Crusader Kings 2 - Part 24 - The Queen's English
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- Crusader Kings 2 continues, as Queen Yuselass begins a campaign to secure victory over England for good, assuming her own vassals can stop murdering each other for just a few minutes...
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Jon: "Thats not going to happen a second time!"
Narrator: It happened a second time
Jon the bleeding hands and feet thing was related to the holy order. The supernatural is real in this game and you need to realize that things like that can happen. Given the Queen is religious you really should’ve went for the zealous
S7Robin Does he know he can disable supernatural stuff?
I record with a phone why would you turn of glitterhoof
@@irecordwithaphone1856 praise glitterhoof the real god
"I'll take a handful of losses" - A thousand men sent to their death, the screams of the dying drown out the clashing of steel. The corpses of once noble warriors thrown away by their cruel liege pile around the survivors, soldiers blocked in by walls of their fallen brothers in arms. The walls of Dun Ailenne run red with the needlessly spilled blood of the sons of Cornwall.
The journal of King Connor: Despite my unfortunate death, I have found that after being escorted to hell, I am treated rather as a celebrity down here. Due to this, I have been able to continue moving forward my dark Master's purposes through my family, and have already destroyed the foolish Hektor, although I do not look forward to paying back that particular favor to Belthezor. With Yuselass unable to join the holy orders, Hektor's attempt to redeem the dynasty is placed temporarily on hold, though I fully expect that the Enemy will be pushing as hard as I to sway the course of our destiny. With luck, some of my offspring will have inherited my tendencies, and make it easier for me to exert my influence.
Very nice written, but... Queen Yuselass did joined the Holy Order, increased her rank in it, took a celibacy vows, dethroned the excommunicated King, apparently planning a pilgrimage and at the edge of becoming paragon of virtue (just 5 points of piety to become known as Queen Yuselass The Holy if I'm correct).
I'm gonna be planning on doing a short recap of the prior episode from the perspective of King Connor. Obviously, he's sexist enough and/or doesn't know enough about the holy orders to realize Yuselass can join, so that'll be in the next journal.
When king Connor died everybody prayed. For the savety of Satan since there was a high change that Connor was going to rape the old devil.
Jon RP is the best way to play this game always RP over min maxing.
Also one more thing about inheritance, there is a law to say land can't leave your realm if the owner gets a title in another realm it's a very good one to pass though I think it's locked behind a level of legalism IIRC
As a person who plays a lot of dnd: this. RP over min maxing, especially when the game basically tells you to RP by saying 'you' instead of just your ruler's name in events.
controlled realm inheritance is locked behind imperial registration, which is in turn locked by a whole load of other things.
Question, What's min maxing?
Darthzilla 1987 it’s maximising your gains with the minimum amount of work
Yeah, my first satanist king went to join Lucifer's Own only because the Dominicans kicked him out when he tried to steal an artifact... So I went with playing as an evil madman xD
18:35 yes john, you killed your retinue. Its a dynasty retinue, so it sticks around
Mister Being Correct over here, la dee da.
"I'm starting to see the problem with having vassals they keep attacking eachother."
No, no that's the great thing about vassals, as long as they are fighting eachother they aren't bothering you.
Also I don't think the person who attacked a neighbor because he went on pilgrimage should really talk about what's the holy thing to do.
Also powerful vassal is defined by how many direct vassal you have, he is definitely one of the five strongest vassals in your kingdom becauss you don't have many.
Also his wife joined the revolt, because she's his wife.
The only thing stopping you from having a cat and dog at the same time was you passing on the cat.
Charles Baldwin There is an event where one pet kills the other tho. There is also an event where you get extra bonuses when you see them getting along fine.
Yep, always absorbing their peers. Totally not making their liege feel nervous or anything that maybe they are going to eventually rebel.
If you went for immortality then she'd be alive longer so she'd get more events and be more likely to gain stats.
I was a little sad more because he passed up an interesting story. There's still only about a 1% chance he would have gotten it with his stats, without save scumming pretty heavily.
SourceOfBeing plus Cadoc would probably have just eaten her anyway
And Jon would constantly have to watch his back against any of the possibly hundreds of weak claimants throughout the world. Rejecting it for this character was probably the right choice. I hope it comes up again, I really want to see those stories.
Looking at his record of rulers dying of old age I really don't think Jon needed to worry or pass up a fun story.
