History WMG / TotalWarThreeKingdoms

[[WMG: ''Eight Princes'' The handicapped sima zhong have a genius kid Sima Yu who is going to be in the game..]]

* Right now, the game only features non-Han Chinese cultures as unique units for certain factions. ''Eight Princes'' will potentially change this as the five "barbarian" nations in northern China (Xiongnu, Jie, Qiang, Di and later the Xianbei) revolt against the Jin dynasty. Since these nations were living as Chinese subjects at this point, we probably won't see a return of full-fledged horde gameplay right away, and they'll likely function more or less similarly as the rest of the factions.

** There were far more rebellions than just the Trung Sisters rebellion. The Luong Long Rebellion (178AD) and the Lady Trieu Rebellion (248AD) are two examples. The Luong Long Rebellion is the closest to the game start date of 190, only off by 12 years, so CA can always take some ArtisticLicense to have that rebellion in the game. This is a rebellion so obscure that not even the Vietnamese know much about it, so CA has a lot of room for creativity. If not, CA can always create a fictional rebellion entirely.

** It would be hard to add since the Trung Sister rebellion began in 40AD, whilst the Three Kingdoms era was over in 280AD with the Jin conquest of Wu.

Vietnam and China fought each other pretty much constantly throughout their history, so it would be nice to make a nod to that with a Vietnamese rebel faction. Although Vietnam was still under Wu dynasty's domination during the Warring States period, there were rebellions that established several short-lived independent territories. The Vietnamese faction would be an even more guerrilla-focused version of the Yellow Turban factions, with even weaker peasant troops but make up for it with special units like war elephants.

Vietnam and China fought each other pretty much constantly throughout their history, so it would be nice to make a nod to that with a Vietnamese rebel faction. Although Vietnam was still under Wu dynasty's domination during the Warring States period, there were rebellions that established several short-lived independent territories.

[[WMG: Possible DLC.]]

and now for potential DLC factions.

* Zhang Yan , a powerful bandit leader with a big number of man.

* Zhang Yan

* Dong Zhuo

* Yuan Shao
** as he lead the coalition forces.

* Gongsun Zan

* Yuan Shu

* Lu Bu
** for when he went solo and took both Cao and Liu's shit.
* Liu Zhang
** since he controlled Yi Province before Liu Bei took over.
* Shi Xie
* Tao Qian

* Zhang Lu

* Liu Biao

** Romance of the Three Kingdoms is about as much a history book as the Legends King Arthur is. No one is suppose to take it as a serious account of Chinese history. It would be like taking Richard the third as a historical source. So my question is, why would this be an issue? Either the game is based on the novel like the Dynasty Warriors games and basically just gonna be another Total Warhammer type game, or else it is gonna be based on the real events of the Three Kingdoms period in China, in which case the game would be historically accurate. Just like how no one takes the Dynasty Warriors games as being historically accurate, if they decide to base the game off of the novel, there is no "but we based it off of a historical Chinese source so it must be accurate" because the Chinese themselves don't even consider the novel to be any more than a story. TLDR: Three Kingdoms was a real period in Chinese history, the people in the novel like Cao Cao, Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang are real, the novel is not a historical source, but rather just a story. just because they call it Total War Three Kingdoms, that does not mean they are basing it off of the novel and not going to be historically accurate.

* The Diplomacy Gameplay Reveal video does indeed show a full map of Korea, although it is grayed out, indicating it will not be in the campaign at release.

[[WMG: The game will get three sources.]]
* The historical records, the books, and in unannounced dynasty warriors crossover material, using the best of all, comment with.

[[WMG: Wushu Warrior Monks]]

[[WMG: The 11 Factions the beginning and warlord are and maybe why]]

** Romance of the Three Kingdoms is about as much a history book as the Legends King Arthur is. No one is suppose to take it as a serious account of Chinese history. It would be like taking Richard the third as a historical source. So my question is, why would this be an issue? Either the game is based on the novel like the Dynasty Warriors games and basically just gonna be another Total Warhammer type game, or else it is gonna be based on the real events of the Three Kingdoms period in China, in which case the game would be historically accurate. Just like how no one takes the Dynasty Warriors games as being historically accurate, if they decide to base the game off of the novel, there is no "but we based it off of a historical Chinese source so it must be accurate" because the Chinese themselves don't even consider the novel to be any more than a story. TLDR: Three Kingdoms was a real period in Chinese history, the people in the novel like caocao, guanyu and zhuge liang are real, the novel is not a historical source, but rather just a story. just because they call it Total War Three Kingdoms, that does not mean they are basing it off of the novel and not going to be historically accurate.

** since he was a major governor in the south area and had clashes with Sun Jian which ended in Jian dying.

** since he mainly ruled the Shu area before Liu took over.

* Since ''Shogun 2'' had Buddhist Warrior Monks, why shouldn't China have Warrior Monks as well? As usual for a Glass Cannon, they would be units with high melee attack and melee defense but have expensive recruitment and upkeep, high vulnerability to arrows due to lack of armor, and require certain technologies and infrastructure. The Warrior Monks would have various fighting styles that depend on the region that they were recruited from. You could have monks that specialize with long weapons (Spear, Staff), short weapons (Sword, Knife), or even unarmed fighting styles.
[[WMG: The game will get 3 sources.]]
* The history, The books, and in unannounced dynasty warriors crossover material, using the best of all, comment with.

** since he was PM and is the usual villain.

* Gongsun Zan (confirmed)

* Meng Huo

and now DLC warlord and Factions.
[[WMG: Korea and Taiwan are possible playable factions]]

* The Diplomacy Gameplay Reveal video shows a full map of Korea, although grayed out, indicating it will not be in the campaign at release.

[[WMG: The possible unique units.]]

* The Diplomacy video shows a full map of Korea, although grayed out, indicating it will not be in the campaign at release.

IN one video they said that there would be some factions Pacific units less figure out what special historical unit goals with what factions.

** Tiger and Leopard Cavalry (shown in gameplay footage)

* Sun Jian

* Gongsun Zan

* Liu Biao