TRIVIA: This 10 minute video took over 7 hours to render. And then my wife found six spelling errors. Several hours later it was re-exported. And then I found two more. I did not correct those two. Scavenger Hunt!
@@stevestrangelove4970 The game isn't historically accurate. The record mode that CA have added I believe tries to be as careful with historical records in preserving them in-game but the base game is heavily romanticized because that's pretty much what "Romance" of the Three Kingdoms is about. The characters, events and places have all been intentionally fictionalized to depict Luo Guanzhong's telling of the period. The Three Kingdoms period is more about its characters than any other historical game CA has done before so the game is framed in that way so that the characters are the most important aspect it wants to draw you to.
Resources. Not financial. And even then the only resource was the map itself. The rest I had to cut out from character posters or create on my own. But they're... Encouraging?
@@codybonds that just made me picture some out of shape coach sitting on a bench saying "yeah, keep it up, do those jumping jacks" as an athlete does the rounds. Dogbert needs to get on top of that
Except ashigaru in shogun 2 were actually usable all through to the end of the game. Unless militia can have unique formations (with the help of a strategist), they will be outplayed by their higher-tier counterparts. What it does enable though is the ability to always support the max army limit for every position of power
@@aidanmattys7488 Massed Matchlock ashigaru were some of the most deadly units in Shogun. Of course there will be no guns, but repeating crossbow militia may be a thing.
I applied at one point. They felt otherwise. This channel was originally created as something of a rebuttal to show they were wrong and has been a significant ego salve. Getting turned down by your dream job hurts.
That's all based on the famous novel The Romance of The Three Kindoms, both Dynsaty Warrior and Total war are based on the novel which in the story descirbe the colors of different warlord's army uniform and flags as what you see here, actually the novel had a huge influence in moder days's art performance of Three Kindgom, if you watch some Three Kindom movie, anime and TV series, they use the same color for each warlords' army.
I really hope there's an in-game event that triggers Lu Bu's betrayal of Dong Zhuo where the Dong Zhuo faction is splintered between the Loyalists led by Li Jue and Guo Si and the Rebels led by Lu Bu. Lu Bu was such a wild card in how the Three Kingdoms Era played out because he literally back-stabbed everybody.
i know this is old but I still gotta say this is extremely well done and also I gotta mention thanks for not spoiling anything while still giving good descriptions of the warlords!
Thanks for the breakdown on the warlords, best part of the game getting delayed is more videos! I'm really curious about unique units for each faction now, and if they're tied to the faction or the region. Unique army flavours will be affecting how I play as much as warlord personalities and starting positions, and I feel could be some of the real defining features of Records mode.
Liu Yan or his son Liu Zhang seem like obvious choices to give Western China more representation. Liu Yan was still alive at the time the game starts, but died soon afterwards. Liu Yan consolidated power in the Yi Province, but his son essentially squandered the opportunity to expand despite having many capable military leaders and civil officials at his command. It'd be an interesting scenario to play out.
Liu Yan wasn't closely related to Liu Bei, however Liu Yan, Liu Bei and Liu Biao were all distantly related to the Liu family of Han Emperors. There was shared lineage between the three.
@Berstich I've noticed you posted a variation on this comment several times here. I do my best to present any released information in a manageable form for viewers to draw conclusions from. I find that many Total War CZcamsrs spend more time putting forward their interpretations of facts than actually presenting them. So I try and keep my personal opinions out of it and let you draw your own conclusions.
Zheng Jiang seems to have the most interesting campaing. Alot of people were angry that CA choose her to be one of the playable character since she was mentioned once in the romance, but I personally love when they make small footnote factions playable in their games.
We don't know how well her campaign is implemented yet, so it is reasonable to not assume anything from her gameplay. However, It is justified that people like me show their "disagreement" with CA's choice because it can be inferred from novel and history. You may like her because of her insignificant. But if you truly love the novel, and the history of this current period in Chinese, this is quite ridiculous.
@@bobatii8812 Same no matter how much I hate their buggy mess, horrible AI, day one cut out content dlc...And blood DLC. I still love the games, and quite frankly CA is lucky they got a monopoly position on large scale RTS battle games. If a company was out there that made games like this but actually gave a damn CA would be out of bussiness.
Dave Vd So you’d prefer they don’t add factions that aren’t currently playable or yet exist? If so then simply don’t buy them and pretend they’re not playable.
@@davevd9944 what? Paradox has the best dlc system, they give you half the dlc for free. Sure its not perfect but imo its the best we have in the industry
Thanks for making this video, i was pondering which faction to start with, never having read the 3 Kingdoms books and having no idea who's who. Now that i know that, i still have no idea who to start with. Cheers!
Check out my warlords videos if you want to learn more about each of their stories and personalities. I started this series knowing nothing about the period, and these are some fascinating historic characters.
