LIU BEI: The Virtuous Idealist | Total War: Three Kingdoms - Warlord Legends

Liu Bei is honest and kind to his friends, and well-liked by his companions. A modest and merciful warlord who cherishes his devoted followers, he is widely known as a benevolent and humane ruler, one who cares for his people and surrounds himself with great advisers. He is a humble politician and leader whose caring nature motivates powerful heroes to join his side and fight for his cause.
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In Total War: THREE KINGDOMS, players step into the shoes of one of 12 legendary warlords in this age of glorious conquest. Although the ultimate goal for each leader is the same - unite China under your banner and forge the next great dynasty - the preferred means and methods can differ greatly. Every warlord has their own unique personality, motivations, and experience, while all shape the way they play and the kind of conquest they favor.

[@codybonds]

Thank you to everyone that pointed out that Liu Bei founded Shu Han. I've corrected and re-uploaded the video, as I had rather lose 1,000 views and be historically correct than live with that shameful display.

[@brettd2308]

Respect.

[@klaasvaak2575]

ah i was wondering why this glorious video only had 25 views

[@Mathiasbording]

Not shameful at all Cody! If i had a dollar for everytime i had said something different than what was in my notes, i would be rich :D We all make mistakes so huge props to you for correcting it so fast. Great video :)

[@codybonds]

I'm editing a video now where two 17 yr old students of mine wanted to try the game. It's terrifying how little they know of history.

[@codybonds]

What kind of vids are you wanting to make? I'll help if I can but with two kids my playtime is severely limited.

[@VampireNewl]

Liu Bei, he started with Shoes and ended with Shu's

[@17Watman]

☝️🤣

[@valentinewang745]

Fun fact, the peach flower scene 1:45 where Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei became brothers is my hometown. The road outside my home is called Tao Yuan Road, which means Garden of Peach, is named to memory the scene.

[@17Watman]

Lucky

[@endlessthunder6161]

Thats epic! Men i love the three kingdoms.. Guan yu is my favourite!

[@redsol3629]

That's awesome!

[@williamdong4589]

The best thing I love Liu Bei is what he taught to his son when he was dying: Do not do evil things though they may be insignificant. Do not give up good things though they may be minor matters.

[@partialbullet2215]

For me, I’ll just tell people “Do what is good the right way, not the easy way”

[@windowstaskmanager5349]

Ooooo...that one aged terribly

[@Mrkabrat]

"About that time I threw you on your head as a baby..."

[@sidneym8895]

​@@MrkabratThat plot is fictional. He never did that in history.

[@Mrkabrat]

@@sidneym8895 I still find it funny that in that tale his wife ends herself since she's a burden for the escape, one of his generals fights tooth and nail to save the baby (and heir) she left behind, only for him to drop it and say "I can make more of these, but you are irreplaceble". Which granted, is supposed to reflect Liu Bei caring for his men, but come on, people died or almost died trying to save your heir!

[@anarquia201]

The Jon Snow of the tree kingdoms is the more accurstely description i have heard

[@PedroGomes-cx7ku]

@@yuchenwang7174 The show dumbed Jon down quit a bit. Book Jon Snow is considerably smarter.

[@Sercotani]

@@PedroGomes-cx7ku ah, the same can be said for all the characters really after they ran out of book material.

[@papercat2599]

liu bei is in no way a foolish person.

[@hawaiianperson85]

Pang Tong is the Tyrion Lannister

[@Matherian2]

"Ah dun wan it, yu ah muh governor" Liu "Jon Snow" Bei rejecting Tao Qian's lands for the third time in the row

[@codybonds]

SPOILER: Shank. Shank.

[@fawwazn.1244]

*For The Han* (Agressive Shouting in the background)

[@henryettoit897]

LOL

[@ArkaSaurusRex218]

You know nothing, Liu bei

[@gr8oone007]

Lieu Bei is for the player who wants to rush yuan shao before he vassalizes the whole map.

[@markmartinez6317]

Guilty as charged

[@robert23456789]

you damm well have to with anyone leave him to long and he will a fucking pain to deal with but dos make you not even think twice about executing him when you catch i couldn't of clickd kill him fast enough

[@Paintpenetrator]

Most of time yuan shao declares war on you because you fought caocao

[@robert23456789]

@@Paintpenetrator what why he must be killed A.S.A.P then ceo ceo the lying fuck spending lies about me so people go to war with me

[@BenRover2961]

or before sun ce owns the whole south

[@davevd9944]

4:55 It's indeed debateable. But still he played a major role, even if most of his achievements were done through others. Directly due to his actions he brought all these men together to do great things. If he wasn't there Guan Ye would most likely be a bandit, and Zhang Fei would be a butcher all his life. Finding great talent, the diamonds in the rough and give them the oppertunity they need is a talent on it's own. There are so many great men and women in the world that don't know their real potentional, if you're a person that has the talent to undercover and use said potentional... So yea directly or indirectly without him fuck all would've happened.

