I'm super happy to have been able to partner with John Zhu of the "Three Kingdoms Podcast" who did the research and narration for the video. If you want to learn more about the period definitely check him out: www.3kingdomspodcast.com/
@@alkalinemk1588 Yes mate it is, the only thing to remember is that the history of this entire era has been 'romanticized' so take every deed and event with a grain of salt, but the main events, yes they are true :)
@@ryang58 Thanks bro. This video was awesome. Ive always loved WW1 and WW2 history but this ancient chinese bit just really peaked my interest. Any other reccomendations on something like this?
I love the Romance of the Three Kingdoms! I read it in college for a paper, and having played a few Dynasty Warrior games made it SO much easier to keep track of who was who. I have a printed picture of every single character from Games 4-5 in my room, organized by faction and characters placed by rank and close to family members etc or those they had much interaction with etc. Great video!
Be careful though, alot of it of the games, based on the novel, are inaccurate. For example, the peach garden oath never happened, in fact, they were just drinking buddies iirc. Liu Bei backstabbed literally everyone. Cao Cao gets unfairly demonized, although he was a bit Machiavellian, there are alot of mere rumors against him
@@ilikedota5 As I learn more about it, I'm realizing that nobody playing the game was a particularly good person. Cao Cao was just less high handed about it all than Liu Bei, and he was probably a bit colder than LB on a personal level. Liu Bei was probably a better drinking buddy and, therefore, more likable.
Make a doccumentary on some "Portuguese-Ottoman Conflicts". The battles of Diu has a lot of information about it and was vital to the opening of the Asian trade routes to european traders
@@soundgfx7166 its actually not so different to the other countries, a small number of professional solider (probably around 100,000 at that period of time) guarding the border, central capital and regional capital. However, when war broke out at the border, every male above certain age at that region is compulsory to serve the army and the food supply would be gather from the provinces around that region or from the food production base in the south if the war continues for a long time.
I an Chinese, and here's my impression. Excellent archers, engineering corps, and tactics(kind of similar to the germans during the battle of Teutoburg forest). Good light calvary, mediocre heavy calvary, weak heavy infantry.
KYOUSHA The tyrant, but minister Dong was very powerful...it was him who appointed Liu Biao, the provincial governor of Jing which wasn't Liu initially
I really like the native speaker aspect of this. In the future if you have the opportunity to work with John again, please consider adding more of the names in text along with the script. I understood and followed this just fine. I didn't need the synopsis at the bottom, but understand why you added it. I would just appreciate the opportunity to learn better pronunciation of these names myself :-) Great job. Thanks for the upload. -Jake
Absolutely awesome to have a narrator who can show us the correct pronunciation and who adds a Chinese flair to Chinese history! Thank you John Zhu! As good as John is, however, he has a tendency to raise the inflection at the end of his sentences. Breaks the rhythm a little bit, makes it hard to add tension. I hope John and Invicta can help each other improve. Looking forward to more!
If there is one thing that excites me about this new Total War is that we'll get to see much more China history-related content on TH-cam. It really saddens me how little I know about the history of a country where more than 1bn people live.
On one hand i like the narrator for being able to pronounce all the names. But then Im used to the typical english voice of ''Invicta'' so Ill say that crossovers like this are very nice, but my reason to subscribe to your channel is because of your way to explain things in a very remarkable voice. One way or another, i love your channel, you do a good job :)
Man I love all the Chinese history I been learning about the past few months, Total War Three Kingdoms content has been absolutely everywhere on many of my favorite history youtuber's channels and its been very enlightening to learn about it.
Many things in three kingdoms period you can relate to GoT. Like how a coalition rose up against Dong Zhuo, how Dong Zhuo ruled with terror, How the warlords started to think of abandoning the Han empire, some want to become the emperor themselves, some only want independence, how Dong Zhuo met his end at the hand of his most trusted general, Lu Bu. And of course, the scheming, many schemes that eventually led to the creation of the three kingdoms of Wei, Wu, and Shu.
Not bad. In fact, it was very well researched. I'm not a huge fan of the narrator, but he did okay. I appreciate the fact that you actually got the maps right, showing the Eastern Han dynasty's control of northern Vietnam and northern Korea. For some dumb reason most TH-cam documentaries fail to show things correctly when it comes to the borders of the empire. It would have been nice, though, if you actually used authentic Eastern Han dynasty artworks.
Absolutely love your videos, keep it up! There's just one thing, a small error at 4:53, Liu Bian became emperor at the age of 13 not 17, other than that it's an awesome video!
