I can't remember how this game got in my hands. There is no way I would have just bought it, so that's a mystery itself. I played Romance 3 like crazy. Hell I remember naming a character off it, Shamoke. I really hated how that game evolved with the new era of graphics and turn based games. From what I rem. I bought and tried one where you are actually an officer that actually fights the battle, but it was never like Romance 3. I mean I min-maxed the hell out of that game where all the economies were strongest, all the armies trained and positioned to keep the few lone rulers you had to keep alive to keep the game going. It actually timed out which made me mad but by then there was literally nothing left to do besides see that new members of the family were joining into the army and even that stopped haha.
My entire Cao regime was still the coolest and of course Zhao Yun the all-rounder.