It was such a long and wild ride. At one point the game kind of became a horse RPG when John went down the gallant skill tree. The game kept on presenting him with opportunities to increase the stats of his personal warhorse.
Imagine happily living your best life out on the battlefield, ripping heads off, thinking your father will never choose you to be the next ruler... Until one day he approaches you, grinning crazily, and instead of proposing another abduction of an innocent child he puts a giant-ass hat on your head!
Difficult to vassalize cross-religion (impossible I think if they see you as Evil). Even to vassalize across culture often requires the True Ruler lifestyle perk.
Man, this was the episode of big numbers. Around 200k people in a battle, an Empress with 49 learning, the Saxon Slayer that is Duke Agilbert of Meißen... Good shit.
@@kexm9921 Well, as you and I know, although, of course there might be some people who don't, "Fabian tactics" is named after this Roman general named Quintius Fabius Cuncator, who was one of the Generals who fought Hannibal during the Second Punic War. Instead of just sending all his troops against Hannibal's in one big battle, because he knew he was outnumbered, he avoided big battles. Instead, he'd attack Carhaginian supplies, he'd find Carthaginian detachments separated from the main force and attack them, he set fire to crops so Hannibal couldn't get them and so on. So this got called later on, "Fabian tactics". Saying that Hannibal was a master of them is kind of funny, because he didn't use them, his enemy did.
The Scandinavian Doomstack rampaging through Italy with all of the smaller opponent armies following in Kristina's wake and sweeping up after her: priceless.
So, Jon, on the 1 year thing for Great Holy Wars, there's a difference between Directed Great Holy Wars (the one's done by Temporal heads of faith) and Undirected Great Holy Wars. Undirected GHWs can be redirected and give everyone 1 year to decide whether they want to join or not. In addition, they have the pitiful warchest to spread out amongst members. Directed GHWs cannot be redirected, trigger instantly, and make everyone decide whether they want to join at that moment. They also do not have the warchest. But ultimately, the biggest and most important difference is who the land goes to. In a Directed GHW, it goes straight to the Head of Faith (THIS IS MORE COMPLICATED THAN THAT, SEE EDIT 2). In an Undirected GHW, it goes to the benefactor of the person who contributed the most to the war (I think, I still don't know exactly the benefactor system works, but I assume it works similar to that way it worked in CK). EDIT: I want to point out that that guy with 68 prowess, once you count in Knight Effectiveness, is worth 17,680 damage, ON HIS OWN. And he has 1,768 toughness. That's roughly equal to 1,768 levies damage wise. And it's very well possible to get a LOT more Knight Effectiveness. Knights/Champions stronk. EDIT 2: A clarification. In Directed GHWs, the main title of the GHW does directly to the Head of Faith. The other titles get distributed similarly to an Undirected GHW. You contribute the most, your benefactor gets the most land in that new Kingdom.
So that is how the sister of the Duke of Gelre, who's contribution to the fight was perhaps the capture of 2 counties and one battle, got to be queen of Jerusalem. I see...
You need 3 armies The main fighting force - your knights and men at arms A beseiging force - your artillery and a few thousand levies The remaining levies - split into manageable sizes
I would normally recommend four. One main fighting army with a fast commander. Four equal strength armies that can siege areas. It works really well for me. But... in this situation I think he should have had two main armies. Equally strong with ability to siege and good men at arms. Because of the enemy numbers.
I’m going to be very sad to see Crusader Kings leave :( Watching this series has been something I’ve really looked forward to on every Monday and Friday since the beginning. I was also hoping that the fall of the Papacy would lead into a final confrontation against Orthodoxy and the expulsion of Christianity as a whole from all of Europe.
Loving this series! Maybe once you've "won" to your satisfaction and end it, you'd maybe consider a livestream on the same save file to smash and convert the rest of the world?
