For Odin!

Not a detailed walkthrough, but a few tips to get the For Odin! - Achievement.

Getting started

To get this achievement, you have to own & core all of the British Isles and Scandinavia and convert them to the Norse religion:


The custom nation you start with mustn´t have more than 200 points and not more than 5 provinces.

For a good income, i took Holland, Zeeland and Antwerpen. I chose Holland as capital, because it is part of the HRE and therefore is well protected by the emperor in the beginning.
You also don´t want London and Meath to be English. London is obviously a great province. Meath gives you the opportunity to claim and core Ireland right away.

I set the culture to English, because English territories will be the main part of the empire for a long time.
Don´t forget to set your religion to Norse.

To get a moral boost, you also should turn on some scandinavian folk music, e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw0pylT0Tg0

Getting Britain

Your first target will be Ireland. Check your missions. One of them will likely be conquering an irish province. If not, just fabricate claims. England won´t attack you, because you´re part of the HRE.

The next step is vassalizing Scotland. This is a bit tricky, because France guarantees their freedom. Improve your relationship with France and wait with your attack, until france is busy fighting another war and won´t join Scotland in a defensive war. You also could try to attack the ally of Scotland in order to cripple/vassalize them.

England should now be busy fighting the rebels in the war of the roses. Fabricate claims to gain a casus belli on the English. Then call some bullies France (or other allies) to arms. Concentrate on fighting the English. Your home provinces should be fine. The weakened England will struggle, but finally surrender. Take as many provinces, as your reputation allows (~2).
Recover from the war until the cease fire ends, then fight another war to claim some provinces:


Meanwhile, you can annex Scotland. When you annex Scotland, you can fabricate claims on Orkney (Norway). Bevor I fought a war to gain Orkney, I supported the independence of Sweden. In their war of independence and the war for Orkney, i took all the islands in the north sea, Iceland and a province in Denmark (quite a hit for the reputation). It is crucial to get a province in Denmark, because you have to fabricate your claims in the neighbouring provinces. I then chose an idea to get a colonist in order to colonize Greenland (=Scandinavia). Keep in mind to convert your provinces to the norse religion.

The next step is fighting England once again.

Getting finished

Once Britain is yours, recover and try making friends with Muscovy/Russia. They will be a lot of help in order to fight Sweden. But first, fight against Denmark and Norway once again. Try to conquer the provinces next to to HRE first. So you don´t have to fight HRE members to get those scandinavian provinces back.

Be careful about your provinces in the Netherlands. When the Netherlands are formed, you will get events, which will cause revolts of 34.000-44.000 Nationalists in provinces of dutch culture. These are annoying, but shouldn´t be hard to handle. You could also grand them independence, since you don´t need them for the achievement. But seriously, this isn´t the will of Odin. So change the culture of the provinces there.

Sweden will now likely be the only remaining scandinavian country and therefore your last enemy. As a mayor foe, they also will have potent allies. In my game, it was the Commonwealth and Brandenburg (emperor).


Once your alliance is powerful enough, attack. Just reapeat this, until you defeat the Swedish.
Keep an eye on the eastern provinces of Sweden. You should avoid, that other mayor countries like Russia gain Scandinavian provinces. Therefore (again), try to ally Muscovy/Russia. They won´t attack Sweden in a different war, when they still have the cease fire due to your war.

You can check in the mapmode, if you got all Scandinavian provinces. Don´t forget the islands in the North Sea or Greenland. Once you cored them & converted them all to Norse, Odin will open the gates of Valhalla for you.

[<<c:ardis>>]

well, I've written this in 2016. So it can be that the devs changed/messed up something since then. The description of the achievement hasn't changed, though. And the only difference between your and my nation is the culture. I've set it to English, not Norse. So I suggest to try English, too (or maybe another default culture of the regions you'll have to conquer).

[HighT3chR3dn3ck]

I started as Norse religion and Norse culture, when I check the achievements tab, it is only showing "join a coalition" achievement as possible. I did under 200 and less than 5 provinces. Not sure it's gonna tick off here when I finish it. Any suggestions?

[Comrade Gabe]

That music though. My favorite band

[me2tal]

The HRE strategy - I though about it - but personally I prefer being a republic.
So I went for this:
http://steamcommunity.com/id/Nigekima/screenshot/272840175082046320
Also I prefer vulture strategy