It's crazy if you think about the amount of hours that equals though. I mean, 45 parts, all roughly an hour, give or take 10 minutes. Not to mention all the footage Jon cuts out of his recording. It's probably been closer to, if not more than, 60 to 80 hours of work just to bring us 45 hours of content.
How this game has gone so far: Poland: We're going to get those Norse people! DEAD Milan: Idk we didnt start this war and now were dead DEAD Russia: Idk we didnt start this war and now were dead DEAD Egyptians: Idk we didnt start this war and now were dead DEAD France: We're going to get those Norse people! DEAD England: We're going to get those Norse people! DEAD Scotland: We're going to get those Norse people! DEAD
mrspidey80 My Milan game saw literally no wars between anybody that didn't involve Byzantium or Egypt until turn 45, when the moors attacked me. It was basically just everyone in the world living in harmony, exterminating Egyptians and Byzantines.
Matheus Rudzevicius my headcannon is that a noble bloc of nationalistsent spies into hungary to make them attack denmark since their growth was concerning them
"That's the third or fourth faction general we've killed in this fight!" Congratulations, Jon. You killed one guy, then acted surprised when wiping out the rest of his unit didn't say he had died again, then mistook a general that had literally shifted from the right to the left for a completely new general.
I don't know why, but it feels like you're still in the early-to-mid-game (maybe because gunpowder hasn't been invented yet?), so it's surprising to learn this series is almost as long as your Rome Total War series.
regarding your traitor, here's a copy-paste of something i said on the steam forum a while back :) the "Rebel" faction has a lot of the in-game factional units available to it, but not all; in addition, the units available to the Rebels varies from region to region, largely dependent on which faction historically owned the region. When an army turns rebel, it gets to keep any unit that the Rebel faction can spawn in that region, and the rest disappear. For instance, Rebel spawns in england can include armoured swordsmen, so if you lose a stack of them to revolt in england, some or all of them will become rebel; however, if you lose it in italy, where they're not a regional troop, they'll all disappear.
QuiteClearlyBatman that is assuming MATN fans are evenly spread out across the world. Most are located in the UK and United States. So the odds would be lower in non English speaking areas, but better odds in English speaking regions. (There are exceptions of course, so any place that has access to UA-cam, has a chance of having a MATN fan)
Maybe the game calculates authority based on the order the traits appear in and if you can't be less than zero that would explain why the King's authority was higher than it should have been.
Every king I've ever had in 20 years of playing was an alcoholic cuckold. The A.I. cheats hard on hard difficulty. I have never had a general without at least one trait that makes him terrible.
Scruffy adj. Definition: When anything doesn't go exactly according to Jon's plan. I.E. When someone at all important dies, when a charge fails, or when a siege tower catches fire, this is enough to make the battle "scruffy". "Wow, this battle was scruffy. I didn't even have six turns to get all of my feudal knights in position perfectly and my troops stopped manning a tower because I told them to."
there was so much stuff that could happen on turn 100: gunpowder, da vinci flying machines, discovery of america, JUST SO MUCH IMPORTANT EVENTS HAPPENED, but... discovery of america comes later.
Would either declaring war on the Mongols, or paying them to go to war with someone, help get them to do something? As Milan I crippled my economy waiting for them, only to take them out with assassins
Grats on "winning" Jon! If you wanna speed things up with the mongols, try feeding them a single unit to fight, then fleeing with it. You can do some damage while slowly reeling them in whatever direction you want.
Jon, you're killing me by not kicking the French away from Paris. they're not building anything; they're not waiting for anything. You should have attacked the french 2 turns ago when that backup army first arrived. You probably don't even need that backup army. You're just hurting yourself... I know I'm a month late, but good grief.
lol, as a critique, you should tie in the faction heirs dying to your characters somehow....like the King is great, but he hates his brother for kiling his dog or something...so he sends him into exile, or into some suicidal battle....that would be fun.....lol yea like the guy moving to Adana; the current King, his brother I think, having taken power, now works to consolidate his rule by sending his brother to Adana for "the glory of Denmark". But he knows, that if his brother dies there is no one who can make a legitamate claim to the throne except for his son, whom has yet to be born. If he wins, then his brother becomes more competent and becomes more loyal for having been given such a grand task....something like that haha
Wail Rimouche tired soldiers on walls can lead to broken soldiers on walls. Tired soldiers get a morale debuff, and morale debuffs are the best way to destroy soldiers on walls.
