The Three Kingdoms Thread

Swooper

Swooper

Robin
Haha I agree, that it is funny. I guess some men just can't accept second place (Michael Jordan comes to mind).

I thought of the Yuan brothers as the funniest prominent characters. Basically both were born with silver spoons in their mouths and either one could've taken the throne with numbers alone... but as we know neither man was up to the task compared to Cao Cao.
 
Grodin

Grodin

Woodpecker
I was inspired to search for this topic because of the video game thread, literally everything I know about the three kingdoms is because of the video game.



ROTK II. I still load it up on an emulator and play it from time to time, and I get an adrenaline rush every time I hear the battle music. It's not right, really.

It's interesting reading this thread because all of what is posted here about the various leaders is well represented by the game. If I didn't know any better, I would think you all were describing a hardcore ROTK II session.

I've searched many times for a more up-to-date version of this game or something similar but it seems like all the best were only sold in the asian market and weren't translated.
 
ball dont lie

ball dont lie

Kingfisher
Gold Member
Sargon of Akkad said:
Nascimento said:
"The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide."
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Anyone know the original Chinese for this phrase?
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《三国演义》第一回：“话说天下大势，分久必合，合久必分

Most people just say this end part. What is long divided must unite. Long united must divide. 分久必合，合久必分

Its like in English most people just say, "The grass is greener..." Or "Speak of the Devil..." They don't say the whole thing, because everyones heard it many times.
 
Nascimento

Nascimento

Ostrich
Gold Member
Great to see this thread active again.

Coincidentally, I just resumed watching the series I referenced in this thread about a week ago. I never made it past the first 20 episodes, I got distracted.

Now I'm at around the 30 episode mark. Great stuff.
 
DamienCasanova

DamienCasanova

Ostrich
Gold Member
Grodin said:
I was inspired to search for this topic because of the video game thread, literally everything I know about the three kingdoms is because of the video game.



ROTK II. I still load it up on an emulator and play it from time to time, and I get an adrenaline rush every time I hear the battle music. It's not right, really.

It's interesting reading this thread because all of what is posted here about the various leaders is well represented by the game. If I didn't know any better, I would think you all were describing a hardcore ROTK II session.

I've searched many times for a more up-to-date version of this game or something similar but it seems like all the best were only sold in the asian market and weren't translated.
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Everything I know about the 3 Kingdoms I learned from "Dynasty Warriors"
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Belgrano

Ostrich
Gold Member
Funny coincidence.

I thought about starting to watch the 2010 version yesterday, but 95 episodes...that's a lot of my time.
Perhaps some other day.
 
JayD

JayD

Woodpecker
I read the manga "Kingdom", tells a story of Qin fighting against the 5 other states and united China. Not in the three kingdoms era, but quite good, I enjoy it. The military battles were such a large scale and the tactics used and strategy is very interesting. Mildly read Sun Tzu's "Art of War", wouldn't mind reading some old school tactics in that era.
 
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sterling_archer

Hummingbird
I find this period of history interesting, together with the Sengoku Jidai of Japan, more because of what this period gave us, than what battles were fought and where.
This period was rise of famous generals that became examples of honor, duty and intelligence that survived for thousand years and more. Its no coincidence that many examples in Robert Greene's 48 Laws of Power stem from this period. They were really personifications of "Prince", hundreds of years before Prince was written by Machiavelli. Also this period gave rise to the philosophy, which will become prominent later when the China enters period of unification and peace.
 
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