Night combat in Total War: Three Kingdoms.
Night combat in Total War: Three Kingdoms. Sun Ren gets ambushed.
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Total War: Three Kingdoms hands-on — Escaping a deadly night ambush

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Total War: Three Kingdoms isn’t coming out until the spring 2019, but Sega’s Creative Assembly studio showed me one of the things that will be different: night battles.

After giving a glimpse of the detailed campaign map, the developers let me play a battle where the army of the female leader Sun Ren was ambushed at night by several different enemy formations. I played it on both the normal and difficult settings, but the battle proved to be quite difficult — and fun.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.