Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "Monsieur Z" channel.

  1. 10:48 Don't be so sure about that. Remember that Normandy still had close ties to Scandinavia, the upper class largely descending from Scandinavia. If the north sea empire had endured they'd probably have received support from this empire to hold onto their lands in France. Edit: Alright, you did address this. But I think you still underestimate the ties. The North Sea Empire would probably support the Normans in any situation where they don't have the upper hand in France. So with more resources backing them it's highly unlikely that they would ever have been dialoged from France. Instead I suspect that they would have formed a independent realm there, no longer a vassal of France.
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  2. 11:32 The borders between Denmark-Norway and Sweden just doesn't look realistic here. Either Denmark-Norway retains enough naval and military power to hold also the east side of the Oslo Fjord. Or if this much of Norway is taken then Denmark wouldn't be able to hold areas like eastern Telemark and eastwards. A Danish last stand in Norway is more likely to take place on the west coast where Danish loyalists would be capable of establishing better defensive positions suppllied from the sea. My guess is that Sweden would advance westwards towards Porsgrunn and Skien then north from that. That's the urban areas important enough to fight over. Further west then that the Swedes would probably tolerate pro-Danish forces simply because the land there just isn't worth fighting over compared to the huge effort it would take to take and hold those areas. The same applies to western Norway. There's certain western Norwegian fjords that they might manage to take. But on the whole crossing the mountains is more effort then it's worth. So they'd take population centers that's reachable by land from Sweden. Including Oslo/Christiania and Trondheim. Bergen and Stavanger would most likely remain in Danish hands. Possibly also Tromsø. Unless Sweden manage to get naval superiority.
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  3. There's a whole ton of assumtions and assessments here that's outright wrong. shrugs
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