I hope they have an update or DLC in the future that adds different starting scenarios like the RoTK games. It would be nice to play a scenario that starts anywhere between 214 to 217. That's when the three kingdoms are pretty much established and each kingdom has most of their iconic heroes still alive (Liu Bei has his 5 tiger generals plus Zhuge Liang, Cao Cao still has his 5 elite generals of wei plus Xiahou Dun, and Sun Quan has Gan Ning, Ling Tong, Lu Meng, Lu Su, Huang Gai, Zhou Tai, etc). It's also late enough that you could get away with having Meng Huo and his Nanman as faction in the south. To round it out with a couple more factions you could also add a couple of bandit factions in the north kinda like they did with Zhang Yan and Zheng Jiang (Zheng Jiang being an almost entirely fictitious character).
Zhang Lu seems like a future DLC to me. Can see CA making a special mechanic out of the five pecks of rice school of theirs. Also given the massive empty space to the south, probably Shi Xie and his unique Vietnamese ties will be added somewhere down the line.
Answering your end of the video question, my first playthrough was using Cao Cao (empire failed and fell apart in the year 196 after I took control of the Emporer, which simultaneously pissed off Liu Bei, Sun Ce, and Yuan Shao) Second playthrough was using Yellow Turban DLC Huang Zhong (died immediately, and then in 192 on second attempt, so hard) Current playthrough is with Gongsun Zan, figured it must be safe hiding in a corner of China. :p
I am, I think im just holding on faith that Rockstar will or already has seen the potential that is RDR2 online and how much fun it could be. The campaign was great though I enjoyed that very much.
Haung Shao appeals to me the most so far, but it is also probably very difficult. Of those you mentioned Zhang Yan seems fun. I like Gongsun Zans Cavalry Archer bonus a lot though. Someday I’d like to play as Sun Ce. Always found him cool.
The day after this video was posted CA revealed the Yellow Turban starting locations in their Dong Zhuo stream. You can see them here: www.reddit.com/r/totalwar/comments/ayin78/yellow_turban_rebellion_starting_positions/
Cody Bonds if you've ever seen Three Kingdoms, the Chinese series, the actor that plays him is perfect. When he fools you, he makes you feel so stupid then laughs hahaha.
Dude has the best stuff in the game, cavalry upkeep, unique cavalry unit, using credibility to make warlords fight each other or make you look like a good guy, starts off with strength of the earth buff which gives 1000% melee evasion and unbreakable like goddamn. czcams.com/video/nYpJ37ulsnk/video.html
This is very cool, CA def put in the work in history/lore to give each faction unique traits that relate to these historical/fictional characters. It would be even cooler if they added negative traits to these faction leaders based on their flaws.
Adding Zhang Xiu or Zhang Ji as Zhang Xiu with the help of his strategist Jia Xu managed to defeat Cao Cao many times while fighting against Cao Cao overwhelming odds and Jia Xu is seen by many scholars in China as the most talented strategist of the era.
@Matheus Kawata That is why I mentioned Zhang Ji here as they could start without any province like Liu Bei and as he was serving Dong Zhuo at that point (like Ma Teng does in TW3K start) it would be easy to justify him like that as he was a major force after fall of Dong Zhuo. Force would start as Zhang Ji, Zhang Xiu, Jia xu and Huche'er. Vassal army under Dong Zhuo and they could either aim to support dong, overthrow him or find their own path. As the cavarly under Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu was extremely strong( like xilliang cavarly usually) their starting would be unique and would debend on Diao Chan event in romance mode.
@Matheus Kawata I think it would be interesting and as Zhang Xiu was one of major warlords during the conflict withing the central plains era which with this start date would be the main stage of the campaign. So adding Zhang Ji as a force would serve the main campaign and would offer unique starting position also ould also add a scripted event which makes Zhang Xiu the leader like the marriage to Diao Chan event. They it would be hard to make this succeed but would offer new sides to start as most oppose Dong Zhuo and only Ma Teng is at his side so most likely AI V AI dong would die in a long run but adding allies to him would give you a possibility to see huge final war Dong against the player.
Likely I'll start with Liu Bei or Ma Teng. I'd think they'll add in Liu Zhang. It may be interesting if they eventually add in something like a Nanman campaign.
will likelt see Zhang Lu and Tao Qian as DLC both very influential in this time frame, maybe Ji Ling or some of the warlords around the area that sun ce united into wu in the south east Lu gong etc
Sun Jian should have "skilled and daring, he is known..." instead of "...daring; he..." in his description. It's a grammar error though, so I'm not sure if that counts. You also did it again with Cao Cao. Additionally, you have a sentence or two that are not sentences like in Gongsun Zan's first bullet point (you actually read your script in such a way that it was, in fact, a sentence) or are missing periods like Liu Bei's last bullet point. Sorry for being a grammar Nazi; it's part of who I am.
I hope to. The let's plays I post on here actually tend to lose me subscribers. I'm trying to figure out a way of doing them live to see if that helps.
@@codybonds - I thought they were great. Why do they lose you subscribers? I don't understand it. Actually, I found it strange that you did not have more views on those replays.
@@codybonds I believe they only added her to appease SJWs. There's no other point in taking someone from 1 single line of the records which most people don't even prefer to read.
On the one hand, no Liu Yan in Yi Province is a travesty. On the other hand, the fact they actually included Zhang Yan of the Black Mountains impresses me. At the same time though, he's sharing basically the same starting spot as the baseless Zheng Jiang.
Kong Rong looks exciting and it's kind of ironic since he's a more peaceful man but taking control of a strategist as a faction leader is cool and you get access to all the formations at the start.
