Event
The Great Northern Conflict
The Sweden Flavor Rank of Sweden is bordering us and there are difficulties in ascertaining the threat they may pose if we were to become their next target. It would be prudent to initiate talks with countries that share a strained relationship with them, and seek a common stance to stem the growth of the Nordic Lion.
SwedenCountrytrigger
EmpireCountry Ranktrigger
RussiaFormable Countrydynamic historical event.tag, option 1, triggerDefinitionin_game/events/DHE/flavor_RUS.txt:1931
1932type = country_event
1933title = flavor_rus.21.title The Great Northern Conflict
1934desc = flavor_rus.21.desc The Sweden Flavor Rank of Sweden is bordering us and there are difficulties in ascertaining the threat they may pose if we were to become their next target. It would be prudent to initiate talks with countries that share a strained relationship with them, and seek a common stance to stem the growth of the Nordic Lion.
1935outcome = neutral
1936image = "gfx/interface/illustrations/government/diplomacy_illustration.dds"
1938fire_only_once = yes
1939dynamic_historical_event = {
}
1946trigger = {
1954is_subject = no
}
}
2008historical_info = flavor_rus.21.historical_info The late seventeenth century saw Sweden emerge as a great power following several battles with the powers of the Baltic Sea. But in 1697, the 15-year-old Charles XII took the throne. Sensing weakness, the Russian Tsar Peter I allied with Denmark and Poland-Saxony. However, with British and Dutch naval assistance, Charles XII landed on Zealand and promptly defeated the Danes, then moved to Estland where his badly outnumbered army won a decisive victory over the Russians. Charles eventually decided to march on Moscow, but the harsh winter and Russian raids decimated his army and he was finally beaten at the Battle of Poltava in 1709.