I recently noticed something that can seriously help infinding out what officers you have yet to get.

The "Get!" symbol is the biggest indication and everyone pretty much knows about it already, but I noticed something a couple days ago to take that a step farther.

You can get details of an area that lists some very helpful info. If you press Y to go into the info area you will see the basics like the areas defense, Income, items produced, Generals present and you will see the word "FREE" next to income. What free means is the amount of free, unemployed officers avaible in the area.

From the details menu you can press Y again to go to the officers menu, where you will see the Officers currently stationed there and what force they belong to, and if you scroll down further you can see any FREE officers available in the area.

Now the best part of this is that you will be able to see if there are any officers in this area that you need to collect for the achievements.

Now you can repeat this for every area, as well as check out every area right from the start of a new scenario, before you even select what force you want. This is very helpful.

I will give an example. As of the time I am writing this I have 2 achievements left. 240 and 250 officers. So basically i have 10+ officers left to find.

I select a new game and chose the Yellow turban rebellion scenario.

I use the info on the area "Ye" to find out that I have not yet gotten Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao, Zhang Liang, or Deng Mao. Further examination reveals several more officers that I have not yet gotten. Yan Zheng, Gao Sheng, Zhang Man Cheng, and Bo Zhang, all under Zhang Jiao's forces. So all I have to do is start this scenario with Zhang Jiao and I immediately add all these officers to my total.

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Thanks for sharing and I hope I can have room for those officers.Should I start over?

That kinda depends on where you are at  in the game. Early on you have such a low officer limit but that gets raised as you win scenarios.

By the time I finished Chi Bi I only needed like 13 officers, which I managed to pick up in the Yellow Turban rebellion and Gathering of heroes.

After i posted here i had those 2 achievements in like 20 mins.

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Thanks for the advice and I can't seem to find the hard march tactic.

Hard march is probably one of the best tactics in the game. Took me some time to get it.

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Can you tell me how do I get it?

'invite attack' seemed to take me the longest to obtain - now finally i can get the battle of yi ling acheivement...  finally


the get officer acheivement...  i'm not clear why people have trouble with it...  you really can obtain it on your very first few campaigns...   i know i didn't but that had more to do with this being my first empires game..  but that one seemed fairly easy...   hire/release/hire more/release/hire/release/hire the last/ yadda yadda yadda

the ach i've had trouble with are the ones that required specific tactics that seemed to take many many campaigns to aquire - i just gave up on yi ling eventually and headed off to get 5th weapons for everyone.  Finally i decided to attend to the 'invite attack' tactic..  and it popped up during my 2nd campaign - now to see if it works

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Do you have the hard march tactic?

Some of the tactics do take awhile to get. It's kinda the luck of the draw. I am pretty sure that I am still missing a few. You just have to keep playing.

As for getting all the officers it doesn't seem that all of the officers are avaible in only the first few scenarios.I saw a few that I could only get in the first scenario and some that I could only get in say Chi Bi. It seems like it was intended that you should get all or nearly all of them by the time you clear all the scenarios.

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I don't understand you post because I don't have those stages unlocked yet.

That's because you haven't even cleared the Yellow Turban Rebellion scenario yet. Just keep going. Take over all the areas and you will finish that scenario. Then you can move onto the next one.

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Thanks for the advice but some the stages use Cao Cao are very hard.

Wats the hard match tactic?

 Nextgen Reaper1 wrote:

Wats the hard match tactic?

Hard March Tactic... It allows youto attack ANY area on the map, regardless of wether of not it is adjacent to one of your territories or not.

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And remember if your trying to get the officer achev play on a Gathering of hero's,as every officer is alive.Took my awhile to get the 1000 in it but i ran out of gold at the time and just played this.

 ChaoticLotus wrote:

And remember if your trying to get the officer achev play on a Gathering of hero's,as every officer is alive.Took my awhile to get the 1000 in it but i ran out of gold at the time and just played this.

This is actually not true.

I have all achievement buts 250 and I've played Gathering of Heros at least 10 times thinking that this would work.

I literally have played everyone scenario and started with every different Ruler. I still have yet to hit 250.

I have a game saved right now in the year 295, which is long long past where the game should actually end.

Hire and release also has absolutely nothing to do with how many officers are availible.

If you have 130 free generals and you release 140 from your clan, this puts you at 270 correct? Wrong, this is not the case, I've also tried that as well.

It's not how many officers you have availible to hire I've actually gotten rid of everyone in my clan at one point except my ruler and still, it will not hit 250.