Kong Rong's campaign is one I'm the most excited about. You can play him nearly entirely peaceful. Manipulating trade relations and allying yourself with bigger lords to reach your goals.
Hi Cody, great video! Just subscribed to your channel. Keep up the good work. Hope you can answer a question for me. My current 4y old laptop is struggling with Attila, so I want to buy a new PC. What config (CPU+GPU) could you recommed me for a better Total War experience? Ultra quality not necessary but as high as possible and on a budget? Sorry if my english is not great, writing from Canary Islands (Spain).
www.logicalincrements.com/ is a great place to start when building a PC. Total War is very CPU and GPU intensive. CA recommends an i5 processor with an NVIDIA GTX 1060 for medium high. And that's what I ran until very recently. If you can spring for a GTX 1070 it makes a big difference. Also, make sure to pick up an SSD to reduce time between turns. And thank you for subscribing - is there something you'd like to see in the future? I'm always looking for video ideas on history and gaming.
@@codybonds Thanks for the link and suggestion. I actually only recently discovered your channel. Would like to see more gameplay or tactical moves for total war.
This is well made! What dlc eras do y'all see in the future? Like how Attila had age of Charlemagne, and s2tw had genpei war and FOS, what time period dlc do you guys see for tw3k? I see warring states or chu han contention. Maybe Song Dynasty vs Tang Dynasty and bring back the mechanic where a horde arrives I.E. the mongols.
Yellow Turbans themselves would make a nice DLC, along the lines of an alternative history with Zhang Jiao having a more stable grip on his followers. Zhang Xiu would be alright, most of the leaders coming to mind are going to need different scenarios for them to come about.
Do you think they will put in different timeline to begin the campaign as dlc? Like maybe the actual three Kingdom or like when lubu seize puyang from cao cao or xu province from liu bei and have more legendary lord?
Zheng Jiang appears to be the anti-Liu Bei. On the one hand both start off as wandering armies with no territory. Both are essentially underdogs at the start of the campaign and are fighting for the people in their own ways. However while Liu Bei's playstyle is about maintaining his reputation through virtuous deeds and honor, Zheng Jiang thrives on gaining infamy which I suppose involves burning and looting and murdering indiscriminately as well as using coercion. Also their agendas are completely in contrast to one another. Where Liu Bei is loyal to the Han and is fighting to preserve and restore the Han, Zheng Jiang's paramount goal is to destroy the Han, burn it down to ashes. Then there's the fact that Liu Bei is a virtuous man who upholds tradition whereas Zheng Jiang is a female bandit leader who intends on breaking down tradition and even making it so her descendants will have her name instead of their father's. If these two warlords ever get into each other's faces, I bet their diplomatic meter would be at the lowest of lows.
I'll be playing Cao Cao since he's probably the easiest to win the campaign with. Then I can play Dong Zhuo's campaign, the one campaign I really wanted to play.
@Cody Bonds, There's actually 3 spelling errors under Sun Jian you wrote SATISFATION not Satisfaction and under Dong Zhou you wrote RESROUCE and TEROR lol Great Video though, looks beautiful and very informative, although I would have loved to have seen small gameplay examples of each ability as you were discussing them.
Meng Hou should be next. Use of elephants, fire arrows, tigers and bull charges, but his faction would have a lack in armor and melee defense. Also give his wife some sorta fire based weapon to reference her link to the fire god.
if i have a chance to buy the game cao cao is the first character i would play then Liu Biao with Dongzhou as third. one prominent warlord that i think will be added in the future or in this case DLC will be Liu Zhang with campaign involving Liu Bei. For those who know Is there any confirmation of alternate start date? i mean i would like to have alternate start like Guandu, Chibi, three kingdom, Shu attack on hanzhong etc.
I would play as the first warlord first, just because his capital is based in the capital of my province, Changsha. The scholar official to the north is also very intriguing, along with several others. I definitely want to play as Liu Bei eventually, too, because he was the undisputable hero of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms (even if some people prefer other more pragmatic options). Anyway, looks good! Love the detail and work that's gone into this to translate every major personality trait into real life consequences which have concrete effects on game play! I love it!
King Meng Huo, although it might end up being a meme lol. I'm not sure if Lui Zhang should be added in the game as a warlord, since he stayed there the entire time in Shu and had no mind for conquest.
liu bei gets 0 upkeep on militia, its the oda clan all over again, unless there is limit on the amount of militia recruitable then liu bei is gonna be op as hell
@Thelondonbadger town guard cost 100/ turn at least when outside a town, not really comparable, its more like the mongols in med 2 who get units with zero upkeep and the mongols were damn op
Hello, excellent vid! Is it possible for you to share an HQ image version of that map (without the factions, just the map and name of commandaries)? Please and thanks!
Has anyone tried marching directly to the Capital with Liu Bei's starting army? Has anyone succeeded at taking the Capital with a maxed out starting Liu Bei stack since he can't build more armies until he takes a territory to run?
I know with one of the pre order DLC you can get to play as the yellow turbins themselves so what about the ring leader of the yellow turbins themselves? they have as much chance to unite china as anyone else can.
