If you meet Zhang Fei before he retreats from the bridge then you won't get the weapon.
Xu Zhu - Battle Of Tong Gate - Defeat Ma Chao and Pang De with Han Sui still alive.
Zhang He - Battle of Jie Ting - Surround Ma Su and then kill him when he says that he is retreating to the main camp.
Zhang Liao - Battle of Hei Fei - Kill 9 generals/sub generals in under 10 minutes. Someone will make a comment about Zhang Liao and an item report should appear.
Zhen Ji - He Fei Castle - Get 300 kills and meet up with Cao Pi

Kingdom of Wu

Da Qiao - Battle of Xia Kou - Kill Cai Mao and Gan Ning before Ling Tong dies.
Gan Ning - Battle of Xia Kou - Kill Ling Cao and Ling Tong, killing Ling Tong first is the easiest way to do this.
Huang Gai - Yellow Turban Rebellion - Kill the sub-general of Zhang Bao, Zhang Liang and Zhang Man Cheng, then kill them as well.
Ling Tong - Battle Of He Fei - Defeat Zhang Liao 4 times.
Lu Meng - Battle Of Fan Castle - Make Mi Fang and Fu Shi Ren defect after Lu Meng and Lu Xun talk about morale. Then defeat the gate captain indicated by an on-screen message, then kill Zhang Fei and Zhang Bao when they show up. All this must be done without Xu Huang, Mi Fang and Fu Shi Ren being killed.
Lu Xun - Battle of Bai Di - Defeat Ma Chao and Jiang Wei before Yue Ying arrives, she arrives after you kill Xing Cai or enter Liu Chan's base.
Sun Ce - Trials of Sun Ce - Kill all the Yu Ji clones within 10 minutes.
Sun Jian - Battle of Shi Shui Gate - Defeat Lu Bu in under 5 minutes.
Sun Shang Xiang - Invasion Of Nan Zhong - When the ambush party charges main camp meet up with Sun Quan and then kill all generals and subgenerals.
Sun Quan - Battle of Chi Bi - Kill Wang Lang then clear the bridge. Kill Cao Mao, clear the bridge again. Succeed in the sabotage and make sure Pang Tong succeeds as well. Help Huang Gai start the fire and help Zhuge Liang succeed in the wind prayer. Once they both succeed, you'll get an item report.
Taishi Ci - Battle of Wu Jun - Lure Sun Quan into the fort and defeat him before Zhou Tai arrives, then kill Zhou Tai.
Xiao Qiao - Jing Province - Kill Cai Mao and Lu Gong before Sun Jian gets ambushed.
Zhou Tai - Battle Of Yi Ling - Defeat Zhao Yun before the fire attack, then escort Zhu Ran to ensure the fire attack succeeds. An item report will then appear.
Zhou Yu - Battle of Wu Territory - Kill Yan Baihu and Wang Lang.

Unaligned Officers

Diao Chan - Xia Pi - Kill all generals and subgenerals before Cao Cao arrives.
Dong Zhou - Liang Province - Seal the gates by the castle and then kill Ma Chao and Pang De.
Lu Bu - Battle of Chang Shang, Yuan Shao side - Get the event where Yuan Shao doesn't trust Lu Bu and get 1'000 kills (KOs) before Liu Bei is killed.
Meng Huo - Conquest of Nan Zhong - Kill Wei Yan, Yue Ying and Huang Zhong.
Yuan Shao - Guan Du - Cause Cao Cao's morale to drop until they open Guan Du castle while keeping Yan Liang and Wen Chou alive.
Zhang Jiao - Yellow Turban Rebellion - Help Zhang Man Cheng, Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao with their magical attacks, all your allies plus Cao Cao and Sun Jian must still be alive.
Zhu Rong - Invasion of Nan Zhong - Wait until the elephant troops charge the camp, you mustn't destroy the bridge beforehand. Then kill Gan Ning and Jiang Qin.
Zuo Ci - Beat Lu Bu at Hu Lao Gate.

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Character Unlocking

The following characters listed are the ones you have to unlock during the game. The initial characters (such as Xiahou Dun, Guan Yu, Zhou Yu, etc.) are not listed here obviously because you do not need to unlock them, as you start the game with them already playable. » Cao Cao -- Complete any 4 Wei musou modes. » Cao Ren -- Complete Cao Pi's musou mode. » Da Qiao -- Complete Sun Ce's musou mode. » Diao Chan -- Complete Lu Bu's musou mode. » Dong Zhuo -- Complete Diao Chan's musou mode. » Gan Ning -- Complete Ling Tong's musou mode. » Guan Ping -- Complete Guan Yu's musou mode. » Huang Gai -- Complete any 3 Wu musou modes. » Jiang Wei -- Complete any 2 Shu musou modes. » Liu Bei -- Complete any 4 Shu musou modes. » Lu Bu -- Complete 1 Wei, 1 Shu, and 1 Wu musou mode. » Lu Meng -- Complete any 2 Wu musou modes. » Meng Huo -- Complete Zhuge Liang's and Lu Xun's musou modes. » Pang De -- Complete Ma Chao's musou mode. » Pang Tong -- Complete any 3 Shu musou modes. » Sima Yi -- Complete any 1 Wei musou mode. » Sun Ce -- Complete Sun Quan's musou mode. » Sun Jian -- Complete any 4 Wu musou modes. » Wei Yan -- Complete Huang Zhong's musou mode. » Xiahou Yuan -- Complete Xiahou Dun's musou mode. » Xiao Qiao -- Complete Zhou Yu's musou mode. » Xu Huang -- Complete any 3 Wei musou modes. » Yuan Shao -- Complete Cao Cao's musou mode. » Yue Ying -- Complete Zhuge Liang's musou mode. » Zhang He -- Complete any 2 Wei musou modes. » Zhang Jiao -- Complete Liu Bei's, Cao Cao's, and Sun Jian's musous. » Zhu Rong -- Complete Meng Huo's musou mode. » Zhuge Liang -- Complete any 1 Shu musou mode. » Zhou Tai -- Complete any 1 Wu musou mode. » Zuo Ci -- Unlock every other character.

