How could he destroy the empire by getting crusaded by catholic as a revenge for Ylva and Johan count less attack on them HOW COULD YOU EMPEROR JONN!!!
There’s also the fact the reformed religion can’t excommunicate. That gives a major reason for the Catholics to join Crusades, even if they offer almost nothing. Overall, Jon really didn’t change the religion enough, and the changes he did make are a bad combo, Spiritual faith head and Great Holy Wars, because the faith head’s AI spams it.
@@o-mangaming5042 reform, yes (go from unstructured paganism to having it coded). You can still make a different faith afterwards as long as that ruler hasn't done it before and the ruler isn't head of faith
@@unknowguy9642 It should be a quote from Jon from one of the Fall Guys vids where he ALMOST got the crown and fluffed up his jump. He then proceeded to excuse himself with "If I were more competent I should've won this" or something along these lines.
John isn't more the failure of your fellow Astaru nations? Emperor Jonn fought off a myriad of catholic nations on his own while not even a duke showed up to defend the true faith. Even if he lost, the failure is one those who failed to show up for him
Blame it on the fact Jon barely changed the faith when he reformed it, and the changes he did make, Spiritual faith head and Great Holy Wars, is an awful combo. Also, most vassals probably still follow the unreformed faith, so they can’t even join.
Jon, it's a bug in the game with the ransoms. When you take stewardship perks, the ransom number jumps up, but the game still only pays the base price despite saying they'll pay more. Ironically, when they don't have the full amount they say they will pay, they actually will pay what they say. So while you'll never get 255 for a duke, you can get 200+ if they have 200+ gold but less than 255.
You can let them go for a hook and afterwards demand the money using the golden obligations perk. This way you' ll receive the amount the game displays in the ransom screen.
I feel like Emperor Jonn doesn't deserve to take the blame for the loss. His best general couldn't be bothered to show up, and none of his major allies joined in.
Why didnt he fight? Because he had his own war. Why did he have his own war? Because he could? Why could he do it? Jon lowering the crown authority : I have no idea why all of my vassals started fighting each other. Nope its clearly Jon fault.
Jon, stop being obsessed with placing important vassals on the council! You're shooting yourself in the foot. Apart from one specific lifestyle perk, which isn't even that useful, council position is only opinion modifier. You can offset it in many other ways. Unless you are literally facing a rebellion, just ignore them, and put the most skilled people to work.
"Oh dear, we seem to have a succession crisis on our hands..." [Clicks on character, moves mouse over the little flag representing the title of the Kingdom of Sweden, clicks it, moves mouse over the button "Remove Law", clicks button.] "Good, glad to have that crisis sorted. Sure is a load off my mind..." -Excerpt from the book "All the things Jon should do, but probably won't"
Scandinavia: *Just lost a big chunck of their territory in a crusade, most of their more capable leaders and soldiers are dead and their king just lost his "hat wearing priveleges".* The viking Pope: HEY GUYS, GUESS WHAT WE ARE DOING AGAIN?
There's not *really* a succession crisis. Jon would still have the empire and his personal land. He's just being particular about wanting a kingdom title as well which frankly is entirely inconsequential. Letting the kingdom go would actually help rationalize the empire a lot and there's no good reason that dukes should be reporting directly to an emperor anyway.
@@sagecolvard9644 not if he just gives the kingdom away to someone now instead of trying to keep it. That's why there's no succession crisis. He has a "but I really want this lesser title" crisis.
@@TauAlphaVu Or he could just remove the elective law from the title and the kingdom will inherit the same all the other titles and he doesn't have to give anything up.
Jon. Seriously. You don't need to break down and reform your armies, just split them into groups smaller than the supply limit and let them forage between battles. You can play like Napoleon!
Watching the War Score against Zeeland just tick closer and closer to 100% was making me quite anxious considering that was a holy site which (if I remember correctly) helped with supplies, that thing Jon called "meh" in the early game. Of course maybe it didn't help that much. I'd like to look on the bright side.
So, Jon made inheritence male preferrence because he had a terrible firstborn daughter a few generations ago. Is it time to switch to gender equalty maybe?
Feel like jon needs to play on speed one when he's at war because these last few episodes have been just him frantically panicking and not fixing really obvious and crushing problems with his country. Like getting rid of elective, hiring mercs, or even remotely trying to improve and modernize his men at arms corps
48:40 I love that the name Spare is still floating around in the world. I see an Odd Sparesson and a Prince Spare Johansson. If you don't remember, he named one of his extra children "Spare" in a previous episode because that child wasn't really needed
There needs to be a time limit in between Great Holy wars that is bigger than what they currently have it. It should be the exception, not the rule, that 1 ruler would fight in multiple crusades or great holy wars. Also that not actually getting the ransom money is stupid, let's hope they fix that.
