Jon: "I need to work out my succession" Jon: *does nothing to work out the succession, instead spends time literally just monitoring the king of Bulgaria*
He worked out the succession by: 1) Raising his second-born son to be ambitious and incredibly good at intrigue, but giving him no land, wife, or church titles to pacify him, thus pretty much guaranteeing that he will dedicate his life to murder plots. 2) Letting the Empire elect his mediocre theologian brother who has one piss poor child and isn't actually the right religion 3) Letting the bulk of his own landed titles be inherited by his eldest son, who is married to probably his strongest vassal, and then massively pissing said son off by revoking all of them as soon as Joseph took over. I'm sure that ALL of these things will be VERY conducive to calm, peaceful governance in the coming years of Joseph's reign.
After being chased out of Rome and finding out secret pagans beat him in the crusade, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Pope gave up on the whole Jesus thing and started worshiping Horus.
Warhammer 40k General: Well, that campaign in Egypt was difficult, but at least we don’t have to worry about any more heretics. Now, I can take a big sip of coffee and see what’s happening in the Byzantine Empire . . .
The history books in this modern world would be really funny; This is emperor Kellistos. He is often viewed as a great king who turned mad towards the end of his life. He defeated Catholicism in a crusade nearly singlehandedly, which he was later in life. He brought Bulgaria in to the empire for the first time in many centuries. However, he formed many bastards in his youth along with all his true children all of whom he paid little attention to. Furthermore he created a strange Hellenic revival cult that immediately failed and fell apart within a week after his death. Speaking of which....Kellistos has a very remarkable death. As a worrier he gained an infection, but it healed. Then he had cancer. But it was stopped with bees. Strangely the next time bees were used on him it went disastrously and nearly killed him. Soon after he died to all kinds of mistreatment
@@jamesmaclennan4525 yes its very strange how he left such undefined borders within formerly controlled anatolia and instead waged random wars in europe
So Emperor Kallistos tried to make the Eastern Romans to be Hellenic, but ended up with a lot of important vassal turning Catholic. Ironic... Just like what the classics have said: “Nobody expects the Catholic Inquisition”.
Everyone's probably Paranoid, because the event that fires when you leave a book on their bed-if they try to get rid of the book, there's high odds of them picking up the Paranoid trait. So they've been approached multiple times and trashed the book, most likely.
Jon, the child rearing event where it says "Has chance to become X" and "Loses the trait childhood trait X / Gains the trait X" actually always gets rid of the childhood trait and if the first chance doesn't work, then it gives the child the trait from the second one. There are no dice rolls included with the second choice. So there was no danger for Carlo to become dull even if you'd picked Brave.
Jon! You really want to use prepare ground to convert counties as well, and not just convert characters. Especially since your moral authority is not going to be great so converting the normal way is likely to be harder than the secret way.
The secret religion process is entirely op, switch to a different religion, make your religion you were before your secret religion, start a cult and convert provinces then openly share your faith now you have some free instantly converted counties
On this week's episode of "Let's talk about the things Jon got wrong": Retinue composition! Generally speaking retinue's are incredibly powerful in CK2 because they make it easy to control the tactic your generals get to use in combat by having a very specific troop composition. Hence rule number 1 of effective retinue use is to never ever mix several ones together (except a pure cultural one with one of the generic retinues to get a better percentage of trooptype A vs trooptype B to get better tactics). Whilst this is indeed very much nitty gritty nerdy stuff, it may be worth looking into because it greatly improves the effective power of your retinues. Apart from that, keep up the amazing content Jon! You're an absolute lifesaver in the current situation.
What makes Perun the wise so great is not because of his struggle childhood focus, but the education and war focus makes him both an excellent diplomat and an excellent fighter at the same time. The rulers after him, are either did not receive a good education by assigning appropriate guardian; or does not being tested in the field because all they did was hunting stags and too cowardly engage in battles despite of war focus. All of the good rulers that Jon had, are all accidentally good but not by design, which I found amusing.
Just a note - the Byzantine emperor has some limmitations on usurping titles, I believe it is duchies only, they cannot usurp kingdoms or empires. The game doesn't list that as the reason, but that is the problem, Byzantine imperial government type cannot usurp kingdoms.
