Which will you be first? And what will the differences be?

I assume as an officer your Lord will by troops for you and train you if he wants. Hopefully you can defect and other cool things too!
But what about Vagrants? I assume you just run around and fight who you want? And do you think you can get troops as a Vagrant?

u cannot complete the game as a vagrant, u must find a lord to serve...but good luck, the empire mode, that is the only mode to play, is utterly boring to me...

Yeah, I found out a Vagrant is just an unemployed officer. I think the game comes out tomorrow for me. Now I must buy it because there is no point in avoiding it.
You have made it clear you hate it. Now I must use it to personally make or break Koei in my eyes.

And what would you negatively say against this game RCG? You don't sound nearly as angry as Cypher.

in all fairness, i am playin as a ruler now and its not as bad, but still, i see a lotta flaws, like the lack of an anexxation (that where when u invade the capital and defeat the ruler u get all their land), now u have to take it piece by piece...can get annoying...

Ha ha Cypher you seem so calm compared to your other comments.
So if you execute the leader does someone else take over?

Oh, and you could carry over data in DW5E, but since the enemy levelled up so fast it made little difference.

oh, didnt anyone tell u yet? theres no executions in this...yea, suddenly they consider capital punishment wrong in ancient china now...-_-, the only up side is u can recruit the captured (nothin new) or ransom them, and some r worth decent coin..1000 gold or better for a decent lvled person...

Well, at least you can ransom instead of just saying "Well we don't want to hire him, so.... lets just release him!"

RCG - I'm starting to understand the no online complaint. People could use their CaWs, and if someone quits, they just fade out of existence. Also, I think Empires would be a great game for teamwork. You could make a lot of friends and vagrants could travel together.

until some kind of giant powerful server was set up, online battles would likely be restricted to single battles, as an online empire mode would require either the players stay on till the game is won or lost, or tons of data, ie: progress of all forces, which officers are on which force, weapon data and all such things to be saved, also so, what if all the persons involved arnt online again for a long time? u cant play with out all the ppl, like how would it be handled if ur land got attacked while ur not online to defend it?? koei probably gets a headache just thinking of an online empire mode, lol

Because you wouldn't be a ruler. You'd be a CaW.
I was thinking you could have the game done in a day, but I see what you mean.

i find it better to start as a vagrant in luo yang(forgive me for wrong name if its wrong) where u have all the shops lol and well then u do merc missions gain friends then go for siezing terrotory then go through game as ruler

Lunchbox is on topic! *high five*

I prefer to be an officer till level 10 atleast cause even on easy, when your brand new and a vagrant and try to overthrow you will likely die in the first 2 minutes.

thats b/c u need to train and lvl ur weapon a couple times b4 u try to overthrow someone..