Quote Originally Posted by Tribesman
When I play as the Danes then Denmark tends to end up with almost everything
Procrustes , wouldn't you concentrate on Sweden instead as it has Iron and more better income ?
I pretty much set Sweden to build all the economic upgrades first, then go back and build the troop ones. Sweden is a real money-maker.

I give Sweden the highest acumen governor I can find and set it building farms, mines, a port, ship builder, and each successive level of merchant. As soon as I finish everything economic I build the next level castle there and build the next merchant. I may throw an agent building in there along the way, and I use Sweden to build cheap ships and agents while I'm building it's economy. Norway I use to crank out Vikings which become the bulwark of my army - it also gets a port, shipbuilder and merchant. Denmark is my only starting province, and no matter what era you start in it has more stuff at baseline than Sweden or Norway. It just naturally ends up with the troop stuff I can't get to yet in Sweden. (Frustrating not being able to use that Swedish iron, though. Sooner or later I start nibbling at rebel provinces around the Baltic, or picking at the edges of the HRE. Franconia and Bohemia both have iron, you know....)