Not to mention effectively being punished for bad decisions by the viking pope. In my second playthrough and in my religion I made my family the Astari pope so that I call the shots
Most vassals are likely still following the unreformed faith. Doesn’t really matter though, since the whole reason most Catholics will join Crusades even if they offer almost nothing is because they can become excommunicated, but they can’t in Jon’s.
@@alexis_electronic they always have, each space, don't remember what they are called, can only replenish a certain number of troops. So when you only ever doom stack... Since never.
Jon, split the armies to recover suplies , half stacks in Scotland should be in the supply limit, it's better than disbanding and re-raising. Make Scandinavia elective, so at least you can control who inherit sweden + the imperial title.
@@c6q3a24 that is an issue, BUT at least in some circumstances it's extremely efficient, like if' you've mostly destroyed the opposition and want to siege as much land as possible.
@@ManyATrueNerd you idiot, why didn't you bring your king to the fight, so he can get crusader trait ? and plz, for the love of thor , separate your siege army from your fighting army, so your fighting army doesn't starve to death doing nothing.
Jon I don't understand why 30 minutes in you ignore your vassal (Alf) with level 21 steward. I rarely appoint incompetent vassals to council because I can usually improve relationships in other ways while hiring characters most suited for the positions. In this case you have a vassal who will make you more money. That said, if I didn't have a level 21 Steward, I may be able to bring one in by marrying them into my court. I like to arrange marriages for everyone on my courts in order to cultivate a super-race through genetic and psychological/sociological engineering. Great game.
He could have also split up his army to mop up the broken troops in scotland while also sieging the stuff that had been taken, but for some reason Jon just never ever splits his army. Even as he constantly complains how effective the AI armies are with several stacks that are near each other tackling different problems and then comes together for big battles.
I think it is a mindset carried over from ck2 and learning how to adapt to it in ck3, this is the first ck3 series after all. And you never know it might show up in an "let's talk all about the things Jon got wrong" episode.
@@TauAlphaVu there were alot of split off units surrounding a main unit not siegeing or fighting anything. Plus the numbers were rather close so that If he did designate units to seige specific territories he might not have enough to take out the main force
As I've said under a previous episode: if you don't like the projected outcome of an election, just get f***ing rid of elective succession. It's not hard to do, you have more than enough prestige to do it.
So on one hand, I've come to accept that House Gren might be cursed. On the other hand, a cursed Emperor who wins many glorious battles but only births daughters isn't as bad as we usually get... We take those.
It's a bug with the golden obligations perk. He was getting the default amount of gold which was often way less than what was being shown and just blended in with his monthly income
ADD MORE CAV TO YOUR ARMY JON. Just like in Total War, they kill a lot of fleeing men once the battle is won. Your victories will be more beneficial if it takes the enemy longer to recharge
Hey Jon, there seems to be a bug with the ransom, you need to ransom for favor and then sell the favor for money. This bug is definitely related to the selling hooks perk and is definitely a bug. Basically, the developers thought it would be nice to save you the hassle of ransoming for hooks and then selling the hooks by combining it but forgot to save the actual money in the ransom amount variable. What you see in the ransom window is how much you'd get for the hook, but when you actually get paid you only receive what you'd receive for a normal ransom. To get around it for now, just ransom for the hook and then sell the hook.
Jon, when you invade a kingdom you get to keep EVERY COUNTY YOU SIEGE! Not just the claimed kingdom. England is really big Jon, and there's a lot of land outside the primary title that you can get.
Not true unfortunately. Unless the Religion is equal, women will dislike women on the throne because they're women. Make sense? No of course it doesn't
@@metetural9140 And due to annoying hardcode for no reason, Equal religions just collapse pretty rapidly because no one ever suggests matrilineal marriages. They're just hardcoded not to, for some insane reason.
@@kabobawsome Ya, I lost the most powerful and stable empire in the world (and the game) because I had daughter as heir and ignored my crandchildren (becouse I had dozzens) and could pick anyone to be heir. For some reason MY FEMALE HEIR married normally, and so did her 3 sisters. Meaning the dynasty died and I lost. This was with everything, religious and legal, being "equil" The gender laws in this game just don't work with the AI
@@CaptNSquared You have to have female dominant society for the AI to ever consider matrilinial. From a gameplay flavour point of view it makes sense, with some chance that big and mighty dynasties actually, on occasions, will go away, but it's a disaster for the player if he doesn't watch out for AI-arranged marriages from heirs down the line.
@@kashk42 The point is the AI should treat female heirs like male ones. The AI get a -1000 penalty for "heir to high up the inheritance line" for males, but not females. Then their are things like the voting system where an equal society just doesn't quite work all the way. I've seen non matrilineal marriages in gender-equal societies where the female heir is married to a lowborn
Jon, please buy more Men-At-Arms. Losing some money during the wars is far better than just losing the wars because you can't knock their armies out. At least some light cav to get more confirmed kills so they can't just go away and merge into a bigger army.
