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Warriors Orochi List

Xiahou Dun

Ieyasu Tokugawa

Cao Ren

Mitsuhide Akechi

Impressing Honda
Impressing Honda by doing a variety of tasks on each Stage X7 that are fairly obvious, but these are known to work:

SW Story X7	Escort the messengers to the escape point, defeat LuBu, wait for reinforcements, do not allow your blue units to be defeated (any yellow ones are okay, unless it is Honda), and then defeat Masamune Date
Shu Story X7	All peasant units must survive to the escape point, defeat LuBu and ambush parties, Honda must survive
Wei Story X7	Rescue both Honda (yellow) units and do not allow them to be defeated, defeat LuBu
Wu Story X7	defeat the weak Honda at the altar, defeat the 2nd powered-up Honda appears in the northeast within 2'00" after his appearance, defeat Date and Dong Zhuo

Impressing LuBu & Unlocking Stage X8
While the other X-stages are unlocked by completing story stages and other X-stages, stage X8 may only be unlocked by meeting certain conditions in stage 7. Although you can meet the following conditions with 2 players, each player must meet the require by themselves for the condition to be satisfied.
Once the Stage X8s are cleared, simply march staright up to LuBu and defeat him in all 4 X8 stages to unlock him.

SW Story 7	Get 1000 KOs
Shu Story 7	All allied officers and you must flee the castle within 2'00"
Wei Story 7	Defeat Da Ji within 1'00" of her defection
Wu Story 7	Have Sun Jian's army join yours within 3'00" of the start of the battle

Unlockable Cast
Wu Forces

Xiao Qiao	Clear Samurai Warriors Story - Stage 3
Da Qiao	In Wu Story - Gaiden 5, meet Da Qiao before the enemy does
Huang Gai	Clear Wei Story - Stage 5
Gan Ning	Clear Wei Story - Stage 6
Lu Meng	Clear Wu Story - Stage 3
Sun Quan	Clear Wu Story - Stage 7
Sun Jian	Clear Wu Story - Stage 7
Sun Shang Xiang	Clear Wu Story - Stage 5
Taishi Ci	Clear Wu Story - Stage 2
Lu Xun	In Samurai Warriors Story - Gaiden 3, escort Lu Xun to your HQ
Zhou Yu	Clear Wu Story - Stage 1
Zhou Tai	Clear Wu Story - Stage 6
Ling Tong	Clear Samurai Warriors Story - Stage 5

Shu Forces

Guan Yu	Clear Shu Story - Stage 7
Zhang Fei	Clear Shu Story - Stage 7
Zhuge Liang	Clear Shu Story - Stage 7
Liu Bei	Clear Shu Story - Stage 8
Ma Chao	In Samurai Warriors Story - Gaiden 2, make sure that all peasants escape and Ma Chao survives
Huang Zhong	Clear Samurai Warriors Story - Stage 1
Jiang Wei	In Shu Story - Gaiden 2, succeed in initiating Jiang Wei's ambush plan
Wei Yan	Clear Shu Story - Stage 3
Pang Tong	Clear Wei Story - Stage 4
Yue Ying	Clear Shu Story - Stage 2
Guan Ping	Clear Samurai Warriors Story - Stage 1

Wei Forces

Xiahou Dun	Clear Wei Story - Stage 4
Dian Wei	Clear Wei Story - Stage 7
Xu Zhu	Clear Wei Story - Stage 1
Cao Cao	Clear Wei Story - Stage 7
Xiahou Yuan	Clear Wei Story - Stage 4
Sima Yi	In Samurai Warriors Story - Gaiden 6, foil Sima Yi's strategy by killing the 2 retreating Orochi generals
Zhang He	In Wei Story - Gaiden 2, rescue Zhang He and defend the HQ
Pang De	In Shu Story - Gaiden 3, rescue all of the Hojo (yellow) generals
Zhen Ji	In Wei Story - Gaiden 6, defeat all magicians and the fake Cao Pi by yourself as fast as possible

