How many restarts will it take to WIN as ENGLAND in 1066?? 

So a few people are wondering why I found the "False Earl Company" funny - like I said, it's super niche and proves me to be a history nerd but: Godwin (Harold Godwinson's father) who was excellent at the political game, managed to outmanoeuvre Edward the Confessor and placed his sons in positions of power such that almost all seats of power underneath the king directly were controlled by Godwin and his sons, stripping the King of his power, essentially. Despite this, there looked to be a moment where Edward would triumph against Godwin, with Godwin and his sons exiled (The King ordered Godwin to ravage his own town of Dover to punish the people - Godwin refused). They returned and managed to restore their power, after which Godwin died at a banquet, allegedly proclaiming his innocence in the matter of treason and the King's brother's death (he probably did kill him) by stating something along the lines of "let this crust pass through me to show my innocence" - this crust then kills him (probably Norman propoganda, this). So why did I find it funny? Well, Godwin was exiled and his sons stripped of power, with some obscure sources stating that Edward referred to Godwin as "my false Earl". The irony of his son being protected by the "False Earl Company" was rather amusing to me. Like I said, SUPER niche but I studied the hell out of the Godwinsons. Godwin is an unknown figure and had his son beaten the Conqueror, would have likely been known as one of the greatest political machinators in English history. But alas, events did not play out that way, and Godwin slipped unnoticed into the footnotes of another king.

The number of times Laith sends his army at the enemy with no general is infuriating

Prediction: Laith never succeeds in outright war but something glitches and he wins somehow.

Well, to win this, it would be good to have an army WITH A LEADER

Never played this scenario in 3, but in 2 I remember: the county of Lincoln (I think) was a swamp and surrounded by rivers on all sides, making it great defensive terrain. I would rush to defeat the Norwegians as quickly and favorably as possible, and then just turtle in Lincoln until the Normans attacked me. Seems like the Norwegians are stronger this time around, that makes it harder, they were just a nuisance in 2

Forming Neo Israel with a Eastern African start seems like an ideal masochistic start you could do. If you’re keen on doing a Spanish start after that multiplayer game you had with your friends, I’d recommend trying out Seville. Historically they were forced to pay parias by Alfonso VI in the North and desperately turned to the Moroccan Almoravids for help, which ended up being their demise. You could try to use them to rebuild the Umayyad Caliphate and “Avenge the Battle of Tours”.

The ai did this in one of my games. I was playing as Ireland and after I united it, I saw that the Empire of Brittania had been perfectly divided among de jure lines with only wales not having the Kingdom title. I immediately gave Wales enough gold to create a Kingdom.

Reconquer Britannia as a Celtic ruler and become the Pendragon

This Video pushed my self confidence to the moon, I've never seen someone who struggles so hard playing Harold.

In real life harald was the better army but Harold got lucky and got him with his pants down.

To win with larger enemy you want to split your armies so they don't attrition and wait untill enemy gets split so much you can hunt smaller armies or they just die and get debuffed from attrition. If youthink England is hard, never tried winning with Seljuks as Byzantium

Just use Harold as your commander he's always spawns with the trait organizer meaning you get to decide where your battles take place wait a little bit for the ai to lose supplies and crush them again and again. In defensive wars defenders battle score is not capped meaning all you have to do is: not have an important character get captured, not lose your capitol, don't lose battles or atleast not very many and don't lose too much land. Just keep winning battles.I played as Harold and managed to conquer Wales and Scotland before he died after I defeated the Normans and Norwegians.

I remember in a playthrough I started out as Norse, took over England, then Northern France, then made both Norman culture and English culture

Would love to see this playthrough continued; perhaps playing as Jerusalem

Okay, I really *really* want a sequel to this one. Play until the end date, anyone?

Great video as always.

The ai almost always repels the invaders in my saves. The second most likely scenario is William wins and after he dies the Anglo-Saxons revolt and put someone of Godwin on the throne. In almost two years I think I've seen Norway take England once only for the Anglo-Saxons to revolt

If you didnt know eavh time you restart the Building in your Counties change. Hence why you occasionally get more troops from barracks.

Love that he didn’t have a commander for the second run

Does anyone know what the Company of the False Earl was about?

I picked England in 1066 as my first game. Didnt realize i was at war, so i declared on scotland and then realized i was at war lol I just stopped playing after that

Do you ever plan on doing a episode to episode series on CK3? Like a playthrough with a goal to achieve? Love your vids btw

The cornish and welsh doing uprsings is very historicaly accurate.

