Why SWEDEN Has THE STRONGEST ARMIES In EU4

[@LudietHistoria]

watch this else or I'm sending you to Romania kzbin.info/www/bejne/roXbkq2Lm56NldE

[@sebastianroman86]

Instructions unclear. Already there 😝

[@death-istic9586]

Love your videos!💚

[@taikutsunaneko9125]

1:39 no ludi sweden has a naval doctrine you just need to do missions

[@harunkuf7055]

Ludi: *Doesn't take the burghers' offer of 10 galleys* Also Ludi when he loses the naval battle: *Surprised Pikachu face*

[@LudietHistoria]

very accurate this xD

[@Tankshock55]

Getting the copper mine developed and upgraded soon will be great because you can eventually create a monopoly event (through the mission tree I believe) that will allow you to just rake in ducats for the next 50 years by causing copper to be near 8 ducats.

[@Zackary1005]

I came here just to say that. So powerful. My monopoly got the price of cooper to 9 ducats! And the falun mine gives dalaskogen a prod revenue of like 30 per month, which is crazy. So fun lol

[@Chuck12312]

Norse me Baby and I love Sweden, Paradox and can't forget, Ludi's videos/streams edit: My typical Swedish run is pretty much historical, just dominate the baltic sea, and to destroy Muscovy after I've taken the city of Novgorod before they do

[@RobertNikolaGrujic-pk6li]

Watched your video with my 4.6 year old son, he laughed so much every time "you do your ludi things" dunno how to express it :P All the best!

[@pctheonly]

As Sweden i like doing triple rome, while culture shifting to novgorodian, to gain a total of +100% infantry combatability

[@deltainfinium869]

triple rome? Soo.. HRE, Roman Empire.. Byzantium?

[@mikecook6553]

Ludi i started watching your videos for the tips and tricks you provide us but ive stayed and have become a faithful watcher because i love history and really love that you explain history through your playthroughs. Really enjoy your content and appreciate everything you do, i wish you the best for you and your loved ones.

[@genericineverything7619]

07:30 August 10 1628, sunk on the maiden voyage, one of the first european ships with two dedicated cannon decks that could carry up to 72 cannons (though she only had 64 (mostly 24 pounders) aboard due to logistical constraints). The hull was also covered with highly detailed sculptures that were sculpted by swedish and german artisans, the sculptures mainly depicted soldiers, angels, lions and romans. The romans and lions are the most facinating ones since they were there to spread a message of how the swedish empire was the next roman empire (like every damn country used to say) while the lions (who were placed on the front of the ship and on every single gun port) represented the king, Gustav II Adolf who was called the lion of the north She had a sister ship called Äpplet (The Apple) which did not sink due to it being *slightly* wider (though it was very difficult to steer it)

[@DonPedroman]

There was an encounter in the Middle Ages (I dont remember the year) between a Spanish bishop and a Swedish one in like Avignon or something because the Swedes wanted to claim that they are the descendants of the Goths with the Gotland and Ostergotland toponyms as evidence, and the Spanish bishop responded that the Swedes are the descendants of the slothful Goths that stayed there, while the Spanish are the descendants of the entreprising Goths that migrated and created powerful kingdoms, pretty funny to be honest.

[@Melnek1]

It was certainly true during the Visigothic kingdom of Spain before the Arab conquest, where basically a Germanic elite ruled over the Spanish natives, not unlike France at the time to tell the truth, however at the time this conversation took place, probably in the high Middle Ages, the Spanish elite that was not under Muslim rule had gone native a long time ago, with nothing to remember the Visogothic period, and a lot of influence from the Crusades, in many ways, the Spanish conquerors were the true descendants of the Crusaders, both in attitude and spirit, as well as deeds.

[@Shadowking-jtm]

Ludi u could've called the muscovites into the war with Novgorod and then peace out, that would've given them the same length truce as u

[@LudietHistoria]

not only that but i could have called them in a separate livonian war too with the same effect...i kinda fucked that up

[@denniskranglin7440]

Can’t wait for part 2 🙏, been checking in every day since you released this part

[@hoyinching9313]

43:17 Copper creates more Leather cannons

[@sandercohen5543]

34:18 "bachschlussen" = bohuslän... yeah ok ludi, you do you 🤐

[@reverendteej]

Yes perfect timing! I’m watching this as I go home

[@MK-ev5rz]

I find it interesting that in the early game, so many missions and flavour events take place. That really shows that mid 15th century really was the beginning of a new era and the middleages basically stopped.