[@codybonds]

Well said. The ability to recognize and cultivate the greatness in others is often overlooked.

[@Tespri]

"There are so many great men and women in the world that don't know their real potentional, if you're a person that has the talent to undercover and use said potentional..." Isn't that exactly the trait that is must have for good leaders?

[@Dragons_Armory]

I have never been a Liu Bei fan but Lou Guanzhong was dead right in picking him as essentially the fantasy protagonist of the story in ROTK. If you think about it, a naive farm boy with a secret lineage set out to correct a broken corrupt world with his oathsworn friends is the same template for characters like Luke Skywalker and Rand Al Thor of Wheel of Time series. He gets into conflicts with powerful villains and sees corrupt demi-Gods running the show, and then finally rises above many of them to become a leader. But I also find the fact that he was denied to have a Lord of the Ring, Star Wars type of ending ovation surprisingly modern (I mean historically he was relegated to fail) but I find even that kind of narrative choice...modern in a way. He failed, and I find that the audience could learn more from his failure than an infinite number of the likes of "mUH goOd kANgz" Aragorn. His his failure we also see a sense of Greek Tragedy, for the world to reduce his bros one by one, for him to- despite a life or restraint and benevolence (book version) launch an all out doomed assault against the Wu. It's is unwise and politically a failure, but he wouldn't be the person he is if he allowed those who killed the bros who defined him to live on~ and in the end it killed him by destroying his health. 3 Brothers, dying so close to each other's death as they have sworn to do. In his nihilistic failure we learn about the nature of political orders in this world in a brutal almost Ned Stark way. Yet ironically even in his failure (book version) we kind of like him more because although the world is corrupt and filled with cynical ruthless sharks, although he was stripped of his friends and assets endlessly until he is boiled to his bones, he would still fight on for a romanticized sense of brotherhood and doomed loyalty to the Han ideal. Despite his failure he fought endlessly against a corrupt world like a battered yet unyielding boxer. I mean what is the Romance~ about, if not the Romantic notions that was believed so much by this protagonist?

[@NobilisDesperatio]

This is fantastic.

[@katsuieshibata7493]

It's kind of weird that you are not a Liu Bei fan because I see you talk about him under a lot of videos.

[@Dragons_Armory]

​@@katsuieshibata7493 I would say I thought he was cool when I was little, I was going along with how my parents and many readers of ROTK viewed him. But after I learned about the historical Liu Bei I was rather disillusioned with the historical version of him. Compared to the achievements of the likes of Cao Cao and the Sun family I find Liu Bei's legacy lacking. The idea of Liu Bei far outmatches the real Liu Bei- who chief attributes includes a 6 degrees of separation of running into more dynamic characters, and loosing to them, and wanting lands that was not his (that he ended up loosing.) For Tian's sake how many old man's houses he is going to enter, to magically gets the whole province as an inheritance, just to loose it and covet something else? It seems his greatest assets is just resourcefulness in surviving and attracting powerful followers. Still- I will say that I acknowledge that he serves a vital nitche in both the political order of the 3K world and also in the narratives of the literature. In a realm of cynical sharks that all did away with the pretense of the Han and of a riteous order. He was the good ol boy (good ol, conservative Confucian boy) to still want to put the pieces together. The fact that he kept getting struck down and then try to rally for that cause is quite interesting. And although his views are already obsolete for his age, the fact that he stuck to this loyalist cause despite endless loss is still worth of respect. That doomed sense of loyalty, and need to create an alternative haven for his beliefs even though his brothers are dead and hard won lands are lost is really something. I find it quaint that the world order has already shifted and everybody else all lowered their head and found their places within the new order without protest but lumpy, big eared Liu Bei, either because of dumbness or stubbornness went to the mountains and still lamented the same dreams toward the Han dynasty. There is an element of Don Quixote in there, the age is already dead yet he still devoted to it.

