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If anyone is playing Curse of the Vampire Coast without having every Alestorm album blasting at full volume, you are a failed human being and I have no desire to speak with you
 
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Made the terrible mistake of deciding to play an Expanded Japan campaign as the Kakizaki. Quickly learned that the Nikaho-Shiwa-Nanbu triple alliance are fucking vultures who will turn on you and take everything if they aren't continually at war with someone, current political withstanding regardless. Also learned that island factions have fuck all in terms of economic output, so while every other clan has started to recruit samurai, I can hardly afford half a stack of ashigaru and probably will have to wait for researches and feed off scraps to afford anything worthwhile.
 
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Time to necro this bitch - holy *FUCK* is three kingdoms fun. The diplomacy is great, the battles fit the era well, and Romance mode is the best stuff out of Warhammer thrown into a historical setting (minus magic) along with a big ass map and hilariously strange shit you can pull. I've seen Kong Rong just sail up the yellow river and yeet the Emperor away from Dong Zhou, cucking everyone and their ambitions as a massive nerd grabs the grand prize. I've seen Yuan Sho be a dumb ass and attack Cao Cao out of nowhere, only to then declare peace a turn later - Minus Yuan Shao, because Cao Cao captured and killed him.

Central China is a fucking four way free for all at the start of the game, and the north is all over the place.

Also don't fuck with Lu Bu. Lu Bu will fucking kick your army's shit in. By himself. While laughing.
 
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Techpriest said:
Time to necro this bitch - holy *FUCK* is three kingdoms fun. The diplomacy is great, the battles fit the era well, and Romance mode is the best stuff out of Warhammer thrown into a historical setting (minus magic) along with a big ass map and hilariously strange shit you can pull. I've seen Kong Rong just sail up the yellow river and yeet the Emperor away from Dong Zhou, cucking everyone and their ambitions as a massive nerd grabs the grand prize. I've seen Yuan Sho be a dumb ass and attack Cao Cao out of nowhere, only to then declare peace a turn later - Minus Yuan Shao, because Cao Cao captured and killed him.

Central China is a fucking four way free for all at the start of the game, and the north is all over the place.

Also don't fuck with Lu Bu. Lu Bu will fucking kick your army's shit in. By himself. While laughing.
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I fully agree. I haven't had this much fun with a brand new modless Total War title in a long while. I really don’t think I have any complaints, even the ai turns are fast.
 
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Time to necro this bitch - holy *FUCK* is three kingdoms fun. The diplomacy is great, the battles fit the era well, and Romance mode is the best stuff out of Warhammer thrown into a historical setting (minus magic) along with a big ass map and hilariously strange shit you can pull. I've seen Kong Rong just sail up the yellow river and yeet the Emperor away from Dong Zhou, cucking everyone and their ambitions as a massive nerd grabs the grand prize. I've seen Yuan Sho be a dumb ass and attack Cao Cao out of nowhere, only to then declare peace a turn later - Minus Yuan Shao, because Cao Cao captured and killed him.

Central China is a fucking four way free for all at the start of the game, and the north is all over the place.

Also don't fuck with Lu Bu. Lu Bu will fucking kick your army's shit in. By himself. While laughing.
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I want get this game to fill the void that Koei hasn't filled from ROTK XI. I like how you could manipulate officers and faction in that game that I felt missing in Total War games. I am looking forward in seeing how Creative Assembly making a superior Three Kingdoms game that Koei is too lazy to do.
 
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I fully agree. I haven't had this much fun with a brand new modless Total War title in a long while. I really don’t think I have any complaints, even the ai turns are fast.
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Billy_Sama said:
I want get this game to fill the void that Koei hasn't filled from ROTK XI. I like how you could manipulate officers and faction in that game that I felt missing in Total War games. I am looking forward in seeing how Creative Assembly making a superior Three Kingdoms game that Koei is too lazy to do.
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Apparently the DLC will focus on chapters from the romance of the three kingdoms. I’m curious if that means new start positions or a different campaign in a different era using the same map.
 
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Apparently the DLC will focus on chapters from the romance of the three kingdoms. I’m curious if that means new start positions or a different campaign in a different era using the same map.
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That is what preventing me on getting the game yet. Especially with Rome II, Creative Assembly loves to piecemeal content for DLC. With all the historical and fictional campaigns, officers, and factions, expect to pay more than $100 to get all the content for this game.
 