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Characters

The characters of Dynasty Warriors 5 range from the officers of Wei, Wu, Shu, and for the first time, officers of various other factions, such as the Yellow Turbans, Dong Zhou or the Nanman. All playable warriors are listed below.

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Dim Sum & Musou Wine Locations

This page will list all the places where you can get Dim Sums (Life max +10) and Fairy Wines (Musou max +10). When it says to defeat one or the other, usually it's two people on opposing forces so you can only get one. Some levels appear to have no Dim Sum or Musou Wine though.

Battle of Xi Liang

Defeat Zhang Liang
Northeastern corner of the map

Battle of Ji Province

Defeat Yuan Xi or Zhang Bao
Eastern side of the altar

Battle of Liang Province

Defeat Xua Xiong
Southwest corner of the Northeasternmost base

Struggle for Nan Zhong

Defeat Yong Kai
Northwestern corner of the map

Battle of Nan Zhong

Defeat Bo Zhang
East of the Southwesternmost base

Yellow Turban Rebellion

Defeat Zhang Liang
North part of the map in the near-circular path

Battle of Si Shui Gate

Defeat Niu Fu or Yuan Shu
North side of the map at the Eastern gate

Battle of Hu Lao Gate

Defeat Fan Chou or Jian Yong
North side of the map in the center base

Battle of Chang Shan

Defeat Yu Du
Southwestern corner of the map

Battle of Jing Province

Defeat Huang Zu
West of the center base

Battle of Wu Territory

Defeat Sun Quan or Yu Mi
Southeastern corner of the West fort

Battle of Wan Castle

Defeat Zhang Xiu
Northeastern corner of the map (A few items there as well)

Battle of Xia Pi

Defeat Zhang Liao or Xiahou Yuan
Eastern side of the Southwestern base

Battle of Guan Du

Defeat Chunyu Qiong or Liu Yan
Northern part of the Wu Chao compound

Guan Yu's Escape

Defeat Xiahou Dun or Zhou Cang
Just in front of the third gate

The Trials of Sun Ce

No Dim Sum on this map
North of the East gate

Battle of Xia Kou

Defeat Gan Ning
East side of the map near the center gate

Battle of Chang Ban

Defeat Guan Yu or Yu Jin
Southeastern corner of the map

Battle of Chi Bi

Defeat Cai Mao or Dong Xi
South end, one boat south of the easternmost of the large boats in Cao Cao's fleet

Escape from Chi Bi

Defeat Sun Quan or Xiahou Dun
Southwest lake in the center of the map

Battle of Tong Gate

Defeat Xu Zhu or Ma Dai
Southeast of Ton Gate

Battle of Cheng Du

Defeat Meng Da
West side of the Western Castle

Battle of He Fei

Defeat Sun Shao or Cao Hong
On the opposite side of the bridge near Pang De's starting position, near a barrel.

Invasion or Nan Zhong

Defeat Zhu Rong or Zhu Ran
The gate west of the center base

Battle of Mt. Ding Jun

Defeat Huang Zhong or Xiahou De
East of the center base

Battle of Fan Castle

Defeat: Pang De if you're on Shu's forces, Guan Ping if you're on Wei's forces, Guan Xing if you're on Wu's forces
Northeastern corner of the map

Yi Ling

Defeat Zhuge Liang or Gan Ning
Southwestern corner of the Stone Warrior Formation

Conquest of Nan Zhong

Defeat Wei Yan or Wu Tugu
Eastern side of the map near the T-shape section of road

Battle of Tian Shui

Defeat Zhao Yun
Southeastern corner of the Southwest fort

Battle of Jie Ting

Defeat Cao Zhen or Wang Ping
Center of the map just north of the figure of 8 path

Battle of Chen Cang

Defeat Cao Ren
On the ramparts at the Southeast of the Castle

Battle of He Fei Castle

Defeat Taishi Ci or Sun Li
Southwestern corner of the map

Battle of Ba Dai Castle

Defeat Huang Gai or Jian Yong
Southwestern part of the map, Northeast of the eastern point of the triangle section of path

