I managed this once by beating the Norwegians and then William the Conqueror died of an illness, ending the war.

The hardest challenge of all of CK2 is surely restoring the Persian Empire as a Zoroastrian, either playing as Karmen (if i remember it's their name) as an independent nation or as the zoroastrian subject of the sunni caliphate. Thing is you have basically no friends and if you start as the subject you get rekt early on as they want to revoke your title all the time as you are a heathen That is most probable the hardest campaign as you basically are the only zoroastrian country in the world, sitting right next to the caliphate and later on to the mongols

Normans are tough, but a real challenge would be holding off Genghis Khan's Mongol Horde as the Khwarezmid Shah. You start off with a large kingdom and quite a few men, but the enemy is the greatest conqueror in world history. Good luck.

finally another challenge video, i love these ledeng

Surviving the Mongols with the Shah of the Khwarezmian Empire in the Mongol bookmark. Would be a cool remake of an older TW series you did a few years ago.

This may be the hardest challenge in the game: In 1197 play as Queen Isabelle of Jerusalem and retake the holy city from Saladin. I highly recommend you use the Historical Immersion Project mod for this challenge.

Very cool divide and conquer strategy, i dont use it very often because AI suddenly wises up and starts to chase them off. I actually had a HUGE stroke of luck with this achievement, William decided to move against Harold first where both were wounded . After his costly victory William decided to move on London where my fortified army was waiting for him (fort and merc company) between my fort and the landing penalties we manage to break one of his flanks and win the battle. I hounded his army to dust and then moved on his lands claiming victory. My alliance with Scotland paid off and together we were able to finish Harlolds army where he later died of his wounds.

I did it without sieging any of William castles. Traditional way, using some merc, war of attrition, the main point is they will not replenish their forces like the English, so after few battles its a good idea to disband armies, recruit them again.

Your videos are very entertaining, just found this channel and I'm glad that I did!

great vid and nicely done!

As the Bulgarian Tsar beat the Magyar invasion (the old gods start date)

Play as the King Erik the Heathen,Petty Kingdom of Uppland, and win the war (26 December 1066)

This guide helped me out allot, cheers mate. Greetings from Yorkshire, England.

Love this kind of videos! Keep it up!

Also: Start as a welsh count and restore the briton holdings driving out saxons normans, norse and whomever else may come, reclaiming the land and declaring yourself the once and future king of the lands lost first to the romans then countless invaders after, driving your people to ground in the last bastion of wales!

If you want to keep an England theme, try doing the "Outside bet" achievement. That requires you to conquer England before Norway or Normandy conquer it.

It does bear noting your capital county gets +50% levy size(Every personally owned fief, so optimally could have 5 castles with this) and the counties in the capital duchy get +25%(same rules). Alongside that your ministers train troops affects all fiefs in the county. I use this to have 5 castles with +200% levy size between train troops, capital county bonus, and high martial king. In vanilla it's also possible to easily revoke this via a plot in the intrigue screen selection, both capital county and duchy, so if you have an emporer title it becomes advantagous to have gavelkind as you can pretty much revoke 10 lost fiefs within around 2 months of succession and be back to full power with zero tyranny.

Really liking these short challenge videos

I enjoyed that video. Thank you.

You did this one in Stainless Steel, but can you do it here: As Khwarezmia defeat the Mongols in the age of the Mongols start

I'm liking these short, challenge videos!

Oh yeah!! Thx for the vid!

Challenge: Survive the Mongol invasion in 1220 as Grand Principality of Smolensk

Hats off, well played.

Legend are you going to do any longer campains för ck2

you can just split the army so that the AI will be baited into attacking, then when they are in combat ýou move the other half up and crush them goes really well since you'll be defending and especially if they got a river crossing penalty

I never knew you played this. I love you even more now!!!

Even your Multiplayer button is corrupted. LoL. Also, I saw people, down in the comments, talking about the hardest challege and wanted to add few suggestions: 1) Restoring the Roman Empire 2)Unifying India 3)Conquer de jure Empire of Britannia as the Mongol Horde(or any horde in general, but there is an achievment for doing it as mongols) and the least. but not last - 4)Amassing 20k ducats.

Do the last Karling and take back all the lands of the Carolingians which include France, HRE, Italy, and the Spanish March. It's gonna be yuuuge so it won't cover a single episode. Take your time.

When I was playing Ireland norway won instead of Normandy and short after the house of Godwin regained their independent england not long after.

