Swedes

## Music theme

> "*Can build Annexes onto buildings to obtain additional advantages. Allotments quickly train armies of units at reduced, but escalating cost. Can build Sawmills to harvest Wood. National Guards: Kronprinsens Hussar and Hogvakt Halberdier.*"
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## Overview

The **Swedes** are a Northern European civilization in *Age of Empires III: Wars of Liberty*. They were made playable in The Nordic Patch (1.0.12).

Patience is a key element for the Swedes as they are a faction oriented mostly to late-game and defense. The leader of the Swedes is King Oscar II and their Home City is Stockholm.

The Swedes are a powerful European nation with a unique economy that specializes in wood gathering. They are a defensive civilization and somewhat slower to build up in the early-game. One of their main advantages and uniqueness are the building annexes, which are intended to provide enhancements and utilities.

The Swedish army is mostly oriented towards heavy infantry and overall cavalry, being able to instantly muster cavalry in the late-game.
## Features

* Most Swedish buildings have the option to create an annex next to them, each annex offers additional advantages.
* Access to Allotments which can rapidly create armies of the chosen units, at an escalating cost.
* Can build the Sawmill, which produces cords of wood over time.
* The Nordenfelt Gun can be spawned automatically and for free.
* National Guard units: Halberdier (Högvakts) and Hussar (Kronprinsenses)
* Can send Heavy Fortifications card one age earlier.

### Unique Units

* Beväring: Fast moving heavy ranged infantry that costs Wood.
* Husstruppe: Assault melee cavalry that deals trample damage.
* Nordenfelt Gun: Unique organ artillery which deals bonus damage to cavalry.
* Saami Rider: Heavy hand cavalry native warrior.

### Unique Buildings

* Sawmill: Produces crates of wood and provides technologies that increase building hit points.
* Observatory: Town Center annex. Provides line of sight and allows the use the spyglass.
* Maypole: Market annex. Villagers can dance to it generate experience.
* Hof: Temple annex. Provides unique pagan technologies.
* Torp: Barracks annex. Supports 15 population and provides Beväring Allotments.
* Rusthall: Stable annex. Heals nearby cavalry units and provides Husstruppe Allotments.
* Steel Mill: Artillery Foundry annex. Spawns free Nordenfelt Guns over time.

### Revolutions

* Johan Vilhelm Snellman and Christian Michellsen.

## In-game Dialogue

### General

* Ja? (Yes?)

* Vad är din befallning? (What is your order/command/mission?)

* Order? (Order?)

* Redo (Ready)

* Ja min herre? (Yes my lord/sir?)

* Självklart (Of course)

* Ska ske (Will do)

* Uppfattat (Acknowledged)

* Ja! (Yes)

* Anfall! (Attack)

* Till strid! (To battle)

* Kämpat! (Fought! (past tense))

### Explorer

* Jag orkar det (I have the physical/psychological strength to do it)

## Trivia

* Sweden was planned as a civilization for the base game *Age of Empires III* alongside Italy, but both were cut and did not make it into the game. Eventually both were made playable in *Wars of Liberty*. And, in the case of Sweden it was later added to *Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition*.

## Gallery

The Swedish Home City.Certain Swedish annexes.Beväring allotment shown as cost increases after being used.A group of trees turned into wood cords with the clearcut abillity.Saami Riders spawned from the Native Embassy.Sweedish explorer before and after being given a mount through a home city card.
## Changelog

* Renamed Adelsryttare to Husstruppe. Stats remade from scratch.
* Renamed Paddock to Rusthåll.

Patch 1.0.15b
* Corrected the positioning of Danes and Swedes in the civilization selector so that they are grouped with the other European civilizations.

Patch 1.0.15
* The following changes have been made to the Beväring:
	+ Hitpoints decreased from 165 to 140.
	+ Food cost decreased from 75 to 45.
	+ Wood cost increased from 35 to 50.
	+ Ranged attack decreased from 23 to 19.
	+ Kommissvärja melee attack increased from 10 to 16.
* Adelsryttare speed decreased from 6.25 to 6.00.

Patch 1.0.14c
* The Swedes now start the game with one less Cord of Wood and one more Crate of Food.
* Livregementet till Hast no longer requires the explorer to change his stance to work properly
* Revolting now disables all Sawmill activity.
* The following cards have received changes:
	+ Advanced Trading Post has been removed.
	+ Norrland Logging is now an age II card.
	+ King Oscar Sardines now ships an Immigrant Fishing Boat every 5 minutes of play, down from for every 3 minutes.
	+ Shock Tactics is now an age III card.
	+ 7 Saami Riders is now 5 Saami Riders.
	+ 15 Saami Riders is now 9 Saami Riders.
	+ 20 Saami Riders is now 15 Saami Riders.
* Adelsryttare now get +1 on their multiplier against Heavy Infantry.

Patch 1.0.14a-b
* All references to the Swedish (group of people) have been corrected to Swedes.
* Sawmills have received a couple of changes:
	+ Now they trickle Wood at a rate of 1.75Wood/second, up from 1.25.
	+ Now produce a crate of 100 Wood at the next intervals: 90 seconds, 75 seconds, 60 seconds, 45 seconds and 30 seconds; from Enlightenment to Imperial Age respectively. The sawmill keeps a base trickle of 1.75 Wood per second.

