My brother really likes the strategy games made from the Feudal China/Romance of the Three Kingdoms era, but not Dyntasy Warriors. I must ask him some time whether it it's the Dragon Ball Z-level power of everyone with a name that turns him off. Why build and provision a massive army of thousands of faceless soldiers when your opponents can wipe them out so easily? Talk about inflating the legend of your wartime heroes, eh Ninja-Mecha-Lincoln?
That must be the horse's secret- they gave him a name. An awesome, hard-to-pronounce Chinese name! And they built a bust in his honour, a mighty statue towering over Gao Nu!