Can you SURVIVE the 1066 INVASIONS as ENGLAND in Crusader Kings 3

In the 1066 start date in Crusader Kings 3, there is a great three way battle for the throne of England! Harold Godwinson sits upon it, but from the south the Norman Duke William is preparing to invade across the channel, and the Norwegian King Hardrada plots to take it from the West! But is it possible to SURVIVE as England in the brutal 1066 starting date? Only one way to find out!
So that's who we will be playing as today, as Koifish will use the very best of Crusader Kings 3 tactics to not only survive, but thrive as England, beating back the pretenders and claimants to the English throne! We're talking warfare, politics, strategical alliances... and a whole lot of Intrigue!
This is a part of my A-Z series, where we play as every fun start recommended by Crusader Kings 3, from the letter A to Z! In this series, I will be using all the tips and tricks and strategies that I went over in my CK3 Lifestyle guide series, mainly focusing on Martial and Learning! I'm also playing with all the current CK3 DLC, Including Northern Lords, Royal Court, Fate of Iberia and Tours and Tournaments as well as Legacy of Persia.
The question still stands... Can you SURVIVE the 1066 INVASIONS as ENGLAND in Crusader Kings 3
#ck3 #crusaderkings3

[@user-yr6ow6zc6o]

Love how the 1066 invasions became a footnote to the Godwinson clan marriage drama

[@jito7377]

I was so invested in Gyths story

[@BlackJack55_55]

They almost did irl, but then Harold caught a severe case of arrow to the eye.

[@sizanogreen9900]

happens to the best of us.

[@yeetsahoy7867]

I was a king like you till I took an arrow to the eye

[@nevets2371]

That and his soldiers chased after the maybe actually fleeing Normans, contrary to his orders, breaking up their formation, which was their only good defense against the Norman Cavalry, who subsequently tore them to shreds. Godwinson was killed in the confusion, allegedly by said arrow to the eye

[@stoutalarm8374]

Harold after defeating Haadrada basically ran his army south in only like 3 days maybe less if I remember correctly, from what I learned from history if he had stopped to rest in London his troops would of most likely recovered fatigue and possible gained reinforcements against William and his struggling supply chain. That and He let his men charge down a hill and break their own shield wall 2 times over in a defensive battle

[@nevets2371]

@@stoutalarm8374 to be fair, the accounts say that his men breaking formation was counter to his orders, so you can hardly say he let them charge

[@reynaradeleviora5555]

If Harold had survived the invasion, English would likely have more Norse influence rather than French. It is possible that we might not be speaking English today.

[@that1ginger22]

They would have stayed speaking old English mate no Norse (apart from maybe the north) influence

[@mediocremenace4566]

Anglish

[@Saberu_o_oppai_de_momu]

It'd have stayed as anglo-saxon language, though Yorkshire had alraedy been conquered and infulenced by norse culure before

[@ThemoonsFullofgoons-qn9xl]

We also wouldn’t of had a claim to the French throne so the 100 years war might not of happened either

[@walnzell9328]

America would actually have been an Anglo-Saxon nation like all those annoying Irish and Scottish descended people waving the flag keep saying.

[@sethd.8381]

"Almost as clever as my very hilarious wife!" *wife has 0 learning*

[@YunsAvatar]

Koifish played this so wholesome… and was surrounded by the strangest collection of perverts ever. Giving the Pope your wife’s toy made me literally burst into laughter.

[@alvaroaraujo3986]

First time seeing the Pope starting with "my dear Son-in-law," Awesome feat Koifish

[@TrollOfReason]

King Gyrth "The Lovethirsty" of England was truly a great saga.

[@demutrudu6106]

the first ck3 game I played as ireland, I actually had harold survive on his own without any sort of intervention. I had assumed that's how it always was, I only found out it was different on my second game.

[@MrLocurito]

damn, now i need a part 2, and you know what would be funny? doing a reverse conquest of the norman lands.

[@owwh2976]

I did this with harold to. right now I am Roman emperor. Lol

[@SaulBadman-wb5kt]

Expectation: Anglo Saxons reigning supreme Reality: a documentary about Gyrths lovelife

[@walnzell9328]

17:07 The Pope has a child and she's not even a bastard. Did... did the Pope adopt a kid!?

[@duncanharrell5009]

Seeing the Pope address you as Son-In-Law feels so cursed…

[@Bigdohxp]

I love this series. And by the rate it's going, my grandchildren will also enjoy it. While also being totally bewitched by Haesteinn! Damn that man for his ungodly charisma!

[@Swedishmafia101MemeCorporation]

Surviving in England? Lot of people are still struggling with it today... 💀

[@penzorphallos3199]

Instead of Norse adventurer invasions it's pakistani adventurers ☠️☠️

[@quiquemarquez3211]

​@@penzorphallos3199Damn this comment mate, casual racism eh?

