Gotland - the road to victory

[Casablanca]

hey!1

was just looking at some of the maps from the dev diaries, and i was stricken with how Gotland is the ultimate key to the baltic sea and the dominance of this. it borders 3 of the most essentiel seaprovinces in that "sea" so in conclusion i hope that Denmark still owns Gotland in the grand campain, as in EU2 because then it will rater piece of cake to make the baltic into a danish lake.

- casa

 

[unmerged(53986)]

well aslong as you can operate your armies without being pressed elsewhere... which is a skill in and of itself.

 

[Da Swede]

Dude, this is Paradox... Denmark will be hardcoded to never EVER defeat Sweden. So you can forget all about that last part and go back to bed.

 

[Sleepyhead]

What struck me as odd is what kind of culture will Gotland have?
The people weren't Swedes, neither Danes.

 

[Arilou]

There's no reason they can't have a separate culture in the Scandinavian group, really.

 

[Sleepyhead]

Well the same can be said for Icelandic, Jamtlandic and to a lesser extent Dalecarlian.

 

[Rotten Venetic]

So, why not?

 

[unmerged(19042)]

hey!1

was just looking at some of the maps from the dev diaries, and i was stricken with how Gotland is the ultimate key to the baltic sea and the dominance of this. it borders 3 of the most essentiel seaprovinces in that "sea" so in conclusion i hope that Denmark still owns Gotland in the grand campain, as in EU2 because then it will rater piece of cake to make the baltic into a danish lake.

- casa

I am curious - how exactly was Gotland in any way especially useful to make the Baltic a Danish, or Swedish or Polish or Russian lake? I would in my games as Sweden or Poland beat up the Baltic States and take their provinces and then defend them by putting 30,000-40,000 men on a fleet in Sund (or indeed any other sea zone), to keep it blocked to other fleets and to quickly sail to any rebellious provinces.

Jutland, Skane and the Sund straits, as long as you controlled them, you could move soldiers around quite easily.

 

[unmerged(19042)]

I might make sense if Gotland had ports in all seazones around it, but it haas a port in only one, shared with Stockholm's prvince IIRC.