I suspect simply because he was so busy focusing on the siege towers that he didn't double click when controlling the ladders. He also mentioned wanting everything to arrive on the walls about the same time, which the ladders would arrive first if they were running.
Hey Jon do you think you might play some of the newer Total War games? If so I really recommend you play either Napoleon or Shogun 2. Also, do you think you might play a few of the fox campaigns from the Kingdoms expansion?
Go Hungary, go! Make peace with Jon fast as you can! Jon, if you take some hungarian place, can rename to original hungarian names? Like Bran to Gyulafehérvár or Iasi to Jászvásár. Thank you!
3 years late. But if you bribe armies without a general, I think they just auto-disband. You only have a different army if you bribe a family member. (Could be wrong)
and also i'm guessing that the reason angers is suffering of plague for the second time in a row is in fact the spy in that city came back and made that city plague again... or maybe the game has a thing with angers ... :\
*looks around every square inch of Ireland* What are you talking about? Karl isn't here, and even if he was, I doubt enough Irishwomen could look past their veneration of Ard Rí Brian Boru and his expulsion/extermination of the Hibernian Danes in order to fuck the same Dane enough times to make all of Éire descended from him!
You said Captain Karl was the new Nero. Captain Nero was sent on a secret mission to civilize Ireland, where he ended up becoming a massive playboy and spread his blood so far, that it now exists in every Irishman and every Irishwoman. I just took a look around and I can't find Karl in Éire, and most Irishwomen hate Danes and Norwegians with a passion since they were enemies of Brian Boru, a High King who unified Ireland, reconquered the land ruled by Outlanders, and exterminated the Nords and Southern Uí Niall, so I doubt they'd be as piny for sex with Karl as they were with Nero
I'd seriously consider putting a diplomat out there to offer the Scots and Hungarians peace, or maybe the Portuguese. I still suspect the only reason the Hungarians blockaded one of your ports is their council of nobles AI may have told them to do it, and if they make peace with you, then they'll likely go back to fighting the HRE.
The reason why the Mongols had to keep going back was because they forgot to bring the fireworks for your victory celebration.
45 parts, 45 territories. That is a professional job.
It's crazy if you think about the amount of hours that equals though. I mean, 45 parts, all roughly an hour, give or take 10 minutes. Not to mention all the footage Jon cuts out of his recording. It's probably been closer to, if not more than, 60 to 80 hours of work just to bring us 45 hours of content.
He did have 5 months to do it, so that only comes out to 4-5 hours per week (not counting editing). Still a lot of time though.
Long range, high quality mercenary archers? I think we should just make one of them faction leader right now...
It's worked before!!!
We have been awaiting His Second Coming.
Jon, you must rename the citadel "The Love Shack" in honor of Steve's contribution to the war effort!
RIP King Steve, the Hugh Hefner of the Levant
We shall remember Steve
You should rename Bulgar Stevengrad in honor of the great King Steve, the man who was loved by thousands of women in the middle east.
A culture icon
a blond norseman in the exotic levant
Nah, Bulgar should become Boleslawia, in honour of the great hero of the Russian campaign,
Jon: wins at part 45
Also Jon: proceeds to make 41 more episodes
Spoilers!!!
How this game has gone so far:
Poland: We're going to get those Norse people!
DEAD
Milan: Idk we didnt start this war and now were dead
DEAD
Russia: Idk we didnt start this war and now were dead
DEAD
Egyptians: Idk we didnt start this war and now were dead
DEAD
France: We're going to get those Norse people!
DEAD
England: We're going to get those Norse people!
DEAD
Scotland: We're going to get those Norse people!
DEAD
and His Popeyness is sitting in the middle of the fire like. "This is fine."
This is what all TW playthroughs are like.
mrspidey80 My Milan game saw literally no wars between anybody that didn't involve Byzantium or Egypt until turn 45, when the moors attacked me. It was basically just everyone in the world living in harmony, exterminating Egyptians and Byzantines.
Remember when Hungary was Jon's favorite faction, on this run atleast?
Mida K well, they did attack him first, and now he will have some revenge
Matheus Rudzevicius my headcannon is that a noble bloc of nationalistsent spies into hungary to make them attack denmark since their growth was concerning them
kento yamashita well,cant argue against it,it is quite likely
I 'member
He also used to love Poland
One of the Mongols lost a contact lens.
MWSin1 lmao
Wales should be Our Newhaus :)
YES!
