Saving Britain from the SAXONS as King Arthur in 476AD WAS CHAOS

[@Bern_il_Cinq]

Heyyy I requested this! Rad.

[@SnapStrategy]

Yeah!! Thanks for the suggestion really appreciate it, Was honestly one of the most fun things ive done in ck3 lately haha

[@idontlikerome2744]

Romano-British rules!

[@MassiveMan365]

It pained me to see Arthur the fourth written as Arthur IIII instead of IV

[@SnapStrategy]

Yeah I have no idea why i did that lmao

[@justinian-the-great]

Ironically, that's actually how Romans would write, since IV as a symbol for number 4 is invented later in the Middle ages.

[@J_Hodders]

I wouldn't trust @@justinian-the-great (He is a Byzantine Greek speaker XD)

[@roberthudson3386]

I had a clock when I was younger that said IIII rather than IV

[@abcinyourface]

@@J_Hodders Justinian was a Latin speaker :)

[@bernard832]

There's no single historical figure identified with Arthur, but he's based on Welsh leaders who fought Anglo-Saxon invaders. The Welsh kept a lot of Roman cultural influences and were converted to Christianity by Irish missionaries while the Anglo-Saxons were pagan. The concepts of knighthood and chivalry weren't present in Britain until the Normans arrived and were added to Arthurian legend by 12th century French writers.

[@RoyalRegimentofScotland]

Well technically they were welsh if your going by the saxon or Irish name but they weren't really welsh in a modern sense. I understand it's a bit pedantic but just wanted to point it out

[@JohnDoe-bh2lp]

King Arthur probably didn't exist as a single person, but was probably multiple people's feats combined into one legend. One of the main people that helped create his legend was a Romano-British commander by the name of lucius artorius castus but he lived before the legend's supposed to take place

[@EddieJones-ts6ub]

Wasn’t it Ambrosius Aurelianus whom the legend was based off

[@roberthudson3386]

@EddieJones-ts6ub There are a number of hypothesised bases for the legend. Arthwys king of Morgannwg, Ambrosius Aurelianus, Riothamus, and possibly later figures such as Urien Rheged, Cadwallon ap Cadfan. The legends are written down in the Middle Ages by Geoffrey of Monmouth so it's likely elements of many British kings' legends as well as medieval chivalric ideology were combined into the figure of Arthur.

[@mariox204]

​@EddieJones-ts6ubbased on a historian YTber it was multiple legends merged into one and couldnt be said to be 1 person coz every version is a mix and match of the inspirations

[@rBaggy]

Pretty much the same lore for the Norse Ragnar Lotbrok. Since all Viking Jarls claimed to be his son for fame.

[@ricardoribeiroprudencio7871]

Lucius Artorius Castus.... wait a minute, that is Askeladd from Vinland Saga lol

[@razier5299]

Just so you know you don't have to name them with their numerals the game does it on it's own for every ruler who has the same name.

[@SnapStrategy]

Wait what?? really has it always done that? never noticed haha

[@ShaggyRambo]

​@@SnapStrategyYessir even on the console edition if they share the same name as their parent they will get the Numerals added automatically! 🙂 Haven't played in a while but I do remember when naming your child you can choose to name after the father or mother and it will auto fill.

[@SenatorMorbstrong]

King Arthur's main goal in life was to find the Holy Grail - the chalice that Jesus Christ drank from. I don't how anyone could think he was a pagan.

[@SnapStrategy]

Honestly true haha, I never really thought much about it, just assumed

[@heathdionne7717]

there are a lot of different, pretty much entirely contradictory, stories about him. he comes largely from Welsh oral tradition but some portray him as an English hero

[@eamonduffy3735]

The chalice is a women's womb the wine period blood It contains stem cells opens the mind The holy grail is a bloodline that knights swore to protect

[@jbshiva865]

@eamonduffy3735 Calm down Da Vinci Code.

[@imahumanperson361]

The grail didn’t get added into the legends until *after* the Christianization of most of Western Europe. Arthurian legend predates this by a pretty wide margin.

[@JoeKerr420]

Cornwall is thought to be Arthur’s lands with Tintagel thought to be Camelot. You should take that

[@dinostancyberbully8561]

33:16 Lol. Son didn’t stand a chance😂😂😂

[@SnapStrategy]

bro was not ready

[@Kami-yan]

There is a theory that says King Arthur is actually Romulus Augustulus and escaped to Britannia from his imperial exile in Capua because his educator was Myrddin Ambrosinus (Merlin), while the duke you replaced in Hwicce is one of the last Roman soldiers from Orestes' legions in Cremona.

