The Havellander army had been defeated by the wretched Nederlanders, and due to Freidrich von Ribbeck's faulty diplomacy and poor leadership failed to even enter the land of the Teutons to gain any loot. A charge of the heavy noble cavalry lead to many dying, and many wives and children waited for brothers and husbands and fathers to return, many of which never did. Noble houses died due to the von Ribbecks mistakes, and the region fell into even greater squalor.

Discontent spread throughout the Landgraviate, and less goods flowed out of Havelland. The salt mines of Luneburg slowed as manpower dropped and the salt appeared to be harder and harder to fine in the mines. A small famine in the west killed even more, and soon the Duke of Saxe-Hoya, one of the few decorated veterans of the recent Teutonic War, wrote a letter to the supposed Lion King who had just subjugated a large swathe of the Palatinate. He promised to become a subject of the King should be promise to come and provide the region with much needed support, both militarily and economically. He wrote that the von Ribbecks had lost their martial and leading prowess, and had thus lost their right to rule over the region.