By 190ad, TW:TK start date, the yellow turbans were mere remnants. The brothers were dead and we mainly have partly-unknowns as the 3 warlords of the yellow turbans. Iirc all of them are based in the north
TRIVIA: This 10 minute video took over 7 hours to render. And then my wife found six spelling errors. Several hours later it was re-exported. And then I found two more. I did not correct those two. Scavenger Hunt!
what a Teror this is lol
Resrouce and teror, guess those are new words in the English language
Your videos are awesome
How many women actually lead an army during this period? Is the game being historically accurate?
@@stevestrangelove4970 The game isn't historically accurate. The record mode that CA have added I believe tries to be as careful with historical records in preserving them in-game but the base game is heavily romanticized because that's pretty much what "Romance" of the Three Kingdoms is about. The characters, events and places have all been intentionally fictionalized to depict Luo Guanzhong's telling of the period. The Three Kingdoms period is more about its characters than any other historical game CA has done before so the game is framed in that way so that the characters are the most important aspect it wants to draw you to.
What the hell dude, I thought this was an official CA video lmao insane work
Thank you! I keep forcing myself to learn After Effects, you can create some really amazing stuff in it with enough patience.
Are you a secret CA employee because damn that flyby of the map looks like it could have been made by CA themselves
He probably gets financial and resources support. This is much more common than you might think.
Hello Doss Boss!
Resources. Not financial. And even then the only resource was the map itself. The rest I had to cut out from character posters or create on my own. But they're... Encouraging?
@@codybonds that just made me picture some out of shape coach sitting on a bench saying "yeah, keep it up, do those jumping jacks" as an athlete does the rounds. Dogbert needs to get on top of that
@@codybonds Torture? Oh no! 🤔😗
LiuBei's free militia upkeep has more game breaking potential than Oda Nobunaga's half upkeep Ashigaru.
just gotta end Lu Meng and Sun Quan whenever they appear
Free is free, always
Except ashigaru in shogun 2 were actually usable all through to the end of the game. Unless militia can have unique formations (with the help of a strategist), they will be outplayed by their higher-tier counterparts. What it does enable though is the ability to always support the max army limit for every position of power
@@aidanmattys7488 Massed Matchlock ashigaru were some of the most deadly units in Shogun. Of course there will be no guns, but repeating crossbow militia may be a thing.
Trubripes oda is a demon
This is so professional. Amazing job! CA should hire you
Also the two misspelled words are "Bonsuses (Bonuses)" and "Resrouce (Resource)" and
I applied at one point. They felt otherwise. This channel was originally created as something of a rebuttal to show they were wrong and has been a significant ego salve. Getting turned down by your dream job hurts.
@@codybonds Oh I'm sorry to hear that. Well, know that we DO appreciate what you're doing. Please never quit fam, you're doing an amazing job
Oh I enjoy the hell out of it. It's been a great creative outlet.
I like how the characters still portray the same colors they do on Dynasty Warriors like Liu Bei is green, Cao Cao blue, Sun Jian red etc.
That's all based on the famous novel The Romance of The Three Kindoms, both Dynsaty Warrior and Total war are based on the novel which in the story descirbe the colors of different warlord's army uniform and flags as what you see here, actually the novel had a huge influence in moder days's art performance of Three Kindgom, if you watch some Three Kindom movie, anime and TV series, they use the same color for each warlords' army.
Yea, well thats their hero type
Sentinel - purple grayish
Commander - yellow
Champion - green
Vanguard - red
Strategist - blue
Amazing edit you made here. Very impressive
I appreciate the mixing. Excellent job with the panning!
Thanks! I wanted to try something different by adding environmental sound effects. And it's surprisingly difficult to make the pans feel smooth.
I really hope there's an in-game event that triggers Lu Bu's betrayal of Dong Zhuo where the Dong Zhuo faction is splintered between the Loyalists led by Li Jue and Guo Si and the Rebels led by Lu Bu. Lu Bu was such a wild card in how the Three Kingdoms Era played out because he literally back-stabbed everybody.
Watch the Dong Zhuo footage that CA uploaded recently, they hint at the event chain at the end of the video.
yes. there is an event.
Just give em the gemsword
Li and guo are no different from lv bu
Too bad we can’t play as Lv Bu, I loved that character. He didn’t betray Zhang Liao and Diao Chan, and he got the girl. I mean, it’s quite a wild life
This is incredible you've done great work with this video!
It's gonna be an amazing game two years from now :)
lmfao keeps delayin
i really hope i going to buy it.
It's already good
i will assume you mean it will take them 2 year of patch's to make it super good to play LOL
@@robert23456789but acctually it's already good.
Really respect the quality and thoro stance of this video. but the Map work is truly impeccable. keep up the good Work.
i know this is old but I still gotta say this is extremely well done and also I gotta mention thanks for not spoiling anything while still giving good descriptions of the warlords!
Man this was expertly made. Gratz.
Holy shit dude this video quality is insane. Great work man, keep it up.
Amazing editing on the video great job👍 and you deserve way more subs
Thanks for the breakdown on the warlords, best part of the game getting delayed is more videos!