Jon for god's sake break your foces to smaller ones that don't lose supplies until you engage in a fight. you don't have to run massive armies just to break them down every few months, they are also less effective in a fight when supplies are low.
Ylva, the First of her Name, Basher of Skulls, Ripper of Heads, Mother of the Dynasty, Grand Earner of her Hat, the Brave, the Magnificent, would be proud.
oooooh boy 6184 seconds of the purest, most unadulterated form of entertainment, this just might be the end of me wish me luck Update: I died and am now dead rip me
@@danpinney1104 War, war has changed. It's no longer about nations, ideologies, or ethnicity. It's an endless series of proxy battles, fought by mercenaries and machines. War--and it's consumption of life--has become a well-oiled machine. War has changed. ID-tagged soldiers carry ID-tagged weapons, use ID-tagged gear. Nanomachines inside their bodies enhance and regulate their abilities. Genetic control, information control, emotion control, battlefield control…everything is monitored and kept under control. War…has changed. The age of deterrence has become the age of control, all in the name of averting catastrophe from weapons of mass destruction, and he who controls the battlefield, controls history. War…has changed. When the battlefield is under total control, war becomes routine.
@@jerrydavis174 I don't know if that's a reference to something else, or a comment on where we're headed, but it works either way. CRISPR will give the government genetic control, and we're already using microchips to change the face of industries. Give it ten years, there won't be any cashiers or self checkouts anymore. Stores out west are already microchipping their products and setting up scanners that hit everything in one shot, plus the chips in your debit/credit cards. Nobody needs to do the work for checking people out unless the machinery goes faulty.
Keep on bringing the norse faith to the world! I am enjoying this series a lot and I hope you can bring it to helenistic levels of conquest once again 🙂
If Jon ever figures out you can split armies to keep them under supply limit and park them in occupied territories to regain supplies he will be unstoppable.
You know, everytime jon says something about invading England, Danelaw, something something something, it always went out of the window because of the never ending crusade of asatru and catholicism or some random stuff coming out of nowhere, so i bet he won't be doing it next time
I imagined this following scenario in my head. Emperor Jonn Johansson praying: "O, Týr I give thee thanks for thy help. We have pushed the infidels back, and have broken their once arrogant egos. I ask for more help in these coming days, for these are tumultous times. Also, send blessings upon my great grandmother, Duchess Ylva the Brave. I hope that with this recent victory, I am not a disspointment in her eyes. And finally, I know that whether it is under my reign, or that of my sucessors, Scotland will be in Scandinavia again." Duchess Ylva the Brave looking down from Valhalla: "Yes my boy, Týr wills it."
i know king jon has a bad rap but, couldn't you say the only reason you were able to keep that war going was because of his income generation? Or on the flip side, would you say that a king with more prowess would have just mopped the floor? thinking the former though.
The key is defense in detail, or divide and conquer. When there are a truckload of bad guys but they aren't concentrated, go after the little groups piece by piece.
You can remove the elective law from Sweden's title for 1500 prestige Also, negotiate release for hooks then cash in with golden obligations. That secures the proper money for the prisoner.
You cant blame the new emperor for losing everything in the first place anyway, his father basically stopped caring cause he was dieing and the world hated him for no real reason. So the odds stacked against him and yet he was shamed. He has earned it back
Jon for Odin's sake remove Scandinavian Election succession law. Go into Sweden Kingdom title and in a bottom left corner hit remove law and boom all the goodies to the house the Earns hats
Do you have golden oblingation? Bug report: We are aware of the issue, it has already been added to our bug database. Issue here is that the Perk Golden Obligations is mistakenly inflating the ransom values in the window, but you always get the correct amount of gold.
I thought that Golden Obligations was reporting correctly, as it's giving you the total of what you'd get for the weak hook. It's just not GIVING you that amount if you ransom them. I've resorted to going through all the trouble to ransom for the hook and then cash that in for the full amount.
Jon, when you have the Golden Obligations perk there is a bit of a glitch when you ransom prisoners. The only way to get the money it shows is to ransom them for a hook and then demand payment for said hook. The devs intended for this to be done automatically, which is why the amount of the ransom is higher, but it doesn't actually work as intended. You need to do it manually.
53:30 I think a lot of those 245's were being paid by the same person, but the game fails to take into account once that person pays one of the ransoms they wont have money for the rest? Edit: nevermind, apparently it's a bug with the golden obligations perk according to others
I think he way over-estimates the importance of using powerful vassals on the council. I would always pick a nobody with 20 over a powerful vassal with 10, especially since you can then give them titles that make them powerful, and theyll love you for it.
@@cypherfunc True. I also consider "Extort Subjects" to be free money; occasionally you get an opinion penalty with a vassal for a couple of hundred gold? Great, may I have another?
