Dynasty Warriors 4: Extreme Legends
Version 1.10
April 21, 2004
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FAQ/Character FAQ done by Kevin Kao
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Table of Contents
I. Updates
II. Introduction
III. Pros and Cons of Lu Meng
IV. Moveset
V. Outfits
VI. Level 10 and 11 Weapons
VII. Good items for Lu Meng
VIII. DW4: XL easy leveling up
IX. Thanks, credits and any legal things
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I. Updates
Ver. 1.00
April 21, 2004 - First version
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II. Introduction
Lu Meng
Style Name: Zhiming
Life span: AD 178-219
Lu Meng was once a pure warrior who relied on pure strength to win battles. But
upon a visit and recommendation by Lord Sun Quan, Lu Meng took up reading war
scriptures and manuscripts. Soon, Lu Meng became one of the best well rounded
officers for the kingdom of Wu. By far, his greatest accomplishment was the
capture of Guan Yu, the god of war. It was shortly after the execution of Guan
Yu, that Lu Meng died of illness. On his deathbed, he was visited by Sun Quan.
Here is Lu Meng's SGZ bio (taken from kongming.net):
Lü Meng, styled Zhiming, hailed from Ru Nan, Fu Bei. Coming from a poor family
and having lost his father since young, Lü Meng had to relied on his sister’s
husband Deng Dang whenever the war spread to his village. Deng Dang was
actually Sun Ce’s subordinate. When Lü Meng was 15-16 years old, he secretly
followed the army (of Sun Ce) to battle. On knowing that, Deng Dang was greatly
shocked and asked him to return. Lü Meng refused and his mother wanted to
punish him. However Lü Meng said that since his family was poor, the only way
to succeed in life was to take risk and he hoped to make a name for himself in
the battlefield. Finally, his mother relented and Lü Meng served officially
under Deng Dang. In the army, Lü Meng was constantly ridiculed and belittled by
a certain junior officer. Finally, Lü Meng got tired of his bullying ways and
killed the officer. Following that, he escaped but eventually handed himself
over to Sun Ce. Surprisingly, Sun Ce was very impressed with Lü Meng’s courage
and instead of punishing him, Lü Meng was promoted to be a Shi Wei (bodyguard
for the commander or ruler). While at it, Lü Meng showed utmost respect to
officials like Zhang Zhao and displayed an exceptional amount of talent beyond
that of an ordinary soldier. Several years later, Deng Dang passed away and Lü
Meng was recommended by Zhang Zhao to take over Deng Dang’s post (which makes
him a general).
After Sun Ce passed away, Sun Quan assumed the helm of leadership for the
forces in Jiang Dong. Sun Quan was fond of reorganizing his troops by combining
those poorer equipped units who were led by younger, inexperienced generals
with units who were led by an experienced or older general. In order to avoid
that from happening to his own unit, Lü Meng equipped his troops with new
weaponry and armors before a particular military inspection. As a result, Sun
Quan was very impressed with the state of Lü Meng’s unit and instead of
assigning his troops to others, more troops from other units were assigned to
Lü Meng’s unit. In the 9th year of Jian An (AD 204), Lü Meng followed Sun Quan
to suppressed an uprising at Dan Yang. Even though Lü Meng was not involved in
the actual battle, he was commended and promoted to be the Chief Commandant who
pacifies the North (Ping Bei Du Wei) as well as Guang De Zhang because his unit
showed a high level of military discipline.
Subsequently in the 13th year of Jian An (AD 208), Lü Meng participated in the
offensive against Huang Zhu. Huang Zhu dispatched Chen Jiu to lead a naval
taskforce to meet the armies of Jiang Dong. Lü Meng bravely urged his vanguard
forward and personally decapitated Chen Jiu. On the crest of the victory, his
troops surged forward to lay siege to the castle. Huang Zhu abandoned the
castle and tried to retreat. However, he was captured and Sun Quan gave the
credit to Lü Meng since he viewed the death of Chen Jiu as the turning point of
the battle that led to Huang Zhu’s capture.
The battle of Chi Bi ensued and Lü Meng was part of the effort that served Cao
Cao his biggest defeat at Wu Ling. After the battle of Chi Bi, Wu started to
launch offensives at the Nan prefecture of Jing Zhou. Gan Ning was surrounded
at Yi Ling by Wei’s troops and was in need of urgent reinforcements. However,
the various commanders such as Zhou Yu, Cheng Pu, etc. felt that the situation
was very hard-pressed and were apprehensive about sending reinforcement (thus
splitting their forces). Lü Meng calmly analyzed the situation and presented
his advice to his commanders. He managed to persuade Zhou Yu to send
reinforcement to Gan Ning and at the same time destroyed the tracks at the
possible retreat routes of the enemies. True to his analysis, the soldiers of
Wu managed to secure a victory and numerous horses were captured since the
tracks of the retreat routes were destroyed earlier. Taking advantage of the
situation, the Wu army crossed the river and attacked Cao Ren’s main forces.