Jon, a warrior leader that raids weaker nearby lands really fixes some monetary problems. You can also raid far off lands if you see that they are the primary title of someone who has an item you want, you might get the cool item if you're lucky. Also, viceroyalty! Get those kingdoms back, literally all of them, one at a time and give them to brilliant peasants who are already secretly in your hellinistic cult as a viceroyalty. Very good 👌🏼
I'm not sure if Jon's current culture group can raid, but he can always swing pagan again and use the religious difference and the Axe of Perun to revoke those king titles. 🥳
Hey Jon! If you're gonna redo Hellenism, then you should create the society, recruit some high diplomacy people, then leave the society. The AI is much faster at recruiting people than you. They will naturally reveal themselves after they reach a certain amount of people. You can occasionally check back into the Hellenes and see how they are doing
23:50 Jon: Well, I can't get the Kinslayer trait twice, right? 43:32 Provided that you get to _keep_ your nuts, that is. Some Court Physicians seem a little too eager to go for castration as a treatment 43:40 Or it might not actually _be_ cancer in the first place 44:15 Your Court Physician is Doctor Bees?
The option in the childhood trait event that has a chance vs definitely removing one and getting the other is as simple as it looks. The child will get honest in that case, you try to make him brave instead, but if you fail he just becomes honest. At that stage the chance of the other trait is gone it's just between those two at that point. It give the AI a chance to try and make children better or purposefully worse.
Exactly this. About the only time I ever even think of accepting the bottom option is it the kid will naturally go shrewd or diligent against, like, patient.
Jon- I think there's a bug with the "Imperial" government type; the game thinks you're a Merchant Republic... *sometimes* So title usurpation can get really funky. And an option for converting- You can spread your unreformed paganism by taking your vassals' heirs under your Guardianship and putting them on a Heritage Focus. The parent might refuse, but if they don't, boom, fresh Hellenic person. (You might then have to kill their parent to make sure they don't get asked to convert back) Love the series!
Jon, the coming of age event that confuses you is basically just a choice of two options. The bottom one, which for Carlo was to become honest, tells you what is going to happen if you don't do anything. The top option, which for Carlo was a chance of being brave, gives you a chance of that happening instead of the other one. So if you pick brave and it doesn't happen, he'd become honest anyway. So it's not that some unlisted thing just randomly happens sometimes, it's one thing is guaranteed unless you intervene, and might still happen anyway even if you do. You didn't need to worry that he could become dull, because that was already the education event firing and it had already decided it was either honest or brave. Also, you need to stop thinking people are Satanic. Possessed is just what they thought was wrong with mentally ill people back then. People with the possessed trait are most likely schizophrenic or bipolar. Actually having any involvement with the Satanic society is extremely rare. Just because CK2 allows occasional supernatural things to happen if you have the right DLC and options enabled, that doesn't mean very common traits must always be supernatural. As a flavour thing it might not matter, but if you keep thinking people are involved with societies you're going to get tripped up sooner or later.
Kallistos, mighty Emperor, long did he rule. For him we shall name a school. His religion he did change, not all saw it strange. He had many a daughter and fought off the Catholic slaughter. While he lived in a land surrounded by seas, he spent time with many bees. Expelled the Jews, not a debtor. Perun would have done better.
Oh Jon, you may be able to revoke Tribal titles for no opinion loss. Its a feature of Imperial government. This may or may not include King titles, but if so it would make it easy to remove the king of Epirus and put a strong Hellenic one in his place.
16:15 "But don't worry, I am not planning to keep it" THAT IS NOT WHAT I WAS WORRIED ABOUT! Arghhh, whyyyyyyy, why are you giving the kingdoms away instead of making them viceroyalities. This gonna bite you so hard in the ass later!
Just before Jon makes Hellennism public, there are 12 members of the secret society (excluding Jon's character) Guess how many olymipian gods are there?
I chain summon blacksmiths to craft the scepter/crown/decorative sword as gifts at that point. And try to get the "brawny" event for one of my kids. Works out nice. 👌🏼
@@farshnuke In real life, I agree. In this game? The point of having money and not spending it, is to have money when you need to spend it. I'm a great big empire, I have 163k men, including a 34k retinue. But the mongols have just arrived, so I'll be glad to have 18k gold to spend on mercenaries if I ever need them.