It was a fake mystic though, so if Jon made it to the end his character would have been very likely to die. I won't say how I know in case anyone reading it wants to work out theirs in character, but it's an easy one to bing.
@@TheGrinningViking According to other comments on this video, because he had his Martial(war person) looking for the mystic and the one that showed up was really high in Martial it was actually really likely that she wasn't a fake and it was going to succeed.
STOP ASSAULTING THE BLOODY CASTLES!
I actually agree, (Note that i speak in the real world sense and not in the CK2 sense) castles were designed to keep people out. So assaulting the place directly is quite stupid. Specially a fortress, God and Bennet, Jon you saw what a fortress could look like yourself in Medieval 2. If built right, even a castle in just a flat piece of land could devastate a massive army, even if the defenders were to loose. Trust me, i know. I BUILD CASTLES FOR SHIT'S SAKE! In a realistic sense, in a way that's likely to be built.
If your gonna assault anything, assault a palace. Damn things are asking to be destroyed.
Darthzilla 1987 may I ask what you mean that “you build castles”? Sounds interesting!
I'm just sitting here screaming "Holy fucking impatience Batman!!"
In games that let me build. Like Minecraft or Fallout 4. In minecraft, after i built a castle, i challenge my friends to siege it in a historical way. And by that, i mean, ladder assault, siege tower (I usually let them build it near the walls along with the Battering Ram) and all that. Thanks to the custom NPC's mod, i let them make an army of there choosing (And i make sure they don't stick there health to over 9000 so its fair) and have them attack. The attackers win if they kill everyone, capture me, capture the keep, make me bored (Usually i'd laugh at there face if they can't figure out a strategy to get in but once i get bored that represents them starving out the castle) or simply... force me to surrender. How does that work? well it depends on what me mates do.
In other games, the A.I exist so i let them do the work. Which reminds me, i need to finish Krasbinstein castle in Stonehearth.
I know right? I love Jon and all but cant he wait just a little bit to starve the defenders out?
You should ask if the Duke of Connachta would like to swear fealty to you. Offer him vassalization. Since he's of your dynasty and you're powerful, he might just agree and enjoy the extra power. Then you'll be able to just attack Breifne at your leisure, as Aed of Connachta has a permanent de jure claim on Breifne. Do that, and you can just make the Kingdom of Ireland and thus the Empire of Cornwall whenever you please!
Word of advice, take the garrison Morale and fort level into account before assaulting. While assaulting it becomes a race of whether the attackers or defenders morale runs out first, and the morale of attackers decreases faster due to the losses they take doing it.
As a general rule, Cities are usually okay to assault, as unless they are capitals of rich republics, they are rarely built up to respectable fort levels, and Churches are usually okay to assault as well, as while they have a higher base fort level than cities, they are still require some major investment for that to become a true impediment to your attacks. Feel free to assault tribes whenever you want.
Castles are rarely worth assaulting due to the small morale bonus defenders get upon you beginning an assault usually combining with the high base fort level pushing the casualties you take through the roof, and allowing them to easily win the morale race.
All of this is of course in general, there are circumstances where assaulting castles is a great idea, and assaulting Churches or Cities is a nightmare. Best thing is to look at the holding's Fort Level and current morale every time you are thinking about assaulting.
Best rule of thumb is don't bother unless you outnumber 10 to 1, there are times when less is fine but if you are ever unsure 10 to one should be fine.
Jon just so you know, some of the Focuses can be used to upgrade suboptimal education traits! For example if you use the Rulership focus there's a chance you might level up your stewardship education.
The relevant focuses are
Diplomacy : Family focus
Stewardship : Business and Rulership focus
Martial : War focus
Intrigue : Intrigue and Seduction focus
For some reason it doesn't seem as if you can upgrade your Learning education trait, so that's something to keep in mind.
1:31:31 YOU HAD STIGMATA. IT WAS REAL.
I KNOW! I was so upset he didn't realize that! :(
yup, actively pursued getting stressed...
Also john. why the hell did you pass up he immortally quest line? Its not at all common and interesting as hell and you were like.. "meh, i dont wanna"
i think his line of logic was "i dont want yuselass to live forever"
I'm pretty sure that in this case he wouldn't have gotten immortality anyway because he rolled a fake mystic
@@salasy you are correct it might have even killed the queen.
donashcroft93 That would’ve been cool though. It would’ve continued the unlucky death’s of Cornwall’s Kings.
