Gustavus Adolphus is extremely overrated

I went through his battle record and it's... not impressive, to put it lightly. Here are all of the battles he fought, and their results.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storming_of_Kristianopel - Victory because he outnumbered his enemy 1,500 to 300
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vittsjö - Defeat and rout of the Swedish army
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Gdov - Pyrrhic victory of several thousand mercenaries over few hundred Russian peasant militia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Pskov_(1615) - Defeat and destruction of the Swedish army in Russia. Of 16,000 Swedes, only 4,500 survived.
sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belägringen_av_Riga_(1621) - Victory of 19,000 Swedish soldiers over 4,000 Riga townspeople
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Wallhof - One of his two impressive victories, Swedes outnumbered 2 to 1 rout the Polish army.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gniew - Questionable "battle" where Swedish and Polish armies of similar size skirmish, but Poles withdraw. Counted as a battle victory by western Europe.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dirschau - Same thing, but Swedes outnumber Poles.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Trzciana - Embarrassing defeat where 4,500 Poles with no guns overrun 6,800 Swedes with 18 guns
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Breitenfeld_(1631) - His other impressive victory. Everyone knows about this battle already.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rain - Victory of the Swedish army over an army they outnumber 2 to 1. For cannons they outnumber 4 to 1.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lützen_(1632) - He gets killed and dies. Swedes suffer more casualties than the army they defeated. Counted as a victory by western Europe.

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So the final tally: 6 victories 3 "victories" 3 defeats. Being generous, 9-3. That looks like a good record in comparison to other overrated generals like Frederick the Great who have even worse records, 12-6-2, but stack up against real geniuses like Julius Caesar, 20-3-2, and the difference is clear.

he was a retard why do swedish nationalists suck up to him? he lost an unwinnable war which resulted swedens downfall

>Caesar
My ancestor :)
>Gustavus Adolphus
>Frederick the Great
g*rmanic barbarians, EWW!

>tf
>tp
Overrated? Oh yeah.
But still an interesting figure who changed warfare.
Now this fat bastard right here is my absolute favorite.

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dont care he killed 1/3rd of all germans and crushed the catholicucks and for that reason alone i like him

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wat am i looking at here

wrong king retard fart face finnoid

but Karl XII is also based, he died protecting Sweden

The amount of dead people in regions in German/HRE during the 30 Years War

>Comparing military commander between each other
>With Wikipedia "Strength" and "Casualties" number onlyy
>And giving them records like they were boxers
Wanna know how i know you're an underage Paradox game player?

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literally and unironically who? How am I supposed to know generals whose only battles were small skirmishes against some fishing villages?