Sverge! (or how to go total war) Tremble Germany, tremble!

[ikki]

Kung och Riksdag : +1 legitimacy yearly.
Swedish Steel : +10% Discipline
Hakkapelitta: 10% cheaper cavalry.
Indelningsverket : 33% quicker manpower recovery.
Swedish Absolutism : 10% cheaper stability.
Produktplakatet : 10% Production Efficiency
Union and Security Act: 10% more manpower.
Bonus +1 Shock

Its a nice quality army and a strong economy. And above all a mostly peaceful corner of the world if you want it to be, muscowy will be busy with the hordes & poland, and norway is building an empire. ok so denmark might cause problems..

Anyways, ideas.
It takes a rough 20 years to grab every idea in a group tossing all your points into it.
This means if sweden wants to, she could just go ahead and take all 5 military ideas and spend a century doing it. Quality, quantity, offensive, defensive and aristocracy.

But first Innovative! (administrative), its an idea with two special bonuses: +1 free leader and 5% cheaper tech.

Now with aristocracy, swedish national and offensive each granting +1 shock, sweden will end up with a rather shocking +3! (along with +1 of fire, maneuver and siege). And the first such leader comes free.
Add in the boosted disciplines and combat effectiveness.

 

[calvinhobbeslik]

Meanwhile, you're severely lagging in tech.

 

[jksoss]

who does care about tech while you've got army?

 

[Kakya]

who does care about tech while you've got army?

See Germany v. Russia in WWI :rofl: Of corse having a Bolshevik and Menshevik uprising helps.

 

[Illanair]

who does care about tech while you've got army?

Army? What army? You'll be too busy looking your masters' boot and paying for their shinies.

 

[nurgles_herald]

Based upon the way the game mechanics actually work, or at least what has been spoiled to us, it seems like it would be a bad idea to get every single idea in any of the monarch point fields, but if you *really* want to go crazy, vanilla single player is likely to be the place to try it out.

 

[MaximusII]

who does care about tech while you've got army?

[video=youtube;MMpCCo8Evnc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMpCCo8Evnc[/video]

Just sayin'.

 

[nalivayko]

See Germany v. Russia in WWI :rofl: Of corse having a Bolshevik and Menshevik uprising helps.

Military success doesn't always mean one side was technologically superior. If we use this faulty logic, Austria-Hungary was lagging in technology behind Russian Empire (see WWI).

 

[Falkoner]

I think the first four national ideas Sweden should pick are

1. Administrative ideas - purchase the first four ideas (Organized Mercenary Payments: Mercenary Cost -25%, Benefits for Mercenaries: Mercenary Maintenance -33%, Mercenary Recruitment: Available Mercenaries +50%, Bookkeeping: Interest per annum -1.00). The last three ideas can wait to the late game.
2. Defensive ideas - purchase the first three ideas (Battlefield Commissions: +1 Yearly Army Tradition, Military Drill: +0.50 Morale, Engineer Corps: Leader Siege +1)
3. Diplomatic ideas - puchase the first four ideas (Foreign Embassies: +1 Diplomats, Claims Fabrication: Time to Fabricate Claims -50%, Cabinet: +3 Diplomatic Relations, Adaptability: Core Creation Cost -33%)
4. Offensive ideas - purchase the whole tree

Thereby I think you can keep up technological and improve your army. We'll know a lot more in two weeks

 

[Dutchling]

I do wonder how viable mercs will be. My first game will probably be as Aragon and it's first national idea is about mercenaries so I'm sort of forced to use them.