Effective advertising! I first got into the ROTK through Dynasty Warriors, but I read the book when I was in high school and I love dipping my toe back into related media every year or two. It's just so interesting! Very Game of Thrones centuries before even the inspirations for that story. I might need to pick up this game.
Everytime something related to history of China is about to be explained, i know that seas of blood and cruelty will follow. (well, just like in the movies).
Eh. I'm not ecstatic about it, actually. I much prefer the regular Invicta dude as a narrator, even though he sounds like a sixteen year old who only recently reached puberty and is wide-eyed at discovering basic historical things.
@@ReginaldPugginton I thought about narrating the chinese names but did not want to butcher it. It was great to get John Zhu on here as he is a native speaker and actually runs his own podcast on the 3 Kingdoms period.
Shahjahan Masood I suppose it is the Han Imperial Palace in Luoyang. I am not sure if it is still standing but you can still visit the remnants of the Han palaces in Chang’an in Xi’an China. If you want to see a similar but complete structure you should visit the Forbidden City in Beijing, it is the Ming and Qing Palaces, different in style from that of the Han but the architecture is similar overall.
And here I am, proclaiming that Dong Zhuo did nothing wrong bois He's got a commanding band of brothers from western Bing and eastern Liang commanderies, plus a bastard of three fathers, who were mostly at least competent enough to hold out against the superior yet inept Guangdong Coalition of Yuan Shao
Ironically, An Lu Shan (Tang rebellion) was known to require a special saddle for his belly as well.... Kind of hard to imagine both were famous calvary commander, poor horses.
@@cyrilchui2811 For real, they might have used chariots though, I do know that cavalry did not always mean mounted on a horse you could be on a chariot as well.
@@DedicatedSpartan Carriage is for women! I recalled a story for An that the pony stations between Beijing - Luoyang had to specially prepare horses for his trip to the capital. Beside, anyone dare telling Georing that you are too fat to fly a plane...
It's imperial protocol to not face the emperor or those of the Imperial household with weapons present. Sometimes, several important individuals were given permission to bear arms in front of the emperor, but it's pretty rare.
Maybe its just me but everytime i hear chinese history it all seems mystified by a great deal and told in a very personality focused way with a lot of he did that and then he did this.
A tyrant ruler in Dong Zhuo that ruled with terror, the warlords rising up against him, warlords that want to declare independent from the han empire, warlords that want to become the emperor themselves, the eunuch scheming at the court and many other court intrigue, and finally, Dong Zhuo the tyrant met his end the hand of his trusted general, Lu Bu.
I'm super happy to have been able to partner with John Zhu of the "Three Kingdoms Podcast" who did the research and narration for the video. If you want to learn more about the period definitely check him out: www.3kingdomspodcast.com/
I was wondering who the impostor Invicta was, but good to know it's just a guest!
You couldn't ask for a better and authoritative voice than John Zhu. HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend the Three Kingdoms Podcast!
I was shocked not to hear your voice, awesome collab, just give warning next time please. Loved the content, will definitely check out the podcast.
I thought his voice sounded familiar!
I thought I recognized that voice! I'm a huge fan of the podcast, I HIGHLY recommend it!
The Dong has arrived.
Big Dong is a big guy.
Big dong with a small schlong, is he not?
Anyone else think Invicta was putting on a Chinese accent at first?
the accurate pronunciations of chinese places and names let me know it was for realsies and not an accent
I did
Is this real history?
@@alkalinemk1588 Yes mate it is, the only thing to remember is that the history of this entire era has been 'romanticized' so take every deed and event with a grain of salt, but the main events, yes they are true :)
@@ryang58 Thanks bro. This video was awesome. Ive always loved WW1 and WW2 history but this ancient chinese bit just really peaked my interest. Any other reccomendations on something like this?
I like how you got someone who could actually pronounce the chinese for thid video. Caught me off guard though lmao
Its pretty easy for a chinese guy to pronouns chinese
Make sense for this very good pronounciation
The guy has an chines accent while speaking English so yeah.
Same!
But can't pronounce the english which is 99% of this video.
I love the Romance of the Three Kingdoms! I read it in college for a paper, and having played a few Dynasty Warrior games made it SO much easier to keep track of who was who. I have a printed picture of every single character from Games 4-5 in my room, organized by faction and characters placed by rank and close to family members etc or those they had much interaction with etc. Great video!
Be careful though, alot of it of the games, based on the novel, are inaccurate. For example, the peach garden oath never happened, in fact, they were just drinking buddies iirc. Liu Bei backstabbed literally everyone. Cao Cao gets unfairly demonized, although he was a bit Machiavellian, there are alot of mere rumors against him
@@ilikedota5 yeah but the romance was cooler so people including me just accept that instead, except the part which villifies cao cao
@@ilikedota5 As I learn more about it, I'm realizing that nobody playing the game was a particularly good person. Cao Cao was just less high handed about it all than Liu Bei, and he was probably a bit colder than LB on a personal level. Liu Bei was probably a better drinking buddy and, therefore, more likable.