[@XiangYu94]

Really well written / he’s kind of like a better written Jon Snow

[@katsuieshibata7493]

@@Dragons_Armory Historically Liu Bei had his share of victories that are attributed to Zhuge Liang in the romance for example, he was the one who defeated Xiahou Dun and Yu Jin at Bo Wan PO, he was the leader of his forces at Chi Bi etc. Then you ask how many times will he get his territory thanks to old men who died, I will give you the answer It happened one time with Tao Qian and here again, Liu Bei had to be crafty, he made alliance with the most powerful clans of the region (Mi and Chen) and used his influence as a capable general and the man liked by the common people to inherit the land which is the best way to conquer, Lu Meng did the same thing for the Jing province and I see nobody whining that he cheated and that Guan Yu would have defeated him otherwise. Then your second paragraph is weird because you start repeating the propaganda from the romance that Liu Bei was loyal to the Han, that everything was for the emperor, that he cried every night under the sky for his nephew suffering, etc etc. dude, I think everyone was after his own gain and while Cao Cao treated Liu Bei well he just wanted to be at the top of the scale not under somebody else. Liu Bei was a pretty ambitious guy, It's seen through his life.

[@jerrylin6756]

They should give Zhang Fei a unique passive where you can’t control when he duels unless one of the other brothers is nearby.

[@codybonds]

I'd love to see the beserk trait added into this game as well. It keeps you on your toes. Medieval 2 had may charge without orders which worked similarly.

[@MonosEx]

8:00 from this point on I get a bit teary, I chose to believe this was the kind of person Liu Bei was

[@HanQ28]

The history chapters tend to be written by the winner. And Liu Bei lost to Cao Cao. So even though politicians and warlords can never really be called “good people”, I’m still pretty sure that Liu Bei is one of the better ones in comparison.

[@desertratz307]

Same, I love this guy

[@amandag.6186]

@@HanQ28 why do you think the ROTK author made him the protagonist until hist death?

[@samuraijackoff5354]

Liu Bei has a smile of an angel.

[@marcoaraiza9381]

Liu bei was my first campaign and when they asked to make my own empire or restore the Han I chose to restore because I felt thats what Liu bei would've done irl

[@mayz-7822]

Actually Liu bei didn't know Liu biao's death immediately. He was fighting war against Cao cao in Fan city. and when liu cong (successor and the second son of liu biao) surrendered to Cao cao, he was in a very awkward position and had to flee to the other son of Liu biao who didn't surrender. zhuge liang suggested liu bei to attack xiang yang（the city where liu cong lived）and controlled jing province when they retreated, but he refused. they didn't have enough faith to against Cao cao at that time.

[@desertratz307]

Fucking love Liu Bei, this is the man I aspire to be.

[@hawaiianperson85]

Imagine telling someone that a sandle maker, a butcher and a bandit (or guard) would become 3 of China's greatest heroes

[@grandadmiralzaarin4962]

"I would rather the world betray me than I betray the world." Lui Bei three kingdoms 2010

[@Dunarcarn]

Cao Cao said that, not Liu Bei.

[@grandadmiralzaarin4962]

@@Dunarcarn Cao Cao said, "I would rather betray the world than let the world betray me." Liu Bei in the 2010 series Three Kingdoms says "Cao Cao has a saying that he'd rather betray the world than let the world betray him. I have a saying too, I'd rather the world betray me than I betray the world!" When he was advised to abandon the refugees fleeing Cao at Jing

[@Dunarcarn]

@@grandadmiralzaarin4962 Oof, I didn't notice the difference! Must have skipped over the tiny detail :0

[@grandadmiralzaarin4962]

@@Dunarcarn no worries mate

[@jmoa5758]

@@Dunarcarn Get fucking rekt. Lmao.

[@MrDioXIII]

6:35 - Looks like they kept Liu Bei's big ears.

[@codybonds]

But they don't touch his shoulders and his arms don't reach his knees. 2/10 for historical accuracy.

[@unifieddynasty]

Damn man, that Jon Snow comparison is apt.

[@codybonds]

That is my favorite line in the video.

[@Mlyodas]

This video is so well made. I've always wanted to learn about the three kingdoms, and this series was the best introduction. Thank you!

[@1987MartinT]

I've heard that Liu Biao was on Liu Bei's side when it came to opposing Cao Cao, but when Liu Biao died his heir, probably fearing that Cao Cao had become too powerful after he had taken Yuan Shao's territory, suddenly surrendered to Cao Cao, most likely hoping that he could keep his lands by becoming Cao Cao's vassal.

[@byecameron]

For those interested, there is a FANTASTIC movie called Red Cliff that's all about Liu Bei vs Cao Cao.

[@maning04]

So basically Liu Bei is the definition of lawful good in the three kingdoms?

[@InnocentBlaze686]

I’d say Neutral Good at least; doesn’t always follow the rules and is more concerned with people than loyalty to a faction

[@amandag.6186]

@@InnocentBlaze686 but probably the closest to LG

[@rangeewang7383]

now that you mentioned he switched sides so many times, I actually started to question his integrity....

