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...

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...

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...

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

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