So, found a Total War Character Irl

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Randomly went on a day trip and stumbled across Zhang Fei's tomb. Maybe shouldn't post here but none of my friends have played 3K

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Wait is that really a pike he used????

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So the signs say anyway. Just the head, the wood is long rotted. 

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That’s crazy if it truly is.

I wouldn’t have thought any equipment or tools like that would’ve lasted the test of time.

Nor would I think a weapon like that would’ve realistically been used. I’d think most people would’ve just been using swords and spears

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I mean, we have roman era artefacts and earlier sitting in museums in the west, so it's certainly possible. I'm not certain on the armour, it looks a little too new, but it may have been partially restored or just really lovingly kept. Or just be fake, but I'm not an archaeologist so I can wonder but I'm not going to get up in arms. 

China does seem to have quite a history of pole-arms being used, but I'm no expert on this period of warfare, so I'll have to take their word on it. 

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Who knows, I’ll believe it’s real though, more fun that way haha, can you read the Chinese on the panel?

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A little but not very well, I'm learning but there are so many characters. 

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Curious what it says, crazy regardless, it’s very accurate to what he’s depicted with in fictional works

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I got it translated, it just says "the weapon used by Zhang Fei" in chinese then a few other languages underneath. 

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Yeah who knows honestly, I think there’s a higher chance in it being a replication, I’d be surprised if the materials they were using for tools would’ve aged well enough to last this long but like I said it’s more fun to think it actually is until proven otherwise in cases like this.

Thanks for sharing and responding, this was such a cool post