40:36 good joke jon but FYI about universities, (they are not programmed that well) but they are actually not for after age 16 in the game. You have to manually click on a vassal who has a university, click "send guardian" and then pay 1500 gold. That should guarantee a lvl 4 education trait. But just have smart educators, that works very well too and doesn't bloody cost 1500 gold
Jon I love your series, and you seem to know what you are doing most of the time. But at some point you should run more than 1 army at a time if you want to avoid the whole Benny Hill situation :D
As someone who recently did 2 Restore Rome campaigns and had a ton of Great Holy Wars in Italy and Britainnia, you wasted too much time sieging during the battle. You should've focused on splitting and leaving a besieging army (with your canons) somewhere to not lose progress while taking your main army to attack anything coming to the shore. You can essentially decimate the enemy early on and have a real easy late war while they have no military strength -- instead you kept swapping sieged lands and ran out of supplies lol.
@@globalincident694 Yeah it is awfully optimistic, ha. I love Jon and he's the one who got me into CK to begin with, but man, lots of room for improvement. Part of me likes the chaos he creates, but another just furiously hopes that he'll eventually figure out there's actually a much easier way to do things. For example, Catholic Holy War against you? Just stand your armies two months early, split them so you have at least one unit on all the Pope's land by the start of the war -- now they can't spam. Siege and conquer without the Pope ever fielding a single army -- or if not, you cannot let the Pope constantly spam recruits. It was painful to watch Jon allow the Pope to field so many back in the last
Noooo, don't say goodbye to the series, I love it and look forward to it every week! Well, if it has to go, then let it be with the death of the Papacy forever. Still going to miss it :(
10:50 - goes for compassionate forgetting about the massive stress from execution's thus not getting dread. And the stress gain from family and friends dying. He shall now be know as Kettil the stressed.
Also lead your allies in multiple directions at once. Even having two deathballs instead of 1 would have made that GHW a lot easier once he broke the main force in the first battle.
@@Gamerbeast-fn7rh Yeah, but its the levies that cost the money, he'd have gone bankrupt in the mean time. Admitedly it would have been close, but that's why it didn't raise everything. Plus its harder to keep track of multiple armies and you risk one of them being picked off when you're distracted.
Jon, first thing. Pause. When you make decisions pause. When you read pause. Pause pause pause. Second thing, use this to split your armies without it being overwhelming. That's literally a large portion of the game. Doomstacks don't work for many reasons, and it is by design.
Sorry this is daft, but wanted to say how grateful I am for the f4 yolo series; I’ve just got a ps4 and my first game is f4, no idea what I’m doing and find it’s world a bit too terrifying. But you’ve given me a bit of focus during a tough lonely time and I’m thankful for your company.
Yeah, but Fabius basically took the idea from Hannibal. "Constantly overmatched by better soldiers, led by generals always respectable, often of great ability, he yet defied all their efforts to drive him from Italy, for half a generation. Excepting in the case of Alexander, and some few isolated instances, all wars up to the Second Punic War, had been decided largely, if not entirely, by battle-tactics. Strategic ability had been comprehended only on a minor scale. Armies had marched towards each other, had fought in parallel order, and the conqueror had imposed terms on his opponent. Any variation from this rule consisted in ambuscades or other stratagems. That war could be waged by avoiding in lieu of seeking battle; that the results of a victory could be earned by attacks upon the enemy's communications, by flank-maneuvers, by seizing positions from which safely to threaten him in case he moved, and by other devices of strategy, was not understood... [However] For the first time in the history of war, we see two contending generals avoiding each other, occupying impregnable camps on heights, marching about each other's flanks to seize cities or supplies in their rear, harassing each other with small-war, and rarely venturing on a battle which might prove a fatal disaster-all with a well-conceived purpose of placing his opponent at a strategic disadvantage... That it did so was due to the teaching of Hannibal." Fabian tactics. Fabius didn't invent the tactics, he just copied them.... And he won (well kinda), so there is that.
@@XMarkxyz Theodore Ayrault Dodge. Crossing the alps is pretty Fabian don't you think? But to be fair, nearly all of Carthage's victories involved the Numidian Cavalry using hit and run tactics. The battle of Cannae was Hannibal seizing a supply depot, he spent his whole time in Italy disrupting supply lines and avoiding pitched battles.