Big oof on my part 😅 lol though I wonder if he could just be using his schemes to sway powerful vassals into positive opinion while using better suited plebs to fill the council
Maybe you should try going on the offensive with the crusades? Like, if the Pope is happy to pay for 25k mercs to stomp around northern Scotland, go and occupy Rome.
honestly sometimes its better to just surrender against crusades than fight them off, even if you could win them, they can drag on for decades and weaken you far worse than the land loss.
All of Catholic Europe invades Scandinavia because of repeated Viking crusades under previous rulers
Jon: "How could Emperor Jonn do this"
How could he destroy the empire by getting crusaded by catholic as a revenge for Ylva and Johan count less attack on them
HOW COULD YOU EMPEROR JONN!!!
Pope: Scotland, you are Catholic now.
Scotland: No.
Pope: Mission failed, we'll get 'em next time...
Next time: ...
I think why no one joins the crusades are because half of you empire is ol norse which means they don't believe in the viking pope.
There’s also the fact the reformed religion can’t excommunicate. That gives a major reason for the Catholics to join Crusades, even if they offer almost nothing. Overall, Jon really didn’t change the religion enough, and the changes he did make are a bad combo, Spiritual faith head and Great Holy Wars, because the faith head’s AI spams it.
@@austincantswim3383 Yeah, unless they have a strong base economic the spiritual head of faith isn't worth it
If the next empress has learning focus, maybe they should make a new asatru religion?
@@MrDUneven The tooltip for doing that claims you can only reform the religion once, ever.
@@o-mangaming5042 reform, yes (go from unstructured paganism to having it coded). You can still make a different faith afterwards as long as that ruler hasn't done it before and the ruler isn't head of faith
Jon: Emporer Jonn is incompetent
Also jon: Playing as emperor jonn
Jon playing jonn ? Does that mean that the incompetence of emperor jonn is becourse jon is incompetent?
@@charmeskolen5719 yes. So I hope when Jon was recording this he was in rags with no cloak and crown
"I would hav won if I were more competent"
@@NightMind0* if emperor jonn
@@unknowguy9642 It should be a quote from Jon from one of the Fall Guys vids where he ALMOST got the crown and fluffed up his jump. He then proceeded to excuse himself with "If I were more competent I should've won this" or something along these lines.
"Alright, witch. I need a son. Please use magic to get me a son."
According to Game of Thrones, there's no way this could possibly go wrong...
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@@George-vv5ok Ever...
John isn't more the failure of your fellow Astaru nations? Emperor Jonn fought off a myriad of catholic nations on his own while not even a duke showed up to defend the true faith. Even if he lost, the failure is one those who failed to show up for him
Blame it on the fact Jon barely changed the faith when he reformed it, and the changes he did make, Spiritual faith head and Great Holy Wars, is an awful combo.
Also, most vassals probably still follow the unreformed faith, so they can’t even join.
Jon, it's a bug in the game with the ransoms. When you take stewardship perks, the ransom number jumps up, but the game still only pays the base price despite saying they'll pay more. Ironically, when they don't have the full amount they say they will pay, they actually will pay what they say. So while you'll never get 255 for a duke, you can get 200+ if they have 200+ gold but less than 255.
He missed out on what, 2500 ish?
@@k9e2v9i3n considering they paid him 30 when saying he would get over 200, might have been even more.
You can let them go for a hook and afterwards demand the money using the golden obligations perk. This way you' ll receive the amount the game displays in the ransom screen.
@@tinydoorknob5823 that is a really good idea does it work?
I feel like Emperor Jonn doesn't deserve to take the blame for the loss. His best general couldn't be bothered to show up, and none of his major allies joined in.
Why didnt he fight? Because he had his own war.
Why did he have his own war? Because he could?
Why could he do it?
Jon lowering the crown authority : I have no idea why all of my vassals started fighting each other.
Nope its clearly Jon fault.
@@ertvonzukonigvonrahm835 Absolute Crown authority is the greatest.
Jon, stop being obsessed with placing important vassals on the council! You're shooting yourself in the foot. Apart from one specific lifestyle perk, which isn't even that useful, council position is only opinion modifier. You can offset it in many other ways. Unless you are literally facing a rebellion, just ignore them, and put the most skilled people to work.
Agreed, I never bother, I always put people who are the most qualified.
I do this as well. Also mercs... Mercs are very useful provided you pay attention to who you're hiring.
"Oh dear, we seem to have a succession crisis on our hands..."
[Clicks on character, moves mouse over the little flag representing the title of the Kingdom of Sweden, clicks it, moves mouse over the button "Remove Law", clicks button.]
"Good, glad to have that crisis sorted. Sure is a load off my mind..."
