You missed something critical with the Pearl Dragons. They are melee/spear hybrids. They don't have innate charge reflect, but they can use the spear wall ability, which gives them charge reflect. They are weak against cavs only if they are not in formation or charged from behind. Just an all around great unit.
Honestly, my setup i've found works decently, is having 4 spearmen groups so I can use "shield wall", two pike groups or anti-cav to cover the sides, and then 6~ melee focused groups, with at least two of them having good anti-armour damage stats. and then I always have 2-3 ranged units to deal damage before they reach my unit, and to provide support once the battle has begun. (And once the ammo is gone, if you really want to, you can use them at cheap fodder so you can retreat your good units to a better position)
If you add all the faces up there's actually quite a few varieties, but for each unit they only use 2-3 faces, I don't know what they don't just let each unit to use say like 10 of all the faces, or just all of them, not sure if that's going to cause big performance issue though.
Oooh looks like I got burned by Amin up there... actually (which should have been obvious) it was a joke, jackass. I am “over it”. Why don’t you get over having your panties in a wad.
Ok Joshua, I was on the Creative Assembly Board of Directors but since you told me to stay out of any decisions for future TA games I just resigned... 🙁 Seriously though, I first played Total War with the first Rome and became a fan, and you know what? I like the fantasy and historical titles. So take that “grrr I hate fantasy and take computer games too seriously” stick out of your ass lol.
is it just me or the pearl dragons looks like halberd infantry? why are they weak against calvary? and why do they have 80 missile block chance? what????
@@Intranetusa but for some reason there are a lot of infantry men units from this video. I think for pikeman type units he intends to do another video.
manh phuc In ancient chinese history records, there are warriors (usually General or General body guards) that can deflect arrow by spinning those pole blade/axe like a fan, this is not Kung Fu lol fantasy, its really happen in the old times, so the part of deflect missle is true.
@@Limthemad I'm very interested to see how many arrows one can deflect with such a weapon, especially in-game where they have EIGHTY MISSILE DEFLECT. The Macedonians did had missile deflect pike unit. Alexander Phalanxes was designed so that the 5 - 7 METRES long pike cover the front rows with a column of 4 man width and 8 men length. The men in the back tilt their pike at 45% to cover the men in front against missile. Not only so each men is equipped with a Pelta. Now that's a unit i can see with a 80 missile block chance. If a 1.5 metres long glaive can block 80% missiles coming at them, those men might as well be elves.
@zerkovich when looking at shielded units, you shoeld be adding together the melee evasion, as well as the melee evasion - sheild stat (same for armor). You said the yellow dragons are lacking in melee evasion, but the guys got like 40% evasion which is pretty decent honetsly. I think you said that because you only looked at the standard melee evasions tat which is 20% but they get +20% from being shielded as well.
They did some good research. All these armor and weapon are historically accurate. Except the gundao unit. Gun dao wasn’t widely used in China until song and Ming Dynasty.
They are. But you have to use the Shield Wall ability first so they put their Guan Dao infront of them. Otherwise they'll just put iy beside them and get shredded by cavs.
Is basically copy and paste at cause of unbelievable lazyness of CA, The only differences are 3 different moustaches(thin moustache, thick moustache, beard)and 3 different skin Colors(pale, red, dark)
The blade didn't belong to Han dynasty. During Han han dynasty, we use much longer blades with ring head on the handle end. Those short blades belong to Bronze Age, Qin and Pre Qin.
This has been going on since Medieval 2, it shouldn't be too surprising. CA designs their units with game play in mind so that they are identifiable on the battlefield when players are looking down.
Actually, they just watched the Chinese produced film Red Cliff (2010) and then copied most of the soldiers and implemented them as the majority of base units in the game. And they thought no one would notice.
Romance mode/colouring is meant to have more of a flair to it, for the slight fantasy effect. There is the option to turn on more realistic colouring. Which will then have everyone moaning that the units look even more boring.... :/
Love the videos!! Can you do a video on population? Slightly new to total war - is the negative population modifier set to increase as the total population increases or is it because of overcrowding?
@@Intranetusa Nice armor pics. From this video, only the Mercenary (Axe) Infantry and the "Fists of the Bandit Queen" wore something similar, with actual side protection, but neither had a helm.