[@queckmeck]

I always go for a protestant, HRE vassal swarm sweden (and scandinavia)if possible, if not possible i go for expansion in russia, full Baltic and North Sea hegemon, sometimes both combined but then it had to be an easy league war

[@andreascj73]

Sweden was never known for their navy, and they more or less lost all naval encounters against Denmark. But somehow boots on the ground means more than boots on wooden planks.

[@AGrumpyPanda]

On the subject of the Goths, the Celts were all over the bloody place- Gauls, Gaels, Britons, Celtiberians, Galatians and Gallatians were all celtic subgroups, and were all over the place from the British Isles in the north, Iberia in the south and Anatolia in the east.

[@davidjensen1221]

I feel like we should probably change the joke to "Spain is overpowered" now that EUIV is developed in Barcelona. If I recall correctly, the Vasa sank because it was too heavy and hit the sandbar at the mouth of the Stockholm harbor.

[@danvernier198]

No, it sank because the construction plan was altered many times after the original shipwright died so they ended up building two gundecks on a hull designed for one. I didn't hit anything at all, it was knocked over by a strong gust of wind. It sank in a fairly deep part of the harbour which is why it's so well preserved. If it had hit anything then they had access to the wreck and salvaged it directly after the accident.

[@davidjensen1221]

​@@danvernier198 Thanks for more details!

[@peachprincess758]

Great video! Love it!!

[@metiora2851]

Vasa (the ship) Sank in 1628, salvaged in 1961. Can highly recommend a visit to the museum where it is kept

[@dragondasher8721]

I am incredibly scared of heigts so that shit freaks me out every time i go

[@Greg_Abandoned]

Ludi, look up amazing story how one of the Napoleon’s generals became a king of Sweden, really cool story

[@georgewu4051]

“Marshal”, and he betrayed Napoleon (kind of)

[@hologaming6163]

@@georgewu4051 he didn't tho, napoleon allowed him to take the swedish throne even when bernadotte said he would act in the intrests of sweden

[@georgewu4051]

@@hologaming6163 hence, "kind of". It was in Napoleon's interest to let him, a french marshal first and foremost, to become the swedish king, in hope that even when it comes to it, Sweden will remain neutral. its true he did not promise anything, but what he did (joining the coalition) was definitely not in Napoleon's favor. He could've easily sat it out. Sometimes doing something against, and not doing something for has a big difference.

[@sucato96]

Love the history stuff

[@milanpodmanik5386]

I think it is worth to take that mission for dev in riga. the reason is in the riga mission tree there is mission which give them another development if they have a lot of buildings (and for that the development is necesarry so this is one of the ways how to develop it cheaper). so it makes that province even stronger. and I think all that free development is worth to make their integration little more expensive

[@leonhall7482]

Hey just wanted to point out out theres a swedish mission that reduces the sami land's local autonomy to zero. You need to own all the sami provinces , have them all be following the same faith and develop them by 2 or 3 points and accept the culture. It unlocks more of the mission tree anyway so i usually go for that.

[@lwpeden5]

NORSE ME BABYYYYYYYY Edit to add: Also love the historical intros Ludi!!

[@jarjab2games]

The true amazing play is turning gotland into a March. And keeping them around. They won't raid you, like ludi says about vassals, but raid others. You can still take all their trade power like a normal vassal. They will make tons of their own money off raiding, and put out way more troops and ships than another March would. Also the discount to forts means you can just chain their provinces to give them raiding range. Giving them island forts is deadly, low dev provinces with guaranteed -2 dice roll. Pirate March is op, your best friend for the whole game.

[@kwicknik]

Not having rebel progress in sidebar and not sorting provinces in the autonomy reduction menu is WILD 😂

[@CatladyAyaki]

I love you Ludi! Great video!

[@JanXXVI]

Sweden had one of the most impressive armies of this period, and defeated much larger armies with it. Having read the biografi of Alexander suvorov, im pretty sure he molded much of his military doctine on Sweden's armies, epasising cold steel and shock. Alexander Suvorov had a long military carrier in the Russian army, and was undefeated, The Russian troops under his command was at it's finest through all of Russia's history. Charles XII achived great victories with his army, but he was also the cause of it's downfall. Just the shear stupidity of attacking at Poltava, it also reflects how impressive these soldiers were, that they would march on and attack against such odds, and that the Russians were on the defensive against a much smaller army.

[@yamameeven967]

Haa ludi this time you couldnt suprise me, because as soon as I heard there might be a norse path added, I tried it with norway, the greenland thing did NOT work, and trust me I lost an entire day trying it, but the other path did work thank God, i think i got a bit lucky too, it wasnt easy but I did it and it was awesome afterwards

[@Carnage029]

Hey LudieHistoria, a "stupid" challenge I just thought of, combining one with playing with all the managment banners on top, no indicator the whole campain, no pause allowed (except for piece deal with no outrougeous use of this wording to dev and stuff) wait, playing large of course :)

[@xXxMonkeyBoomxXx]

Swedes, when Poltava stars speaking Russian: *scream, but in Swedish*

[@dreiraven3rvn457]

"Norse me baby..."