[@penzorphallos3199]

@@quiquemarquez3211 sounds like you don't have to live with them. even as a muslim Filipino I have to avoid those people to dodge stabbings. UK visibly failed to teach them honor and self respect when they were colonized....

[@are6021]

A slave to the West👆🏻​@@penzorphallos3199

[@AssyrianTitan]

@@quiquemarquez3211 He's not wrong, instead of the Normans invading from France its Arab/African migrants lol

[@megacheese]

Anyone else notice his wife being wounded after consummating the marriage @ 14:20? 🤣

[@PaperMicShow]

She was bleeding 🩸 😂

[@sou713]

What better video to watch after Haestinn's English adventure

[@simoncodrington]

These hard / involved starts are the best content, working them out like a puzzle, seeing how you can survive. Great work mate, more like this one plz!

[@aclaymushroomwithaberet7084]

I desperately wish for more of this soap opera, please!

[@furretthefuzzynoodle3896]

16:27 him just loosing his full sanity, I love it that’s why I watch you koi fish!

[@PraiseJ-Pope]

17:49 the dad, his holiness, is drooling on his holy robes and breathing manually

[@YunsAvatar]

“My wife will help me in matters of the court.” Let’s hope that she is not using your wedding present for that task.

[@Therealhistorytheorist]

Luv your videos bruv. Keep up the good work❤

[@awesomepork101]

I would love to see this continuing!

[@mementomori771]

This would be an interesting one to see continue

[@dechchat.fahsang]

14:04 🤣 best moment i cried and choked on oxygen 10/10 Lady ravine would be proud

[@Zephyrus60]

This one was a banger I’d like to see more of this play through

[@alexlower505]

The unexpected adventures of King Gyrth, unlucky in love despite his most grandiose of balls.

[@444otKiyBraTo4EK]

Як завжди, відео вийшло цікавим та кумедним !

[@dominicadrean2160]

Here's a funny question what do you want to see in the future Crusader Kings DLCs😊

[@donpollo3154]

sex

[@antorseax9492]

Cardinals Thought of one I'd prefer: Parliament (though parliaments that could challenge the royal government only came about in the Age of Absolutism)

[@thomaswilkinson646]

Rest of the ‘old world’ added

[@tiagotre1]

​@@thomaswilkinson646Impossible , that will not happen like it didn't happen in ck3 , the best they did was the Aztec invasions and the kowtow trips to the emperor of china , with ck3 it's even worse , the burden on your cpu would be so hard that the game itself would be reinvented and it should be called ck4

[@truth6441]

More than two start dates....but I am not holding my breath.

[@oddglorfindel1106]

Very cool finally getting this as someone who loves and focuses the Anglo Saxon period :^D, personally I wish Harold Godwinson had succeeded given how much the Norman conquest destroyed of the culture, how it changed the language and their introduction of serfdom and later dragging us into the 100 years war. Edit: very ironic them sieging Constantinople given that after the norman conquest many anglo saxons left for Constantinople and the varangians became known as the anglo varangian guard as depicted in the Jatvadr saga (to my understanding not a copy of it yet but there is not english translation of it I have been able to find lol)

[@vincikos]

super nice video!.)

[@aidankenny521]

Keep it up!!!

[@CoeGr]

God damn do I love the Bannerlord theme in the background of the intro.

[@michanycz7166]

Hi Koifish, great stuff as usual. I think this is pretty much perfect as it is. But I have two ideas for you. Stay in England, but play either as William Marshal (and be perfect knight and protector of the Plantagenet kings) or as Simon de Montfort (crush Henry III and establish parliamentary monarchy). In either case, the challenge would be to be the power behind the throne. Ultimately, I leave it to the people in the comments to either upvote this or ignore it.

[@SennaAugustus]

Wessex siblings in Mercia.

[@michanycz7166]

@@SennaAugustus that could work too.

[@foisopracurtir6389]

17:11 King Gyth seems to have a thing for Charismatic Negotiators...

[@emilianohermosilla3996]

I' love for you to go for the Angevin empire!!

[@alatamore]

Well, I guess Harold sounds a little like Haesteinn...but...that's where the similarities end...

[@PraiseJ-Pope]

2:23 "Girls love swords!" Yes, yes we do.

[@anothergmodfan3350]

Being sick doesn’t stop the Koifish grind💪 (I am actually sick, no joke)

[@BradlyClarke]

Best wishes

[@mattparker9726]

16:58 Koifish don't want the slooty sister????? 😵

[@nicetas2344]

Your brother is the one who gave his claim away to the norwegians in exchange of some duchies 😂 and yet you welcomed him back

[@orirotem2298]

This is crazy almost as my matilda experiments i do with mods😈😈

[@davidandersson5610]

11:52 My man got married to Michael Jackson

[@linox0628]

great video but pls make some CK2 videos as well

[@joshwheatley8303]

Imagine if all of koifishes Haestine play throughs were on one map, starting in the start location in 867

[@militarybuff7107]

apparently william the conqueror is one of my ancestors. Pretty neat.