Unaffiliated / Independent Forces

Diao Chan	Complete 5th Wei Gaiden- Diao Chan must survive
Lu Bu	Impress Lu Bu by defeating him in all stories - Gaiden 8
Yuan Shao	Clear Shu Story - Stage 5
Zhang Jiao	Clear Samurai Warriors Story - Stage 3
Meng Huo	Clear Shu Story - Stage 4
Zhu Rong	Clear Shu Story - Stage 4
Zuo Ci	Finish all 4 stories
Da Ji	Clear all stages in the game, including Gaiden stages
Orochi	Unlock all characters besides Orochi
Dong Zhuo	In Samurai Warriors Story - Gaiden 4, prevent all money supply troops from reaching Dong Zhuo

Samurai Warriors 1 Forces

Sanada Yukimura	Clear Shu Story - Stage 3
Uesugi Kenshin	Clear Samurai Warriors Story - Stage 7
Oichi	Clear Wei Story - Stage 6
Okuni	Clear Samurai Warriors Story - Stage 3
Saika Magoichi	Clear Shu Story - Stage 2
Takeda Shingen	Clear Samurai Warriors Story - Stage 7
Mori Ranmaru	Clear Wu Story - Stage 1
Kunoichi	In Wu Story - Gaiden 4, escort all peasants
Ishikawa Goemon	In Shu Story - Gaiden 4, break all of Goemon's treasure boxes
Maeda Keiji	In Wu Story - Gaiden 6, make sure all ally reinforcements are alive and reach Keiji's base before time limit shows 10 minutes remaining

Samurai Warriors 2 Forces

Imagawa Yoshimoto	In Wei Story - Gaiden 4, prevent all ploy troops from entering the village
Honda Tadakatsu	Impress him in all stories - Gaiden 7
Inahime	Clear Wu Story - Stage 5
Ishida Mitsunari	Clear Wei Story - Stage 2
Azai Nagamasa	Clear Wei Story - Stage 6
Shima Sakon	Clear Wu Story - Stage 3
Tachibana Ginchiyo	Clear Shu Story - Stage 1
Naoe Kanetsugu	Clear Samurai Warriors Story - Stage 7
Nene	In Wei Story - Gaiden 3, defeat the 2 Nene clones within 4 minutes after their appearances
Fuuma Kotaro	In Wu Story - Gaiden 2, defeat him after all supply troops have reached your HQ
Miyamoto Musashi	In Shu Story - Gaiden 6, open the dam and keep all the swordsmen (yellow) alive

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Zhuge liang unique item
In shu 8,defeat all enemy officer. First advance west swop all enemy. Then k.maeda advance with his partner,kill them quickly. Then kill Lu bu,Da Ji. And unique item,appeared in orochi base.

4th weapon
Just go kill orochi sw chaos (if I where you I whould take 3 lvl 99 chars like lubu honda and keiji/orochi)if you kill lubu he should leave a box behind with a new weapon and then with a little luck its a 4th weapon.

Fourth Weapon
Get weapons on hard difficulty on a stage with 3 or more stars or in any stage with chaos difficulty

Easy to get lvl 4 weapon but WORST!!!
You can easily get 4th weapon in chaos mode....(Hint: do this in one star difficulty and at least yo have 2 lvl 99 in your party....

Easier way to get 4th weapons
Take 2 or 3 Lv99s and someone who can do awesome uppercut moves like Nobunaga or Musashi Miyamoto so you can kill the enemy easier.(Works best on Hard 3 star!)

Unlocking Honda's unique item
Kill all officer with Honda in wu 7 as fast as possible. An unique item appeared near Da Ji's base.

Easy way 4 unlocking Miyamoto mushashi
First,play with 2 player. Player1 accompany mushashi to open the dam (kill lu bu first). Second,player2 rescue swordsmen from officer's attack (5 yellow must survive). When,the dam is open water will swept the officer enemy. Mushashi miyamoto vowed to fight with you.

Lady Noh
In wu story:stage:x3
Kill all the messengers and do not let them escape. If you successfull when Massamune Date arrives , and says :"where is everybody". Defeat him on horseback with a strong character is recomended . Note: "do not use nobunaga oda for this event"

Diao Chan unique item
Kill all of enemy officers before cao-cao arrive

Cao Ren
In sw story :stage:5x
Help 2 of the 3 cavarlys to reach the escape point then cao ren will appear near the escape point, defeat him as fast as possible

You can go outside the map......
In SW stage 6.....go to the upper right and run through the base captain you can't go in right? but if you run for 10 seconds? to the left after that you can go through in and that..........(i'ts like a glicht.........)