If you meant to look for [[[guide:dynastywarriors | Dynasty Warriors]]] the fighting game this is the wrong guide. Dynasty Warriors (PSP) is KOEI's first game that was made for the Playstation Portable, unlike Dynasty Warriors 4 which most of the assets are pulled from you go through a grid based map in attempts to eventually make it to the enemy main camp and take it over. Battles always start you at Lv.1 with 4 basic attacks, as you increase in level your moveset will upgrade at Lv.4 and again at Lv.7 which also has an updated weapon design for the next area you go into after reaching Lv.7, at Lv.10 your Musou Attack will always be a True Musou regardless how much health you have. There is quite a bit to cover, but it should be nice and neat with little clutter for the information you may want.

Playable Officers

This will list how to unlock the 42 playable officers and their base stats. For their capped stats it is their base stat doubled.

Shu

Character	Birthplace	Weapon Type	Control	Life	Attack	Defense	Growth	Requirement
Zhao Yun	Ji	Pole	25	85	95	90	90	Initial unlock.
Guan Yu	Si	Pole	26	90	96	82	88	Initial unlock.
Zhang Fei	You	Pole	25	98	98	80	84	Initial unlock.
Zhuge Liang	Xu	Blunt	29	82	75	100	87	Clear Shu Musou Mode once.
Liu Bei	You	Blade	29	84	76	85	99	Clear Shu Musou Mode once.
Ma Chao	Si	Pole	25	88	97	85	90	Initial unlock.
Huang Zhong
Jiang Wei	Pole
Wei Yan	Pole
Pang Tong	Jing	Blunt	27	93	77	95	87	Clear Shu Musou Mode once.
Yue Ying	Jing	Pole	26	85	83	93	95	Initial unlock.

Wei

Character	Birthplace	Weapon Type	Control	Life	Attack	Defense	Growth	Requirement
Xiahou Dun	Yu	Blade	25	88	94	91	87	Initial unlock.
Dian Wei	Yan	Blade	24	99	96	75	94	Initial unlock.
Xu Zhu	Yu	Blunt	24	98	97	82	87	Initial unlock.
Cao Cao	Yu	Blade	30	84	89	91	96	Clear Wei Musou Mode once.
Xiahou Yuan	Yu	Blunt	25	87	93	93	87	Initial unlock.
Zhang Liao	Pole
Sima Yi	Si	Blunt	29	80	80	98	86	Clear Wei Musou Mode once.
Xu Huang	Pole
Zhang He
Zhen Ji	Ji	Blunt	25	91	80	91	98	Initial unlock.
Cao Ren	Yu	Blade	25	95	87	93	85	Clear Wei Musou Mode once.

Wu

Character	Birthplace	Weapon Type	Control	Life	Attack	Defense	Growth	Requirement
Zhou Yu	Yang	Blade	28	77	78	95	98	Initial unlock.
Lu Xun	Yang	Blade	27	86	81	96	89	Initial unlock.
Taishi Ci	Qing	Blunt	25	96	95	81	88	Initial unlock.
Sun Shang Xiang	Yang	Blade	24	88	89	92	95	Initial unlock.
Sun Jian	Yang	Blade	29	87	92	80	85	Clear Wu Musou Mode once.
Sun Quan	Yang	Blade	27	87	89	89	87	Clear Wu Musou Mode once.
Lu Meng
Gan Ning	Yi	Blade	25	90	93	85	92	Initial unlock.
Huang Gai
Sun Ce	Yang	Blunt	28	75	94	84	95	Clear Wu Musou Mode once.
Da Qiao
Xiao Qiao
Zhou Tai

Others

Character	Birthplace	Weapon Type	Control	Life	Attack	Defense	Growth	Requirement
Diao Chan	Bing	Blunt	24	90	80	94	100	Clear an Others Musou Mode.
Lu Bu	Bing	Pole	24	100	100	100	75	Clear an Others Musou Mode.
Dong Zhuo	Liang	Blade	27	94	95	85	78	Clear 1 Shu, Wei & Wu Musou Mode.
Yuan Shao	Yu	Blade	26	89	88	90	89	Clear 1 Shu, Wei & Wu Musou Mode.
Zhang Jiao	Ji	Blunt	28	95	79	80	94	Clear 1 Shu, Wei & Wu Musou Mode.
Meng Huo	Nan Zhong	Blunt	26	95	95	88	78	Clear 1 Shu, Wei & Wu Musou Mode.
Zhu Rong	Nan Zhong	Blade	24	91	93	86	94	Clear an Others Musou Mode.