Cao Ren was forced to retreat and Wu acquired Nan prefecture. Lü Meng was
promoted to Pian Jiang Jun for his contributions. When Lu Su was tasked to
replace Zhou Yu for the defense of Lu Kou, he passed by Lü Meng’s resident on
his way and decided to pay him a visit. During their discussion, Lü Meng
offered Lu Su five strategies pertaining to dealing with the threat of Guan Yu.
On hearing Lü Meng’s advices, Lu Su was greatly impressed. Before he left, Lu
Su paid homage to Lü Meng’s mother and both Lü Meng and Lu Su became friends.
Lü Meng was known to be a chivalrous person. When his three friends Cheng Dang,
Song Ding and Xu Gu passed away, Sun Quan was contemplating to reassign their
troops to Lü Meng’s unit. However, Lü Meng opposed to that (even though such a
move would benefit him greatly) as he felt that his friends and their
respective units had contributed much to Wu and it would not be fair to them to
be reassigned. He sent petitioned to Sun Quan thrice before it was finally
accepted. In addition to that, he made it a point to find suitable tutors for
his friends’ children and ensured that they were properly supervised.
Soon after, Lü Meng made significant contributions by defeating Xie Qi of Lu
Jiang (who was sent by Wei to disturbed Wu’s border). He also gave several
brilliant advices to Sun Quan to help him fend off Cao Cao’s invasion at Ru Xu
successfully. Lü Meng also suggested Sun Quan to occupy the fertile land at Wan
and he orchestrated a great victory forcing Zhang Liao to retreat (on his
arrival to take the same land, not on his defeat!). For his contributions, Lü
Meng was promoted to be the prefect of Lu Jiang and he went on to exterminate
the bandits at Lu Ling thus pacifying the people there.
During then, Guan Yu was appointed by Liu Bei to defend Jing Zhou (those lands
that were under Shu’s jurisdiction). Sun Quan ordered Lü Meng to attack the
three southern prefectures of Jing Zhou namely Chang Sha, Ling Ling and Gui
Yang. The prefects of Chang Sha and Gui Yang surrendered to Lü Meng without a
fight while the prefect of Ling Ling, He Pu, put up a resistance. Seeing that,
Liu Bei moved to Gong An and ordered Guan Yu to compete for those three
prefectures. Sun Quan was alarmed and he tasked Lu Su with 10,000 troops to
resist Guan Yu at Yi Yang while he sent letters to Lü Meng asking him to give
up the three prefectures and assist Lu Su instead. At that time, Lü Meng had
successfully tricked He Pu to surrender Chang Sha. On receiving Sun Quan’s
letter, Lü Meng led his troops to Yi Yang. Liu Bei requested for a truce and a
meeting in which Sun Quan conceded Xiang Shui and Ling Ling plus He Pu while
retaining the other lands.
The battle of He Fei took place next where Sun Quan suffered a defeat due to a
sneak attack by Zhang Liao. Lü Meng and Ling Tong defended courageously to
ensure a safe retreat for Wu’s armies. Not long after, Cao Cao personally led a
large-scale invasion at Ru Xu but his vanguard was repelled by Lü Meng, forcing
him to retreat. Lü Meng was promoted to Zuo Hu Jun, and the Majestic Tiger
General (Hu Wei Jiang Jun).
When Lu Su passed away, Lü Meng was situated at the west of Lu Kou. Lu Su’s
unit (troops and horses) was placed under Lü Meng’s control and Lü Meng was
made the governor of Han Chang. Lü Meng was skeptical about the trustworthiness
of Guan Yu. He suggested to Sun Quan that the reason why Guan Yu did not move
his armies eastward (toward Wu) and aimed north was due to the fact that Wu was
stable under the administration of Sun Quan and was well defended by generals
such as himself. Once these factors were non-existence, Lü Meng felt that Guan
Yu might have other designs which might be detrimental to Wu. As such, Lü Meng
proposed that instead of relying on Guan Yu to fend off Cao Cao (from Jing
Zhou’s direction, remember they were allies), it was possible that Wu
exterminate Guan Yu and occupied the whole of Jing Zhou. In this way, it would
be easier for Wu to defend against a northern incursion as opposed to defending
it from Xu Zhou’s direction (which was partially occupied by Wu then). Sun Quan
agreed to Lü Meng’s plans and made efforts to befriend Guan Yu again.