I'm really curious about unique units for each faction now, and if they're tied to the faction or the region. Unique army flavours will be affecting how I play as much as warlord personalities and starting positions, and I feel could be some of the real defining features of Records mode.
Liu Yan or his son Liu Zhang seem like obvious choices to give Western China more representation. Liu Yan was still alive at the time the game starts, but died soon afterwards. Liu Yan consolidated power in the Yi Province, but his son essentially squandered the opportunity to expand despite having many capable military leaders and civil officials at his command. It'd be an interesting scenario to play out.
Isn't Liu Yan the uncle of Liu Bei?
It would be interesting to have leaders of OTHER FACTIONS to be heirs!
Liu Yan wasn't closely related to Liu Bei, however Liu Yan, Liu Bei and Liu Biao were all distantly related to the Liu family of Han Emperors. There was shared lineage between the three.
Im hoping its FLC since Liu Zhang does have a unique character.
Cody you hands down make my favorite total war videos! Thank you so much for making your videos
Even though all this info was already avaiable and he just repated it all word for word? Really?
@@Berstich this is stuff I expected CA to put out months ago so yes I appreciate him doing CA's job
@Berstich I've noticed you posted a variation on this comment several times here. I do my best to present any released information in a manageable form for viewers to draw conclusions from. I find that many Total War CZcamsrs spend more time putting forward their interpretations of facts than actually presenting them. So I try and keep my personal opinions out of it and let you draw your own conclusions.
Such a good video! I think I will be trying out Kong Rong first
he is very weak in deed.
Definitely playing as the Wu empire/Sun Jian faction. Was such a fan of them through out the KESSEN and Dynasty Warriors' franchises
Same for me. Also, Sun Jian is a meme for french people (including myself) in Dynasty Warriors 3. Definitly play it first.
Fellow Sun clan fans I see.
@@KaiHung-wv3ul absolutely. Sun Jian deserved better!!
Zheng Jiang seems to have the most interesting campaing. Alot of people were angry that CA choose her to be one of the playable character since she was mentioned once in the romance, but I personally love when they make small footnote factions playable in their games.
Zheng and Jiang are two different people actually. These are both surnames.
Agree
Being unknown bandit and fight legendary figures will be satisfying. Gut Liubei and behead cao cao.
We don't know how well her campaign is implemented yet, so it is reasonable to not assume anything from her gameplay. However, It is justified that people like me show their "disagreement" with CA's choice because it can be inferred from novel and history.
You may like her because of her insignificant. But if you truly love the novel, and the history of this current period in Chinese, this is quite ridiculous.
Sounds like some sjw bullshit
10 minutes with no Ads, took 7 hours to render and the spelling mistakes. What a fucking legend. Subscribed
I feel like Meng Huo will be a DLC warlord in the future.
It's CA they make nice games but so damn notorious with DLC.
I have a hate love relationship with CA...And Paradox.
Dave Vd urgh I feel you! That’s how CA is, but I still play their games. Oh well.
@@bobatii8812 Same no matter how much I hate their buggy mess, horrible AI, day one cut out content dlc...And blood DLC.
I still love the games, and quite frankly CA is lucky they got a monopoly position on large scale RTS battle games.
If a company was out there that made games like this but actually gave a damn CA would be out of bussiness.
Dave Vd
So you’d prefer they don’t add factions that aren’t currently playable or yet exist? If so then simply don’t buy them and pretend they’re not playable.
@@davevd9944 what? Paradox has the best dlc system, they give you half the dlc for free. Sure its not perfect but imo its the best we have in the industry
There's something deeply satisfying about potentially playing the bandit queen and watching her carve up Dong Zhuo and Cao Cao.
Thanks for making this video, i was pondering which faction to start with, never having read the 3 Kingdoms books and having no idea who's who. Now that i know that, i still have no idea who to start with. Cheers!
Check out my warlords videos if you want to learn more about each of their stories and personalities. I started this series knowing nothing about the period, and these are some fascinating historic characters.
@@codybonds The 20 minutes ones?
Should only be ten each. You'll see them labeled as warlord legends I'm the bottom corners of the thumbnail and it will have a single character.
@@codybonds Oh ok, i'll check the channel out to find them :)
This was... very good. Great job
So cool and diverse mechanics, cant wait!!
I hope they have an update or DLC in the future that adds different starting scenarios like the RoTK games. It would be nice to play a scenario that starts anywhere between 214 to 217. That's when the three kingdoms are pretty much established and each kingdom has most of their iconic heroes still alive (Liu Bei has his 5 tiger generals plus Zhuge Liang, Cao Cao still has his 5 elite generals of wei plus Xiahou Dun, and Sun Quan has Gan Ning, Ling Tong, Lu Meng, Lu Su, Huang Gai, Zhou Tai, etc). It's also late enough that you could get away with having Meng Huo and his Nanman as faction in the south. To round it out with a couple more factions you could also add a couple of bandit factions in the north kinda like they did with Zhang Yan and Zheng Jiang (Zheng Jiang being an almost entirely fictitious character).
Zhang Lu seems like a future DLC to me. Can see CA making a special mechanic out of the five pecks of rice school of theirs. Also given the massive empty space to the south, probably Shi Xie and his unique Vietnamese ties will be added somewhere down the line.