Since she's a Queen Jon would constantly have to watch his back against any of the possibly hundreds of weak claimants throughout the world. Rejecting it for this character was probably the right choice. I hope it comes up again, I really want to see those stories.
If she became immortal she would become even better over time. Oh well... AND STOP ASSAULTING THE CASTLES!
34:52 "Army of DIsappointment" I'm sure this army will go and do great deeds
I did not notice that.
Now that just motivates me to name my future commanders ridiculously stupid names.
(Still can't believe my heir is gay though....)
You know? when the series is done, expect me to gather all the titles of each episode from "Let me tell you a story" to whatever Jon calls the last one.
I'm telling you, that would make a great poem.
"The Queen's English, The English are revolting"
Ooh, that would sound great once its finished.
Fast becoming my favourite TH-camr. I got hooked on your Roman Empire series and this one is even better. Well done.
You don't need to set up a new marriage each time you want a non agression pact as long as you have some form of marriage tie to the ruler just right click on their portrait and it says offer non agression pact the only reason to get a new marriage is if they say no to the offer
Dont use assault!!!!
It should be used only when you have no warry about manpower/army-size OR when your troops outnumber defenders 10 to 1!!!!!
or when the moral is almost down and your armie needs to be somewhere esle immediately
Will we reach 24 hour episodes of CK2 by the end of this series?
Series final episode : 24h stream of CK2?
Thing is, this series is about 1/3 of the way done which means the 24 hour episode will amount to another 1/3ish
I hope he does 😊
Jon, your character is really pious right now, so if the pope likes you enough you can request an invasion of a country. You will become king of that country, and any land you occupied would be added to your personal domain. Love the series, rambling long form Jon is best Jon.
Jon would make a great lawyer.
Judge: This man has been imprisoned for (Insert reasons here) What say you!
Grandmaster of the Benedictine order: I call in my lawyer!
Judge: The pope?
Grandmaster of the Benedictine order: JON!
Jon: What's the problem here?
Judge: This man has been imprisoned for (insert reasons here) what say you.
Jon: Well let him out, he's really holy.
Thank you for doing the explanations as you go. This game, man..... this game.......
The best part is always guessing what Jon means with his punny episode titles...
"Army of Disappointment" - what a name...
Made it past halfway, am enjoying binge watching this. More interesting than TV.
Jon getting things wrong is "what Jon got wrong last time" :D
If you push a claim on a duchy for someone who isn't in your dynasty they go independent, they don't remain with the previous liege of the territory.
Also territories can't leave your realm as long as the laws are set properly. Watch out with people with favors pushing to change that law.
Also you can't lose vassals if they inherit land. You actually gain land that way. Vassalage is a link between characters, not land.
1 hour and 40 minutes! You’re spoiling us Jon
Doesn't that gain us initiation into Lucifer's own?
What if Jon has CK II planned for tomorrow? Back to back days of CK II would really spoil us!
"IM afraid they are sleeper agents for satan"
I fucking love this series so much. God damn it King Connor was the best thing to ever happen to this channel.
Jon Instead of giving land away just build an extra spot in the land you already gave that is empty and give that away instead yeah its expensive but it will give you more tax and troops in the long run.
Unicorn alert: That Munster revolt was a woman pressing a claim on a woman in a non-basque, non-tolerance 8 nation. That's UNBELIEVABLY rare.
Not really, the Countess had a strong claim on Munster, theres no special conditions when those can be pressed
And they were twins!
I flew over Cornwall yesterday. It was magnificent!
Jon's attitude to battles:
- Any defeat, no matter how minor = "having their arse handed to them"
- Any penalty from river crossings/hills = instant crushing defeat
Holy shit! A 1 and a half hour video!
This better have good drama.
This already sounds like a Game of Thrones episode.
I'm kinda glad that Connor became an important character because we share the same first name and all. But also I'm kinda sad considering... everything he did.
About invading Capitols; the war goal is the most valuable for war score, but as a second priority you should absolutely target not just the Capitol of your enemy, but all their personal holdings. This is a game of characters more so than nations. Personal holdings I think are worth more war score than vassal lands, but you also weaken them after the war is over. If they have no troops and bad income they will be in a weaker position in their own kingdoms and may be overthrown. Since truces are personal, you can keep taking lands as long as they keep switching leaders.
I love it when disappointment leads an army. "Army of Disappointment" made me chuckle.