@@Intranetusa You're totally right. All in all it's pretty disappointing that this Total War entry dropped a lot of the efforts the series has made at historically accurate weapons and tactics, even while giving some of the units impressive names that suggest a sort of historical basis. The generals are now literal Dynasty Warriors heroes now, though, so I guess it all meshes together as a fantastical-history setting.
End your video with "Hou Hui You Qi" will be way more appropriate and cool. It means may we meet again. To help you pronounce it better, how why (emphasize H here) yo chi
@@Intranetusa wouldnt be the first time for CA. Well that means waiting a month or 2 for the radious revision and later for some cool overhaul mod and roster corrections and expansions.
@Joshua Phillips that was my question. If there is more "sword and shield/sword/axe sheild/axe" , then "ALL MELEE INFANTRY" Video title is misleading. I didnt buy the game as overall feedback given by youtubers and gameplay footage and that im pretty much waiting for big mods to buy it. Guess i will look for other videos that show the proper final rosters instead of this one.
Is it just me, or does Three Kingdoms look really dated? The lighting and ground feels odd, and it doesnt help that the faces dont appear to show any shadows. They look painted on.
The visual design on all of those is abysmal. Such a bore to look at. So bizarre to see such a dip in design quality after how much of a visual treat TWWH was.
@@legomunable i personaly liked the unit card that used art from the ERA/Location. Shogun 2, Shogun 2 RotS, Attila AoCharlemagne, Rome 2. Even the Warhammer ones. But this ones are boring. not as boring as vanilla Atilla, but boring
TWWH is based on a fictional universe where all kinds of crazy shit exists. TW3K is based off a real historical period. I hope I don't have to explain why TWWH will be more of a visual treat than this.
Was there so little armor in the three kingdoms period? Most of them seem to be wearing pajamas with some chest armor. No shoulder guards, armguards leg guards etc?
they REALLY need more face variation between units, i swear in recent total wars theres less face varation on one unit than medieval 2, look how dated that is now
My two cents on three k battles and the multiplayer: The campaign may be a step up (I'm not going to go into that, Tw campaigns never hold my interest for long), but the battles and multiplayer just feel uninspiring which is a shame. CA increased the map size which helps increase tactical opportunities, but units and armies haven't changed in size so the maps feel to large. It's very hard to see what's going on as there's no option to have all your troops highlighted, and the bland unit markers don't help at all. Duelling is COMPLETELY USELESS in multiplayer as they are simply declined, and there doesn't seem to be much tactical opportunity except for who can goon squad the enemy's heroes before they kill yours. The abilities are mundane, but feel really micro intensive for low reward compared to tw warhammer. The three General system feels restrictive and takes away a key aspect of choice when building armies. I could go on... there's just something off - there's something about the battles that just feels bland. I'll play some more, but the multiplayer certainly won't be something I'll be getting my teeth into which is a real shame. Zerk I'd love to hear your truthful thoughts. Edit: you can have all your units highlighted - unit markers are still bland and basic however. Ability symbols flashing up on the unit markers makes them even harder to read from.
At this point I wish they just stopped pumping out historic titles until they are done with warhammer, as it is the new content gets delayed and the new games turn out to be bland at best
@@urahi830 I don't think that's the case with this game, its supposed to be the first of a trilogy if you read its steam description, so I think CA has put a lot of resources into it - that's noticeable in campaign, and I'm glad that campaign ai is better and there is more diplomacy/economy stuff etc..... But I don't give a shit about that, it's not why I play tw, I play for the battles and for testing myself in pvp rather than the campaigns which quickly become stale - so it's just the big sad to see that the battle side of this game is just so MEH (and every forum and review is just blowing smoke up CA's ass and proclaiming that this is the greatest total war ever when it blatantly has issues)
I agree with this for the most part. I myself play tw mainly for the campaign, so I think this game is fucking amazing but battles do feel lacking at times.
@@Yesnoyesno12 the battles are even worse than I first thought to be honest, I hadnt dug deep enough at launch - And the multiplayer doesn't just have issues as I thought when I first played the game, the mp is actually utterly and irreparably broken
If you look at units' details, above their names (also seen in the video) it tells you if it's light, medium or heavy. e.g. 'heavy sword infantry', 'light crossbow infantry', etc.