Stages

Musou Mode

Similar to the main game this is based off of, Dynasty Warriors 4, Musou Mode is kingdom based so all characters of their respective kingdom go through the same 5 stages.

Kingdom	Stage 1	Stage 2	Stage 3	Stage 4	Stage 5
Shu	The Yellow Turban Rebellion	Battle of Hu Lao Gate	Battle of Chang Ban	Battle of Yi Ling	Battle of Wu Zhang Plains
Wei	The Yellow Turban Rebellion	Battle of Hu Lao Gate	Battle of Guan Du	Battle of He Fei	Battle of Wu Zhang Plains
Wu	The Yellow Turban Rebellion	Battle of Hu Lao Gate	Battle of Chi Bi	Battle of He Fei	Battle of Yi Ling

The Others Kingdom have their own set of stages to go through based on which character you pick for Musou Mode.

Kingdom	Stage 1	Stage 2	Stage 3	Stage 4	Stage 5
Dong Zhuo (Diao Chan, Lu Bu, Dong Zhuo)
Yuan Shao
Nanman (Meng Huo, Zhu Rong)	Battle for Nan Zhong	Battle of Chang Ban	Battle of Yi Ling	Battle of He Fei	Battle of Xu Chang
Yellow Turbans (Zhang Jiao)

Maps

This will show the maps for each side for each battle, the screenshot will show the Supply time for Chaos difficulty while the rest will be listed above the maps.

Deployable Officers

There are in total 200 officers you can choose to bring with you along the battlefield, for a list of all the officers refer to [[[https://1drv.ms/x/s!AsI63GpqhuzqibUZ4DxB4mcnxbL2gQ | this Excel sheet]]]. They are listed in order of

• The playable 42 officers in index order (2-43)
• The regular generics by level in alphabetical order (44-178)
• The special 4 generic ladies (179-182)
• The Samurai Warriors cast in index order (183-201)

Each officer has a unit type they will bring to battle as well as possibly having an element that they do for their charge attacks. The letter grade for Deployable Officers translate into ability points which are given for every level they and you gain at the end of a stage with every 100 points combined giving your character +1 to that base stat permanently. The amount given is translated as such

• D = Lv x 10
• C = Lv x 12
• B = Lv x 14
• A = Lv x 16
• S = Lv x 18
• SS = Lv x 20

The character you control will always count as having SS in all 4 stats, if you end up with #98 it will not give your character an extra base stat it must be over #00.

If your birthplace or weapon type match with the Deployable Officer their level will be reduced by 1, if both match it will be reduced by 2. The lowest possible level is 1. Officers can come with up to 3 additional effects to aid during battle which come in the form of Ability, Boost & Skill.

Ability

These are effects that activate as you're traversing the grids on the map.

Name	Effect
Ferryman	No morale loss when traversing rivers (Blue lines).
Ranger	No morale or life loss when traversing mountains (Red lines with Yellow arrows outside).
Antidote	No life loss when traversing swamps.
Sunny Boy/Lady	Reduce the chance of rain.
Ordinance	More supplies taken from supply depots.
Steward	No supplies will be used to heal in bases or supply depots.
Field Medic	Restore 20 Life to all units after an area is liberated.
Iron Man	Officer with this effect will be fully healed after an area is liberated.
Instructor	Gain more experience to develop officers.

Boost

These are passive (or negative) effects that are active while you are on the field battling, these range from 4 different types of benefits.

Stats

Name	Effect
Life -	Life and Musou stats are decreased by 30.
Life +	Life and Musou stats are increased by 30.
Life ++	Life and Musou stats are increased by 50.
Attack -	Attack stat is decreased by 5.
Attack +	Attack stat is increased by 5.
Attack ++	Attack stat is increased by 10.
Defense -	Defense stat is decreased by 5.
Defense +	Defense stat is increased by 5.
Defense ++	Defense stat is increased by 10.
Growth -	Development is decreased by 5.
Growth +	Development is increased by 5.
Growth ++	Development is increased by 10.

Restorative

Name	Effect
Healing	Very slowly recover Life overtime.
Healing +	Slowly recover Life overtime.
Fill Musou	Slowly recover Musou overtime.