Well, it's probably the first video that I have seen on your channel, but it is the first one that I have seen "from cover to cover", I have really enjoyed your ability to dictate ! I shall not waste my time and watch some more of your letsplays)))

Love this format

How did you select the ships without selecting the armies, it's really annoying going around selecting one ship at a time

Like the good ol Sun Tzu said, "supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting". Pretty much what you did there

Interesting video and skilled gameplay. One piece of advice I would add on top of this video is to use the find character function to see if you can invite any better commanders to your court with the Siege leader trait being especially useful since a lot of this relies on racing against your opponents to gain war-score and said trait increases seige speed

To make it even easier, you can normally invite somebody to your court with the 'Siege Leader' trait. This will give you a handy advantage over the Normans and the Norwegians in that it you will siege down holdings much faster than them when you put them in command of your stacks. You'll be able to grab holdings in a shorter amount of time and there are fewer opportunities for your army to be chipped away by those random siege events.

Hey Legend, I've been following your channel for a couple years now and I really like the change to the different games. I'm particularly interested in this one as I've just started playing it myself. I'm not very good and was wondering if you've ever considered a tutorial series for some of the games you play?

great video i really liked it.

I'd love to see you play as the Reynes of Castamere when Tywin takes over House Lannister in the ASOIAF mod

Well, making Sweden/the north Norse again in 1066 start could be one

Why did you not expell the jews and hire 2 merc groups and attack immediatelly? In a war retaking stuff is secondary if you have a larger army in ck2.. you crush your enemy and then retake to force surrender or else it becomes province swap as you've seen

I like these, great if you can do one every week

I like this CKII challenge videos. They are short but intense.

This is so weird literally yesterday I tried this on Ironman and got destroyed xD great video as always

Great video as always, if I were to make a suggestion it would be to play as one of the Welsh characters at any start date where England doesn't control Wales, then unite the Kingdom of Wales and conquer the Kingdom of England. Maybe if you wanted a longer-form series you could go on to try and create the Empire of Brittania :)

I was yelling at the screen for ignoring the French King's marriage proposal (at around 19 minutes in). An alliance with them would make toast out of Norway.

is there any way to make the ui bigger as i cant see a thing on mobile

Mistakes in first 5 min(just suggestions not a complaint) btw love your videos -Landing your sons (the prestige penalty for landing your sons is very minor and when succession happens your now brothers will be very angry and strong as pretenders) -Siege Normandy (it is a defensive war so you don’t actually need to make him surrender. The faster you end the war the better.)

One of the challenges I personally enjoy is bringing back the Norse faith in the 1066 start, very difficult as I think their is only a few Norse counts left. I will be impressed if you manage it without a few restarts due to its difficulty. After that, would love to see you check out some mods, such as the warhammer mod. However will enjoy any you choose, warhammer one is just a personal preference. Lastly, want to try something ridiculous, make a Norse faith republic, it also helps you learn how to create and manage a huge family. Would be interesting to see you paint the dynastic mapmode with Legend

I've found Commanders can make a big difference when forces are roughly matched.

Several scenarios spring to mind: As Byzantium (three scenarios) don't lose Manzikert, Myrocephalon or the 4th Crusade As Wales defeat Edward I's conquest of Wales As Edward I conquer Scotland As The Kingdom of Jerusalem instead of making Fatimid (Shia) Egypt a Protectorate, conquer it and make it Christian As the Kingdom of Jerusalem defeat Saladin As Kiev defeat the Mongol invasion As the Knights Templar stop the dissolution of the Order

This looks like a fun Idea for a challange

What a coincidence, I was planning on starting another campaign with this exact start

I suggest you do a bigger series and try to revive the norse faith in the 1066 start

Well....restore the Zorastian Persian Empire as the Zorastian duke of Tabriz in the 769 bookmark.

I've played a fair bit of CK2 and there are a lot of little goodies you can find. Some examples for more long-term challenges would be reforming the Romuva faith (pagans in Lithuania), making a catholic heresy accepted, forming Isreal as a Jew, you name it.

I dont know exactly wich Paradox game would be best to do it, but repeating Napoleon´s Egypt campaign would be nice to be seen (he actually intended to conquer all the way back to France, going through Judea, Syria, Anatolia, the Balkans, and Germany) Sounds like quite the challenge.

@Legend if you want to get cash I recommend going Business focus not the other option that one give you like justice and more events that you need to pay money.

probably wasnt the best idea to go around assaulting all the holdings before the big battle

That's paradox for you with their continous rebellions or distractions with murder plots and other stupid things!

That's awesome

First bit of money was inherited when your baron died.

I was playing as Aksum to make a Jewish Empire at this time and the AI did it easily. And William died almost when he really did but because of syphilis.