While Guan Yu was attacking Fan, he left a substantial portion of his troops at
Gong An and Nan prefecture. Seeing that, Lü Meng decided to feign illness and
asked Sun Quan to replace him. At the same time, Lü Meng was making plans to
launch a night attack at strategic points of Jing Zhou. True to Lü Meng’s
prediction, Guan Yu’s defense against a Wu attack became lax on knowing that Lü
Meng had been replaced and Guan Yu sent some troops to assist the frontline at
Fan. Yu Jin was dispatched by the Wei court to rescued Fan but he was captured
and all their troops and horses were acquired by Guan Yu. As a result, there
were food shortages in Guan Yu’s army and Guan Yu proceeded to obtained rice
from Xiang Guan (without authority). On knowing that, Sun Quan urged Lü Meng to
proceed as planned. Disguised as merchants, Lü Meng managed to launched a sneak
attack and captured all the defensive points along the river without leaking a
word to Guan Yu. He proceeded to capture Nan prefecture when the defenders, Fu
Shiren and Mi Fang, surrendered. Upon entering the city, Lü Meng imposed strict
military orders to his troops, forbidding them to plunder or harass the
populace. Lü Meng even executed a fellow villager of his (who was serving as a
soldier under Lü Meng) for violating the rules. Guan Yu’s and the Shu soldier’s
families were also comforted by the invaders and Lü Meng personally visited
some of the elderly while his troops distributed free medicine and food to the
poor. In addition, Lü Meng ordered Guan Yu’s treasury to be sealed and not to
be opened without permission. Soon after, Guan Yu returned from his campaign
and dispatched a messenger to Lü Meng. Lü Meng treated the messenger with great
respect and allowed him to interact with the families of Guan Yu’s soldiers. As
a result, many of the families passed letters to the messenger describing their
well-being and good treatment under Lü Meng’s administration. On returning back
to the camp, those letters were distributed to the soldiers who promptly lost
their fighting spirits on reading them. By now, Guan Yu knew that he could not
recover the lost prefectures and decided to beat a retreat via Mai Cheng. Sun
Quan dispatched Pan Zhang and Zhu Ran to waylay Guan Yu on his retreat and they
managed to capture him, together with GuanPing successfully. As a result, Jing
Zhou was finally under Wu’s jurisdiction.
For his brilliant victory against Guan Yu, Lü Meng was made the prefect of Nan
prefecture and rewarded with a huge sum of money. Lü Meng refused to accept the
monetary reward but Sun Quan insisted. Not long after, Lü Meng’s ailment arised
again and Sun Quan ordered him to be treated in the palace at Gong An (where
Sun Quan was residing then). Sun Quan dispatched numerous doctors and put up
handsome rewards in his bid to cure Lü Meng’s illness. In order to avoid
aggravating Lü Meng’s condition (by waking him up), Sun Quan often peeked at Lü
Meng from afar (instead of approaching his bed) and ordered the palace
attendants to remain vigil all day and night. (It was said that Sun Quan would
be overjoyed during that period if Lü Meng managed to consume a little food!).
Nevertheless, all these actions were in vain and Lü Meng passed away in the
palace at the age of 42. Sun Quan was completely devastated on knowing that and
it sadden him more to know that Lü Meng had not used any of the monetary
rewards given to him for his meritorious deeds.
(1) Lü Meng was not keen in studying when he was young but took up the books on
the advice of Sun Quan. His sudden improvement (in terms of thinking and
actions) was noted by Lu Su in Jiang Biao Zhuan.
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III. Pros and Cons of Lu Meng
Pros
- Long range, he has a weapon like Zhang Liao's, a pike
- C6 hits 360 degrees
- Normal combo is good for crowds
- C1 can be useful when equipped with lvl 4 vorpal orb, Secret of Orbs and lvl
9-11 weapons
Cons
- Musou is not greatly effective
- C4 has pretty bad range, you can miss people sometimes
I may seem a little biased, but there really is not anything that really holds
Lu Meng back. He is really a well rounded officer, true to his historical
figure.
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IV. Moveset
Legend:
S = Square
T = Triangle
T (C1): Fires a small projectile pin. When you have orb elements you can change
to projectile to the orb's affects, shooting up to a maximum of 5 orb
projectiles at one time.
S,T (C2): 1 hit and then hits them up vertically, can start a juggle. Juggle
hit has orb element. Not very effective.
S,S,T (T,T,T) (C3): 2 hits followed by left to right and right to left swings,
number of triangles pressed determines number of swings. Ends off with a
diagonal swing that stuns. Last hit has orb element.
S,S,S,T (C4): 3 hits followed by a very tiny 360 degree spin. Spin has orb
element.
