This
Never doubt the power of horse archers, even Napoleon got BTFO by them
"Swedish Empire"
Hunter Moore
Jordan Reed
Oliver Watson
Aiden Murphy
>tfw no united Scandinavia with Karelia
At the time it had one of the best, if not the best, militaries in Europe especially from the 1600s to the early 1700s. The military problems with the Swedish Empire were that it was sandwiched in between the Danes and the Russians, and having worthless land in Poland which meant endless wars with those shit heads as well. Combined with a small population meant that the Swedish Empire could only sutstain a limited number of blows to its military before it would collapse.
However the bane of Swedish history was having excellent rulers with large ambitions who then provided to get randomly killed which would then plunge the empire into chaos. Usually what would happen is that the king would die and their useless wives would take over and fuck everything up.
Lucas Scott
>tfw no "Mare Nostrum"
Jose Davis
Why did you chimp out then.
Parker Williams
>the Danes
Yeah amazing threat those
Also it’s more the >H>R>E fiefs they stole that put them in the shitter, especially when they sold them for so little
The Dutch stripped their American dreams and cockblockrd in the Dano-Swedish wars
That’s basically the 100YW tho, even if the king of Poland also becomes king of Sweden, their governments are so different they would force the king to break it upon his death
Otherwise the lax polish monarchy would be forced upon by Swedish troops constantly raping Poland which wouldn’t go well
Angel Garcia
>Otherwise the lax polish monarchy would be forced upon by Swedish troops constantly raping Poland which wouldn’t go well
Except Swedish army of that time got raped by Poles.
Jaxon Hall
Expanding into Trondelag like that is EU4 tier blobbing.
Caleb Perry
You mean Bremen and Mecklenburg
Whoever wins the battle rapes the other