So I actually played his son who was an Earl in Dorset I believe. And I managed to take england again and also form britainnia. I focused early on in getting the duchy of Hwicce then taaking over Ireland while still under Norman's then attacked my liege for the kingship of England

"I what this claim of ireland because it feels right" now this is the most British thing I've ever seen

Look at whatshisface the hairy in the new 867 iberian start. You start as a count with 3 holdings, under a Duke that's a family member of the guy that murdered your parents and took your land. It's a hard way to form aragon which is what I'm going for. I'm nearly there. Mercenaries are 30% cheaper because of the struggle so making use of those you can have a lot of fun. Just be aware everyone buys a set of mercenaries so always keep enough gold for at least 1 extra mercenary group to stay competitive

So clearly Arthur was actually Shiva with all these excaliburs laying around.

form the holy roman empire, as france in the early start date, bonus points if you manage to get either an iberian kingdom into it as de jure or a brittish kingdom

if you stopped 5 speed gaming you would have done it in a few attempts

Could you explane the false earl thing?

Best strat: Immediately ally the HRE and wait for William to arrive. Then combine your forces with the HRE to get an easy victory, then land in Normandy and siege it down to get a enforce demands or a white peace, then turn around and take out the Norwegian armies, but do NOT sail to Norway, as now you may be in dept, and it would be easier to simply siege down the Norwegian allies on the isles and get a white peace.

Big mistake not catching Williams armies with the disembark disadvantage @1:30

Haha this was great, wouldn't mind more maybe

can someone explain the false earl thing please?

I know its a bit cheesy, but it gave me a pretty easy win. So I waited for William to land on England and raised my armies next to him and quickly attacked him before he lost the landing debuff, letting me weacken his army to the point where future battles were in my favour. After dealing with the Normans, the vikings should have starved themselves seiging useless forts in northern England, and then its a matter of crushing them.

I tried this,and I love this start and I won due to a cheeky alliance with the hre,and clever maneuvering,just kidding I had a death stack

When are you going to Ulm?

So when do we get the full history video done by Laith on Godwin

I didn't realize this was a challenge because I did this in my first try

It hurt me when you gave away Reading. My home town just gifted away. 🤣

Yo Bro Can you Put Your Load Order Of Mods, Because im confused with mine .i downloaded a lot of mods but im getting crashes

24:00 You were on crown authority 1 this whole time. So not once did you ever revoke titles. wow.

I don't play CK3, so maybe that's why...but this one was so fast paced I could hardly follow what was going on.

Gonna be honest, I just allied France and had them fight Norway wile I killed Normandy. Worked like a charm

4:13 hurts to see that you kept running into fights without a commander :')

If you want to suffer try the canture the greater achievement. You have to form the north sea with out reforming or going fudel.. taking the land isn't hard its the holding all three for 30 years on one character that makes it so frustrating.

Im still surprised that you can Press multiple claims at once. I never knew

Ive played this before, i didnt restart i just formed alliances with scotland then focused on attacking normans while the scottish focused on the nowergians

Yeah, I wanna play CK3, but my computer would explode

Use the ck3 extended timeline mod and survive as the Saxons against Charlemagne

As Tunis, conquer Rome! (Revenge for Carthage)

Tbh its quite easy if you split them up and white peace

Northumbria flashbacks

Pepega momento

I got a challenge for you. Take over Rome as the Hæsteining dynasty, and reform the Åsatru faith.

I have about 100 hours, so I’m pretty new to the game. Haven’t watched the vid yet. I beat it first try by marrying the holy roman emperor’s mother and I think marrying a kid off to one of the french king’s kids. The french king helped me beat the norse and the holy roman emperor helped me beat the normans. Went on to get 4 empires, so far. Haven’t played that file in a few weeks, did something dumb with creating a new religion for the first time

8:40 Claimant on the county of nonce? You're right, that's not great at all

Oh wow, I have seen England win this

Huh, I heard that one of the patches made it super easy for Harold to win the war. Did they change it again?

My first time playing as William, Norway won

Maybe trying to survive the seljuk invasion of anatolia as estern roman/byzantine empire

You must paly Ironman mode with default settings with no mods, start as your own predefined count in your own house below 400 points. "Be the most successful adventurer Norse House over 600 years, unlock as many Legacies". This can done in multiplayer are well, with other streamers :) You must Varangian adventure every life time, you LOSE 100 points if you die before acquiring the Adventurer Trait. You earn points if you are to for each objectives completed below: 1. Consecrate Bloodline for 10 points 2. Elevate the Kingdom of Mann & the Isles for 100 points 3. Dynasty of Many Crowns for 200 points 4. Each legacy unlock will gain you 50 points 5. Each Adventurer Trait will gain you 10 points 6. Sponsor Jewish Sciences to gain 50 points each time 7. Commission Epic to gain 10 points each time if it rewards renown in game 8. End the Iberian Struggle to gain 200 points, extra 100 points if is done by dominance (The settlement of this peninsula will be our focus.) 9. Holding a special building that grants renown percentage gain increase for a life time will grant 20 points, no points if you lose it for a month 10. Each of the following adopted traditions will grant you 50 points: Mystical Ancestors, Castle Keepers, Chivalry, Culinary Artists, Religious Patronage 11. Gain 50 points for each emperor of your house that rules for more than 10 ears You lose points if you: 1. 30 for Disinheriting a child 2. 30 for Assassinating a house member 3. 50 for Assassinating an heir 4. 100 if you die before acquiring the Adventurer Trait one per life time 5. 200 if you adventure into the same de jure kingdom, empire