Bronn of the Blackwater in the middle of our street
RIP king steve
He was a great commander
Not as great as me though but he seemed good
Alexander The Great
Unlike you, he inspired women to get kids as well as keeping an empire intact.
HEY that's not fair...it was just a drinking problem
He also didn't march his men through an inhospitable desert because they were homesick.
Alexander The Great thats right Alexander the dope
Denmark 1945: mongols still bumbling around in the middle east and someone asks what is a world war Denmark rules the world
Steve's one act as faction leader was to reinstate prima nochta
Tom Gleeson I think he's more of a voyeur. Of massive orgies that fill the streets with wails and moans (not necessarily from pleasure)
Hopefully Egypt wont go l Braveheart on Denmark
"That's the third or fourth faction general we've killed in this fight!"
Congratulations, Jon. You killed one guy, then acted surprised when wiping out the rest of his unit didn't say he had died again, then mistook a general that had literally shifted from the right to the left for a completely new general.
a polite reminder that Jon is -1 perception
I don't know why, but it feels like you're still in the early-to-mid-game (maybe because gunpowder hasn't been invented yet?), so it's surprising to learn this series is almost as long as your Rome Total War series.
paint the map red
all of it
here take all of my yes.
Get outta here with my eyeholes!
R.I.P. Steve the Babymaker
Hungry's obsession with Nuremberg reminds me with the Ottomans being obsessed with Vienna.
regarding your traitor, here's a copy-paste of something i said on the steam forum a while back :)
the "Rebel" faction has a lot of the in-game factional units available to it, but not all; in addition, the units available to the Rebels varies from region to region, largely dependent on which faction historically owned the region. When an army turns rebel, it gets to keep any unit that the Rebel faction can spawn in that region, and the rest disappear.
For instance, Rebel spawns in england can include armoured swordsmen, so if you lose a stack of them to revolt in england, some or all of them will become rebel; however, if you lose it in italy, where they're not a regional troop, they'll all disappear.
That was a close battle. Guess Thats what happens when you Russian thinking you will win
the issue is he focused too much on the gate rather then renforce the ladder troops
👏👏👏
Rush B(ulgar)
There is roughly a 1 in 25 million chance that a random stranger you find on earth will be a fan of MATN
QuiteClearlyBatman that is assuming MATN fans are evenly spread out across the world.
Most are located in the UK and United States. So the odds would be lower in non English speaking areas, but better odds in English speaking regions. (There are exceptions of course, so any place that has access to UA-cam, has a chance of having a MATN fan)
Jon: I want all the siege towers at the walls at the same time
all the siege towers: catch fire at the same time
Maybe the game calculates authority based on the order the traits appear in and if you can't be less than zero that would explain why the King's authority was higher than it should have been.
magikute or the game is inflating the authority
Or maybe it's a +2 authority bonus for all AI controled factions based on a difficulty level you play.
In my Scotland campaign, 'King Lachlan the Cuckold' has so much negative authority that the authority meter shows 10 authority.
Gabe Newell Now that's what I call medieval tolerance xD
Every king I've ever had in 20 years of playing was an alcoholic cuckold. The A.I. cheats hard on hard difficulty. I have never had a general without at least one trait that makes him terrible.
This is my favorite series right now. I just love every episode.
Jon's troops have PTSD from their omnipotent god giving conflicting orders then yelling about their failures.
You lost an entire ARMY in that Antioch's port, how you missed that! xd
-1 to perception
Scruffy
adj.
Definition: When anything doesn't go exactly according to Jon's plan. I.E. When someone at all important dies, when a charge fails, or when a siege tower catches fire, this is enough to make the battle "scruffy".
"Wow, this battle was scruffy. I didn't even have six turns to get all of my feudal knights in position perfectly and my troops stopped manning a tower because I told them to."
Jon you really are DENmarking your territory
that's awful
The Timurid Horde hey timi when are you showing up?
and make sure you bring something exotic that europians will remember as long as they live.......
I feel like I laughed way more than I should have when you inspected King Henry starting at 18:35
I really want the Extra Credits people to do one if their Extra Histories on either this play through or the Rome one.
"VICTORY!"
Part 45 of an 86 part playlist
there was so much stuff that could happen on turn 100: gunpowder, da vinci flying machines, discovery of america, JUST SO MUCH IMPORTANT EVENTS HAPPENED, but... discovery of america comes later.