-Excerpt from the book "All the things Jon should do, but probably won't"
I knew Emperor Jonn was generous but I can't believe he accepted 200 magic beans in exchange for my cousin back. What a good guy.
Scandinavia: *Just lost a big chunck of their territory in a crusade, most of their more capable leaders and soldiers are dead and their king just lost his "hat wearing priveleges".*
The viking Pope: HEY GUYS, GUESS WHAT WE ARE DOING AGAIN?
Did it or didn't it work? Never question the Voice of Odin!
"COWABUNGA IT IS!"
-Not Lesbian Viking Pope
Jon, for Odins sake change Sweden off elective, you've been able to for like 150 years
Me looking at the title: "It is true, every second leader is cursed. Also, on a slightly unrelated note, I miss Duchess Ylva the Brave."
Don’t we all
Me too
But after watching the full video I'm thinking that the curse has been lifted
Ylva the Undying!
Why is Sweden still elective? In the midst of a succession crisis this seems like an easy fix.
Wouldn't Jon's primary heir change if he votes for Loki? He anyway seems to be of a better branch.
There's not *really* a succession crisis. Jon would still have the empire and his personal land. He's just being particular about wanting a kingdom title as well which frankly is entirely inconsequential. Letting the kingdom go would actually help rationalize the empire a lot and there's no good reason that dukes should be reporting directly to an emperor anyway.
@@TauAlphaVu All his personal land goes with the Kingdom, not the empire.
@@sagecolvard9644 not if he just gives the kingdom away to someone now instead of trying to keep it. That's why there's no succession crisis. He has a "but I really want this lesser title" crisis.
@@TauAlphaVu Or he could just remove the elective law from the title and the kingdom will inherit the same all the other titles and he doesn't have to give anything up.
36:22 I like how the lady who liberated Scotland was from the House of Bruce. Maybe she was the ancestor of Robert in this alternate reality.
Jon. Seriously. You don't need to break down and reform your armies, just split them into groups smaller than the supply limit and let them forage between battles. You can play like Napoleon!
I mean, weird seeing how Jon deemed a rule 'Administratieve' but all that has been happening is etherneal war
When you give the accountant a claymore instead of a calculator.
@@arthurgomes5188
Gives a new meaning to cutting costs!
Vikings had a slightly different definition for "administrative" in this alternate timeline.
jon: i'm going to take the witch as my concubine!
me: jon. jon no she's a lesbian. jon noooo
Did the Witch put a spell on Jonn AND jon???
She's a lesbian? That's never stopped me before!
shes worth bringing other wives into the mood, isnt she? (ck quotes)
Watching the War Score against Zeeland just tick closer and closer to 100% was making me quite anxious considering that was a holy site which (if I remember correctly) helped with supplies, that thing Jon called "meh" in the early game. Of course maybe it didn't help that much. I'd like to look on the bright side.
Just got off work and opened my computer to see this. STOKED!
Same! Love opening up youtube to find a nice hour long treat!
Emperor Jonn definitely earned his hat.
So, Jon made inheritence male preferrence because he had a terrible firstborn daughter a few generations ago. Is it time to switch to gender equalty maybe?
Feel like jon needs to play on speed one when he's at war because these last few episodes have been just him frantically panicking and not fixing really obvious and crushing problems with his country. Like getting rid of elective, hiring mercs, or even remotely trying to improve and modernize his men at arms corps
48:40 I love that the name Spare is still floating around in the world. I see an Odd Sparesson and a Prince Spare Johansson. If you don't remember, he named one of his extra children "Spare" in a previous episode because that child wasn't really needed
Also jon, get light cav. They can chase down retreating troops. Means that you can actually kill these armies instead of doing small bites
Wonder if he'll notice Novograd took a big chunk out of Finland next episode...
Or the other bits of Ireland way to the north
There needs to be a time limit in between Great Holy wars that is bigger than what they currently have it. It should be the exception, not the rule, that 1 ruler would fight in multiple crusades or great holy wars.
Also that not actually getting the ransom money is stupid, let's hope they fix that.
Not to mention effectively being punished for bad decisions by the viking pope.
In my second playthrough and in my religion I made my family the Astari pope so that I call the shots
Most vassals are likely still following the unreformed faith. Doesn’t really matter though, since the whole reason most Catholics will join Crusades even if they offer almost nothing is because they can become excommunicated, but they can’t in Jon’s.
Hey jon, don't forget that dominated territory is consider friendly for your supplies to recover :)
Since when do supplies recover?
@@alexis_electronic they always have, each space, don't remember what they are called, can only replenish a certain number of troops. So when you only ever doom stack... Since never.
speaking as if Jonn has discovered the 'supplies recover' mechanic
Jon, split the armies to recover suplies , half stacks in Scotland should be in the supply limit, it's better than disbanding and re-raising.
Make Scandinavia elective, so at least you can control who inherit sweden + the imperial title.