[@nealjroberts4050]

Merlin is based on two different bards named Myrddin neither of which can be considered contemporary with the last Romans.

[@Kami-yan]

@nealjroberts4050 i am not saying my take it is true or false. I shared a theory.

[@nealjroberts4050]

@@Kami-yan Granted. Hopefully my tidbit will help with that.

[@Quizer9O8]

I never knew the Pendragons were into Game of Thrones. So much intrigue and schemes to consolidate all the thrones by family members and some unknown assailants.

[@idontlikerome2744]

And everything was going so smoothly at first damn

[@nafewamin1339]

So happy bro made a King Arthur playthrough

[@imaxinsertnounherex]

Fallen eagle is cool, not played it since before the last DLC though. It drop an update?

[@SnapStrategy]

not yet, i had to go back to when legends of the dead released

[@The_Broddha]

It's been a couple months since the last announcement, maybe between the prior patching and the dlc they've been swamped? But teasers suggest it could hopefully be out by the end of the year

[@granite_4576]

Yo Snap you should check out the channel Cambrian Chronicles. Dude has sooooo much good deep history about brythonic history - his king Arthur video is awesome. There's literally no single king Arthur its a cultural agglomeration. Also, common misconception of modern people about the Celts, Christianity ran deep and didn't require the end of a sword to do it. there's a reason everywhere in Cornwall is called St -something

[@SnapStrategy]

Yeah Im subbed to him! I havent seen that King Arthur video though will try watch it tonight!

[@nealjroberts4050]

Yeah his videos are awesome. My only nitpick is he doesn't completely agree with me about where the name Arthur originates 😁 I'm still of the opinion the Roman _Arcturus_ is most likely linguistically and thematically.

[@StephMcAlea]

S'mae! I publish an Arthurian magazine and I'm an amateur Arthurian scholar. I'm also a Philipsian so I follow the hypothesis that "Arthur" comes from the name for Bear (Arth and Ursus), Arth ap Prydein (Bear of Britain). His real name was Owain Dantgwyn, son of Einion, son of Cunedda who led the Votadini from Lanarkshire to Gwynedd on orders of Vortigern (Gwerthyrn) to defend Britain from the invading Irish. "Camelot" was Viroconium (Wroxeter) in Shropshire in the Summer and Deva (Chester) in the winter (the 'round table' being the amphitheatre in Chester). 'Arthur' is buried in the mound at Baschurch (which was once surrounded by a pool and was the place of the tombs of the kings of Powys and grew apples, known as Afallan or Avalon). His sword was Caledfwch (Excalibur) and his faithful hound was Cabal. He was born in the Kingdom of Kernow (Cornwall, probably at Totnes) but was taken by Emrys (Merlin) and was raised by one of Uthr's lords at Llyn Tegid (Bala Lake) with his foster brother Cei (Kay). Its still just a hypothesis but its my favourite so far.

[@Gaivs]

I would highly recommend Cambrian Chronicles video on king Arthur! Such a great rabbit hole to go down, and incredible how linited our knowledge is about this period

[@goatgamer69178]

True followers are already here

[@AshleyGravesreal]

35:33 seeing 4 being written as IIII rather then IV is hilarious an average roman would have died seeing this lol jk

[@SnapStrategy]

Yeah honestly I have no idea why i did it like that lmao

[@akshaysudhi2544]

@@SnapStrategy i have seen an antique clock in which it was written like that, i also thought the same, maybe initially it was written like that only?

[@nealjroberts4050]

The current rules on roman numerals were only complete in the middle ages. IIII is a perfectly accepted imperial roman number.

[@nealjroberts4050]

@@akshaysudhi2544 But that's also because it's easier to cast 20 Is 4 Vs & 4 Xs in metal than 17, 5, & 4. A single mould of 5 Is and 1 each of the rest will give you 1/4 of what's needed.

[@palmagius]

the average roman wouldnt have. IIII used to be the main way to write 4 for the romans. 14 was still XIV, 104 CIV etc. but 4 was IIII. They wrote it like this because IV are the initials of Jupitar, the chief god of roman paganism. and they wouldnt disrespect a god by using their initials for a mere number. it wasnt until the 3rd century when roman paganism went away and cristianity became the dominant faith when IV for 4 was being used. and even then IIII was still an acceptable way of writing it.