7 territories in Ireland to be able to form the kingdom. If you appoint the hair to Scotland your hair then you will be able to form the de jure EMPIRE OF BRITANNIA
With the light infantry retinue it's very weak but good for making you look scary to the AI, whereas the heavier stuff is a lot fewer bodies but they're actually useful for combat and besieging (i believe pike-men are the best for sieges, though i could be misremembering)
also Jon, if i remember the immortality event correctly... that mystic was a fake anyway
Aye should have imprisoned them for their lies.
I believe the mystic was not a fake - their buffed status goes according to the status of the councillor that helped you, which in Jon's case is Martial. She had nearly 20 martial, that's pretty high. It is also very rare to have a mystic who isn't a fake, so i was sad to see her sent away :(
I mean, i don't think Jon would actually get immortality, but i would love to have seen the rest of the quest play out.
@@lolmandos actually it's the other way around, fake mystics are more common... And the even chain has several points that are very hard dice rolls anyway, immortality is unlikely
Sir Kollin That's what i said, very rare to have a mystic who isn't a fake and i don't think Jon would actually get immortality. I just think that one was ACTUALLY not a fake. And i really wanted to see how the events would unfold, even if it doesn't result in immortality.
it's based on the councilor you sent to find them, but generally if that relevant stat is below (i think) 15 base (that being before any modifiers from traits) they're a fake mystic and you're guaranteed to not get immortality. Fake mystics are the first failure point, and a common one.
After that there are 3 (i think) dice roll decisions, each with less and less chance of success... this culminates in a final decision that will either kill you, reincarnate you (a new child is spawned that has all of your traits), or make you immortal
Jon don't create your own empire just create the empire of Britannia by taking Scotland as that with Cornwall you'll probably own more than half of britannia,and that would let you easily take the rest of England and ireland
You need 80% for an empire but he should still form the dejure empire rather than the titular one.
@@donashcroft93 Technically, it wouldn't be titular. Scotland and Wales (and Brittany if he formed the kingdom) would become De Jure part of The Cornish Empire (or whatever he decides to call it), because the Empire of Brittania doesn't exist. If it did, the title would be titular.
The advantage to Brittania is those sweet sweet De Jure claims.
Welcome to "Armies of Cornwall", where today we see the Army of Disappointment in combat against rebels in Southern Ireland.
Build new holdings and give them to peaple with claims
I was thinking the same thing. Instead of giving land away just build an extra spot and give that away instead yeah its expensive but it will give him more tax and troops in the long run.
Watching this again 5 years later is wild. :D "sleeper agents for Satan" cracked me up.
i hope the fallout videos start lasting this long
*cough* YOLO *cough*
vow of celebacy is my goto way of dealing with gavelkind xD
Been waiting for this all week!
The former king of England only didn't join your court because he didn't like you. You could have given him a small gift and gotten him to join you.
35:34 "Army of Disappointment"
What a nice way to start the weekend.
“Throw them in the oubliette, you’re not going to last long in there...” you say that, I had one traitorous duke who survived 30 goddamn years in the oubliette, who I finally released when the Black Death was sweeping through his home counties, only for him to survive that too. At this point, the guy can have his freedom, he’s clearly immortal.
I like to think that Cadoc is still fighting the deamon inside of him and thats why he's still got the virtues.
There’s something quite wonderful about the ‘Army of Dissapointment’
The rule of thumb for low casualties during a siege is: if you have 10x more troops than the garrison go for an assault, otherwise siege manually.
I feel the people of Desmond will take it as a point of pride that the queen's armies couldn't breach the walls.
The cat and the dog _would_ have fought... you'd have had to give one away, or try to get them to get along... which would give you a 50% chance of a dead or lost pet plus getting rid of the other or 75% chance of depression... or them _really_ becoming good friends and giving you +1 diplomacy and intrigue, _and_ the +1 health from _each_ of the pets, for as long as they lived.
TL;DR, you _probably_ should have taken the cat, it'd have been worth it if you were lucky on the 50% roll.
(Plus, the cat can help you get better if you ever get depressed, which is _also_ true in real life.)
Marc B. Poblet or if you get sick, just eat the cat
Oh man! I just got an event where I got 50 more cats and a really good perk: I didn't know there were so many more potential outcomes!
What I don't get is the protection of virtual cats and dogs over virtual humans.
Jon is willing to murder, banish, possess or torture humans (even babies). But heaven forbid a cat and a dog fight
I was going to be very disappointed in Jon for not accepting the pet cat, but I'm glad to know that his rationale was right. I hope the event pops up again at some point.