Jon you not fixing your succession for no reason is infuriating, if you had named your firstborn heir he would have immediately gotten all the votes your brother had, avoiding any lost titles.
Jon, have you considered using Byzantium's crown authority to literally boot every single person from every single position then starting from scratch with entirely new hellenic summoned vessels?
The reason the Roman names are used is because you are not Greek. You are Roman. It is in the name: Eastern Roman Empire. Your people see themselves as the Romans of old.
Can anyone remember the name of the live stream Jon did a while back where he made an end card? I have tried to find it but I just can't remember when it was or what it was called. Thanks
It really depends on which region you want to play. Sword of Islam isn't really needed, for example, if you aren't planning on playing as a Muslim king.
Way of Life is essential, Sword of Islam and Holy Fury help the Muslim and Pagan regions of the world to not entirely be snoozefests, Monks and Mystics adds a good bit of flavour. Jade Dragon adds some slightly overpowered mechanics but they help the game be a bit more dynamic. The Reapers Due makes disease, etc mean something. Conclave really just adds bureaucracy, so not to my taste but might be to yours. :)
If you can afford them all, each of them-even Sunset Invasion-adds new and interesting mechanics to the game. Some of them aren’t strictly speaking relevant for every campaign: Republic, for example, only really matters if you want to play a merchant republic. To more directly answer your exact question, I believe Jon said he’s running everything except Sunset Invasion and Jade Dragon. (JD has a lot of fun interaction mechanics with China, offers useful artifacts and holding upgrades, brings in new CBs. Worth taking a look.)
@WilliamTheConquerer This game was never meant to be historically accurate... How boring would that be? In ck2 you can marry and become an immortal horse or play as a dragon, Aztec invaders are no worse.
All serious Ck2 players hate it when their vassals attack nomad territory because they will just lose it if they dont stamp down castles that they wont get themselves.
Jon: "I need to work out my succession"
Jon: *does nothing to work out the succession, instead spends time literally just monitoring the king of Bulgaria*
right? i was sweating seeing that
He worked out the succession by:
1) Raising his second-born son to be ambitious and incredibly good at intrigue, but giving him no land, wife, or church titles to pacify him, thus pretty much guaranteeing that he will dedicate his life to murder plots.
2) Letting the Empire elect his mediocre theologian brother who has one piss poor child and isn't actually the right religion
3) Letting the bulk of his own landed titles be inherited by his eldest son, who is married to probably his strongest vassal, and then massively pissing said son off by revoking all of them as soon as Joseph took over.
I'm sure that ALL of these things will be VERY conducive to calm, peaceful governance in the coming years of Joseph's reign.
@@Wolf6119 Yeah, it will make for good watching :)
After being chased out of Rome and finding out secret pagans beat him in the crusade, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Pope gave up on the whole Jesus thing and started worshiping Horus.
Thus began the Horus Heresy in Aegyptus.
The Horus Pope vs The Holy Roman Emperor of Mankind.
Warhammer 40k General: Well, that campaign in Egypt was difficult, but at least we don’t have to worry about any more heretics. Now, I can take a big sip of coffee and see what’s happening in the Byzantine Empire . . .
33:09 Jon makes his son who has high intrigue and an intrigue education hate him and become ambitious. I see no possible way for that to backfire.
This isn't even the first time he's done that either.
@@TitanDarwin Remember the manure explosion?
The Let's Talk About The Things That Jon Got Wrong segment needs its own theme song.
Four Seasons (classical)
*musical chorus* "The Things Jon Got Wroooong!"
"Tabby meows softly"
Perfection.
Isn't that just the Podcats?
@@CassidyCope You gosh darn right I did! Haven't put it up on TH-cam yet, but will do one day soon!