I was really sceptical at first too but man.. believe me when I say it's REALLY good! I must admit, this time they did a great job. A very deep, very challenging, interesting, clean, innovative game.
Why heavy infantry don't wear helmets that cover most of their face and neck? What about face masks? Is this really historical? I can just imagine how easy it is to die from arrows, especially for generals
Hitchhike the World well Armor back then was reserved for the rich, especially good armor, and I believe many who could afford it chose not to because of senses. Having something to cover the face limits breathing, can limit things like sight too. Also remember, Three Kingdoms takes place roughly around the time when the Roman Empire was around, they didn’t have much to cover the neck besides the scarf and from what I can see, full face helmets or masks were rather scarce for them too.
Wearing face mask will hinder your ability to see visual cues and eventually your army will turn into a mass of individual fights. It is not desirable for foot soldiers, but for mounted troops sometimes they do have face masks. At that time there is something called 盆领, basically a neck protector, which is also featured in the game. But nothing from this game is actually historical. All their weapons and armors are wrong for some reason.
@@Not-Just-Cars generals didn't engage in battles, despite the popular belief. There are lesser officers called 校尉, 十长，etc. Those people might engage in battles. Did the Roman Centurions have face masks? Doesn't that hinder their ability to see what's going on the battlefield and give orders accordingly?
@@Not-Just-Cars en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_the_Han_dynasty#/media/File:EHan_cavalry.png these are the Eastern Han dynasty neck protector 盆领 this game is making up a lot of stuff, while there are some true things, but the details are all wrong.
Are we supposed to believe those wavy cracker-shaped shields the Jian Swords have are better than the simple round, larger shields the Sabre Infantry have? It makes no sense to me. (If that's a historical shield please teach me about it)
@@canmufu3923 I am practicing martial arts, these two type of shield are not dissimilar when blocking melee blows, because the shield have a center grip, it works like a buckler or viking shield th-cam.com/video/TX167pA9d7Y/w-d-xo.html
@@canmufu3923 sorry you are taking about ranged defense. Yes the rattan shield should offer better protection against arrow or bolts. The Jian's shield is made of wood, and the shield skin indicates it has no leather cover, so the crossbow bolt is able to go through, at least in theory it should go through the shield, or pin the hand on the shield. But in game I think they all work the same.
Maybe I’m just seeing things through rose colored classes but it seemed like Rome Total War (the last Total War aside from Empire that I played before Warhammer) had more unit variety/interesting units than this.
I hope the Radious mod is getting released soon. Tired of the total war where all the infantry is the same from a faction to another. Especially when there isn't even much choice...
Did Chinese troops historically eschew shields to such an extent? If so, was there a particular reason for this? Especially when their main line heavy infantry has a hand free... Also, how period accurate are these armours? They are ridiculously unprotective against stabbing attacks.
NotDumbassable i aint an expert but in melee warfare you have two options, weapon and shield (sword, axe or short spear) or one very long weapon (spear or halbeard etc)
Now this isnt my area of speciality, but my doing an MA in Ancient and Medieval warfare needs to be useful somewhere. These unit models are terrible. There is no reason why soldiers would go into battle without shields. In basically every culture going if you couldn't afford armour you got yourself a shield. The dual wielding units is also bollocks, and as for the armour... *sighs* its crap. Like really, really crap.
The armour looks kind of accurate during the Han period most soldiers were not really well armored. About dual wielding, CA is adding fantasy to history.
Nothing from this game is historical actually. I don't know about their previous historical titles though because I only played shogun before. All the units weapons, armors, shields, city walls, buildings, etc., are historically inaccurate.
Darth Station several units, especially the higher tier ones can only be recruited by certain lords/factions. Just having the building unlocked isn’t the only thing; you gotta be sure that the general who’s army you’re recruiting into can actually recruit that unit.
3:49 Ben Shapiro's greatest nightmare
Ben Shapiro would rather betray the world, than have the world betray him - Cao Cao
This was brilliant! Simply brilliant!
5:30 Crouching Archers, Hidden Axes.
they are all true slavs
Filthy Casual Ancient Chinese and Russian and Tibétain have almost same prononciation.