Armies seem to gather supplies so slowly, I'm fairly confident it's faster to break down and re-raise...
@@ManyATrueNerd what i'd really like to see is you taking advantage of the "station besiegers" button.
@@c6q3a24 that is an issue, BUT at least in some circumstances it's extremely efficient, like if' you've mostly destroyed the opposition and want to siege as much land as possible.
@@ManyATrueNerd you idiot, why didn't you bring your king to the fight, so he can get crusader trait ?
and plz, for the love of thor , separate your siege army from your fighting army, so your fighting army doesn't starve to death doing nothing.
All of these points are true, though he's been doing pretty decent:)
MATN: I'm swimming in money. I also need more troops.
Mercs: I'm joke to you?
Apparently this is a bug with the "Golden Obligations" perk that misrepresents what you are getting.
goddamn, at this point, Jon & Claire are movie producers......nearly 2 hours!!!!
Jon I don't understand why 30 minutes in you ignore your vassal (Alf) with level 21 steward. I rarely appoint incompetent vassals to council because I can usually improve relationships in other ways while hiring characters most suited for the positions. In this case you have a vassal who will make you more money. That said, if I didn't have a level 21 Steward, I may be able to bring one in by marrying them into my court. I like to arrange marriages for everyone on my courts in order to cultivate a super-race through genetic and psychological/sociological engineering. Great game.
Just abolish the elective system. The entire succession crisis could be fixed with 3 clicks.
Why in God's name doesnt Jon split off his army? He could have sent 3000 troops to save zeeland and come back
He could have also split up his army to mop up the broken troops in scotland while also sieging the stuff that had been taken, but for some reason Jon just never ever splits his army. Even as he constantly complains how effective the AI armies are with several stacks that are near each other tackling different problems and then comes together for big battles.
I think it is a mindset carried over from ck2 and learning how to adapt to it in ck3, this is the first ck3 series after all. And you never know it might show up in an "let's talk all about the things Jon got wrong" episode.
@@shawnluu2556 It should be noted: it was also not an optimal mindset in ck2.
@@TauAlphaVu there were alot of split off units surrounding a main unit not siegeing or fighting anything. Plus the numbers were rather close so that If he did designate units to seige specific territories he might not have enough to take out the main force
As I've said under a previous episode: if you don't like the projected outcome of an election, just get f***ing rid of elective succession. It's not hard to do, you have more than enough prestige to do it.
I love how one of the key factors that's helping him win so many battles is the fact he finally has Loki leading his army. XD
So on one hand, I've come to accept that House Gren might be cursed. On the other hand, a cursed Emperor who wins many glorious battles but only births daughters isn't as bad as we usually get...
We take those.
And another thing: losing your hat in our House is perfectly acceptable if you then earn yourself a bigger one!
I'm a simple man, I see an 1hr 43 min episode of CK3, I call of work.
Damn. When Loki shows up, he _shows up,_ huh? 😆
Fantastic wars! But the problems with unpaid ransoms were very worrying! :(
It's a bug with the golden obligations perk. He was getting the default amount of gold which was often way less than what was being shown and just blended in with his monthly income
@@greatmightypanda I see, thank you for the clarification! :) I hope the bug will be patched up :)
I can't help but think of the prisoners in Emperor John's dungeon quaking at the thought that any day they could be next for the pagan sacrifice.
ADD MORE CAV TO YOUR ARMY JON. Just like in Total War, they kill a lot of fleeing men once the battle is won. Your victories will be more beneficial if it takes the enemy longer to recharge
I love how Novgorod has just taken a big bite out of Finland at the end.
Hey Jon, there seems to be a bug with the ransom, you need to ransom for favor and then sell the favor for money.
This bug is definitely related to the selling hooks perk and is definitely a bug.
Basically,
the developers thought it would be nice to save you the hassle of
ransoming for hooks and then selling the hooks by combining it but
forgot to save the actual money in the ransom amount variable.
What
you see in the ransom window is how much you'd get for the hook, but
when you actually get paid you only receive what you'd receive for a
normal ransom. To get around it for now, just ransom for the hook and
then sell the hook.
Jon, when you invade a kingdom you get to keep EVERY COUNTY YOU SIEGE! Not just the claimed kingdom. England is really big Jon, and there's a lot of land outside the primary title that you can get.
“Hah, we beat the Scandinavians in battle. It seems they aren’t as powerful as they thought.”
Jonn: *Brings 11,000 men*
Loki: *Joins the war*
My heart stopped when I saw the run time
Part 40:
Viking Pope: "Guys I want to attack the HRE!"
Jon: "Crap, no no no, redirect to uh... Tibet. Yes. Great Holy War for Tibet... *Sweats*"
In the short, medium, and long run that thousand gold at the end would probably be better spent improving your infrastructure and your army.