[@zephyr3965]

While he switched sides when he didn't think the leader was worth to serve. As the introduction says, he is of a very noble mind, to a degree that sometimes impractical. And he had had so many opportunities to gain power and rise up on his own, but he gave them up when he thought it was immoral to do so. Plus, even when he doesn't work for someone he never backstabbed him, he just walked away

[@milesdavis607]

@@zephyr3965 Depends on if you're talking about historical or romance Lui Bei. Historically he betrayed 2 people outright - Cao Cao and Lui Biao.

[@silvertongue1144]

I don't know what integrity mean but not abandon the people while their run have something to count right?

[@harecrazy9104]

@@milesdavis607 Historically and in the romanced version, Cao Cao was a traitor of Han dynasty as he manipulated emperor Xian, made him a puppet and he was the one actually in control of Han empire, emperor Xian later on seek help from his relative and later on this relative formed sort of an anti Cao alliance which Liu Bei and Ma Teng were in it. Sadly, it failed and Liu Bei therefore fled and later on fight agaisnt Cao Cao, so Liu Bei’s so called “betrayal” is justified. As for Liu Biao, Liu Bei never betray Liu Biao, in fact Liu Biao died of illness and his son Liu Cong surrendered to Cao Cao, thus Liu Bei had to run, yet again.

[@milesdavis607]

@@harecrazy9104 I'm sorry, there were many Lui's, I meant the Lui that held the lands in the west. Cao Cao was a traitor as well, but so was Lui Bei in the end. I respect them both greatly, but it cannot be denied they weren't the most moral of historical characters

[@orangesoda4535]

Yeah, but what about the time he wiped out 500-ish soldiers by himself with a musou attack?

[@ForgottenSock1]

My man, you ever think about setting up a Patreon? Although your channel is relatively small for the moment, I know you'll grow large purely based off the quality of your edits and commentary and I'd love to support you as much as I can early on ♥️

[@redsol3629]

A king who comes from the people? A dream.

[@spartan1010101]

in my Liu Bei playthrough I managed to unite most of China before Liu Bei died and had 4/5 of the tiger generals. I tried to play the governance/monetary method of uniting everything but unfortunately all the warlords wanted was blood so that's what I gave them.

[@jaeheealbertchoi4920]

Jon Snow of ancient china. Now that is like a most accurate contemporary evaluation of liubei.

[@bosunbill9059]

01:43 Guan yu`s description here is quite inaccurate. He was not known as a bandit. He was a Beef Skewer hawker until he tried to save a Woman who was about to be sexually assaulted by two Officials in his hometown in Changsha. He offed the said official. After killing two official, he became a wanted man for murder. So he fled and got into a job as a Bodyguard of a seedy inn. Where he met ZhangFei and Liu Bei. Guan Yu was known and respected for his honour, virtue, loyalty and tenacity. Resulting in him being worshipped to this day as a deity in many parts of China, especially in Police Stations and Traids as a Martial god of Honour that ward off lesser man (of virtues, ie untrustworthy traitors and cowards) Cody however, was right about Guan Yu`s infamous Arrogance which resulted in his downfall and capture after losing the city of Jingzhou , a City where Liu Bei and Sun Quan of Wu was arguing for. Sun Quan at first tried to coaxed Guan Yu to join him, Guan Yu refusing to surrender, ended in his execution. ... Spooky Trivia and Legend : Cao Cao`s Death and Guan Yu`s Head. Sun Quan knew that offing Liu Bei`s Oathsworn brother will threw him into a rage, so he decided to scapegoat Cao Cao of Wei by sending Guanyu`s decapitated head to him. (Even tho that felled miserable and made Liu Bei go all out on Sun Quan out of revenge) Cao Cao , not being a idiot knew of this. Did made a respectable funeral for Guan Yu. However, this is where Three Kingdoms became a Ghost Story. Legend has it that Cao Cao at night went to open Guan Yu`s coffin to mock him. However as he did so, Guan Yu`s Corpse suddenly opened his eyes, giving Cao Cao a nasty Jumpscare. After that , every night Cao Cao has nightmares of Guan Yu haunting him and his health worsen. Not long later, Cao Cao died ot a stroke. Historians said this could be hallucinations of Cao Cao who was suffering a severe head tumour back then.

[@flipsterno8756]

Just want to point out that oath of brotherhood is never really happened in written history, but their relationship is really close that they often share the same bed to sleep

[@byecameron]

I'm so glad you're doing this, this is such a great way to teach people about Eastern history in a really engaging manner!

[@Diresilence]

Fictionalized, Liu Bei was the hero of the story. He is the people's champion, the lord who rules based on benevolence, and is idealistic despite it costing him over and over. He takes the high path, eventually leading to his goal. More Accurate? He was a good man, but a leader has to make hard choices. And at the end of the day, he was all about the people, with personal honor and his own life being secondary. So yeah, he probably did underhanded things, compromised his honor for political power... but in the end you could still call him a good but flawed man. Because no leader worth their salt will ever be completely free of taking the darker path to reach the destination.