You missed something critical with the Pearl Dragons. They are melee/spear hybrids. They don't have innate charge reflect, but they can use the spear wall ability, which gives them charge reflect. They are weak against cavs only if they are not in formation or charged from behind. Just an all around great unit.
that answer my question, was thinking they just swing their glaives like greatswords
What i hate about them is their looks.
Those Infantry they don't blink. That's some hardcore Training back then in Old Han China lol :D
Always ready. Always watching.
Maybe eyes too small to confirm?
"Disciplined troops don't blink"
-Sun Tzu, the art of war.
Hahahah
3:37
"Who said that?!"
"Bro why you looking at me, I didn't say anything , I am out of here"
LOL
Lmao i literally was JUST googling for infantry guide and this popped up in my notifications. Guan Yu bless you Zerk
Haha I love how you drop in some Chinese words in the video, including your catch phrase!
謝謝 :P
0:36 You know you're tripping when some angry asians wearing Christmas bathrobes start running at you with axes
I love that guy who fly across the screen at the very end. He's like " GOTTA GET IN THE VIDEO " (6:53 Bottom of screen)
I assume that there will be a video of spearmen infantry aswell . Great vid man, keep it up
I thought they were going to be included, I also think he missed some units in the reform tree, but i'll have to double check.
Guys no worries: Unit variety will be DLC. Faces pack 2.99, Hair styles 1.99 Historically acurate weapons and armor 5.99 etc. ;)
Roger de Beaumont or mods
Warriors of the Left... Katana Samurai.. Is that you?
Nah. It’s Jeremy corbyns personal bodyguard.
I'm asian and still they look all same. wft
I’m white and thought they showed a decent approximation of Asian facial variety...
@@briancline7349 between different unit of army, you maybe right. But when it comes to individual men whin unit, they are barely different
@@briancline7349 if that was a joke then.... whatever, who care for infantryman faces in total war
Lol yeah it was a joke
waiting for mods
Honestly, my setup i've found works decently, is having 4 spearmen groups so I can use "shield wall", two pike groups or anti-cav to cover the sides, and then 6~ melee focused groups, with at least two of them having good anti-armour damage stats. and then I always have 2-3 ranged units to deal damage before they reach my unit, and to provide support once the battle has begun.
(And once the ammo is gone, if you really want to, you can use them at cheap fodder so you can retreat your good units to a better position)
I guess that was the only hairstyle in China at the time.
CA literally made 2 faces for all the troops, I like the look of the rest of the game but man that is lazy
oh lazy is their first name and ca their second, didn't you know?...
Fizzy Purple they all look the same irl too ;)
This has always been the case
If you add all the faces up there's actually quite a few varieties, but for each unit they only use 2-3 faces, I don't know what they don't just let each unit to use say like 10 of all the faces, or just all of them, not sure if that's going to cause big performance issue though.
Yeah. they did it for performance issues. All I want is more different types of armor and Naval combat.
A good army of dwarf warriors let alone longbeards could take on any of these guys...
Just close your fantasy mind and the dwafs are wiped out like thanos.
Too bad they didn’t exist irl like those units did. Get over it.
sure, keep dreaming
Oooh looks like I got burned by Amin up there... actually (which should have been obvious) it was a joke, jackass. I am “over it”. Why don’t you get over having your panties in a wad.
Ok Joshua, I was on the Creative Assembly Board of Directors but since you told me to stay out of any decisions for future TA games I just resigned... 🙁
Seriously though, I first played Total War with the first Rome and became a fan, and you know what? I like the fantasy and historical titles. So take that “grrr I hate fantasy and take computer games too seriously” stick out of your ass lol.
First 3 units have almost the same model
lazy developer is lazy
It's the same unit with varying types of armor.
Das racist
is it just me or the pearl dragons looks like halberd infantry? why are they weak against calvary? and why do they have 80 missile block chance? what????
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@@Intranetusa but for some reason there are a lot of infantry men units from this video. I think for pikeman type units he intends to do another video.
manh phuc
In ancient chinese history records, there are warriors (usually General or General body guards) that can deflect arrow by spinning those pole blade/axe like a fan, this is not Kung Fu lol fantasy, its really happen in the old times, so the part of deflect missle is true.