@@nicktheeskrimador1486 he had a lot of charisma lol. A lot. How else could he get so many allies.
Make a doccumentary on some "Portuguese-Ottoman Conflicts". The battles of Diu has a lot of information about it and was vital to the opening of the Asian trade routes to european traders
You again ! :)
perhaps a video on the packs and rations of ancient Chinese soliders
Well, wheat, rice and human cattle......
And their logistics too, I've always wondered how they manage to feed and arm such large amounts of soldiers.
@@soundgfx7166 its actually not so different to the other countries, a small number of professional solider (probably around 100,000 at that period of time) guarding the border, central capital and regional capital. However, when war broke out at the border, every male above certain age at that region is compulsory to serve the army and the food supply would be gather from the provinces around that region or from the food production base in the south if the war continues for a long time.
@@soundgfx7166 because they fought within their own country or right around, the local towns could support them.
I an Chinese, and here's my impression. Excellent archers, engineering corps, and tactics(kind of similar to the germans during the battle of Teutoburg forest). Good light calvary, mediocre heavy calvary, weak heavy infantry.
Dong must not expand, but it does!
Kyousha never let your guard down around an ever-expanding Dong.
Many times has an expanding Dong met with reproving looks and reproaches!
Anakin Skywalker wtf lmao
KYOUSHA The tyrant, but minister Dong was very powerful...it was him who appointed Liu Biao, the provincial governor of Jing which wasn't Liu initially
I really like the native speaker aspect of this. In the future if you have the opportunity to work with John again, please consider adding more of the names in text along with the script. I understood and followed this just fine. I didn't need the synopsis at the bottom, but understand why you added it. I would just appreciate the opportunity to learn better pronunciation of these names myself :-)
Great job. Thanks for the upload.
-Jake
I loved John Zhu's Three Kingdoms Podcast, glad he got it finished before the game was announced and hope it blows up now the game is coming out
John Zhu is the perfect presenter for this information. Three kingdoms podcast is awesome,
Absolutely awesome to have a narrator who can show us the correct pronunciation and who adds a Chinese flair to Chinese history! Thank you John Zhu! As good as John is, however, he has a tendency to raise the inflection at the end of his sentences. Breaks the rhythm a little bit, makes it hard to add tension. I hope John and Invicta can help each other improve. Looking forward to more!
If there is one thing that excites me about this new Total War is that we'll get to see much more China history-related content on TH-cam. It really saddens me how little I know about the history of a country where more than 1bn people live.
Taiwan is real china.
@oyeahyeah wow that is modern China not ancient China.
@oyeahyeah That's not chinese history you know
@oyeahyeah how the fuck is having small dicks related to not learning history?
@oyeahyeah 你是一个疯狂的弯曲!!! 他妈的!!!
Zhang Fei said Lu Bu the bastard of 3 Fathers. Might as well Dong Zhuo listen to those words in real life XD
This is so awesome! I've listened to the whole three kingdoms podcast, I was so surprised to hear that voice!
The last time I was this early, Carthage was still around.
M. Gladwin
Did you go see the elephant's?
I heard they can climb mountains.
On one hand i like the narrator for being able to pronounce all the names. But then Im used to the typical english voice of ''Invicta'' so Ill say that crossovers like this are very nice, but my reason to subscribe to your channel is because of your way to explain things in a very remarkable voice. One way or another, i love your channel, you do a good job :)
Man I love all the Chinese history I been learning about the past few months, Total War Three Kingdoms content has been absolutely everywhere on many of my favorite history youtuber's channels and its been very enlightening to learn about it.
Cool I was like "OMG its the Three Kingdoms podcast guy how awesome is that" xD
it is! : )
It is awesome
I’m subscribed to both the podcast and Invicta and I am glad to see them combined
just had the realization that Varys from GoT is kind of based off of a Chinese eunuch, or he shares at least one trait or doesn't, Tyrion joke
Well eunuchs in general.
Yes I had a feeling GOT in general is heavily inspired by three kingdoms. Three dragons, boy kings being killed etc.
@@IMFLondon not necessarily just The warring states period, Chinese history in general. Walls, court intrigue, massive civil war, etc.