You have conquered Moss Cow and Crack Cow. Next up is Cow Ventry.
then on to Cowstantinople
You forgot cownarvon and cowdiff
Edit: All made possible by king cownute ( king canute )
I'm still all alone in Rome! However, my northern troops will conquer the remains of Poland for fun and historical accuracy! PRAISE THE POPE!
You Dare Say That...But Then...Then.....THEN THE WINGED HUSSAR ARRIVED!
No wonder you're getting gradually more annoyed with all your friends and allies, no-one's trying to help you fend them off.
SPOILERS:
The Mongols do fuck all this episode.
As predicted
King Steve walks into a brothel, then walks out and it's a daycare
Yeah I had a moorish Faction leader once who was 10/10 authority, and his stats didn't add up anywhere near that
Just Luke The term for it is an Underflow glitch.
Thank you jon for my favourite series when im sick
Congratulations Many A True Nerd you beat the main campaign in less than 100 turns.
Would either declaring war on the Mongols, or paying them to go to war with someone, help get them to do something?
As Milan I crippled my economy waiting for them, only to take them out with assassins
The Mongols' bumbling around would certainly make ol' Uncle Bumbleflip proud
In a game as Spain I had one of my kings listed as having 10 authority despite having traits that added up to like 1 or 2 authority.
I like to think that there's an alternate universe where the Danes created a massive pan-European empire.
Grats on "winning" Jon! If you wanna speed things up with the mongols, try feeding them a single unit to fight, then fleeing with it. You can do some damage while slowly reeling them in whatever direction you want.
We are never gonna see that damn Mongol invasion.
RIP Steve :
Victory within 100 turns, well done
I thought this was like part 14 or something - checked and it was 45 - man that was some time well spent!
It's not just the ai that cheats at authority. I had a King Henry the Cuckhold who somehow had maxed authority despite his alcoholism and ignorance.
Can you imagine the upkeep cost for the Mongol horde. approx. 10 full stack armies with elite units.
convert your castles which are on the edges of the world and arent your recruitment hubs to cities to earn more money
With the mongols messing about i do really hope the Timurids is bringing a map.
Should name it little Portugal lol
Stick that faction heir in Adana with a front row seat for the highly anticipated Mongol party
Homo eructus He'll be king by the time they arrive.
you've captured one territory per episode apparently
"I run the place, so I'm allowed to make arbitrary fiat decisions about how things are pronounced" is pretty much how French works in real life
The way Jon pronounces Zaragoza actually physically hurts me.
The Mongols don't seem quite so scary now, but maybe that's because it's taken them so very long to get to get properly moving
Jon, you're killing me by not kicking the French away from Paris. they're not building anything; they're not waiting for anything. You should have attacked the french 2 turns ago when that backup army first arrived. You probably don't even need that backup army. You're just hurting yourself...
I know I'm a month late, but good grief.
oi you come 'ere an' call some shite castle in the middle of nowhere Ourhaus.
I think we have a word that in danish.
It's called disrespect.
/s
Does the eastern part of the map extends further like the west?
Flynn Tom no
Denmark made Russia red before it was cool... apparently.
Jon your king cold have been born with a starting amount of authority
lol, as a critique, you should tie in the faction heirs dying to your characters somehow....like the King is great, but he hates his brother for kiling his dog or something...so he sends him into exile, or into some suicidal battle....that would be fun.....lol
yea like the guy moving to Adana; the current King, his brother I think, having taken power, now works to consolidate his rule by sending his brother to Adana for "the glory of Denmark".
But he knows, that if his brother dies there is no one who can make a legitamate claim to the throne except for his son, whom has yet to be born. If he wins, then his brother becomes more competent and becomes more loyal for having been given such a grand task....something like that haha
I think if your king is governing a city with very high taxes his authority will increase
Did you know that you can make soldiers with ladders run?
Wail Rimouche he does know that. He said it in every castle battle for the first ten episodes.
then why doesn't he make them run?
Wail Rimouche tired soldiers on walls can lead to broken soldiers on walls. Tired soldiers get a morale debuff, and morale debuffs are the best way to destroy soldiers on walls.
I suspect simply because he was so busy focusing on the siege towers that he didn't double click when controlling the ladders. He also mentioned wanting everything to arrive on the walls about the same time, which the ladders would arrive first if they were running.
"we kicked the Portuguese out of wales" Brexit conference 2017 colourised
Hey Jon do you think you might play some of the newer Total War games? If so I really recommend you play either Napoleon or Shogun 2. Also, do you think you might play a few of the fox campaigns from the Kingdoms expansion?
