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greetings and salutations friends some
big news today with the announcement of
total war a three kingdoms being the
next big total of war title this is a
rather interesting release now of course
I was hoping for pike in short but this
is very different from anything I had
expected because and this is very
important to note this is not total war
China in fact it would appear that this
is not really a historical title at all
what do I mean by that well you see this
is a really really interesting part of
Chinese history the air of the three
kingdoms was a series of historical
events it did really happen however
there is a series called the romance of
the three kingdoms which takes the
events of said era and romanticizes them
to a ridiculous degree to the point that
it's basically a work of historical
fiction and judging by CAS trailer that
being all the information I have to work
on at the moment
they seem to be going more along the
lines of the romance of Three Kingdoms
roots
rather than the historical roots what
with the heavy focus on what appears to
be the heroes of the three kingdoms
characters like Guan Yu Liu Bei and
Zhang Fei and in the context of the
Romance of the Three Kingdoms these
characters have more in common with
total war Warhammer heroes than they do
with any historical title we have seen
as of yet these were characters of
astounding intellect incredible martial
prowess and fantastic convictions
these were larger-than-life heroes
capable of taking on huge groups of
footmen and coming out unscathed and in
the cinematic trailer it being of course
a cinematic trailer which doesn't
necessarily mean anything combat between
these heroes seems to be given a fairly
premier role
which really makes me think that they're
going for the Romance of the Three
Kingdoms rather than the Three Kingdoms
now of course again
cinematic trailer doesn't necessarily
have to mean anything but it's certainly
gonna be interesting personally I think
I might actually prefer the romance
because China at this time was a
somewhat boring historical era at least
as far as warfare goes there was
actually quite a lot of civilian
inventions amongst other things the
wheelbarrow a crude early version but
nevertheless that's pretty cool however
in warfare not that much really happened
you don't have the changeover from for
example the early Roman legions they
started the fall on legionaries you
don't have a huge variety in the ways of
fighting war you don't have phalanx 'us
legionaries hoplites differences like
that in china everyone pretty much
fought with more or less the same kind
of troops which is something that to me
at least is really disappointing because
I love having some variety and spice in
my armies and I get really annoyed when
you don't have a nice big unit selection
but in the romance of the three kingdoms
well that opens up a whole lot of
possibilities hero unis obviously being
one of them
there were hundreds of characters in the
romance of the three kingdoms books that
could be turned into hero characters a
perhaps special units being led by one
of these named characters if you want a
little bit of a general impression of
the kind of insanity you could see in
the Three Kingdoms I highly recommend
going to watch the Battle of Red Cliff
movies I believe there's two of them
they are made in China and they are
based of very much so on the fantasy
version of the romance of the three
kingdoms and in it some pretty
incredible shit happens let's just put
it like that so all in all personally I
am quite interested in this but I
imagine the historical portion of the
total war community is gonna be really
fucking pissed about this I mean they
have been waiting for a very long time
now
for a historic
total war game and what it would appear
that they are going to be given is at
best a work of fiction based upon
historical events mmm I don't know if
that's gonna go over all that well in
fact I imagine the community's response
to all of this as more information gets
rolled out will be very interesting
because well I expected majority of
people won't really care hell I expect
the majority of people don't know that
there even is a difference between the
Three Kingdoms era and the romance of
the three kingdoms I'm kind of looking
forward to it again I'm hoping the
romance of the three kingdoms because
it'll just be more interesting in my
opinion rather than historical China but
this is somewhat soothed amaya
sensation of loss or we're not getting
pike in shot which by the way would have
been a way more interesting idea of
regardless just saying just saying but
still if they're gonna be going kindly
semi-historical fantasy that could be
really cool I'm enjoying the heroes
combat in total war Weimar and if they
introduce a way cooler matched combat
system which definitely would fit in the
romance of the three kingdoms with all
kinds of twirly bullshitty Kong food
combats I think that would look fucking
awesome it's gonna piss off a lot of
historical purists but details so until
we have more information I have been
arch thank you very much watching and I
hope to see you all again soon have a
good day