For some reason he just refuses to do so. Probably because he will get distracted with something for 10 to 15 seconds and lose half or all of his army due to that it's happened to me before
I know, I'm a comparable noob to MATN, but Scandinavia can definitely field 2 or 3 armies at the same time. Which would stop this frustrating merry go round of sieges.
It is apparently a bug with massive battles, if you earn too much piety or fame in a battle it overflows and gives you a negative amount, resulting in the loss of devotion level
Played like half the episode without a councilor that died lol. Oh, and the back and forth movement of a giant army instead of splitting it in 2 and control both the south and the north. You had more than enough troops to do that.
Hopefully Jon sees this comment.. In order to dismantle the papacy you need to hold Italia *as it was when you started the game*. De Jure drift may have changed what is De Jure Italia *now*.
Jon. You can detach the siege army from the main army and while they are sieging everything, the rest of the army can fight the enemies and block their siege. Its a button in the army window. Easy as hell
I mean, I know it would be extra complicated to split the army and have one make sieges and one fight off other armies... but there would be no problems like this great holy war if you split off some cannons and levies and siege down Sicily...
Happy New Year!! I hope we have many other great series this year and the continuation of this one. Let's ignore the fact that Jon has made a dynasty of completely callous evil people.
Thing is though, a point is reached where there is no challenge. If he takes out the Byzantines, then that's it. Game over. I played a tribal count from the early start date in my last save game. With a little bit of of jiggery pokery, 200 years later, every non Magic ruler in Europe/North Africa/Scandinavia and basically everywhere is just sitting there waiting for me to get a succession law that allows me to keep multiple empire titles, then they die. I have a kingdom title in 7 different empires.
Hey Jon! It's been a real joy to watch this playthrough the last couple of months but it saddens me to know that you're about to run out of time and things to do with the Sexy empire. I'm really hoping you'll do another ck3 project! If you do, how about a suggestion: Since the ruler editor allows for you to create a ruler of any culture, try to start as a ROMAN count somewhere in Italy - and restore the Roman empire! (Had lots of fun doing this over christmas and would love to see you try it out)
"Hannibal was a true master of Fabian tactics" Uhh..correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Fabian's tactics ultimately effective in preventing Hannibal from overring Rome?
Tbf it may be. The doctrine tabs may only highlight that the relgion belief in reincarnation is a big deal in said relgion. I assume it's up to how you want to roleplay it.
The whole "never wanted to be empress" thing is kind of funny, considering that Sweden actually had a Queen Kristina once (during the time of the Swedish Empire, so she could even have been called an empress). The real Queen Kristina chose to abdicate and convert to Catholicism (from Lutheranism).
When you come back to CK3, there's some interesting decisions relating to reviving the Zoroastrian religion you might enjoy. I also had a blast playing as Mali in a custom game. Three high-tier gold mines right next to each other makes money no object, allowing quick expansion out of sub-Saharan Africa and sucker punching Islam and Catholocism.
Really would be nice if the allied AI armies wouldn't EXCLUSIVELY follow you around like they do. I mean, can you not give goals for these armies? No cohesive strategy... i.e. sieging, pursue enemy forces, recover, etc?
I think the sinful acts that lose you piety and devotion are the battles the game calls "slaughters", where you outnumber the enemy so heavily that it's no longer a fight, and just straight up mass murder, even by medieval standards.
Man, it's so frustrating how your allies are programmed. Surely if you're able to siege down one territory, and your ally is able to siege down an adjacent territory, your ally would siege down that territory instead of sitting next your army twiddling their thumbs. You should be able to set war goals for your allies to follow, this is just stupid.
Jon can we also see what became of Valdermar's family, that guy was the original beast! Served 3 generations of grens and kicked arse
"Gee, it's been a while since I checked in on this series. I'll just pop in and- hey, where's the Holy Roman Empire?"
They weren’t sexy enough to be kept alive
It was such a long and wild ride. At one point the game kind of became a horse RPG when John went down the gallant skill tree.