I love that the only time Yuselass has brought up her Brittany colony is hir crazy vassal king that ate a king... nice
All hail the glorious 'Army of Disappointment'!
You want to hold two decently sized, possibly adjacent duchies ideally with all counties in them yourself. Holding more than two duchy titles will incur a stacking opinion penalty with your vassals.
Also, there is a small green arrow on the prisoner tab which will extend a side window where you can issue actions (or filters) on all of your prisoners (e.g. ransom them all if possible). Helpful if you have a lot of prisoners.
Jon youre doing the Monastery event where you hang out with people wrong: Youre supposed to do what lines up with *their* education trait, it even says so in the tooltip, so if theyre midas touched you talk about that, if theyre diplomatic you make small talk etc
+Many A True Nerd Tip: You can favorite children that you suspect is your kids on the character menu when you right click a portrait. It's located right next to the 'Locate' command. The kids will show up on the information menu off to the right side. I had to do this when I made my King Seducealot.
My King seduced the Empress of Charlemagne and when he died years later, I adopted the child that was ours. Made the child King of France (which was my kingdom).
Joe Derp That name is hilarious
45:50 That has a 75% chance of giving a temporary +2 to martial but,the event has a different result if you choose the stat that the character focused during their childhood (Ex: for a theologian you have to discus the bible, for a warrior/strategist talk about a game of military strategy).The bonus and the event are independent of each other.
"I am playing as Cornwall damn it and we are staying in Cornwall"
Yep, this is why we love Jon so much. Efficiency be damned, we are roleplaying this.
King Connor was always cheatin'
King Hektor may have been eaten
Glad to see another episode, if you decide to do another campaign after this one, it would be a good idea to either wait for the new DLC which fixes crusades (so you wouldn't see England take all of Jerusalem while you got nothing), or otherwise to try out some of the big total conversion mods (game of thrones, warhammer fantasy, elder scrolls, etc).
@Patrick Parcivel it is, the main reason I didn't mention it is because of how the original creators have given up working on it and I don't know how good the fan fork is.
Great sugggestions. How updated is the elder kings mod? Been a while since I've played a game of ck2
JON YOU ARE THE BEST THANK YOU FOR BEING YOU
MY STORIES ARE ON
If you look next to the attacker and defender bars you can see a little castle with a number next to it. The higher that number the higher the fortification level which means it is harder to siege and harder to assault. Also this is why you should upgrade your walls.
Wasn't that count of Desmond already landed and your subject? I think getting him to leave his wife and putting him as a different count in North Wales, left his wife struggling to manage and therefore caused the Munster rebellions. For inviting to court, I'm pretty sure you can just make someone a mayor or a baron, you don't have to give them a whole county to get a claim to press. Love the fact you are focusing on Role Playing, that's why we're loving it. :D
Hopefully you may find this useful. In the Benedictine Order events where your making a new friend with another order member I click on their portrait, find out what their education was in, then choose the option for where their education was in. I could be lucky with the game engine's dice roll but it has always worked out for me.
Great work as always Jon. :)
I wonder if you could create the empire of Britannia and then rename it. If you could just take enough of Britain and Ireland and get the prestige and enough kingdoms... argh, but that would probably take too long. I think you need 80% of Britain and Ireland.
He can indeed just like he did with the kingdom of Wales, it will also be less costly and come with dejure land.
THESE ARE THE DAYS OF :Many A True Nerd's LIFE
War......
War Never stops...
About laying siege to Middlesex, you were actually right, but for the wrong reason. If you siege the personal holding of the person you are at war with, it counts more for war score than if you take control of the vassal territory - with the exception of the war goal. If a king or emperor has enough holdings, it's possible to win a war without ever taking territory that you are fighting for. On the other hand, if you are defending, you can quickly win a war by taking control of the war leader's territories - a good tip for defending in a holy war. Also, the king's castles will have their levies raised and moved out, so you would only be dealing with the garrison, as opposed to the vassal's castles, which would have both and take longer to siege.
