Total War: THREE KINGDOMS - Ambush of Sun Ren Let's Play 

Wait a second: Archers are firing OVER the treeline? WHAT SENSIBLE MADNESS IS THIS

Can we just..talk about how amazing the music is compared to previous TW? It gets me sooo pumped. Its so dynamic and large.

Wow, the banners actually work. Finally.

*Proceeds to adjust his glasses like in the anime* Narrator: I will have my vengeance!

i hope they bring back general's speeches like rome or medieval

5:47 that horseman just crashed on a tree with "Ugh!"

Those mountains on the campaign map and in the battle look amazing and the lanterns at night were a nice touch. The music was great too, very much so looking forward to this game. Especially having read so much about this period of history, both historical accounts and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

EVERYTHING looks amazing, graphics are highly improved, lighning looks gorgeous, banners move as they should, UI is beautiful and Warhammer physics are back, boy am I hyped for this game!

Sun Ren is Sun Shang Xiang for those who are new to 3 Kingdoms and those who play Dynasty Warriors

Really the only issue I have so far is the repeated animations with the dueling (most notably with the two sword generals), and the janky combat animations for the units. Other than that, it looks amazing. I've been waiting for a Total War set in China for a long time, so this is promising.

The music is amazing!

anyone else get goosebumps by the commentary?

Shouldn't Sun Quan be younger than 10 lmao Other than that, the game looks far more polished than it did during E3. Definitely worth the delay to spring.

Pleassssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeee release that amazing soundtrack 😜

I really hope the animations are improved by release.

I'm liking how the game looks so far, but I'm kinda disappointed that we did't get to see some sickass melee animations from the normal infantry units

Are the animations finished already? They look kinda sloppy to me.

The demo looked so good, love the lanterns and the banners.

Wow the fire arrows and trees burning is stunning

What just happened to the fighting animation? What have you done!?

I hope we will get bigger units

Sun Ren is Sun shang xiang for those dynasty warrior players out there.

I wish they could speak theirs own language while they frighting on the battlefield. But using setting language to answer your commands

Can we kill enemy with forest fire and is there wind direction for forest fire so has to not cause self harm like shown in three kingdoms drama ?

If this game was coming out this year id be a bit worried although overall it looks really good but the animations look awkward too fast and strange looking.

Sun Shangxiang is bae

Spent hundreds of hours to understand the history, but forgot to look up how to pronounce the key figures' names... it hurts my ears every time the narrator reads Cao Cao.

I'm sooo happy they made the arrows similar to shogun (hopefully the arrows stick on corpses of soldiers too?). Was never a fan of the way projectiles looked in the warhammer series. They just felt more like peashooters with no impact.

Man, I can already see some Mongol Invasion/Qin Dynasty mods for this game!

Sun ren AKA Sun Shang xiang、lady Sun。She comes from Fuchun,Wu prefecture（today's Fuyang,Hangzhou,Zhejiang）Sun Quan AKA Sun Zhong mou's yuong sister，Liu Bei's wife（Only three years）after this Sun ren back Wu kingdom，the afterthought is unknown About she's name： Sun Ren--Inside《Romance of the Three Kingdoms》《三国演义》mother of kingdom Wu（SunQuan's mother）She has a daughter，this girl's name is Sun Ren（孙仁）on account of,Chinese historian think this Sun Ren and Liu Bei's wife it's the same person Sun Shang xiang--the most well known of lady Sun's name,present to Chinese opera《甘露寺》and《别宫·祭江》 Lady Sun--lady+surname is the end of Han dynasty queen's appellation

曹操变成嫂嫂了

Ability clicking intensifies

Please don't make Warhammer matched combat !! Please !! Make Shogun combat come back !!

According to Pei Songzhi, historian of Eastern Jin dynasty, author of the Annoted Record of Three Kingdom, Sun Ren is the alternate name of Sun Lang, Sun Jian's son with a concubine. In fact, Lady Sun was not named in any history record, except folk tale and Chinese opera.

Why are the hero models in the campaign map so fidgety? Looks like they're on drug withdrawal

That UI and unit icons are awefull....

how would the timeline work?? Sun Quan was a kid, and his sister even younger, in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms there were a specific scene AFTER the death of Sun Jian (Sun Quan's father) in the hands of Liu Biao's ambush for the Imperial seal, the 10 year old Sun Quan went as an emissary to get his father's body back, and they specifically commented on his bravery as a small child, and said he is destined for great things. So is the game NOT going to have a timeline? so all important characters are available from the start? if so that would be the worst idea when dealing with Three Kingdoms themed game. the whole story of Liu Bei involves running away until he got to South western China or Shu area. and recruited ZhuGe Liang on the way. that's Liu Bei's struggle. to get from Central China to South Western China. the reason why Three Kingdoms is so good is because you get to see those heroic characters die of either battle or old age. and the next generation takes the mantle. How would crucial characters like Jiang Wei (ZhuGe Liang's protegee) be involved, because he only came into the scene after many of the heroic characters died. I do hope this game have different starting dates like Koei have done with their Three Kingdoms title. otherwise characters that played a pivotal role in the later years of 3 kingdoms would be left out. including my favorite general Deng Ai.