The game kept on presenting him with opportunities to increase the stats of his personal warhorse.
Eaten
An Odd Thing happened to the Holy Roman Empire.
I think she might be grumpy because that hat is weighing on her head ;)
Heavy is the head that wears the *ENOURMOUS* crown.
Yeah, poor girl 😕
Imagine happily living your best life out on the battlefield, ripping heads off, thinking your father will never choose you to be the next ruler... Until one day he approaches you, grinning crazily, and instead of proposing another abduction of an innocent child he puts a giant-ass hat on your head!
"What you're doing Half-bro?"
I always love how he role plays as the person he is playing at the moment
You mean the stress level he gains in solidarity around 50:00?
"No Jon, that's not how that works. You've been given the talk. You understand this."
His gameplay may not be perfect, but his commentary is gold.
I read this comment early on, and thought it had to do with gameplay. It did not. XD
Classic ... this is really why I keep coming back to Jon. It isn't the game play, it's the commentary ...
Jon remember to check if any of the independent rulers in Italy will accept vassaliation especially now that you hold the titel of emperor of Italy
He's not going to remember
That would be some kind of advanced gameplay, not really Jons cup of tea.
Unlikely since they'll be a different religion and culture.
Difficult to vassalize cross-religion (impossible I think if they see you as Evil).
Even to vassalize across culture often requires the True Ruler lifestyle perk.
@@cedricwilson1593 I mean, he's already done this. Emperor Joan got the Queen of Finland to to join Scandinavia.
Man, this was the episode of big numbers. Around 200k people in a battle, an Empress with 49 learning, the Saxon Slayer that is Duke Agilbert of Meißen... Good shit.
"Hannibal was a true master of Fabian tactics" is hilarious.
Haha yeah definitely its very funny. You should explain it though, not for me but for other people who don't follow history as much
@@kexm9921 Well, as you and I know, although, of course there might be some people who don't, "Fabian tactics" is named after this Roman general named Quintius Fabius Cuncator, who was one of the Generals who fought Hannibal during the Second Punic War.
Instead of just sending all his troops against Hannibal's in one big battle, because he knew he was outnumbered, he avoided big battles. Instead, he'd attack Carhaginian supplies, he'd find Carthaginian detachments separated from the main force and attack them, he set fire to crops so Hannibal couldn't get them and so on. So this got called later on, "Fabian tactics".
Saying that Hannibal was a master of them is kind of funny, because he didn't use them, his enemy did.
The empress sees the german giant rip someones head off on the battlefield and said : " that ones mine!"
Odd was the one who took over the holy Roman empire
The Scandinavian Doomstack rampaging through Italy with all of the smaller opponent armies following in Kristina's wake and sweeping up after her: priceless.
John’s bagging on Cambridge is hilarious to me, because I’d thought it and Oxford were part of the same school.
So, Jon, on the 1 year thing for Great Holy Wars, there's a difference between Directed Great Holy Wars (the one's done by Temporal heads of faith) and Undirected Great Holy Wars.
Undirected GHWs can be redirected and give everyone 1 year to decide whether they want to join or not. In addition, they have the pitiful warchest to spread out amongst members.
Directed GHWs cannot be redirected, trigger instantly, and make everyone decide whether they want to join at that moment. They also do not have the warchest.
But ultimately, the biggest and most important difference is who the land goes to. In a Directed GHW, it goes straight to the Head of Faith (THIS IS MORE COMPLICATED THAN THAT, SEE EDIT 2). In an Undirected GHW, it goes to the benefactor of the person who contributed the most to the war (I think, I still don't know exactly the benefactor system works, but I assume it works similar to that way it worked in CK).
EDIT: I want to point out that that guy with 68 prowess, once you count in Knight Effectiveness, is worth 17,680 damage, ON HIS OWN. And he has 1,768 toughness. That's roughly equal to 1,768 levies damage wise. And it's very well possible to get a LOT more Knight Effectiveness. Knights/Champions stronk.