I was stunned that this was not a CA video. CA should hire you. You have better skills than I've seen from them (and they're quite good)
Thank you. I try and push myself when making these, so I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Zheng Jiang sounds right up my alley for a playthrough on Legendary. Can't wait!
Can't wait to play it, damn...!
Amazing video keep up the great work!!!
This was really well done
Thanks!
Nice video mate :) I love it! Better than what CA shows us.
I really like the Cao Cao farm garrison bonus, as soldier farming colonies were one of the linchpins of his success historically!
He learned his lesson about being short on supplies. It plagued his army for his entire career.
Answering your end of the video question, my first playthrough was using Cao Cao (empire failed and fell apart in the year 196 after I took control of the Emporer, which simultaneously pissed off Liu Bei, Sun Ce, and Yuan Shao)
Second playthrough was using Yellow Turban DLC Huang Zhong (died immediately, and then in 192 on second attempt, so hard)
Current playthrough is with Gongsun Zan, figured it must be safe hiding in a corner of China. :p
Heyyyy whats up Cody!!! Nice video my man as always!!! Cant wait to jump into this and take a break from Warhammer 2 and RDR2.
Are you still playing Red Dead? I put 80 hours into it and still don't know how I feel. So much to love. So much to hate.
I am, I think im just holding on faith that Rockstar will or already has seen the potential that is RDR2 online and how much fun it could be. The campaign was great though I enjoyed that very much.
Haung Shao appeals to me the most so far, but it is also probably very difficult. Of those you mentioned Zhang Yan seems fun. I like Gongsun Zans Cavalry Archer bonus a lot though.
Someday I’d like to play as Sun Ce. Always found him cool.
The day after this video was posted CA revealed the Yellow Turban starting locations in their Dong Zhuo stream. You can see them here: www.reddit.com/r/totalwar/comments/ayin78/yellow_turban_rebellion_starting_positions/
Cao Cao's abilities aren't OP enough. Needs more perks.
I really wish he had a 'Mocking Laugh' action.
Cody Bonds if you've ever seen Three Kingdoms, the Chinese series, the actor that plays him is perfect. When he fools you, he makes you feel so stupid then laughs hahaha.
Cody Bonds i think cao cao will have one within the battle dialogues
Dude has the best stuff in the game, cavalry upkeep, unique cavalry unit, using credibility to make warlords fight each other or make you look like a good guy, starts off with strength of the earth buff which gives 1000% melee evasion and unbreakable like goddamn.
czcams.com/video/nYpJ37ulsnk/video.html
The special perk of cao cao is youre intelligence
Because if you want to be the strategic Mastermind youll need a mind like him.
Sun Jian. Kong Rong. Liu Bei. Gongsun Zan. Cao Cao. Dong Zhou.
In that order. The rest will be after but I plan to play them all.
This is very cool, CA def put in the work in history/lore to give each faction unique traits that relate to these historical/fictional characters. It would be even cooler if they added negative traits to these faction leaders based on their flaws.
Well done!
I greatly appreciate that your pronunciation has improved.
Would it surprise you to find out I nearly failed basic Spanish? Languages have never been my strong suit.
Feels like an official CA release - well done!
Man I wish the game was Release March 7th but I understand C.A. need to fix some bugs.
Adding Zhang Xiu or Zhang Ji as Zhang Xiu with the help of his strategist Jia Xu managed to defeat Cao Cao many times while fighting against Cao Cao overwhelming odds and Jia Xu is seen by many scholars in China as the most talented strategist of the era.
@Matheus Kawata That is why I mentioned Zhang Ji here as they could start without any province like Liu Bei and as he was serving Dong Zhuo at that point (like Ma Teng does in TW3K start) it would be easy to justify him like that as he was a major force after fall of Dong Zhuo.
Force would start as Zhang Ji, Zhang Xiu, Jia xu and Huche'er. Vassal army under Dong Zhuo and they could either aim to support dong, overthrow him or find their own path. As the cavarly under Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu was extremely strong( like xilliang cavarly usually) their starting would be unique and would debend on Diao Chan event in romance mode.
@Matheus Kawata I think it would be interesting and as Zhang Xiu was one of major warlords during the conflict withing the central plains era which with this start date would be the main stage of the campaign.
So adding Zhang Ji as a force would serve the main campaign and would offer unique starting position also ould also add a scripted event which makes Zhang Xiu the leader like the marriage to Diao Chan event.
They it would be hard to make this succeed but would offer new sides to start as most oppose Dong Zhuo and only Ma Teng is at his side so most likely AI V AI dong would die in a long run but adding allies to him would give you a possibility to see huge final war Dong against the player.
Likely I'll start with Liu Bei or Ma Teng. I'd think they'll add in Liu Zhang. It may be interesting if they eventually add in something like a Nanman campaign.
damn, subbed instantly!
will likelt see Zhang Lu and Tao Qian as DLC both very influential in this time frame, maybe Ji Ling or some of the warlords around the area that sun ce united into wu in the south east Lu gong etc
IMM SOOOO EXCITED
Guess i found the mistakes, in the Dong Zhuo introduction, the words resource and terror are miss-spelled.
Ding ding! We have a winner. I would also have accepted Bandity on Zhang Yan.
