I'm suprised no one has recreated this thread yet!
Anyway.
I have played it!
It works!
In the seventh day, CA created Empire, and said that it was good.
Played through the Road To Independence (except the last part, only played it partially, was to eager to play as Sweden)
Started as sweden and are playing with them currently.
I have yet to find a winning strategy, so it's going up and down.
I have taken all of scandinavia (norway, sweden, denmark), finland, Ingria, Estonia & Livonia (or what it's called) and Moscow (muscovy).
I quickly captured courland.
I started building 3 seperate armies:
One smaller to take on the norwegian capital of Christiania
One to guard Öresund from a fort, denying any danish army entrance to swedish mainland.
One To repel any russian attackers, and eventually march into russian territory.
I captured Christiania, declaring war on the alliance between Russia and Denmark.
Denmark sent ships to blockade my port at öresund, thus I couldn't move any units across to Copenhagen. So the army remained in their fort until I could muster a fleet that could take on the danish fleet.
Russia attacked me several times with smaller armies, I retrained the army and marched towards Muscovy.
On the way, I faced another russian army, and every unit in my army was cut down to half their original size.
I attacked Muscovy, my units were half their numbers, but with valuable experience and with me in command, my army managed to capture muscovy, It was truly an epic victory. They didn't stand a chance.
The next epic battle was when I had managed to transport my army towards copenhagen, they marched out to attack me before I managed to besiege the city.
They had approximately 10 units of line infantry + some cavalry, pikemen and cannons.
I had 5 units of line infantry + pikemen + 1 unit of militia.
My troops were in general inferior to their line infantry.
The situation was dire, I was heading for a definate loss.
They were clever and attacked my flank with their full army, while I had full units of line infantry standing idle on the other flank.
What saved me was my dragoons. They rode behind the enemy force, dismounted and fired at their back.
At the same time, my line infantry came to the aid, and I attacked ther mainforce from 3 directions.
I managed to win, just barely.
It was truly epic and intense.
I have no alliances. The ottoman empire (though very friendly relations) just refuse to enter an alliance with me.
I stand alone, with an angry prussian force standing at my relatively undefended gates, and I lack the resources to build a defending army, this will prove to be quite a challange.
I went into bankruptcy over a few turns, it was that bankruptcy that motivated me to attack muscovy, relieving my cofferts from the upkeep of my soldiers.
Prussia wanted to negotiate.
My region of Courland, against ther region of East Prussia + 2 technologies + 1200 gold.
I accepted, since I was in dire need of both money and technology.
2 turns later, they wanted to trade back.
East Prussia against Courland + 2 technologies + 1000 gold.
2 turns later, they wanted to trade back.
and it went on like that for a while, until I decided I would not let east prussia go again, since it gave me such a heavy income compared to Courland.
It is really exciting, and I really have to struggle for survival.
It's not going very great though, my best units are Grenadiers, and I'm at 1732 (that's pretty late isn't it?).