The very beginning of my new historical playthrough MEGA-series: England-to-America. Beginning with Crusader Kings 3, we will play through the English roots of the USA, exploring the great Anglo-Saxon king Alfred the Great and his descendants.
00:00 Intro / Explanations
03:06 Alfred's Family
04:43 Research Materials
09:01 Danish Invasions
12:22 King Alfred of Wessex
20:22 Hiding in Somerset
23:55 Battle of Ethundun
28:01 Alfred's Improvements
30:53 Growing the Kingdom
35:56 Death and Descendants
42:08 Athelstan, King of England
As mentioned earlier in the video, here are the books I'm using as source material:
The Birth of Britain
www.amazon.com/Birth-Britain-...
Captivating History: Anglo-Saxons
www.amazon.com/Anglo-Saxons-C...
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle
www.amazon.com/Anglo-Saxon-Ch...
What a nice youtube recommendation! Smooth voice, good quality productionwise and very interesting (and in regard to my favourite historical nation, even though I am more into Tudor/Victorian episodes), with one of my current gaming interests as a medium. Will be watching out for the next video :)
Thanks so much! We're a few episodes away from the Tudors, but they're coming! Need to close out the Saxons and introduce the Normans first. You won't be disappointed. Thanks for watching!
oh boy new mega series
Yessir! I'm super excited about it! I'll be switching to America mid-way through EU4.
I feel some Bernard Cornwell vibes here. Gracias, amigo.
I didn't know he was the author of the series until I just looked it up from your comment, thanks! I really enjoyed the Netflix show. Like all TV adaptations, I'm sure the book was better. That must be one helluva series!!
Over all my games, Haestin will seemingly always declare on Mercia unless Eudes kills him first. It honestly gets really annoying.
Yeah, he barely ended up doing anything this run. I'm still curious as to why everybody talks about him so much, other than being barely annoying enough to even be an issue.
@@AdmiralJediPDX I think it stems from CK2 and the first few months of CK3 before the character customizer came out. He was a good martial character that could reach pretty much anywhere in feudal land so you could carve out an empire wherever you want to. Now he’s just a bit of a stain on the map that the ai refuses to declare war on despite how much it enjoys holy wars. Oh, and also, Alfred burning bread was in ac valhalla too right at the end.
@@coronin8587thanks for the insight! I've been seriously scratching my head about it.
In my current playthrough I he took over Lancaster, then back to France, only to be rolled over by France, popping up back in Ireland, invading Mercia, being sent back to Ireland, being banished frome Ireland to ending up count of a small county next to Barcelona. He died age 105 and I've married his grand daughter. She was also the grand daughter of Jarl Halfdan, arch-enemy of my grandfather, Alfred the Great. She grew up as a hostage in his court and bullied me as a child, but we were also somehow childhood sweethearts. I had been married off to a "Slow" wife in the name of a strong alliance and ended up with 3 "Slow" children so I remarried her and brought peace and unity between Dane and Saxon. Alfred had formed England in his lifetime and his son, my father, died of cancer at a young age, leaving me as the sole heir to England. Fun game so far and still got 400 years left to play!
@@PrimeNPC LOL love the Haesteinn soap opera!!
Saxans were originally germanic based they were a massive tribe of, u guesssed germans😅 who alot of them moved from what was once acutal saxany which is just above the Czech republic to modern day hamburg than they eventually sailed to the isles and mixed with the people who were anglic creating Anglo saxans. A part of alfred the great feat was also his redistribution of lands. I dont know how u could do that considering ck3 but only way u could is create the duchies and give counties to only those de jure duchies so there isnt any border gowr i guess 😅
Yup! There is a section in the video where I zoom in on what I *THINK* is the area of Germany Saxony. Did I get it right?
@@AdmiralJediPDXi wanna say yes to not make u feel bad but 😅
Actually he did because he was talking about Old Saxony who was situated under the modern Danemark, however there was also angles who were from modern day holstein if I'm correct but also some frisons of the north of modern day Netherland. So, the saxony he was talking about wasn't the same as yours.@@supremephantomhive1737
So about this game dude, just to let you know that this game can't be totally historically accurate as the game pretty much is hazardous on that point, however I believe that there must be some mods that gives more historical point to it.
Agreed, it's rough, but honestly the challenge of TRYING is becoming pretty rewarding. (It can also be frustrating.) But it also gives some good laughs, and the occasional teachable moment ;-)
Hi PDX, unfortunately i had to downvote ur video. Reasons: I stumbled upon ur video and expected some historical CK3 gameplay. Well instead i was watching for over 20mins on a pause screen without any gameplay at all. In fact if u only uploaded screenshots while talking about what u have, or havent done (nobody knows because nobody saw it) would have been the same. Also the introduction with "im not here to teach u the game" isnt a friendly introduction to begin with and well...i dont mind if u dont "teach" the game, at the 14min mark it would have been enough if u at least play it. So if u intend to continue that kind of format pls name the title "a lot of talking with some ck3 screenshots in behind"