Sweden, how to become OP?

[Triton1037]

Recently I have found myself odly attracted to Sweden in HOI4. I have just kinda been doing games where the usual happens (invading the rest of scandanavia), however I am looking if there are any better technquies to making Sweden OP. (Feel free to post photos of world conquest as Sweden.)

 

[Gyrvendal]

I haven't tried it honestly, but I think doing the Dutch Gambit as Sweden is probably the most OP thing you can do early on. Just invade the Netherlands and puppet the Dutch East Indies.
Hello infinite manpower !
I would then go for Norway next and use it as a platform for invading England from the North. Once they are down you have pretty much won.

 

[Sidetrack Nick]

I haven't tried it honetly, but I think doing the Dutch Gambit as Sweden is probably the most OP thing you can do early on. Just invade the Netherlands and puppet the Dutch East Indies.
Hello infinite manpower !
I would then go for Norway next and use it as a platform for invading England from the North. Once they are down you have pretty much won.

Infinite manpower?

Also, when you declare war on Netherlands, doesn't that put you at war with the East Indies too? Is the Swedish Navy big enough to get troops there??

Or do you get to puppet them if you win against the puppeteer?

 

[Gyrvendal]

Or do you get to puppet them if you win against the puppeteer?

This. You don't need to fight the East Indies. Just kill the Netherlands and you can puppet them. The East Indies have a huge population, much larger than Sweden's anyway; hence the "infinite manpower". You need to have the TfV expansion to get access to their manpower though.

About the Navy, the Dutch Navy is smaller than the Swedish one so you should have no problem getting naval superiority for the invasion if not outright destroying their navy.

 

[Culthrasa]

if you do it early enough and NL doesn't enter into an alliance (say Allies), they will capitulate and PC when you conquer the mainland.
First thing to do then is puppet DEI, then annex/puppet the mainland... Voila, you have a puppet with huge MP to work from as your slaves, uhh...soldiers i mean

 

[Triton1037]

Infinite manpower?

Also, when you declare war on Netherlands, doesn't that put you at war with the East Indies too? Is the Swedish Navy big enough to get troops there??

Or do you get to puppet them if you win against the puppeteer?

Well honestly I find myself getting a decent sized navy towards 1937 so I think its would be fine at least to beat the Dutch.

 

[Triton1037]

Thanks all for the help I'm gonna try it out.

 

[War Emblem]

You don't need to exploit the Dutch to have a great game as Sweden. I made Svea Rike - so your first goal is to go Fascist and had a game where I:
(in order)
Took Norway and Finland
Took England
Took Leningrad and Moscow drove to the Urals and forced a Soviet surrender
Took Turkey, the Middle East, Egypt, Ethiopia and most of the Sudan
Took British Raj

At this point it was 48 and I didn't really feel like invading Australia, China and the US since the tech tree was about done so I just declared victory and finished. Sweden is a great game because you really are on a razor's edge with manpower. I never really solved the naval issue. I used BC/CA/CL to great effect but a lot of them got sunk in 45 when I ran into an advanced British CV force (level 4 carriers - no idea how the UK was building them in Africa). But you can get a good enough navy to harass the British and clear an invasion zone.

 

[cat013]

Alternatively, join Comintern. Sweden is effectively an island (if Uncle Joe covers your eastern flank) with surprisingly good navy. Liberate workers of Norway, Denmark and Finland from the capitalist oppression and lead the permanent revolution all over the world.

 

[SovietSpyCommisar]

Going desperate defense for manpower seems like a great move in multiplayer, just fyi.