[@rangergxi]

Your script writing is simply excellent.

[@virusguy5611]

Liu Bei on normal difficulty in Romance is... an oddly enjoyable and not too hard of a campaign. Yeah you have to deal with early rebels and Cao Cao, but well... you have Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to his Xiaohou brothers. Plus having Kong Rong as a staunch ally helps a bunch.

[@siddynmagae6038]

And you can also get Zhao yun

[@jiaweichew3370]

Cao Cao is a deceiver and ambushes, your best bet is to annex as much of Han Empire as possible and be temporarily friendly to Yuan Shao as he pays well for negotiations. The only time I defeated Cao Cao as a character and empire was by by having 3 full fledge militia armies mainly made up of polearms and archers since Cao Cao likes to bring reinforcements and mainly Calvary or infantry.

[@bones4464]

In DW, I would always play Shu characters first.

[@siddynmagae6038]

They have the best generals. Wei had the best leader. Wu has the best boy band. Comes with the fan girls

[@Doobahoka]

Shu is usually the starting campaing, Wu is the buffer, then wei and Jin since their stories are literally a continuation

[@SlaaneshChampionMako]

I hope you do Gongsun Zan soon, he is my favorite.

[@ZetsubouGintama]

Jon Snow of China lol Like Cao Cao is Tywin and Lu Bu is Gregor.

[@zeflute4586]

Lu Bu is not as loyal as Gregor. Maybe Xu Chu, a warrior served Cao Cao his whole life, known for freakily strong and fierce.

[@ZetsubouGintama]

@@zeflute4586 Xu Chu is gentle giant with kind heart but fiearce when battle. Gregor is an savage and barbaric who only kill pillage and burn. May be Lu Bu is too good for him.

[@zeflute4586]

@@ZetsubouGintama True, Xu Chu is like Grute.

[@meltingskeleton2082]

The ONLY reason I give Liu Bei the benefit of the doubt is due to the fact that both Tao Quan and Liu Biao both had seen many winters.

[@thevoidlookspretty7079]

After reading the first chapter of the book, I’ve decided that Liu Bei is a himbo warlord, since his main goal is to become friends with the most virtuous people in China.

[@jmoa5758]

It's unfortunate that Liu Bei is the protagonist in the romance... because we all know he is not destined to unify China at the end. :( He did his best but it wasn't enough. It wouldn't be unified til long after his death.

[@harecrazy9104]

well none of the three kingdoms unite china so ya

[@james-97209]

@@harecrazy9104 technically wei United China for 50 years then the sima clan lost all of its brain cells and broke again this time in 16

[@TakCWAL]

Liu Bei was actually quite cleaver, if not a skilled liar. His claim to his lineage was never proven to be a fact, but he managed to use it and won the support of millions. Liu Bei claimed to be the descendant of Liu Sheng, Duke of Zhongshan, brother to the Wu Emperor of Han, a figure 300 years before Liu Bei's birth and notorious for his hedonist lifestyle (who also left wonders such as the jade burial suit, and a set of double-headed dildo). The said duke would end up siring at least 120 sons. Liu Sheng was simply the perfect candidate for Liu Bei to claim imperial lineage.

[@unifieddynasty]

What do you mean by "never proven to be a fact"? To what extent can we prove any historical lineage as "fact"? We rely on historical records to prove Liu Bei's ancestry as we do for any historical figure.

[@TakCWAL]

Except historical records do not prove that as a fact. Liu Bei’s ancestral lineage can only be traced to his grandfather, Liu Xiong, and anything else before that would have been guesswork. Liu Bei deliberately selected Liu Sheng as ancestor, because one, he knew it was impossible to trace, and two, he just so happens to live in a county where that lineage originated. When he made that claim, his competitors, such as Cao Cao, simply scoffed at the notion, dismissing it as nonsense. Even the Record of the Three Kingdoms noted: Liu Bei descended from Emperor Jing, but due to the passage of time, this is difficult to verify.

[@unifieddynasty]

@@TakCWAL It's a bit of a logical leap to assert that Liu Bei falsified his own ancestry simply because we only have proof up to Liu Bei's grandfather. Consider Occam's Razor -- that Liu Bei's contemporaries and subsequent historians have not denounced and rejected Liu Bei's royal lineage.

