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Warlords of Three Kingdoms: Ma Teng 马腾


Ma Teng, the frontier general of the west, having descended from the famous Han dynasty general Ma Yuan who put down the rebellion of the Trưng Sisters in Vietnam, the Ma family had been faithful stewards to the Han cause for centuries. Stationed in the west, Ma Teng was charged with guarding the boarders against the many Qiang tribes in the region. The Qiang were proto-Tibetans. Ma Teng was recorded to have good ties with the Qiang people, at the start of the realm wide conflict he held western China as his own. His son Ma Chao would eventually join Liu Bei after Cao Cao annexed north western China as his own.

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henrique said…
i just saw the first gameplay trailer of three kingdoms and it seems they are using counterweight trebuchet as artillery, is it even possible historically? i know traction trebuchet was invented during the warring states period and the counterweight version didn't appear until the crusades

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQX6qBiCu9E&t=87s

moment: 1:15
January 16, 2019 at 3:36 AM
Dragon's Armory said…
No it was not historically accurate, it is one of the nitpick pet peeves I had with the game. Same with the color scheme of a lot of the buildings. They are painted with red beams but it should be black during this era. Well, and the large amount of chainmails I see.

But the counterweight version was not introduced to China untl Mongke Khan brought Persian ones into China during his campaign to finish the Song army.
January 16, 2019 at 12:02 PM
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