S,S,S,S,T (T) (C5): 4 hits followed by a vertical launching hit. If it connects
and you press T again, Lu Meng will jump up to the enemy and follow up with a
downward slash that hits the enemy back down. Last 2 hits have orb affects.
S,S,S,S,S,T (C6): 5 hits followed by a big earthquake caused by Lu Meng's pike.
Hits 360 degrees. The quake has orb element attached to it.
S,S,S,S,S,S: Left to right swing, right to left swing, then with his back to
the opponent, he gives a butt end pike stab, followed by a big right to left
swing, then a big left to right swing and then a large right to left swing.
Musou: Hits with one end of the pike, then the butt end. Repeats that very many
times. Ends off with a front end poke and a right to left swing.
True Musou: Same as musou except it ends with three poke and swings. Fire
element added
Jump Attacks
S: Just a standard swing, nothing special.
T: A jump charge, standard and nothing special to it
Horse Attacks
S: Standard right and left swings
T: Normal right and left powerful swings
Musou: Right and left swings at a fast pace
Dash attack: Holds his pike out horizontally and only goes a small ways
forward. It knocks people back. It has very short range.
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V. Outfits
Outfit 1: Red and yellow armour with a golden headband.
Outfit 2: Same as 1 but different colors
Outift 3: Same as outfit 1, but instead of a headband, there is a red turban
Outfit 4: Same as 3 but different colors
Outfit 5: Same as DW3 costume
Outfit 6: Same as 5 but different colors
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VI. Level 10 and 11 weapons (credits to muni shinobu's level 10 FAQ and The
Left Wings for his lvl 11 weapon FAQ, both on gamefaqs.com)
These are the DW4:XL methods
Level 10 Weapon
Prerequisites: Must have your level 9 weapon, you must be playing on HARD or
EXPERT
Lu Meng Zi Ming
Weapon : White Tiger
Attack : +54
Method : Defeat Zhou Cang.
Defeat Liao Hua.
Defeat Guan Ping.
Guan Yu angered.
Learned White Tiger message
Level 11 Weapon
Prerequisites: You must have your level 10 weapon, you must be playing on
EXPERT, you must finish the level with an S rank
Name: Mystic Hunter
Map: Fan Castle, renamed to Mai Castle
Restrictions: No restrictions
1. Defeat Zhou Cang, Liao Hua quickly.
2. Go into the castle and seal the gate.
3. Defeat Guan Ping. Guan Yu gets angry.
4. Seal the bottom left gate.
5. All ally officers are alive.
6. Get 50 KOs.
7. Level 11 message.
Note: You cannot get 50 KOs before killing Guan Ping (thanks to Sean Siddons
for this info).
Weapon Stats:
lv 19 tortoise amulet, lv 15 speed scroll, lv 10 Huang's bow, lv 20 herbal
remedy
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VII. Good items for Lu Meng
Legend/Musou/Free mode
Lu Meng has 5 item slots so you shouldn't be to concerned with selecting the
proper items:
Red Hare Saddle/Shadow Saddle
Vorpal Orb
Peacock Urn (Lots of health = lots of playing)
Tiger Amulet (More attack = more kills)
Tortoise Amulet (More defense = no flinching)
Secret of Orbs
Whatever you want
The last slot I'll often change, sometimes depending on the level. If I'm not
using a saddle, I'll use a speed scroll.
Xtreme Mode
Red Hare Saddle
Vorpal Orb
Peacock Urn
Tiger Amulet
Tortoise Amulet
Secret of Orbs
Anything
These are the ones I always use. I find them pretty good for Lu Meng. The
Secret of Orbs helps with his C6. But feel free to change it.
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VIII. DW4: XL easy leveling up
For attack and weapon experience, Xiao Qiao's Legend Stage:
On Normal 8 generals that drop attack +4, then Xiahou Yuan who drops another
attack +4, In total that is +36 attack at the end of the level.
On normal 9 generals times 409 exp. plus 5 times 818 exp. (Cao Cao) In total
that is 3681+4090 = 7771 exp (not counting juggles)
On Hard its 9 times 8 = attack + 72
For defense, the best legend would be Dong Zhuo's Legend Stage:
On normal, it's 6 Eunichs times defense +2 = defense +12. Also add in Yuan Shao
with a defense +4 (If its a duel, its defense +8) the grand total of defense on
normal is then 16 or 20
On hard the grand total is 24+8 = 32 defense
On Hard the weapon exp is a total of about 16 000 (this is not counting combos
that are 8+)
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IX. Thanks, credits and any legal things
Thanks/credits go out to:
Muni Shinobu for his guides on Level 10 weapons
The Left Wings, for his guide on Level 11 weapons. The translated version
Koei: For making DW4:XL
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