[@TakCWAL]

@@unifieddynasty This is not difficult to articulate. Liu Bei made claim to this lineage in his adulthood as a marketing ploy. If you believed it, great, less work for him. If you didn't, then he could force you into compliance with a level of political justification. Liu Bei's contemporaries did not dispute or denounce this lineage mainly because they didn't have to. Most of Liu Bei's rivals either scoffed at the notion or dismissed it completely. Moreover, common opinion at the time held that the Han Dynasty lost the mandate of heaven and needed to be replaced anyway. Han loyalists cling to the idea not only because they desire a restoration of the Han Dynasty, or that Liu Bei may or may not descend from a royal lineage, but because Liu Bei had an actual army to secure their interests. To your second point, the most amicable answer you have from subsequent historians regarding this subject (if they didn't outright call him a liar) is something along the lines of 'this claim cannot be verified due to passage of time' as noted in the aforementioned 'Record' of the Three Kingdoms. In fact, for 800 years after the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei was viewed as an obstructive force to the reunification of China, and that Cao Cao was the designated hero who sought to restore peace back to China. This view only changed during the Southern Song Dynasty, where Liu Bei received a historical hero upgrade due to political necessity, and subsequent Romance of the Three Kingdoms published during the Ming Dynasty further cemented this position.

[@unifieddynasty]

@@TakCWAL Again, you are making logical leaps and passing on your assertions as facts. Your original position is that Liu Bei lied his way into his Liu lineage but you have absolutely zero proof of this. You are simply stating that the multiple historical records on Liu Bei are spotty and that contemporaries of Liu Bei somehow tolerated his claim of Liu ancestry. This does not at all prove your original position. All other points you bring up regarding Liu Bei's deuteragonism are tangential.

[@tuck295q]

I killed Cao Cao in 60 turns hahaha oops. I changed history.

[@Wanderer628]

Can Cao is stupidly easy to beat as Luo Bei.

[@Quintaner]

I chose Liu Bei for my first campaign, because if I can’t have Lu Bu, I at least want to have Guan Yu (his weapon is cooler anyway)

[@randomdude4136]

You can play as lubu faction after you unlock dong Zhou by getting to king rank once

[@Quintaner]

@@randomdude4136 Yea I know I was just talking about my first campaign, since obviously those are unlockable

[@amandag.6186]

@@randomdude4136 or if you defeat Dong Zhuo personally once

[@JemRau]

Benevolence 9000

[@hydroxychloroquine5078]

I killed Liu Bei and his associates as Meng Huo in the campaign after a battle. They died on the same day.

[@kenm3ng121]

Liu Bei sounds much like a M&B MC

[@tsarzamancorpdna]

Will there be a cutscene where Liu Bei yeets his baby son after Zhao Yun saved himm

[@XZhang-cf1oe]

well Liu Bei is famous for his long arms reaching even below his knees so... no harm done

[@thomasdaywalt7735]

a man of the people to unite and restore and banish chaos a Chinese king Arthur

[@fusiongaming5749]

That was good man I like you!

[@oneintrovertedguy280]

Thanks for the vid!

[@jotaiqc18]

A officer of tao qian killed cao cao father i think.

[@hentaioverwhelming]

Zhang Kai is the officer's name. He was a former Yellow Turban/bandit/rebel and in CA's Three Kingdoms game, he is a general who serves the Yellow Turban general Gong Du. Cao Cao had always wanted a reason to take Xuzhou and his father's murder provided the justification. Also, Tao Qian is a prick because he would imprison people who didn't want to serve him and even attempted to kill Sun Ce's family simply because Sun Ce was Yuan Shu's vassal.

[@jokerofMI6]

Liu Bei was most likely just protecting his “property/assets” from falling into Cao Cao’s hand when he moved the peasants.

[@arles1124]

And risk them slowing him down? The peasants flee on themselves, no one wants to be massacred XD

[@FriendlyYandere]

Now that the game is out, I can say that the kind of player Liu Bei for, is the aggressive expansionist. Because Liu Bei can annex Han's settlements and the fact there are so many Han's settlement near Liu Bei's starting position, the only option is to aggressively annex as much as you can, don't let Kong Rong capture any Han's Settlement, but don't attack him, instead join a coalition with him and let him take out Yellow Turban to the north and have him be the buffer between you and Yuan Shao. After that, either expand west to link up with Liu Biao, or expand south to take out Sun Jian.

[@codybonds]

I linked up with Liu Biao but can't convince him to unify. So I've now found myself in a very awkward position of needing his lands but allied to him.

[@FriendlyYandere]

@@codybonds You can use the threat of war to force them to be absorbed, You'll get about 22 trustworthiness for your trouble but you'll still complete the quest. Personally I would recommend expanding south toward Sun Jian instead, if left alone, he's going to fuck you in the butt.

[@aaronr2134]

Damn that was good.