[@BlazingFlame69]

Wait isnt Ambrosius supposed to be Arthurs Uncle? I always thought he was his uncle but damn

[@SnapStrategy]

Oh maybe? Im not 100% Sure i seen a lot of people saying King Arthur legend is potentially inspired by him though

[@Tohma_Ed]

Its true Uther Pendragon's (father to Arthur) brother is Ambrosius Aurelianus or as historians like to say "The last of the Romans" mind you there are a few but he is one of them.

[@King_PaperBag]

Nice to see the fallen eagle again

[@A_itsar]

You should've played as uther first, i believe in the fallen eagle ambrosius's brother, but i guess getting uther killed would be challenging

[@Colin-tg2ze]

You did a good job with your research. I recently did my MA thesis on Arthur and what you said lines up for the most part with my research.

[@WorLadCiz]

Snap, I hope you and your family have an amazing Christmas ❤ amazing video as always lad.

[@danielmaske9946]

I love you Snap and I love this daily upload schedule for the holidays!

[@palmagius]

07:35 cristianity first arrived in brittain in the 2nd century. but it didn't really get a foothold there yet since Romans were accepting of other cultures' religions. so the people in brittain were allowed to keep their pagan faith. the pope sent a saint to brittain at the end of the 6th century to convert the whole island to cristianity. which more or less was successful. but to answer the question, it indeed makes sense the holy site isn't there yet, since cristianity shouldn't even be a major faith in brittain yet for another 100 years from the moment you asked this.

[@Sophie-w2b9m]

More snap! Love your content ❤

[@SnapStrategy]

Thanks!:)

[@nafewamin1339]

Commenting for the second time: Would you consider playing as Saladin of Ayubid? He's so fucking overpowered, it's kinda fun. I'd love to see you make a playthrough on it since literally no one tries him. Maybe you could put a challenge on yourself to make it hard or something. Just disappointed no one plays as him

[@SnapStrategy]

Yeah im sure ill use him for something! but like you said will just have to figure out some cool challenge to make it interesting!

[@lanceburnett7692]

46:11 "Ok my son died anyway, lets go!" 😂😂

[@SnapStrategy]

I was just dreading dying with another terrible inheritance split lmao

[@Caesar1804]

The UI is pretty cool!

[@StreetSoulLover]

Would it be King Artognou and he would be in Wales?

[@kuga_4038]

This guy is just DROPPING it right now

[@aleturano1052]

This was like a horror movie where the villain wins at the end

[@ck9292]

When your player dies and your land splits, just claim family member's title. It's an option on their characters (your uncles in this case) sinse they are family. After claiming it you can do one war for all of that uncles lands.

[@The_krazy_kriegsman]

hey i dunno if you know this trick but it works for me if you don't want to pay the gold for the physician you can go in the interactions with the one you want or all and invite them to your court most of the time they say yes and then assign them

[@jean-charleschabrol390]

Love your vids snap

[@jacobite2353]

Isn't Caer Leon (Arthur's capital, I believe Camelot was just a (probably) mythical fortress) just over the Bristol Channel although I feel as though that name is anachronistic here?

[@emilianohermosilla3996]

The beautiful Fallen Eagle! can’t wait for the new update 😁🔥

[@Bern_il_Cinq]

Exciting ending!

[@michaeluzoho5838]

The ending was carnage

[@timekeeper1157]

It funny that the husband of the woman the first Arthur was having an affair with was a ancestor of Alfred the great and to top it all off it seemed like she was pregnant most likely your kid and later in the video the person who was pushing their claim, was most likely the illegitimate child of Arthur and that woman

[@SnapStrategy]

oh damn no way haha, also didnt notice that with the claim either!

[@certifiedahole3417]

is there a reason he didn't use the renown to get some legacies?

[@billychops1280]

The legend of King Arthur was heavily Christianized alter on as people from later periods added on to the legend, for instance Lancelot was a French invention, which is why he’s ultimately a better knight that cucks King Arthur. In the original legends he was more pagan having a witch wife and other pagan themes. However the person he’s likely modeled after (Ambrosius Aurelianus) was exactly the faith and culture of your dude.

[@Joona1M]

4th is IV not IIII😂

[@TirdadQ]

I truly enjoy your voice

[@roberthudson3386]

Some rather interesting de jure kingdoms here, with Pictland stretching down to the southern borders of Bryneich/Bernicia (later Northumbria). Whoever made this mod got that one wrong. Strathclyde, Gododdin (Lothian) and Bryneich historically would have not been Pictish lands. Prydain should encompass all of Britain south of Hadrian's wall.