Sun Jian should have "skilled and daring, he is known..." instead of "...daring; he..." in his description. It's a grammar error though, so I'm not sure if that counts. You also did it again with Cao Cao.
Additionally, you have a sentence or two that are not sentences like in Gongsun Zan's first bullet point (you actually read your script in such a way that it was, in fact, a sentence) or are missing periods like Liu Bei's last bullet point.
Sorry for being a grammar Nazi; it's part of who I am.
Blame CA for those. The descriptions are rewritten from their official cards.
@@codybonds That somehow made it worse. Does CA have anyone to edit their official stuff for f**k's sake?
Interesting, we get to play the “pear giver” Kong Rong?
Nice info
Another great video, with a great preview of the game. Any chance you will try a campaign out when it is released?
I hope to. The let's plays I post on here actually tend to lose me subscribers. I'm trying to figure out a way of doing them live to see if that helps.
@@codybonds - I thought they were great. Why do they lose you subscribers? I don't understand it. Actually, I found it strange that you did not have more views on those replays.
Nice
Love my Ma Teng campaign thus far. Tough and brutal campaign once I decided to turn on Dong Min. Lu Bu is the worst enemy who abandoned the capitol.
7:31 "Most famous bandit you've NEVER heard of"?
Trying for a bit of humor. She was from a single line in the Records, and forgotten in history. Now everybody is talking about her.
@@codybonds
I believe they only added her to appease SJWs. There's no other point in taking someone from 1 single line of the records which most people don't even prefer to read.
All the better if I can subjugate her faction and make her a wife.
@@RexGalilae even if that's the case... What's the problem with that?
@@Newovar there are others more significant female characters and possibly warlords that should have been there instead of this bandit
On the one hand, no Liu Yan in Yi Province is a travesty. On the other hand, the fact they actually included Zhang Yan of the Black Mountains impresses me. At the same time though, he's sharing basically the same starting spot as the baseless Zheng Jiang.
Kong Rong looks exciting and it's kind of ironic since he's a more peaceful man but taking control of a strategist as a faction leader is cool and you get access to all the formations at the start.
Kong Rong's campaign is one I'm the most excited about. You can play him nearly entirely peaceful. Manipulating trade relations and allying yourself with bigger lords to reach your goals.
Did you say "NO UPKEEP"? Oda i meant Liu Bei is my favorite instantly
wishing it is out now.
Hi Cody, great video! Just subscribed to your channel. Keep up the good work.
Hope you can answer a question for me. My current 4y old laptop is struggling with Attila, so I want to buy a new PC. What config (CPU+GPU) could you recommed me for a better Total War experience? Ultra quality not necessary but as high as possible and on a budget? Sorry if my english is not great, writing from Canary Islands (Spain).
www.logicalincrements.com/ is a great place to start when building a PC. Total War is very CPU and GPU intensive. CA recommends an i5 processor with an NVIDIA GTX 1060 for medium high. And that's what I ran until very recently. If you can spring for a GTX 1070 it makes a big difference. Also, make sure to pick up an SSD to reduce time between turns. And thank you for subscribing - is there something you'd like to see in the future? I'm always looking for video ideas on history and gaming.
@@codybonds Thanks for the link and suggestion. I actually only recently discovered your channel. Would like to see more gameplay or tactical moves for total war.
This is well made! What dlc eras do y'all see in the future? Like how Attila had age of Charlemagne, and s2tw had genpei war and FOS, what time period dlc do you guys see for tw3k? I see warring states or chu han contention. Maybe Song Dynasty vs Tang Dynasty and bring back the mechanic where a horde arrives I.E. the mongols.
My bet is on Warring States and Mongol Invasion.
I expect there to be more playable factions added in the SW and SE parts of the map at least because right now they're rather empty of that
He Jin or Zhang Jiao and Sima Yi as another DLC warlords
This game looks amazing
Very good information. Thanks.
Old information, all availble already.
Yellow Turbans themselves would make a nice DLC, along the lines of an alternative history with Zhang Jiao having a more stable grip on his followers.
Zhang Xiu would be alright, most of the leaders coming to mind are going to need different scenarios for them to come about.
The Yellow Turbans are day one dlc.
Yellow Turban characters already exsist as day one DLC. If you mean a scenario before this one. Dont know if they would do Yellow turbans twice.
Do you think they will put in different timeline to begin the campaign as dlc? Like maybe the actual three Kingdom or like when lubu seize puyang from cao cao or xu province from liu bei and have more legendary lord?
Zheng Jiang appears to be the anti-Liu Bei. On the one hand both start off as wandering armies with no territory. Both are essentially underdogs at the start of the campaign and are fighting for the people in their own ways. However while Liu Bei's playstyle is about maintaining his reputation through virtuous deeds and honor, Zheng Jiang thrives on gaining infamy which I suppose involves burning and looting and murdering indiscriminately as well as using coercion. Also their agendas are completely in contrast to one another. Where Liu Bei is loyal to the Han and is fighting to preserve and restore the Han, Zheng Jiang's paramount goal is to destroy the Han, burn it down to ashes. Then there's the fact that Liu Bei is a virtuous man who upholds tradition whereas Zheng Jiang is a female bandit leader who intends on breaking down tradition and even making it so her descendants will have her name instead of their father's. If these two warlords ever get into each other's faces, I bet their diplomatic meter would be at the lowest of lows.