EDIT 2: A clarification. In Directed GHWs, the main title of the GHW does directly to the Head of Faith. The other titles get distributed similarly to an Undirected GHW. You contribute the most, your benefactor gets the most land in that new Kingdom.
So that is how the sister of the Duke of Gelre, who's contribution to the fight was perhaps the capture of 2 counties and one battle, got to be queen of Jerusalem. I see...
You need 3 armies
The main fighting force - your knights and men at arms
A beseiging force - your artillery and a few thousand levies
The remaining levies - split into manageable sizes
I'd suggest 4 - send the mercenaries in first to soften up the enemy, then follow with the men-at-arms
I would normally recommend four. One main fighting army with a fast commander. Four equal strength armies that can siege areas. It works really well for me.
But... in this situation I think he should have had two main armies. Equally strong with ability to siege and good men at arms. Because of the enemy numbers.
I’m going to be very sad to see Crusader Kings leave :( Watching this series has been something I’ve really looked forward to on every Monday and Friday since the beginning. I was also hoping that the fall of the Papacy would lead into a final confrontation against Orthodoxy and the expulsion of Christianity as a whole from all of Europe.
I mean, it sorta did. This massive holy war against Orthodoxy is probably the climax of the series and it's sealed the pope's fate.
Loving this series! Maybe once you've "won" to your satisfaction and end it, you'd maybe consider a livestream on the same save file to smash and convert the rest of the world?
40:36 good joke jon but FYI about universities, (they are not programmed that well) but they are actually not for after age 16 in the game.
You have to manually click on a vassal who has a university, click "send guardian" and then pay 1500 gold. That should guarantee a lvl 4 education trait.
But just have smart educators, that works very well too and doesn't bloody cost 1500 gold
The empress is a Tortured warrior cursed by responsibility. 10/10 anime
Jon I love your series, and you seem to know what you are doing most of the time. But at some point you should run more than 1 army at a time if you want to avoid the whole Benny Hill situation :D
Thank you - I was wondering whether to ask that, because I haven't played the game, so I didn't know whether you COULD have more than one army ...
I suppose the first hint this was possible was when he was raising multiple armies at the same time and had to amalgamate them.
As someone who recently did 2 Restore Rome campaigns and had a ton of Great Holy Wars in Italy and Britainnia, you wasted too much time sieging during the battle. You should've focused on splitting and leaving a besieging army (with your canons) somewhere to not lose progress while taking your main army to attack anything coming to the shore. You can essentially decimate the enemy early on and have a real easy late war while they have no military strength -- instead you kept swapping sieged lands and ran out of supplies lol.
Jon? Splitting? Do you really think that's going to happen?
@@globalincident694 Yeah it is awfully optimistic, ha. I love Jon and he's the one who got me into CK to begin with, but man, lots of room for improvement. Part of me likes the chaos he creates, but another just furiously hopes that he'll eventually figure out there's actually a much easier way to do things. For example, Catholic Holy War against you? Just stand your armies two months early, split them so you have at least one unit on all the Pope's land by the start of the war -- now they can't spam. Siege and conquer without the Pope ever fielding a single army -- or if not, you cannot let the Pope constantly spam recruits. It was painful to watch Jon allow the Pope to field so many back in the last
Noooo, don't say goodbye to the series, I love it and look forward to it every week! Well, if it has to go, then let it be with the death of the Papacy forever. Still going to miss it :(
I dont know what series is going to be able to replace this one in my heart
10:50 - goes for compassionate forgetting about the massive stress from execution's thus not getting dread. And the stress gain from family and friends dying. He shall now be know as Kettil the stressed.
Bruh you need to split your army into two or three pieces so you can siege multiple locations at once.
It's so annoying isn't it
This is amazingly frustrating to watch not to mention he REFUSES to raise the rest of his army
@@unsolicitedditkapics9722 yeah during the great holy war he had 40,000(!) other troops that he could have at least tried to defend Sicily with
Also lead your allies in multiple directions at once. Even having two deathballs instead of 1 would have made that GHW a lot easier once he broke the main force in the first battle.
