What little history there is behind Nanman chieftain Meng Huo suggests he had a rough go of it.
He appears in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms novel, in which he's notable for being captured and released by Zhuge Liang seven times during the Nanman's rebellion against the Han before finally admitting defeat. Total War: Three Kingdoms' new The Furious Wild expansion tells this story, and while it expands Three Kingdoms' already impressive map, it begins as a much more constrained experience.
The Furious Wild starts you off in the southwestern jungles of Three Kingdoms' feudal China, taking the role of one of four tribal leaders. The Nanman people are affiliated only by shared culture, and the tribes live in a state of uneasy peace as the events of Three Kingdoms are getting underway. They can either unite and survive, or be crushed by the sweep of the Han empire as it consolidates its power and inevitably pushes at old borders.
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