This game is so addictive. Great game!
Liu bei sounds op... I might play as him.
I'll be playing Cao Cao since he's probably the easiest to win the campaign with.
Then I can play Dong Zhuo's campaign, the one campaign I really wanted to play.
Expand Dong.
watching the TV series right now, desperately trying to get a mental map of where the heck things are happening
Good luck. So much traveling. The individual warlord legends videos on my channel do a better job of telling their stories and might be useful to you.
Even thought it wouldent be historically accurate I would love to see Japan and the Mongols for some unit variety.
There's strong hints Genghis Khan will be the follow up
This game is going to be immersive.
Liu Bei, the Shu Faction always first. Best characters, best guy to root for, etc.
@Cody Bonds, There's actually 3 spelling errors under Sun Jian you wrote SATISFATION not Satisfaction and under Dong Zhou you wrote RESROUCE and TEROR lol Great Video though, looks beautiful and very informative, although I would have loved to have seen small gameplay examples of each ability as you were discussing them.
I would love to have provided the examples (and hopefully will be able to soon) but they aren't yet available to the public.
Cant wait to play this game in 2 years with a 50 percent discount and all of the dlc
I feel you. Patient gaming goes a long way with the wallet. I started making these videos so my wife wouldn't complain when I bought Total War games.
@@codybonds not only just that, I hate feeling like I am buying an incomplete game
I wish they still offered Gold Editions. Just bundle it all together after two years.
Get a better job, the game is cheap for how extensive it is. 60 dollars, 45 quid, 60 euros is nothing.
G2A
Meng Hou should be next. Use of elephants, fire arrows, tigers and bull charges, but his faction would have a lack in armor and melee defense. Also give his wife some sorta fire based weapon to reference her link to the fire god.
Did you say tiger and bull charges?
Finally someone who pronounces Dong Zhuo's name right!
Hope they fix the CTD we saw in the live Ma Tang Campaign.
Please make another one of This but with the new updates included
if i have a chance to buy the game cao cao is the first character i would play then Liu Biao with Dongzhou as third. one prominent warlord that i think will be added in the future or in this case DLC will be Liu Zhang with campaign involving Liu Bei.
For those who know Is there any confirmation of alternate start date? i mean i would like to have alternate start like Guandu, Chibi, three kingdom, Shu attack on hanzhong etc.
Gonna guess a dlc campaign or something
I would play as the first warlord first, just because his capital is based in the capital of my province, Changsha.
The scholar official to the north is also very intriguing, along with several others. I definitely want to play as Liu Bei eventually, too, because he was the undisputable hero of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms (even if some people prefer other more pragmatic options). Anyway, looks good! Love the detail and work that's gone into this to translate every major personality trait into real life consequences which have concrete effects on game play! I love it!
Who would Guan Yu be under?
@@dubuyajay9964 you tell me.
@@zhouwu I dunno. That's why I was asking you. :(
@@dubuyajay9964 I think he's a sworn brother of Liu Bei. But you'll have to double check me on that one. Just Google it.
He and Zhang Fei both start under Liu Bei.
King Meng Huo, although it might end up being a meme lol. I'm not sure if Lui Zhang should be added in the game as a warlord, since he stayed there the entire time in Shu and had no mind for conquest.
Excellent video by the way
Well, SOMEONE has to keep the shu territory healthy until liu bei comes
Probably going to play as Ma Tang
I'm working on a video about him now.
Imagine playing 3K and not starting out as Sun Jian
liu bei gets 0 upkeep on militia, its the oda clan all over again, unless there is limit on the amount of militia recruitable then liu bei is gonna be op as hell
@Thelondonbadger town guard cost 100/ turn at least when outside a town, not really comparable, its more like the mongols in med 2 who get units with zero upkeep and the mongols were damn op
You know Im really happy with this man gonna go grind for that dong. But man do i wish for shogun 3
I'll upvote anyone who's willing to admit they'll grind for Dong.
is he jin only playable during yellow turban rebellion?
I...it...its LU BU!!!
Hello, excellent vid!
Is it possible for you to share an HQ image version of that map (without the factions, just the map and name of commandaries)?
Please and thanks!
It's only a blank map. No commandery names.
Cody Bonds That would be fine by me. Would you mind sharing?
Has anyone tried marching directly to the Capital with Liu Bei's starting army? Has anyone succeeded at taking the Capital with a maxed out starting Liu Bei stack since he can't build more armies until he takes a territory to run?
I will be Dong Zhuo, that's it. call me Grand Preceptor
Traitor
Dollars to donuts that the Nanman will be DLC faction.
Orale.
I know with one of the pre order DLC you can get to play as the yellow turbins themselves so what about the ring leader of the yellow turbins themselves? they have as much chance to unite china as anyone else can.
By 190ad, TW:TK start date, the yellow turbans were mere remnants. The brothers were dead and we mainly have partly-unknowns as the 3 warlords of the yellow turbans. Iirc all of them are based in the north
It's interesting that they have not said or revealed anything about them.