Why the hell does he get so much wrong 😩
So weird seeing Perun posthumously with his crown, I'm still used to him wearing a bear
The history books in this modern world would be really funny;
This is emperor Kellistos. He is often viewed as a great king who turned mad towards the end of his life. He defeated Catholicism in a crusade nearly singlehandedly, which he was later in life. He brought Bulgaria in to the empire for the first time in many centuries. However, he formed many bastards in his youth along with all his true children all of whom he paid little attention to. Furthermore he created a strange Hellenic revival cult that immediately failed and fell apart within a week after his death. Speaking of which....Kellistos has a very remarkable death. As a worrier he gained an infection, but it healed. Then he had cancer. But it was stopped with bees. Strangely the next time bees were used on him it went disastrously and nearly killed him. Soon after he died to all kinds of mistreatment
@@jamesmaclennan4525 yes its very strange how he left such undefined borders within formerly controlled anatolia and instead waged random wars in europe
This could be the most interesting if not confusing history lesson since the unit on perun the wise
If only there was a Vice-Royalty system available to prevent vassals from keeping multiple titles you didn't want them to have
I''m going to be honest with you it took me multiple Byzantine campaigns to actually understand the Vice-Royalty system
@@Lolavs man if only that was a possibility 🤔
So Emperor Kallistos tried to make the Eastern Romans to be Hellenic, but ended up with a lot of important vassal turning Catholic. Ironic...
Just like what the classics have said: “Nobody expects the Catholic Inquisition”.
0:21 "No empire has ever been this strong!"
_Abbasid Caliphate has entered the chat_
*Perun the Wise has entered the chat*
@@davidm382 Perun didn't technically own an empire, did he?
Dominic Littlewood He owned the shit out of the Abbasids though.
Persia, destroyed Byzantine honer and its emperor...
Everyone's probably Paranoid, because the event that fires when you leave a book on their bed-if they try to get rid of the book, there's high odds of them picking up the Paranoid trait. So they've been approached multiple times and trashed the book, most likely.
Kallistos: *Bursts into Tom Nook's house, screaming.*
Tom: "Bees?"
Kallistos, sobbing: "BEEEEEEEEES!!!"
"Ahhh! I'm covered in bees!"
The Three Downfalls of empires:
Madness
Treachery
And some buzzy-bois
Imagine walking into a cancer treatment ward and seeing all the doctors walking around in beekeeper's suits.
"No empire has ever been stronger!"
-The emperor of china would like to know your location
The British Empire?
Jon cleverly circumvented that by not having the Jade Dragon DLC lmao
*cough* Justinian I *cough*
I rather think he just means that in his game so far there hasn't been an empire as strong as his.
Jon, the child rearing event where it says "Has chance to become X" and "Loses the trait childhood trait X / Gains the trait X" actually always gets rid of the childhood trait and if the first chance doesn't work, then it gives the child the trait from the second one. There are no dice rolls included with the second choice. So there was no danger for Carlo to become dull even if you'd picked Brave.
Jon! You really want to use prepare ground to convert counties as well, and not just convert characters. Especially since your moral authority is not going to be great so converting the normal way is likely to be harder than the secret way.
The secret religion process is entirely op, switch to a different religion, make your religion you were before your secret religion, start a cult and convert provinces then openly share your faith now you have some free instantly converted counties
The whole time Jon was deciding what education to give prince Zeus I was yelling "STEWARDSHIP"
Wow, the Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople sure was pretty chill about the whole "Emperor of Orthodox Christendom coming out as a pagan" thing.
To remove Kalistos, Catholicism plan A was the crusade. When that failed, they used.... Plan Bee.
On this week's episode of "Let's talk about the things Jon got wrong": Retinue composition!
Generally speaking retinue's are incredibly powerful in CK2 because they make it easy to control the tactic your generals get to use in combat by having a very specific troop composition. Hence rule number 1 of effective retinue use is to never ever mix several ones together (except a pure cultural one with one of the generic retinues to get a better percentage of trooptype A vs trooptype B to get better tactics). Whilst this is indeed very much nitty gritty nerdy stuff, it may be worth looking into because it greatly improves the effective power of your retinues.
Apart from that, keep up the amazing content Jon! You're an absolute lifesaver in the current situation.
“Today’s the day I ruin everything!”
Role playing useless Steve I see.
Well, what else is Useless Steve going to do after talking down Lanius while drunk and high in his sexy pajamas?
Basileus Kallistos, in his final days: "Wait a minute, did the Catholics out-secret cult me?"