I think there is some sort of hidden thing here, like the Wooden Ox/Juggernaut card(which you get when you have Yue Ling and Zhuge Liang in the same province) or whatever.

This is one achievement I'm stumped on and if anyone has a 100% for sure way to do this please let me know.

 Caustic Schism wrote:

 ChaoticLotus wrote:

And remember if your trying to get the officer achev play on a Gathering of hero's,as every officer is alive.Took my awhile to get the 1000 in it but i ran out of gold at the time and just played this.

This is actually not true.

I have all achievement buts 250 and I've played Gathering of Heros at least 10 times thinking that this would work.

I literally have played everyone scenario and started with every different Ruler. I still have yet to hit 250.

I have a game saved right now in the year 295, which is long long past where the game should actually end.

Hire and release also has absolutely nothing to do with how many officers are availible.

If you have 130 free generals and you release 140 from your clan, this puts you at 270 correct? Wrong, this is not the case, I've also tried that as well.

It's not how many officers you have availible to hire I've actually gotten rid of everyone in my clan at one point except my ruler and still, it will not hit 250.

I think there is some sort of hidden thing here, like the Wooden Ox/Juggernaut card(which you get when you have Yue Ling and Zhuge Liang in the same province) or whatever.

This is one achievement I'm stumped on and if anyone has a 100% for sure way to do this please let me know.

Your correct - I wouldn't use A Gathering of Heroes, you can but their may be easier ways.   So, it is not a 'hidden' thing that stops some generals from appearing on your lists.  Sometimes a conflict will exist and because of someone you have on your team, a general will never accept to join you, not be available to hire, and never volunteer to join you.   Also, some generals are dead or not yet 'of age' to be available to hire.  It actually makes sense if you have an understanding of the history of the war - do I know what these special relationships are?   Heck no.  in other regions of the world, perhaps they pick up this tribal knowledge in the history classes of their schools, but here, i am just stuck with knowing that restrictions exist.

So, just to cover the Date and Employer issues....   Play through each campaign till you have isolated one region and you control everyone but that last region, i.e. the end of the game.   Then make a truce with that one region and just start making items and hiring people...  have a stack of many types of 9 items.  Now start your search until you have exhausted all the people on Hire requests, as well as all the people that show up using a Search.   I always produced 9 of everything - had the board completly filled then started my hiring process.

Do this for a couple campaigns and you will have everyone.

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Is that only way to get all achievements because I can't seem to get all achievements?

Just to clarify something, there are 250 DIFFERENT officers in the game. Each scenario has a different listing of which officers are available, so some might be in one scenario but not others. Also the one scenario is the exception to this rule. I think it's A Gathering of Hero's. I'm pretty sure it's random every time.

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 OutcastNeedhelp wrote:

Is that only way to get all achievements because I can't seem to get all achievements?

I don't understand why you haven't figured it out yet.

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Well you didn't provide any tips or advice.

 OutcastNeedhelp wrote:

Well you didn't provide any tips or advice.

I did, the whole first post was pretty straight forward and I felt that it got to the point. Actually this is not the only time I have seen you having problems in the forums.

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Then I have no choice to trade the game.

I agree with Caustic.

I have played through all of the senarios on normal and hard, I also played A Gathering of Heroes about 20 times with no success.

I just can't seem to get the last (250 Officers) acheivement.

I'm pulling my hair out.

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 valiant heart wrote:

I recently noticed something that can seriously help infinding out what officers you have yet to get.

The "Get!" symbol is the biggest indication and everyone pretty much knows about it already, but I noticed something a couple days ago to take that a step farther.

You can get details of an area that lists some very helpful info. If you press Y to go into the info area you will see the basics like the areas defense, Income, items produced, Generals present and you will see the word "FREE" next to income. What free means is the amount of free, unemployed officers avaible in the area.

From the details menu you can press Y again to go to the officers menu, where you will see the Officers currently stationed there and what force they belong to, and if you scroll down further you can see any FREE officers available in the area.

Now the best part of this is that you will be able to see if there are any officers in this area that you need to collect for the achievements.

Now you can repeat this for every area, as well as check out every area right from the start of a new scenario, before you even select what force you want. This is very helpful.

I tried this approach and it didn't do me any good on getting my last acheivement (250 Officers). I looked at all 25 lands for normal and hard mode for all senarios and I could not find any "free" officers.

Can anyone offer any more advice because I'm getting very frustrated...

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Well, he finally showed his face. It was just one officers I needed and he finally showed up. 1000/1000! Woo Hoo!!!!

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