Swedish Empire? Nope, it's the Scandinavian Empire now, bitch
Since last time: Britain got brutalized by the allied France and Castille, I successfully invaded the Holy Roman Empire and conquered a number of states while turning Mecklenburg, Pommerania and Brandenburg into vassals, I conquered Prussia and Gotland (finally), foolish little Novgorod and Lithuania declared war on me, so I annexed Novgorod and half of what remained of Lithuania, and forced them to release Ukraine as an independent nation, which I use as a guarding wall against the Ottoman empire, should I wish to remove their foothold in the Baltics.
Going pretty good so far, actually. Don't know when I'll meet Grif's wishes, though.