[@alexsuschevski4237]

Hey Cody, great work! Your unit cards, though - is it a mid? Which one?

[@codybonds]

You can toggle these unit cards in the interface options. CA included them after many (including myself) complained that the original fog shrouded ones were unreadable in battle.

[@alexsuschevski4237]

@@codybonds oh, great news! I googled the unit cards topic, as I didnt like em as well, but found complaints posts only. Thank you!

[@billkenneth6582]

some Chinese history researcher thinks he is humble and be loved by people，and some said he is cunning and covered the truth of himself，anyway，he is the best man who can persuade the best warrior and best strategist to follow him，that's what a true leader do！

[@SaretGnasoh]

And they follow him in his lowest point

[@KoeiKatsune]

Hard to believe guan yu was a mountain bandit before meeting liu bei

[@codybonds]

Zhang Fei was a butcher! Liu Bei seemed to have the ability to inspire those close to him.

[@Pls_dont_eat_macat]

Lu xun are laughing now i guess 😂🔥🔥🔥

[@mr.sharpie2206]

Where did you learn your Romance lore? Zhang Fei was a butcher, but Guan Yu was a farmer and Lui Bei was at that time a shoe maker when they met. Not sure where you heard Guan Yu was a mountain bandit, but that isn't correct according to the Novel.

[@tylerassady9118]

What wasnt guan yu a guard from romance of the three kingdom lore?

[@Deper91]

I’m on about turn 50 of his campaign, never got that dilemma :( that would have made starting out sooo much easier...

[@randomdude4136]

The event for succession should trigger exactly at the end of 194. If you havn't gotten it either tian is already dead or its a bug

[@briant.5858]

You ever heard of Laszlo Montgomery of China history KZbin channel? If only you can do one collab with him :)

[@solidraven6986]

Liu biao died from old age lol...and recapturing their ancestral land? You mean he took the lands from Liu Zhang lol

[@SlaaneshChampionMako]

What sources did you have stating Guan Yu was a mountain bandit?

[@hello_world704]

If i remembered correctly, Guan Yu killed someone back in his home town and was on the run ever since. So he was a wanted criminal before he joined Liu Bei.

[@GarkKahn]

Yuan shu next please

[@flerkan2802]

his militia units have their upkeep cost? is it worth a second upload to fix that? I would also say I like this video but Im more of a Cao Cao fan

[@codybonds]

Halve. Meaning half upkeep cost.

[@vikingnusantara]

The correct way of pronouncing dong zhuo is tong zhuo, everything in d is pronounced as T in Chinese

[@arles1124]

Not quite, t is t and d is d, you can check the 2010 3 kingdoms TV show to find out the Chinese prononciation of the names. the point is, due to the early pinyin systems, many “d” sounds are mistakenly translated as “t”, such as Taoism/Daoism, which has always been pronounced as “Dao” in Chinese.

[@TreeFrogOnATree]

Is Liu bae?

[@AnimeNoel]

i never played total war before but is it possible to work with cao cao as liu bei for the rest of the game?

[@codybonds]

It is. You can form alliances with anyone. And if you keep backing their wars and siding with them in disputes they'll love you for it.

[@AnimeNoel]

@@codybonds Thank you! Siding with Wei all the way XD

[@MedievalFolkDance]

In reality, you just need to hack old graphics cards and sell them on. That's how to win China!

[@user-dd8vo7or2d]

Damn you got the whole comment section laughing

[@user-dd8vo7or2d]

Cao Cao did nothing wrong

[@-Zevin-]

Guan Yu, "The mountain bandit" what?! Where in the world are you getting this, do you have a source? I have never heard Guan Yu referred to as a bandit and that's quite a big and negative tittle for someone who is revered and worshiped to this day. This is the complete antithesis of who Guan Yu was. Sorry but this is kind of a enormous mistake.

[@codybonds]

At the age of 23 he killed the local magistrate and fled into the woods. 5 years later he reappears, now deadly with the blade, and joins Liu Bei's army. He had to acquire those skills somewhere. Early stories paint him as a Robin Hood-esque figure, roaming the lands in the interim. So it's a logical conclusion.

