<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Warlords of the Three Kingdoms journal</title><description>The Three Kingdoms, the game built from them, and how its systems work. Guides, history, and notes from the studio.</description><link>https://warlord3k.com</link><language>en</language><item><title>How the Kingdom War works, and how to rank in it</title><link>https://warlord3k.com/blog/how-the-kingdom-war-works</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://warlord3k.com/blog/how-the-kingdom-war-works</guid><description>The Kingdom War runs Monday to Sunday. Every point of Honor a member gains, attacking or defending, adds to their Kingdom&apos;s total, and the Kingdom with the most wins. Winning members are paid Merit equal to their Honor gained divided by ten, and everyone else half that. Separately, the hundred members who gained the most Honor that week, ranked across all three Kingdoms, each receive five Lu Bu shards.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Guides</category></item><item><title>Wei, Shu or Wu: which Kingdom should you choose</title><link>https://warlord3k.com/blog/wei-shu-or-wu</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://warlord3k.com/blog/wei-shu-or-wu</guid><description>Pick the Kingdom whose Generals you already own, because the only mechanical effect is that Generals of your Kingdom fight ten percent stronger. Wei has the deepest roster of high star officers, Shu the most recognisable names, Wu the most even spread. The choice opens at level 5 and the first change is free, so it is close to reversible.</description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Guides</category></item><item><title>Who was Lu Bu, and why is he always the strongest</title><link>https://warlord3k.com/blog/who-was-lu-bu</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://warlord3k.com/blog/who-was-lu-bu</guid><description>Lu Bu was a cavalry commander of the late Han who died in 199 AD, remembered as the finest fighter of his era and one of its worst judges of a situation. He served Ding Yuan and killed him, served Dong Zhuo and killed him, and was strangled on Cao Cao&apos;s orders after his own officers tied him up. Games make him the strongest character because both the history and the novel agree he was, and that it never saved him.</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>The history</category></item><item><title>What is a text RPG, and why play one in 2026</title><link>https://warlord3k.com/blog/what-is-a-text-rpg</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://warlord3k.com/blog/what-is-a-text-rpg</guid><description>A text RPG is a role playing game that presents itself in words, menus and numbers instead of a controllable 3D world. You read a line about an ambush, you tap once, and the result is text and a change to your stats. Because nothing has to be rendered or walked across, a turn takes seconds, which makes the genre suited to short sessions on a phone rather than long ones at a desk.</description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>The game</category></item></channel></rss>