Patch 1.0.14
* Revolting as Finnish now upgrades Hussars instead of Adelsryttare for Swedish.
* Swedish and Danish TEAM Villagers can now build houses.
* Sawmills can no longer turn trees into Cords of Wood. Instead, they will now only slowly trickle Wood.
* Norway Spruce cards, with the exception of the Infinite one, now improve the gather rate of Sawmills by 15%.
* Great Transformation now also increases by 50% the resources of all Wood crates.
* The following cards have been adjusted:
	+ TEAM Dressage School effect reduced to 20% from 25%.
	+ 6 Soumen Kaarti is now 7 Soumen Kaarti.
	+ Lantmanna Party no longer affects Mercantilism.
	+ 1 Nordenfeldt is now 2 Nordenfelt.
	+ 2 Nordenfeldt is now 3 Nordenfelt.
	+ Heavy Infantry Hand Attack has been added to the Halberdier tree, increases hand attack of Heavy Infantry by 15%, Age II.
	+ Heavy Infantry Hitpoints has been added to the Halberdier tree, increases hitpoints of Heavy Infantry by 15%, Age II.
	+ Heavy Infantry Hand Combat has been added to the Halberdier tree, increases hand attack and hitpoints of Heavy Infantry by 15%, Age III.
	+ Kommissvarja now increases the multiplier against Heavy Infantry, instead of granting an extra multiplier against all Infantry, and has been moved out of the halberdier tree.
* The following politicians have been adjusted:
	+ Opera Singer, III, now sends 500 experience instead of 500 experience and 2 Settlers.
	+ Foreign King, IV, now sends 9 Halberdiers instead of 5 and no longer upgrades Hussars.
	+ Inventor, V, now increases Nordenfelt build limit by +3 and sends 1 Nordenfelt Gun instead of sending 1 Nordenfeldt Gun and 1000 Coin.
* The Adelsryttare has received a couple of changes:
	+ Now receives the veteran upgrade through shadow techs.
	+ Cost increased to 140 Food and 140 Coin from 120 Food and 140 Coin.
	+ Bounties adjusted to 28.
	+ Train time increased to 50 from 40.
	+ Armor increased to 0.4 from 0.3.
	+ Population cost increased to 3 from 2.
	+ Siege damage increased to 30 from 24.
	+ Melee damage increased to 20 from 13.
	+ Hitpoints adjusted to 450.
* The Bevaring has received a change:
	+ Cost reduced to 75 Food and 35 Wood from 75 Food and 40 Wood.
* The Nordenfelt has received a change:
	+ Armor increased to 0.6 up from 0.4.

Patch 1.0.13c
* They now start the game with an extra Crate of Wood.
* Bevarings now cost 75 Food and 40 Wood, down from 75 Food and 45 Wood.
* Adelsryttare now cost 120 Food and 140 Wood, up from 100 Food and 140 Wood.
* Nordenfelts now have a Train Limit of 5.
* Saami Raiders now have access to Warrior Society and Champion upgrades.
* Fixed a bug that made Bevarings unable to use their sabre attack with the Kommissvärja card.
* Fixed a bug that caused the combo of Dala Horse, from the Hof, and Prosthetics, from the Hospital, not to provide a reduced Wood price for Swedish cavalry units.

Patch 1.0.13b
* Lappkodicillen is now a level 10 card.

Patch 1.0.13
* The Nordenfelt gets a range of 20, down from 26.
* The Nordenfelt gets a Rate of Fire of 4, up from 2.
* Swedes now have access to the 1000 Coin card.
* Saami Riders now have a train limit of 20, but a much higher cost.
* Riksbank Coin trickle effect doubled. so it now trickles 3 Coin per second, up from 1.5 per second.
* Fixed a bug that gave the Advanced Paddock allotment one more Adelsryttare unit than intended.
* Assassins card can no longer be sent on age 2. It’s now correctly an age 3 card.
* The Inventor politician now correctly delivers two large chests of Coin.
* The bug that prevented the texture of the Swedish Nordenfelt Gun gunner's hat from showing up has been fixed.
* The animation of the Swedish Bevaring was edited so the unit will always have the sword on the left side of the model's waist after delivering the "Kommissvarja" card.

Patch 1.0.12b
* The Swedish now have a beautiful cathedral at their Home City.
* Adelsryttare hitpoints down to 500, from 520.
* Nordenfelt gun hitpoints up to 420, up from 275. Ranged armor changed to Hand armor and its value reduced to 0.40.
* Norrland Logging card now reduces the price of Sawmills by 40% instead of shipping a Sawmill wagon. The card still increases the build limit by 1.
* Fixed a bug that disabled the Halberdier’s imperial upgrade.
* Fixed a bug that caused Adelsryttare to train instantly when Mass Cavalry was researched.
* Swedish Cavalry explorer now gets upgraded on each age-up.
* Allotments now clearly state that further researching them increases all resource costs.
* Livregementet till häst card now correctly states it only boosts the attack of Hand Cavalry units.
* Kommissvarja’s effect is now easier to read.

Patch 1.0.12
* The revolutionary politician “Snellman,” available to Russians and Swedes, now sends 12 Suomen Kaarti, instead of 12 Hackapells. His revolutionary army card also sends 8 Suomen Kaarti instead of 8 Hackapells.
* Civilization added.

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