The Complete Total War: Three Kingdoms Unit Tier List (All 208 Units)

Welcome the first of many complete guides for Total War: Three Kingdoms. Here, I will rank all 208 units spanning across the base game and all DLCs for the game based on my over 3,000 hours of experiences in playing single player, legendary difficulty campaigns on romance mode.

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00:00 Intro
00:28 Militia Units
04:16 Sentinel Units
06:32 Champion Units
09:53 Strategist Units
13:58 Mounted Ranged Units
15:06 Vanguard Units
18:46 Commander Units
19:44 Siege Units
21:48 Dragon Units
24:39 Imperial Units
30:56 Base Game Faction Unique Units
48:22 Eight Princes Units
55:27 Mandate of Heaven DLC Units
58:27 A Furious Wild DLC Units
1:01:17 Fates Divided DLC Units
1:14:17 Yellow Turban DLC Units
1:32:09 Mandate of Heaven Yellow Turban Units
1:41:11 Bandit Units
1:49:25 Nanman Units
2:00:38 Outro

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[MichaelTaylor-yzss]

I think most of who follow TW and follow Serious Trivia will agree on these: Three Kingdoms is the best TW to date and Serious Trivia is its best content creator.

Thanks man. Keep doing it. This game is deep. I learn something new from every episode.

[welfdeath]

The best TW 3K content creator delivers once again .

[Samuraikush]

This is basically a holy text in the three kingdoms community.

[mikloskoszegi]

People often complain that 3K has a small unit roster, but this is not true. It has a very restricted unit roster (restricted by general's color, general's rank and the extremely spread out reform tree), and sadly a large amount of units isn't really worth recruiting making the roster feel much smaller than it actually is. Luckily mods exist so it's not that hard to fix some of these issues, but it's really a shame. It's clear the game was made to be somewhat of a spiritual successor to Shogun 2, but Shogun 2's much smaller roster is just so much better designed. Still a great game, and I'm still salty CA dropped it. Thanks for the videos ST, you helped me a lot with 3K, making it one of my favourite TW entries.

[RKGrizz]

I cant believe I am watching a 2 hour video on units but here I am.

[arishokvok]

"Give me 6 skilled spearmen, 6 lancer militia, skilled archers and trebuchet; then China will be dominated"

[williamhoward]

The effort of making this is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[Sion]

Very well done! Love that you showed the unit cards with all the stats

[KanSLay-zmtb]

I can’t believe this game is 5-6yrs old. I still play with the same excitement everyday like the day it came out.

[demigodace]

I remember watching the 3 kingdom preview streams, before the game launched and balance patches, militia could use formations and stuff like that. Ji militia were so overpowered they'd beat anything early to midgame and put the hurt on generals, good to hear that the balance patches did their job and brought this cheap early game generalist unit to its proper place

[glenfarmer]

Yesterday at work i was listening ro your 3 year old Sun Ce campaign. which got me starting a Sun Ce campaign. You sound a lot more confident these days, and I'm glad you've grown as a content creator. Thanks for the hours of entertainment at work brother, and keep it up.

[arstanbekovich]

I cant believe that someone still making good Total War: Three Kingdoms videos, TW3K most underrated TW game

[Zilong]

I have literally been trying to research this exact kind of information to decide when to use militia, unique, standard and reform units at various stages of campaigns. You're a godsend ST, thank you so much for your work and your channel!

[seasonsinchaos]

Hah, one of my favorite units is actually the heavy mounted archer. I like using them in my campaigns. Regarding the household cavalry, I did an epic Liu Yan campaign where Cao Ren was my heir. I eventually was able to get all the reforms for the household cavalry and had Cao Ren, Yuan Shang, and Zhou Tai with a truly glorious army of 18 household cavalry. Watching them charge headfirst was just amazing!

An amazing video and effort!

[shaunmclorie]

I think watching your channel and trying new things is what keeps me playing 3K

[skyrmish]

Zhanmajian is very underrated here. They're a realiable all-rounder through the early and mid game as they demolish both infantry and cavalry with all their bonuses and scare combined; I'm a fan of sabre infantry as well, but I like having a mix of both in my armies. They're amazing on offense but can also hold ground with charge negate from their Sentinel. I recruit Zhanmajian infantry pretty much every chance I get in my legendary campaigns until they get replaced by Protectors of Heaven.

I think the repeating crossbow also deserves a higher tier for just how hard they counter any unit trying to charge at them. They can even focus down and kill the toughest enemy generals before they can get into your lines to wreak havoc. And with their sheer damage output they often end up with twice the kills compared to my regular crossbows whenever they get to unload all their ammo.

[HD-fcds]

Just wanted to jump back into three kingdoms and my oh my i did not expect to find such a holy grail of tier list up to date. Thank you 👍🏻

[nicholasricardo]

Finally I've been waiting for this video! I'm a little suprised how your evaluation of certain units has changed (cataphracts down in F, rapid tiger in B) since the original unit tier lists.

[fanyechao]

camp crashers are actually very good for lubu as Gaoshun has reduced upkeep for them as they are Lubu's only reliable infantry option

[sebyroa]

Waited so long for this, ty very much ST!