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Tinto Flavour #19 - 20th of May 2025

Hello and Welcome to another Tinto Flavor! This time, I have been forced to write it, as I am the one responsible for the country we will learn about today.

Today, we are going to delve into all the fun flavor that you get from playing Sweden! But prior to that, just remember to wishlist https://store.steampowered.com/app/3450310/Europa_Universalis_V/ !


Sweden is a feudal kingdom under the rule of Magnus Eriksson, who also holds the crown of Norway. Skåne was bought from the impoverished Danes just a few years ago. Our realm is vast, but sparsely populated, and mostly covered by forests. Inside those forests, riches of iron and copper remain hidden, but can soon be exploited to enrich our country.

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Mostly Catholic Swedes, but there are plenty of different Finnish people as well. Even a few Norse pagans live in the inland forests.

The King is not only ugly, he also has shitty stats. 33/0/33 is a bit boring numbers though, so feel free to suggest any fitting variants within +/-10 of it.


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Sweden is large on the map, but very different from the modern borders of the country.



Sweden starts with a relatively powerful Commoners estate, as they are both represented in the Riksdag and have the privilege to freely move.

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They also have a unique privilege for the Commoners:

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This one requires quite a lot of crown power to remove, and while it's active, you can not remove free mobility and their representation in parliament either. Luckily, a bit more food and better fighting levies are not all bad..


Sweden also has access to this unique cabinet action that can be done in any province in Norrland or Finland that has a total population of less than 10,000 people. This is to simulate the insane population growth that Finland had during the 14th and 15th century, which was the highest in the world at that time.

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While Sweden does not start with any Works of Art, it has a unique bonus in Falun, where the Great Copper Mountain gives a lot of extra copper per laborer working there.

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Sweden gets two unique units in the Age of Absolutism:

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This cavalry unit has +5 initiative, +10% movement speed and +1 combat speed compared to the regular cavalry units of this age.


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Caroleans have +2 initiative, do 10% more morale damage and take 20% less morale damage.

These units enable a Swedish army to have the possibility of quickly and decisively winning battles in the Age of Absolutism, which was the time period where Sweden had its military successes historically.


While you get these units from advances, there are also plenty of other advances that Sweden has access to. Some of these include the following..



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The mentality of always attacking is an important one! GÅ PÅ!


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A quality government involved both the King and the Estates.

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This used to be a sign of quality….

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One of the greatest scientists of the Age of Absolutism.



Advances alone do not always give enough flavor, so there are plenty of dynamic historical events as well.

While Sweden starts with a historical saint in Erik the Holy, there are others presented as well in the game.

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After this event, close to the start of the game, where Bridget of Sweden first appears…

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Eventually, after she dies, you get this event.



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She will become a saint, and you have the possibility to get a minor holy site for the Catholic Faith in Vadstena!


Some of the other over 60 unique historical events include the following..


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Tomorrow, @SaintDaveUK will talk about how our unit graphics work..
 
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I recognized immediately too, and I can't quite remember whether it's that guy who says it, but I think it's when they are talking about how they'll do a Baltic Crusade.
I think it was an old veteran who says it when Arn proposes that the swedish nobles create core of real knights, as he has experience from fighting in Jerusalem. I could however be mistaken.
 
Hi Johan,

Thank you for all of your work and this brilliant tinto flavour!

I wanted to ask if this treatment is entirely unique to Finland or are there mechanisms to account for other countries' disproportionately high population growth, for example Ireland had their population grow from 0.6 – 0.8 million in 1300 to 7.9 million in 1831, a 13x on population growth that I believe is similar to Finland's? Thank you again!
0.6-0.8 is pretty low for Ireland, I thought it was above 1 million in 1300?
Irelands huge population growth came mostly in the 18th century, though, a time when much of Europe grew rapidly thanks to improved agricultural technology. England reached a similar growth rate as well.
So that should be a lategame thing based on technology, while growth in Finland is something for the early game when the population is still low.
 
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Liège has it rough, getting 24k pops stolen over 10 years. Also, what happens if, for whatever reason, Liège doesn't have those pops available? Are they created from thin air? Do you just not get the pops?
 
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I really dislike when flags change for a country without a major reason though.
I would personally love if there were pointless historical events that let you change your flag after a historical event without any other reason, with the option to keep the previous one. Like for example in 1785 you could have a historical event that lets you choose between adopting the red-yellow flag of Spain or keeping the previous one.
 
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From a different tinto talk but when you showed the Scandinavia location map i saw that the location of Uddevalla did not cover the city uddevalla I dont know if maybe Uddevalla is a word that refered to something else in the past but if it didnt then you should maybe rename it or change the location borders. Thanks!
 
I was referring to the "land owning rights" priviledge, having that it stops you from removing other priviledges and laws should be listed under the modifier section of the priviledge, so that when I'm thinking about implementing or removing it I know if I'm shooting myself in the foot by blocking other actions.
Otherwise I have to check every other priviledge/law afterwards to see if I did something I didn't want to do
 
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Are the swedish advances, privileges and units only for Sweden, or are they also available also to finnish countries? I think that at least some of them should be, like the units and land owning peasants.

from these.. the Hakkapelitta is ofc finnish as well, and the cabinet action.
 
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