What's the best way to invade England?

[1ahmДa]

I'm playing as the King of Ireland, having control over around 60% of Scotland and 31% of Wales. I've organized my vassals so that they are weak, via the dutchy method, so they dont screw me over. England, under control by the kingdom of nafforoa, has all these closely packed together fairly powerful dutchies. So should I attack england bit by bit/dutchy by dutchy or should I just screw it and do an invasion casus belli?

[haidunia]

the kingdom of nafforoa...????

[haidunia]

what year are you playing btw?

[El Birri]

starting with william the conqueror in 1066, you gonna start invading england right now and you have 12k troops event and boats event, hire 2k mercenaries and go.

win the invasion and after that you still have the troops event forever :D BUT you need to wait go to war until threatening level goes down.

after that go war against ireland and then scoland, REMEMBER you character MUST have all king titles to get the achievement.

[Azunai]

if you can get an invasion from the pope or switch to a culture/religion that allows invasion, that would be the fastest route.

if the pope doesn't grant the invasion, you can try to play the marriage game. see if you can get an english princess as your wife (or your sons wife) and a few decades later you'll be playing the offspring of that couple who inherited a claim on england (or maybe inherited england peacefully if all other guys before him in the line of succession have tragic accidents)

alternatively, search for people with existing claims (preferably strong claims) on english duchies. there's a "claimants" button for every title so just go through their duchies one by one and see if any claimants are willing to join your court.

once you found a suitable pawn, make room in your realm to land him (otherwise pressing his claim will not conquer the title into your realm but simply replace one english duke with another)
if necessary, you can give him a county in your primary duchy (you can later plot to revoke it without tyranny). or revoke the county of some vassal. if you're rich you can also just build a new castle in a random vassal county and give it to the claimant).

then declare war on behalf of your claimant, defeat the english and before your press "force surrender" give the claimant the county you freed up to turn him into a landed vassal (so he remains your vassal and adds his new duchy to your realm).

then revoke the stuff from your claimant pawn afterwards (that's optional - you can also just keep him as your new vassal duke)

rinse and repeat until you can usurp the kingdom of england which gives you de jure CB against its former vassals that become independent through the title usurpation.

[battlecattle]

I'd recommend getting an ally that can go toe-to-toe with England (and actually arrive on its shores). See if Scotland or France have any available daughters.

[mitchincredible]

Originally posted by haidunia:

the kingdom of nafforoa...????

Isn't that a culture-based name for Navarra?

[1ahmДa]

Originally posted by haidunia:

what year are you playing btw?

1148, from the vanilla 1066 start.

Originally posted by mitchincredible:

Originally posted by haidunia:

the kingdom of nafforoa...????

Isn't that a culture-based name for Navarra?

yeah

[1ahmДa]

Originally posted by Azunai:

if you can get an invasion from the pope or switch to a culture/religion that allows invasion, that would be the fastest route.

if the pope doesn't grant the invasion, you can try to play the marriage game. see if you can get an english princess as your wife (or your sons wife) and a few decades later you'll be playing the offspring of that couple who inherited a claim on england (or maybe inherited england peacefully if all other guys before him in the line of succession have tragic accidents)

alternatively, search for people with existing claims (preferably strong claims) on english duchies. there's a "claimants" button for every title so just go through their duchies one by one and see if any claimants are willing to join your court.

once you found a suitable pawn, make room in your realm to land him (otherwise pressing his claim will not conquer the title into your realm but simply replace one english duke with another)
if necessary, you can give him a county in your primary duchy (you can later plot to revoke it without tyranny). or revoke the county of some vassal. if you're rich you can also just build a new castle in a random vassal county and give it to the claimant).

then declare war on behalf of your claimant, defeat the english and before your press "force surrender" give the claimant the county you freed up to turn him into a landed vassal (so he remains your vassal and adds his new duchy to your realm).

then revoke the stuff from your claimant pawn afterwards (that's optional - you can also just keep him as your new vassal duke)

rinse and repeat until you can usurp the kingdom of england which gives you de jure CB against its former vassals that become independent through the title usurpation.

i did that and i was successful but i went back a couple of saves because i thought that managing multiple kingdom titles that aren't assembled into an empire was a pain in the ass.