[@matthewksiezak2752]

The Brits don’t control Cyprus. They just have an extremely important military communication facility more or less in the middle of the island that keeps the Greek and Turk sides of the island from doing civil war.

[@dominicadrean2160]

Can we get a multiplayer bannerlord series with Latin and you in the future😊 You can try a modded campaign series being the Bandit Brothers Or you can try the hardest bannerlord challenge the Tamerlane challenge start off with nothing and you're in prison hostile to everyone in your only allowed to recruit Bandits

[@Tmwombocombo]

I did it by allying myself with the HRE, France, Denmark, and some others. Norway attacked France and the HRE, Denmark, and I swept through William’s armies.

[@reubenbrownlee4303]

Cougars make the best bacon and eggs.

[@hyugahablak1186]

Don’t tell Laith someone named Lionheart is cool to you e

[@Dexalium]

Koifish, do you think there should be an achievement where as Russia own every empire in the Eurasian Steppe?

[@sjhof9559]

Im in my first playthrough and I dont understand why England became Norway like 3 years after I started 😮

[@stoneshield6653]

STRAPPON YOUR ANGLOSAXON?!?!??!?!??!!!! KOIFISH GIVING A HEAD?????!!!

[@povilzem]

"I'm gonna visit my Holy Father-in-law, the Pope"

[@shubhampatel6908]

the ducks at the park are free you can take them home I have 458 ducks.

[@walnzell9328]

Koifish may have beaten the Normans, but he still made the Anglo-Saxons the English. A terrible crime.

[@weyjosh5213]

restore anglo saxon pride!! yes more campaigns

[@draganescuconstantin2380]

24:16 ALEXIOS KOMNENOS MENTIONED 🦅🦅🦅 WTF IS THE DECLINE OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE

[@Dorf274]

How the FUCK did he resist the urge to not play Haesteinn for the 500th time for the letter H

[@zaoda1357]

island survival fish

[@Scourgeoftengri]

the good ending

[@immortalengin3856]

Unlisted video?

[@Opava_army]

Play bohemia pls

[@literallywater3000]

I ❤ 🐟

[@lucasportasio]

Island """paradise"""

[@darkhorse505]

I would love to see British form the great British empire hundreds of years early 😄 Give me that curry! 🍛 lol

[@davidkube7467]

Onward to the Punjab

[@fetusmerchant9567]

Bannerlord When

[@Hugo_Mendez]

26:17 MY SON IS THE KING OF CROATIA

[@SennaAugustus]

Another Koifish video, another Cagliari invasion.

[@Fir3Soul]

When the king died chocking on bread my GF choked on lasnaga but she is superior as she survived

[@orirotem2298]

Where is matilda ?

[@IronWolf123]

Koifish, Tadjoura was French

[@connorbarton4308]

Do you think if you were Anglo Saxon and you invaded Normandy you could become English?

[@RichardBradleyUk]

Is koifish secretly English

[@heinzlilio4612]

Pope man having a daughter despite being chaste has to the biggest bruh moment of this playthrough

[@orirotem2298]

Bring matilda

[@masterofallthelakesintown2472]

You should have colonized Crimea because the anglo-Saxon’s actually had colonies there. Paradox even included this in the game because the kingdom title there will be called New England if an Anglo-Saxon rules it.

[@more17]

As someone from New England (USA) that's pretty cool!

[@Chaotic_Fragment]

Wait there’s a second new england?

[@user-gw5df2br5k]

​@Chaotic_Fragment yeah it's in the north east of the usa

[@Chaotic_Fragment]

@@user-gw5df2br5k i knew about that one

[@guymitchell3557]

That makes sense! I wondered why it became New England after a crusade - I thought any eastern crusader states ruled by an Anglic culture got the name

[@d1ogovisky979]

didn't conquer india :(

[@kevdog6425]

You said you'd take India, so take India!

[@alatamore]

Pope's daughter had no mother and wasn't a bastard. Hmmm...

[@nilex5818]

Pope giving virgin birth? Bug or feature? Hmmm 🤔

[@PraiseJ-Pope]

Adoption

[@doudline2662]

ez one

[@fidoruh]

Oh... I said invade France.

[@saxonking]

tale India

[@DreaOnzagle]

I have so many questions about how the Pope had a non-bastard daughter

[@PraiseJ-Pope]

Adoption

[@sainum2107]

Please lose the accent ..

[@evostage666]

Yes some people can, but you’re not the best at this game, offense

[@upi556]

You already lost this run because you British

[@ANGLO-GERMAN96]

😢