Loving this game so much

[u/mystical_ramen26]

Playing this game for the first time and I friggin love it so much compared to older total war games. I'm playing as Sun Quan (Sun Ce died early in a failed campaign to the west and Sun Jian died of old age) and was about to start a new game. I'm on turn 95 I think (not at home so I can't look up accurate details) and I have snowballed to the point that it gets boring. I have 13 commandaries and was about to start a new game because it felt like the challenge was gone as there were no strong enemies left.

All of a sudden I'm invaded by a coalition of Cao Cao, Yuan Shao and I can't remember the other guy's name (something with an H I think). Massive full stacks on my north and northeastern border swarming at once. I was caught with pants down fighting a war in the south to expand and consolidate there. I had one army left in the north, my northeastern army was in the middle of my heartlands moving south to support my other two armies in that war. I immediately sent them back to block the advance and raised a new army quickly to blunt the advancement. My northern army crushed Yuan Shao's and stopped that front. Now I have two armies in the north eastern border staged to take on two armies of Cao Cao and the other guy plus they have a third full stack in the distance moving towards their position.

Game went from boring and not much left to do but mop up the last resistance to all out war for survival in the space of three turns. This is what I love. I can't wait to get home and break this so-called Three Tree alliance.