one thing I will say is that I hope the "dueling" system isn't 1v1 exclusive. like idk about historical records but in all the romanticized texts and media I've seen it was never just strict 1v1s. like during the seige where they kill lu bu it took the combined might of like 3-5 heroes to take him down, not a 1v1 as CA showcased during that footage. especially now that I know that units actually get buffed for fighting along side each other I want to see an enemy hero so obscenely powerful that it actually does take like 3 of mine buffed together to take down. that'd be a really cool epic moment. you can even have it to where once a hero gets so strong they get a guaranteed trait that has them refuse help from any others to balance out late game duel mechanics. like if one unit is really strong they will not allow any other heroes to assist them in combat, etc.

No dynamic kill animations?!!!

The lantern on the sky is called kongming Lantern ( Hot air balloon principle) which can fly with the wind. It was invented by the Shu kingdom's prime minister Chocolate. The kongming Lantern is a good will expression or hope expression in China.

im a chinese, im so looking forward to this game. absolutely, we thousands of chinese total war fans are crazy since the claim of three kingdoms

I love prominently the generals feature in this game and that minature duel system seems interesting. The banners look super cool, I'm really excited and am going to buy this but I hope these improvements make it into the future warhammer titles that CA does

Please make the units battle like they did in Shogun 2.

We want naval battle !!!!! One of the three largest battles IN three Kingdoms era "Battle of Chibi" (赤壁之戰) is basically naval battle !!!!! and you guys told us ????? NO NAVAL BATTLE ????? are you serious ????

If your enemy character wants to start a duel with one of yours can you deny it? Surely if you have a much bigger army but a weaker character you could choose to send in your troops as backup

my excitement for this game cannot be contained, please CA don't make us wait for it, but at the same time, please make it amazing

i was hoping for shogun style fighting animation for each unit.. 😕

Atmosphere feels amazing. Sounds are amazing. UI feels different (finally) and refreshing. I love the new feel to this game!

Man this campaign map looks beautiful

I think there are some mistakes in setting .In history,Cao Cao did not attack Sun Jian's army.During April of 191,Yuan Shu sent Sun Jian to recruit Jingzhou and attack Liu Biao. Liu Biao sent Huang Zu meets SunJian between Fancheng and Deng county. Sun Jian defeated Huang Zu, chase after the victory, across the waters of han, surrounded Xiangyang. Liu Biao did not fight and closed doors.Huang Zu returned with troops.Sun Jian defeated Huang zu.Huang Zu ran away, his subordinates fired arrows from the bamboo forest, and Sun Jian was dead.

We need lots of combat animations

I've never been hyped for a game this much. But please don't rush it, take your time and make it perfect.

More gameplay

Tbh I’m just glad their just releasing more information about this game. Historical/lore based trailers and/or battles just gets me more excited.

It looks like Arena

TTK is a great setting to introduce the hero-like mechanism to the franchise.

Its funny how the kill animations of Rome and Medieval 2 are still better than the ones produced now.

love the effect of the trees being on fire from the fire arrows.

This fight while it looks epic its actually fictional. Sun Quan was 9 years old and Sun Ren was younger than that at the time their father was alive. But good job CA things are looking great so far

3:10 Sun Ren: Go Go Go

You BETTER have naval battles in this game

OMG the choreography is AWESOME!!!

no sync combat?

OMG I CAN'T WAIT!! LIU BEI AND THE FIVE TIGER GENERALS FOR LIFE!!

Who released all those lanterns before the battle?

Who's Sun Ren? I know about Lo Guanzhong's San Guo Yan Yi for more than 20 years, and I play quite a bit of Romance of the Three Kingdom games from the 1st installment (around 1990). But I never know about Sun Ren character. Is she a historical figure that is not included in the novel, or just a fiction character from Total War? Because I read a bit about San Guo Zhi and I can't find her name. But well, i just read a bit of it, so maybe she's really there and I don't know about it. But in case that she's just a fiction character by Total War, why not using Sun Shangxiang instead?

Sun Ren = 孫仁(三國演義) = 孫權小妹 = 孫尚香(戲曲名) = 孫朗 (三國志)

Big historical oof there, Sun Jian actually dies pretty soon after the disbanding of the coalition.

I want to see the SHU faction

do you plan to continue the idea of "sunset samurai"? and release part of the game during the colonial wars?it's such an eventful time.

Having them speak Mandarin in the game would be like having the Romans speak Portuguese or French etc. Modern Mandarin is just a Chinese dialect and is very different to the language spoken almost 2000 years ago. Cantonese or especially Minnan dialects might be more similar, but still not the same.

US : We announce we finaly has the first female general in history! China : *cough*

Great sounding track, makes you feel the intensity of the battle ensuing.

