User blog comment:BlackSkyEmpire/Co-operative TL: Gustavus'es Europe./@comment-1310192-20110131224508

I doubt very much that Gustavus would have conquered Catalonia or the French Basque Country, or North Italy, or Austria-Hungary without the Balkans and with Bohemia. And I also doubt that the Papal States would have gotten control over all of Central Italy.