When he captured the heir he actually had the niece pulled up. The heir was already of age and could have been converted. Classic perception -1 haha
"It seems or age of great commanders is over." If only there was a way to invite badasses to your court.
Jon don't forget to use the Jom Vikings order
You could give women a chance to become empress's and then more people would vote for your daughters
Not true unfortunately. Unless the Religion is equal, women will dislike women on the throne because they're women. Make sense? No of course it doesn't
@@metetural9140 And due to annoying hardcode for no reason, Equal religions just collapse pretty rapidly because no one ever suggests matrilineal marriages. They're just hardcoded not to, for some insane reason.
@@kabobawsome Ya, I lost the most powerful and stable empire in the world (and the game) because I had daughter as heir and ignored my crandchildren (becouse I had dozzens) and could pick anyone to be heir. For some reason MY FEMALE HEIR married normally, and so did her 3 sisters. Meaning the dynasty died and I lost. This was with everything, religious and legal, being "equil"
The gender laws in this game just don't work with the AI
@@CaptNSquared You have to have female dominant society for the AI to ever consider matrilinial. From a gameplay flavour point of view it makes sense, with some chance that big and mighty dynasties actually, on occasions, will go away, but it's a disaster for the player if he doesn't watch out for AI-arranged marriages from heirs down the line.
@@kashk42 The point is the AI should treat female heirs like male ones. The AI get a -1000 penalty for "heir to high up the inheritance line" for males, but not females. Then their are things like the voting system where an equal society just doesn't quite work all the way.
I've seen non matrilineal marriages in gender-equal societies where the female heir is married to a lowborn
Jon, just a small hint, Its called Crusader kings, so expect a lot of crusades
Thank you Jon for the long long video, i really love them, hope u make more long videos in future
In the rulers of this dynasty there seems to be about five Orvars to every Ylva, boy you gotta love Scandinavian sucession.
Jon, please buy more Men-At-Arms. Losing some money during the wars is far better than just losing the wars because you can't knock their armies out. At least some light cav to get more confirmed kills so they can't just go away and merge into a bigger army.
Lord we can only hope he does
Jon for god's sake break your foces to smaller ones that don't lose supplies until you engage in a fight. you don't have to run massive armies just to break them down every few months, they are also less effective in a fight when supplies are low.
Trying to rationalize an empire with crown authority allowing internal vassal wars will always be a losing battle
'The pope has all the money in the world'
Jon says, with 1290 ducats in his pockets.
Just wow what a war. Think John has definitely earned his hat
Did anyone else notice Novgorod got really big at the end and looks like it ate a part of finland?
Jon, you can remove the election requirement from the Swedish throne for nothing but prestige. Crisis solved.
Ylva, the First of her Name, Basher of Skulls, Ripper of Heads, Mother of the Dynasty, Grand Earner of her Hat, the Brave, the Magnificent, would be proud.
oooooh boy 6184 seconds of the purest, most unadulterated form of entertainment, this just might be the end of me wish me luck
Update: I died and am now dead rip me
Jon "Never ending Holy Wars!" Delete the word Holy... History is never ending war
War never changes.
@@danpinney1104 War, war has changed.
It's no longer about nations, ideologies, or ethnicity. It's an endless series of proxy battles, fought by mercenaries and machines.
War--and it's consumption of life--has become a well-oiled machine.
War has changed.
ID-tagged soldiers carry ID-tagged weapons, use ID-tagged gear. Nanomachines inside their bodies enhance and regulate their abilities.
Genetic control, information control, emotion control, battlefield control…everything is monitored and kept under control.
War…has changed.
The age of deterrence has become the age of control, all in the name of averting catastrophe from weapons of mass destruction, and he who controls the battlefield, controls history.
War…has changed.
When the battlefield is under total control, war becomes routine.
@@jerrydavis174 I don't know if that's a reference to something else, or a comment on where we're headed, but it works either way. CRISPR will give the government genetic control, and we're already using microchips to change the face of industries. Give it ten years, there won't be any cashiers or self checkouts anymore. Stores out west are already microchipping their products and setting up scanners that hit everything in one shot, plus the chips in your debit/credit cards. Nobody needs to do the work for checking people out unless the machinery goes faulty.
@@o-mangaming5042 It's the opening of Metal Gear Solid 4
@@jerrydavis174 That's cool.
Keep on bringing the norse faith to the world! I am enjoying this series a lot and I hope you can bring it to helenistic levels of conquest once again 🙂
Loved what you did with Emperor Jonn in the beginning 😂 great way to start
1:26:11 "I do need a new concubine! This 35-year-old lunatic lesbian seems like the *perfect* person to get more children!"
If Jon ever figures out you can split armies to keep them under supply limit and park them in occupied territories to regain supplies he will be unstoppable.
