Swedish Conquest of Estland
Herbert West: If what my limited Swedish is right, then yes. It's an amazing dynasty name and I love it.
Now, back to the AAR.
I combined my two armies (which I foolishly didn't put in the same province before the DoW) to form a 13k army and began marching towards Ingermanland, where Novgorod was assaulting me.
Within mere days, Novgorod had taken the province, and Moscow was quickly coming with a 15k army (!) for backup, with a higher land tech.
Even though they were out of morale, I only inflicted minimal casualties on the Novgorodian army. They retreated to Estland, and I of course followed.
After beating them around a second time, I followed them straight back to Estland.
But suddenly, Pommerania declared war. Minus two points for yelling an expletive when I saw it.
As I was fighting the Russians in Ingermanland, Oskar I died, leaving the incompetent moron Karl VIII Johan Natt och Dag (say that five times fast) to rule over Sweden. I didn't dare make him a commander, I can't have my army bogged down by an incapable leader!
Thankfully, however, his heir had great military skills.
With no choice, and being assaulted by Pommerania in Sweden proper, I called upon Scotland to help. (Spoiler alert - they did nothing but blockade the ports Pommerania had taken)
I think I either defeated the Novgorodian army or stopped to take Estland. Either way, I went back to Ingermanland with Novgorod distracted by the upper Finnish lands.
Meanwhile, Norway accepted a peace deal from Castille, where they ceded Bergenshus and annulled their alliance with Denmark and paid 20 ducats. This Spanish influence in Norway would be something I'd have to sort out later.
Meanwhile, I recovered rightful lands, while the Muscovite army of terror and pain approaches. With no other choice and with dangerously low morale, I had to fight my way out.
Meanwhile, Pommerania had taken Halland, and were working on Skane. It wouldn't be long before they fell.
As the Muscovites assaulted Ingermanland, I allowed my men to rest and regain losses and morale.
I wasted no time in recruiting a general from the noble ranks. He wasn't the best, but I'm guessing he would've been a hell of a lot better than Karl VIII Johan and so on and so on.
As I was fighting Moscow, the Germans moved their focus to Halland, then quickly took it too.
And here, ladies and gentlemen, we have a brilliant display of the Scots doing absolutely nothing. No army came ashore, nothing. They only stopped the Pommeranians from using their navy.
Meanwhile, my fight in Ingermanland was going disastrously bad while Neva was once again under assault.
With this latest battle a clear reason that this war was absolutely pointless, I called for white peace, which was accepted by all sides.
1494 began with another bailiff complaint.
I then flooded Lubeck with Swedish merchants, who quickly established a 5-merchant trade ring there.
Land tech went up to 10, finally. This would've helped immensely during the last war.
With a bit extra in my budget, I sent a missionary to Neva so I could increase my revenue.
The World, Whenever I stopped (Will check later, at least 1494)