@@Gamerbeast-fn7rh Yeah, but its the levies that cost the money, he'd have gone bankrupt in the mean time. Admitedly it would have been close, but that's why it didn't raise everything. Plus its harder to keep track of multiple armies and you risk one of them being picked off when you're distracted.
At least these aren't the Unorthodox Wars...those got kinda weird.
Booo! Get off the stage! Booo! *throws cheap shoes*
@@Tzilandi Highly deserved.
@@Tzilandi Bravo! Good show, good show! *throws a really nice pair of shoes*
Jon, first thing. Pause. When you make decisions pause. When you read pause. Pause pause pause.
Second thing, use this to split your armies without it being overwhelming. That's literally a large portion of the game. Doomstacks don't work for many reasons, and it is by design.
Also, wear your glasses playing games with tooltips. 👍🏼
1:09:43 can we get a meme of Jon adding another imperial title to the infinity gauntlet.
Sorry this is daft, but wanted to say how grateful I am for the f4 yolo series; I’ve just got a ps4 and my first game is f4, no idea what I’m doing and find it’s world a bit too terrifying. But you’ve given me a bit of focus during a tough lonely time and I’m thankful for your company.
Hey, hope you'll be doing better soon! It's been a tough year but I believe that it prepared us for what's ahead in 2021 and down the line
@@tite93 thank you for your kind response
18:00 Curious how the game says that Hannibal was a master of Fabian tactics while it takes name from Hannibal enemy Quintus Fabius Maximus
Yeah, but Fabius basically took the idea from Hannibal.
"Constantly overmatched by better soldiers, led by generals always respectable, often of great ability, he yet defied all their efforts to drive him from Italy, for half a generation. Excepting in the case of Alexander, and some few isolated instances, all wars up to the Second Punic War, had been decided largely, if not entirely, by battle-tactics. Strategic ability had been comprehended only on a minor scale. Armies had marched towards each other, had fought in parallel order, and the conqueror had imposed terms on his opponent. Any variation from this rule consisted in ambuscades or other stratagems. That war could be waged by avoiding in lieu of seeking battle; that the results of a victory could be earned by attacks upon the enemy's communications, by flank-maneuvers, by seizing positions from which safely to threaten him in case he moved, and by other devices of strategy, was not understood... [However] For the first time in the history of war, we see two contending generals avoiding each other, occupying impregnable camps on heights, marching about each other's flanks to seize cities or supplies in their rear, harassing each other with small-war, and rarely venturing on a battle which might prove a fatal disaster-all with a well-conceived purpose of placing his opponent at a strategic disadvantage... That it did so was due to the teaching of Hannibal."
Fabian tactics. Fabius didn't invent the tactics, he just copied them....
And he won (well kinda), so there is that.
@@eoin2 I think this statement lacks an example of where and when di Hannibal used said tactics, who's the author of the quoted part?
@@XMarkxyz Theodore Ayrault Dodge. Crossing the alps is pretty Fabian don't you think? But to be fair, nearly all of Carthage's victories involved the Numidian Cavalry using hit and run tactics. The battle of Cannae was Hannibal seizing a supply depot, he spent his whole time in Italy disrupting supply lines and avoiding pitched battles.
Has Jon ever considered splitting his forces?
Halt! You have committed heresy against Sexiness!
Heresy!
The Doomstack is an unofficial but longstanding tenet of the Sexy Ásatrú faith.
Don't think of them as armies, think of them as mobile orgies. The more the merrier.
For some reason he just refuses to do so.
Probably because he will get distracted with something for 10 to 15 seconds and lose half or all of his army due to that
it's happened to me before
I know, I'm a comparable noob to MATN, but Scandinavia can definitely field 2 or 3 armies at the same time. Which would stop this frustrating merry go round of sieges.
Is the sin he's getting constant pop-ups about a bug or he forgets doing exaltations?
It is apparently a bug with massive battles, if you earn too much piety or fame in a battle it overflows and gives you a negative amount, resulting in the loss of devotion level
Yeah, it's a bug.