What makes Perun the wise so great is not because of his struggle childhood focus, but the education and war focus makes him both an excellent diplomat and an excellent fighter at the same time. The rulers after him, are either did not receive a good education by assigning appropriate guardian; or does not being tested in the field because all they did was hunting stags and too cowardly engage in battles despite of war focus. All of the good rulers that Jon had, are all accidentally good but not by design, which I found amusing.
Just a note - the Byzantine emperor has some limmitations on usurping titles, I believe it is duchies only, they cannot usurp kingdoms or empires. The game doesn't list that as the reason, but that is the problem, Byzantine imperial government type cannot usurp kingdoms.
I feel like crying "No, Zeus!" is very appropriate for someone who believes in the greek gods.
Jon, a warrior leader that raids weaker nearby lands really fixes some monetary problems.
You can also raid far off lands if you see that they are the primary title of someone who has an item you want, you might get the cool item if you're lucky.
Also, viceroyalty! Get those kingdoms back, literally all of them, one at a time and give them to brilliant peasants who are already secretly in your hellinistic cult as a viceroyalty. Very good 👌🏼
I'm not sure if Jon's current culture group can raid, but he can always swing pagan again and use the religious difference and the Axe of Perun to revoke those king titles. 🥳
“Bees. My God.” - Batman
Too much bees not enough face is a such a classic way to go
Never have I seen a title that has confused me this much.
Jon, you know what they say: Hellenism failed because it wasn't the REAL Hellenism! Next Hellenism will be the real Hellenism for sure.
I'm not sure if it's amazingly great or amazingly horrible that Kallistos' epitaph is "dies because of too many bees and not enough face."
"He [Kallistos] expanded the Empire more than anyone else in flippin' history"
Justinian: Nani the fuck?
Hey Jon! If you're gonna redo Hellenism, then you should create the society, recruit some high diplomacy people, then leave the society. The AI is much faster at recruiting people than you. They will naturally reveal themselves after they reach a certain amount of people. You can occasionally check back into the Hellenes and see how they are doing
Jon is like the 10th doctor " I COULD DO SO MUCH MORE!!!!!!"
23:50 Jon: Well, I can't get the Kinslayer trait twice, right?
43:32 Provided that you get to _keep_ your nuts, that is. Some Court Physicians seem a little too eager to go for castration as a treatment
43:40 Or it might not actually _be_ cancer in the first place
44:15 Your Court Physician is Doctor Bees?
Had a doctor, got sick, he cut my balls off. I died.
My son inherits, gets sick, Im like "Well, it sure wont happen again"
He cut my sons balls off.
@@EinFelsbrocken but.....
Did he live?
I am in isolation. Jon, I need more of this. One and a half hours is great, but I have just too much time.
The Greek Hellenic Orthodox King of Armagnac just declared war on the Norwegians in Gascony... Somewhere there's a historian having an aneurysm.
"Too man bees, not enough face." Priceless 😅
The option in the childhood trait event that has a chance vs definitely removing one and getting the other is as simple as it looks.
The child will get honest in that case, you try to make him brave instead, but if you fail he just becomes honest. At that stage the chance of the other trait is gone it's just between those two at that point.
It give the AI a chance to try and make children better or purposefully worse.
Exactly this. About the only time I ever even think of accepting the bottom option is it the kid will naturally go shrewd or diligent against, like, patient.
Jon- I think there's a bug with the "Imperial" government type; the game thinks you're a Merchant Republic... *sometimes*
So title usurpation can get really funky.
And an option for converting- You can spread your unreformed paganism by taking your vassals' heirs under your Guardianship and putting them on a Heritage Focus. The parent might refuse, but if they don't, boom, fresh Hellenic person.
(You might then have to kill their parent to make sure they don't get asked to convert back)
Love the series!
The next time someone asks me to do something -- I'm going to respond "mmmm no, too many bees -- not enough face."
