Talk:Sweden strategy

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Mr. G: Someone who's good at writing guides, as may continue it?

Give me a couple of days and I'll write something. Have been playing as Sweden since i got the game and I'll soon have tried everything :P - Pepperpum

This one is easy, take some land (more manpower!) in your first war with Denmark and Norway (starting general - Engelbrakt? - compensates for all that you are penalised due to v. hard difficulty, believe me, it needs really bad planning to be beaten in the first war) and wait 5 years building cavalry up to the limit and ships for distraction when you will send your cavalry over straits to F-something and S-something (Danish, please forgive me for not remembering). Then jump on them when they least expect and vassalize them both. Then move on to dominating trade in Europe (stability, high Trade investment) and diplo-annex your new acquisitions in the meantime too. Ports in Norway are more than useful for piracy late in the game. Better to go for trade than military drill of qftnw as the first idea as Sweden can hardly finance one colony at a time so better to wait with that and build up in other areas. After having Shrewd Commerce and Trade Policy take QftNW and steal colonies of people who have weaker navy. If they wish to come to Scandinavia with their armies, let them check how deadly attrition can be, hahahah. Also is helpful to vassalize wealthy Novogrod to finance wars and prevent Russia from forming. Become the emperor if you want to too, bribe electors till they love you, manpower and higher land force limit cannot be underestimated. No clue whether a player can create Scandinavia here like it was possible in Vicky/Ricky but he can certainly expand from Danish land to wealthy German minors like Mecklemburg (if he takes Lubeck, bye bye trade, maybe propose a fix to the penalty one gets for owning a non-state-culture CoT?), Hamburg, Bremen and such to boost both his manpower and poor incomes. Do not follow Swedish history of fighting for Baltic republics, let Riga, Pskov, Teutonic Order and Poland lie where they lie, they are too poor to be worth the badboy and the effort. Where Sweden can go to colonize? Somewhere where manpower is high so somewhere where there are numerous natives. I'd go to Colombia/Venezuela + try to take what's left from Aztecs and Incas too. Oh god, i wanted to write a few suggestions and i wrote the guide... I'm such a chatterbox. Feel free to steal ideas. :-)

--Delra 16:09, 23 February 2007 (UTC)