Battle of Wu Zhang Plains

Defeat Xu Zhu or Wei Yan
North of the river, West of the hump in it

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Bodyguards

Bodyguards in this game appear to be just a single unit that you can pick from a group of 8. This will be similar to Dynasty Warriors 4 when an ally would jump in to help you if your forces were struggling, except this warrior is not a famous general, just a powerful unit and is with you from the start of the battle. Shui Jing is the man who introduces bodyguards to you and he evaluates their performance. There are 8 Different Styles/Looks of Bodyguards. There are 8 different "faces", such as there are different styles/looks for NPC. The 4 Default Bodyguards we are given automatically in the game and their details are as follows:

Lui Ren Gender: Male Weapon: Spear Ranking: Remarkable/C Cao Wu Gender: Male Weapon: Bow Ranking: Veteran/C Sun Chun Gender: Male Weapon: Crossbow Ranking: Remarkable/C Lu Hua Gender: Female Weapon: Bow Ranking: Brilliant/C When a bodyguard joins you, they get a rating which is split into 2 parts. The first part of the rating will affect which abilities grow quicker than usual. Those ratings have these effects:

C - One stat from life, musou, attack, and defense grows quickly

B - Two of those stats grow quickly

A - Three of those stats grow quickly

S - All stats grow quickly The chances of getting the latter ones are obviously less than getting the former ones. The second part affects what their initial stats and how fast they grow absolutely.

Veteran - Stats begin high but growth is slow

Remarkable - Initial stats and growth are both average

Brilliant - Stats begin low but growth is high

Superior - Initial stats and growth are both high Again, those go from worst to best. So getting the 4th part on both ranks will give you a very powerful bodyguard, but the chances of getting this are very slim, less than 1% reportedly. The gender, name and looks of your bodyguard are determined randomly, but the colour of your bodyguard is determined by what general you are using when a bodyguard asks to join you:

Shu General or Zuo Ci: Green Wei General: Blue Wu General: Red Lu Bu: White Yuan Shao or Zhang Jiao: Yellow Diao Chan, Dong Zhuo, Meng Huo or Zhu Rong: Purple The weapon your bodyguard has is determined randomly, but is limited by gender. Males get spears, crossbows and staffs and females get swords, bows and fans. These are equally likely except for the fan because a female bodyguard with a fan, while a poor fighter, can heal you during the battle. When you are on red health your bodyguard will assist you in a different way depending on what weapon they have. Sword - Bodyguard will assist you using its Musou Attack Spear - Bodyguard will assist you using its Musou Attack Bow - Bodyguard will assist you using a powerful Charge Attack CrossBow - Bodyguard will assist you using a powerful Charge Attack Staff - Bodyguard will assist you using a powerful Charge Attack that will clear out a crowd of enemies Fan - Bodyguard will heal you Each Bodyguard's method of attacking will also depend on their weapon: Sword - Strikes with Sword Spear - Strikes with Spear Bow - Fires Arrows CrossBow - Fires multiple Arrows Staff - Strikes with Staff Fan - Sends a enemies back with a Shockwave As bodyguards go up in level they have the ability to gain certain abilities, as listed below.

Heal - Replenish life

Rage - Attack x2 when on low health

Wall - Defense x2 when on low health

Fame - Raise ally morale easier

Link - The value of dropped items increase

Hire - After a battle a new bodyguard always joins

Item - One extra item post battle

Find - One extra weapon post battle There are 6 Levels for Bodyguards, 6 being the highest and 1 the Lowest. Below are the amount of Points a bodyguard must earn to advance to the next level. Level 1 - 0 Level 2 - 1000 Level 3 - 2000 Level 4 - 4000 Level 5 - 7000 Level 6 - 10000 When your bodyguard reaches level 3, they will randomly gain an ability from the first 3 listed, when they reach level 5 they will randomly gain an ability from the second 3 listed and when they reach level 6 they may or may not get another ability. This seems to be random. When your bodyguard reaches level 6, if they have none of life, musou, attack, and defense maxed out, then your bodyguard will get no extra abilities. If 1-3 of these are maxed then they will get 1 extra ability and if all of life, musou, attack and defense are maxed out then the bodyguard will get 2 extra abilites. If your bodyguard dies in battle then its points gained from the battle are halved. Also you will be able to do a double musou attack with your bodyguard, again similar to Dynasty Warriors 4, but not in co-op mode. Bodyguards can do musou attacks of their own except for staff and fan bodyguards, they can only do double ones. Bodyguards also may be given an element when Shui Jing recruits them. They can be one of the following four: Fire, Ice, Shadow, Light. During the game, the player can change the tactics of the bodyguard officer at any time, these include: Normal - Will follow the player and fights normally, represented by sword icon. Defend - Will follow the player and fight defensively, represented by a shield icon. Standby - Will wait and fight at area where the order was given, represented by a hand icon. You can do a double musou attack with your bodyguards, when your hands are glowing and they are joined by lightning then pressing the circle button will initiate a double musou attack. This will be a flash of lightning before both characters do their true musou attacks.

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