"A salty infusion keeps me going for now." - Jon
Always glad to help OwO Jon. - A. Jellyfish
Jon, the coming of age event that confuses you is basically just a choice of two options. The bottom one, which for Carlo was to become honest, tells you what is going to happen if you don't do anything. The top option, which for Carlo was a chance of being brave, gives you a chance of that happening instead of the other one. So if you pick brave and it doesn't happen, he'd become honest anyway. So it's not that some unlisted thing just randomly happens sometimes, it's one thing is guaranteed unless you intervene, and might still happen anyway even if you do. You didn't need to worry that he could become dull, because that was already the education event firing and it had already decided it was either honest or brave.
Also, you need to stop thinking people are Satanic. Possessed is just what they thought was wrong with mentally ill people back then. People with the possessed trait are most likely schizophrenic or bipolar. Actually having any involvement with the Satanic society is extremely rare. Just because CK2 allows occasional supernatural things to happen if you have the right DLC and options enabled, that doesn't mean very common traits must always be supernatural. As a flavour thing it might not matter, but if you keep thinking people are involved with societies you're going to get tripped up sooner or later.
Kallistos, mighty Emperor, long did he rule. For him we shall name a school. His religion he did change, not all saw it strange. He had many a daughter and fought off the Catholic slaughter. While he lived in a land surrounded by seas, he spent time with many bees. Expelled the Jews, not a debtor. Perun would have done better.
I mean "To Bee or not To Bee" was sitting right there, Jon.
Seeing in my birthday (37th I think) with a beer, some noodles, and a MATN video. Pretty much as good as I could hope for.
LeiFlux07 happy birthday. 🙂
@@TheDarthMushroom Thanks, I have now extended the celebration to a bowl of Corn Flakes.
Gonna be a wild one, I can tell.
LeiFlux07 damn and still you’re gonna wakeup with the dry mouth of a Hangover...
Jon calling all his siblings his in-laws is suprisingly frustrating
Ill fix the succesion, proceeds to not fix it, with a rubbish doctor, could easily revoke the kingdoms from the heathens.
1:10:45 The music kicking in just before the next cut was kind of fantastic.
This series has the best titles.
So many fantastic developments as always :D
Jon you need to prepare the ground in your holy sites. Free moral authority and the possibility of reform when you get Rome.
I'd recommend viceroyalty for your vassals feudal is not the way to go
Oh Jon, you may be able to revoke Tribal titles for no opinion loss. Its a feature of Imperial government. This may or may not include King titles, but if so it would make it easy to remove the king of Epirus and put a strong Hellenic one in his place.
Jon's maniacal cackle is the best!
Pricing in CK is pretty odd, build a city 500ish ducats, a healthy bull 500ish ducats...
16:15 "But don't worry, I am not planning to keep it" THAT IS NOT WHAT I WAS WORRIED ABOUT! Arghhh, whyyyyyyy, why are you giving the kingdoms away instead of making them viceroyalities. This gonna bite you so hard in the ass later!
Judaism has been doing incredibly well so far
Just before Jon makes Hellennism public, there are 12 members of the secret society (excluding Jon's character) Guess how many olymipian gods are there?
1:18:55 Why is Ioseph a pretender to his own throne??
Ever since I noticed the "How should we treat your sickness" picture is Gaius from Merlin it's all I can focus on every time that event pops up.
"[...] we are rich!"
*looks at my 18.000 gold treasury, then back at the 623 gold in Jon's treasury*
Yes, sir. You sure are rich.
What is the point of having money if you don't spend it?
I chain summon blacksmiths to craft the scepter/crown/decorative sword as gifts at that point. And try to get the "brawny" event for one of my kids. Works out nice. 👌🏼
@@farshnuke In real life, I agree.
In this game? The point of having money and not spending it, is to have money when you need to spend it.
I'm a great big empire, I have 163k men, including a 34k retinue.
But the mongols have just arrived, so I'll be glad to have 18k gold to spend on mercenaries if I ever need them.
@@MelficeSilesius Step up your game, bc those are ROOKIE NUMBERS!!!
@@EinFelsbrocken 18 gold isn't alot though. /joke
Needed something to relax and watch tonight - thanks
Jon's incompetence sometimes infuriates me, but I do love the video titles.
55:33
Could not revoke because he is under Ragusa.
Jon you not fixing your succession for no reason is infuriating, if you had named your firstborn heir he would have immediately gotten all the votes your brother had, avoiding any lost titles.