[@duncanharrell5009]

norse me baby one more time 🎶 For real, Nordic Empire sounds like an awesome run! Pity you aren't doing this as Norway or Denmark, then you can get a mission to core England and form the North Sea Empire.

[@Zackary1005]

I love Riga so much as a vassal lol. You can do their mission « Develop our city » pretty easily by deving them to about 30 and building all the basic buildings (church, castle, both of which they might already have, market, workshop, barrack) and it gives it +15 dev and 60+ ducats in tax, which is ridiculously good 😂. They give you about 7 ducats a month after that. Obviously, they have a ton of trade modifiers which make them super stronk in the baltic node. You can divert trade if you want, but I find that I’m able to dominate at about 80% trade power without doing so, which in turn allows them to field stoopid armies for an opm. Just did the leagues (which we won). Norway fielded about 10-12 regiments while Riga had 27 😂. Not quite a full stack at mil tech 14-15 (which would be 29-30 width), but again, pretty powerful for an opm and they occupied most of Hungary on their own.

[@Tyrazial]

"Speaking of a bad british accent, this save will be available on Patreon." Ludi, master of the segue

[@zaculliz]

I love becomming the emperor. As long as you dont take to much dev in the first war, and rush friendship with austria, you can join before you grow to big. And then become emperor if possible to conquere our rightfully conquered land.

[@klockrenlol]

*norse me baby one more time* 🎶

[@MuppetLord1]

Feel like my holy horde Teutons --> Poland --> Mongol empire with 115% cav combat all horse armies with 83% cost reduction is the stronkest armies in EU4. :D

[@kyleholmgren5939]

* checks if anyone can see me type * "... Norse me baby"

[@ВячеславКудрявцев-ю6с]

Norse me Ludi, shkipidipumpius maximus!

[@yamameeven967]

Last time I played sweden I went for regular historical Sweden protestant and united scandinavia

[@Owenmilan]

Agreed on Dave Chappelle, I saw him live this winter in DC, really awesome experience!

[@tapanivire]

My problem with playing Sweden is always the same: I just have to recreate the Swedish empire. So map doesn't look right if I conquer whole Denmark, Norway or Novgorod. So I made Novogorod my March and donated her lands from Norway and I made another vassal in Danish lands. And then conquered parts from africa and India. Map has to be pretty, you know.😂

[@ИльясИзбасаров-ч9э]

17:29 If I'm not mistaken, Tolkien took Finnish as the basis for the Elvish language

[@BaneofBots]

Holy fuck, last time I was this early Rohan still held the Westfold And holy shit, I even beat the discord notification

[@sportiolli]

norse us ludi, cover us in norse

[@Dukaier]

Nhorse me baby now give me another world conquest 🎉

[@Jaminskii]

Havent watched yet but I pray this saves me from dying to being poor and dying from bankruptcy.

[@adrianocaruso3259]

I need your help: I'm looking for the title of the song in background that starts to play at 29:04. Please, are several months that I'm searching for it and I'm going crazy. Thanks in advance to anyone who will be able to help me.

[@Riza610]

hello ludi can you make a video about speed running to become hegemon?

[@VolkoTheShadow]

Norse me Baby! Fun fackt SVT (the swedish brodcasting servis) is doing a documentery series on all of swedish history, from stoneage till today, it is comprahensiv

[@Arkiiop]

Beard and mustache coming back i see 🧐 great to see them back haha

[@fakelife.]

could you make a video winning independence war with no allies for mp games

[@jessejordache1869]

Norse me baby. "Ludi why you always make me wrrrrrite these rrrridiculous things they make no sense."

[@Warhammer40kmaker]

Interesting name for King Gustav Marsvin. Marsvin is guinea pig in Swedish.

[@tigrosabertooth4757]

28:38 well, they were unified not so long time ago, and definitely more than 10 times stronger than today 😄

[@acadea1232]

I'd like to see a 2nd part with the norse sweden

[@toeornottoe4951]

That was a quick tuna sandwich!

[@General_Lunacy]

I will not under any circumstances comment, "NORSE ME BABY." wait...

[@ssmatthews6798]

Magdalena? It's Margrete.

[@dier90]

Norse me baby. from a norwegian guy ^^ havent had a propper sweden run in a few years, might need to have another go at it

[@zero_nkt]

Norse me Baby! Gimme that Norse empire video Ludi!