Been around a long time according to online forums.
Oh boy, what a way to kick off the new year
51:00 Jon has gained a stress level.
Massive holy wars can give you so much prestige and piety it breaks the counter and pushes you into the negative. You're so pious you're sinful!
Part of the reason why I'm so invested in this series is I get to listen to Jon rant about or mock Cambridge so much
Ahh the first MATN video of the new year I see is a CK3 video. 😊
"Content Dutch guy noise" 😌
... where Jon forgets he doesn't like playing as 'good' characters
Played like half the episode without a councilor that died lol.
Oh, and the back and forth movement of a giant army instead of splitting it in 2 and control both the south and the north. You had more than enough troops to do that.
The empress of the byzantines had 49 learning 🤔
Hopefully Jon sees this comment.. In order to dismantle the papacy you need to hold Italia *as it was when you started the game*. De Jure drift may have changed what is De Jure Italia *now*.
No, it has nothing to do with the de jure empire. It's the region of italia, which he highlighted a couple times.
I love your videos and this series got me into ck3 so thanks, Jon!
Thank you!
Happy new year Jon!
Jon. You can detach the siege army from the main army and while they are sieging everything, the rest of the army can fight the enemies and block their siege.
Its a button in the army window. Easy as hell
i think that a prussia series would be cool after this one is done
Would be better in EU4. He'd just have to quickly learn another paradox game.
After Britain, Byzantium and Scandinavia, I think Spain would be interesting. Or something completely far away, like India.
Also Happy New year everyone!
I do hope you'll do another series soon after this one Jon! I love the series!
I mean, I know it would be extra complicated to split the army and have one make sieges and one fight off other armies... but there would be no problems like this great holy war if you split off some cannons and levies and siege down Sicily...
Happy New Year!! I hope we have many other great series this year and the continuation of this one. Let's ignore the fact that Jon has made a dynasty of completely callous evil people.
I am so so much looking forward to going through the dynasty tree and the houses. It's the part I like most in the CK games.
1:13:09 Here's hoping for "Vampire the masquerade bloodlines" haha
I love this series so much! ❤
Watching Jon mismanage that crusade was so painful
The New Year of 2021 has been blessed with a holy Crusade to unland the Pope, may every day that follows be just as glorious
Duke Algibert the II should get the empire of Germania! Since he TOTALLY deserves it!
The whole series we've had this back and forth every war because Jon just won't split forces....
Can we see the family tree
Come on Jon, this need not end with the domination of Europe, surely the whole world needs to be sexy.
Thing is though, a point is reached where there is no challenge. If he takes out the Byzantines, then that's it. Game over. I played a tribal count from the early start date in my last save game. With a little bit of of jiggery pokery, 200 years later, every non Magic ruler in Europe/North Africa/Scandinavia and basically everywhere is just sitting there waiting for me to get a succession law that allows me to keep multiple empire titles, then they die. I have a kingdom title in 7 different empires.
Ending shortly after dismantling the Papacy is too fitting and the series has gone on for long enough. Besides the end date is comming up soon.
With a war as closely spread at two fronts, I'm thinking having two smaller armies might be more useful than one huge army.
Today's mood: An unstoppable tide of Sexiness
enforced by one majestic headripping german Gaint of a pure Sexiness
40:33 I`m starting to get the impression that Jon doesn`t really like Cambridge very much.
I think the sinful actions is embrassing your enemy in battle by massivley defeating them
The pope: Did you ever hear the tragedy of empress Kristina?
Hey Jon! It's been a real joy to watch this playthrough the last couple of months but it saddens me to know that you're about to run out of time and things to do with the Sexy empire.
I'm really hoping you'll do another ck3 project! If you do, how about a suggestion: Since the ruler editor allows for you to create a ruler of any culture, try to start as a ROMAN count somewhere in Italy - and restore the Roman empire! (Had lots of fun doing this over christmas and would love to see you try it out)
I'm gonna miss CK3 after this :(
"Hannibal was a true master of Fabian tactics"
Uhh..correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Fabian's tactics ultimately effective in preventing Hannibal from overring Rome?