[@kirit1528]

Can you provide used mode and version, i recently tried to play fallen Eagle on 1.12.5 but it didn’t work

[@SnapStrategy]

thats strange, i played this on 1.12.5 and it worked for me

[@youtubeaccountfr]

do you play on Xbox gamepass for pc?

[@kirit1528]

No

[@deathjester916]

Bro seriously never put 2 and 2 together when people mentioned King Arthur and the Holy Grail...

[@nitroniumninja9257]

The britons were celtic

[@maximusdecimusmeridious3784]

King Arthur was a Romano-Briton general

[@goldman4492]

Hey I never did see a review from you on roads to power. I was wondering what your opinion is on it compared to other ck3 DLC's and if it is worth getting for the more casual ck3 fans like myself (I have 300 hours in ck3).

[@SnapStrategy]

Personally its probably the favourite dlc maybe tied with Tours & Tournaments! Administrative government for the byzantines is really to play around with once you learn it, plus the ability to go landless can change up the game quite a lot if you want to just wander around building up your camp and do a more RP focused game

[@niallowens6312]

Why would a pagan be so obssessed with the Holy Grail?

[@david_Bargom]

What is the name of this mod? How can I download?

[@maximdrager3639]

11:09 you got it cause you got rakish from the stress event. Your going to brothels, what do you expect??

[@Kejmur]

Siberian or one of the Polish tribe's pagan religious reformation, and creating Empire as a potential playthrough?

[@beratdilaveroner4703]

A new michelin star meal?!

[@tomasbandoni733]

Can u share ur mod list? it would be great

[@nicetas2344]

Well yeah you're right, he's a collection of a few welsh and pict iirc kings, there's a few "arthur", some from welsh proper some from northern britain, some from 5th up to 6th or 7th centuries. But apparently they're all christians and fought against germanic pagans. There's a welsh channel that talk about this, I'll look for the channel later and add it on my comment

[@nicetas2344]

it's the cambrian chronicles channel

[@colins1619]

Round table?

[@RoyalRegimentofScotland]

I don't know why my fallen eagle doesn't work

[@SnapStrategy]

I had to revert CK3 back to 1.12.5 to get it to run

[@RoyalRegimentofScotland]

@SnapStrategy thanks I'll try that later

[@RoyalRegimentofScotland]

@@SnapStrategy Ye that worked

[@goraningesson3938]

Oh I love myself some Arthurian. I gotta give my thanks to the French Fanboy Fanfic Writers who made it what we knew it as

[@DarkSpells87]

What is that UI?

[@SnapStrategy]

It just comes with the Fallen Eagle mod

[@minecraftstiv1104]

Fallen eagle is updated?

[@SnapStrategy]

Not yet, Had to just revert CK3s version to when Legends of the Dead released

[@ishabooo]

Bro put Arthur IIII ... LOL

[@ryannowo5954]

it'd be Arthur IV

[@redrobin6476]

Romano-Britons are the Romanised Celts of Briton so they are what become the Welsh (along with the Non-Romanised Celts). So King Arthur is Celtic.

[@KorbinoHarlow]

Snap when is the world conquest coming no cheats btw could you please pin the comment

[@lema0925]

I am Arthur, King of the Britons!

[@kadwaladr]

why didnt you play as ambrosius aurelianus, the real arthur

[@MrChalmers99]

so King Arthur was apparently Christian, but employed a mage (wizard) as one of his round table members, where witchcraft was seen as a criminal offence to Christians?... makes no sense at all 😂😂

[@milkman6883]

Wait wait wait. King Arthur ISN’T a sexy blonde anime girl?!

[@blazeron12]

The Britains were not freed from the Romans. They were Roman.

[@Cyber-Gigachad]

I'm sorry milk tuth? Is that seriously how British people pronounce tooth or is that a regional thing?

[@SnapStrategy]

no clue about the entire UK, but in wales where i live its how people say it anyway

[@AlwaysRightAllNight]

depends on region and just person to person like my mom says 'tuthbrush, i say toothbrush'

[@Cyber-Gigachad]

@@SnapStrategy Interesting, I know of some words like vitamins and daughter are pronounced different, but tooth was never one of them.

[@Dorkrust]

Takes rakish, suprised to get lovers pox...... dude....

[@zaxseer]

Im not even subbed