[@-Zevin-]

@@codybonds Except it's stated absolutely nowhere in the romance of the three kingdoms or the records of the three kingdoms that he was a bandit. He met Liu Bei after he fled from killing a local magistrate yes, but it was portrayed as more of a vigilante crime. In the Moss Roberts translation published by the Beijing foreign press it says, and i quote "I am from Jieliang in Hedong, but i had to leave there after killing a local bully who was persecuting his neighbors" *Making the leap from Guan Yu killing a corrupt or immoral official described as a bully to him violently attacking or murdering innocent people to take their stuff is a leap that i entirely disagree with.* A leap of logic that again isn't supported by any written records fictional or historical. With banditry being entirely antithetical to Guan Yu's persona and legend. For the record I like the series of videos going over the legendary figures from the Romance of the Three kingdoms. Anything to spread the knowledge and love of this wonderful work of historical fiction is a great thing, but a seemingly small issue like this i feel deeply misrepresent a really important figure such as Guan Yu, I wouldn't take issue if it was about a irrelevant side character. He isn't just a minor figure from a old novel but someone who is found in statues and in the homes of millions of people From China, to Korea, Thailand, Japan etc. I say this as someone who used to live in Asia, where my father in law had a 5 foot tall bronze statue of Guan Yu in his dining room. Calling him a bandit is a insult, and unsupported by reason or record.

[@chrisg5219]

The fact that there isn't any non-fiction history book about the 3K era is a tragedy. Unless you want to read the novel or REALLY old primary sources there's no option forewarning the history of this period.

[@louiswu6300]

no, there is a three kingdom 三国志 Wrote by chen shou 陈寿 is real history, not fiction. You can find it in china. And it was written in ancient Chinese. The language is very neat.

[@harecrazy9104]

There is OK, the records of three kingdoms written by Chen Shou and plenty other Chinese historical text either

[@hentaioverwhelming]

Records of the Three Kingdoms was written by someone who lived and survived that period. The author was originally an official of Shu-Han before Jin took over, hired him, and had him write a history of that period. It is the most definitive account of the events of that period and formed the basis for the "Romance" novels to be written over a thousand years later. Kind of like how we have historical records of the Greek-Persian Wars from survivors of that period and ended up with Frank Miller's 300 as a comic book and then as a movie.

[@vulcanjoe8258]

Re upload?

[@codybonds]

Yeah. I screwed up an important factual detail and wanted to correct it.

[@cjsteward4250]

Liu Bei is more resourceful than anything, yea he cared about the people, but he pretty much betrayed every Lord he was under, leech land from them and even attacked his own kin for land... Caring for the people is what a good king does true... But as a Ally hes one of the worst.

[@dayumthicc530]

Can i play this game with cpu i5 9400f and gpu nvidia gtx 1060ti 4gb ?

[@codybonds]

Easily with Medium settings

[@dayumthicc530]

@@codybonds ty

[@ThePancakeMan]

Liu bei is just chinese oda Change my mind

[@user-dd8vo7or2d]

Cao Cao > Liu Bei

[@李荣-n7s]

cao cao--- pure evil liu bei---pure virtuous but seems caocao is more popular? maybe because caocao is cooler than liubei.....

[@hectoriiibongconuqui7106]

There is a reason that in the saying 'Speak of the Devil and he shall appear', 'Devil' is replaced with 'Cao Cao' in Chinese.

[@user-dd8vo7or2d]

Cao Cao is a reformer. He knew the bullshit of "mandate of heaven" just won't cut it for the future of China. Cao Cao > Liu Bei

[@alexanderrahl7034]

Ive been wanting a total war game set in china for so long. And i was so friggin hype when three kingdoms was announced. I was hoping for a genghis dlc so i could finally play my favorite historic character. I preordered the game. I waited, excitedly. Then the game dropped and it...it was just so, fucking, bad. Absolute waste of money. I was and still am incredibly disappointed. It doesnt look or feel like total war, and i cant play it longer than 5 minutes before uninstalling again. I prefer thrones of Brittania over it, and thrones isnt thay high on my list either tbh.

[@codybonds]

Genghis is likely to be the follow up. Like Attila was for Rome. Or Napoleon was for Empire.

[@alexanderrahl7034]

@@codybonds i doubt it. They really went all out wanking the chinese with this one. It would be way too offensive to them im betting. He is the guy that nearly wiped out their race after all 😕

[@fourthaeon9418]

more like the legendary propagandist.

[@Scroopulous]

Ummm Guan yu murdered a little girl just to prevent an alliance. Thats hardly a Jon Snow decision. Lui Bei is more like Robert Baratheon than Jon Snow.

[@sensitreezentertainment9003]

This was personal favorite video you made. And I don't particularly like Liu Bei.

[@zurinarctus1329]

Liu Bei is actually a douchebag in history, but he was over glorified in Romance of Three Kingdoms.

[@Schnitzelklopfer]

This game was such a failure, the battle mechanics got weakend to make diplomacy stronger. I don't play a total war game for Bad battles.

[@Reagan77497]

I hate this company. Make game wrong with history, such a insulting Chinese national history.

[@CoffeeSuccubus]

ROTK: Liu Bei good guy Historical: Actually snakeish asshole