No, not the bees! Not the bees! They're in my eyes!
If you pick the chance in a childhood intervention event and it fails, it just falls back to whatever the other choice would be.
I agree you really jumped the gun with the Hellenism. Usually people I've played with wait 3-5 generations
Ah John, I really enjoy your commentary. Very entertaining
"Head Priesty McGibblet"
JON MOVE YOUR FREAKING CAPITAL TO CONSTANTINOPLE
“eunuchs tend to be very good” mumbles in imperial china
Long episode, finally! :D
If you kick the kitten, you actually deserve to loose an eye.
Jon, have you considered using Byzantium's crown authority to literally boot every single person from every single position then starting from scratch with entirely new hellenic summoned vessels?
Once again the vice royalties would be solutions to his problems. Want hellenic rules? Point a hellenic guy as a vice roy.
The reason the Roman names are used is because you are not Greek. You are Roman.
It is in the name: Eastern Roman Empire.
Your people see themselves as the Romans of old.
Emperor Ioseph just did what is called a pro gamer move. Also, this episode should have been called 'The bee's knee's'.....
Drinking the last of my lockdown mead (until the next batch is fermented) and me, oh my, wouldn't CK2 just appear on my feed! Thank you Jon!
This is a wonderful chaos religion fever go in the empire. Can't wait to see what happens nex!t XD
I'm having flashback to a certain poo explosion for some reason.
Zdzislaw and other variations of this name are pronounced kinda like G+i+s+w+a+v
God the border gore in your realm makes my OCD flip out.
The fact that this series is named similarly to the new series is causing my youtube trouble lol
Overall Kallistos was pretty good. I'm not the biggest fan of the whole election stuff but the Crusade was a fun war.
autoplay sent me to part 21 of the other ck series, was wondering why king connor was in charge all of a sudden.
Breaking news: Fallout New Vegas is good!
Can anyone remember the name of the live stream Jon did a while back where he made an end card? I have tried to find it but I just can't remember when it was or what it was called. Thanks
It was in December 2018 or early January 2019. I don't remember what it was called either.
@@jonathanboram7858 ta at least I have a time reference to look for it.
Well this has been a wild ride.
The Hellenes 2: Electric Boogaloo
The acronym TMB;NEF will puzzle historians and archaeologists studying the Byzantine Empire for centuries.
A standard Monday in the Byzantine Empire then :)
_"ACTIVATE INTRIGUE MODE"_
A bunch of vikings eating Poland is how all my CK2 games go when I pick a Polish start.
It’s like Civ, but _completely different._
Does anyone know/remember what Jon said about which DLCs are "essential" for CK2?
It really depends on which region you want to play. Sword of Islam isn't really needed, for example, if you aren't planning on playing as a Muslim king.
Way of Life is essential, Sword of Islam and Holy Fury help the Muslim and Pagan regions of the world to not entirely be snoozefests, Monks and Mystics adds a good bit of flavour. Jade Dragon adds some slightly overpowered mechanics but they help the game be a bit more dynamic. The Reapers Due makes disease, etc mean something. Conclave really just adds bureaucracy, so not to my taste but might be to yours. :)
Basically all but sunset invasion, jade dragon, and horse lords
Though it depends on your style, some people dig playing nomads etc
If you can afford them all, each of them-even Sunset Invasion-adds new and interesting mechanics to the game. Some of them aren’t strictly speaking relevant for every campaign: Republic, for example, only really matters if you want to play a merchant republic. To more directly answer your exact question, I believe Jon said he’s running everything except Sunset Invasion and Jade Dragon. (JD has a lot of fun interaction mechanics with China, offers useful artifacts and holding upgrades, brings in new CBs. Worth taking a look.)
@WilliamTheConquerer This game was never meant to be historically accurate... How boring would that be? In ck2 you can marry and become an immortal horse or play as a dragon, Aztec invaders are no worse.
Looking forward to the next video
you really spent all that time trying to convert people then never pushed the button that actually would convert them
Rip - Emporer Nicolas Cage
All serious Ck2 players hate it when their vassals attack nomad territory because they will just lose it if they dont stamp down castles that they wont get themselves.