Swedish Carolean must definitely be different from other European civilization musket infantry

  1. There’s already an active thread discussing exactly this (although it started off alleging they’re underpowered and then morphed into being about design).

  2. You are wrong. They are very clearly modeled after proper Caroleans and not Gustavus Adolphus’ soldiers. They started off with only 10 range and a speed bonus in melee and that’s exactly the stats you’d expect for a unit using shock tactics of proper Caroleans. The ranged multipliers against cavalry are 100% for gameplay reasons of compensating for a lack of skirms and goons. If it bears any resemblance to different Swedish soldiers that is merely a coincidence.

If you want Caroleans that conform to history, I’d suggest something like this: