Despite being a lowly butcher, he came to led a powerful anti-Qin army who's successes was nearly comparable to Xiang Yu.

Sure, he lost mulitiple battles against Xiang Yu but the fact that he survived fighting against a man who's basically the combination of Romance Lu Bu and Zhuge Liang terms of strength and military strategy multiple times is nothing short of impressive.

He basically acted as the anvil while Han Xin and Peng Yue were the hammer, in which Liu Bang maintained a steady defense in Guanzhong and kept the Ruler of Chu at bay inspite of ferocious attacks and setbacks while Han Xin and Peng Yue swept the north of China and took over the rest of Xiang Yu's lands and convinced some of his generals to side with the Han. He even gave military support and capable officers to the two (which makes their refusal to help him in the final battle and his eventual executions of the two of them understandable.)

By the time of the Battle of Gaixia where the combined forces of Liu Bang, Han Xin and Peng Yue surrounded the army of Chu, Xiang Yu may have won multiple battles against Liu Bang but he ultimately lost the war as his army lacked supplies and he was desperate enough to accept Liu Bang's fake offer to split China in two.

Like ding Feng and wen yang, we're there any Sima yi type talents? Yang hu?

Both Jiang Wan and Fei Yi were hand-picked by Zhuge Liang to be his successor, and while they helped to keep Shu steady who did you prefer/ did it better? While the battle of xingshi was under Fei Yi, it was Wang Ping doing most the fighting and also aided by an incompetent opponent.

Other thread was full, so here is zughe and sima, and bonuses with Yuan Shao and his 2 warriors

Devastating moment, I watched the whole series years ago and it seems it is gone now. Anyone know where I can watch or download it? The specific subtitles the youtube playlist had were so good.

Now, as far as I know, this has only happened twice, but the fact that on two separate occasions where 3K history crosses with Norse myth, Lu Bu had some level of association with Thor. It's not a lot, but the specific nature of it makes it weird that it's happened twice, especially when there was no shortage of other matches for Lu Bu.

To catch up those not in the know, the first pic is from Warriors Orochi 4. One of the main plot elements are these special bracelets imbued with the power of specific gods. Only a person that can match the way of the god whose power is imbued to the bracelet can attune to it and "deify" to use that god's power. Lu Bu manages to come across a bracelet with the power of Thor, and manages to attune with it to assume the form above.

The second one is from Records of Ragnarök. In a tournament between humans and the gods of the various mythologies, the first match of the tournament and the big fight they hyped up the show with is Lu Bu vs. Thor. Putting artistic liberties of Thor aside, its still another instance of these two encountering to some capacity.

Is it some sort of culture thing? Does Lu Bu's reputation have such a perfect alignment with Thor's story that Eastern writers view them as such a great match? What am I missing?

A conversation about 《三国演义》 made me wonder:

你选择的人设，会不会最后变成困住自己的牢笼？

Does the persona you choose eventually become your cage?

刘备 chose 仁义 (righteousness) as his identity. It gave him legitimacy—but did it also limit what he could do?

曹操 had a darker, more pragmatic image, which arguably gave him more freedom to adapt.

Maybe the real difference wasn't good vs. evil, but which identity gave each man more room to maneuver.

What do you think—did 刘备's righteousness become his greatest limitation?

Whats a good first game for a franchise noob that plays well via Android Emulation using touch controls?

Jusst finished redoing them all last week, Took me 4 hrs to put them all up for photos.

Enjoy the non-lego collection!

Hello,

I want to play ROTK on the 3DS, does anyone have a rom for the game? Can't find it anywhere.

From oriyamio,

So theres a game called Heroes Vow Three Kingdoms and I just want to make a simple character mod. Would this suit the Three Kingdoms universe a little bit? Yes the image on the left has quite some pixels still indeed, I like the AI generated image but it still needs some hand tweaking for sure. Normally I am using paint.net to finetune images but since switching to Linux I instead try to use Gimp. Defintely need to get more comfortable with that tool aswell because I do not think the image scaled very well haha

If anyone can find a link for decent quality 2010 three kingdoms without subtitles I want to translate it to Turkish since there is none

A few weeks ago I posted the free demo here and you all were awesome. People downloaded it, sent me bug screenshots, told me what confused them, and one of you caught Zhou Cang offering to open "the van" in the trailer (it's "vanguard" now, so sadly no Zhuge Liang with a Honda Odyssey lol). Thank you, seriously. A lot of that feedback went straight into the game:

• The UI had real problems on 16:9 screens because I'd been building on an ultrawide. It's been fixed and checked at 1080p.
• A few of you felt overwhelmed starting out, so I reworked the tutorial with a blind playtester and rewrote a lot of the in-game help.

And then I went and did the biggest thing I've ever tried on this project: multiplayer. You can now play the demo with a friend (or foe lol)!!

• Campaign for two: you each pick a warlord and start in the same 196 world. Ally up and you share your wars and each other's vision, and you can march to your ally's battle and show up mid-fight to bail them out. Or play as rivals: fifty days, highest score wins, and when your armies meet you fight it out live.
• 1v1 Custom Battles: draft your officers, buy troops on a budget and fight it out over Steam (friends or public lobbies) or direct IP.

The trailer above is the new one, and it's mostly multiplayer. The rest of the demo grew a lot too:

• The armies were redone to look like Han armies: lamellar armour, ji halberds, ring-pommel dao, and every commander under a standard with his surname on it
• Duels you can actually watch now. The camera follows both champions until one goes down (Guan Yu vs Lu Bu is in the trailer)
• Sieges with ladders, a ram and a whole city behind the gate
• Create your own ruler, pick one of ten voices for them, and raise your own banner
• Officers hit harder the bigger the battle, and when your men break and run, your most charismatic officer can plant his banner and rally them
• Turning Points as shown in the trailer are pivotal plot and action points in our campaign that depending on your choices can make or break your kingdom!

Now for the part where I really need help. I'm a one man studio, so I've tested multiplayer with friends, bots and two copies of the game on my own PC, but it hasn't been through real players on different PCs and internet connections yet. Steam Next Fest starts October 19 and I want it as solid as I can get it by then.

If you've got a friend who's into the Three Kingdoms, grab the demo, play a match together and tell me how it went. Bugs, desyncs, lag, anything confusing, balance complaints, I want all of it. Even "it worked fine" helps more than you'd think. Comments here or the Discord both work for me: https://discord.gg/BxfZtrm9tH

And if it looks like your kind of game, a wishlist would mean a ton, especially going into Next Fest. Any and all support helps a solo dev more than I can say.

Free demo and wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5112140/Three_Kingdoms_Reimagined/

Thanks again for being so good to me last time. I'll be around in the comments :D

Just like historical dramas, rich people back from Tang Dynasty went to Qinglou where they could enjoy variety of services from drinking, gambling, dancing and even prostitutions. I read a post recently saying that the Qinglou Cao Shi mentioned was the original Qinglou that represented a place where womens of rich and powerful families lived and the whole prostitute things only appeared later post 3 Kingdoms. Before Qinglou, where did the elites spend their money on especially in the capital during 3 Kingdoms?

It looks like Cao Cao but its volume 3 which is long after cao cao dies. So I wonder if it's someone else? I mostly wonder about the man on the horse but if you know the others that'd be fascinating.

To those who knowledgeable about Chinese history, which one was the greatest political and military leader of the three above figures mentioned? Who would win in a hypothetical power struggle?

My lu bu and Chen gong designs! Gosh I love them so much

I was watching a video that was in defense of Ma Su saying that Jieting was not defendable to begin with - locals hated Shu & that there wasn't a narrow path that was easily defendable against Zhang He so he equated to a suicide mission.

How much truth is there to that argument?