The combat is too quick

miss sun ren's vocal appearence is so satiesfieing,i would like to listen to her more.

Really miss the detailed fighting animations from Shogun 2 and Rome 2, now they are just swinging randomly at flies. The game kinda looses some of its essence and appeal without the animations :/

In case Dynasty Warriors fans are confuse about names and her name,Sun Ren is Sun Shang Xiang.

I hope you guys didnt remove the kill animations...This is not warhammer there is no excuse to remove them this time. Try not to remove thing that make a total war a total war. One of the reasons of why Thrones of Bretania fails was because of they remove a lot of things.

I guess moustache general in trailer is Sun Ce and the one who is standing front Sun Quan in trailer is Sun Yi.

This looks way too cartoonish. I'm really concerned by the battle animations, the fact I've only ever seen a few units in an army, the Arena style focus on 'buffs' and 'abilities', and once again the battles look way stupendously quick. Total War used to be about huge armies fighting huge armies - now it looks like it's turning into a generic strategy franchise with a focus on small unit tactics. I know this represents the 'Romance' mode and not the 'Historical' mode that will hopefully be far more consistent with previous historical titles, but god damn even the Romance mode has way too much emphasis on this arcadey, almost moba-like hero feel. I was hoping for thousands of soldiers fighting, with one or two badasses amongst them who could turn the tide of battle if used correctly but who were only there to lead, not play the central role. Not a few hundred dudes running around as grunts while the general, who is like 1.5x their size, casts his magic spells and plays Dance Dance Revolution - Shaolin edition with the enemy leader to decide the fate of everything. And is it just me, or do the armies feel smaller, and less epic, despite the supposedly increased 'scale'? The game looks looks really disappointing. I mean just look at the battles. Where are the battle lines, the actual tactics, the strategy? It's all micromanagement and reflex based. There's barely time to even look at the battle because there's always something else that needs doing right then at that moment. I used to feel like I was commanding an army when playing Total War, this looks like it's lost that spirit. Even Total Warhammer 1 and 2, which aren't even trying to be historical, feel more like war games than this looks. :(

The flags/banners should move and twirl like real flags/banners. I find it unlikely that every battle has full maxed out winds. Making them randomly dip and then fold out etc. would look much better.

And no hit reactions for models, no kill moves neither :/ it look very arcade

As a Chinese, I really didn't know who this Sun Ren is at first, never heard of this name before. After I checked some historical documents, I found she's actually Sun Jian's youngest child, well known as the name of Sun Sang Xiang in China. The document said Sun Jian also has a bastard named Sun Ren, but another document argues that Sun Ren is Sun Sang Xiang (since ancient Chinese people always have two names). I myself don't think they are the same person, cuz in Chinese "Ren" is not a name for girl at all. One example: Wei kingdom has a very famous general----Cao Ren, who is a man. Sun Sang Xiang is well known as the "Bow Waist Princess” in China because she always has a bow hanging around her waist, the game shows this detail, which I think is very good. However, if you say "Sun Ren" instead of "Sun Sang Xiang", I bet all Chinese don't know who is it, except historians, lol.

Sun Shang Xiang (Lady Sun) wasn't a general....even in Romance of The Three Kingdoms she was just a maiden who was married off to Liu Bei to secure the Shu-Wu alliance.

The voiceover is amazing. Can't wait to play it.

Mulan DLC when!?

How beautiful the map is!

Looks great

is there going to be an option to use mandarin as the voice for units / agents? like how japanese is used in shogun 2

Those duels look amazing!

The music is nice and all, but wow, the animations are the worst they've ever been and I simply could not tell what appended in this battle at all.. It didn't look like these forces were fighting at all. Total War this is disorganized, you can do MUCH better than this!

Anyone here realized Sun Ren shares the same voice actress as the Bretonnian damsels?

Hope this will feel a bit like shogun!

This game is literally a dream come true

let me just say one thing the battlefield is sooo damm beautifull!! the sad thing that there is no combat animations:(, will it stay this way???? i dont know?!? i guess we have to wait.

-Deadliest conflict in human history -Looks like a cartoon

"Noble" Liu Bei. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

Can someone explain me if square formations were common in this period of time? 6:17 I thought square formations was a new military infantry tactic in the Age of Reason and even Christopher Duffy in his book "The Military Experience in the Age of Reason" points out that in 18th century was not commonly used but more tipically used in 19th century in Napoleonic Wars. This video shows a square formation similar to those used by Wellington in Waterloo in 1815.

idk it all looks and feel fantasy to me. I play Attila and it really empathises the grittiness of war. But every-time i see this, I see a cartoon. It might just be me but thats how I feel. It looks disappointing as a historical title to me. Plus the units fighting each other doesnt look like a battle at all, they all just waving their weapons at the air between them at 100mph. Idk what it is, but it doesnt look good to me.

I get that is still in development, but the FPS looks really really choppy. Has there been much improvement on the performance side of things Total War?