@@Limthemad I'm very interested to see how many arrows one can deflect with such a weapon, especially in-game where they have EIGHTY MISSILE DEFLECT. The Macedonians did had missile deflect pike unit. Alexander Phalanxes was designed so that the 5 - 7 METRES long pike cover the front rows with a column of 4 man width and 8 men length. The men in the back tilt their pike at 45% to cover the men in front against missile. Not only so each men is equipped with a Pelta. Now that's a unit i can see with a 80 missile block chance. If a 1.5 metres long glaive can block 80% missiles coming at them, those men might as well be elves.
He just loves to speak chinese
who doesnt, its easy and make you sound smart
@@Spider-Too-Too it really
@zerkovich when looking at shielded units, you shoeld be adding together the melee evasion, as well as the melee evasion - sheild stat (same for armor). You said the yellow dragons are lacking in melee evasion, but the guys got like 40% evasion which is pretty decent honetsly. I think you said that because you only looked at the standard melee evasions tat which is 20% but they get +20% from being shielded as well.
Someone should tell the hidden axes that we can all see them.
shhh don't make more work for their therapists.
They did some good research. All these armor and weapon are historically accurate. Except the gundao unit. Gun dao wasn’t widely used in China until song and Ming Dynasty.
5:30 Cheeky-breeky infantry
Wait "Pearl Dragons" Halberd infantry: Dodge missile better and can't deal with cavalry? I can't get that.
Glaive infantry, they use the guan dao which was used for disarming and deflecting attacks mostly. Ji infantry is the halberd infantry.
imagine they swing their stick like helicopter
They are. But you have to use the Shield Wall ability first so they put their Guan Dao infront of them. Otherwise they'll just put iy beside them and get shredded by cavs.
I feel like they technically could deal with cav but maybe for balancing they can't
I dont want to be that racist guy but they look exactly the same.
Wait... they look like me.
Is basically copy and paste at cause of unbelievable lazyness of CA, The only differences are 3 different moustaches(thin moustache, thick moustache, beard)and 3 different skin Colors(pale, red, dark)
Worth noting that although Pearl Dragons are weak to cavalry, they have formations that give them charge reflection.
All these glass cannon units are a good sign, means balanced armies can take advantage of the weakness.
5:29 Squat bois
LOL I laughed so hard at the intro...
Fucking Zerko trying to speak my language.
6:20 Anyone else think the front-and-center unit model looks like a jaundiced zombie?
The blade didn't belong to Han dynasty. During Han han dynasty, we use much longer blades with ring head on the handle end. Those short blades belong to Bronze Age, Qin and Pre Qin.
I really dont like how they look. Every unit looks so bland wearing the same outfit of a single colour.
This has been going on since Medieval 2, it shouldn't be too surprising. CA designs their units with game play in mind so that they are identifiable on the battlefield when players are looking down.
Radious will probably make unique units with the assets from the various faction specific units
Thank you Zerkovich!
4:00 Are those warriors wearing purple? Does CA only do surface level historical research before designing units?
Actually, they just watched the Chinese produced film Red Cliff (2010) and then copied most of the soldiers and implemented them as the majority of base units in the game. And they thought no one would notice.
Romance mode/colouring is meant to have more of a flair to it, for the slight fantasy effect. There is the option to turn on more realistic colouring. Which will then have everyone moaning that the units look even more boring.... :/
Great vid, just PLEASE ADD THIS TO THE PLAYLIST
I thought we would get some new bad ass looking units...but we get..pyjamas? 😡
Love the videos!! Can you do a video on population? Slightly new to total war - is the negative population modifier set to increase as the total population increases or is it because of overcrowding?
"Warrior of the Left" stats; Damage 0
Outrage 100
Tweeting 69
they are shit anyway, I prefer spear peasant with 50 armor piercing
3:47 look at that, twins!
I figured the pearl dragons would be able to work against cavalry since they got polearms, but never underestimate shock cavalry I guess.
The soldiers are wearing pyjamas and they all look the same. 😔
Their shields are also soo tiny.
@@Intranetusa Nice armor pics. From this video, only the Mercenary (Axe) Infantry and the "Fists of the Bandit Queen" wore something similar, with actual side protection, but neither had a helm.