If you are going to assault a castle, a good rule of thumb is to have 10x the number of defenders. That's why some of your assaults were failing. You can get away with 5x, but you will take less casualties overall the more troops you have. Once you've taken the castle, the bishopric and towns "must" be taken, it's just extra loot to your coffers. And when looking for which counties to take, the ones with less troops is a good thing to look for, but you also had a chance to take a bishopric as a top holding (during the excommunication war), which would have a fort level of about 2 - 3 instead of a castle, which at this time would be about 5 - 6
Also, if you give away land from one of your two duchies (you're allowed two duchies before people get upset with you), you should be able to plot to revoke the land later. Don't get me wrong, it will still likely result in a civil war, but at least it will be "legal" so as not to cause vassals to dislike how you revoked the land.
You're doing great, although if possible, could you name your custom empire Cornholio, or something Beavis and Butt-Head-ish?
Just because they’re a “powerful vassal” doesn’t mean you have to bend over to put them on the council, especially when they like you a lot.
Don't forget that you can create titles by building castles and cities in your holdings
Retinues: You can accidentally dismiss them. The tool tip will show *red* and warn you. I've done the same thing when in the frenzy of troop dismissal after a war. Otherewise, even if killed off they will respawn very slowly so long as you have money. Tanistry: Scary once you hold a couple of kingdoms. Each kingdom has its own set of rules and inheritance laws. Even if you move all of them to Tanistry, each kingdom elects its own tanist. If you form an empire, you have tanist for the empire and one for each kingdom. (Ask me how I know! lol) I played three scary generations of tanistry empire praying it didn't fall apart to different leaders.
you've really never had dogs with cats before have you? Your dog as you said multiple times is trained it wouldn't not go after anything without your say so.
You gotta play EU4 after this :) :) :)
Although i feel like ck2 works for jon better (for a sense of characters and story like Rome total war
Imagine if plays this game to the end date and then use the converter dlc to continue on as mighty Cornwall in EU4.... I would cry tears of dopamine..
Jon is a legend. He has gotten me into playing SOOO many games. I bought CK2 a couple of weeks ago because of his series, and already am at 197 hours.
@Scotty St Cloud I also bought the dlc in dribs and drabs, but it's just so totally worth it :) I've bought all the civ games, stellaris, a bunch of total war games among others because of him. He just makes games look as fun to play as possible.
This one reminded me of a song. It is Shield Maiden by High n' Heavy, the album is called "Warrior Queen" spot onnn
38:18 "And now a segment we're calling Amber Says What."
John is so happy about england dying.
In regards to an Empire title: It is generally better to try and acquire a De Jure Empire title, rather than creating a brand new one. Its much easier to do, for one, and it gives you De Jure claims against a lot of territory you might not own, whereas custom Empire titles do not.
Best Series EVER!!!!!!!
Fitting actually as the rebel army was attacking the wife/province of the man you'd just landed and were attacking their territory for.
Jon, keep an eye on the peasant revolt in England. If they win then you don’t need to wait another 10 years to push a claim. Cornwall’s first queen may expand the land more than any previous ruler.
This amazing. Love this series. :) better than tv
the retinues at the bottom of the list are culture-specific, and the buildings in the counties at the bottom of the list are also culture specific...
...and they stack!!! that's why the culture specific retinues are usually best.
OH NOT THE WHITE STAG... oh you know what, let's do it this one time
lololol
Id like to say, that I reinstalled this game and bought some of the DLC on sale just so I can prove that I can do this better than Jon.
Also, Hail Connor
Jon. You don't want to assault a holding just because you have a numbers advantage. "Assault the holding" literally means you command all your troops to just run at the walls in a zerg rush or banzai charge. Simply having as many dudes as the holding has is not nearly enough to have it work out. I usually don't assault a holding unless I outnumber the defenders five to ten times, or if the holding only has a miniscule amount of troops or I have a lot of archers in my attacking force. If you send 1300 guys to assault 1300 defenders, you will lose hard every time.
Eyyyyy Jon boi doing crusades and kings an things of that sort.
32:15 More tyranny. Just plot! Plots are very useful.
If you capture the capital, you can also get stuff from their treasury and the chances of that are higher.
Declining that Mystic was one of the best things John has ever done.
Though Zealous is usually a good trait to have unless you are under a liege of a different religion. The martial bonus and opinion can be excellent for a character.
as a change, let's talk about all the things that Jon got right, since to old king of Englad got abdicated, you could declare war, good job Jon
Thank you!
Soon Cornwall will be almost as large as King Jon "Sir Cumference" Cerneu
and then 200k aztec coming
I recall once reading that a sizable portion of the Earth's current population (10+ % ?) can claim direct descent from Genghis Khan. Seems likely that, in JonWorld, the late King Connor might have outdone him.. .