@@IMFLondon Actually a song of ice and fire is based on the war of the roses in britain
Many things in three kingdoms period you can relate to GoT. Like how a coalition rose up against Dong Zhuo, how Dong Zhuo ruled with terror, How the warlords started to think of abandoning the Han empire, some want to become the emperor themselves, some only want independence, how Dong Zhuo met his end at the hand of his most trusted general, Lu Bu. And of course, the scheming, many schemes that eventually led to the creation of the three kingdoms of Wei, Wu, and Shu.
Please bring the part 4 from the siege of jerusalem 70 BC on YT! I wait so long a this part. Thanks
Actually this series on youtube last longer than the real siege itself
tfw you will never sleep in the emperor's bed and claim many of the palace maids as your own ;_;
Tfw when youre a poor farmer and the only way you can ascend the social hierarchy and acquire education is through emasculation 😂
**snip snip** You weren't using it properly anyway...
@@kevinzhu6417 No education, and not even any real ascension in the social hierarchy.
Just a more comfortable material life.
Dong Zhuo is THICC!
Thicc with CORRUPTION!
Pretty sure that the image of Emperor Ling Di at 4:11 is actually an image of Tao Qian from TW Three Kingdoms. Other than that, this video was great!
Nice work John, love to see more collabs like this.
Some say that his great great grandson “Long Phat Dong” is still slaying Chinese people to this day.
Not bad. In fact, it was very well researched. I'm not a huge fan of the narrator, but he did okay. I appreciate the fact that you actually got the maps right, showing the Eastern Han dynasty's control of northern Vietnam and northern Korea. For some dumb reason most TH-cam documentaries fail to show things correctly when it comes to the borders of the empire. It would have been nice, though, if you actually used authentic Eastern Han dynasty artworks.
The narrator is actually John Zhu who hosts the 3 Kingdoms podcast and helped me do the research. Great guy whom you should definitely check out.
@@InvictaHistory Cool, will do. Thanks for sharing.
This was a great video to provide background to the game. Much appreciated!
I think you should include the credits in the description as well as the end card.
Absolutely love your videos, keep it up!
There's just one thing, a small error at 4:53, Liu Bian became emperor at the age of 13 not 17, other than that it's an awesome video!
Please make more three kingdoms videos
*Here comes the Dong*
Train by day, Romance of the three kingdoms podcast, by night. All day.
same here
6:10 “Butchering the eunuchs and their families”
You do know what a eunuch is, right?
Could be adopted families. Cao Song(father of Cao Cao) adopted father was a eunuch.
They haven’t done one on Sun Quan yet?
E X P A N D D O N G
This narrator is chinese? I watched the chinese TV Show about Cao Cao and the Three Kingdoms. Pretty cool to hear the names pronounced properly here.
It is. He has a Chinese accent.
Great shit as always but major sources in the description would be appreciated
Where is the picture from at 6:17 ?
I'm happy to see you back
TO SAVE all of ya some time, Dong Zhuo is like a Chinese Robert Baratheon, only fatter, meaner and stuck in the middle of a civil war.
The woman sure is a destructive weapon. Diaochan successfully did what a coalition army failed to do.
Effective advertising! I first got into the ROTK through Dynasty Warriors, but I read the book when I was in high school and I love dipping my toe back into related media every year or two. It's just so interesting! Very Game of Thrones centuries before even the inspirations for that story. I might need to pick up this game.
I am surprised you had the book in high school, we only had a single Asian book on our reading lists, and it was about the Vietnam War.
That narrator is my favorite one so far.
Everytime something related to history of China is about to be explained, i know that seas of blood and cruelty will follow. (well, just like in the movies).
More three kingdoms please!
Where's the other narrator? I didn't even know there was a different guy.
Cool narration :)
Eh. I'm not ecstatic about it, actually. I much prefer the regular Invicta dude as a narrator, even though he sounds like a sixteen year old who only recently reached puberty and is wide-eyed at discovering basic historical things.
@@ericconnor8251 yeah I like Invicta's narration as well, I've been a long time fan of him. Just think it's cool he's changing things up a bit.
@@ReginaldPugginton I thought about narrating the chinese names but did not want to butcher it. It was great to get John Zhu on here as he is a native speaker and actually runs his own podcast on the 3 Kingdoms period.
@@InvictaHistory Sounds very interesting, I'll check him out!
Nice video. give my regards to three Kingdoms Podcast.
Please make more videos about the three kingdoms period.
0:33 Can anyone tell me the name of this huge building? Or structures similar to this?
Shahjahan Masood I suppose it is the Han Imperial Palace in Luoyang. I am not sure if it is still standing but you can still visit the remnants of the Han palaces in Chang’an in Xi’an China. If you want to see a similar but complete structure you should visit the Forbidden City in Beijing, it is the Ming and Qing Palaces, different in style from that of the Han but the architecture is similar overall.