You know, everytime jon says something about invading England, Danelaw, something something something, it always went out of the window because of the never ending crusade of asatru and catholicism or some random stuff coming out of nowhere, so i bet he won't be doing it next time
Oh my! A nearly two-hour episode of the best video game series on TH-cam? Well, I shan't say "no" to that!
Jon chastises Jonn, who defeats men who worship a god followed by John, and for such Jon lets Jonn be a true J boy again
I imagined this following scenario in my head.
Emperor Jonn Johansson praying: "O, Týr I give thee thanks for thy help. We have pushed the infidels back, and have broken their once arrogant egos. I ask for more help in these coming days, for these are tumultous times. Also, send blessings upon my great grandmother, Duchess Ylva the Brave. I hope that with this recent victory, I am not a disspointment in her eyes. And finally, I know that whether it is under my reign, or that of my sucessors, Scotland will be in Scandinavia again."
Duchess Ylva the Brave looking down from Valhalla: "Yes my boy, Týr wills it."
Aww
Those pesky Catholic crusades. Revenge will be good when the whole world is under Viking rule
You tell em Jesus!
Wait what
Inshallah, brother.
Hol up
Jesus, you feelin' alright?
Jesus is right
Watching Jon throw good money after bad in those useless wars was... painful.
Did anyone notice that King William defeated King William for the Kingdom of England.
Me: *sees video length"
Me: "Dis gun b gud"
This series is carrying 2020 for me
i know king jon has a bad rap but, couldn't you say the only reason you were able to keep that war going was because of his income generation? Or on the flip side, would you say that a king with more prowess would have just mopped the floor? thinking the former though.
The key is defense in detail, or divide and conquer.
When there are a truckload of bad guys but they aren't concentrated, go after the little groups piece by piece.
You can remove the elective law from Sweden's title for 1500 prestige
Also, negotiate release for hooks then cash in with golden obligations. That secures the proper money for the prisoner.
Jon: "I thought you were a doctor but your just good with swords. Well...it's basically the same thing."
Priceless.
You cant blame the new emperor for losing everything in the first place anyway, his father basically stopped caring cause he was dieing and the world hated him for no real reason. So the odds stacked against him and yet he was shamed. He has earned it back
Well, this was an epic episode. Didn't think you'd pull it off, Jon!
Jon for Odin's sake remove Scandinavian Election succession law. Go into Sweden Kingdom title and in a bottom left corner hit remove law and boom all the goodies to the house the Earns hats
By the way, you should be able to vassalize the Dutchy of Albany fairly easily now. Should help with the border gore.
I can already see the title. "It's an Albany Expression"
@@nessesaryschoolthing That's a good guess I think.
I didn't feel like sleeping anyways
This episode was amazing. So exciting.
Where is the norse holy order during all of this? Isn't this exactly what they're for?
They were hired by one of his allies, though I don't know if they participated much
Do you have golden oblingation?
Bug report: We are aware of the issue, it has already been added to our bug database.
Issue here is that the Perk Golden Obligations is mistakenly inflating the ransom values in the window, but you always get the correct amount of gold.
I thought that Golden Obligations was reporting correctly, as it's giving you the total of what you'd get for the weak hook. It's just not GIVING you that amount if you ransom them. I've resorted to going through all the trouble to ransom for the hook and then cash that in for the full amount.
Jon, when you have the Golden Obligations perk there is a bit of a glitch when you ransom prisoners. The only way to get the money it shows is to ransom them for a hook and then demand payment for said hook. The devs intended for this to be done automatically, which is why the amount of the ransom is higher, but it doesn't actually work as intended. You need to do it manually.
53:30 I think a lot of those 245's were being paid by the same person, but the game fails to take into account once that person pays one of the ransoms they wont have money for the rest?
Edit: nevermind, apparently it's a bug with the golden obligations perk according to others
Does John know how to use the sorting function to choose councilors based on skill? I don't think he does...
I think he way over-estimates the importance of using powerful vassals on the council. I would always pick a nobody with 20 over a powerful vassal with 10, especially since you can then give them titles that make them powerful, and theyll love you for it.
Yes, yes he does.
@@cypherfunc True. I also consider "Extort Subjects" to be free money; occasionally you get an opinion penalty with a vassal for a couple of hundred gold? Great, may I have another?
They are sorted by skill after it shows the powerful vassals.
Big oof on my part 😅 lol though I wonder if he could just be using his schemes to sway powerful vassals into positive opinion while using better suited plebs to fill the council
Maybe you should try going on the offensive with the crusades? Like, if the Pope is happy to pay for 25k mercs to stomp around northern Scotland, go and occupy Rome.
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honestly sometimes its better to just surrender against crusades than fight them off, even if you could win them, they can drag on for decades and weaken you far worse than the land loss.
Why don't you get more champions via invitation in order to improve your commanders? Am I missing something?
Jon's crippled attention span.