Well it seems that I am late to my own funeral. Damn Taballerius with his wibbly time travel devices. Well.... this is awkward....
The Daily Huglau
Today I learned of the "Scorched Earth" strategy. I'm not sure how leaving burnt globes will help....
Some man just want to watch the world burn
Never stop these beautiful reports.
Go Hungary, go! Make peace with Jon fast as you can! Jon, if you take some hungarian place, can rename to original hungarian names? Like Bran to Gyulafehérvár or Iasi to Jászvásár. Thank you!
Why would he make names more unpronounceable for himself?
I'm pretty sure Medieval II: Total War uses the Primogeniture system (for determining who becomes king).
Rennes's income of ~2,500 is higher than Marseille's and that with a broken merchant's wharf.
You also gain authority from just winning battles. I've had warrior-kings with much higher authority than their perks and retinue would dictate.
you guys really have no idea what's in store for you lol *itches legs*
Plague Flea I bet you saw some shit when looking for your profile picture.
well iv'e been inside shit before so i guess i have seen shit too
Just take Inverness, turn it into a town. The trade income will pay off what it cost to take it soon enough.
3 years late. But if you bribe armies without a general, I think they just auto-disband. You only have a different army if you bribe a family member. (Could be wrong)
You should take Saragossa from the French and gift it to Spain to see if they wake up and start doing something
like immediately going to war with Jon because of the shared land border?
Let them rebel, free Catalonia!
At least they'd go out in a blaze of glory. Their current state is just sad.
Oh Jon... that was one of the worst castle assaults I've ever seen!
Love the vids john keep it up!
I can’t wait till you make another one of these
40:52 Grim Soerensen omg Grim in Danish means ugly it isn't a name
Is this campaign going to continue to the time when the Timurids arrive (about turn 140)?
Maybe we'll be lucky to see Aztecs as well.
and also i'm guessing that the reason angers is suffering of plague for the second time in a row is in fact the spy in that city came back and made that city plague again... or maybe the game has a thing with angers ... :\
Totally sure its been asked before, Jon What mods are you using ?
Kornak 49 He got rid of the unit cap and the characters no longer turn to sprites from afar.
Never forget Captain Karl!
thanks to king Steve the Millennium rod works
Captain Karl is the new Nero/Decimus conspiracy
*looks around every square inch of Ireland*
What are you talking about? Karl isn't here, and even if he was, I doubt enough Irishwomen could look past their veneration of Ard Rí Brian Boru and his expulsion/extermination of the Hibernian Danes in order to fuck the same Dane enough times to make all of Éire descended from him!
Sorry, what!?
You said Captain Karl was the new Nero. Captain Nero was sent on a secret mission to civilize Ireland, where he ended up becoming a massive playboy and spread his blood so far, that it now exists in every Irishman and every Irishwoman. I just took a look around and I can't find Karl in Éire, and most Irishwomen hate Danes and Norwegians with a passion since they were enemies of Brian Boru, a High King who unified Ireland, reconquered the land ruled by Outlanders, and exterminated the Nords and Southern Uí Niall, so I doubt they'd be as piny for sex with Karl as they were with Nero
Hungary grab a snickers
Jashanjeet Singh Jhajj Good god are there many "j"s in your name.
Krishna Mishra I know right its a tongue twister
Soon all will be Steve!
Steve Stenger was the Hadrian of the Danish Empire.
On second thought more like the Shinzo Abe.
This is why I never use siege towers
why don't you create more merchants for Britain? there's lots there and elsewhere to take for free.-
Because it's boring.
Can't believe Jon didn't rename it "Whales" instead of "Wales"
I'd seriously consider putting a diplomat out there to offer the Scots and Hungarians peace, or maybe the Portuguese. I still suspect the only reason the Hungarians blockaded one of your ports is their council of nobles AI may have told them to do it, and if they make peace with you, then they'll likely go back to fighting the HRE.
By that time he should've already besieged their capital with 2-3 full stacks to make them accept protectorate.
good video
Ohhh yeah
Wail Rimouche Congratulations on not writing "first", you have proven yourself to be a decent human
Rename York to Jorvik!
Unless your Russian territories just stop where the map ends, you do have territory beyond the known world.
Reads title, oh what now jon
You could try a Stainless Steel campaing
I think that he is playing with Stainless Steel? or at least parts of it.
He is playing Vanila, Stainless Steel make a great diference in the campaing map and in the factions