I survived both, and am on my 4th king each ruled like 30 to 50 years or so , , any way my way I married off my daughter to the king of France son, then form a none aggressive pact or an alliance, you may have to give him gold , it doesn't always work ,I tried his way first, then found a way out of that, cause William was taking more land faster than my self lol, then up north I went and just beat him after taken back some lands he took and waiting for my allies like the king of France and Scotland, I married off a relative and got an alliance real easy, just make sure you save a lot , great work tho can't imagine how many time you had to back to get this result, nice work

Should try the outside bet, its a fun one in this situation. Took me bloody ages (winning as the third claiment, Sven of Denmark)

I think the AI doesn't have very good logic when it has to fight England ever. They always will send their entire army to your island so you can just easily destroy it. They should instead wait for you to bring your army to them depending on the context of the war

I would have done a couple of things instead of trying to fight the Norwegians on the battlefield. Great thing about CK2 is that fighting is optional. When I play that scenario, I extort tribute from the British minors to bolsters the numbers as potential tributaries that feel threatened by you, your allies and tributes armies will surrender without a fight. You can also get a large income this way for merc. I also try to assasinate William or Harald as as soon as they die, the war ends. Enemy armies tend to also burn troops through the siege ticks.

Dude's wife dies of a cough and zero fucks are given. My kind of channel.

hard challage for you: play this time frame but come in as denmark they also have a claim

Hardest/weirdest campaign i've done/tried to finish: Create the Empire of Kabulistan and reform Zunist faith (charlemagne bookmark) with the Zunbil family. Create a Norse Kingdom in India (Age of vikings) I almost did it with Halfdan of Nantes, but lost the invasion war and got blobbed by abbassids later.. Crazy episode: while trying this in the 3rd or 4th attempt, I actually became the varangian guard and all my provinces automatically became Byzantine's. Miss my indian opportunity tho, and restarted. Never seen an article on reddit or in the web of someone who had the same experience Also, give konugardr a try.. is a germanic genius viking chief in slav ukraine... unlimited potential King of the loosers: The nestorian guys living in Socotra

I mean they almost won the battle pf hasting

You could assault domain of William, since AI raised all levies. And I bet you could easily assault his vassals' holdings with mercenaries too. And then proceed to fuck over norvegians. As one said, "Wars are not won by iron and blood, but by jewish loans and mercenaries".

Legend, a suggestion if you would take it, before every game, I go into the find character tab and look up anyone willing to join me on my court (it helps if you have high state diplomacy and ranking) to get better council members and commanders, as the latter are extremely important for a battle, 3 level 18-16 martial commanders could have let you crush the scandinavian army in gloucster.

As kawazirites (turkish Persia) survive the Mongol invasion. Idk if it is too hard, or too easy but I believe Mongols do spawn with like 100k stacks of horseback troops

do HOI4 poland 1939 start

Why didnt you just hire mercenaries again at the end?

Impressive

High middle ages east Rome winning against the Seljuks with Turkish conquest on and on the hardest difficulty.

You should've have William the Bastard killed in the Battlefield like how he killed Harold Godwinson irl

Don't you take attrition dmg from being in his lands?.

You can start from 1204 and retake Byzantium as trebizond emperor Alexios Kommenos.

Restore Italy as Sicily would be cool if it’s possible to do.

Good tactic!

how about playing a nepotism/gavelkind CKII playthrough as in only have your royal family controlling land in the entire world?

Really fun but watching him ignore all the diplomacy requests - which could have brought him allies was super frustrating.

You sound like Harold Godwinson's internal monologue if he were competent 😂. "Let's get the fuck out of here!"

Do the reconquista starting as the one province kingdom of Aragon in 1066

*Gets invaded* No you *Invades back*

try the re-reconquista (play as a small muslim duchy in iberia )

Heck with just for difficulty, but this probably has some. I certainly love seeing the Dues Vult win the day though :) Play as the crusaders in that one era that there is almost nothing left of the crusader kingdoms (for the life of me, I can't quite recall which date it was). Try to actively hinder or deny any more Christian help to your area. Win all the crusader kingdoms back, survive the conflict.

How about playing as the heretic Cathars in the south of France, and surviving the attempts by all the (loads) of Catholics to crush you. Maybe end with taking Aquitaine and securing it as a power base for your new religion, or even take all France if it turns out to be a fun challenge. If memory serves Cathars can do some neat special stuff due to their take on Christianity. I think they can have female leaders, or that might be the Basques next door.

Survive as Asturias in 769. King Aurelio.

Survive the Mongols invasion of khawarzem

Hi just found out your channel. Really awesome. Maybe try Baltic Pagans winning Northern Crusades or England winning 100 years war?

idk how challenging it is but you could play the one jewish guy trying to form the kingdom of israel

Asturias kicking out the Muslims from Spain and North Africa. Had a lot of fun playing that campaign

By the way the resolution is so big i can barely read, pls change if you can and if you want.

ally the king of france, then call him into your war. there you go you beat normandy

I feel like this start is really not very hard. Both invaders are hostile to each other, so you can easily play them out against each other. And you are in a strong position, being able to invite good Generals. I would usually just beat back Norway and white peace them and then beat up Normandy.

an also try for an alliance with France and call them onto the war against Norway which will force the Norman's to end the war