@@jackyceoi7834 Thank you!
Basically Dong Zhuo was the Yuan Shi Kai of the Ancient World.
Great video I was a little confused at first but pleasantly surprised
Such a great video!!!
So good to hear 3kingdomspodcast voice
Great stuff guys
et tu Lu Bu?
And here I am, proclaiming that Dong Zhuo did nothing wrong bois
He's got a commanding band of brothers from western Bing and eastern Liang commanderies, plus a bastard of three fathers, who were mostly at least competent enough to hold out against the superior yet inept Guangdong Coalition of Yuan Shao
Wie passen Kaiserreich und ddr zusammen? Das musst du mir näher erklären ...
Dong Zhou must have needed a special horse.
he used fast travel
@@BridgesDontFly LOL
Ironically, An Lu Shan (Tang rebellion) was known to require a special saddle for his belly as well.... Kind of hard to imagine both were famous calvary commander, poor horses.
@@cyrilchui2811 For real, they might have used chariots though, I do know that cavalry did not always mean mounted on a horse you could be on a chariot as well.
@@DedicatedSpartan Carriage is for women! I recalled a story for An that the pony stations between Beijing - Luoyang had to specially prepare horses for his trip to the capital. Beside, anyone dare telling Georing that you are too fat to fly a plane...
God, the Chinese have such a kick-ass history! All we've got in Oz is Abo-bashing convicts.
More worse western history.
I would still prefer the previous narrator.. His voice is soothing and refreshing..
fun fact: Xiongnu is most likely the Hun, which make their the Hun vs Han
Listened to the narrator's podcast on the Three Kingdoms. Waiting for his next podcast....
he's doing water's margin at the moment
5:55 why, why on earth would you enter without bodyguards.
Hubris lol.
Better yet armor. Assuming they have chain mail armor technology.
It's imperial protocol to not face the emperor or those of the Imperial household with weapons present. Sometimes, several important individuals were given permission to bear arms in front of the emperor, but it's pretty rare.
@@alexanderchristopher6237 but he knew what was going on it's the reason he brought the bodyguards in the 1st place.
@@dariustiapula they had shekel armour in this period as well, both would have been effective.
The dong Zhou the theme song is badass for total war three kingdoms.
Yes! Three Kingdoms!
I've noticed that they decided to release the game on Dong Zhuo's Death Anniversary. Is it coincidence or on purpose?
pls do something about lu bu
Hey I remember hearing this voice on the three kingdom book podcast. This was a good surprise😀
I like the regular narrator much better ngl
Vikings in North America! Vinland, Greenland, Helluland, Markland, etc. Talk about the Skraelings too! :D pretty please?
Dong Zhuo appreciates!
I hope to see some video on the ming in the future
This complements the OverSimplified's video on the same topic really well! Had the weirdest sense of deja vu throughout the whole video, though. :D
He said Dong...
Who else is here from OverSimplified? “Boo hoo Lu Bu was executed” lmao
Oakley sounds a little different
Dong Zhou was poisoned by his enemies
Maybe its just me but everytime i hear chinese history it all seems mystified by a great deal and told in a very personality focused way with a lot of he did that and then he did this.
I know that voice. Is the guy from the Three Kingdoms podcast!!
Nice one
It's basically Game of Thrones Asian style
A tyrant ruler in Dong Zhuo that ruled with terror, the warlords rising up against him, warlords that want to declare independent from the han empire, warlords that want to become the emperor themselves, the eunuch scheming at the court and many other court intrigue, and finally, Dong Zhuo the tyrant met his end the hand of his trusted general, Lu Bu.
How about part 4 of The siege of Jerusalem?
Very challenging to follow and remember all the Chinese names without seeing them typed out in the video.
Do Chinese people see lu bu as huge traitor?
TOASTER HAT
Part 1 to be never addressed again
Lu Bu was a drunkard too.
Bing? I guess this province is famous for pastry..
Who is this narrator ? gimme mah boy back from the last video
IT’S FRIDAY LADS, CHEER UP
And this is why I don't trust eunuchs...
very good
Reason why Lu Bu character so OP in every Three Kingdoms Videogames ?
Lu Bu is not to be trusted.
@@Anaris10 A giant cry baby ofcoz
Is the narrator a Cantonese?
All tyrants fall…
Enter, the Dong.
Notification sqaud, where you at?
Edit: I'm the first commentator wow.
Legend has it his descendant Admiral Dong sank a ton of Japanese ships and eventually ruled over Korea, only to be removed and nuked by Japan