Mount

Name	Effect
Horse	Begin each area on a normal horse.
Storm Claw	Begin each area on Storm Runner (Mount attack up).
Hex Mark	Begin each area on Hex Mark (Luck up).
Shadow	Begin each area on Shadow Runner (Can't be knocked off).
Red Hare	Begin each area on Red Hare (Fastest horse).
Elephant	Begin each area on an Elephant.

Weapon

The elemental attacks are similar to how they are in the main games where Lv 1-9 will need a full Musou bar to activate

Name	Effect
Enlarge	Weapons reach is increased by 150%.
Fire Atk	Charge attacks will very slowly burn an enemies Life.
Fire Atk+	Charge attacks will slowly burn an enemies Life.
Elec Atk	Charge attacks will have a bolt of lightning that hits the enemy and surrounding troops. Can potentially steal kills including officers.
Elec Atk+	Charge attacks will have larger bolt of lightning that hits the enemy and surrounding troops. Can potentially steal kills including officers.
Vorpal Atk	Charge attacks can potentially one shot normal peons, does fixed percentage damage to officers.
Vorpal Atk+	Charge attacks will one shot normal peons, does more fixed percentage damage to officers.
Ice Atk	Charge attacks can freeze enemies in place for a brief period.
Ice Atk+	Charge attacks can freeze enemies in place for a longer period of time.
Blast Atk	Charge attacks will deal small damage to guarding enemies.
Blast Atk+	Charge attacks will deal small damage to guarding enemies.
Poison Atk	Charge attacks will lower enemies defense for a very brief period.
Poison Atk+	Charge attacks will lower enemies defense for a brief period.

Skill

These are effects that are activated manually, this is done by pressing @@*@@ and @ on the d-pad to cycle between your officers and press ^ to activate their skill.

Name	Effect
Recovery	Restore 20 Life to all allies in the area.
Recovery +	Restore 50 Life to all allies in the area.
Recovery ++	Restore 100 Life to all allies in the area.
Strike	All allies in the area have their attack increased for 20 seconds.
Strike +	All allies in the area have their attack increased for 30 seconds.
Strike ++	All allies in the area have their attack increased for 30 seconds, Musou gauge is also filled up.
Shield	All allies in the area have their defense increased for 20 seconds.
Shield +	All allies in the area have their defense increased for 30 seconds.
Shield ++	All allies in the area have their defense increased for 30 seconds, Musou gauge is also filled up.
Speed	Speed is increased for 30 seconds.
Speed +	Speed is increased for 60 seconds.
Speed ++	Speed is increased for 90 seconds.
Slow	All enemies in the area are slowed down for 20 seconds.
Slow +	All enemies in the area are slowed down for 30 seconds.
Rally	Restores half a bar of fighting spirit for your side in the area.
Rally +	Restores 1 bar of fighting spirit for your side in the area.
Rally ++	Restores 2 bars of fighting spirit for your side in the area.
Roar	Remove 1 bar of fighting spirit for your enemies side in the area.
Roar +	Remove 2 bars of fighting spirit for your enemies side in the area.
Ice Crystal	Freezes enemies in a short range around the officer with this skill.
Ice Crystal +	Freezes enemies in a wider range around the officer with this skill.
Firearrow	For 30 seconds all arrows will be fire elemental, canceled by rain.
Firearrow +	For 60 seconds all arrows will be fire elemental, canceled by rain.
Fire Attack	All units slowly get burned overtime, canceled by rain
Rain Dance	Makes the field rain negating all Fire effects.
Dispel	Removes positive benefits from the enemy side.
Dispel +	Removes positive benefits from the enemy side, has a shorter cooldown.
Dispel ++	Removes positive benefits from the enemy side, has an even shorter cooldown.
Sacrifice	Gives Life of officer with this skill to your character, up to 20 Life.
Sacrifice +	Gives Life of officer with this skill to your character, up to 250 Life.
Berserk	Fighting efficiency increases for 60 seconds.
Berserk +	Fighting efficiency increases for 120 seconds.
Fire Spell	All attacks will have Fire element, for 15 seconds burning enemy Life.
Elec Spell	All attacks will have Lightning element, for 15 seconds striking bolts of lightning enemy and surrounding troops.
Vorpal Spell	All attacks will have Vorpal element, for 15 seconds can one shot peons and deal fixed percentage damage to officers.
Ice Spell	All attacks will have Ice element, for 15 seconds can potentially freeze enemies.
Blast Spell	All attacks will have Blast element, for 15 seconds deal damage to guarding enemies.
Poison Spell	All attacks will have Poison element, for 15 seconds lower enemies defense for a brief period.