Any experts care to share tips for fighting the GNW as Sweden? I'm in the beginning of the second year of the GNW only, Denmark out due to Travendal. But I lost Narva at the beginning of last winter (to Golitsyn) and Riga is heavily besieged by a significant Polish force. I have enough to deal with both of these threats and I'm just waiting for the long winter to thaw before starting operations.
I have a couple of specific questions as to the best way to handle large armies and recruiting. It seems to me that the winters are devastating. I carefully put all my armies inside structures, all on green stances, but their power nevertheless gets steadily whittled away during the cold months, sometimes very dramatically (reductions of two-thirds). The size of the army hasn't seemed to make a difference to this effect - a large 1,700 strength stack gets hit the same as a lesser 650 stack. Has anyone any tips - in addition to what I've done above - for how to minimise the winter attrition? I have attrition settings set to the max, by the way.
And then, once they are reduced like this, building them back up seems painfully slow. Has anyone any tips as to how to best use the replacement screen to ensure the fastest possible re-manning of depleted units? Which is the best setting? Manual replacements? Or 10% auto? Any suggestions? Plus, what is the best way to save money to fund the replacement screens? I have used various region cards to bring in cash, but if I then manually try to create a 10% buffer of those losses that occur in red in the replacement screen then I am ALWAYS out of cash!!
I can't see myself getting my act together enough to invade Russia at this rate...
All help welcome!