@@Intranetusa You're totally right. All in all it's pretty disappointing that this Total War entry dropped a lot of the efforts the series has made at historically accurate weapons and tactics, even while giving some of the units impressive names that suggest a sort of historical basis. The generals are now literal Dynasty Warriors heroes now, though, so I guess it all meshes together as a fantastical-history setting.
Clones
End your video with "Hou Hui You Qi" will be way more appropriate and cool.
It means may we meet again.
To help you pronounce it better, how why (emphasize H here) yo chi
So this is really all sword and shield/sword/axe sheild/axe units in the game? Seems a little bit small roster.
@@Intranetusa wouldnt be the first time for CA. Well that means waiting a month or 2 for the radious revision and later for some cool overhaul mod and roster corrections and expansions.
@@Intranetusa diferent teams but both produce very good stuff.
@Joshua Phillips that was my question. If there is more "sword and shield/sword/axe sheild/axe" , then "ALL MELEE INFANTRY" Video title is misleading. I didnt buy the game as overall feedback given by youtubers and gameplay footage and that im pretty much waiting for big mods to buy it. Guess i will look for other videos that show the proper final rosters instead of this one.
Your Mandarin is funny ;) See you next time is more like: xia ci jian (ci in English would have a tse sound). And let's go it's more like: zou ba
Is it just me, or does Three Kingdoms look really dated? The lighting and ground feels odd, and it doesnt help that the faces dont appear to show any shadows. They look painted on.
Agreed. Graphic wise it could be way better.
I've played it and in places it looks way better than Warhammer 2. Maybe it's because of TAA so it's not as jaggy.
the game looks amazing imo best looking total war game yet
Where are all the Spear and Halberd infantry? They don't count as melee?
jesus, can't they afford a bigger shield? how can they protect against arrows
The visual design on all of those is abysmal. Such a bore to look at. So bizarre to see such a dip in design quality after how much of a visual treat TWWH was.
They spent all the design towards the Warlords...It is a shame though.
Personally my biggest pet peeve is that the unit card is nothing. You can barely tell what each thing is by how the card look.
@@RanwulfMaxwell you can change that plus the units in this game isn't supposed to be flashy. Most of them are peasants.
@@legomunable i personaly liked the unit card that used art from the ERA/Location. Shogun 2, Shogun 2 RotS, Attila AoCharlemagne, Rome 2. Even the Warhammer ones. But this ones are boring. not as boring as vanilla Atilla, but boring
TWWH is based on a fictional universe where all kinds of crazy shit exists.
TW3K is based off a real historical period.
I hope I don't have to explain why TWWH will be more of a visual treat than this.
Damn your Chinese has improved a lot
Glaive units weakness is Cavalry? Is this true?
full inf review done in just under 7 min.... that would not have been possible in twwh2
Only 1 heavy infantry unit?
Since this is the historical total war series please tell me: which factions get the giant enemy crab?
And Protectors of Heaven?
Marco Svitnic spear infantry
Why are most of them wearing only, I think leather helmets? Didn't they have metal helmets at that time?
"Hidden Axes" They carry big red banners that just fly in the wind. How can they be hidden???
"Wo men yi hou zai jian " is a better translation than "wo men yi hou jian mian"
Will you be doing a cavalry list, im a cav guy but i havent survived long enough to unlock so proper ma teng horses lol
Was there so little armor in the three kingdoms period? Most of them seem to be wearing pajamas with some chest armor. No shoulder guards, armguards leg guards etc?
Think it was more of a money wise issue, the armies fielded in those times where gigantic to say the least
they REALLY need more face variation between units, i swear in recent total wars theres less face varation on one unit than medieval 2, look how dated that is now
Other than being new. Could you make a video on why I should get this game instead of just sticking to warhammer?
Mao's forces be like 3:49
Spamming Axe Infantry intensifies...
Attack of the clones.
My two cents on three k battles and the multiplayer:
The campaign may be a step up (I'm not going to go into that, Tw campaigns never hold my interest for long), but the battles and multiplayer just feel uninspiring which is a shame.
CA increased the map size which helps increase tactical opportunities, but units and armies haven't changed in size so the maps feel to large.
It's very hard to see what's going on as there's no option to have all your troops highlighted, and the bland unit markers don't help at all.