[@buyucukbuyu8901]

Ludi why don't you use the new sort mechanic in autonomy section? It saves a lot of time and effort.

[@mewien]

novgorod as vassal, release cores from muscovy

[@lieberherrmullerhd]

40:58 yoooo wtf? You just threw away 50 adm points!!!!

[@PheonixHunter]

It's Swedin' time

[@BogoceDesMontagnes]

Norse me baby Can’t wait for the 2nd part

[@crazyand2099]

41:10 LUDI, I told you it was pronounced Newfunland and you replied to me, jk it is not a big deal.

[@andsoami9876]

Norse me baby, come more videos. I was perfect sleep on this part videos)

[@tip00former1]

Dear Ludi, I am currently quite sick and your waffling is ideal to still whatch some content on YT. Thank you. Keep waffling 😊

[@LudietHistoria]

get well soon brother and thanks for watching ^^

[@muhr9504]

random country exists... Ludi: This is why "random country" is OP 😂

[@1212Diablo]

When I play sweden mostly conquer Russian and eastern European lands. Sometimes go for HRE as well. Other times I go more colonial and take England on the way. Usually do this whenever I win Burgundian heritage.

[@stefanahlander871]

One fun thing I did was play as Sweden and shift to Prussia after getting all the juicy permanent modifiers. I got to keep my carolean units and their estate privileges. Space Marines anyone?

[@ambrotos3932]

Norse me baby I really wanna see more of your post 15-1600 playthrough im not terrible by any means but more insight into the late game would be lit

[@thecrzyirishman]

Great video Ludi, I've got a question. How many loans did you end up with here? How did you end up paying them off? Is expanding this fast the key to recovering?

[@LudietHistoria]

I didn't have many loans tbh, I used the burgher loans, I looted a ton when at war and took max ducats from each war, so warfare fueled my economy for the 1st bit while the country didn't have much dev/eco output

[@thecrzyirishman]

@@LudietHistoria then I should probably try taking less territory and taking more gold next time I try Sweden. Thanks!

[@MrHarbot]

Living in Turku (Åbo) and watching Ludi deleting our castle. :(

[@peachprincess758]

I love you!!

[@DvdAvins]

Why take both halves of Iceland instead of just the western half? Is it being the same state a good enough reason, or was it just automatic without thinking about it?

[@davidferrero1301]

Je souhaiterais que tu suives la voie des Norses!

[@l3goshi917]

I still wonder why SWEDEN has THE STRONGEST ARMIES in eu4.

[@Ollidol]

Engelbrekt Engelbreksson means Engelbrekt the son of Engelbrekt which I find funny. And the ship was named after the family that ruled Swden Vasa. They ruled from Gustav Vasa 1521 to 1818 when Jean Baptiste Bernadotte became king. But you know we can't have a Swedish king named Jean so he became Karl XIV Johan and thus the royal family changed from Vasa to Bernadotte.

[@danvernier198]

Nah, the house of Vasa ended with the abdikation of Kristina in 1654.

[@northover6015]

NORSE ME BABY!!!

[@chimochills]

Jesus Ludi... looking thin and fit!!! 🤌

[@ugglorimossen]

Gustav Marsvin (Gustav Guinea Pig). What kind of name is that?! *Norse me baby*

[@aaronsherman91]

Norse me baby. Ludi please finish the French HRE run!

[@howlingwolf9906]

Would be actually good to see you play mods of eu4 and make small series about them, like Anbennar or İmperium universales. Different nations and different content for them wouldnt be bad

[@quimby713]

I thought only Norway can become Norse by the event of Greenland , where u got 10%~ chance to find Norse settlement

[@lieberherrmullerhd]

baptiste de saint germain

[@surterMAN]

Ludi please play the Dutch East Indies in Victoria 3 or i will take ur wife.

[@victorcapel2755]

Yeah, Latvian and Lituanian is the language of the ancients (oldest surviving european branch of the indo-european language group), while Estonian is basicly weird Finnish.

[@Rolandovitsch]

I actually liked your jokes this time... what does that tell about me? Anyway: Norse me baby

[@Mozenator]

Do it for Juicy Smolie! Norse resurgence for Juicy!

[@PascalGagnon76]

Noren us baby!

[@LovlyKoneko]

Does Iceland get unique missions when they form Scandinavia?

[@gavinlinville9691]

2 days - 5.1 / nors men is that what he wants ?

[@vylinful3198]

please finish this campaign!

[@KaisHistory]

Norse me bay and kinda wana seee how you do get norse without safe scumming

[@ericdesjardins3301]

Please don’t make us wait weeks for the next episode!!