Please make one more series of this game Jon
Jon - send HALF of your troops north & HALF of them south to keep both areas covered
If only belief in reincarnation was a Sexy tenet, the Giant of Germany would be claimed as a reincarnation of Tord Headripper for sure!
Tbf it may be. The doctrine tabs may only highlight that the relgion belief in reincarnation is a big deal in said relgion. I assume it's up to how you want to roleplay it.
i'm no expert. But if you have 100k+troups, why can't you split your army? Instead of running it up and down?
Awh, I kinda wanna see a final kingdom invasion of the Byzantines after popey boy gets it
And cheese the kingdom invasion by sieging down every single holding in their empire and take the entire Byzantine Empire!
"What's this Scandinavian Corsica malarky?"
-Russian Croatia, probably
The whole "never wanted to be empress" thing is kind of funny, considering that Sweden actually had a Queen Kristina once (during the time of the Swedish Empire, so she could even have been called an empress).
The real Queen Kristina chose to abdicate and convert to Catholicism (from Lutheranism).
Jon, two armies, one for siege on to fight, you dont need a big army to siege
Can we call Kettle's children his chips off the old block, or Kettle's Chips for short? ;-)
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1:06:35 Can't you just... declare yourself Empress of Italy and Vassalize them?
1:09:45 Ah.
I hope the Pope gets some more land somewhere so this can go on a bit longer
Next week is gonna be super sad. I will miss CK3 series.
Please convert the Christian Holysites within your Empires.
When you come back to CK3, there's some interesting decisions relating to reviving the Zoroastrian religion you might enjoy.
I also had a blast playing as Mali in a custom game. Three high-tier gold mines right next to each other makes money no object, allowing quick expansion out of sub-Saharan Africa and sucker punching Islam and Catholocism.
49:53 Didn't know Gondor was Christian
Orcish mercs would've finished the job. ='[.]'=
I feel sorry for the commoners:
"We're free!"
*Gets Sieged*
"Booo..."
*Gets Freed*
"Yaaaay!"
*Gets Sieged again*
"Aww..."
*Gets Freed Again*
"Uuh...A-are you sure? Okay! Yeaah!"
*Gets Sieged AGAIN*
"Aw C'MON!"
Blimey, the king of Bavaria’s wife doesn’t look well!!!
when is the next rim world?
Fylkir Kristina was the impostor!
0 impostors remain
Really would be nice if the allied AI armies wouldn't EXCLUSIVELY follow you around like they do. I mean, can you not give goals for these armies? No cohesive strategy... i.e. sieging, pursue enemy forces, recover, etc?
Duke Agilbert 'The Almost Nice' the II of Meissen
Change your trash priest who keeps getting your faith down
Im sure its been asked but why not use the station besieged units and move on with main army. Could've avoided the lost of Valhalla bound
As to why you lost levels of devotion, devotion overflow, you got so much it went into the red
26:20 Avengers Assemble
Jon after this series raps up you should do a total war warhammer 2 run as the empire
7k dead on one side. Only 36 dead on the other
I really am going to be sad when the CK 3 playtrough ends.
Its one order of magnitude bigger. Not several. :)
I think the sinful acts that lose you piety and devotion are the battles the game calls "slaughters", where you outnumber the enemy so heavily that it's no longer a fight, and just straight up mass murder, even by medieval standards.
Close, it is caused by the slaughters but it's a bug. When the numbers get too big the fame/devotion overflows and causes you to lose a level of it.
@@j2dragon109 Seems like it should be an easy fix then, which is good news. That said, I do like my explanation better. Ah, well.
Yep, Italy is a mess. It took me 3 hours and the lifespan of a magnificent genius warrior empress to conquer it.
Man, it's so frustrating how your allies are programmed. Surely if you're able to siege down one territory, and your ally is able to siege down an adjacent territory, your ally would siege down that territory instead of sitting next your army twiddling their thumbs. You should be able to set war goals for your allies to follow, this is just stupid.