Duelling is COMPLETELY USELESS in multiplayer as they are simply declined, and there doesn't seem to be much tactical opportunity except for who can goon squad the enemy's heroes before they kill yours.
The abilities are mundane, but feel really micro intensive for low reward compared to tw warhammer.
The three General system feels restrictive and takes away a key aspect of choice when building armies.
I could go on... there's just something off - there's something about the battles that just feels bland.
I'll play some more, but the multiplayer certainly won't be something I'll be getting my teeth into which is a real shame.
Zerk I'd love to hear your truthful thoughts.
Edit: you can have all your units highlighted - unit markers are still bland and basic however. Ability symbols flashing up on the unit markers makes them even harder to read from.
At this point I wish they just stopped pumping out historic titles until they are done with warhammer, as it is the new content gets delayed and the new games turn out to be bland at best
@@urahi830 I don't think that's the case with this game, its supposed to be the first of a trilogy if you read its steam description, so I think CA has put a lot of resources into it
- that's noticeable in campaign, and I'm glad that campaign ai is better and there is more diplomacy/economy stuff etc.....
But I don't give a shit about that, it's not why I play tw, I play for the battles and for testing myself in pvp rather than the campaigns which quickly become stale
- so it's just the big sad to see that the battle side of this game is just so MEH
(and every forum and review is just blowing smoke up CA's ass and proclaiming that this is the greatest total war ever when it blatantly has issues)
I agree with this for the most part. I myself play tw mainly for the campaign, so I think this game is fucking amazing but battles do feel lacking at times.
@@Yesnoyesno12 the battles are even worse than I first thought to be honest, I hadnt dug deep enough at launch -
And the multiplayer doesn't just have issues as I thought when I first played the game, the mp is actually utterly and irreparably broken
When it comes to what units run with witch commander class is it just match the colours?
Yes.
They all look the same lol. Good vid man
May want to be more specific, since i assume you are leaving out the spear infantry which is technically melee infantry? ;p
Umm he did a separate guide for that
How do I know an infantry is light or heavy?
Lots of armour=heavy
No armour=light
Some armour=medium infantry
If you look at units' details, above their names (also seen in the video) it tells you if it's light, medium or heavy. e.g. 'heavy sword infantry', 'light crossbow infantry', etc.
So... how do you stop cav? I guess they're super weak to missile fire?
By definition spear infantry are melee infantry though. I get what you’re saying but yeah Spears=melee weapons.
You missed one :(
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I tried to be interested in this game but no hype got to me so far
suck to be you? everyone seems to enjoy it right now.
I was really sceptical at first too but man.. believe me when I say it's REALLY good! I must admit, this time they did a great job. A very deep, very challenging, interesting, clean, innovative game.
Why heavy infantry don't wear helmets that cover most of their face and neck? What about face masks? Is this really historical? I can just imagine how easy it is to die from arrows, especially for generals
Hitchhike the World well Armor back then was reserved for the rich, especially good armor, and I believe many who could afford it chose not to because of senses. Having something to cover the face limits breathing, can limit things like sight too. Also remember, Three Kingdoms takes place roughly around the time when the Roman Empire was around, they didn’t have much to cover the neck besides the scarf and from what I can see, full face helmets or masks were rather scarce for them too.
Wearing face mask will hinder your ability to see visual cues and eventually your army will turn into a mass of individual fights. It is not desirable for foot soldiers, but for mounted troops sometimes they do have face masks. At that time there is something called 盆领, basically a neck protector, which is also featured in the game. But nothing from this game is actually historical. All their weapons and armors are wrong for some reason.
I'm talking about generals wearing masks to protect them from missles and heavy cav protecting them when charging. Not militia
@@Not-Just-Cars generals didn't engage in battles, despite the popular belief. There are lesser officers called 校尉, 十长，etc. Those people might engage in battles. Did the Roman Centurions have face masks? Doesn't that hinder their ability to see what's going on the battlefield and give orders accordingly?
@@Not-Just-Cars en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_the_Han_dynasty#/media/File:EHan_cavalry.png
these are the Eastern Han dynasty neck protector 盆领
this game is making up a lot of stuff, while there are some true things, but the details are all wrong.