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I've been playing Shogun 2.

This game is brutal. On the higher difficulties the "lack of unit diversity" critique falls away. There is unit diversity and you need to use it.
 
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Apoth42 said:
I've been playing Shogun 2.

This game is brutal. On the higher difficulties the "lack of unit diversity" critique falls away. There is unit diversity and you need to use it.
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Lack of unit diversity was a big issue in base Shogun 2. Nobody got any truly unique units, only stat buffed versions of base game units. This was slightly fixed over time but still an issue. Three kingdoms also has this as a problem but it’s less obvious due to hero units and unique building chains. Plus as you advance in tech you’ll unlock new units too.
 
Apoth42 said:
I doubt we'll see it.

Reasons:

1. Fear over offending people about the Crusades
2. Invite comparisons to medieval 2
3. No space for heroic units and monsters
4. Games about Europe invite too much modding
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1. Eh. I think the general public won't give a shit. You could wage Jihad in Medieval 2. It wasn't one-sided.
2. Every TW gets compared to Papa MTW2.
3. Have a Chivalrous Mode that allows OP generals and heroes like Charlemagne or Ragnar Lothbrok.
4. Unfortunately CA has already choked that chicken. Each release is less moddable than the last.

I would prefer the new game to be set in the Renaissance, to be honest. I want my pike and shot, damnit.
 
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1. Eh. I think the general public won't give a shit. You could wage Jihad in Medieval 2. It wasn't one-sided.
2. Every TW gets compared to Papa MTW2.
3. Have a Chivalrous Mode that allows OP generals and heroes like Charlemagne or Ragnar Lothbrok.
4. Unfortunately CA has already choked that chicken. Each release is less moddable than the last.

I would prefer the new game to be set in the Renaissance, to be honest. I want my pike and shot, damnit.
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A Reformation: Total War would be pretty cool game period honestly.
 
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Apoth42 said:
I doubt we'll see it.

Reasons:

1. Fear over offending people about the Crusades
2. Invite comparisons to medieval 2
3. No space for heroic units and monsters
4. Games about Europe invite too much modding
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Anonymous For This said:
1. Eh. I think the general public won't give a shit. You could wage Jihad in Medieval 2. It wasn't one-sided.
2. Every TW gets compared to Papa MTW2.
3. Have a Chivalrous Mode that allows OP generals and heroes like Charlemagne or Ragnar Lothbrok.
4. Unfortunately CA has already choked that chicken. Each release is less moddable than the last.

I would prefer the new game to be set in the Renaissance, to be honest. I want my pike and shot, damnit.
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If CA did go back to Medieval they'd probably go the Paradox route and whitewash everything in the game itself as much as possible while taking a zero tolerance policy to kebabposting on their forums and subreddit. Personally I'd want a Medieval 3 set in the Middle East right before the beginning of the Third Crusade and continuing to the Mongol Invasion, you could still have hero characters in the crusader kings and Saladin and the map would stretch from the Byzantine Empire in the west all the way to Central Asia, there was a mod for MTW2 called Broken Crescent that had the scope down perfectly.
 
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Iceland Heavy said:
If CA did go back to Medieval they'd probably go the Paradox route and whitewash everything in the game itself as much as possible while taking a zero tolerance policy to kebabposting on their forums and subreddit. Personally I'd want a Medieval 3 set in the Middle East right before the beginning of the Third Crusade and continuing to the Mongol Invasion, you could still have hero characters in the crusader kings and Saladin and the map would stretch from the Byzantine Empire in the west all the way to Central Asia, there was a mod for MTW2 called Broken zCrescent that had the scope down perfectly.
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I wouldn’t be shocked if Three Kingdoms had a DLC that included the Xianbei.
 
I really like CA's DLC policy. They give you proper campaigns (AKA - Good ol expansion packs).

I don't even mind the factions and blood DLC because I don't want it. Of course, some of the factions are actually really unique and possbly worth it.
 
CA is no better than Paradox on their DLC autism. I'd actually consider them a bit worse personally mainly because of how they paywall factions. At least with Paradox the only game that had pay walls in that respect was CK2.

But nah, both of them are disgusting, and I just take it like the cuck I am.
 
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