I won on england on my first try also on console

First time I played Godwin, I fought Harold first and William just died and I got a white piece before I even went back down south. Shortest war ever

Undo the reconquista

how about getting under all of Spain under EL-CID's rule.. :)

I almost never get male claimants when you invite them. Best thing to do is to look for claimants on titles you want then try to invite them manually

You’re supposed to fight Harald Hadrada first, catch them while they are disembarking win that first fight and then immediately disregard them and then destroy William entirely, then go back and finish off Harald Hadrada.

in my games, Harold godwinson wins like 70%of the time

I think I prefere the godwin start. Its not that hard and super fun, but imo harold hardruler is even more fun but its much harder to win against william.

Ah yes the jæland peninsula XD

it is really easy when you get marriges

The AI seems to win every time I play atm

Did that first try

What is so difficult about this done this first time easy 🤔

I can easily win with england, but I can't win as Willian the Conqueror

It's definitely not one of the hardest launches. My brother told me that this start is very hard, but I already won the wars after a few years (without having to restart).

I get the "it's more realistic this way" but i don't see the appeal of suffering when you can get alliances. Also in the stewardship tree you can extort people and sell titles.

It’s pretty easy actually. Just cheat with mercenaries. Buy mercs, disband all troops. Then raise your troops, then go to the mercenary tab and raise the mercenaries you bought buy hitting the raise button. Then disband only the mercs. Then hit the raise all button again. And keep repeating this as much as you like. Every time you do this, another stack is raised. Once you’ve done this like 20-30 times, un-pause the game and you will raise +20k mercs, along with the troops you already own. Now don’t get over confident. If one soldier dies, how ever many times you do this exploit, that many soldiers will die. So if you repeat this process 30 times, if a single soldier dies, 30 will die instead. It’s like the game raises 30 of the same soldier, who will all die if the original dies, but it also increases your total count of soldiers so you can overwhelm the enemy.

wtf so this is how england ai beat the normans & norwegians in my game???

im gonna be honest, ive done this before and its not hard, you just need to make as many alliances as possible.

Erik the heathen and bavandids are way harder.

I played as wales on 1066 and i saw the AI won

this video is funny bcs in my game harold always win no matter

Man you make it look so hard did this first try after like ten minutes

This is gonna be a disaster

I dont know what youre doing wrong because every time I start is 867 harold smashes the normans and the norwegians. 8/10 times the harolds dynasty keeps control of Britain

Well, guess i have to wait for one of the 4 people smart enough to understand the "false earl"joke

You could have just removed the Saxon Elective law instead of trying to persuade people

why nobody play as harald hardrada

Raise all men. Hire the merc that has the most men (that the game lets you). Put ur army in the south of England and when the French land kill them, they will have the debuff. Then white peace after bashing their army a few times. As for the north just stay away from their death stack and siege back the stuff they took eventually you will win

It really isn't that hard, you can grab an alliance with Scotland and they'll help defend you against the Norwegians.

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Shouldn't Winchester be the capital?

Imagine how great it would've been if Godwinson won and stopped the French from defiling english

bruh i did this on my first try

I dont like these kinds of videos where people put their face on it.. Anyways, on a more serious note. You can win with Harold by not repeating the mistakes he made in real life... Ck3 devs are excellent in providing reasons for anything in this game. The road to winning the war is simply to not engage strong enemies when you are not yet at your fullest strength. In other words, in real life Harold was engaged in battle by William after this one realized that Harold's army was still assembling. So in CK3, consolidate your army completely, add even mercenaries if you can and crush first Harald then William, with your entire army. Also you can make strategic alliances, compromise for now, give them what they want now so they can support you in your war.

Fun Fact! Im a direct desendant of Harold Godwin!

Honestly played Godwinsons quite a lot safe bets were always betrothing your children to France and to the HRE and their most powerful vasalls Tuscany, Bohemia, Angria… or Asturias… While you obviously can’t call in the French King against William de Normandy as he was their vasal, you can call France in against Harold of Norway. It is not as hard as some Hard labeled starts… Or the achievements of Rum, Ghur and Tibet tbh…

Probably not as many as Northumberland