Are we supposed to believe those wavy cracker-shaped shields the Jian Swords have are better than the simple round, larger shields the Sabre Infantry have? It makes no sense to me.
(If that's a historical shield please teach me about it)
all the shields are historical, but those are offensive shields, only the spear guard's tower shield is defensive
@@fanyechao2761 So the Jian Swords' shields should have very little arrow block chance then. The rattan shields would at least be better at that.
@@canmufu3923 I am practicing martial arts, these two type of shield are not dissimilar when blocking melee blows, because the shield have a center grip, it works like a buckler or viking shield th-cam.com/video/TX167pA9d7Y/w-d-xo.html
@@canmufu3923 sorry you are taking about ranged defense. Yes the rattan shield should offer better protection against arrow or bolts. The Jian's shield is made of wood, and the shield skin indicates it has no leather cover, so the crossbow bolt is able to go through, at least in theory it should go through the shield, or pin the hand on the shield. But in game I think they all work the same.
I guess Warhammer has spoiled me, cause this looks blad as all heck.
@Ja Ma I'm sure there's people who will like this a lot
Maybe I’m just seeing things through rose colored classes but it seemed like Rome Total War (the last Total War aside from Empire that I played before Warhammer) had more unit variety/interesting units than this.
@@briancline7349 its not just you it did
@@briancline7349 You don't need a lot of units variety tbh take Shogun 2 as example
@@subhikebbeh3490 i feel that shogun 2 units looked better and were more interesting than this ones, specially in the armor.
Arrow evasion lol that sounds Interesting
Ah, it seems like Three Kingdoms is bringing us ever further towards the Verse of Firefly...
Not necessarily a bad thing.
like for the opening
I hate the color/specialisation system. It forces your hand when it comes to recruitment.
Well we Chinese just say "See you next time" (下次再見，Xià Cì Zaì Jìan) rather than "Wǒ Men Yǐ Hòu Jìan Mìan" though.
That's not me catchphrase though! D:
I hope the Radious mod is getting released soon. Tired of the total war where all the infantry is the same from a faction to another. Especially when there isn't even much choice...
Radious lmao, unbalanced mess of shit units
Did Chinese troops historically eschew shields to such an extent? If so, was there a particular reason for this?
Especially when their main line heavy infantry has a hand free...
Also, how period accurate are these armours? They are ridiculously unprotective against stabbing attacks.
it's cheap to make,that's the reason
NotDumbassable i aint an expert but in melee warfare you have two options, weapon and shield (sword, axe or short spear) or one very long weapon (spear or halbeard etc)
Now this isnt my area of speciality, but my doing an MA in Ancient and Medieval warfare needs to be useful somewhere. These unit models are terrible. There is no reason why soldiers would go into battle without shields. In basically every culture going if you couldn't afford armour you got yourself a shield. The dual wielding units is also bollocks, and as for the armour... *sighs* its crap. Like really, really crap.
The armour looks kind of accurate during the Han period most soldiers were not really well armored.
About dual wielding, CA is adding fantasy to history.
Nothing from this game is historical actually. I don't know about their previous historical titles though because I only played shogun before. All the units weapons, armors, shields, city walls, buildings, etc., are historically inaccurate.
Got to work on the tones some more my friend but good video
Just spam azure dragons instead it's the 3k lothern sea guard
I just got a few. I don’t spam them. They only have 12 arrows for me
funny that you forgot about half the units lol
Which factions get the “warriors of the left?”
Hmmmm I wanna say Yuan Shu... Or Yuan Shao.
why the graphic is not as good as I imagined hhh
TA SHA HAO TO YOU TOO GOOD SIR
Spears?
nice
don't let pearl dragons be charged by cav....... clearly you don't go into battle with a strategist :P
Not too bad on the Chinese, keep it up man , love your videos.
Wheres the axe gang?
That's it
I cant recruit any of these. Even with the tech unlocked.. 😥
Darth Station several units, especially the higher tier ones can only be recruited by certain lords/factions. Just having the building unlocked isn’t the only thing; you gotta be sure that the general who’s army you’re recruiting into can actually recruit that unit.
All this infantry looks the "same"...mmm
Hi dear, May I know what is your PC spec? will like to know and budget the same because your video quality so nice .